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Celebrate Whistler's innovators, trailblazers and community cultivators! Whistler’s black tie business and community awards are back in-person this year! Join us on Thursday, October 20, 2022 as we celebrate and honour local legends.

Hosted by the Whistler Chamber in partnership with the Whistler Community Foundation, Arts Whistler and AWARE presented by BlueShore Financial. The Awards honour excellence in the areas of service, innovation, sustainability, outstanding leadership in the arts, business and community service.  The Rising Star Award catapults careers for those under 40 on the fast track to success!

  2022 Awards:

• Business Person of the Year – Presented by BDO
• Citizen of the Year – Presented by Race & Company LLP
• Rising Star of the Year – Presented by Hotel Association of Whistler
• Emerging Business of the Year – Presented by BCIT
• Innovative Business of the Year – Presented by Beedie Living
• Sustainability in Action Business – Presented by Cascade Environmental Resource Group
• Whistler Champion of Arts & Culture, Business – Presented by The Whistler Real Estate Company & Arts Whistler 
• Service Excellence – Small Business – Presented by Reactive Design Inc. 
• Service Excellence – Large Business – Presented by Whistler Blackcomb

 

EMCEE: HEATHER PAUL
Community Advocate / 2017 Citizen Of The Year Award recipient / 

Heather Paul has lived in Whistler for the past 23 years, intending to stay only for one season. She soon fell in love with the snow, summer, built a little family and moved into a WHA home. She is the Executive Director of the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, and is honoured to work with and learn from the youth and leaders of the Lil’wat Nation and Squamish Nation. Around the turn of the century Heather Paul started a little community theatre company called Whistler’s Short Skirt Theatre Company and enjoyed almost every minute of writing, directing and hamming it up on stage with Whistler’s bravest and best. In 2017 Heather was the recipient of Whistler’s ‘Citizen of the Year’. She is pretty sure the absence of Facebook and social media during her first few years in this community may have had a lot to do with her qualifications for the humbling honour.






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