Left to right: Bayne Boyes, Sandra Tonn, Angela Nat, Graham Boyes, Lorill Hancock, Pauline O’Sullivan, Lorna Hancock

The Health Action Network Society (HANS) is this year’s winner of Burnaby Now’s Best Community Services Organization award. Founded in 1984, HANS is Canada’s longest running consumer health network and represents consumer interests in the area of natural health. “We’re thrilled by the support of our local members,” said Lorna Hancock, the group’s longtime executive director. HANS fields more than 25,000 inquiries a year on matters of natural health and the environment. The society, which is supported primarily through individual memberships and donations, educates via regular public events and through its publications, Health Action magazine and HANS e-News.