ICABC: Community Service Award -
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Published on: 3/22/2005
Last Visited: 11/6/2006
This year, the Institute is delighted to spotlight the charitable work of nine CAs: Tom Burley, Norman Clark, Norman Daley, Dan Eisner, Renate Mueller, Ali Pirhbai, Karla Wagner, Eric Wilson, and Lawrence Woo, all of whom have shown tremendous commitment to their communities.
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Norman Daley, CA
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Norman Daley, CAThe managing partner of Becker Daley LLP in Kamloops, Norman has been a dedicated volunteer in his community for 20 years.
While Norman's contributions have been far-reaching, it is his involvement with local sports that has had the most visible impact.Norman has served as a member of the Kamloops Society for Sport Excellence, media chair of the Kamloops Local Committee for the World Junior Hockey Championships, secretary of the WHL Kamloops Blazers Sports Society, and a coach of Kamloops Minor Baseball.Add to this his myriad efforts, starting in 1994, to promote and develop the sport of curling.
"The Canadian Curling Association was putting together a local management team for the 1996 Brier, and I was asked to be treasurer," he recounts."With no children at the time, it was an easy choice for me to become involved in such an amazing event.The whole community did such a good job of staging the Brier that Kamloops ended up becoming a hotspot for curling events."
Hosting the 1998 Ford World Men's and Women's Curling Championships further solidified the city's reputation as the "Tournament Capital of Canada." It was under Norman's leadership that this event came to Kamloops, and it proved so successful that it created a financial legacy for the community.Norman also helped create the first financial template for host committees of Canadian Curling Association championships, and it has since been used for all major curling events.
His contributions were recognized in 1998 with the Kamloops Sports Council Sports-person of the Year Award.
More recently, Norman founded and chaired the Strauss Canada Cup of Curling, now a premier event on the Canadian curling circuit and one of only three Olympic qualifying events in the country.After its inaugural event in 2003, he negotiated for Kamloops to continue hosting the event until 2009-a major coup, as it's estimated that this event has already infused the community with millions of tourist dollars since its inception.
Still, Norman says the friendships made over the past 12 years have been his biggest reward.
"I've met so many great people from all over the world," he explains, "and great people in Kamloops.