Business Ethics Award winner finalists model 4-Way Test

100 Acre Wood Family Day Care of North Delta won the 4th Annual Delta Rotary Business Ethics Award, as a model of ethical business practice, at a dinner and ceremony on January 30, 2015.
 
Three other Delta companies also recognized as good models were Augustine House, of Ladner, Complete Cleaning Services Corp., of Tsawwassen, and Studio 64 Personal Training Inc., of North Delta.

The Rotary Clubs of Ladner, North Delta and Tsawwassen, and the Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) Enactus business student chapter which administered the nomination process, sponsored the event held at the Delta Town and Country Inn.

Winner of the 2015 Delta Rotary Business Ethics Award Tanya Marsh, of 100 Acre Wood Family Daycare is presented with the main award by Rotarian Peter Roaf.	Ladner Rotarian and Award Committee member Peter Podovinikoff presents a finalist award to Christina Tablan
MC Leslie Abramson	District 5040 Governor Elect John Anderson presents a finalist award to Tanya Snow of Augustine House

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Tanya Marsh, of the award-winning 100 Acre Wood Family Day Care, said the ethical practice in her business translates into inclusion. Everybody is welcome, she said, from varying cultures, different abilities, special needs, low income families.

Marsh says, “Because I have the opportunity to work with children at an early developmental stage in their lives I promote many important skills that include caring and respect for others, fairness, honesty, healthy lifestyle, awareness and respect for nature and the environment. Long term I hope to produce people who, in the future, embrace these positive behaviours and values.”

Comments by Marsh and other finalists can be heard through the following link: http://youtu.be/fRcW9AtT-E8 .

Tanya’s company, and the other finalists, said award program leader Leslie Abramson, all have a clear understanding that ethics is good for business. Being first in business is not just about being the fastest and most powerful, at any cost, it’s also about focus on the community, giving back and service. That, said Abramson, leads to sustainability.

“Rotary International puts ‘Service above self’ at the centre of all its activities around the world among our 1.2 million members and 35,000 clubs,” says Abramson, “and these finalists represent the meaning behind the ‘Four-Way Test’ of truth, integrity and goodwill in the way we provide that service.”

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Arthur and Geraldine Birk, President Patricia Sibley, and Tom and Kathleen Siba	Ladner Rotarian Rev. Dr. Graham Witcher spoke about business ethics in terms of balance and integrity.
Past District Governor and Ladner Rotarian Michael Cruise (left) and Beryl with Ladner Past President Ray Moschuk	Kwantlen Polytechnic University busiiness school students, of the local Enactus chapter, flank award winner Tanya Marsh