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Community spirit shines through

Started in 1998, support for the annual Maxine Dehart-Ramada United Way Drive-Thru Breakfast shows no signs of letting up Barry Gerding EDITOR

It started with an idea that Maxine DeHart first saw carried out by a Vancouver hotel—an early morning drive-thru breakfast charity fundraiser.

That idea evolved into the inaugural drive-thru breakfast back in 1998, and has carried on for 15 years, eight more than what is generally accepted as the extreme lifespan for a local-based annual charitable event.

And somewhere between the volunteers, the sponsors and the donors coming together in the parking lot of the Ramada Hotel and Conference Centre in Kelowna this morning, the patience of those sitting in their cars waiting for a breakfast bag, and the many sponsors and volunteers who work tirelessly to make this event happen, lies the secret to its success.

Back in 1998, DeHart had agreed to chair the United Way fundraising campaign. She went to Vancouver to attend a series of United Way fundraising campaign workshops when she came across that drivethru breakfast put on by the Sutton Hotel in downtown Vancouver.

“I saw that and thought right away it would be perfect for us,” says DeHart of its potential as a local fundraising initiative.

“It was something that was unique and compelling, and nobody else had tried anything like that here before.”

She returned home excited about the potential for the event and talked to her friend Terry Wardrop, with I.A. Pacific Life. He too sensed what DeHart had become excited about—that the idea had merit.

“He came on board right off the bat as a sponsor by covering the cost of the bags,” DeHart recalled recently.

“At the Sutton drive-thru, they gave out the breakfast in paper bags and we both felt that to do it here, the bags needed to be something better.”

For that first drive-thru breakfast back in ’98, 500 breakfast bags were handed out and 15 sponsors had come on board to donated items to stuff into them.

“That year I think we had only one grand prize, I think it was tickets for a Horizon Air flight. But the response was terrific,” she recalled.

“We started at 6 a.m. and were sold out of bags by 8 a.m. So the next year we increased it to 750 and we kept going up each year after until we reached 1,500.

“That’s as far as we can go to accommodate that amount of traffic coming through the hotel parking lot within a three-hour period.”

While DeHart has been identified with the event since its inception, she says ultimately what drives it is the participation of the sponsors and the support of the public.

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MAXINE DeHart (above) is the heart and soul of her annual drive-thru breakfast fundraiser in support of the United Way, greeting the people patiently waiting in their cars for a breakfast bag and sharing a laugh with all the people who help stage the event.

Filling the breakfast bags (right) is a process finely tuned over the years that begins about 12 hours before the 6 a.m. start to the drive-thru breakfast.

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COLLECTING donations, line-ups of people wanting

to support the drive-thru breakfast and the changing tote board totals as the morning unfolds are all a part of the annual United Way fundraiser.

Key to success: Keep an open mind, open wallet and open heart DeHart from X1 “I think for the sponsors who keep coming back every year, we are not asking for money from them, we are asking for product to donate for the breakfast bags, which is easier for them to deal with,” DeHart says.

“We have one meeting in September leading up to the event and that’s all the time we ask of them other than the drive-thru morning itself.”

DeHart notes what she feels is another important factor in the event’s suc-

cess—all the donations are collected within that 6 to 9 a.m. time period.

“We don’t collect money any other time of the year other than for those three hours.”

Today, DeHart says the breakfast has the support of 75 major sponsors, 99 minor sponsors, and many others that step forward as well to donate draw prizes, which can range from vacation trips to jewelry to computer devices to office or home furniture.

“And unless they go out of business or move

away, those same sponsors come back every year,” she adds.

DeHart says the drivethru breakfast has raised close to $500,000 since its inception.

The fun atmosphere around the drivethru breakfast mornings are likely a reflection of her own personality—“I wouldn’t want to do it anymore if it wasn’t a fun thing to do.”

That is reflected in her fashion statement, wearing pyjamas as she greets the drivers, an idea that was suggested to her by a

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local pyjama shop owner a few years ago and she has carried it on since.

