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Bonnie Foster is a partner with Ross, Pope & Company, Chartered Accountants, in Timmins since 1993, working primarily with small- to medium-sized businesses, as well as not-for-profit and Aboriginal organizations.

She has been elected for a 5th term to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, the provincial governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he  of chartered accountants. She currently sits on the executive and is chair of the bylaws The rules and regulations enacted by an association or a corporation to provide a framework for its operation and management.

Bylaws may specify the qualifications, rights, and liabilities of membership, and the powers, duties, and grounds for the dissolution of an
 committee. She was awarded the honour of Fellowship in 2003.

She has been a member of the Cochrane District Grant Review Team of the Ontario Trillium Foundation The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF), one of Canada’s leading grantmaking foundations, is an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Culture. OTF distributes $100 million of government funding each year generated through Ontario's charity casino initiative.  since 1999, an Order-In-Council appointment by the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation. Along with the task of grant reviews, she has facilitated in delivering program updates and participated in conference planning.

Since 2000, she has been a member of the northern judging panel for the Ontario Global Traders Awards, being chair in 2003 and participating in the Provincial Awards selection.

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A past president of the Timmins Chamber of Commerce, she has a considerable history of volunteerism with a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including economic development in Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing.

Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it
.

She was born and raised in Timmins.

Richard Rosset is a native of Sault Ste. Marie Sault Sainte Marie — pronounced "Soo Saint Marie" (IPA /su seɪnt məˈɹi/) — is the name of two cities on the Saint Marys River, which forms part of the boundary between the United States and Canada. . He was employed at Savoy's Jewellers for 25 years and purchased the family business in 1990 with his twin brother, Roger. He opened a second location in 1981 and then opened the third location in 1984. He employs a staff of 30, including five jewellers, a watchmaker, a clockmaker, engraver, and two gemmologists.

He graduated from the Canadian Jewellers Institute in 1979 and graduated as a gemmologist from the "Gemmological Institute of America" in California in 1983. He won a Northern Ontario Business Northern Ontario Business is a Canadian magazine, which publishes monthly in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. The magazine covers business news and issues in Northern Ontario.  Award in 1994 in the 1-25 employee category. He has been the director of the Lakeshore Kiwanis of Sault Ste. Marie since 1987, and is a past president, and was "Kiwanian of the Year" in 1994. In 1996, he was the recipient of the Arts Council An arts council is a government or private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing events at home and abroad.  of Sault Ste. Marie President's Award The President's Award may mean:
  • Gaisce - The President's Award, Republic of Ireland
  • NAACP Image Award - President's Award, United States
  • Rashtrapati Award - Award given by the President of India (Rashtrapati is Hindi for President)
 for outstanding contribution to the council.

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He has been an active member of the Community Development Corp. of Sault Ste. Marie as an investment committee officer since 1999. He is also the recipient of the chamber of commerce 2002 Skipper Manzutti Award, for contributions and involvement in the community.

He enjoys all sports as a participant, coach and spectator, and has been married for 20 years, and has two children.

Lyne Gagnon-Ruscio has spent the last 20 years in progressive positions with public, private and non-profit organizations. She is currently working with the Ministry of Natural Resources as a senior communications adviser. She thrives on the challenges required to address the needs of various stakeholders and seizes opportunities to contribute to the success of program goals.

The last 15 years have seen communication and public relations' functions become the focus of her career. Gagnon, a bilingual professional, founded Dimensions Communications and Mediation Group, a consulting business firm focused on customer service. She has led numerous workshops, such as strategic communications and planning, starting your own business, conflict resolution, team building and a series related to job search.

She studied at Algoma University College Algoma University College is a postsecondary institution in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, offering undergraduate university degrees in more than 25 academic programs.

Algoma is currently an affiliated college of Laurentian University in Sudbury.
 and later completed a certificate in dispute resolution, mediating pre-trials in Small Claims Court. As a member of a board of hearings, she hears appeals from individuals who have been denied their employment insurance claims. She is an active member of the Sault Area Hospital board of directors, chamber of commerce public affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information.  committee and school council, among others.

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Tom Palangio is an explosive application specialist and managing director of Topex Inc. He is also vice-president of WipWare Photoanalysis Systems.

Palangio career spans more than 30 years in the explosives industry, starting with DuPont Canada, Explosives Products Division in 1974, joining Explosives Technologies International in 1988 and forming Topex and WipWare Inc. in 1995. He has worked with various organizations and research groups throughout the world and has extensive experience in explosives manufacturing, application and performance evaluation Performance evaluation

The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return
.

Pelangio pioneered the use of new technology as a means of improving blasting efficiency. He has published over 36 papers and presented lectures and workshops at various conferences and universities, covering such diverse topics as mechanical loading techniques, seismic vibration analysis, wall control methods and fragmentation assessment.

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He chairs the Blue Sky mining cluster in North Bay, is a director on the board of SAMSSA and serves on the Ontario Mining Industry Cluster Council. He won the Northern Ontario Business Awards, Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2003, export development awards in 2001 and 2002 and the Northern Ontario Leadership Award in the Global Traders Award category in 2003.

Darren Jewell is the owner of Jewell Contracting in Thunder Bay Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships. . Born in Barry's Bay, Ont., and a long-time resident of Wawa, he moved to Thunder Bay in 1997. There, he established his company in 1999 with the purchase of a dump truck. Jewell has built up his business with annual expansions, including the addition of a retaining wall block system in 2000, followed by a fully automated concrete block plant a year later. The company began manufacturing concrete manholes in 2002 before expanding again with Jewell Grinding Services and becoming a distributor of bulk Portland cement portland cement

Binding agent of present-day concrete. It is a finely ground powder made by burning and grinding a limestone mixed with clay or shale. Its inventor, Joseph Aspdin (1799–1855), patented the process in 1824, naming the material for its resemblance to the
. He is married, with two children.

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Roseline Dubreuil and her husband of 32 years, Pierre, lived in Dubreuilville for 12 years, and were the owners of Dubreuil Brothers Ltd., along with other family members.

Dubreuil is on the Board of Appeal for the Human Resources Development Canada “HRDC” redirects here. For other uses, see HRDC (disambiguation).

The Department of Human Resources Development, also referred to as Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), is a former department of the Government of Canada.
 office in Sault Ste. Marie. She is also chair of the Board of Referees. In addition to sitting on the French and English school English school

Dominant school in painting in England from the 18th century to c. 1850. From 1730 to 1750 two distinctive British forms of painting were perfected by William Hogarth: genre scenes depicting the “modern moral subject,” and the small-scale
 board, Dubreuil was also a trustee on the separate school board for six years.

She now works in retail at the Loon's Nest, a little specialty store Noun 1. specialty store - a store that sells only one kind of merchandise
shop, store - a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
 in the Sault.

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Title Annotation:Celebrating Excellence 2004
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Date:Nov 1, 2004
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