Left to Right - Dan Beer (President - CMHDS), Eric O'Shea (London Drugs), Angelo Balatsas (Toyota Canada), Paul Prevost (London Drugs), Justin Burnett (HBC Logistics), Noel Alsop (Neptune Foods), Fernando Palma (Neptune Foods), Mark Keilpinski (Wallace and Carey), Rodney Atelevich (ATS), Rob Vetter (IVES Training - Chief Judge), Art Lovett (BW Creative Wood)
On Saturday Oct 22nd, 2005 the Canadian Materials Handling and Distribution Society held the 9th Annual B.C. Championship Lift Truck Rally at the Neptune Foods Warehouse. It was a great success. Over 50 contestants entered and at least an additional 150 spectators witnessed the B.C. Champion Lift Truck Operators crowned.
In the Powered Pallet Mover competition Paul Prevost of London Drugs took the Gold (and the $500 first prize). Silver (and $300) went to Mark Keilpinski of Wallace and Carey. The Bronze medal (and $200) went to Fernando Palma of Neptune Foods.
In the Sit-Down Counterbalance category Eric O’Shea of London Drugs captured the Gold. The Silver went to Rodney Atelevich of ATS. Art Lovett of BW Creative Wood took the Bronze.
For Stand Up Reach Trucks the Gold medal went to Justin Burnett of HBC Logistics. Neptune Foods’ Noel Alsop captured Silver. And Angelo Balatsas of Toyota took home the Bronze.
Congratulations to all of the winners and participants.
There are several companies and individuals who made contributions to allow this event to take place. First we have to thank our major sponsor IVES Training Ltd. who contributed $1,000 and looked after the course design and judging. The judges, all contractors for IVES Training, were: Hugh Devilin (Cowal Consulting), Sandy Maher (Ives), Don Sayers (Sayers International), and Grant Mackenzie (Pivot Industrial Services). Thank you Rob Vetter and the entire staff at IVES.
Michelle Matheson was in charge of the event and put in a tremendous effort. We can’t thank her enough. Thanks also to her company, Manpower, for their many contributions including the free coffee and donuts for everyone. Thank you Don Cormack, Mildred Guererro, Irene Siqueira, Maureen Brownlee and Tina Palazzo.
Neptune Foods (GFS) for allowing us to use their facility and graciously hosting. Rick Spindor and Ian Mackenzie you should be very proud of your management team. Thank you.
Johnston Equipment for supplying equipment, volunteers, and the lunch for everyone. Dave Coutts and his staff, thank you.
Williams Machinery – supplying Linde equipment. Thank you for your support.
GT Hiring Solutions (Destinations) – Richard Ali, Sophie and John. Thank you for your booth and running the results to the scoring table.West Coast Batteries, the C&D representatives – Brad Zimmerman and John Toito. Thank you for volunteering and providing a booth. Brad was there at 6:00 AM.
Darrell Degeau for providing a booth with Material Handling Equipment wooden models. Darrell has been the course designer for several past rally’s. Again, he was there to jump in and help set up the courses.
Deka Batteries, East Penn – Trevor Andres and Attila Csiszar for providing a booth great raffle gifts. Thank you for your support.
BCIT – Daren Germaine and Ted Vincent who are working on a new program centred around developing Material Handling entry level workers. The coordinator is Shirley Butler who can be reached at 604-432-8205.
Adecco – Thanks for always supporting CMHDS events.
Segway – Chris Szydloski -what a fun and interesting means of transport. Imagine a warehouse manager zipping around on a Segway that can be stored in his/her office. If you are interested in a demo call Dave Lavigne at Johnston Equipment.
St. Johns Ambulance – Always prepared to support the Rally.
Freybe Gourmet Foods – for their delicious barbequed sausages.
Kraft Foods – for cookies and snacks. Thank you Doug Cutting and his staff.
HY Louie – who provided wonderful gift baskets for raffles. Thanks again to Ed Bartholomew and the good folks at HY Louie.
Terasen Gas – the traffic cones were compliments of Teresan.
We had a great day. Congratulations to everyone involved especially Michelle Matheson, Neptune and Ives Training Ltd.
Dan Beer
President, CMHDS
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