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Board of Directors
Anita Veri: President
Originally from Southern Ontario, Anita has called BC home for the past six years. She has been a volunteer at A Loving Spoonful for the last four years. Her volunteer responsibilities began with doing Client intakes and over time she began driving and delivering meals. Two years ago Anita became a Board Member and is the current Vice-President. For the past 15 years Anita has been working in Healthcare Sales, including business development and project management. At present, Anita works with 3M Healthcare in Infection Prevention Solutions.
Ken Channon: Vice President
Ken Channon has been A Loving Spoonful volunteer for fifteen years and has been a Board Member for 11 years. In past years he has also served as Treasurer. He has also volunteered as a driver and lent his accounting expertise to A Loving Spoonful. In his professional life, Ken is an accountant with C2 Media.
Ted Musgrove: Treasurer
Ted is the President at ETAE Consultants (Enterprise Transformation and Enablement). Prior to establishing his consulting practice, Ted held executive positions at some of Canada’s leading health care organizations – including Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and other organizations that have taken him across Canada and the US. His areas of expertise include Leadership and Strategic Planning; Capital and Workforce Planning; Labour and Commercial Contract Negotiations; Communications; Conflict Management and Alternate Dispute Resolution. Ted has been a supporter of A Loving Spoonful since coming to Vancouver in 2000 and he joined the Board in 2010.
Easter Armas: Secretary, Founder
Born and raised in San Francisco, Easter witnessed first hand how HIV/AIDS, then called the “gay cancer”, could devastate a community. Many of her friends and acquaintances died in the early days of the pandemic.
Easter began her altruistic journey in 1985. She started volunteering for AIDS Vancouver by answering the helpline, raising money for the Emergency Fund and even painting their office.
After observing an acquaintance with AIDS eating out of a garbage bin, Easter was determined to make a difference. In 1989, A Loving Spoonful was born.
Easter is a proud recipient of the Governor General’s “Canada 125” Medal; VanCity’s “Ethics in Action” Award and “Cutest Baby of 1958” by the San Francisco Fire Fighters Association (and she still has the trophy and certificates to prove it). Easter returned to A Loving Spoonful as a Director of the Board in 2008.
Christopher LaPrairie
Christopher made the move to Vancouver in 2005 and loves his life on the west coast. With a degree in Business, his professional career has spanned management assignments with multi-national advertising and communication agencies. He is currently involved in marketing / communications consulting work. Christopher has enjoyed his role with various A Loving Spoonful committees, and is looking forward to supporting A Loving Spoonful’s continued undertakings and future vision.
Dr. David Lai, M.D: Chair - Client Services Committee
David is a family physician who is currently practicing in the West End with a special interest in HIV and addiction issues. David completed his education at the University of Calgary 1993 and has since worked in the Philippines and India on medical and humanitarian missions. In addition, David was an associate professor at the University of Alberta from 1995 to 1999 before moving to Vancouver. David is committed to community service and over the years has contributed to AIDS Calgary, SEVA Foundation and the BC Children's Hospital and would like to continue this dedication with A Loving Spoonful.
Gerald Bachmayer
Gerald is a seasoned high tech executive with over 2 decades of experience and has owned and managed several successful software companies. Gerald has been involved as a consultant and business development advisor and has been engaged in management roles at both the local and provincial governments. He has participated on several public boards including BCIT’s Technology Center where he was a past Chairman of the Venture Program. He is also the past volunteer President of the Canadian Cancer Society-Vancouver Unit. Gerald sits on several technology panels of the American Academy of Science and is actively involved as an Ambassador for the David Suzuki Foundation and volunteers with the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society, Coastal Jazz Society and of course, A Loving Spoonful. Gerald is an avid hiker, gardener, environmentalist and supporter of the arts.
Grant Wilson
Grant has been a volunteer food delivery driver for the past four years and has served on the Board for the last 2 years. It has been a very big honour to work alongside the many volunteers and great staff that make up A Loving Spoonful, as well as the many clients that have made a lasting, positive impression.
Grant’s professional time is spent working with his Land Development Company as they are currently building a resort-styled community in the BC Interior. In his personal time, Grant can be found playing tennis, hockey or trying to keep up with his two young daughters.
Quinn Newcomb
Quinn is a strategic communications and intergovernmental relations professional with experience advising provincial and federal governmesnts and with the non-profit sector. Quinn is currently the Senior Policy Analyst & Communications Strategist for the Canadian Tourism Commission – Canada’s national tourism marketing organization. Quinn is a former Board member of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) BC Society and a director of the Victoria-Harbourside Rotary Foundation. In his spare time Quinn is an avid traveller and scuba diver who also enjoys reading, jogging and dog-walking.
Sonny Roche
Sonny has had an 18-year journey of volunteering with A Loving Spoonful. He was one of the founding board members when the organization became a registered non-profit society in 1991. He is an activity co-coordinator and part-time fundraiser for the largest homeless shelter in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Lookout Emergency Aid Society.
Spencer Dane
Spencer is an Assistant Chair for the School of Management at Langara College in Vancouver. Before joining the faculty at Langara, he spent two decades in the airline industry in a variety of senior financial and business planning positions. He has also been an investment advisor and an award-winning restaurateur. He earned a BA and Licentiate in Accounting at UBC, an MBA at NYIT and is a CGA.
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A Loving Spoonful receives 77% of its funding from private donations and grants, rather than government funding. |
