CUCC Christmas Social

The Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce held its annual Christmas Social at the UNF Hall at 145 Evans last night. If you missed it, I would seriously recommend making a note to attend next year. CUCC did a great job lining up speakers who talked about mining and resource extraction in Ukraine from the perspective of companies that are actually on the ground in Ukraine. Plus the food and Rosewood Estates wine was great too. Kudos to Markian Silecky and John Moskalyk for organizing such a fun event.

The first speaker was Paul Bozoki, CFO of Black Iron Inc. an iron ore exploration and development company with a property near Kriviy Rih. Paul talked about the reasons his company believes they can develop a successful and profitable mine in Ukraine. You can read more about Black Iron on the eResearch site - Black Iron Reports.


Paul Bozoki, Black Iron CFO talks to Jurij Klufas of Kontakt TV.
You can watch Kontakt every Saturday on OMNI TV



The other main speaker was Zenon Potichnyj of Shelton Petroleum. His company has operations in Ukraine in the Aziv and Black Seas as well as in the Poltava region. Shelton Petroleum also has an operation in the Republic of Baskorostan.

This event, like the UCPBA Yalynka over the weekend (Yalynka photos) attracted a good mix of business folk of all ages. After the presentations, everyone headed over to the buffet table for some delicious finger foods including bite-size holubtsi (great idea whoever came up with that!) and a choice of red or white wine from Rosewood Estates newest line of wines.



John Iwaniura greets Sv. Mykolay 

The evening also had a surprise guest appearance of Sv. Mykolay (St. Nicholas) who appeared to greet everyone, wish them a Merry Christmas and remind them to be nice (or at least less naughty). He then had to run off as his sleigh was double parked in front of a fire hydrant. Later on, everyone in attendance gathered around to sing a kolyadka (Christmas carol) for the TV cameras. Group sing-alongs are a lot of fun you know.

Lyubomyra Matvias of Radio Postup
poses with a friend you can hear
Lyubomyra's show live every
Sunday 8-10pm on CIRV FM 88.9



Lesia Chyczij, Ron Chyczij
and Andriy Kostecki



Many more pictures from the CUCC Christmas Social are available on our Facebook page.