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TASTY TREAT JENNIFER SCHELL offers some suggestions on great ideas for appies for a New Year’s Eve celebration.
LOOKING BACKA REVIEW of what made news this past year in Kelowna (A3), West Kelowna (A29) and the Central Okanagan sports community (A10) continues in today’s Capital News.
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BUSINESSCOLUMNIST Joel Young suggests one of the keys to being a success in business is to be grateful for success that comes your way, and don’t be afraid to thank others who have helped along the way.
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A DE-FROSTING Frosty The Snowman melts amidst the thawing grass outside a Stetson Road home in Rutland as the temperature took an upswing on the warm side Wednesday.
Judie SteevesSTAFF REPORTER
Rubbers instead of snowboots, umbrellas instead of toques are what the average Kelowna resident is dig-ging out this week, as temperatures hit abnormal highs.
Frosty doesn’t stand a chance of continuing to stand up at the temperatures reached in Kelowna this week, of 6 C at the airport and as high as 9 C elsewhere in the city.
New record high temperatures were reached on the coast, but here, they would have to beat out the 1980 Dec. 28 high of 10.3 C and they didn’t.
Thawing overnight temperatures are a rarity at the end of December, but they’re especially surprising in a La Nina year—and there are a couple of overnight thaws forecast this week.
Predictions were for a colder-than-normal, wetter winter because this is a La Nina year, when a cooler-than-normal Pacifi c Ocean stream from South America impacts coastal waters off B.C. and weather through-out the province.
However, Environment Canada meteorologist Doug Lundquist did a little research and discovered over the last four decades during La Nina winters, Okanagan Valley weather has actually been warmer than normal, but springs have been cooler and later than usual.
The one exception was in 1964 when December’s temperature was lower than normal, while in 1955 and 1988, February’s were lower.
However, in 1999 and 1973, December was warm-er, in 1998, January was warmer and in 1973 February was warmer than normal.
It’s a different story in the spring. Between March and June, inclusive, generally temperatures were cooler than normal; with April of 1988 the only exception.
This year, Lundquist forecasts warmer than normal temperatures through the fi rst week of January, which fi ts in with the research he conducted on archived data, since this is a La Nina year.
Looking back over the past year, which was also a La Nina year, he calls it “the year of delayed seasons.”
Winter’s weather last year was not colder than nor-mal, but the spring was substantially delayed, with markedly lower temperatures in April than usual.
In fact, he notes, cooler than usual weather con-tinued through July, with summer weather fi nally arriv-ing in August and continuing through September—sav-ing crops which depended on warm weather.
Tree fruits and grapes all matured weeks later than usual, but the unseasonal heat in September allowed
▼ FOR LA NINA YEARS
Warmer winter may become normal for Okanagan
Wade PatersonSTAFF REPORTER
Depending on who you are, the perfect New Year’s Eve may have vari-ous forms.
Some ideal end of year celebrations may involve a family semicircle around
a TV screen to watch the Times Square ball drop and the banging of pots and pans and squealing of noise makers.
Others might fancy a quiet evening, a glass of wine and a good book, with no concern of where the hands might be facing
on the clock.Some like to host par-
ties with friends; others like to attend parties host-ed by friends.
And then there are those who like to put on their nicest clothes, hit the town and spend the fi nal evening of the calendar
year with a few friends and hundreds of strangers.
Those who plan to mi-grate from the confi nes of the living room will have the added challenge of choosing an event that will satisfy their New Year’s Eve desires.
For those who are
fond of tradition, a good option might be the Ke-lowna Canadian Italian Club’s New Year’s Dinner and Dance.
Club president Emilio Nanci said that the event
▼ NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATIONS
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JULY • B.C. Parks celebrated its 100th anniversary.• An economic impact study revealed Ke-
lowna International Airport had a total economic impact for the province of $610 million in 2010.
• Mission Hill Estate Winery caused a stir with its plans to add a wellness centre, restau-rant, hotel, guest cottages and brewery.
• A four-month old infant was left in the car at Orchard Park Mall prompting police interven-tion and a round of warnings not to leave chil-dren and dogs unattended in hot vehicles.
• Democracy Watch had former Okanag-an-Coquihalla MP Stockwell Day in the hot seat over his consulting business; the matter was eventually dropped.
• West Kelowna Fire Rescue proved their prowess quashing a grass fi re fuelled by high winds on Reece Road before much damage could be done.
• The Christmas in July campaign kicked off with Kelowna Food Bank representatives saying rising fuel and food costs were hitting the non-profi t as much as residents making needs more urgent.
• American homelessness activist Mark Hor-vath made Kelowna a stop on his national tour, which broadcast his views via Twitter feed under the handle @invisiblepeople; he later said Kelowna was on the right track with agencies and government initiatives that work together to provide more than just food and shelter.
• Artist Chad Pratch revealed the creation he built using the unwanted chairs he collected in a campaign to get residents to donate their chairs to his Kelowna Art Gallery piece—the last in the gallery’s multi-year Dysfunctional Chairs Ser-ies.
• During a whirlwind tour of Kelowna’s post-secondary schools, Minister of Advanced Education Naomi Yamamoto said she believed UBCO was a good investment, that education in general is a good investment and that students believe taking on debt for education is a good in-vestment.
• Local fi lmmaker Justin Donnelly held his fi rst red carpet screening of Pressed, starring Luke Gross, at Paramont Theatre on Bernard Avenue; its his fi rst feature fi lm and a coup for Kelowna’s fi lm industry.
• Kelowna Cycle donates a bike to 11-year-old Lucas who had his bike stolen in a brazen assault and robbery.
• NOW Canada’s $10 million supportive housing complex on Pandosy Street opened with plenty of fanfare and little controversy—sharp contrast to the sea of political debate and protest from its neighbours when it was an-nounced two years.
• The up-grade on a dead-ly stretch of High-way 97 between Oyama and Winfi eld got under-way.
• Const. Geoff Mant-ler pled not guilty to two counts of as-sault for in-cidents in which arrests got out of control—one on the bridge in which a suspect was punched, an-other (caught by local media on tape) in which a suspect was kicked while down on all fours.
• Kelowna’s new senior’s centre got council approval.
• Conservation offi cers felled a cougar near Kalamoir Regional Park in West Ke-lowna.
• Glenmore residents got to test a transit proposal that would see residents offered a year-round pass for the whole family at a reduced rate as a means of increas-ing ridership.
• New curren-cy was revealed at the cop shop and local retailers got hands-on train-ing on how to spot counterfeits of the new funky polymer bills.
• Kelowna Gran-Fondo made its debut to many posi-tive reviews.
• Closing argu-ments in the trial for Brent Derick Nagy and Mark Robert Zagar, ac-cused in a Kelowna-based cocaine traffi cking ring, were delivered.
• Chromeo was headed to Kelowna for Cen-tre of Gravity.
• A moorage deal between the City of Ke-lowna and the province pushed houseboats out
of Sutherland Bay.
• Art camps had kids paint-ing skateboard decks and learn-ing to skate on the bare bed of the new lakeside outdoor ice rink.
• The death of a volunteer pick-ing up garbage on Shannon Lake Road had residents calling for safety measures.
• The Portraits of Honour mural tour stopped in Ke-lowna paying tribute to the soldiers lost in Afghanistan.
• A local artist operating out of the Ro-tary Centre for the Arts was show-ing off the bronze Fath-er Pandosy sculpture she had built out of clay; bronzing would take place in the fall.
• Centre of Gravity sold 22,000 tick-ets to custom-ers who were largely com-ing from out-
side the Okanagan, proving a huge tour-ism generator.
AUGUST• The coroner’s report into a young
Jamaican immigrant’s death in August 2010 revealed Kelroy Munroe was in-toxicated when he dove into the Kala-malka Lake despite being unable to swim; his friends had questioned the decision and the version of the events presented to media the year earlier.
• Residents were questioning why fi re alarms did not go off in the wake of a condo inferno on Lequi-
me Road which destroyed several condo-owners’ homes.
• Summer temperatures fi nally arrived early August after a long start to summer.
• The District of West Kelowna stated it was objecting to a proposed land exchange between the Westbank First Nation and the provincial government, which would see the WFN add a
698-acre plot of Crown land to its territory in ex-change for just eight acres of prime real estate needed for the Westside highway expansion.
• RCMP announced they had busted 38 ma-rijuana grow shows in the fi rst half of the year.
• Peachland’s Trepanier Manor project, a 38-room hotel surrounded by upscale homes on MacKinnon Road, was facing receivership with more lawsuits against it than homes built.
• Concerns about electromagnetic radiation from the so-called Smart Meters B.C. Hydro planned to install had residents in the Okanag-an nervous.
• The growing popularity of the Kelowna Farmers’ and Crafters’ Market forced manage-ment to rein in parking scrambles on the Central Okanagan School District’s lot by banning cars from the property.
• A 21-year-old man was killed at a house party on Ethel Street; the cause of death has yet to be announced though police determined it was not criminal.
• Sunlogics, a local solar power commercial installations fi rm, was awarded a $7.5 million contract from General Motors Centres to pro-duce electric car infrastructure.
• Kelowna RCMP offi cer Owen Wlodarczak received a conditional sentence for beating and threatening his wife with the judge saying his service as a police offi cer merited consideration in the sentence. His wife complained the RCMP were responsible for creating the situation as they did not help him enough to cope with work stress.
