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Things are ever-changing in the legal industry, especially with Benson Edwards. To start off with, the firm has a brand new name and a brand new third location downtown. The new name of the company is “Benson Salloum Watts LLP”. Joining Garry Benson are well known lawyers, Larry Salloum, Q.C. (SK.) and Roger Watts, along with Shawn Langin and David Yerema. Those four lawyers will continue to practice in the downtown office, at 200-1455 Ellis Street. Tony Edwards is now practicing in the Westbank office and the third office will remain at 270 Highway 33 where Garry is located. Keep tuned, there’s more to come. Call 491-0206 (Hwy. 33) or 861-5678 (Ellis).
Congrat’s to Kevin Kothlow, owner/operator of Lake Country MarketPlace IGA and his team on receiving the prestigious “Retailer of the Year Award” for all MarketPlace IGA locations in B.C. at their recent HY Louie conference held in Venice, Italy. Kevin has been in the Lake Country location for three years and previously owned the Peoples IGA in Kelowna. As well, he was with HY Louie as an independent consultant before taking on ownership of the Lake County location. He can now compete in the IGA Retailer of the Year for all locations in Canada.
Rick Folk is closing Folk’s Golf and Curling and moving to join the Okanagan Golf Depot (by Jordan’s). In the fall, he will have a full selection of curling equipment in a space at the Golf Depot, under Folk’s Curling Corner. Rick opened the Pandosy location of Folk’s Curling Corner/Taurus Golf in the fall of 1988 and enjoyed 20 great years. Call 862-9786 or rickfolk@hotmail.com
MJS Drapery Designs is a new home based window and bedding treatment company. Owned and operated by Marina Smith, she specializes in the fabrication of drapery, duvets, dust skirts and pillows. She creates and fabricates everything on her own industrial machines. The only window treatment she does not specialize in are blinds, except fabric roman blinds. Marina completed her training through the Custom Home Furnishings Academy in North Carolina and has been in the industry for many years. She is available for consultations by appointment and comes to your home or place of business. Call 448-5367 or check out www.mjsdrapery.com
Dorothee Birker is the new Arts Cultural Tourism Office for the EDC. She will assist arts, heritage and cultural organization in building business capacity through business advising, development and distribution of strategic resource material and the identification and facilitation of partnership opportunities. Call 860-4911 or innovexevents@shaw.ca
SW Audio + Visual have launched their new Creative Services Department. This will provide a wide variety of media services to support live events as well as corporate productions, creating everything from impressive presentations to solution-driven video services. President, Calvin McCarthy and director of creative services, Chad Foster has raised the bar with a recent investment in leading edge HD cameras, along with a full HD editing and motion-graphics suite. Call 868-3333
Diane’s Fine Jewellery and Gifts is celebrating their second anniversary in business at the Ramada Hotel, 2170 Harvey Avenue. To celebrate they are inviting you to come and enter to win a “Mystery Package” starting May 2. No purchase is necessary. I know what it is and you will certainly be excited if you win. Drop in and enter. Call 762-2210
Kettle Valley Tapas Bar & Grill is celebrating their first anniversary in the Village of Kettle Valley at 100- 5306 Main Street. Owners/operators Mario de Losada and Christopher Easton open the establishment seven days a week from 11:30 until late. The patio is now open and they will soon be introducing live entertainment every Friday and Saturday, with Ellen Churchill being their first venue. Stay tuned for the date or call 764-0833.
This is the coolest packaging I’ve every seen. “Bullseye Packaging” located at #8 – 730 Stremel Road is an innovative advanced shrink-film wrapping and promotional display solution company. Their warehouse and manufacturing plant is a state-of-the art packaging, shrink-wrap and warehousing facility, offering custom printed shrink applications, giving products an outstanding appearance. They have a large film width capacity to handle many retail bundle pack formats. In a nutshell, the shrink-film wrapping looks exactly like the product so that you automatically know exactly what you are buying. They also offer corn-based films for environmentally sensitive projects. They can shrink wrap just about anything, including soup, cat food, beverages, pain relief products, candy, canned veggies, juice or water, just to mention a few. Stephen Peters is the general manager and Les Humphries the sales rep of the company. Call 575-7276 or lhumphries@bullseyepackaging.ca or check-out bullseyepackaging.ca.
Happy 1st anniversary Carol (BC Liquor Stores) and Jim Hansen (BDO Dunwoody LLP) on May 4.
Had a very interesting Sunday. I was invited to visit the new Okanagan Sikh Temple and Cultural Society at 1111 N. Rutland Road. The Temple is beautiful and the experience was extraordinary. The new Temple has been 12 years in the making, largely spearheaded by the late Dr. Gary Randhawa. There were several speakers, including Mayor Shepherd and MLA Al Horning, along with many members of their community and friends and colleagues of Dr. Randhawa. They served a delicious lunch and I thank them for the opportunity to attend. Phillip Patara is the president of the Society.
