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Diamonds bring big bucks
Miriam Halpenny - Jan 07, 2020 - Get Involved

Premier Jewellery and Loans, along with Castanet, is celebrating the success of this year’s diamond earring fundraiser, which benefits the Kelowna Women’s Shelter. This year, a pair of 14-carat white gold, halo-design earrings were auctioned off at $7,050.50, beating last year’s record of $7,000. “We had a fantastic result,” Premier Jewellery and Loans owner Martin Strasser said. “We want […]

Teens rides to rescue
Sarita Patel - Jan 06, 2020 - Get Involved

A Kelowna tween is hoping to help a family in need with an experience they’ll not soon forget. Emma Hawkins was hoping to volunteer at the Give Kids The World Village with her dad and the DisDads Club during their annual convention in January, but she was too young. The minimum age to volunteer is 12, and Hawkins is […]

Hear, hear! NexGen helps out
Okanagan Edge Staff - Dec 30, 2019 - Get Involved

A West Kelowna resident new to Canada will be able to hear the sounds of the Okanagan in 2020 and beyond. NexGen Hearing donated a pair of hearing aids earlier this month to Galen Casey, who visited the company’s West Kelowna location earlier this month but couldn’t acquire much-needed hearing aids since he didn’t have […]

Nature’s Fare in holiday spirit
Darren Handschuh - Dec 23, 2019 - Get Involved

Nature’s Fare Markets is providing more than healthy food this Christmas. The Vernon-based, B.C.-wide business donated $27,500 to food banks in the Okanagan, and it will contribute $48,500 to community food banks across the province this season. “Local food banks play a significant role in keeping people in our communities healthy. It’s a cause that […]

Award aids academic focus
Okanagan Edge Staff - Dec 23, 2019 - Get Involved

Sophie Wilson can concentrate on school and her daughter thanks to the Irving K. Barber BC Scholarship Society. Wilson is one of 16 Okanagan College students who received an Indigenous Student Award from the Irving K. Barber BC Scholarship Society earlier this month. The awards are worth between $1,000 and $2,500, and Wilson received the […]

Big money for food bank
Sarita Patel - Dec 23, 2019 - Get Involved

Prospera Place hosted the fourth biennial JDS charity hockey game to benefit the Central Okanagan Food Bank on Sunday. “Christmas is the best time to reflect and be grateful for what you have and then realize that not as many people are as fortunate as we are so to give back to the community it’s the […]

Nursing alum gives back
Okanagan Edge Staff - Dec 20, 2019 - Get Involved

A woman who was part of Okanagan College’s first nursing class is making the financial burden easier for the next wave of caregivers. Sharon McKenna, who was accepted into the school’s first nursing class in 1976, is setting up an annual scholarship that will pay the full, two-year tuition costs for a student to become […]

Big donation for hospital
Okanagan Edge Staff - Dec 20, 2019 - Get Involved

An Osoyoos family has pledged to donate $100,000 to the South Okanagan General Hospital. Herb and Pat Wycherley grew up in the Lower Mainland and moved to the South Okanagan in 2007 after Herb sold his contracting business. Pat’s parents, Jack and Bea Becker, had lived in Osoyoos since the 1980s. Bea Becker was well […]

Paradise awaits lottery winner
Kirk Penton - Dec 19, 2019 - Get Involved

 A spectacular West Kelowna home is one of the prize options in the Vancouver-based Millionaire Oceanview Home Lottery. There are eight grand prize options in the lottery, whose proceeds will benefit the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation. Seven of the grand prizes are luxury homes, including the one in West Kelowna’s Paradise Estates development. […]

Future chefs cook up feast
Okanagan Edge Staff - Dec 19, 2019 - Get Involved

They are training to one day become chefs. This week, however, first-year culinary students at Okanagan College are giving back to their community by preparing turkeys, stuffing and gravy for a massive feast coming up on Christmas Day at Kelowna’s Parkinson Recreation Centre. Victory Life Fellowship is hosting its 16th annual Christmas Day dinner for […]