• Kelowna city planners said the downtown core would likely be peppered with high-rises a century from now as discussions on the city’s downtown plan continued.
• The province took a second look at the WFN land appraisal debacle.
• Boxed wine was making in a splash in the Okanagan’s boutique wineries, with wine-makers touting the environmental and cost bene-fi ts of the once déclassé packaging.
• Local singer/songwriter Leah West an-nounced she had sold the rights to fi ve songs for companies to offer as background music to do-it-yourselfers creating home videos.
• A shooting killed notorious ganger Jona-than Bacon in front of the Delta Grand Hotel mid-afternoon on a Sunday sending stray bul-lets into surrounding buildings and stunning by-standers.
• Mayor Sharon Shepherd stated that gangs are not welcome in Kelowna, noting several businesses have voluntarily opted to ban the or-ganizations from fl ying gang colours in their es-tablishments; the mayor said she wanted a regis-try of gang-affi liated businesses published once again and more support from higher levels of government to fi ght the problem.
• The Kelowna Art Gallery’s staff were dealt high praise in the wake of the shooting for hav-
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THURSDAYDecember 8, 2011
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SPORTS KELOWNA’S Jeff
Richard has enjoyed
some success this
season on the World
Curling Tour playing
with the Brent Pierce
rink.
ENTERTAINMENT
WHAT DO YOU do with
200 broken, disheveled and
discarded chairs? If you’re
Chad Pratch, after you’ve
created an art installation for
the Kelowna Art Gallery, you
let other artists have a go.
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WEST
WEST KELOWNA Mayor
Doug Findlater says his
community is Hockeyville, and
has a wide variety of hockey
programs in place to prove it.
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THE MANAGEMENT TEAM behind Okanagan Spirits on Bernard Avenue consists of (from left) Rodney Goodchild, assistant manager, Peter von Hahn, senior distiller, and
chief executive offi cer Tyler Dyck.
Kathy Michaels
STAFF REPORTER
Later tonight a Bernard Av-
enue business will be humming
with music, local nosh will be in
abundance and style-savvy men
and women seeking a snifter of
something unique will drop by.
It’s regular fare for any num-
ber of restaurants or cafes in Ke-
lowna’s downtown these days,
except in this case the hub of ac-
tivity isn’t another new eatery or
wine bar, rather Okanagan Spir-
its—one of a number of small
spirit producers multiplying
across the country and show-
ing up where their predecessors
never tread.“We wanted to put a dis-
tillery in the downtown,” said
Tyler Dyck, CEO of Okanagan
Spirits, of the business that turns
B.C. fruits and berries into a
wide array of brandies, liqueurs
and spirits.“We’ve had a distillery in
an industrial area in Vernon for
eight years, but decided a few
years ago that we wanted to ex-
pand the theatre of production
side and offer a high end en-
vironment to mirror the qual-
ities we go for.”It was an idea that required
signifi cant thought, not to men-
tion “dollars, sweat and tears.”
As Dyck wryly noted, en-
suring all the Is were dotted and
Ts were crossed has amount-
ed to the most fi re-proof shop
on Bernard Avenue, which is a
quality bound to delight build-
ing inspectors.For those less interest-
ed in the mechanics and more
KELOWNA
Distillery raises spirits in the downtown core
Judie Steeves
STAFF REPORTER
The current collab-
orative relationship be-
tween the City of Kelow-
na and the Agriculture
Land Commission is due
in part to the input of the
city’s Agricultural Advis-
ory Committee and the at-
titude of city staff.
It was that attitude and
effort by the commission
and city staff that resulted
in last week’s removal of
10.5 hectares of designat-
ed Agricultural Land Re-
serve farmland in Glen-
more by the ALC for con-
struction of sports fi elds
and ball courts and play
areas, notes ALC chair-
man Richard Bullock.
The close to 10 con-
ditions on removal of that
land from the ALC were
worked on over a period
of the last fi ve years, says
Terry Barton, the city’s
parks and public places
manager.They ranged from
a fence and buffer zone
around the new recreation
area to off-site conversion
of city-owned land else-
where in the city to farm-
Farm land valued by city
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WEARING THE ‘C’ THE WESTSIDE WARRIORS will look to blueliner Izaak Berglund to provide leadership for his teammates on the ice and in the dressing room as the team’s new captain this season.
ENTERTAINMENTCANDESCA will bring their unique singing style to the Kelowna Community Theatre for a concert on Oct. 8.
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WESTWEST KELOWNA Mayor Doug Findlater gave the media a tour of the Rose Valley watershed at the centre of a land exchange deal between the province
KELOWNAInternational Airport general manager Sam Samaddar stands on top of the airport’s airline terminal.
DOUG FARROW/CONTRIBUTOR
passengers.“Currently, if we have two planes (that just arrived) on the ground at the same time, we have a problem off-loading ev-eryone,” said airport director Sam Samaddar.
The expanded area will not only see more space add-ed, it will also include the use of “green” technology and create a smoother fl ow of deplaning passengers by having them go through customs before retriev-ing their bags, just like in larg-er airports.One of the design features
in the new international arriv-als area will be what is known as a rammed earth wall, which will use local materials and not refl ect the colours of the local landscape but also be used to help transfer heat in the build-ing. Geothermal and thermal massing will also be used in the construction.The total cost of the fi rst phase will be $7.9 million once additional work, such as up-grading the airport’s emergency generators, fi re alarms and other safety equipment is completed.The one-storey addition will
include expansion of the termi-nal to the north and will provide a new Canadian Border Servic-es Agency primary inspection area to screen passengers arriv-ing on international fl ights. As well as a new screening hall, public washrooms, an ex-tension to the air-side corridor, new mechanical and new elec-trical features will be added.Work on the project is slated to start next week and is expect-ed to be complete by next fall.Samaddar said the second phase of the project, to be start-ed next year, will see improve-
ments made to the outbound baggage system and that will be followed by an expansion of the domestic arrivals area in 2013 or 2014 depending on the vol-ume of passenger traffi c.The expansion work is all part of the airport’s Drive to 1.6 Million, a move to ready the air-port for the time when it sees 1.6 million passengers pass through the doors of its termi-nal. That is expected in 2014 or 2015 and the airport director
Airport’s $50 million expansion ready for take-off
Snelson evaded probing police queries
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Kathy MichaelsSTAFF REPORTER
Neil Snelson wasn’t sure how he was going to deal with the murder charge he was facing in the fi rst few days follow-ing his arrest.“Is it your intention to plead guilty then?” Sgt. Peter Tewfi k asked Snel-son early into a two-and-half hour interview, re-corded Oct. 24, 2009.“I haven’t made that decision yet,” replied Snelson. “I have to talk to my lawyer about what I’m going to do.”
Deferring an oppor-tunity to make a statement until he consulted with his legal defence, Wade Jen-son, was a common re-frain for Snelson over the course of that lengthy interview, which jurors at the Kelowna man’s mur-der trial watched in court on Tuesday and Wednes-day. It wasn’t a matter of if the courts would use any-thing he said against him, he said he’d been advised by Jenson. It was merely a matter of how.
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Will Smith, 71, may not have much in the way
of material riches, but with a plot of land one-quar-
ter the size of an average Kelowna yard, he’s grown
ingredients fi t for a month-long vegan feast.
“I produced a couple hundred pounds of car-
rots,” said the Pleasantvale resident Tuesday, as he
surveyed his six-by-eight foot garden. “And we
have another hundred pounds of beets.”
The carrots and beets, which will go into dry
storage, will help sustain Smith throughout the win-
ter, but there’s a lot of bounty for one man to handle.
That’s why he’s already given some of his har-
vest to his neighbours at the low-income seniors
complex where he lives. And, as beets were being pulled from the ground
Tuesday, their edible tops were being lopped off and
packaged up to be donated to the food bank.
By Smith’s estimates, farming and the edible re-
wards that can be reaped from it, is the best way for-
ward in terms of creating a sustainable community.
But he has some concerns that the little niche
he’s carved out may cease to be in years to come.
Pleasantvale, the city’s oldest seniors’ housing
complex, was passed from the Rotary Club of Ke-
lowna to B.C. Housing at the cost of a dollar.
The provincial housing authority is expected to
change the 38,400 square foot bachelor suites and
12 one-bedroom apartments into a higher density
building. Current residents will get housing in the units
at the cost they currently pay when anything new is
built. Before that happens, however, Smith is mak-
ing a plea that his garden, or a garden of its kind, be
kept in mind.“We’ve put in a request to the board to ask if
they rebuild, will they give 1,000 square feet for a
garden,” he said. “The people we have here don’t have a lot of
money and there’s so much potential. In terms
of group development, it could create a dynam-
ic where people work together and feel united and
bound in belonging. If the Rotary would support
this, and put it through to architects, it would vitalize
the future for the old residents.”In addition to a garden space, Smith is hoping
any new development could come along with a
root cellar, for storage, and he’s said as much to the
board overseeing the building.He hasn’t heard anything yet, but in the mean-
time he’ll keep gardening.
THURSDAYOctober 20, 2011
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1930 to 2011
SPORTS KELOWNA ROCKETS forward Spencer Main is the games played veteran of the WHL squad at the age of just 19.
WESTA FORMER MAYOR and the
current mayor will square off
in the mayoral civic election
for West Kelowna on Nov. 19.
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KATHY MICHAELS/CAPITAL NEWS
WILL SMITH complex in Kelowna.
