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He’s done it again. Well-known M.G.A. (Managing General Agent) Terry Wardrop, CLU of Industrial Alliance Pacific Insurance and Financial Services (I.A.Pacific Life) is riding high these days. For the fourth consecutive year, he was I.A. Pacific’s Top MGA in Canada for “Individual Life and Investment Sales” in 2005. This is I.A. Pacific Life’s most prestigious award. And, if that wasn’t enough, one of Terry’s associates, local financial planner Jeff Moffat of Moffat & Associates Financial Services was awarded “Top I.A. Pacific Life Producer” in Canada, also for the fourth consecutive year. Sun Rype’s Chief Financial Officer, Robert McGowan, FCA is retiring on July 7th after 12 years with the company. He will continue his role until a new CFO is in place. The recruitment process will begin immediately. Penny Bugera’s “The Color Room” on Water Street has some new products and some new stylists. Joining their team is Melanie Stipdonk and Giselle Gasper who have trained under Rosalind Satar. Amber Rutledge has also joined them coming from Mirror Mirror. They have introduced a new product that sounds “delicious”. Chocolate pedicure and facials are the new rage and apparently they smell just like white and dark chocolate. The chocolate scrub is something else. Call 861-6606 Anne Schneider, portfolio support officer is retiring from the Bank of Montreal after working on and off (mostly on) for the bank for over 38 years. She is finished at the end of the month and can’t wait to enjoy her new retirement life. She says she is going to do lots of things, like golf, walk, cook more, visit her family in Vancouver and just hang out and take care of hubby Arnie, which will be the biggest job of all. Ruby and Allahdeen Murji have moved back to Kelowna. You might remember they formerly owned the popular Island of Zanzibar restaurant on Bernard Avenue before moving to Calgary for the past three years. They are extremely happy to be back in Kelowna and are managing Parks Café at 227 Bernard Avenue. They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner until 8pm. All the items in the restaurant are home-made and Ruby is adding some of her specialties from the former restaurant like her lunch time “Curry in a Hurry”. It’s great to have them back as many of us missed the Island of Zanzibar when they left. Call 979-0222. After 28 years with Interior Savings Credit Union, account manager Val Mackenzie is retiring on April 21. She has been at the Orchard Centre location for the past 13 years and is now looking forward to gardening, doing more crafts and spending time with her granddaughters. Top notch journeyman (or should I say journeywoman) landscape gardener Melissa Scheidle has moved from her position of five years in the parks department of the City and has transferred to the Kelowna landfill. At her going away party, the parks department staff gave her a really neat hot pink hardhat that said “landfill police” on it. Was happy to get an e-mail from Terry Balfour, well-known former Kelowna guy and front desk manager of the Ramada Hotel. Terry recently moved to Puerto Rico and is working as a duty manager at the Intercontinental Hotel San Juan, Puerto Rico. He says he is alive and well and wanted to say hi to everyone. What a better way than through this column. His e-mail is terry.balfour@ichotelsgroup.com KN&V Chartered Accountants is a new company in town that opened in February and is located at 200-369 Queensway Avenue. As a regional B.C. firm they have offices in both Kelowna and Whiterock. KNV has been providing accounting, auditing, taxation, tax-planning and management advisory services to corporate and personal clients since their inception in 1973. The partners responsible for Kelowna are Rob Wesley, Jay Bouchey and Shane King. Alix Larsen is the local manager. Call 861-5300 or e-mail kelowna@knv.com. Check out their web-site at www.knv.com If you haven’t been into the Verve Bistro at 375 Lawrence Avenue lately, you’ll get a very pleasant surprise. The restaurant has been completely renovated by owners Mariam and Glen Lees. They have repainted the entire restaurant and taken out the long bar along the windows and replaced it with tables, all showing lovely linen. It has a warm and inviting atmosphere. They are open Monday-Saturday for breakfast and lunch and Wednesday to Saturday evenings for dinner. The menu has some wonderful items including Eggs Benedict with Brie Bechamel on Crunchy Sourdough Biscuits and Portobello Mushroom Omelets for breakfast; an assortment of grilled and gourmet sandwiches and soups and salads for lunch and house specialties like Lobster Ravioli with Sambucca Cream Sauce and Baked Chicken and Pesto Rouladen for dinner. Their menu is extremely varied with far too much to list. They are a licensed facility and also offer a wide range of all-natural smoothies and fresh-squeezed juices. They also offer a catering service for lunch or corporates. It’s one place that you should give a try. Call 860-8086 or 215-7810 for catering. You must go into The Reed at 1593 Ellis Street. It will take a while to look around because of all the neat “stuff” they have. Owner/ operators C.W. Chang, Yi-Chun Lin, Stanley Ng and Luviza Man (husbands and wives) have imported many new beautiful and unusual pieces from China, including extra large mirrors, organza curtain panels, lots of porcelain, onyx lamps and lamp tables, chairs, chest of drawers, altar tables in many lengths, silk cushion covers, fabulous oil paintings, screens, jewellery (sparkly hair clips) and my favorites; 30 inch porcelain dinosaur eggs and huge wine glass arrangements. There is far too much to