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By Aaron Schulze

Rex Gill Charity Ride

Charity ride honouring Penticton man killed in Kamloops proceeding in September

Aug 22, 2022 | 11:38 AM

PENTICTON, B.C. — The fourth annual charity ride to honour a Penticton man who was gunned down in Kamloops in 2019 will proceed next month.

The ride for the late Rex Gill will take place Saturday, Sept. 24. According to Gill’s mother and the ride’s organizer, Marie Nobles, there will be a breakfast by donation at Coyote Cruises in Penticton – where Gill drove the bus for 14 years – from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

Riders will then depart to Konquer Motorcycles in Kelowna for a barbecue by donation at 11:30 a.m.

Nobles says she will take donation for the silent and loud auctions and door prizes. All the proceed will go to the Central Okanagan Community Food Bank and Kelowna’s Gospel Mission. The inspiration for the charity ride stems from Gill wanting to organize a motorcycle ride from Penticton to Kelowna to take jackets down to the homeless prior to his death.

Gill was standing outside the Comfort Inn & Suites Hotel in Kamloops on the morning of Jan. 23, 2019, when he was shot while having a smoke. Kamloops RCMP said Gill may have been a victim of mistaken identity.

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Gill was from Penticton and had recently been laid off from the oil patch in northern Alberta. He was in Kamloops doing a siding job for a friend.

The memorial ride also honours the life of Gill’s friend, Mike Courtney, who rode in the 2020 ride and died in a crash two blocks away from his home on the way back.

Nobles says there were around 60 motorcycles in the charity ride last year, along with the numerous cars and trucks behind the bikes, and she expects 100 this year.

with files from Global Okanagan