KELOWNA
Senior wants to save garden plot
Alistair WatersASSISTANT EDITOR
Despite an expected funding cut of between fi ve and 10 per cent to the public broadcaster in next spring’s federal budget, the recent expansion of ra-dio service here will not be directly affected, says the head of the CBC.
Hubert Lacroix, who was in Kelowna Wednes-day as part of a Western Canada tour of CBC sta-tion offi ces and the com-munities they serve, told the Capital News any cuts that have to be made will be done outside of the re-sources being used for the four-year plan that in-cluded creation of Radio West, a new afternoon ra-dio show out of Kelow-na that started last week, and the anticipated start of new morning show out of Kamloops next year.
“We will trim around the edges,” said Lacroix, adding it is not his inten-tion to curtail the plan that will also see new region-al radio shows in Kitch-ener-Waterloo and Lon-don, Ont., Rimouski in Que., and the addition of evening television news broadcasts on the week-
ends in Edmonton, Otta-wa, and St. John’s.
Noting the plan, dubbed Everyone, Ev-ery Way, is being funded through existing CBC re-sources, the president and CEO of the corporation said there are seven mil-lion Canadians are either not served or underserved by the public broadcaster across this country.
“You cannot be a pub-lic broadcaster without be-ing deeply in the regions,” said Lacroix.
The CBC currently re-ceives $1.1 billion in fund-ing from the federal gov-ernment and has to raise an additional $700,000 in revenue itself to meet its budget.
Lacroix argues that in order to meet the expec-tations of the government and Canadians that a pub-lic broadcaster should-accessibility and, in the words of the Broadcast-ing Act “to inform, en-lighten and entertain,”— CBC needs the money it receives.
And despite criti-cism often leveled at it be-cause of the public mon-
Funding cuts won’t impact local radio expansion
CBC
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SPORTSKELOWNA ROCKETS forward Brett Bulmer will make his WHL season debut on Friday against Portland Winterhawks.
ENTERTAINMENTCURRENT SWELL, one of the top three fi nalists in the recent Peak Performance Project, will show why their music career is on the upswing when the group performs at O’Flannigan’s next week.
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WESTCOUNCIL candidates express their views on four questions posed to each of them by the Capital News in our West Kelowna election coverage.
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DOUG FARROW/CONTRIBUTORON ALL FOURS…Kelowna RCMP members conducted a thorough ground search at a construction site near the corner of Highland Drive and Clifton Road on Tuesday and Wednesday after an abandoned rifl e was discovered. “If you’re going to do something, you should do it properly, so we’re combing the area to ensure there wasn’t anything else that’s dangerous or of interest to us,” said RCMP Const. Steve Holmes. The fi rearm discovery sparked an around-the-clock police presence at the property. “Once they found it, they called us because one doesn’t fi nd a fi rearm on public property very often,” Holmes said. Moving forward, assuming more weapons aren’t found, the investigation into the gun will focus on its history and whether it has been used in a crime.”
Downtown is focal point of mayoral debate
KELOWNA
Judie SteevesSTAFF REPORTER
A hungry grizzly bear can do a lot of damage in an orchard or vineyard.
And that has ultim-ately led conservation of-
fi cers to snare, drug and relocate an errant griz-zly right down in the val-ley at Okanagan Lake in Okanagan Centre over the weekend.
The decision to re-locate the big bruin was
made both for the safety of the public and the safety of the bear, said Conserva-tion Offi cer Terry Myr-oniuk, who set a snare and baited in the animal with portions of a moose car-cass in a vineyard.
He wouldn’t go into the culvert trap normally used to trap black bears that have been judged to be too aggressive and dan-gerous.
It’s very unusual to see a grizzly bear in the fl oor
of the valley, although there are some who are resident up in the Big White area and at other re-mote locations around the valley.
LAKE COUNTRY
Grizzly bear gets snared and relocated
Alistair WatersASSISTANT EDITOR
He may be campaigning on a platform that accuses the current Kelowna city council of being indecisive, but mayoral hopeful Walter Gray had praise for at least one council initiative Wednesday.During a lunch-hour all-candidates meeting spon-sored by the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce, Gray, a former mayor of the city, called the current council’s de-cision to revamp the aging main street downtown, Ber-nard Avenue, “one of the greatest decision’s ever made in Kelowna.”His description of the $14-million project, set to start in the fall of 2012 and continue in the spring and fall of 2013, came during a question about what he would do as mayor to help development downtown.The question was posed by saying nothing had changed downtown in 10 years, something that did not sit well with Gray’s opponent, incumbent mayor Shar-on Shepherd.“I get discouraged when I hear nothing has been done downtown in 10 years” she said noting the emer-gence of the Cultural District, improvements along Ellis Street, the creation of Jim Stuart Park and plans to ex-pand the park when the Kelowna Yacht Club moves to the space currently held by the downtown seniors’ cen-tre on the lake shore, which in turn is being relocated to Parkinson Recreation Centre.
Both Shepherd and Gray said they believe the downtown has a lot of potential, with Gray calling it the “heart of the city.”But Gray said it needs “densifi cation” in order to not only bring more life to the area, but also help improve its safety by having more people out and about in the evenings. And his criticism was not just reserved for the existing council.“I’m disappointed that good activities have come here and have been cancelled. I feel there is not enough passion (for the events) at city hall,” he said. Another candidate in the race for mayor, Cal Condy, pointed to the rejection of the controversial CD-21 zone which would have seen private sector redevelopment of
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BIG BLOCKER THE DREAM had a long
and winding road to
it, but Danny Watkins
inked a new contract
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THE RCMP continue to
bust marijuana grow ops
around West Kelowna, but
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WILDLIFE SIGHTING…Big horn sheep hanging out along the higher cliffs overlooking
Westside Road are a common sight for motorists during the summer.
Wade PatersonSTAFF REPORTER
The District of West
Kelowna is objecting to a
proposed land exchange
between Westbank First
Nation and the provincial
government.The proposed ex-
change would see WFN
gain a 698-acre plot of
Crown land in exchange
for eight acres of reserve
land, which are being used
for the development of
the Westside Road inter-
change.Mayor Doug Findlater
said the deal goes against
the interests of taxpay-
ers in the District of West
Kelowna and the Region-
al District of Central Oka-
nagan.“Council is especial-
ly concerned because the
provincial government re-
fuses to provide the Dis-
trict of West Kelowna with
a copy of the agreement it
has signed with the West-
bank First Nation, despite
numerous requests for the
document,” said Findlater.
Findlater also noted
the province has yet to
provide the district with
any of the land apprais-
als regarding the land ex-
District against land swap
WESTSIDE
Alistair Waters
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Is summer fi nally
here?After a sunny and
hot B.C. Day long week-
end and more of the same
through the fi rst few days
of this week, Mother Na-
ture appears to be fi nally
smiling on those looking
to soak up a few rays in
the Central Okanagan.
According to Environ-
ment Canada, the long-
range weather forecast
calls for nothing but sun-
shine here through the
next few weeks with tem-
peratures in the 30 C range
next week and dropping
only slightly to the mid-
20 C range the following
week.And that has local
beach bums and visitors
alike fl ocking to the lake
shore to enjoy this area’s
traditional top draw—the
beaches.But while July may
have felt cooler and cloud-
ier than normal to many,
according to Environment
Canada’s David Jones, the
temperature in July here
was not that far off histori-
cal norms.While the weather of-
fi ce no longer records
hours of sunshine, he said
there were six days when
the thermometer regis-
tered 30 C or higher in
July. But that was down
from the average of 11, 30
C-plus days in the month
of July.Despite that, he said,
the temperature readings
were generally not that far
off the norms for July.“It may have felt like
summer was not real-
ly there but the numbers
don’t show it,” said Jones.
As for August, he
said it is shaping up to be
more of a typical Okana-
gan summer month, with
the only “blip” on the ra-
dar screen being a possi-
ble shower Friday night.
“After that, it is look-
ing pretty good,” said
Jones.The welcome return
to consistently hot weath-
er comes as a welcome re-
lief to those who promote
Kelowna as a visitor des-
tination.While the depth of
the destination has deep-
ened with activities such
as shopping, cultural ac-
tivities, wineries and cool-
er-weather activities like
golf now popular, Kelow-
na Tourism’s Catherine
Frechette said the return to
consecutive days of sun-
shine is a welcome relief.
She said many visitors
are “last-minute” travelers
who may be looking at the
weather to decide when to
Summer is fi nally bringing on the heat
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ing the forethought to move everyone inside to a safe place and lock the doors; a bullet entered the building through a front window in the middle of Family Sunday activities.
• The parliament-ary secretary to Premier Christie Clark felt the ap-pointment of a munici-pal auditor-general would be good for smaller muni-cipalities but locals may-ors were saying they dis-agreed.
• Agricultural land was set aside in Glen-more for a future recrea-tion centre.
• A cougar was spot-ted at Big White prompt-ing warnings to those headed to the mountain resort.
• The long-belea-guered Conservatory de-velopment in Glenmore was purchased and work started to convert the abandoned condos into rental units until the real estate market musters enough strength to see the units individually sold.
• Local NDP stalwarts offered condolences in the wake of party leader Jack Layton’s death as mass tributes swept the country in the second prominent NDP support wave of the
year. Dubbed the Orange Crush, the party’s show-ing in the federal election just prior to his passing rocketed the NDP into the offi cial opposition, large-ly as a result of the charis-matic leader’s presence.
