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The Calgary Stampede starts Friday July 8th, but you don’t have to go all the way there to get your fill of pancakes. On Friday, July 8th, 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 our 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 1720 Sprinfiled Road, aka the RONA parking lot.

Why a Stampede pancake breakfast? Gord Hotchkiss and Bill Barnes, the two co-founders of Enquiro Search Solutions Inc. (now Mediative), 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 fourth consecutive year that the Kelowna Women’s Shelter is the breakfast fundraising partner.

Mediative is grateful for the support of local businesses providing supplies for the event, including RONA

No registration is necessary and guests are encouraged to dress up in their cowboy hats and western apparel.   

 

About the Kelowna Women’s Shelter
The Kelowna Women's Shelter provides 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:
Tanya Harvey
Mediative
250.861.5252 ext. 214
info@mediative.ca