The International Order of Job's Daughters recently crowned Taylor Johansen as the 104th Honoured Queen of Bethel No. 22 in New Westminster.
Johansen is an Ãcole Glenbrook Middle School student, and her father is Paul Johansen, a member of the school district parent advisory council.
Job's Daughters is an organization that offers scholarship opportunities to girls and young women from aged 10 to 20.
As Honoured Queen, Taylor plans to put the focus on fun and will plan family-and community oriented activities that will build leadership, public speaking skills and teamwork, says a press release.
Over the next six months, the girls of Bethel No. 22 will go to the waterslides; conduct a shoreline cleanup; serve at Masonic Lodges, at the Burnaby Garden Club and Miniature Club; as well as perform a wreath-laying ceremony at the cenotaph, the release said.
Sleepovers, face-painting, bottle drives and ice-skating are also on the itinerary for the girls, their family and friends.
Bethel No. 22 meets twice monthly in New Westminster.
New members are welcome, and eligibility for membership rests on being related to a Master mason, the release states. This relationship is broad, from daughters and stepdaughters to cousins and nieces.
For more information, visit www.bcjd.org.
Students earn CA designation
Four New Westminster chartered accountant (CA) students recently graduated for the CA qualification program.
They are: Vitalia Lyssoun, Lisa Peters (KNV Chartered Accountants LLP), Adrian Pidor (Wolrige Mahon LLP) and Cynthia Hsin-Hua Tung (KPMG LLP), a press release states.
Students recognized at the convocation ceremony are eligible for membership in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of B.C. this year.
"These students have earned their CA designation by successfully completing a rigorous and competitive academic program, focused on business and accounting competencies," Richard Rees, CEO of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia, said in the release.
"We are very proud of them, and they should take great pride in having earned their CA designation."
To qualify as a CA, students must have a university degree or equivalent, 30 months of practical work experience in an approved CA training office and complete courses through the CA qualification program.
CAs must also pass a comprehensive rigorous national final exam to earn their designation.
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