• Six new beds for women were opened in the Kelowna Gospel Mis-sion after complaints that women had more limited options for help than their male counterparts reached council’s ears.
• New boundaries for school trustees on the Westside were estab-lished.
SEPTEMBER• A family spread
fl owers on Okanagan Lake in remembrance of their daughter, Emily Joy Chaplin, who died when the Yamaha Waverunner she was riding on collided with a 21-foot powerboat.
• Parents were told the school day would be shorter for elemen-tary school students as the Central Okanagan School District would have no-body to supervise the second recess.
• Even the Super-intendent of Schools was out supervising students on the fi rst day of class-es as the 2011-12 school year opened under teach-
ers’ job action—a situa-tion which continues in the New Year.
• The Kelowna Cham-ber of Commerce began eliciting feedback from the business community on how the HST debacle affected its bottom line.
• Firefi ghters snubbed a bush fi re in Bear Creek which saw 550 residents of Traders Cove and those staying in Bear Creek
Provincial Park evacu-ated.
• Orchard Park Mall fi nally consented to let-ting a polling station for the municipal election be placed within the facility.
• Property owners on Bernard Avenue were given the option to as-sume 25 per cent of the upgrade costs to the shop-ping district in a referen-dum.
• Parents admitted job action from Central Oka-nagan teachers was worri-some, though few seemed to have specifi c com-plaints according to the local parent advocacy group, the Central Oka-nagan Parent Advisory Council.
• Friends within a Ke-lowna drag-racing club were in shock following the high-speed crash that
claimed the life of a 66-year-old veteran racer.
• Neil Snelson’s trial for the cold case murder of Jennifer Cusworth got underway.
• Rumblings a slate of candidates would run together in the Novem-ber civic election hit the media to mixed reviews—slates and party politics had not been a part of lo-cal municipal elections
to date. The FourChange.org group soon material-ized as the frontrunner of lobby groups promot-ing groups of candidates, though an offi cial slate never materialized.
• Kelowna Museums celebrated its 75th anni-versary with a party in the Laurel Packinghouse.
• The Kelowna Inter-national Airport’s $50 million expansion was ready to roll and coun-cil awarded the fi rst con-struction contract.
• The on-going trail for Neil Snelson revealed he was indecisive when presented with the op-tions to plead guilty or not guilty in the immediate aftermath of his arrest.
• UBCO announced a $100-million fundraising target, but noted half the money had already sur-faced.
• A former operator of the Fintry Queen, an old paddlewheel, was try-ing to drum up support to bring the tourist attraction back to life.
• Commotion Col-lective snagged motor-ists’ attention with a pro-test banner on the pedes-trian overpass stating: No Tar Sands, No Pipelines,
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“When we went to the fi rst house, a man asked us if we were collecting money for something,” says Audrey Corbett. “We said not at that time, but we all got the same idea after that. We decided to continue carolling and started to collect money for the SPCA. After only a few hours we ended up with $73.43.”
The students’ vocal fundraising efforts were turned over to the Kelowna branch of the SPCA last week, making Christmas a little brighter for animals looking to be adopted to new homes.
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No Tankers.• The fall heat wave
set a new record with tem-peratures as high as 32 de-grees Celsius at the end of September.
• The Okanagan Sym-phony Orchestra revealed their fundraising efforts are keeping the small or-chestra alive, despite se-vere government cutbacks and recessionary spend-ing patterns; the direc-tors held a conference to showcase the 2011-12 season’s offerings as well.
• Despite the reces-sion, ticket sales for the 31st Annual Fall Okanag-an Wine Festival were up.
• Adventurer Mark Jennings-Bates launched his Guinness Book of World Records attempt at the longest continu-ous fl ight by a paraglid-er to raise money for the Rally4Life Foundation.
OCTOBER• A jury started de-
liberating in the trial of Neil Snelson, who was charged with murdering of Jennifer Cusworth in 1993. Three days later, the jury found Snelson guilty of manslaughter in the death of the 18-year-old and sentenced to 15 years in jail.
• The annual Canadian Breast Cancer Cancer Foundation’s Kelowna a Run for the Cure raised $339,000.
• Bernard Avenue property owners approved a $14-milion city plan to revitalize the city’s main downtown street.
• The annual Vital Signs report, rating the Kelowna’s well being, showed residents do okay here, as long as they are not poor.
• A group of local businesspeople, calling themselves FourChange.org, targeted four incum-bent city councillors who they want replaced with four new councillors in the upcoming Nov. civic election. Four change later announced the quar-tet it endorsed were Gerry Zimmermann, Co-lin Basran, Gail Given and Carol Gran. In the election, Zimmermann, Basran and Given were all elected.
• A small fi re in the Esprit store in Orchard Park Shopping Centre closed it and the Aeropos-tale store next door for several days.
• Kelowna Region-al Transit added to it fl eet with two new buses to handle increased ridership to UBCO and Okanagan College.
• The Okanagan Basin Water Board announced it cut its budget thanks to a greatly improved man-
agement system for sew-age facility grants.
• CBC Radio launched a new afternoon show for the B.C. south-ern Interior and North Coast, originating from Kelowna.
• Kelowna City Hall decided to phase it’s planned Bernard Avenue revitalization work over three periods, the fall of 2012, and the spring and fall of 2013, to the chagrin of some area merchants.
• Kelowna failed in its bid to win the right to host the 2013 Memorial Cup. The bid went to Sas-katoon.
• A record 41 candi-dates signed up to run for eight council seats in the November civic election in Kelowna. Six sign up to run for mayor but one dropped out early, leaving incumbent Sharon Shep-herd and challengers Wal-ter Gray, Ken Chung and Cal Condy. Another can-didate, Kim Ouellette was a no-show for much of the campaign due to health problems.
• Mayor Sharon Shep-herd and challenger Wal-ter Gray kicked off their respective campaigns, prior to meeting sever-al times in forums pri-or to the Nov. 19 election, which was narrowly won by Gray.
• A local group of pro-testers, that called itself Occupy Kelowna, rallied in Kerry Park downtown.
• The B.C. Cancer Agency’s Cancer Centre for the Southern Interior was renamed Agency’s Sindi Ahluwalia Hawkins Centre For the Southern Interior in memory of the late Kelowna-Mission MLA who dies of leuk-emia in 2010.
• Local conserva-tion offi cers announced a crack down on poachers.
• Jim Elliot, president of the Okanagan Tree
Fruit Co-operative an-nounced he would not seek another term, saying his successor will have diffi cult issues to tackle.
• The Canadian Fed-eration Of Independent Business ranked Kelow-na as the top city in B.C. for entrepreneurs and the 13th ranked city nation-ally.
• Kelowna residents Matt Jackson and Tyler Lockerby received med-als of bravery from Can-ada’s governor general for rescuing four people from a submerged vehicle near Revelstoke in 2009.
NOVEMBER• As the election cam-
paign heated up, the two main mayoral candi-dates, incumbent Sharon Shepherd and challenger Walter Gray clashed at a Chamber of Commerce
forum over what had and hadn’t been done down-town.
• The future of the Fintry Queen was thrown into doubt after little inter-est was shown from any potential buyers for the idle former tourist ship. The city said it wanted it moved by next spring to allow for construction of a new downtown marina.
• The trail of Kelowna veteran cop Const. Chris Brinnen, charged with as-sault relating to a 2010 Valentine’s Day melee downtown, took place. A verdict is expected in Feb-ruary.
• Accelerate Okanag-an, a not-for-profi t organ-ization that supports lo-cal start-up companies in the gaming, animation, mobile, web, life sciences and clean energy sectors, received $2.1 million in
funding from the feder-al and provincial govern-ments.
• Kelowna presented its ambitious Downtown Plan to city residents for input.
• A group of residents living in Holiday Park Re-sort, at the north end of Kelowna, demanded bet-ter transit service.
• Kelowna city coun-cil increased the budget for a mural on the side wall of the H2O Aquatic Centre in the Mission to $200,000.
• The Sterile Insect Release Program board approved a $3 million budget that board mem-bers said would not mean an increase for area tax-payers.
• Kelowna council en-dorsed a plan to enhance culture in the city through 10 goals and 63 strategies over the next fi ve years.
• New legislation gov-erning the rules for the non-farm use of agricul-tural land in B.C. were introduced by the prov-incial government, rules that will make it harder to have land removed from the Agricultural Land Re-serve or build a home on agricultural land.
• A plan to spend $7 million to improve Knox Mountain Park over the next 15 years was ap-proved by Kelowna city council.
• Tensions rise in the race for Kelowna may-or as the campaign winds down. Shepherd and Gray clash over Gray’s repeat-ed assertion that the city needs to be open for busi-ness, prompting Shepherd to retort that it was never closed.
• Kelowna City Hall defended itself in light of criticism from the Can-adian Federation Of In-
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• The man behind the successful Wendy’s Dreamlift Day, restaurant owner John Titzen, was recognized with an award from the Sunshine Foun-dation.
• Walter Gray defeated incumbent Mayor Shar-on Sheperd in a nail biter election that saw him eek outa victory by just 400 votes, or 1.3 per of the total. Those votes, from the advance poll, were the last to be counted on elec-tion night. In addition to Gray’s win, only three in-cumbent councillors were returned, Robert Hobson, Andre Blanleil and Luke Stack. Newcomers Gerry Zimmermann, Mohini Singh, Maxine DeHart, Colin Basran and Gail Given were also elected. Incumbents councillors Charlie Hodge, Michele Rule, Angela Reid-Nagy, Kevin Craig and Graeme James all failed to win re-election.