The fun helps alleviate the stress and workload that goes along with ensuring the success of the drive-thru breakfast year after year.

While her name is on the marquee, DeHart says Wardrop has been an integral part of the organization and growth of the drive-thru breakfast from the beginning.

“It’s really as much about him as it is me when it comes to how the event has grown and evolved,” she says.

“He has sort of been my rock over the years with bringing on new suggestions and organizing how things can be done better, and his company has been a big sponsor for us as well. He has been very encouraging from the very start.”

She says the Kelowna RCMP have also been long-time supporters of the event despite the traffic hangups that go with 1,500 cars passing through the Ramada Lodge parking lot off two busy morning traffic arteries—Enterprise Way, and Highway 97.

She credits former Kelowna RCMP superintendent Bill McKinnon

for stepping up to find a solution a few years ago when the provincial highways ministry would not allow access to the Highway 97 HOV lane in front of the hotel from being blocked by vehicles waiting to access the parking lot.

“He says this can’t stop the drive-thru so Bill went to the city with an alternative plan to use Enterprise Way to feed traffic into the parking lot, and the city let him do it.

So there was a possibility we might not have been able to do it that year but the police made it work.

We’ve never missed a year yet.”

Looking back, DeHart says 1998 was a pivotal year for her personally— she started her new job as marketing director for the Ramada hotel, began writing her popular Capital News weekly business column and took on the role of United Way campaign chair.

While she no longer chairs the United Way campaign, her column in the Capital News and the support of her boss at the Ramada and the hotel staff have been integral to her ability to showcase and support the event with her time year after year.

Still, the anxiety of

that first year, not knowing how many people would show up, never leaves in spite of the event’s success, she acknowledges.

In the lead-up to the first breakfast bag being served up at 6 a.m., the process of stocking the bags with all the donated items carries on throughout the night by a host of volunteers.

“We’ve got it down to a science now after all these years…we will load the bags up starting at about 4 p.m. the night before and it takes a couple of hours. Then the next morning, the refrigerated items and the freshly baked Tom Hortons tidbits are added and the bags are ready to go prior to 6 a.m.,” DeHart explains.

“I start to get pretty excited and worried about everything, so I never sleep much the night before.”

And once the bags are all gone and the donations have been counted, the clean-up task takes over—picking up the leftover garbage, taking down the tents and tables and, for DeHart, moving back into her hotel office which gets taken over by United Way staff during the drive-thru.

“We start early and it takes all day to clean everything up afterward. I can’t wait to get home by the end of the day to have a bath and put away the pyjamas.”

How much longer the drive-thru breakfast will carry on is anyone’s guess.

Other communities have tried to capture the event’s Kelowna success in their hometowns and failed. However, Vernon and Penticton have succeeded in getting theirs off the ground.

“Others have tried and I try to help them, but if they don’t want to listen to my suggestions, they’re not doing it anymore. One of the major things is you have to hone the event to your own community and to yourself. Every year we make changes because suggestions are made about how things can be done better,”she says.

“I always say you have to have an open mind along with opening your heart and your wallets to support this.

“You have to be willing to listen to people and their suggestions. I may be the front person, but what drives this is the response from the community and support of the sponsors.”

United Way history dates back to 1917 United Way Centraide has a long history in Canada, which began in 1917.

Over the years, the organization has been known by many names— among them Community Chest, United Appeal and Red Feather.

It’s an organization that has brought together diverse and caring people in local communities across the country.

The national office was created in 1939, as a program division of the Canadian Welfare Council led

by Charlotte Whitton, an influential feminist, municipal leader and companion of the Order of Canada.

In 1972 prominent designer Saul Bass created the iconic United Way

logo, depicting the helping hand cradling mankind and surrounded by a rainbow symbolizing hope—a symbol that carries on today.