mention. Monica Untermann is their design consultant. Call 868-9340. Michelle Salloum has opened her new business “Sophies Closet” at 530 Bernard Avenue. She calls it her big “walk-in closet” with half the shop being women’s accessories incuding gift items, handbags, belts, costume jewelry and much more. The other half of the shop is all doggie clothing and accessories. She carries designer coats from Australia, dog toys, dog carriers, beds, doggie clothing and collars. Call 717-3644. Cyril Chalk is the newly appointed manager for Global Vocational Services located at 103-1635 Abbott Street (Park Place). Global has five offices in the valley and their mandate through Services Canada is to work with people who are recently unemployed or new to the Okanagan and help them find work or prepare to find work. They also work with other service providers to help ensure that people seeking work have a good chance of finding it. They have just recently distributed one of the most comprehensive job search flyers that are located in as many public areas that they can access, such as the library and recreation centres. Call 762-0731. Okanagan’s Finest Foods “Ridge Restaurant” at Kelowna Land and Orchards on Dunster Road is opening for the season on May 1st. Chef’s Ryan Smid and Travis Hackl are excited about the new season and that they are now catering to weddings up to 200 people. It’s always a treat eating at their restaurant or at The Actors Studio where they also do the great dinners before the performance. Call 712-9404 or for catering 317-2055. Kelowna is finally getting some big time action from Nikon and Canon. Photography West has arranged for the big guys from Toronto to come and introduce all the single lens reflex cameras and show you how to use them. The first course is on April 20, 7-9pm.Canon comes with their head technical man Neil Stephenson and will be demonstrating the new 30D as well as the new printers. This camera can do everything but make your breakfast without being hooked to a computer. Wayne recently saw this presentation and it was stunning. Canon is giving away an IP6600 D printer as a door prize. The second seminar is May 4, 7-9pm with Nikon’s top guy Rob Sturgess. He will be showing the D50 SLR aimed at the person who has outgrown the point and shoot digital or film camera and is ready to be blown away with the simplicity and excellence on the D50 interchangeable SLR. Wayne Duchart is presenting a small program on shooting with natural light with the D50 interchangeable lens. Nikon is giving away a D50 kit valued at $879. Both courses are at the Ramada Hotel. They are free, but seating is limited to 150. Tickets are only available at Photography West at 3022 Tutt Street. Call 860-3563 Branch manager Rick McColman and the entire staff of Scotiabank Rutland Branch are ecstatic. Their renovations have been completed and the branch is just beautiful. PCL was the main contractors with HMA the architects and Shelley Hern the interior designer. Skip Bates, District vice-president and Bev Voice, senior vice president were in attendance from Vancouver to attend the ceremonies. Don’t forget to Hike for Hospice with myself and Mayor Shepherd on Sunday, May 7. I’m Honourary Chair of the walk this year and would love to see all of you out for the walk. It’s simple, all you have to do is call 763-5511 to register. Put on your walking shoes and join us for a great day full of fun while helping our community. www.kelownahospice.com If you’re looking for perfume, you might want to try out this new company. Local fellow Timothy Wong of Sunshine Trading Company is importing a wide variety of perfumes at huge discount prices. He assures me that they are not “knock-offs” and has a wide variety to choose from. The selection is both for men and women and some of the products are Alfred Sung, Gucci, Benetton and Christian Dior to mention a few. The prices are great and he’s been pretty busy. To order or for more info call 448-5122. timothy.sunshinetravel@gmail.com The First Annual “Yellow Cap Campaign” Awareness event is on Saturday, April 20 from 10am-2pm at NAPA Auto Parts at 1855 Spall Road. The Kelowna Women’s Shelter, Coyne Automotive, Kelowna Autopro, NAPA Auto Parts, and NAPA Autopro are partnering in the Yellow Cap Campaign to end family violence in our community. Where do you stand? Eric Coyne from Coyne Automotive and Mohini Singh are the co-chairs of the project. The interesting part which is great is that their corporate sponsors for the event include members of the Kelowna automotive industry and the aim is to include everyone in this awareness campaign as violence against women and children is a family and community issue. A special feature that day will be J.F. Laurier and the award winning 1951 Kaiser, who recently appeared on OverHaulin’. Hot dogs and refreshments will be served. Call Eric Coyne at 860-5622 or Mohini and 862-9352 A special birthday wish to Alex Hunt who turned 89 on April 6. You wouldn’t believe Alex. He still plays in the Mickie’s Pub Golf League every week and has done so since the league started 16 years ago. He even gives his younger partners a run for their money! We installed a new system for my computer and guess what? We lost some of the e-mail addresses from many of you who I automatically send the column to by e-mail each week. If you haven’t been getting the column by e-mail, please send me your e-mail address to maxdehart@telus.net and I’ll put you back on the list. Sorry! Quote of the week – Experience is one thing you cannot get for nothing (Oscar Wilde) Submitted by Dave Hodgkinson, Rapid Printing Birthdays of the week:
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