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KICK OFF THE CALGARY STAMPEDE WITH A PANCAKE BREAKFAST
Enquiro to host 9th Annual Stampede Week Breakfast in Support of Kelowna Women’s Shelter
The Calgary Stampede starts Friday July 9th, but you don’t have to go all the way there to get your fill of pancakes. On Friday, July 9th, dust off your cowboy boots and hat and come down to Enquiro’s free pancake breakfast at the Landmark complex, with donations gladly accepted for the Kelowna Women’s Shelter.
This year’s event will carry on Enquiro’s nine-year Stampede tradition of hosting a pancake breakfast to help local charities. The breakfast will take place from 7:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. at the corner of Dickson Avenue and Dayton Street in Kelowna, located directly across from the Landmark III Technology building.
Local celebrities and business leaders will be on hand for a western welcome and to help serve up hearty pancakes and sausages. This year’s flippers include Mayor Sharon Shepherd, MLA Ron Cannon, Maxine DeHart, Weldon Le Blanc, and Norm Letnick.
Why a Stampede pancake breakfast? Gord Hotchkiss and Bill Barnes, the two co-founders of Enquiro Search Solutions, Inc., both originally from Calgary, wanted to bring the free breakfast to Kelowna with the added twist of helping out a local charity.
“It’s the first day of the Stampede,” says Barnes, “and everyone in Calgary gets parade morning off, whether they go see the parade or not. We’re sitting here in Kelowna going, ‘why are we working when the entire city of Calgary gets it off?’ So we said, ‘we’re going to take it off and have pancakes too.’”
Hotchkiss adds, “and if we can help people in the process - and it is for charity - we’re going to give other people a reason to take the morning off too. Because they have to come and get the pancakes.”
In past years, donations from the event have gone to help the Canadian Cancer Society, The United Way, Kids Care and the Kelowna General Hospital, and the Kelowna Food Bank. This is the third consecutive year that the Kelowna Women’s Shelter is the breakfast fundraising partner.
Enquiro is grateful for the support of local businesses providing supplies for the event, including Mamma Rosa Restaurant, Kelowna Moving Centre, Illichmann’s Meats, Provision Data, SunRype, and Avalon Event Rentals.
No registration is necessary and guests are encouraged to dress up in their cowboy hats and western apparel.
About the Kelowna Women’s Shelter
For 27 years, the Kelowna Women's Shelter has provided vital services to families affected by all forms of abuse and violence. The shelter provides a safe haven where women and children receive emergency accommodation, childcare, support groups and counselling, both in the shelter facility and community.
In addition to this, the organization provides prevention programs through various public awareness activities and specifically for teen violence prevention through a school based program. The Kelowna Women's Shelter Thrift Store has also been established to help fund programs and to provide for the clothing and household needs of the Shelter clients. All of this is accomplished through a dedicated team of staff and volunteers.
Event Contact:
Ian Everdell,
Enquiro
250.861.5252 ext. 226
ian.everdell@enquiro.com
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