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Paddleboarders Take a Spill for Pihl and BrainTrust Canada

Paddleboarders Take a Spill for Pihl and BrainTrust Canada

Okay – that was a lot of water-logged family fun.           On a super overcast August Sunday morning at Rotary Beach Park, BrainTrust Canada held its 4th Annual Pihl Law Paddle for Prevention and board-shorts battle to the buoy and back. All the requisite aquatic tools were provided for this competitive beach jamboree – beautiful-and-calm Okanagan Lake, seven paddle boards and paddles, seven paddling lanes, seven stationary buoys, and the seventh-heaven smooth sounds of emcee and…

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An American in Kelowna – Reaching the Seven-Month Mark and Feeling Lucky

An American in Kelowna – Reaching the Seven-Month Mark and Feeling Lucky

I woke up exactly at 7 this morning realizing that it’s exactly 7 months today that I arrived in my exact location of 1470 Ethel Street.  Guess I’m feeling lucky. The number 7 is a heavy hitter in the gambling world – slot machines often offer three 7’s as the big payout. Then there’s James Bond as 007, the 7th-inning stretch, 7 seas, 7 continents, 7 dwarfs, 7 deadly sins, 7 brides for 7 brothers, 7 colors in a rainbow,…

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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 – our Meeting with Ron Cannan, Privy Council (PC) and Member of Parliament (MP)

An American in Kelowna – our Meeting with Ron Cannan, Privy Council (PC) and Member of Parliament (MP)

“Please rise for The Honourable Ronald D. Cannan, PC, MP.” Just kidding, we didn’t have to do that! However, Elaine and I felt fortunate being able to schedule a meeting with Mr. Cannan at his Kelowna office on Friday, November 14. We had crossed paths with our local leader, Privy Council (PC) and Member of Parliament (MP), 72 hours earlier at the Remembrance Day 2014 ceremony in City Park. A couple of warm handshakes and friendly banter turned into a…

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An American in Kelowna: Remembrance Day 2014 – The Sights and Sounds of Patriotism

An American in Kelowna: Remembrance Day 2014 – The Sights and Sounds of Patriotism

November 11, 2014 will certainly go down as a noteworthy day to remember. In the United States – it was Veteran’s Day. In Canada – Remembrance Day. Both honor the memories of fallen comrades and those who currently serve. On this bone-chilling Tuesday morning (-2 Celsius, 28-degrees Fahrenheit), Shaw Cablesystems had invited to me to be part of its broadcast team covering the Remembrance Day Program at Cenotaph Memorial Square in Kelowna’s City Park. I had recently signed up for…

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