Capital News Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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Crucial to any social service safety net Heart from A8 hearts, from their passion, their time and skills to provide services that otherwise wouldn’t exist,” she said, pointing out it’s a huge cost savings we probably would never be able to cover as a community. Just over half of the non-profit and charitable organizations in this country operate entirely off volunteers, without paid staff. It’s the ideas, like H.O.P.E. Outreach, that start as a vision and operate off the sides of peoples’ desks in the hours left to spare at the end of the day. H.O.P.E. Outreach started when two former street workers went to a newspaper and said they fwanted to help women still walking this difficult path in life. Lohr saw the article, decided to help, and to-
day is now spearheading the organization, which is just now getting its charitable status, two years into its existence. Along the way, she’s seen a lot of help. Kelowna Women’s Resource Centre took responsibility for helping with financial organization. Evangel Church and Trinity Baptist Church provided some money. Lohr worked with UBCO’s social work program to get a student intern and set up a liaison with Kelowna RCMP. But far and away the most important piece of this puzzle is the 40 dedicated volunteers who meet, two at a time, at the Safeway parking lot each evening and make the hour-long trip around the downtown core to ensure everyone who needs help has it. “It’s just an amazing group of women,” said
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The Kelowna Art Gallery is looking for volunteer docents (tour guides) for the school tour program. Volunteer docents lead exhibition tours, and all docents receive full instruction on the art in each exhibition and on working with students in a gallery setting. The school tour program has been offered for 20 years and has received national recognition for excellence in educational programs from the Canadian Art Gallery Educators. For more information please call Renée Burgess at 250-762-2226, ext. 310 or email renee@ kelownaartgallery.com.
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Lohr. “There are social workers and social work students, psych nurses, registered nurses, retired doctors, church volunteers.” Volunteerism in Kelowna has hundreds of faces. At the Kelowna Art Gallery, more than 100 volunteers do everything from man special events, like the opening receptions, to sit on the board of directors and assist with various fundraising initiatives. “Speaking from public a programming perspective, they’re extremely important,” said Renée
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Burgess, head of public programming for the art gallery. “They’re really responsible for the school tour program and I couldn’t run the program without them. “We see about 8,000 kids come through a year and we couldn’t pay someone to do all of that.” There are plenty of ways to get involved in any number of volunteer activities. Information on volunteering in Kelowna can be found on the KCR website at www.kcr.ca or by calling 250-763-8008 to access the Volunteer Centre.
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A man charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting in Lake Country last month is facing another charge. t Kenneth Brian Ralrston is now charged with breach of undertaking, alleged to have happened on Saturday, April 2, court records show. Ralson, 59, was initially arrested on the attempted murder charge the night of March 3, after police say they found a person bleeding from an ap-
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