Employee Involvement – Andy Lockhart and Mike French
Positions @ RBC:
Portfolio Managers, RBC Dominion
Securities, Calgary
Employee
Involvement - Andy Lockhart and Mike French |
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"Like
everybody else, we have had friends and family touched
by cancer. We think it's important to create a distraction
that helps people get through their treatment by focusing
on a world they can enjoy. Art a la Carte provides
patients and caregivers the chance to think about something
other than sickness."
Andy
Lockhart and Mike French |
Andy and Mike lead the Bow Valley Wealth Management
Group of 9 professionals in the Calgary Dome Tower office
of RBC Dominion Securities. Each has over 25 years'
industry experience and have been with RBC Dominion Securities
since 1988.
Both men are
ardent supporters of their community and are involved in
many community organizations as both donors and volunteers.
They are also skilled and relentless fund-raisers for the
causes closest to their hearts - like the effects
of cancer on families.
Art à la
Carte is
a registered charitable organization based in Calgary,
Alberta, that delivers artwork to the hospital rooms
of long-term care cancer patients. The program, which
began as an effort to lift a dying friend's spirits,
provides a unique opportunity for patients, visitors,
and caregivers to find encouragement and hope by choosing
art for their rooms.
In addition
to their both doing ‘rounds’ to cheer up patients
and help them choose artwork, Andy, a skilled amateur cabinet
maker, has built more than one “Carte” for
the purpose!
Volunteers have
made over 30,000 visits to local facilities over the past
eleven years. Adding a personal touch to an impersonal
setting helps to restore dignity, provide comfort, and
heighten morale for everyone involved with patient care.
Art à la
Carte operates in 8 hospitals near Calgary and has spread
to 7 others across Canada. The organization is joining
forces with Wellspring, the wellness programme for cancer
patients, and research on the program benefits will be
published soon in a nursing oncology journal.
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