OMREB raises $12,000 for local hospice and shelter

The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board’s Central Zone Division has raised $12,000 to benefit the local hospice and women’s shelter.

The Central Zone Committee recently donated $6,000 each to the Central Okanagan Hospice Association and Kelowna Women’s Shelter. The Women’s Shelter plans on using the funds for a variety of programs and services offered, and the monies for the Hospice Association will go towards the training of volunteers.

“The donations are the result of fundraising efforts by the 730 plus Realtors of the Central Zone during 2009,” says OMREB past-president Bob Cliffe. The Central Zone of OMREB covers an area from Peachland to Lake Country and east along Highway 33 to Westbridge (including the Christian Valley).

In the photo: OMREB’s Central Zone Division donated cheques of $6,000 each to the Kelowna Women’s Shelter and the Central Okanagan Hospice Association. Committee members from left: Mark Jennings-Bates, Sheryl Lobsinger, Cathy Cherka, Avril Paice (Women’s Shelter), Gloria Bedwell, Deborah Moore, Bob Switzer (executive director of the Okanagan Hospice), Kevin Philippot, Nancy MacKellar, Greg Dusik and Mike Craddock.