Also in 1972, United Way established an independent corporate structure with greater capacity for long-term strategic leadership.

Canada’s national office officially became known as United Way of Canada—Centraide Canada in 1976, recognizing the bilingual nature of Canada’s culture and language.

The office achieved yet another important milestone in 2003 when a strategic alignment exercise led it to adopt a new Canada-wide mission, which was given the title of

the United Way Community Impact Mission.

In 2011, growing on that community impact mission, the national office, now named United Way Centraide Canada, introduced a new brand, enabling United Ways Centraides across the country to speak with one voice and to demonstrate with consistency how it stands for lasting, measurable change.

As part of this process, the United Way clarified three priority areas of focus for United Ways Centraides across Canada, which are outcomes based: From poverty to possibility; healthy people, strong communities; and all that kids can be.

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PEER mentoring is an important part of what the United Way supports through various agencies to help give children a chance to learn and realize their potential in life.

NOW Canada meets community needs for women Avril Paice CONTRIBUTOR

When a community need is urgent, and resources are limited, non-profit organizations innovate to make change happen. That’s exactly what is happening in the Essentials Program at NOW Canada.

Founded in 1999 as the ASK (Ask, Seek, Knowledge) Learning Centre, the Essentials program has served hundreds of sexually exploited young women.

NOW Canada staff and volunteers enthusiastically support the potential of these women and girls (and their children) to lead healthy empowered lives free of exploitation and abuse.

It’s all there in the name; NOW stands for New Opportunities for Women. For women and

youth looking to make positive lifestyle changes, the Kelowna-based organization offers one of the most comprehensive continuums of care in the province.

Recently, the province of British Columbia made changes to funding for employment programs.

NOW Canada staff responded inventively to ensure that Essentials would remain available. Their determination is fuelled by first-hand knowledge of how the program changes lives for the better.

“We’re in a position to go forward into developing something that will offer more opportunities to women and youth,” says Liz Talbott, executive director of NOW Canada. “Not only does the community tell us this is a need, but the statistics also say it is a need. So we need to listen to that. We

need to get creative.”

Getting creative meant that this team took on some extra maintenance chores around the new Tutt Street Place building, to free up financial resources for client programs and supports. They did so with good humour, and extra dollars are being redirected to services and resources. In addition to services like the Essentials program, clients can access assistance in the form of food cards, play therapy for children, and trauma therapy for youth and adults.

The delivery of the Essentials program has also changed, with clients remaining enrolled for four months instead of three.

The life-skills component has been expanded as a result of feedback from clients and staff, and clients also receive training employability, re-

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Participants will be able to visit charitable organizations that receive support from United Way, and learn how these

agencies are making change happen in Central Okanagan communities.

The bus tour takes place Tuesday, Oct. 29, 9 a.m. to noon. For more information or to reserve a seat email angela@ unitedwaycso.com or call 250-860-2356.

lapse prevention, healthy boundaries, positive attitudes and behaviours, anger management, critical thinking and body image workshops, budgeting, and employment readiness. Clients are supported in finding volunteer roles in the community, which helps to build skills, connections and confidence.

The women and youth receive a lot of individual support and advocacy, as well as case planning and follow care after they complete programs. Peer mentors are an especially important resource for

clients.

“A peer mentor has come through the process of recovery, and can show someone it is possible,” says Talbott. “They speak in the classroom, take clients to meetings, or for coffee. They really are an integral part of success in the classroom.”

This program is changing lives. You can see it in the faces of clients greeting each other, hear it in the voices of support staff, and read about it in their program reports and statistics. The NOW Canada programs are flexible, realistic, and focused on

the needs of the clients.

This all becomes even more remarkable when you realize they are serving 29% more women than last year.

NOW Canada won the Central Okanagan Foundation Volunteer Organization of the Year Civic Award in 2011, and were humbled by the recognition. It’s easy to see why this organization was chosen, especially when you see the long list of organizations with whom they collaborate, and hear their success stories.