• The Central Okanag-an Board of Education also saw changes thanks to voters. While board chairman Rolli Cacchioni
was returned, new Kelon-wa newcomers Chris Gorman, Joyce Brin-keroff and former trust-tee and baord chairman Murli Pendharkar won seats. The Lake Coun-try seat went to Deb But-ler, and the two Westside seats went to Julia Fras-er and veteran board em-ber Moyra Baxter. Jim Edgson was re-elected Okanagn West region-al director and Patty Han-son, a former CORD dir-ector, was elected Oka-nagan East director.
• Well-known busi-nessman and sports team owner Herb Capozzi died after a battle with cancer. He was 86.
• Police investigating the murder of an 18-year-old Armstrong woman, Taylor Van Diest, link her killing to a sexual as-sault at a Kelowna escort agency six years earlier. The suspect in the Van Di-est murder has yet to be found.
• Kokanee spawn-ing numbers increased in Okanagan Lake in 2011 according to provincial offi cials.
• The trial of seven men accused of beating a Kelowna father, Dain Phillips, to death in June was moved to Vancouver
because of the size of the case.Two of the accused are members of the Hell’s Angels.
• Kelowna’s plans for a major recreation park in Glemore got a boost from the Agricultural Land Commission when it ap-proved the plan to allow land in the Agricultur-al Land Reserve, at Val-ley and Longhill Roads to be used for the 10.5 hec-tare park.
DECEMBER:• Despite their labour
dispute decision not to in-clude marks on student report cards, local teach-ers said they would pro-vide marks for Grade 12 students in the district who need them for uni-versity applications.
• In the last meeting of the outgoing Kelowna city council, Mayor Sha-ron Shepherd expressed being disheartened by the negative comments during the election cam-paign vented at the outgo-ing council. She called the disparaging comments an insult to work her council and city staff did over the last three years.
• A proposal to build a new indoor and out-door farmer’s market at the owner of Spring-
fi eld Road and Ben-voulin Road in Kelowna received initial approval from council.
• Kelowna announced a plan to spend nearly $1 million n a new lakeshore walkway in City Park.
• Another group of kids with life-threatening illness headed to Disney-land for the day as part of the Wendy’s Dreamlift.
• A report from the Kelowna Joint Water
Committee predicts the cost of bringing all fi ve water purveyors in Kel-owna to a level of fi rst meeting health objectives and then fi ltration and in-terconnecting the utili-ties could cost anywhere between $40 million and $361 million.
• The province an-nounced it would take un-til at least the end of Janu-ary to repair the retaining walls untie the Westside Road overpass, after one them partially collapsed shortly after the overpass opened to traffi c.
• A new distillery, Okanagan Spirits, opened on Bernard Avenue downtown.
• The new Kelowna council is sworn into of-fi ce and new mayor Wal-ter Gray said some of the city’s committees could be eliminated. He specifi -cally mentions the adviso-ry planning commission.
• The chairman of the province’s Agricul-tural Land Commission spoke out against the pos-sible elimination of the city’s agricultural adviso-ry committee by the new Kelowna council.
• Local police wel-
comed the appointment of the fi rst director to head a new B.C. police oversight committee.
• A man who dragged another man to his death under this van was sen-tenced to 6 1/2 years in jail George Young was given credit for time al-ready served awaiting tri-al so he will be out in just over two years.
• The man who crunched the cubers for the city when West Kel-owna resident were asked for they wanted to amal-gamate with the city, was to look at what the prop-er level of policing should be for Kelowna. Robert Prosser’s report is to go to city council in late Jan-uary.
• A 21-year-old Kam-loops woman died after the car she was driving went off McKinley Road into the reservoir.
• The downtown mari-na gas bar was gutted by a fi re investigators deemed suspicious.
• City council ap-proved a request from a local Jewish organization to display Kelowna’s fi rst public menorah in Stu-art Park as part of the an-
nual Chanukah celebra-tion. The menorah was lit Dec. 21, the second day of Chanukah.
• A failed jewelry sto-ry heist resulted in police being shot at by the fl eet-ing suspect in Kelowna. The suspect escaped after carjacking a vehicle and ordering the driver to take him, at gun point, to the Westside.
• Statistics Canada fi g-ures showed Kelowna had the fewest police offi cers per capita of any of the 33 largest metropolitan areas of the country in 2010. A MacLeans’s maga-zine study, using the Sta-tistics Canada fi gures, lat-er placed Kelowna as the ninth most dangerous city in Canada.
• The Westbank First Nations opened a heritage repository of art and arti-facts to display Native art and historical items.
• The Fintry Queen, idle for the last two years, was vandalized inside by squatters police believed had been camped inside the once popular tourist ship and fl oating restau-rant, for days. Damage is estimated at $20,000.
• The Kelowna Right To Life Society rolled out anti-abortion messages in advertisements on the sides of Kelowna Region-al Transit buses.
• An empty house-boat capsized in Suther-land Bay as a result of a wind storm that blew through the area. The case was turned over Transport Canada, which issued an order for the upturned houseboat to be removed by Jan 4.
• Local MP Ron Can-nan was a conspicuous no-show at a public met-ing to discuss the feder-al government’s omnibus bill to get tough on crime.
• The provincial gov-ernment reversed it posi-tion and announced it no longer supported the cre-ation of a national park in the south Okanagan-Similkameen area.
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has run for over 40 years.“I think we’ve done it almost
every year since we’ve been a club. We just celebrated our 45th (anniversary), so I would say around 42 or 43 years anyways,” said Nanci.
The event will be held at Par-kinson Recreation Centre, with cocktails being served at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. and a dance at 9 p.m.
Many 2011 Kelowna New Year’s Eve events are brand new. Nanci said he didn’t know why the Kelowna Canadian Italian Club’s New Year’s party has been so successful.
“We (have) food that people are satisfi ed with, I guess,” said Nanci, with a chuckle.
“We’ve had our ups and downs too. Sometimes we have 200, sometimes 150.”
The good food will come in the form of a buffet, featuring: roast chicken, olive oil poached tuna, spinach, walnut and ricotta cannelloni, stuffed potatoes and a green salad.
The evening’s music will come from The New Vintage Band, and will run until 1 a.m.
Nanci said that there are still tickets available. They cost $65 and can be picked up at Mediter-ranean Market.
For those who are still in the giving frame of mind, there is an event that is attempting to com-bine fun with raising money for a good cause.
Countdown for the Cure New Year’s Eve Party is a brand new fundraiser being put on by local residents who are involved with the B.C. Ride to Conquer Cancer.
According to organizer Jes-sica Fipke, the B.C. Ride to Con-quer Cancer, which was last held in June 2011, is a two-day, 260 km trek from Vancouver to Se-attle.
Fipke said that the New Year’s Eve event has nothing to do with the ride; however, funds raised will go to the same good cause.
“This is the fi rst time we’ve ever done this type of event. Me and my co-organizer decided, ‘Let’s do something fun.’ A lot of people don’t know what to do on New Year’s,” said Fipke.
The event starts at 8 p.m. and features a live DJ and silent auc-tion.
The event costs $50 and all money raised will go to the Ride to Conquer Cancer, which will benefi t the B.C. Cancer Founda-tion.
Tickets include one free drink, appetizers and champagne at mid-night. The dress code is “cock-tail.”
Fipke said that they’ve done a fairly good job of getting word out and selling a few tickets; how-ever, she is hoping that there will be a number of last-minute ticket sales.
To purchase tickets for the event, visit www.eventbrite.com/event/2533030362.
Fipke is optimistic that, if suc-cessful, this event could turn into an annual occurrence.
“We would love to see how this goes and we would like to do more fundraisers throughout the year. We just want to do some-thing different,” said Fipke.
Some prefer to get away and escape the busyness of the city. Big White Ski Resort is always a popular venue to do just that.
Lowering their minimum night requirements over holidays. Visitors now are only required to stay three nights if they want to stay at Big White on New Year’s Eve.
The resort’s Kettle Valley Steak House will feature a fi ve course feast with music provided by Manfred Harter. Party favours and a celebratory glass of cham-pagne will be included in the spe-cial evening.
The four course meal is $65, or $95 with wine pairing.
Visit www.bigwhite.com for more information.
There are even Kelowna gath-erings for those who aren’t a fan of the classic New Year’s Eve cli-
chés. Lake City Bowl and Billiards
is offering a unique alternative for locals who gag at visions of classy attire, glasses of bubbly and mid-night kisses.
New Year’s Evil will fea-ture heavy metal acts from Al-berta and beyond. The Order of Chaos, Reverend Kill, Slagduster and Cast into Ashes will scream guests out of December and into the new year.
For more information, e-mail [email protected].
No matter how you plan to spend your New Year’s Eve, there is likely something for everyone in the Kelowna area. Below are a few more options of how to spend the last evening of 2011:
• Bonfi re Grill at the Cove will host a fi ve course meal, along with champagne at midnight, for $60 per person. The evening will feature jazz musician Ellen Churchill.
• Minstrel Cafe and Bar will feature the Poppa Dawg Blues Band while guests indulge in a four course dinner. Champagne will be provided at midnight and a prize will be given out for the best dancer. The cost is $75 per person.
