Local Hero Awards

Junyi Liu, 41, saved an elderly woman from the flames during the Comox Esso fire in May 2023. A few months later, he was awarded the Courage & Bravery Local Hero Award. Liu (middle) poses surrounded by firefighters of the Comox Fire Rescue during the award ceremony on Sept. 6. (Connor McDowell / Comox Valley Record)

B.C. man awarded ‘highest honour for civilian heroism in North America’

Junyi Liu, 41, received the Carnegie Medal for saving an elderly woman from the flames

 

Bernard Biro and granddaughter Lucia Elizabeth Dell share a moment Wednesday, Oct. 11, after Dell became the youngest person ever to receive the B.C. Emergency Health Services Vital Link Award for her role in saving Biro’s life. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)

7-year-old’s quick thinking helps save grandfather’s life at Nanaimo pool

Granddaughter, paramedics and lifeguards honoured for saving man’s life last month

 

The only one from the community to win the award, good citizen Lori Girard, was recognized for taking community service initiatives in 2021 when COVID cases were on the rise. (Special to The News)

Pitt Meadows resident among 2021 Medal of Good Citizenship recipients

Minister of Citizens’ Services presented the award to one of her constituents