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HELPING SYRIAN REFUGEES AUTO MECHANICS VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME TO PROVIDE WHEELS FOR NEW RESIDENTS ..............A3
RECRUITING HELP
Bicycle business
Four Okanagan College alumni and a student, including Trevor Tuck (above), have created a new retail mountain bike parts business without extensive investment in sales people or a bricks-and-mortar storefront. See story on page A8 to read how they have found start-up entrepreneurial success.
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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Bennett family raising awareness Alistair Waters awaters@kelownacapnews.com
The late Bill Bennett, former premier of B.C., will be this year’s honouree at the annual Investor’s Group Walk for Alzheimer’s in the Kelowna. The walk, the biggest awareness and fundraiser organized by the Alzheimer Society of B.C. each year, is scheduled for May 1. Bennett, who was from Kelowna and represented this area as an MLA in the B.C Legislature during his years in politics, died in December after a long battle with
Alzheimer’s. His son Steve, speaking at a kick-off event for the upcoming awareness and fundraising walk held on Wednesday, said by supporting the event he felt he and his family were doing what his father would have done—continue to fight to help find a cure for the debilitating form of dementia that robs its victims of their memories. “We all know how competitive my father was,” said Steve Bennett, who personally donated $5,000 to the Alzheimer Society of B.C. to help fund research that one day could lead to a cure.
He said for his father, the early onset of the disease was slow but sped up quickly once his dad turned 80. In the last years of Bill Bennett’s life, he had to be transferred to a care home and was at the point where he did not recognize his children or his wife of 60 years. “He didn’t want to talk about it but as a family, we did,” said Steve Bennett, adding he remains confident one day a cure for Alzheimer’s will be found. He is encouraging everyone to register and turnout for the walk, noting it is now a national event.
The Kelowna walk will start in Mission Creek Regional Park at 11.a.m on Sunday, May 1. The confidence in finding a cure expressed by the younger Bennett is a reflection of the research into the Alzheimer’s disease currently ongoing at a number of universities around the world, including right here in Kelowna at UBC Okanagan. Dr. Ardis Klegeris is leading the team conducting the local research. Klegeris said while a drug to
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