Everest Recruitment Inc. a professional recruitment firm specializing in the placement of experienced individuals in key positions within Okanagan businesses has opened its doors at #250-1855 Kirschner Road. Moya Webb, president and David Webb, COO have a 20 year history in the professional recruitment field in England and the Okanagan, including operation of a successful business which offered a range of human resource management services, including recruiting. Call 762-9940
Six Okanagan College Students are among the best tradespersons and technologists across the province after putting forth medal-winning performances at the 14 Annual BC Skills Canada Competition. The College won two gold, two silver and two bronze medals, making it the post-secondary institution with the second highest number of overall medals. Congrat’s to the following: Automotive Service, Rob West (silver) and Jesse Leroux (bronze); Automotive Collision Repair, Tyler Selzer (golf) and Brian Wellington(silver); Industrial Wiring, Calain Libby (gold) and IT PC Network Support, Tyler Rasmussen (bronze). The competition also included secondary school categories. Selzer and Libby will join other gold medal finishes at the Canada Skills Competition in Calgary on May 25. Mount Boucherie Secondary’s Leah Learmonth won silver in Culinary Arts. Okanagan College’s Chair of Networking and Telecommunications Engineering Technology, Ron Light served as a judge and Jeff Francis is the automotive collision repair instructor.
Maureen O’Hanley Doucette has joined Freedom 55 Financial and Quadrus Investment Services as a financial security advisor and investment representative. Maureen is joining her husband Rick in the financial services industry after five years at QHR Technologies.
School District No. 23’s Together iLearn Program has been recognized as a 2008 Laureate by the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation. This year’s Honorees will be commemorated during the 20th Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony & Gala Awards on June 2 in Washington, D.C. Together iLearn is an innovative program developed by School District No. 23 to provide students the use of a laptop computer to complete course work at home and at school. Jon Rever is the Director of Technology and Education Services.
LA Weight Loss is doing a food drive to support the Kelowna Food Bank from May 5-10. They will be offering any new and existing clients a 10% discount on any program or product with a food donation. Bring your non-perishable foods into LA Weight Loss from May 5-10. I lost over 40 pounds at LA Weight Loss and am still maintaining that two years later. It’s a great program and the support goes on and on. Take advantage of both, helping the food bank and helping yourself. It works! Call 862-2606.
This is a great program. The “Cinderella” fund is the creation of Kathy Wiebe, owner of Rosebud’s Designer Consignment at 150 – 1855 Kirschner Road. If you have women’s clothing and accessories that you no longer wear and they are in good condition and seasonal, bring them to Rosebud’s. All the donated clothes will be sold and the funds will go toward bursary money for women in the Valley. Any women, 18 and older may apply to receive a bursary and the money is to be used for text books for their courses. If prom or bridesmaid dresses are donated, girls may apply to receive a free dress. They also supply clothing for women who are returning to the work force. The only criteria is that there is a real need for the items. Everyone is welcome to apply; whether you are single, a single mother, going back to school or going back to work. Two bursaries were recently given out in the amounts of $550 and $250. Drop off your donations or call Cathy at 861-1911.
At their official opening night on Thursday, May 8, at 7pm at Elk Stadium, local baseball team, “The Kelowna Dakoda Jays” will donate all proceeds of their ticket sales to the Breast Cancer Society of Canada. Other items will also be available for sale and will go to the society. The Jays will also have a new look for this game, so make sure you come out and show your support and help them “hit a homerun for breast cancer”. Bill Bayne is president and Geoff White the coach and VP of the Jays. billbayne@shaw.ca
Fred Skelton Theatre Company, the newest theatre company in the Valley is introducing their season and relationship with Stephen Cipes and The Summerhill Pyramid Winery. “All In The Timing” by David Ives runs until May 4 and is a collection of six comedy ‘one acts’. It’s a hysterical evening. Ticket prices include appetizers and dessert. The season offers six different performances from now until Jan. 11/09. They have a clear focus on original modern plays that address the many pressing issues people face each day and are looking to bring you the Off-Broadway theatre that is relevant to your life, be it Canadian, American or European in origin. For tickets go on-line at Ticketweb ($39.95) or at the door cash sales ($39). Rob Mason-Brown is the general manager and Cameron Gordon the marketing director of the theatre. Emily Vanderschee is the director of sales of Summerhill. Call 764-8000
Church of the Nazarene is holding their semi-annual free clothes giveaway on Saturday, May 10 from 9:30-1pm on Hwy. 33. They are accepting good clean used clothing Tuesday-Friday at the church office or call Evelyn Wardle at 868-2238.
Also, glad to hear that Abby Sones, Kelowna Airport Ambassadors supervisor who had open heart surgery in Victoria on April 11 (five way bypass) is now back home and recovering slowly. He says it will be up to four months before he is back at the airport. It’s OK to give him a call at 712-1634.
Quote of the week – A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. (Nelson Mandela, Submitted by Danny Moores, ICBC).
Birthdays of the week – Happy 60th Jim Hansen, BDO Dunwoody LLP (May 5); Happy 50th Ellen Matthews, Rim Hospitality Canada (Apr.23); Lorina Dick (May 4); Harry Grossmith, United Way (May 1); Fred Grossmith (Harry’s dad) May 6:
Maxine DeHart is a Kelowna hotelier. Phone her at 979-4546, fax 860-3173, E-mail maxdehart@telus.net and web-site www.welcometokelowna.com (click on Business) |
