Belle
Puri
CKNW Vancouver; reporter/producer
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Broadcast journalist CBC Vancouver - business reporter -
Venture, Newsworld Business News, Money Weekly,
Over 28 years
experience in public and private-sector television and radio as reporter,
producer, and host.
Assignments have
included provincial politics, federal political party leadership conventions,
Commonwealth conferences, world summits, royal visits, world fairs, APEC
conferences, and tours of Terry Fox, Steve Fonyo and Rick
Hansen.
Documentary in the late 1980s lead to designation of BC's
Winner of regional and national awards in radio and
television reporting.
YWCA 15th Annual Woman of Distinction Awards - "Communications
and Public Service".
The Centennial Foundation - May 2000 -
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1998 - The film -
Passage from
In his small village in the
I met Belle Puri a
well known CBC reporter who had now become a producer. I was struck by her
knowledge of her family history and her understanding of it, in spite of the
fact that her maternal grandfather Bagga Singh had
died before she was born. I felt Belle had a very clear sense of herself as a
British Columbian whose roots were quite deeply integrated in history. She was
proud of the contributions that people like her grandfather made in building
Being a media personality, Belle was not at
all daunted about being in front of the camera. Her family seemed quite remarkable
and open as well. Her mother Nsibe, had passed down a lot of stories about her father to
Belle. Belle also spoke of the possibility of including other people in the
film who were part of the larger family who knew Bagga
Singh.
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Belle Puri is spending her summer vacation (2004) pounding the
pavement for a good cause.
The
"It just
wouldn't go away," she says about the idea of walking to raise funds and
awareness about breast cancer. "I decided I would do it."
Puri's original goal was to raise $2,000
and use the walk as a way to get fit, but it's become so much more.
"People have
been amazing," she says. "There are so many good causes to give to.
People aren't tired of giving."
TV reporter John
Daly went into Puri's online account and made a
donation to top up her fundraising total to $2,000.
Puri has received donations ranging
from $5 to $2,000 and from colleagues as far away as
"There isn't
anyone who can't say they don't know anyone who hasn't had it," she says.
"With breast cancer, I have a mom, a sister-in-law, two beautiful nieces,
cousins and aunts."
A close friend, Clem
Chapple, died of a brain tumour
about a year ago, which is what compelled her to participate in the Weekend to
End Breast Cancer. It's a way of honouring her
friend's memory. (She raised $30,000)
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Fraserside Community Services
Society (BCACL)
Vice President -
Belle Puri
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Royal Columbian Hospital
Foundation board members include:
Dr. Roy Morton,
Medical Director, formerly WX newscaster
Belle Puri was a candy striper at the Royal Columbian as a
teenager
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Belle is quite the
community volunteer having served on boards of the Fraser River Discovery
Centre, the Massey Theatre, and the CKNW Orphan’s Fund
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