Cory Schachtel

Building communities that reflect our ambitious, welcoming and unpretentious spirit After two decades of helping turn developments into award-winning communities, Marty Pawlina did what many Edmontonians who reach their professional peaks do — he left to Vancouver.

Pioneering life-saving transplants and mentoring the next generation of women surgeons Job Title: Transplant Surgeion and Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta Dr. Blaire Anderson is used to standing out in her field. Not only is she Alberta’s first woman hepato-pancreato-biliary surgeon, she’s the first doctor in Western Canada to successfully perform a combined heart-liver transplant.

Scott Stinchcombe was 12 when his dad brought home a pinball machine, and his life was never the same. The game was Freedom, a 1976 machine Stinchcombe spent countless hours playing — and fixing — with his dad. It opened Stinchcombe to a whole new community, and a current collection of 50 more machines, both of which he enjoys as much as those first days with his dad.