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Editor: Cleland, Paul
Date: Nov 19 2009 |
Olivia Johnson introduced our in-bound student, Alesha, who presented memories of her year in Brazil in photos, words and song.
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Editor: Paul Cleland
Date: Nov 18 2009 |
Highlights of our meeting on Nov 18, 2009.
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Editor: Paul Cleland
Date: Oct 29 2009 |
Paul Cleland introduced Meena's daughter Ameesha Joshi, a Montreal based film maker who is co-directing a documentary with fellow filmmaker Anna Sarkissian, about the fascinating story of the Women Boxers of India.
Ameesha left a lucrative career in the computer software industry to pursue her dream of making films. She enrolled in a 3-year film production course at Concordia University in Montreal and is currently working on her masters in film production. She has produced several short films and documentaries which have been screened at several film festivals such as Calgary, Edmonton and Spain, etc.
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Editor: Paul Cleland
Date: Oct 21 2009 |
Arnica Rowan, her husband Jay and her mother Rita experienced an unexpected and amazing adventure this summer in Ethiopia. Arnica and Jay had been arranging the adoption of 2 three-year-old twins from Ethiopia and had received confirmation July 2nd that they had been approved and the girls were legally theirs. They were waiting for the required visas and paperwork to be completed through the Canadian and Ethiopian governments when they learned that the agency they were working through in Ontario had suddenly gone bankrupt.
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Editor: Paul Cleland
Date: Oct 14 2009 |
David Mayes is the Board Chairperson of OEIA. This organization exists to promote the development and growth of residential, commercial and industrial markets for environmental products, services and technologies. They are focused on collaboration and mentoring among its members to enable their business success. They are also key influencer of policy for the viable development of their industry.
David is owner and president of Complete Home Energy Ltd. in the Okanagan providing energy efficiency home improvements. Prior to acquiring the firm, he was engaged by the government agency, New Zealand Trade & Enterprises. His career began at Intel Corp. in senior marketing positions. He later held senior management positions in California with Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems.
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Editor: Paul Cleland
Date: Oct 8 2009 |
Beth Veenkamp, Regional Manager, Okanagan District of JA and our club member, Santhy Yeager, a JA volunteer, presented an overview of the activities and programs of Junior Achievement in the schools of Kelowna.
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Editor: Paul Cleland
Date: Sep 23 2009 |
Wanda McLay introduced our speakers, Finbar O'Sullivan and Gord Savage of the Kelowna Downtown club and the organizers of the "Peaks for Polio" project which is the inaugural climb to raise awareness and funds to support the challenge to eradicate polio from the face of the earth.
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Editor: Paul Cleland
Date: Sep 16 2009 |
David Salzano and Malki Haer, Senior Compliance Officers with the Crown Corporation, BCSC provided important information and cautions for investors regarding shady or unsafe investments in the province. There job is to encourage brokers and others offering investment opportunities to follow the rules. They are also involved in punishing those that flaunt the rules and outright commit fraud in the market place.
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Editor: Rowan, Arnica
Date: Sep 16 2009 |
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Editor: Paul Cleland
Date: Sep 9 2009 |
Andy Proust is the Operations Manager for the food bank and has been in Kelowna 14 years from the coast. Our club has donated $5,500 towards their office renovation project.
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Editor: Paul Cleland
Date: Sep 2 2009 |
With our scheduled speaker not showing up, Don and Sandy Shindelka stepped in and provided their Classification talks.
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