• Dinner, dancing and gam-bling are the themes of Cabana Bar and Grille’s New Year’s Eve party. DJ Phunky Phil will play hits from every era. Tickets for the dinner, dance and casino are $110. After party tickets are $40.
• Located within the Prestige Hotel, Avenue is offering a pack-age for $50 per person (based on double occupancy) that includes VIP tickets to Avenue with cham-pagne and appetizers at the count-down, a $5 drink certifi cate to Av-enue, after midnight VIP tickets to Level Nite Club and a hotel room at the Prestige Inn.
• A performance by Devon Coyote is what Doc Willoughby’s Downtown Pub is hoping will at-tract patrons for New Year’s Eve. The cost is $10 to see the one-man band who captivates crowds with his eclectic, foot stomping,
sliding-steel guitar and harmon-ica driven rhythms.
• From 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., Flash-backs Nite Club will be open, of-fering free cover for their New Year’s Eve event. Entrance will be granted on a fi rst come fi rst serve basis.
• The second annual New Year’s Eve Rockstar Karaoke Dance Party is what Packing House Pub has to offer. The event will feature a late night buffet, midnight balloon drop and many great door prizes. Tickets are $15 each or two for $25.
• The Knights of Columbus Hall will host an End of the Year Latin Dance on New Year’s Eve. The theme of the event is silver and gold and champagne will be provided to ring in the new year. Guests are encouraged to bring their own drinks and snacks; glasses, napkins and cutlery will be provided.
• O’Flannigan’s Pub will fea-ture a New Year’s Eve bash with Colt 45 party favours, a cham-pagne toast and prizes. The cost is $10.
• Level Nite Club is promising the most intense New Year’s Eve decor in town at its Electric Zoo event. The club will have DJs, drink specials and champagne at midnight.
• Two rooms and six DJs will highlight Sapphire Night Club’s New Year’s Eve event. The cost is $10 and includes party favours.
• The fi rst 100 people to get tickets for Habitat’s New Year’s Eve party will only pay $10. After that, it will cost $20 to eat, listen and celebrate while listening to DJs Toddy Rockwell and Rum-pus Room. Freaky Fisher will also entertain at the event with slight of hand illusions.
• A Kelowna Singles New Year’s Eve Dinner and Dance is being hosted by Rutland Centen-nial Hall. The event promises live music by Glory Days. Everyone is welcome to attend and tickets are $25 in advance.
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The data lines to credit card companies are hum-ming to the tune of more
than $28 billion in Canadian re-tail sales in December.
Shoppers wearied from all that pre- and post-Christmas spending fi ll the food courts and benches.
But in our frantic pursuit of Christmas gifts and Boxing Week bargains, it is easy to over-look something that won’t strain the budget—our time.
Each of us has an annual time account of 8,760 hours. That’s more than half a million min-utes.
While a certain amount of that time must be allotted to sleeping, eating and earning a living, there’s still plenty to spare. Time to spend with family and friends.
Time to help out in the com-munity, volunteering with or-ganizations that bring comfort and assistance to those in need or
less fortunate.Time to lend a hand on the
sidelines and benches of kids sports teams, teaching young people valuable lessons of cama-raderie and sportsmanship.
Time to lead a troop of scouts or girl guides. Time to cook a meal or weed the garden for a lonely senior.
Time to give a shelter dog a respite from its cage with a noon hour walk or to help the staff with cleaning and feeding the
animals.Time to make the world a
cleaner place by helping to clean a ravine or count salmon swim-ming upstream to spawn.
Time to open a door for someone whose arms are laden with parcels.
The gift of time is, well, time-less. It doesn’t require batteries or complicated instructions.
Perhaps we can all keep that thought in the forefront as we enjoy the holiday season.
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As the fi nal week of 2011 winds down to
a close, the happy cel-ebratory mood that comes with Christmas, and for the fortunate ones a holiday away from work, will like-ly shift with the arrival of 2012.
The reality of January tends to strike fast, and with it comes both un-certainty and optimism about what lies ahead depending on your per-spective point of view in these chang-ing economic times.
A lot of that has to do with stay-ing out of the way of ourselves, mov-ing forward with what makes com-
mon sense in matters of our economy, gov-ernance and social val-ues, while not allowing one aspect in our diver-sifi ed array of opinions to dominate the con-versation.
That’s how a de-mocracy is supposed to function, but too often
of late, despite our supposed high lev-el of education and social media ex-posure to information, we allow our-selves to be the uninformed being led by others trying to fi ll a decision infl u-encing vacuum that should not exist.
That’s why the HST rebellion in B.C. was such a breath of fresh air, that people stood up and said we will
decide what is and is and is not good for us. For as MLA Ben Stewart put it so aptly in his MLA Report column in today’s Capital News (A23), pol-iticians are here to serve those who elected them.
So in that context, making predic-tions about the months ahead in our world of governance is an unknown.
In Kelowna, we are led to expect our city’s economic fortunes will fare better in 2012, as Mayor Walter Gray heads up a new council which wants to change its identity from ”do noth-ing” to ”do everything.”
Streamlining bureaucratic red tape will likely be its main objective in the year ahead, while we contin-ue to evolve into a university town for the UBCO campus, a philosophy that
nobody seems interested in adopting as the city’s long-term chance for sta-ble economic sustenance and oppor-tunity.
In West Kelowna, the fl ood of brand name stores into the district and Westbank First Nations lands will continue, but on a reduced scale from the previous two years. As such, the need for West Kelownians to come into their neighbouring city will con-tinue to dwindle.
We can probably expect more chaos out of Victoria as Premier Christy Clark struggles to hold her cabinet together, deal with a wavering economy coupled with rising health care costs, and the loss of HST rev-enue.
At the federal level, Prime Min-
ister Stephen Harper will continue to operate his government under the ra-dar of public interest, as the feder-al NDP’s attention will be diverted to electing a new leader while the Liber-als keep looking for a reason to exist.
However, take note that when you stop paying attention to elected poli-ticians, that is when they become the most dangerous.
So make a promise to yourself to get involved in what’s going on around you. A lot goes on over a year in the life of your community, and the more people who get involved in those events over the next 12 months, the better off we all will be.
Barry Gerding is the managing editor of the Capital News.
Choose not to sit quietly on the sidelines in the year ahead
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To the editor:Most residents of the
Okanagan are unaware that we have two months to appeal to Interior Health to provide funding for the pain clinic at Kelowna General Hospital.
Chronic pain impacts every aspect of the affect-ed person’s life, as well as that of his/her family. Every one of us is sim-ply one traffi c accident or other mishap away from needing this pain clinic.
Living with 24-hour pain that cannot be con-trolled is unbelievably dif-fi cult, and the pain clin-ic and its dedicated doc-tors do an excellent job of reducing it to a bear-able level, thus returning
many people to a product-ive, more normal life.
However, we recent-ly lost a wonderful pain management special-ist, Dr. Karl Muendel, to Nanaimo because Inter-ior Health would not pro-vide the necessary fund-ing for a C-arm machine ($230,000) and staff that would allow him to do the work for which he is trained.
He was raised here and wanted to stay, but Nanaimo offered him the support that IH would not.
If IH does not pro-vide funding for one nurse within two months, the remaining doctors will not be able to continue to maintain the KGH pain
clinic. At present, they are even using a treatment ma-chine that they themselves purchased. They simply cannot continue their life-saving work without sup-port.
What they need, and are requesting, right now is just one nurse; however, they estimate that it would only cost about $300,000 per year to fully fund this clinic (this includes pro-viding a radiologist) and continue treating hundreds of desperate patients.
If this is provided with-in the next 6 months, it is probable that Dr. Muendel will return.
This amount is tiny compared to what is spent on cancer and heart
treatments for a patient, whether or not they can survive, but those diseases have a higher profi le. As a two-time cancer surviv-or who is very grateful for the treatment I received, I certainly am not advocat-ing reducing funding in those areas; I simply want to make people aware that what is spent on one can-cer or heart patient could provide pain relief for hundreds in the pain clin-ic.
IH is focusing on the new heart facility, of which it is justifi ably proud, but it should not be at the expense of those liv-ing with unbearable pain. The sad fact is that with-out treatment, many who
can no longer tolerate hor-rifi c, unrelenting pain re-sort to suicide.
Sending a letter, or even a note, of support for the pain clinic can change or save many lives, and may well be the most im-portant thing you have ever done.
Please let your sup-port be known to [email protected] and send copies to:
[email protected] Moraes,
Kelowna
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Chronic pain sufferers desperate for treatment
To the editor:I read with very much
agreement the letter of Steve Pierson in regards to Premier Christy Clark’s idea of recruiting foreign workers to B.C.
Sure we need people, but what is wrong with the ones we’ve already got? They complain about the costs of education, new schools, striking teachers, etc., but the job of educat-
ing our own workers has gone out the window.
We have very talent-ed people here that would like nothing better than apply those talents here, not elsewhere, but they end up going away be-cause the government has fi lled their jobs with im-ports.
Imported articles are expensive, and we have our “home grown” ones
here already. So what’s wrong?
They say “buy B.C.” and I think that Christy Clark better start doing that very thing, and that applies to all the rest too. Our friends south of the border have been steadfast in their statement “made in USA, so what’s wrong with “Made in Canada?”
