North Burnaby volunteer Ken Ryan was honoured Nov. 7 with a Solicitor General Safety Crime and Prevention Award.
Ryan began volunteering in 1995 with the Burnaby police and currently sits on the community policing advisory committee. In 1996, he became a Block Watch co-coordinator. He sits on Burnaby's antigraffiti committee and works with youth from eight different elementary schools as director of the Lochdale Community School Association. He also works on youth programs within Burnaby as a member of Optimist International.
Also honoured was a local business, ADT, which won a corporate award for its long history of offering help to victims of domestic violence across Canada since 1991. ADT has taken the initiative to fight domestic violence through its business by proviging families at high risk of domestic violence with monitored security at no charge.
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