CFUW KELOWNA COMMUNITY PROJECTS
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Over the past sixty years we have:-
ARTS AND CULTURE
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sponsored the arts in schools and the community by organizing a regional drama festival and sponsoring theatre performances and symphony concerts
- Started the Kelowna and District Arts Council (KADAC)
- Raised funds to purchase pianos and furnishings at the Community Theatre and supporting the Art Gallery
- CFUW Kelowna is a proud supporter of the recently formed Society for a new Performing Arts Centre.
https://kelownaperformingarts.ca/
(You can also download the brochure immediately above to circulate by email. There is a link to the website there also.)
Please support them by signing up on their website and forward to others who want to support their efforts.
- Started Friends of the Library and served on its board
- Started Project Literacy, served as board members and volunteered as tutors
- Contracted for over 20 years with the City of Kelowna as partners in the Adopt-a-Road program (see photos of some of the 2021 volunteers)
- Advocated for water conservation and recycling long before civic programs were begun
- Donated to the Environmental Education Centre for the Central Okanagan and to Mission Creek Greenway
- Wrote life stories for about twenty residents of the Good Samaritan Mountainview Village
- Supported the Salvation Army, the local Food Bank, the local Women's Shelter, Friends of Schizophrenia, Inn from the Cold, Elizabeth Fry Society, Freedom's Door, Habitat for Humanity, and NOW Canada, among other recipients
- Individual members volunteer with a wide range of community organizations, from sports to medicine, history to education groups, animal welfare to parks
