“We had a tremendous field of 17 candidates for five positions and on behalf of my associates on Governing Council, the staff and members of the Brampton Board of Trade, I would like to thank all 17 candidates for running,” says President-elect Charles Waud. “I look forward to working with all of you in the coming weeks and months.”
 Susan Crawford and Barbara Skupien are new members on Council.Susan Crawford, together with her husband, David Chondon, is a
founding partner of Crawford Chondon & Partners LLP. Celebrating its
10th anniversary, the firm has grown to become the largest law firm
in Peel Region to practice exclusively in the area of management
labour relations and employment law. Susan, who was born and raised in Brampton, moved back to Brampton in 1998 to open up a practice in the community where she grew up and where her family has operated a business for over forty (40) years. Susan and the firm have been members of the Brampton Board of Trade since the practice was opened in 1998.
Susan, either directly or as part of her firm, is involved in a number of community initiatives in Brampton, including Kiwanis, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel, Interim Place and the Brampton and Area Community Foundation
 Barbara Skupien is a Business Law Partner at Davis Webb LLP
where she has a very active practice, working with clients on their
business opportunities and challenges as well as on complex business
transactions. With a number of her successful clients she functions
in a close advisory role to senior management and assists in early strategy development on important projects.
Being an active participant within the Brampton community is very important to Barbara. Despite the severe time commitment demanded in serving her legal practice clients and her responsibilities at home with two young sons, Barbara feels it is important for all to give something back to the community. She is a Board Member of the Brampton and Area Community Foundation, a Member of the Grant Making Committee within the BACF and a former Board Member of the Brampton Symphony Orchestra.
Terry McIntyre, Stephen Rhodes and Chris Rumsay were re-elected.
 Terry has been in the Investment Industry for more than 30 years and
an Investment Advisor for more than 20 years. In Brampton Terry
opened a branch of a Trust Company and turned it profitable in its first
year of operation. He was promoted to Vice President of National Sales,
a role that included investment training for all staff across Canada.
Terry took these skills and became an investment advisor in 1992
and since has been building a successful client advisory business in
Brampton. His practice centres on high net worth wealth management in the Brampton/Caledon area; built on long term relationships following his core belief of service first.
Terry believes in not just joining, but participating – in service clubs, church, his children’s scout group, Brampton Minor Baseball and the Brampton Board of Trade. He joined the BBoT in 1986 and has been on the golf committee for 17 years, the last seven as chair of the committee. He has also served on the BBoT Governing Council for the last three years with the two most recent years on the Executive Committee.
Stephen Rhodes is President of The Marketing PAD, a full-service
 marketing company that provides strategic communications and
marketing, sales management and leadership development as well as
creative services to small and medium-size businesses and non-profit
organizations. Prior to creating The Marketing PAD with partners
Jeff Bowman and Khaled Iwamura, Stephen worked for 30 years
in the newspaper industry as a publisher of two mid-sized daily newspapers, a group publisher with responsibility for eight newspapers, and a director of new media for three daily newspapers in Ontario.
Stephen served on Governing Council previously from 2003-2005. He has also served on the Policy & Government Relations and Marketing Committees. He is an active Rotarian and Past President of The Rotary Club of Brampton and Past Chair of the Board of Directors of St. Bartholomew’s United Church.
 Chris has been involved in Funeral Service for almost 25 years.
After completing his education in funeral services at Humber College,
Chris served his apprenticeship with the Ward Funeral Home and has
remained with the Ward Family for his entire career.
Chris is a member of the Brampton Board of Trade Santa Claus Parade
Committee, serves as a member of the Marketing and Promotions
Committee of the Brampton Downtown Business Association, Classic Cars and Legendary Stars organizing committee, Professional Advisory Committee for Bereaved Families of Ontario, Halton and Peel District, and volunteers with Carabram each year.
Sheridan gets $31.2 million
Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning's has received $31.23 million in new infrastructure dollars to build a college campus in Mississauga.
Together the federal and provincial governments are injecting the capital to create Sheridan's third major campus, which means Canada's sixth-largest city, will finally have a college.
"Thanks to the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario, Sheridan is going to be able to fill a big need for students and businesses in Mississauga," said Dr. Robert Turner, President and CEO, Sheridan Institute.