“It’s challenging work, but we wouldn’t be

here if we didn’t want to rise to the challenge,” says Talbott. NOW Canada has well over 100 beds operating in Kelowna for women, youth and children who are working toward better lives.

Change starts here, because organizations are responding to community needs with creativity and passion. To learn more about NOW Canada, one of United Way’s newest Community Partner organizations, please visit www.nowcanada.ca/ Avril Paice is director of community investment for the local United Way.

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If you have publicly traded securities that have appreciated significantly, you can donate them “in kind” to a charity and receive a charitable tax receipt for the full current value of the stock, without having to pay any capital gains tax on the appreciation. The donation must be an “in kind” transfer of the security itself, not the cash proceeds of the sale of the security.

The transfer is best made electronically from the donor’s investment account to the charity’s custody or brokerage account.

The United Way has an account that can be used for this purpose and it is simple to do—just contact the United Way office at 250-860-2356 or email Jennifer Park at jennifer@unitedwaycso.com to ask for a Gift of Secur-

CRIS Adaptive Adventures was excited and proud to see the inaugural CRIS Youth Challenge was a huge success.

Some 44 people were involved in the Challenge—eight youth team

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As a result, a first-time donor will be allowed a 40% federal credit for donations of $200 or less, and a 54% federal credit for the portion of donations over $200 but not exceeding $1,000.

For example, an eligible first-time donor claims $500 of charitable donations in 2013. The first-time donor’s charitable tax credit plus their extra 25% super tax cred-

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Another tax credit targets people who haven’t claimed a donation on their income tax returns for the past five years.

Starting in the 2013 taxation year, the federal budget introduces a “first time donor super tax credit” for individuals.

This new credit effectively adds 25% tax credit for donations up to $1,000.

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who joined in the fun at Sutherland Park.

This project was made possible through a United Way Youth Initiative Grant, sponsored by TELUS and Interior Savings.

“Our main goal is to really increase awareness and (this CRIS Challenge) is really a public

initiative,” said Clayton March, a UBC Okanagan student and the challenge project leader.

“A lot of people, they don’t really realize unless they’ve been impacted by someone with a disability so I think you know, if you’re just walking by on the Greenway and you see

five trail riders coming by, you are going to definitely raise awareness.

“And I think it really teaches people that although people with challenges have more barriers than other people do, they still can do the same things that many others can do.”

Where do the donations go?

When I give to United Way, where does my money go?

That is a commonly asked question that many charities face today.

For the United Way, the answer is your donation goes right back into your community to help address its key social issues and to fund its programs and initiatives.

For example, if you live in Central Okanagan and you give to Central Okanagan United Way, your contributions help to fund social services and programs in the Kelowna, West Kelowna, Peachland and Lake Country areas.

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GenNext: Young professionals making a statement We are a group of 360° Young Professionals supporting our community in partnership with the United Way. We, the 360° Young Professionals remove impossible from our vocabulary.

We are hard-working, educated, ambitious, are a centre of influence and have a strong moral compass. We live a balanced lifestyle that includes giving back to our community.

We believe in growing personally, developing professionally and improving the community we live in.

We do that by organizing awesome fundraising events and volunteer opportunities while creating a

great peer experience.

VISION:

A growing collective of individuals doing great things for our community.

MISSION:

To create a peer experience for people just like you…people who are looking to fill the gaps in their lives and their community in a meaningful way. Whether it be getting out more, getting connected, developing skills, giving back or learning a thing or two.

We recognize two very important things are necessary to do these things: Great people to do it with, and

your answer to a very important question…what gaps do you want to fill?

those of the future.

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To find out more information about how to get involved please contact gennext.kelowna@gmail.com or check out their website www. gennextkelowna.com for monthly newsletters full of information on events and volunteer opportunities.

We value our community and seek to make positive impacts.

We value your time and the amount of time you want to give back so you tell us how much you’re willing to contribute and when. An hour a week? Two days a month? Much more? You tell us.

