Wendland Receives Honorary Life Member Award

PRLog (Press Release) - May 06, 2009 -
TORONTO, CANADA.  Ben Wendland of Richmond, BC, received the ALS Society of Canada Honorary Life Member Award at an awards ceremony in Toronto on May 2, 2009, in recognition of his volunteer contributions to the ALS community of Canada.

For more than 10 years, Wendland has been a key member of the ALS community. He has served in many capacities — he has been a donor and has participated in workshops and other awareness activities. He has been a volunteer on both the provincial and the national levels: he initially served as president and executive committee member of the ALS Society of British Columbia, and, from 2007 to 2009, as chair of the board of directors of the ALS Society of Canada. He brought a wealth of experience in human resources and management to these roles.

“Ben has said that the contributions you make to organizations like the ALS Society consist of both tangibles and intangibles—funds for research to find a cure for ALS would be a tangible; the gift of hope that this research gives to people living with ALS, as well as the heightened awareness of the effects of ALS that such research creates in the general public, would be intangibles. Ben’s personal contribution to our cause has incorporated both these aspects of giving,” says Doretta Thompson, member of the executive committee of the board of directors of ALS Canada.

Honorary Life Members are named in recognition of an extraordinary volunteer contribution to the ALS community in Canada.