Amber Price
Amber Price MGC | |
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 Amber Price | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1978 Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Spouse(s) | Adam Price |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence | Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada |
| Profession | Independent Bookstore Owner, Community Activist |
| Website | www |
Amber Jane Price is an entrepreneur and small business owner in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. Price is known locally in Chilliwack for petitioning the City of Chilliwack for a Rainbow Crosswalk in 2019[1] and while unsuccessful in their collective bid, over a dozen Rainbow Crosswalks were installed in Chilliwack on private, Indigenous and school board land. [2]
Amber Price founded the Chilliwack Mural Festival in 2020.[3] To date, Price has curated and overseen the installation of over three dozen large scale works of original art in Downtown Chilliwack.[4]
Price fundraises for and organizes community projects[5][6] with local organizations such as the Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club. Price created a Downtown Cleanup Crew in 2020 [7]
Biography
Born of Irish, Scottish, Romani and British ancestry, Price was raised in Agassiz on a hobby farm. Her family moved to Abbotsford in 1986, and again to Chilliwack where her family settled from 1994 to present.
Price is second generation owner of The Book Man, a small chain of two independent bookstoress in the Fraser Valley of BC. Her business has been the recipient of multiple awards for retail excellence, environmentalism, employment standards and is considered a staple in Downtown Chilliwack.[8] Price installed a Cat Adoption Window at one of her bookstores [9]
Price has served on the boards of Tourism Chilliwack, the Chilliwack Leaning Society and the Chilliwack Business Improvement Association. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Chilliwack Economic Partners Corporation,[10] Ena's Community Cats [11] and the Chilliwack Community Arts Council.[12]
In 2021, Price received a nomination for a YWCA Vancouver Woman of Distinction Award,[13] and in 2022, she received a Medal of Good Citizenship from the Province of British Columbia.[14]
She has been the recipient of an Inspirational Leader Award from the Chilliwack Chamber of Commerce.[15] She has been a three time nominee for a Cultural Diversity Award as a Community Champion[16] and a six time nominee for a Stan Rogers Legacy Award.
References
- ↑ "Chilliwack city council rejects request for rainbow crosswalk, calling it 'divisive' - BC | Globalnews.ca". Global News.
- ↑ "CityNews". vancouver.citynews.ca.
- ↑ "Chilliwack Mural Festival". Chilliwack Mural Festival.
- ↑ "Chilliwack Mural Festival comes alive in the downtown core". Chilliwack Progress. August 13, 2020.
- ↑ "VIDEO: Pure joy for Chilliwack kids as pumpkin patch magically appears". Chilliwack Progress. October 20, 2021.
- ↑ "GoFundMe raising money for helmets so Chilliwack youths can enjoy new pump track". Agassiz Harrison Observer. May 28, 2021.
- ↑ "Hometown hero: This B.C. woman started cleaning up her city's downtown core herself | Watch News Videos Online". Global News.
- ↑ "Bookman boosts literacy with gifts to Promontory teachers". Abbotsford News. February 9, 2018.
- ↑ "Chilliwack bookstore takes novel approach to cat adoption". British Columbia. April 17, 2022.
- ↑ https://www.businessinchilliwack.com/about-us/
- ↑ "Ena's Community Cats".
- ↑ "Home | Chilliwack Community Arts Council". Chilliwack Community.
- ↑ Bollwitt, Rebecca (March 4, 2022). "YWCA Women of Distinction Awards Nominees".
- ↑ Secretariat, Intergovernmental Relations. "Medal of Good Citizenship recipients - Province of British Columbia". www2.gov.bc.ca.
- ↑ https://www.chilliwackchamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Reasons-Why-Amber-Price-was-Nominated-for-Inspirational-Leader.pdf
- ↑ "2020 Nominees".
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