WICC Ontario 20th Gala Dinner, April 6, 2016

WICC Ontario held its 20th Gala Dinner, “Unmasked – 20 Years of Uncovering a Cure” on April 6 at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto. The evening’s emcee was Don Martin (brother of Paul Martin of RRJ Insurance Group), a Canadian television and newspaper journalist, and host of Power Play on CTV News Channel.

WICC dinner co-chairs Laurel DiMaso and Sandy MacSpadyen presented a $200,000 cheque from WICC to Patricia George and Susan Drodge of the Canadian Cancer Society.

WICC co-chairs Ellen Moore and Marilyn Horrick acknowledged WICC’s Tribute Recognition initiative – the seven WICC Tributes currently established have raised more than $115,000, including Tributes for Leona Charbonneau, Cristina De Vargas, Linda Hajekerou, Mary Goodbrand, Jamie Knowles, Jim McRae and Micki Traikos.

Gold Flame Awards, recognizing significant contributions to WICC, went to Heartland Farm Mutual Insurance, OIAA-Windsor and SPECS. The Hall of Flame Award went to Enterprise Canada Ltd. and the Lew Dunn Memorial Award was presented to Enterprise Canada Ltd.

Now celebrating its 20th Anniversary, since WICC’s inception in 1996, the Canadian p&c insurance industry has raised more than $12.6 million for cancer research.