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On the Street: Airline introduces Island hop

Northstar Air Tours is about to start operating what may be the shortest international flight in North America. The newcomer airline plans to operate a 14-minute flight between Victoria and the San Juan Islands town of Friday Harbor starting June 1.

Northstar Air Tours is about to start operating what may be the shortest international flight in North America. The newcomer airline plans to operate a 14-minute flight between Victoria and the San Juan Islands town of Friday Harbor starting June 1. The flight is made possible by the addition of customs facilities at Friday Harbor Airport. Northstar Air Tours set up shop this year at the Shell Aerocentre at Victoria International Airport.

 

Accountant students top class

Julia Phillips of Victoria and Nanaimo’s Katherine Wolfe are among 13 B.C. chartered professional accountant students named to the national honour roll for outstanding results on the final examination. Both students were recognized at the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia convocation ceremony. “These students represent the future of the accounting profession in British Columbia, and I congratulate each and every one of our new graduates,” said David Hallinan, chairman of CPABC board of directors.

 

New head of school at SMUS

St. Michaels University School has appointed Mark Turner, an award-winning educator from the United Kingdom, as its new head of school.

Turner, who has been the head of three other independent boarding schools, succeeds Bob Snowden, who will retire at the end of this school year.

“We are very excited about this appointment. From the beginning of our search process, Mark stood out as an energetic forward-thinker who is ideally suited to lead St. Michaels University School to even higher levels of excellence and international reputation, building on Bob Snowden’s very successful time,” said SMUS chairman Blair Hagkull.

Hagkull said Snowden’s legacy will be both the physical change of SMUS in his 22-year tenure — there are four new buildings at the Richmond Road campus — and pushing the school to its current position as one of the best in the country.

 

Coast Waste has new executive

The Coast Waste Management Association, which serves the solid waste and recycling industry on B.C.’s coast, has added new directors and First Nations representation to its board. The new board consists of chair Harmony Huffman, vice-chair Avery Gottfried, secretary Jeff Ainge, treasurer Peter Grant, as well as Anke Bergner, Mark Kurschner, Leo Lawson and Brenden McShane. “The board represents the diversity of stakeholders who make up the membership of CWMA,” said Huffman. “We are especially excited that Leo Lawson, representing B.C. First Nations Solid Waste Working Group, is joining the board”

 

On the move

Dillon Carfoot and Madone Pelan of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel have taken on new responsibilities in the Canadian tourism industry. Pelan, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing, has been appointed as president-elect of the B.C. chapter of Meeting Planners International. Carfoot, concierge for the hotel, has taken on the role of national secretary for Les Clefs d’Or ... Alistair Vigier has joined Bon Macaron as its investor relations manager. Bon Macaron, a French dessert store that started in Victoria in late 2012, now has three locations. Vigier’s role will be to raise capital from investors to expand the Bon Macaron concept across B.C. and Alberta.