We value great connections and great opportunities so we aim to connect you to the needs and opportunities within the community.

We value the need to connect business and community leaders with

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Medwatch life saving program finds passionate advocates Avril Paice CONTRIBUTOR

Sue Selzler has become a passionate advocate for the program that saved her life.

The West Kelowna senior is speaking out about the Medwatch Program, with the hope that other people will benefit in the same way.

“It’s the best thing that has come to our community,” says Selzler.

“I’ve been to hospital by ambulance quite a few times. Sometimes you are so sick, you can barely hold your head up, much less talk.”

Once she had blood clots in her heart and lung, but was treated quickly, thanks in part to Medwatch.

Medwatch is brilliant in its simplicity.

When Selzler is in need of emergency medical assistance, her husband just directs emergency personnel to the refrigerator (which has a Medwatch sticker on the door), where a Medwatch vial contains two pages of her medical information —including medications, health conditions and previous surgeries.

Without Medwatch, emergency responders

would search the home of the individual to find out what medications they are taking, or wait until the information is available digitally.

“The paramedics just love this program,” says Selzler.

They told her that if everyone had Medwatch, critical medical attention would be available faster.

“I have told so many of my friends, and gotten them the bottle and helped them fill out their information,” she says.

Neighbours spot the sticker on her refrigerator and ask for more information.

The vials are also handy to have in a purse, or in the car, and there is a wallet size card that works well for men.

Keeping the information updated is key— Selzler recommends using a pencil to fill out things that change over time (like your age).

Medwatch is run by the Westside Health Network, an organization dedicated to supporting seniors in West Kelowna and Peachland.

In 12 years, over 25,000 of the Medwatch vials have been distributed through the Westside Health Network of-

United Way philosophy start with direction from its national board of directors Today, there are more than 100 United Ways Centraides across the country.

Each one is an autonomous non-profit organization governed by a volunteer-led local board of directors.

Each United Way raises money and allocates funds locally to support its community.

The national office, United Way Centraide Canada, has a distinct role to provide leadership, guidance and support to local United Ways Centraides across the country.

Together, local United Ways Centraides and United Way Centraide Canada form the United Way Centraide Movement.

United Way is known as Centraide in Quebec, Ottawa and other French-Canadian communities.

With support provided by numerous volunteers and staff, United Ways Centraides create opportunities for a better for life for everyone in our communities.

United Way Centraide Canada’s board of directors is composed of volunteers and one ex-officio voting member representing the Canadian Labour Congress.

Directors are recruited based on proposals from United Way Cen-

traide offices and United Way Centraide Canada board members.

The fundamental values of the United Way Centraide Canada Board are inclusiveness, diversity, integrity and innovation, which guide their approach to fulfilling their responsibilities.

The board chair is Oryssia Lennie, fron Alberta.

Lennie has been extensively engaged with the United Way for many years.

She was appointed to the United Way Centraide Canada Board of Directors in 2009 and in October 2010, was named senior vice-chair and chair of the Governance Committee.

Prior to that she served as Board Chair of the United Way of the Alberta Capital Region (2008-09) and on numerous campaign cabinets.

Lennie has had significant governance experience, through both her professional background in public administration and public policy development and her extensive community involvement.

From 1997-2009, she was deputy minister of western economic diversification for the fedearl government.

Present and past professional

and volunteer affiliations include the boards of the Canada West Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, Grant MacEwan University, University of Alberta, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, and the Business Development Bank.