"The Mississauga area is home to over 55 corporate head offices in finance, insurance, real estate, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and logistics. Everyone has told Sheridan a college presence is essential to fulfilling their workforce needs. Thanks to this new funding, we're going to be able to pay big
dividends to the Mississauga community."
"This investment in Sheridan will provide a significant short-term economic stimulus to Mississauga and will create jobs right here in Peel," said Bob Dechert, M.P. for Mississauga-Erindale. "Our government is investing in innovation to create jobs, to help our economy recover quickly and to improve the quality of life for Canadians."
"This is great news for Mississauga and the entire region," said Amrit Mangat, M.P.P. for Mississauga-Brampton South. "By investing in Sheridan today, the Ontario government is supporting new construction and renovation projects which will create construction jobs in the short-term and provide
more opportunities for our students to develop the skills they need for the jobs of the future."
Sheridan's Mississauga campus will be a state-of-the-art, post-secondary institution with two main concentrations: business education and programs to accelerate the movement of new Canadians into the workforce.
"From in-demand business programs, to academic upgrading and worker retraining, the Sheridan Mississauga campus has been designed to meet the specific needs of the Mississauga and Peel communities," added Turner. This first phase of Sheridan's Mississauga campus will also serve as anchor and catalyst for the City of Mississauga's bold new strategic vision that would see its downtown core transformed and revitalized."
In particular, the Sheridan Mississauga campus will help solve the Greater Toronto Area's skills shortage and provide a range of services and programming that will help foreign-trained professionals find good jobs.
This has been a particularly challenging problem for Ontario and specifically for the Greater Toronto Area. The large and diverse community of foreign-trained professionals who need additional training in order to work in their chosen fields will be among the first to benefit. Working in close partnership with industry, Sheridan's Mississauga campus will be the springboard to deliver flexible, customized skills training and bridge programs to allow new Canadians to be more fully integrated in the economy.
WaudWare celebrates 20 years
F. Charles Waud, President is proud to announce that June 2009 marks WaudWare's 20th year in business. And these days, that's something to celebrate! WaudWare has successfully weathered the storm through several tough economic cycles, including the current one.
WaudWare was formed in 1989 and is committed to software development with a specific focus on small to medium-sized produce companies in Canada and the United States.
WaudWare's flagship product PICS (Produce Inventory Control System) delivers robust and reliable buying, selling, traceability, production, accounting and management functions that compete with well-known products such as Simply Accounting and Sage Software. WaudWare follows through on their promise to deliver software and service that customers can count on.
According to President Charles Waud, "we're looking forward to celebrating this impressive milestone with the people who have made it possible". An Open House is planned for Thursday, June 25th from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. in the back room at Jake's Boathouse, 59 First Gulf Blvd., Brampton, ON L6W 4P9. As an important media/association contact for WaudWare, you are welcome to attend! For more information visit www.produceinventory.com/
Innovators joins Royal LePage family
Robert Nutbrown broker/owner of the brokerage formerly operating as Coldwell Banker Innovators Realty in Brampton, is pleased to announce that the company has joined the Royal LePage franchise network. Effective today, the company will operate under the new name of Royal LePage Innovators Realty, Brokerage. Please See More
Bob’s background is extensive and varied, having moved to Prince Edward Island after graduating from McGill University where he eventually served as Secretary to the Cabinet and Principal Secretary to the Premier, including a stint as Advisor to the Leader of the Opposition and Assistant Deputy Minister of Agriculture. He later moved back to Brampton, where he again worked in government in the Treasury and Economics, and Skills Development Department of the provincial government.
Bob has been in the real estate industry for 21 years, and first sold with E.A. Mitchell Real Estate. In 1994 Bob joined the Coldwell Banker brand.
Involved in his local community Bob is Past President of the Brampton Board of Trade, Past President of the YMCA, and has been involved as Chairman of the Mayor’s Roundtable on Downtown & Queen Street Corridor. Bob is a 45 year resident of Brampton.
Royal LePage Innovators Realty has a team of sales professionals who service the residential and commercial communities of Brampton and surrounding areas.
Vanora Spreen, Broker of Record will be managing the two Royal LePage Innovators Realty offices, located at 16 Kennedy Road South and 17 Worthington Avenue in N in Brampton. |