Ron Barnard,West Kelowna
Put locals to work fi rst
To the editor:In 2010 the West Ke-
lowna Residents’ Associ-ation formed a commit-tee to look at West Kelow-na property assessments. Initial analysis indicat-ed that the assessments at the neighbourhood level had signifi cant anom-alies; namely some as-sessments seemed neither fair nor consistent. Sim-ilar anomalies were also found to exist in the 2011 assessments. The object-ive throughout our re-view was to encourage BC Assessment Author-ity (BCA) to take correct-ive actions as deemed ap-propriate in the pursuit of fairness and consistency for future releases and hopefully by 2012.
The association sub-mitted analytical infor-mation on neighbour-hoods, specifi c cases and lakefront properties to our MLA Ben Stewart who arranged with the Kelow-na offi ce of BCA to ana-lyze the fi ndings. He then coordinated two review meetings hosted by the
Kelowna offi ce of BCA in June and October, 2011. Further, Mr. Stewart invit-ed West Kelowna’s chief fi nancial offi cer to be in-cluded at these meetings as property taxes are based on assessed values.
At the June meet-ing BCA offi cials pre-sented a comprehensive report. They demonstrat-ed that the results in ques-tion were within the mass appraisal statistical meas-ures of quality they use, a standard more demanding than accepted internation-al requirements. This pos-ition recognizes the oper-ating system in use, re-sources and a fl uctuating market. BCA identifi es three key measures that apply to this industry in-cluding:• Assessment to Sales Ratio (ASR)• Coeffi cient of Disper-sion (COD)• Price Related Differen-tial (PRD)
Three conclusions from the BCA report were:
1) BCA focused on the
change between 2010 and 2011 roll value shifts;
2) Outliers (our anom-alies) identifi ed and value shift rational noted; and
3) Majority of outliers (71 per cent) fall within +/- 2.5 per cent of median.
At the October meet-ing BCA demonstrated once more that the qual-ity of the mass apprais-als met standards. We had calculated that if the lakefront land compon-ent is assessed on area (lot size) there was a discrep-ancy up to a multiplier of more than two. This was clarifi ed. BCA determines lakefront property assess-ment based on its lake-shore frontage, not area, and on that basis the re-sults were indeed consist-ent.
We learned that the as-sessed values of older lake-front buildings (improve-ments) are signifi cantly reduced not only in West Kelowna but throughout BC. Effectively the mid-dle class ratepayers are subsidizing the multimil-lionaire lakefront owners.
Go fi gure. We suggest that the
majority of B.C. property buyers buy a “house” and by that standard might ex-pect the same assessment rules to apply to lakefront “houses.” Be fair and con-sistent.
2012 ACTIVITYBCA indicated that
we had 29 per cent out-liers in our June 2011 sub-mission (almost one-in-three). Our conclusion is that it is incumbent upon each individual prop-erty owner to note the as-sessed value of their prop-erty, collect information at the neighbourhood level, and if dissatisfi ed with the measure of fairness and consistency, appeal his/her assessment. Here are three ways for property owners to gather assess-ment information:
The West Kelowna website now has detailed information on assessed values (5 years), property lines and satellite photo-
graphs of the property. Start from the home page (HYPERLINK “http://districtofwestkelowna.ca/”http://districtofwest-kelowna.ca) and click on “Map” (top right hand corner);
BCA will publish as-sessment values by neigh-bourhood early in January 2012; and
The West Kelowna Residents’ Association is providing a hands-on workshop on Wednesday evening, Feb. 15, from 7 to 8 p.m. The location is our Westbank Library coordinated through the Friends of the Library.
Overall, the associa-tion is satisfi ed with the responses from MLA Ben Stewart and BCA staff. The intent is to monitor the 2012 assessment for anomalies and keep our membership informed.
S. Carl Zanon, assessment committee,
West Kelowna Residents’ Association,
▼ PROPERTY TAXES
Residents keep assessment authority honest
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2011The Capital News Sports Department completes its two-part series
looking back at the past 12 months of wins and losses, achievements and disappointments involving Central Okanagan athletes.
Today, part two of the series is a look back from July through December.
JULY• Kelowna’s Aaron Stroda sets a new Canadian record in the
discus for 15-year-old athletes at the 27th annual Jack Brow Meet. Later in the month, Stroda wins four medals and sets a record at the B.C. Youth Track and Field championships.
• Two members of the Kelowna Jays, Jared Johnson and Cory Wood, are chosen to play with Canada at the World Baseball Challenge in Prince George.
• The Grizzlies softball team, featuring nine players from Ke-lowna win a silver medal at the World Special Olympic Summer Games in Greece.
• Kelowna product Cody Beach signs a pro contract with the NHL’s St. Louis Blues.
• Dragon in the Drink takes fi rst place at the Kelowna Dragon Boast Festival.
• Megan Osland sets a course record at Eaglepoint in Kam-loops during the B.C. junior girls golf championship. Osland fi n-ished fourth overall.
• Matt Palahniuk wins the 60th Ogopogo men’s golf tourna-ment at the Kelowna Golf and Country Club.
• Kelowna’s Scott Frandsen and partner Dave Calder win
bronze in men’s pairs at the World Rowing Championships in Swiz-terland.
• Kelowna swimmer Kierra Smith sets a B.C. record in the 200 metre breaststroke and wins four gold medals at the provincial AAA long course championships.
Smith later wins a silver medal in the 100 breaststroke at the senior nationals in Quebec.
• More than 1,200 riders com-pete in the inaugural RBC Kelow-na GranFondo, with Chris McNeill taking to spot in the 115-kilometre cyc-ling race.
• David Dimitrov wins the 2011 editition of the Interior Sav-ings Across the Lake Swim.
• Keefer Joyce wins two gold medals in he 100 and 200 metres at the B.C. Youth Track and Field championships.
• Kelowna’s Melanie Bos is the top Canadian and fi nished
eighth among all women at the International Association of Ultra Runners World Championships in Ireland.
• Former Rockets coach Jeff Truitt is named an assistant coach with the American Hockey League’s Texas Stars.
• The Okanagan Athletics qualify for the B.C. Premier Base-ball League playoffs for the fi rst time in the team’s eight-year hist-ory. The A’s lose in the fi rst round of the playoffs to Nanaimo.
• The Thompson Okanagan FC U15 girls win the Northwest Division of the Super Y League to earn a spot at the North Amer-ican fi nals.
• Kelowna product Josh Gorges signs a new one-year contract with the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens.
• The Okanagan Challenge win the Pacifi c Coast Soccer League men’s title with a 3-2 victory over Khalsa Sporting Club.
• Darren Yopyk resigns as head coach and GM of the Westside Warriors to accept a pro scouting position.
• The Kelowna Rockets are named the host team for the NHL/CHL Top Prospects Game in February 2012.
• The BCHL’s Westside Warriors hire Rylan Ferster as their
See Review A11
CONTRIBUTED
THE KSS OWLS celebrate after winning the 2011 B.C. girls AAA high school volleyball championship in North Vancouver.
Warren HendersonSTAFF REPORTER
Kelowna’s volleyball com-munity had not one, but two big reasons to celebrate in 2011.
Both the Kelowna Owls and Kelowna Christian Knights won their respective B.C. titles to fi rm-ly establish the Okanagan as a force to be reckoned with in girls high school volleyball.
The KSS Owls made hist-ory with their fi rst ever win at the AAAA level with four-set vic-tory over Riverside Secondary in the gold medal fi nal in North Van-couver.
Owls’ head coach Tony So-
daro said his team wasn’t about to be denied.
“You could see the gold med-al in their eyes, these 16- and 17-year-old athletes were abso-lutely dialed in,” said Sodaro. “You talk about being in the zone and that describes how the girls were all weekend. They were the hardest working team, it was a real war, but they were having fun doing it, too. That was a big key to their success…they had fun play-ing for each other.”
Ranked No. 1 for much of the season, the Owls also won the UBC, UBC Okanagan and Best of the West tournaments.
Due to a rash of injuries, KSS
stumbled late in the year, but re-grouped at provincials when it mattered most.
“This means the world to us,” said Owls captain and provin-cial MVP Kaitlyn Given. “We’ve been talking about this all season and nothing less than gold was going to be good enough. Every single player pulled together and made this happen.”
KCS KNIGHTSThe Kelowna Christian
Knights became the fi rst ever girls sports team in school history to win a B.C. title as they earned gold at the provincial A fi nals in Prince George. The Knights
took down No. 1 seed High Road Academy in straight sets the fi nal, 25-15, 25-15, 25-20.
“When we started the sea-son, we saw how good the girls were and said ‘Hey maybe we can do this,’” said coach Rob Smith, whose Knights won silver in 2010. “You’d think the fact that no girls team had ever won may have put pressure on them, but we thought ‘Why avoid the elephant in the room?’ The girls didn’t shy away from the challenge, they wanted it from the start and went out and got it. It was amazing to see.”
The Immaculata Mustangs won bronze.
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new coach and GM.• The Kelowna ban-
tam B Heat win a bronze medal at the Softball B.C. championship in North Delta.
• The Kelowna Jays win the B.C. junior men’s baseball championship.
• The Kelowna Raid-ers win the Thompson Okanagan Junior La-crosse League title three games to one over the Kamloops Venom. Two weeks later, the Raiders win silver at the provin-cial B championship in Kamloops.
• Okanagan FC wins the Pacifi c Coast League men’s reserve title in Pen-ticton with a 3-1 win over West Van.
• Kelowna moun-tain bike racer Jennifer Schultz wins the sev-en-stage B.C. Bike Race Whistler.
• The Kelowna United U16 girls win gold at the B.C. Soccer Provincial B Cup.
