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NEWS FROM KELOWNA
Meetings
October 2006
There were 15 of us that met at the Mekong restaurant for a luncheon meeting. The meeting was opened with a prayer. Henry Wehnert the appointed Leader read the minutes from the last meeting, February 5, 2006, where Lambert Schmalz was honored for 50 years of membership in Kolping. At that meeting Werner Mahler received a large picture of Father Kolping for his dedication to organizing Kolping Kelowna. Hildegard Sauter received a Kolping medallion for her years of dedicated service to the Kelowna Kolping group.
The original Calgary Kolping flag will finally embroidered with Kolpinfg Kelowna and Gisela Howald was given this task. The flag will carry both names in rememberance of Kolping Calgary. Dieter Howald and Hildegard Sauter reported on the 50th anniversary weekend of Kolping Vancouver. After consuming an incredible, delicious 6 course Chinese meal we ended with a prayer in honor of Father Kolping. We socialized after and brought each other up to date on the things that happened in our lives during the long Kelowna summer.
Kolping is alive and well in our little group even though we all have to deal with personal effects of the years that seem to come and go much faster then ever before. The spirit and enthusiasm is very much alive though.
Editor’s Note: We will celebrate Thanksgiving in just a few weeks, and then Remembrance Day, a month later. Let’s remember all the many things we have to be thankful for. On November 11th we honor all the soldiers on both sides who lost their lives during both World Wars. But we also remember the many millions of civilians who perished as well. Most of the people reading this lost precious family members, and/or their ancestral homes forever, and have harrowing stories tell.
But, through the fire, we have come to live and breathe freely again, to know happiness and to find love all around us in our families and in our friends. During the ’forties, when things looked so hopeless for us, we could not have imagined the riches that would come to us in just a few years. Although, God knows, there is terrible hatred still in the world, and injustice, and poverty, and illnesses for which there is still not cure, let us take this opportunity to appreciate all that we have.
