John Finnie, Founding Member
John Finnie was a founding member of The Partnership on Vancouver Island (formerly CAVI) and served as its chair from 2006 to 2011. A civil and environmental engineer, his career was defined by over 40 years of water, wastewater and solid waste regulatory and utility management experience with the BC Ministry of Environment and the Regional District of Nanaimo. John received the first BCWWA Leadership in Water Sustainability Award for his accomplishments, in particular for his work in championing and bringing to fruition the Regional District of Nanaimo’s “Drinking Water and Watershed Protection” program.
Tim Pringle is first winner of British Columbia’s ‘Land Champion Award’
The BC Land Champion Award honours individual who have demonstrated the “key qualities” of leadership, innovation and collaboration over time. “It is especially fitting that the Land Champion Award go first to Tim Pringle,” stated Michael Clague in a video testimonial. “This sets the bar pretty high for subsequent nominations. Tim leaves with a long legacy and the hopes from many of us that we are going to continue to be able to benefit and learn from what Tim has done and what he is going to continue to do.”
A View from Washington State
“You do a great job of connecting dots! These dots happen to be glowing red and close together (and thus easy to connect), but you have demonstrated the ability to bring folk together that ordinarily don’t want to see dots connected. Keep up the good work,” praises Tom Holz.