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Speakers

Oct 31, 2014

Carolyn Ferguson

Spooky Business Meeting and Rotary Foundation Guest Speaker

Nov 07, 2014

Carissa Glasser

Esteem Program for Youth

(Enhancing Success Through

Education, Employment & Mentorship)

Nov 14, 2014

All Club Members

Decorating for BSB - meeting to be held at Rutland Hall

Nov 21, 2014

Julie McTaggart & Rotaract Club Members

Foundation Jeopardy Game -

Foundation Month

Nov 28, 2014

THANK YOU to Doreen Welsh and Laurel

D'Andrea for dropping off boxes of good stuff for our future (May 2015) garage sale,

and a reminder to any of you who may have decent 'junk' you want to get rid of for a

good cause. If you don't want to hang onto it until the Spring, Jane Fletcher can store

in her basement until the sale at Okanagan College. All monies collected from the

garage sale will go to our club as part of our 2014/15 fundraising projects.

Today, Kelowna Sunrise Rotarians and visitors met at the new Kelowna Yacht

Club. Since it is a private club, we need greeters at the 1st floor entrance to let us in

and that wonderful early bird today was Chris Murphy. He was backed up by the

front desk team of Paul Mulvihill and Nigel Hart. When the time was right,

Nigel Hart

Annual General Meeting & Classification Talk

Dec 05, 2014

Allie Grey - Community

Engagement Coordinator

Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry

Society - Sunrise Rotary Grant Recipient

Dec 12, 2014

Gordon Binsted - UBC Okanagan

An update on development and research at UBCO

Dec 19, 2014

Santa

Christmas Breakfast & Business

Meeting

Dec 26, 2014

None

No meeting

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Club Events

Okanagan Sun Football Game

Apple Bowl

Oct 26, 2014 01:00 PM

Rotary Development Weekend

Spirit Ridge Resort

Oct 31, 2014 - Nov 01, 2014

RLI Training Session #2 Coast

Capri Hotel

Nov 15, 2014 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM

Boot Scootin Barn Dance Rutland

Centennial Hall

Nov 15, 2014 05:30 PM

President Greig McPhee asked Ken Davidson to lead us in singing our national

anthem, and Fred Lindsay said a prayer to get our morning started.

After breakfast and coffee, President Greig welcomed visitors: Gord Friesen

(guest/husband of Maribeth Friesen), Huck Parfeniuk (guest of Bob Fortier and

member-in-waiting), Paige Keeley (guest/granddaughter of Graham Bell), Al

Strachan (visiting Rotarian from Kelowna Club and m-i-w), Kyle Spence & Gail

Temple (guest speakers from Westcorp), and Gabi & Chiara, our lovely exchange

students from Columbia & Italy respectively.

Today is World Polio Day!

RLI Training Session #3 Coast

Capri Hotel

Nov 29, 2014 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM

District 5060 Rotary Conference

UBC Okanagan

Jun 18, 2015 - Jun 21, 2015

2015 Sunrise Installation Night

Kelowna Golf & Country Club

Jun 27, 2015 05:30 PM

Sunrise Rotary GOLF Tourney

Gallaghers Golf Course

Sep 11, 2015 07:00 AM

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There were many makeups from our members, including the Full Monty, Christmas

light up project, OK Sun game, fundraising meeting, board meeting, and the

Games/Fireside Night.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Martha Kennedy today (yes, we sang)!

HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY to Judy & Pat Bentley, celebrating 47 years

on Oct 28!

HAPPY CLUB ANNIVERSARY to Pete Mackenzie, who would have been with us

2 years on Oct 26 (now working in Vancouver)!

Gary Bowker introduced guest speaker Gail Temple, VP of Stakeholder Management

at Westcorp Properties. Gail has been in Kelowna for 19 years and since 2007 at

Westcorp. She manages the approval process for Westcorp in BC & AB. Kyle Spence

was GM of the marina at Mill Street and is now a Development Assistant at Westcorp.

Gail was a very clear, concise, interesting speaker and here are some highlights from

her presentation:

Westcorp has owned the land where development will be, for over 10 years

now. The development proposal went through the approval process at City

Hall fairly quickly and, at the end of August was approved at a 4th reading.

The original Willow Inn (where this proposed development is) was built in

1928.

The new building process has involved many; lakeside, public, revitalize,

landmark, animated edges = all the features incorporated to make this a truly

remarkable complex

There will be 19 stories of hotel on top of 3 stories of commercial, and will

include 5 stories of hidden parking with 242 parking stalls.

The largest conference room will hold 350 people (not as large as the Grand,

but if it was larger, it would have deleted some much needed parking space).

The rounded towers were designed with the surrounding hills in mind.

The overall look and lighting will be warm.

Will create 700+ construction jobs, 300+ ongoing jobs, and revenue generated

by visitors is anticipated at $20.8M annually.

They hope to be starting the groundwork by the end of 2015 and should take 2

years to build, if lucky.

Some answered questions were:

Will the hotel be branded (i.e. Best Western, Holiday Inn)? This will be a

boutique hotel by Westcorp, unique to Kelowna, with no name yet. They are

thinking of letting the public name it.

