Achievements
Arts
Environment
Advocacy and Action
Social Issues
Education
Federation
Activities
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Education
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An early project was to hold
career night for High School girls at Kelowna Secondary School.
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For over 25
years a series of public lectures held at Capsule College to raise money for scholarships and to entertain and inform the general public.
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Individual members judged
school debates, served on PAC boards and on School Boards.
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Established two endowment
funds (one at COBSS and one at Okanagan College)
to generate funds to support local students in the form of scholarships and
bursaries.
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Scholarships
at University of British Columbia Okanagan (one undergraduate, and one graduate).*
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Environment ,advocacy and action. |
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Provided dinghy and two paddles for the
S. Okanagan Health Unit for taking water samples, 1970s. |
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Presentations and workshops
for the public promoting the 3 Rs "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".
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Workshop on Energy, 1980s. Public presentation with the
City of Kelowna and Environment
Canada on climate change, 1990s.
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Successfully presented two
resolutions to CFUW National AGMs, which are now CFUW Policy:
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Adding ethanol to gasoline to reduce pollution (1992).
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Labelling of genetically modified foods (1998).
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Since 2000 The Club has been responsible for
cleanup of two roads as part of the "Adopt a Road" programme.
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CFUW Kelowna presented an Environmental Workshop at the CFUW
National AGM held in Vancouver, 12-14 July
2007. Club Members are continuing to find ways to reduce their
'carbon footprint'.
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Social
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Compiled and circulated the
first three Community Service Directories (with
sponsors).
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Advice Services Kelowna (ASK)
initially run by club volunteers, then paid personnel; evolved into Community Resources run by the government.
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Major contributor to
furnishing the first Women's Shelter. Ongoing support for present
Women's Shelter.
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Acted as volunteer tutors for
Project Literacy.
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1994 (with Government of
Canada grant) published Affordable Housing in Kelowna - a background and resource document on what was available.
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1996 (again with government
grant) hired and supervised a staff person to prepare a document regarding Secondary Suites -
a how to guide, which was used by the City Planning Department as a resource document in policy formation on
secondary suites.
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Instrumental in the building
of the new Library
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Founded "Friends of the Library" and organized the first three book sales.
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Adopt a Road Project
CFUW Kelowna Hosted CFUW BC Council AGM in
1990 and 2005. |
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Federation Activities. |
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CFUW
Kelowna Presents
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2005 BC Provincial Annual General Meeting & Conference
Theme:
"Women Outside the Box"
CFUW
Kelowna hosted the BC Council AGM from 29 April - 1 May 2005.
It was a wonderful weekend of fellowship, learning, fun, good food,
tours of Kelowna and awareness of our provincial and national links.
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Individual members serve or
have served on BC Council and on National or International Boards and take
part in Conferences at the
provincial, national and international levels.
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See item above (under
Environment) detailing two resolutions brought to National AGM
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We are part of the
national federation's lobbying efforts on government issues. We
receive NO government or corporate funding,
and our input is thus felt to be unbiased. As a federation we were
one of the original Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGO) to have consultative status at the United Nations
and still hold this
distinction.
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CFUW Kelowna hosted the CFUW National AGM in
1997 |
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Arts
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Sponsored drama workshops
in schools. |
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Sponsored drama, dance and
symphony performances in the community.
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Started Kelowna and
District Arts Council in 1996 to advocate for the arts. Now known as the
Arts Council of the
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Dramatic presentation by
club members at BC Council AGM 2005
Theme: “Women Outside the Box”
Four Okanagan Valley pioneering women of action
Left to right: “Rosa Casorso”, “Elsie MacCleave”,
“Hilda Cryderman” and
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Drama Presentation:
Women Outside the Box |
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generosity enabled us to take no fewer than ten lovely gift baskets of
toiletries and special foods to the Kelowna Women's Shelter just before
Christmas and to donate $316.00 each to the Westside Health Network and
the Lake Country Food Bank. These are the largest donations CFUW Kelowna has raised for its Christmas recipients. |
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