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An American in Kelowna – How I “Soled Out” 803 Ways Thanks to UBC Southern Medical Program and Kelowna General Hospital

An American in Kelowna – How I “Soled Out” 803 Ways Thanks to UBC Southern Medical Program and Kelowna General Hospital

Ho Ho Ho – it has bin one heel of a steel-toed journey with Soles4Souls Canada and the Kelowna Sunrise Rotary Shoe Bank.         On November 25 – we decked the halls and placed shoe-donation drop bins at four locations:  Kelowna General Hospital main entrance and Rose Avenue entrance; UBC Clinical Academic Campus, 2nd floor reception; and at UBC Okanagan Reichwald, centre reception.           A Christmas flyer had already been circulated electronically encouraging…

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An American in Kelowna – Boots on the Ground at the Kelowna Sunrise Rotary Shoe Bank

An American in Kelowna – Boots on the Ground at the Kelowna Sunrise Rotary Shoe Bank

www.soles4soulscanada.com [email protected] One my first morning volunteering at the Kelowna Shoe Bank, I took this request from a dubious customer: “I need a pair of runners, size 10. Do you have those?” “Gee, sir, I’m not sure?” was my rookie retort. “Let’s go back to the main showroom and check out our inventory.” Before leading him into the shoe room, I had to pull shoe maven (and boss lady) Donna Moyer aside and ask her “what runners were?” She laughed…

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