A Tsawwassen resident widely recognized as one of B.C.'s most prominent and generous entrepreneurs passed away last Friday. Irving "Ike" Barber, founder of Slocan Forest Products Ltd., was 89.

Irving "Ike" Barber passed away last Friday at 89. The Tsawwassen resident was widely recognized as one of B.C.'s most prominent and generous entrepreneurs.

Every year, more than 100,000 Americans will need a life-saving organ transplant, yet in 2011 fewer than 22,000 transplants took place in the United States. In New York only 18 percent of New Yorkers who are eligible to donate are registered as organ d…