Giving back to the community:

We know and value the importance of having access to good hospitals, staffed with the best medical teams and where technology advances happen everyday. This is equally as important for our children. Working with many families is very much a part of a realtor's life and we often hear of various challenges and heartbreaks that these families have to face in dealing and coping with their children's health issues.

Miracles happen everyday at BC Children's Hospital! Read Colton's story

Blessed with good health and privileged to live in such a beautiful place as the Okanagan Valley, enjoying this wonderful, enviable lifestyle, we decided to do something to make a difference in the lives of so many. So in 2006 we spearheaded, organized and participated in a RE/MAX bike-a-thon to raise money for BC Children's Hospital. Riding on the event's success, we decided to make it an annual event (with the exception of 2009 due to the severe forest fires) and to-date, have raised over $145,000 for sick and injured children.

This year, we are changing gears and location! We are laying down our bicycles and getting on our motorbikes instead. It will be an exciting and fun filled, two day event held over the June 4 & 5th weekend starting from Vernon and travelling through some of the most spectacular scenery in BC.

Dedicated RE/MAX Realtors and friends will be returning with their pledges to ride on behalf of children and families in their respective communities and the success of this event would not be possible without their passion, dedication and loyalty to the charity.  We are honoured and grateful to have them on our spokes for kids team. So a big THANK YOU to Leo Bruneau and Wayne Dick from RE/MAX All Points Realty, Coquitlam; Jesse East, RE/MAX Kelowna, Gerald Teichroeb from RE/MAX Kamloops Realty, Rowen Grant of RTown Media, Whistler, Stephen Phillips, Vernon, Bryon and Sue Brandle of RE/MAX Vernon and of our own team bikers: Heidi, Tony and Dan.

We’re excited and pumped to have the opportunity to help BC’s sick and injured children and recognize that the success of this event is dependant on the continued generosity of our clients and the North Okanagan community.

An extra BIG THANK YOU to our Superheroes at Vernon Motor Sports who have graciously sponsored us with a Yamaha bike for our team rider, Dan Phillips. You guys rock!

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The kids thank you, and we thank you!

3rd Annual RE/MAX Yard Sale for the Cure
Thank you everyone for making this year's event a great success. At RE/MAX Vernon, we raised nearly $2,500!!

We were thrilled to have participated at the RE/MAX Yard Sale for the Cure. Sadly everyone, in some way or another, either personally, or knows of a family member, friend or colleague who has been touched by cancer. So it is only fitting that we do what we can in helping to make cancer history.

With the help and support from our great community, another step was taken towards the fight. Thank you.


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  As an avid skier herself, Heidi is happy to be a regular sponsor and equipment   donor to Silver Star Adaptive Snow Sports (SSASS) at Silver Star Mountain   Resort.

  Founded in 1992 as a local association of volunteer instructors who wished to   share their joy of snow sports by teaching people with disabilities, Silver Star   Adaptive Snow Sports (SSASS) provides ski and snowboard lessons for   students   of all ages with a variety of disabilities. SSASS is a non profit   organization and  registered charity, and a member of the Canadian   Association of Disabled Skiers.

  Congratulations to our SSASS athletes, Les Ebl and Daryl Koscienlny, for helping our RE/MAX Rockets team finish 4th place overall (22 teams) and taking 1st place with the highest amount of dollars raised: $1,650!! Thank you to all our sponsors.!!

Photo: SSASS student Les Ebl (left) with Heidi Lussi Team members (left to right: Dan Phillips, Ottmar Moeslein and Tony Porter) at February 5th 2011 Carter Classic family fun race, an annual fundraising event for Silver Star Adaptive Snow Sports. Missing from picture: SSASS student Daryl Koscienlny.