Joining her on the executive are Peter Doig, past chair (Nova Scotia) Kingsley Bowles, treasurer (Manitoba) François Marcoux, interim secretary (Québec) Dr. Jacline Abray-Nyman, president and CEO (Ontario), non-voting member Serving as board directors are: Marc Doucette (New Brunswick) Walter Flasza (Ontario) Yuri Fulmer (British Columbia) François Gilbert (Québec) Kelly Harrington (Saskatchewan) Tammy Holland (Ontario) Dennis Jackson (Ontario) Charmian Love (United Kingdom) Rachel Larabie-LeSieur (Québec) François Mercier (Québec) Motilall Sarjoo (Ontario) Alnasir Samji (Ontario) Ivan Watson (British Columbia)

fice, Peachland Wellness Centre, doctors’ offices, flu clinics, Walmart Safety Week, and Zellers Seniors Day. Westside Health Network Executive Director Sonia Newman credits “a superb team of twentyfive volunteers” for the success of the program.

With 3000 volunteer hours per year dedicated to assembling, distributing and promoting the Medwatch kits, the pro-

gram is very cost-effective to deliver.

The program is not only available for seniors—younger individuals and families can also benefit from the service, especially if there are serious health issues.

More volunteers are always needed for Medwatch and other programs.

United Way and BMO Bank of Montreal are proud sponsors of the

Medwatch Program.

To find out more about Medwatch and other programs, visit http://www. westsidehealthnetwork. com/ or call 250-7683305 or drop in to their office at 2300 Carrington Rd. in West Kelowna ( on the 2nd floor).

Avril Paice is the director of community investment for the local United Way.

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IT TAKES a community’s involvement to ensure a vibrant, healthy and sustainable future for its children.

Participation is the goal to help create a lasting impact It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child, and by the same token, it takes everyone’s involvement in community to ensure it is vibrant, healthy, and sustainable.

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network of charities doing great work in the Central Okanagan.

Now in this age of increasingly complex social issues, the United Way wants to do more to move the needle of some of our most pressing community problems, such as poverty, healthy child development, and supports for vulnerable adults and seniors.

This will require more effort working in collaboration as a community convener, along with government, business, labour, leaders, and residents to create opportunities for a better life for all.

This is community impact—creating meaningful, long-lasting improvements in quality of life by addressing not just the symptoms of problems but the root causes.

To do this, the United Way will increasingly engage the full range of our community’s resources—dollars, influence, time and knowledge—to strengthen the capacity of the charitable sector, influence public attitude and policies, and address underlying causes of societal issues.

The United Way can help achieve this with

everyone’s support, by pooling and deploying gifts of time, talent and treasure to create real and lasting community impact.

This is why the United Way’s campaign goal this year is to increase participation instead of focusing on a dollar amount.

Focusing on the dollar figure can take emphasis away from why dollars are raised and the change that occurs in the community as a result.

The United Way wants to put the focus back on the impact and has a target this year of encouraging another one per cent of the Central Okanagan’s population to participate in campaign.

It sounds simple, but if another 1,800 gave of their volunteer and financial resources, the ripple effects would be extraordinary.

There are so many ways to get involved: Lead a special event in your workplace or neighbourhood with proceeds to the United Way Give online at www. unitedwaycso.com and share your participation on Facebook. Join the campaign today and make a difference.

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Flags will fly at half-mast over Kelowna City Hall today to honour Barbara Anne Scott.

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“I think the city—like the rest of Canada—just fell in love with her because of her charm, grace and tale nt,” said Mayor Walter Gray. “I had a longdistance friendship over the yea rs with Barbara and her husband Tom Kin g, keeping in touch with letters and Christmas cards…lowering the flags is a way for Kelowna to say goodby good e to loved Canadian who made such a bean impression on our city.”

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DAYS of CARING

Thank You!

To CIBC Employees for helping with painting and site clean-up for the Bridge Youth and Family Services. Their new residential facility is looking great, thanks to this hard-working crew of volunteers!

If your charity has a project that could use some helping hands, contact Unit ed Way at 250-860-2356 or avr il@ unitedwaycso.com

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Individuals create volunteer profiles.

Organizations create volunteer opportunities. Go to www.kcr.ca, click ‘Volunteer Opportunities Search’ or call Dawn at 250.763.8008 ext 25.

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