Tag: President Updates
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CAMRA BC Update: February 2018
It may seem like not much has happened at the CAMRA BC level this year but the executive has been busy, plugging away. Some of our activities are of the dry, boring variety while others are quite exciting and pushing CAMRA’s advocacy mandate forward. The Exciting: Pres Paddy and BC treasurer, Glen Stusek met with…
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President’s Update: February 2018
Hello members and friends! It’s that time of year again – that time where we call out for members to join us for our Annual General Meeting. This is going to be taking place at Central City Beatty (871 Beatty Street) on Sunday, February 25 12-4pm. Doors will open at 12:00, but meeting will start…
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President’s Update: September 2017
On August 23rd we held our Beer on the Beach Picnic Protest at First Beach in English Bay! I can’t stress enough how excited I am by how this event went. We had dozens of media requests, and had between 40 and 50 people come through the event and drink a beer in protest of…
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President’s Update: August 2017
Over the last 2 1/2 years being the head of the Vancouver branch of this organization, I’ve had a chance to speak to a lot of people at various events across the lower mainland. A very common question I have for them is “What is the most important issue for you as a beer consumer?”…
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CAMRA BC President’s Statement: Public Consumption of Alcohol
Since 1985, The Campaign for Real Ale Society of British Columbia (CAMRA BC) has been advocating on behalf of craft beer consumers in BC. A big part of CAMRA BC’s mandate is to promote and protect BC liquor policies that positively impact BC craft beer consumers while educating those same consumers on their consumers’ rights…
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President’s Update: February 2017
Members, I will keep this brief! The call for nominations for the CAMRA Vancouver Executive is out! Get your names in there – all the information can be found here. We would love to see more nominations so we have a nice full and busy AGM!
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President’s Update: January 2017
2017 already! What? How did that happen? Amazingly, that also means that my second term as President of the Vancouver Branch of CAMRA BC is quickly coming to an end. Like most people around this time of year, it is time to do a little reflecting on what has gone in in 2016 – Check…
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President’s Update: December 2016
Advocacy campaigns are winding down into the winter and beer events are starting to slow down. That being said, we have had some amazing events in the last few weeks and have had some great volunteers that have stepped up to the plate and helped the executive team out. As we approach the holiday season…
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President’s Update: November 2016
It’s been a busy month for us at CAMRA Vancouver – we have been busy organizing the first ever Vancouver Craft Cider Festival happening later in November, we have been preparing for appearances at the Burnaby Beer Festival and Coquitlam Beer Festival, we spent some time at the BC Beer Awards and have been hard…
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President’s Update – October 2016
It’s been a busy little while for CAMRA Vancouver and CAMRA BC – some of it exciting, some of it not so much; but that is the nature of the gig! President David has a few updates for you on the goings-on in and around the CAMRA Vancouver Community.
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President’s Update: September 2016
People often don’t realize how much work goes into the roles of our executive team. Often, people ask me how much I get paid to do this job; they are shocked when I tell them that the positions are unpaid and are done out of our sheer passion for beer and love for the community.…
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Farmhouse Festival and CAMRA’s Safe Ride Home Bus
Hard to believe my favourite beer festival of the year has come and gone! Farmhouse Wild Ale and Saison festival was a fantastic time. CAMRA Vancouver organized a safe ride home initiative to get people from UBC to easily accessible skytrain stations. Click here to read my thoughts on our initiative and a little tie…
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President’s Update: June 2016
Thoughts (or a quasi-rant) on California Drinking Laws and a bit of anger at BC’s reluctance to evolve A few weeks ago I had the chance to head to California for work (as much as I wish running this branch was my paid job, I do have an actual career.) After I was done, I…
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FUSS Letter 2016
Dear pubs and restaurants of Vancouver, My name is David Perry, I am the President of the Vancouver Branch of CAMRA BC. CAMRA BC, or The Campaign for Real Ale Society of British Columbia, an independent and voluntary, consumer organization dedicated to advocating for Craft Beer consumers in the province. Our organization is completely member…
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CAMRA BC AGM 2016
Hello, Vancouver members. This past weekend I had the honour of representing our community at the CAMRA BC AGM in Victoria. I must say it was a tremendous experience. In my little over a year serving as the president of this branch of this organization I have had the opportunity to represent your interests in…
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CAMRA VANCOUVER 2016 AGM
Hello everyone, It is hard to believe that another AGM has passed us by. On the afternoon of February 27th we were joined by a group of CAMRA Vancouver Members at the Biltmore Cabaret to take part in the procedure. The AGM is a crucial piece to our year as it decides the fate and…
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A year-end look back
As I write my last piece for the website before our AGM this month, I am simply overjoyed when I think about what we have done this year, and what the future holds. What we have accomplished this year simply wouldn’t have been possible without the best team out there. Here’s a small sampling of…
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Executive Nominations
It is hard to believe that next month it will have been one year since I took over the presidency of the Vancouver Branch of this amazing organization. We have had a fantastic year full of ups and downs. We had a new team of fresh faces that were keen to be a difference maker…
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A Look at “What’s Brewing”
Let’s look back to the early 2000s, before our current Vancouver branch was even in existence. Paul Morris, Lundy Dale, and a few others would meet regularly at a coffee shop (!) in Steveston as part of the Richmond Branch of CAMRA BC. Paul recalls, “The Lower Mainland scene, in terms of craft beer outlets, was dontown Vancouver. Monthly cask nights had started at DIX in July 2002 and there were a bunch…
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Community Spotlight: Danny Seeton
I have had the chance to work with Danny in various capacities for several years now and I must say that he is truly an incredible man. Very few people in the Vancouver Craft Beer scene are as genuine, caring, intelligent and funny as Danny is. His smile is infectious and his passion for learning…