There will be 8 long stay rooms, which means they will have kitchens and be

for those visiting for longer periods of time.

What is the budget for environmental cleanup before construction starts? It has

been tested and is, surprisingly, all clean.

With all the other new proposed construction projects downtown, will it be

hard to find labour? Yes, it will be an issue.

Martha Kennedy thanked Gail and Westcorp, especially since the Willow Inn, from a

police member’s point of view, wasn't a great place to go. President Greig presented

Gail with the coveted Sunrise Rotary pen and commented that some of our members

were probably guests of the Willow back in 1928!

Gabi was wearing shorts today! This is a girl from a hot climate who was freezing

when she first arrived in Canada. She explained it was because she did her laundry too

late and had nothing to wear today. Met a German exchange students' host family and

went to Salmon Arm for the fish run. There are no salmons in Columbia. Gabi wants

to be able to come back to Canada soon and was very happy when her father said 'you

deserve to come back'.

Chiara was tired today. School is getting harder plus she is doing Italian tests. She

went bowling on Tue with other exchange students and had fun. Saw movie The Best

of Me and said was good, but sad (everybody dies). Spent last night at Martha

Kennedy's house and is HAPPY. Did anyone else notice her neat sweatshirt?

Big Welcome to our special visitor, the District Governor of District 5060 - Bruce

Falkins!

Thank you to Jane Fletcher for hosting the Games/Fireside Night last Friday. She

then took the podium to give out prizes from the Games as follows and these are listed

so you know you are not just sitting beside another pretty face in this Club:

Bingo = Anke Sedmak

Sunrise Jeopardy = Team led by Pat McAllister, Wayne Evans & Sarah

Mosley

2nd Place Jeopardy = Team led by Paul Mulvihill, Maribeth Friesen & Kerry

Armit

Pictionary = mens team of Graham Bell, Wayne Evans, Greig McPhee &

Jim Holberton

Monopoly = Aleeta Armit

Cribbage = Paul Mulvihill

Mexican Train = Jim Hunter

Scribblish = Pat McAllister

Special Mention = Joanne Reynolds (for showing up without Bill)

Most Enthusiastic Pictionary Player = Percy Ann Urquhart

Most Wrong Answers = Jerry Sedmak

Honorable Mention for taking photos with his phone = Chico Newell

Linda Frandsen asked Graham Bell to join her at the podium, where she presented

him with a cheque from the Club for $500 for his project in Vietnam. Graham then

explained that there is a cancer hospital there where patients are fed by their families,

or not at all and a typical meal is rice in banana leaves, which is not very nutritious for

a recovering patient. A group from a Buddhist temple will deliver meals to the poorest

and Graham raised $1497 picking grapes at Tantalus + our $500 towards this

worthwhile endeavour. He leaves next week for Vietnam.

Linda also mentioned Bill Gates is still matching (2:1) for PolioPlus donations made

on the RI website. Go to www.rotary.org, scroll down and click on Explore Our

Causes, click on right arrow, then Give Now button. I Want to Support A Polio Free

World is the 3rd button down, and click on Give Now button. That will lead you to

the process to either sign in or create your account. You will need our club number

(23413) and your personal Rotary #. If you don't know that, you can visit Clubrunner

atwww.kelownasunriserotary.org, click Login, sign in with your credentials (if you

don't remember them, email jpfletch@Hotmail.com and she will jog your memory),

then click on Active Member List under Membership Manager bar, find your name

and your number is under the Rotary tab. Or just email Jane and she will find it for

you!

Laurel D'Andrea then reminded us that the Boot Scootin Barn Dance is on Sat, Nov

15 at the Rutland Centennial Hall. Yes, it is the same day as the civic elections. We

need to SELL TICKETS. $40 each. This event is to raise funds so we can give money

to the youth exchange program, PolioPlus, local and international projects. Maribeth

Friesen is the Volunteer Coordinator. Please donate a bottle of (unopened) wine or

hard liquor for the raffles.

Craig Garries received an email from Barb Penner. She and Garth are on Day 37; in

Virginia, it is cold there, and shouts out a happy How Y'All to the club.

Ron Cannan was here today and thankful to be alive. Gave thanks to all who sent

him emails of concern over the Capitol Hill incident/shootings earlier this week. They

were fortunate there weren't many in the Hall of Honour at the time of the gunman’s'

visit. During Caucus, they heard 20-30 rounds. The Prime Minister was removed

from the building as quickly as possible. The Sgt at Arms told them what happened

(he had shot the gunman). Ron and his fellow MP's were in lockdown until 7:30 that

evening, as the buildings were searched to ensure the gunman had acted on his own.

Lots of security already and will be lots more, thanks to one stupid person (my words,

not Rons'). The guards weren't all armed but they will be relooking at that. Editors

note: Ron is an amazing member of Kelowna Sunrise Rotary - this man arrives home

late Thursday evenings from Ottawa and still find the time and energy to attend most

of our meetings!

