sCapital News Thursday, January 3, 2013
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BFI Canada changes its name to Progressive Waste Solutions
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n with one year and out with the other. Happy New Year everyone. BFI Canada is changing its name to Progressive Waste Solutions. For more than 35 years, BFI, a community and locally based company with its head office located at 4-150 Campion Road, has been providing garbage pickup for commercial, industrial and residential clients. Tom Loewen, district manager for the B.C. Interior and who has been with the company for 35 years, said the company has moved in the direction of recycling in a large way over the last seven years and has been at the forefront of recycling and waste diversion projects throughout the region. Sales manager for the B.C. Interior, John Snelling, said the change of name from BFI to Progressive reflects the company’s approach to handling waste and recycling in the Valley with its progressive approach to how it looks at a customer’s waste stream and always trys to find the best way to minimize garbage and maximize recycling. Loewen has been at the grass roots of recycling and was responsible for contracting with the regional district the first material recycling facility in Kelowna with a real vision and much ahead of its time for our city. The company currently employs more than 100 people in the Okanagan and the Kamloops andShuswap areas. Call 250765-0565. The new Shoppers
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Maxine DeHart Drug Mart in Glenmore, at 1972 Kane Road, will celebrate its grand opening on Jan.12 at 8 a.m. Associate owner Nathan Klaassen has been with the company for five years and was previously at the Rutland outlet for a year. The Glenmore store has close to 9,000-square-feet of floor space, including a post office and pharmacy. The management team consists of Renee Tompkins (front store manager), Barb Stiewe (cosmetics manager), Kelly Yakimchuk (assistant front store manager) and Graham Foster (pharmacy manager). Forster was formerly with Paragon Pharmacy. For the grand opening, there will be several gift card draws, prizes and basket draws all day long. The first 200 people that enter the store will receive a welcome gift of an ECO bag. After five years at Wickerland Patio and Home, Karen Belshaw has left her job there and has joined Jim and the family at their business, Roy’s Footwear and Shoe Repair at 1627 Ellis St. Karen has been at Roy’s for the past couple of months and is really enjoying her new position. Roy’s is also hiring and looking for an individual who is great with people and interested in
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AFTER 35 YEARS in business as BFI, the locally based garbage hauler is changing its name to Progressive Waste Solutions to better reflect exactly what it does now interms of waste displosal and recycling. full or part-time work. A mature person with sales experience would be an asset. If you think you might be a fit, drop your resume off at the shop. Call 250-763-5696. Treehouse Interiors at 1901 Windsor Rd., is expanding. Owned and operated by Rob and Karen Horner, the renovations will start in mid-January. The store will not be closing and the contractors will be working around the customers. Treehouse is adding
a second floor, which will enhance its space with an additional 7,000 to 8,000-square-feet. An elevator will be installed for access to the second level. Call 250-860-2338. www. treehouseinteriors.ca Congratulations to both Annette Lipkovits of Century 21 Assurance and Dino Gini of Realty Executives who have been named the Central Okanagan Realtors Care Award winners by the Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board. Annette re-
ceived the award for her work with the Easter Seals Campaign and Dino for his many hours and relentless commitment to community sports and young athletes. NeuMovement Pilates and Physiotherapy Studio, located at 2-538 Yates Road, is a new Pilates studio opened by certified pilates instructors Hayley Harkness, Kate Watson and Lara Yanik, along with registered physiotherapist Jen Gulley. They are the same
people who brought you NeuSpine, a product that helps users find their true core and neutral spine. This is their third location, with the company having other outlets in Salmon Arm and Vernon. NeuMovement provides classes that are not only fun but also give clients the tools to help themselves. Classes are small and intimate, with reformer classes holding a maximum of four students, allowing for individualized attention. Call 250-
712-0678 or www.neumovement.com or www. neuspine.com. A few years in the making, local HR consultant Pat Walls has now initiated his new web-site art project. His photographic art work has been called “phototherapy,” blending his long-time career path in industrial-organizational psychology and his love of photography. He has now
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Seeing Possibilities Taking Action Enabling Progress en•act•us Okanagan College After eight years of service to the community, SIFE Okanagan is building on its promise to use the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better, more sustainable world. The student-led organization is undergoing a name change to become Enactus. But don’t let the new look fool you – the group’s mission is still the same. Moving forward Enactus will continue to make connections with the community. More than 100 students throughout the valley will work with youth, not-for-profit organizations and drive community initiatives to improve the lives of others.
entrepreneurial – we see opportunity, and develop projects which build the talent in our region and enable progress. action – we provide leadership, inspire change and take action in our community.
Kelowna students Robert Terhorst, Laurann Matsumoto, Alisha Rae Macgregor, and Bill Wang, at the Enactus BC Leadership retreat hosted by Okanagan College Kelowna campus.
us – we are the students of Okanagan College, powered and
supported by our College and our partners in the community.
To learn more about how Enactus is enabling progress in our community, visit: www.enactusoc.ca or follow Enactus on Twitter @enactusoc