New West company creates key to the athletes village
A New Westminster business recently took part in one of the last legacies of the 2010 Winter Games by making a key to the athletes village for Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.
One Source Productions, a local corporate branding company, was put in charge of engraving a key that VANOC director John Furlong passed to Robertson in a ceremony on May 15.
The key, which was 14 inches long, five inches wide and 3/8ths of an inch thick, was designed by One Source with the Vancouver 2010 logo, the Metro Vancouver insignia as well as an inscription detailing the official return of the buildings to the city of Vancouver from VANOC control.
The company's owner Michael Wierzbicki said that while the timeline on the project was tight, it was an honour to be a part of something that meant so much to Canada.
"We had just over three days to get it done," said Wierzbicki. "But anything to do with the Olympic legacy is amazing. They were good to us."
The ceremonial key was not the only Olympic-related project the company took part in. Early on in the Games period, Wierzbicki and his wife Carol, co-owner of One Source, met the caterers for NBC Australia over drinks at the Terminal Pub.
After having a laugh about the controversy surrounding the boxing Kangaroo flag that the IOC ordered Australian athletes to remove from a balcony at the athletes village, the company decided to make pins of the kangaroo with maple leaf boxing gloves for the group.
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