Brian Fennell - gave President Greig the $102.65 raised for PolioPlus by the two beer

gardens at last Sundays OK Sun game. Funnily enough, the East side made $51.30

and sold 2.5 bags of drinks. The West side was considerably slower (1 bag full) yet

they raised $51.35! Good job to the Mosleys and their pouring mates! Brian was

looking for volunteers for the BCFC Final on Sun, Oct 26 at 1pm. Sadly, I am writing

this on Sunday afternoon and just learned the Langley Rams beat the OK Sun 23-19

for the provincial title. Not a bad ending to a great season - maybe next year!

Angela Burnell invited Don Turri to auction off 8 suite tickets at Prospera Place for

Skate Canada on Sun, Nov 2. It is for the Exhibition Gala at 2pm. All proceeds from

this auction, courtesy of Prospera Credit Union (and Angela!) will go to the fundraiser

on Nov 15. After some spirited, sometimes confusing, bidding, I'm not quite sure who

ended up with the tickets but one person got 4, two got 2 each, and the Club is $400

richer. Thank you all!

Maribeth Friesen announced she was

at a jewelry fundraiser last night for Soles4Souls and there were some great little foot

shaped sugar cookies in cute little packages that she brought in for us today on the

tables. That led to Ken Davidson speaking about the fire at Roy's Shoes

yesterday. There was an electrical fire at the back of the store which Jim Jr put out

with a fire extinguisher but had to spend some time at KGH with smoke

inhalation. Most of the stock now has to go (smoke damage). Help support Jim

Belshaw and his store by attending Small Shop Saturday and telling others to buy their

NEW shoes there (when he gets the new stock).

Wine Draw Winner (for the THIRD time) = Nigel Hart

No sheriff speaking today in light of time running out.

HAPPY & SAD DOLLARS:

Bruce Falkins was in Toronto last week (Rotary, of course) and an award was

given Prime Minister Harper for the government's donations to

PolioPlus. Bruce got to meet the PM.

Graham Bell - has Paige with him today because it's a teachers Pro-D

Day. On Oct 30, he heads to Hanoi. Speaking of luck during unusual bad

things happening, Brenda is trekking in Nepal right now.

Chris Murphy - please help support the Nov 15 fundraising dance by posting

the Boot Scootin' poster on your Facebook page. Chris has a copy of it if you

need. He is inspired by the good work of Graham Bell.

Vic Spolia - thanks to the Club for the flowers for his Grand Opening of

Torino Ritz in Mission Park this week. Thanks to Maribeth Friesen for her

help also.

Paul Mulvihill - had fun at the Games/Fireside Night. Fri, Oct 31 is the

deadline for the 2015 District Conference early bird registration draw for Free

Registration. $225 is the early bird price. Reminder to any member who has

not attended a District conference before, you can be reimbursed by our Club

for your registration fee! Register by visiting

www.conference2015.district5060.com. Andy Griffin is Registrar, Paul

Mulvihill is Conference Chair. There is a tab called How to Register; or just

ask Andy!

Ken Davidson has been travelling! Montreal, Toronto, Panama, Aruba,

Columbia and China. Big news - he has been elected as Chair of BDO Canada

and may be travelling a lot more over the next 1.5 years. Congratulations Ken!

Craig Garries - guilty $5 for not attending the Fireside.

Laurel D'Andrea - table stakes, Rutland Parks had another vote and 71% were

in favour now of selling Centennial Park to the City of Kelowna.

Martha Kennedy - was on vacation and on a course for work. She is now

qualified to transport lots of people as a Captain. Her daughter applied for

youth exchange and has made it to Round 2. Martha said the parents were way

worse being interviewed than the students!

Vic Spolia - guilty $10 for not attending Fireside.

Bob Sibson - was interview chair for the Kelowna Outbound exchange student

candidates. There were 9 and 6 are moving on to Round 2. 3 will be the end

result and some clubs not participating any more.

Maribeth Friesen - thanks for the presentation and Gord attending

today. Very proud that Gord has left Shoppers Home Health and is now

working for Advanced Mobility.

Gary Bowker - table stakes, grateful things turned out for Ron Cannan in

Ottawa. Gary's 23 year old son was honour guard for Memorial Day here in

Kelowna and is now going to Grand Prairie to work in the oil patch.

Andy Griffin - sad that Ross Gorman died this week at 93 and Trevor Braem

passed away from cancer at 72.

Jerry Sedmak - $4 for early leavers and youth exchange

Ken Ottoson - table stakes, and sorry he missed the Fireside

Bob Wageman - guilty $5 for Fireside

Huck Parfeniuk - table stakes

Greig McPhee - Ed Kolybaba has another great story (or two) on our website

(www.kelownasunriserotary.org) for you to check out, and thanks to Kyle and

Gail for coming today.

Give Jerry Sedmak a big hug next time you see him. His only child is living in

Bolivia for a year on Youth Exchange.

Give Anke Sedmak an even bigger hug next time you see her. She now only has Jerry

at home!

Jennica's travel can be following on her blog

at www.jennicasjourneys.blogspot.ca and Ed Kolybaba has written a great article

about her on our club's home page. Additionally, you can go into the Youth Programs

site to Rotary Youth Exchange for a detailed bio on Jennica and information about her

host family, club and city.