Town Talk: Courage To Come Back Awards honour five, raise $3 million

ALL THE WAY: For its 20th annual running, Coast Mental Health’s Courage to Come Back Awards banquet dramatically moved forward. The Vancouver Convention Centre event drew 1,800 attendees compared to 1,500 in 2017, and reportedly almost doubled revenue to $3 million. Thirteen-year chair Lorne Segal praised awardees Ingrid Bates, Josh Dahling, Alisa Gil Silvestre, Jim Ryan and Suzanne Venuta’s “sheer determination to persevere in the face of all that life has placed before them.&