THE VINTAGE YEARS

NOVEMBER IS not high
in our favorite-month-of-
the-year polls, teetering
between outright winter
and sullen preparation
for same. But for us
Seniors it has a big,
bright spot, because it’s
the time for declaration
of the winner of the B.C.
Senior of ‘The Year
award.

The Brock House Saciety
initiated this recognition of out-

. standing grown-ups eleven
years ago, and the gold medal
they had struck for winners
comes with the added fillip of
10 thousand dollars extended to
each recipient by the
HongKong Bank.

Both ladies and gentlemen
have been honored with the
award, all of them the kind of
people who find the best of life
lies in contribution of them-
selves. They have come from all
areas of the province, nominat-
ed by members of their own
communities.

This year there were 60-odd
names to choose from. Heck of
a job, and overseen by the
Honorable Nathan Nemetz. The
panel that makes the final deci-

- sion looks for the people who fit
what they describe as: “the
movers, the doers, the starters

and the provers.”

The rules of the game say

‘these movers and doers must be
65 or older, Canadian citizens

: and have a record of voluntary

_ Service to their communities.
You can’t nominate yourself,
‘and no fair suggesting a couple
—-to each his own in this draw.

- With the introduction in
place, it is a pleasure to present

_ the man who led the field this

year. His name is Peter Wing.

_ His home is in Kamloops, -
where he was born. He is in his
81st year, and when he became
Mayor of his hometown in 1971
it was the first time in North
America that a person of
Chinese origin had achieved
that distinction. He describes
his youth in Kamloops, his
schooling, as nothing spectacu-

_ lar. There was a bother some
year of illness when he would
otherwise have been taking
Grade 10, and then a commer-
cial course before he went into
his father’s grocery store.

In 1932, he married Kim

- Kwong, who was a Revelstoke

girl, and from then on he began -

to build a career of being a very

lively-minded citizen.
Kamloops was a nice small
town in those days, and he
could have spent his years as
most of us do, getting along,
tending to our own affairs.

But that’s not Peter Wing's
style. He bought an orchard in
the forties, and that got him
interested in the B.C. Fruit
Growers’ Association, to the
extent that ultimately he
became a director. Likewise the
B.C. Fruit Processors.

When he sold the orchard to
subdividers, he discovered a
latent talent for the real estate
business, an exercise he pursued
until his retirement. Retirement
from Peter Wing Real Estate,
yes, but it might more likely be
called “Retirement into the

- World.”

He had, all through his busi-
ness life, been working over-
time for his city and his
province, and was also involved
in many of the service organiza-
tions. Now he could go at it
fullbore. He’s been a Rotarian
for 52 years, and was local pres-

ident during 1976 and ‘77. He's
an Honorary Life Member of
the Kamloops Board of Trade.
For five years he acted as an
alderman for the city, and for
the five years following that he
took on the role of mayor.

All of us old-timers have
made our contributions to soci-
ety, and given time to causes we
espoused, but Peter Wing has
turned it into an art form. He’s:
served as president of the
Okanagan Municipal
Association, president of the
Union of B.C Municipalities,
vice president of the Canadian
Federation of Municipalities,
and as a Director of the B.C.
Automobile Association. He’s
now a Life Member of most of
those bodies.

He was Governor of
Canada’s Jaycees for 1972. The
Queen gave him her Jubilee
Medal in 1977, the same year
that he received the Human
Relations Award from the
Canadian Council of Christians
and Jews. The City of

Kamloops made him a Freeman -

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