AUGUST• West Kelowna’s
Danny Watkins signs his fi rst NFL contract with the Philadelphia Eagles.
• Kelowna Jays post a 1-2 record at the Can-adian senior men’s base-ball championship.
• Okanagan Rockets manager David Michaud
is chosen as the assist-ant director of operations for Team Pacifi c for the World Under 17 Chal-lenge in Windsor, Ont.
• Kelowna MMA fi ghter Rory MacDonald knocks out veteran Mike Pyle in UFC 133 in Phila-delphia to push his pro re-cord to 12-1.
• Okanagan Gym-nastics Centre’s Luke Friesen qualifi es for the world trampoline cham-pionships after winning a bronze in double-mini at a Canada Cup event in Al-berta.
• Aaron Stroda and Keely Watts-Watling win gold medals at the Can-adian midget and youth track and fi eld champion-ships in Ottawa.
• Team Kelowna ath-letes compete at the 2011 International Children’s Games in Scotland.
• Kelowna’s Josh Za-kala wins the open water 5 km swim at the Can-adian age group swim-ming championships in Montreal
• Swimmer Kierra Smith wins eight medals, including seven gold, at the Western Canada Sum-mer Games in Kamloops.
• The B.C. senior men’s rugby teams wins the Canadian champion-ship in Kelowna with a 31-29 win over the Prairie Wolfpack/.
• Kelowna Rockets
forward Colton Sissons attends the NHL’s Re-search, Development and Orientation Camp in To-ronto.
• Kelowna’s Ally Lumsden earns a softball scholarship at the Univer-sity of Lindenwood in Il-linois.
• Kelowna wheelchair tennis player Patrick Ryan wins three gold medals at the Western Canada Sum-mer Games in Kamloops.
• Ken Boe wins his age group (50-54) at the Subaru Sooke Inter-national Triathlon.
• Simon Whitfi eld wins the Apple Triath-lon in Kelowna fort the 10th time in his ca-reer, while Sarah-Anne Brault of Winnipeg won the women’s title for the fi rst time, upsetting No. 3 world ranked triathlete, Paula Findlay.
• Kelowna’s Kyla Inaba wins the Kelow-na Ladies Invitational golf title at the Kelowna Golf
and Country Club. • Kelowna’s Abi Raye,
Dani Hennig and Nat-alie Sourisseau are named to Canada’s roster in women’s fi eld hockey for the Pan American Games in Mexico.
• The KTown Kleenup wins the B.C. women’s slo-pitch masters title for the second year in a row.
• The Peacock Sheri-dan Pink Panthers win the Kelowna Women’s Soc-cer League Premier Div-ision title with a 5-2 win over Boston Pizza.
• Kelowna’s Chris Young wins the men’s 18 to 24 age class at Iron-man Canada in Penticton, while Kelowna’s San-dra MacNaughton of Ke-lowna was third in the women’s 55 to 59 class.
• The Okanagan Sun relieves Tony Linsday of his duties as the team’s of-fensive coordinator and replaces him with for-mer Sun head coach Jay Christensen.
SEPTEMBER• Former Kelow-
na Rockets defencemen Shea Weber and Dun-can Keith are inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame in recognition of their contributions to Team Canada’s gold med-al win at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Warren HendersonSTAFF REPORTER
One era ended and a new one began for the UBC Okanagan athletic department in 2011.
After bidding farewell to the B.C. Colleges Ath-letics Association in the spring, four Heat teams graduated to Canadian Interuniversity Sport in the fall for the start of the 2011-12 season.
On Oct. 28 at the Ke-lowna campus gym, both Heat volleyball squads made history as they played the school’s fi rst ever Canada West match-es against the University of Winnipeg.
It was triumphant weekend for the UBCO men who beat the Wes-men in both matches, while the women earned a split on an emotional night in front of the bois-terous hometown fans.
“I think that (home crowd) was huge for us,” said Heat men’s coach Greg Poitras. “We’ve got a lot of things that are sort of going against us with
being a new team, being a former college team. We needed more support and that was a huge factor in trying to get the Wes-men rattled on the service line.”
UBC Okanagan’s dir-ector of athletics Rob Johnson said to see Heat teams fi nally on the fl oor for CIS action was the re-ward for years and years of hard work by so many connected to the varsity athletics department.
“It’s very, very ex-citing,” said an emo-tional Johnson. “A lot of people in the commun-ity and at the university have worked very hard to make this happen. Now that it’s fi nally here, to see the crowd we have, the cheering, the atmosphere in here, it’s amazing.”
The Heat basketball teams made history fi rst Canada West matches Nov. 11 in Lethbridge.
The UBC Okanag-an teams both recorded their fi rst ever CIS wins Nov. 28 and 29 at home as the men defeated Regina, while the women topped
the University of Bran-don.
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VETERAN NATE SPEIJER and the UBC Okanagan volleyball and basketball teams all made their CIS debuts in 2011.
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2011 IN REVIEW
• The Kelowna United U13 boys win the Langley Labour Day weekend soccer tourna-ment.
• The B.C. Colleges Athletics Association changes its name to the Pacifi c Western Athlet-ics Association (PACWEST).
• Keefer Joyce helps Canada run to a bronze medal in the 4 by 100 relay at the 2011 Youth Commonwealth Games on the Isle of Man.
• Izaak Berglund is named captain of the BCHL’s Westside Warriors.
• Kelowna soccer product Rob Friend is loaned to Eintracht Frankfurt by Hertha Ber-lin for the 2011-12 Bundesliga 2 season in Ger-many.
• West Kelowna’s Julia Ransom wins a silver medal at the North American Summer Biathlon Championships in Canmore.
• In a swap of defencemen, the Kelowna Rockets acquire Myles Bell from the Regina Pats for Colton Jobke and two draft picks.
• The KSS Owls girls volleyball team wins the UBC high school tournament in Vancouver, while the Owls boys win the Pen Hi tournament.
OCTOBER• The Liquid Lightning of West Kelowna is
named the Swim B.C. club of the year, while Lighnting coach Emil Dmitrov wins the B.C. Junior Coach of the Year award.
• Calgary’s James Curran wins the 2011 BMO Okanagan Marathon. Fruitvale’s Heather Johnson won the women’s race, while West Ke-lowna’s Stacey Carrigan took third.
• The Okanagan Sun are eliminated from the
B.C. Football Conference playoffs with a 31-29 home fi eld loss in the semifi nal to the Lang-ley Rams.
• Kelowna’s Jesse Keca wins a bronze medal at the Oktoberfest speed skating competition in Calgary, while Chris Neykov sets several PBs.
• The KSS Owls win the UBC Okanagan and Best of the West senior girls volleyball tour-naments.
• Kelowna Skating Club’s Jayda Jurome wins the gold medal in the novice women’s event at the Sask Skate Invitational.
• The Thompson Okanagan U18 boys soccer team wins the Addidas/Whitecaps soccer tour-nament in Vancouver.
• Former Olympic champion Kyle Shewfelt travels to Kelowna to help the Okanagan Gym-nastics Centre celebrate its 30th anniversary.
• The UBC Okanagan Heat women’s soccer teams wins a silver medal at the BCCAA soccer championships in Kelowna, while the Heat men win their fi rst bronze medal.
• Kelowna soccer product Carson Gill leads the SFU Clan to the No. 1 ranking in NCAA Div. 2 soccer.
• The KSS Owls clinch top spot in the Oka-nagan AAA Conference of B.C. high school football.
• The Kelowna Christian Knights win their fi rst ever Okanagan A boys soccer title with a 4-2 victory over St. Ann’s Academy.
• Kelowna fi eld hockey products Abi Raye, Dani Hennig, Natalie Sourisseau and the Can-adian women’s fi eld hockey team fi nish fourth at the Pan American Games in Mexico.
• Okanagan Sun lineman Steven Doego is named the BCFC’s defensive player of the
year and an all-star, while teammates Dan Tur-ek, Sam Looysen, Brennan Van Nistelrooy, and Drew Digout were also all-star selections.
• The UBC Okanagan men’s and women’s volleyball teams make their CIS debuts at home to the University of Winnipeg.
NOVEMBER• Forward Brett Bulmer is reassigned to the
Western Hockey League’s Kelowna Rockets after playing nine games with the NHL’s Min-nesota Wild.
• The Kelowna Owls win their 10th consecu-tive Okanagan AAA girls fi eld hockey title with a 1-0 win over South Kamloops.
• Rockets Colton Sissons, Zach Franko and Brett Bulmer play for Team WHL in Subway Super Series against Russia, while Ryan Huska serves on the coaching staff.
• KSS Owls quarterback Sam Davies is named the offensive player of the year in the Okanagan AAA Conference of high school football.
• Lawrence Nagy (builder), Eric Tasker (builder), Joan Campbell (pioneer), Dan Ber-toia (athlete) and Aundrea Bertoia (athlete) are inducted into the Central Okanagan Sports Hall of Fame.
• After snow on the CNC fi eld in Kelow-na forces relocation of the game, the KSS Owls lose 50-0 to W.J. Mouat in the B.C. high school football quarterfi nals in Abbotsford.
• Kelowna’s Chantal McFetridge helps the Queen’s Golden Gaels capture the CIS women’s soccer championship in Montreal.
• Kelowna Western Bus Lines Rockets win the midget tier 1 division at the Wickenheiser
International Women’s Hockey Festival.• The Mt. Boucherie Bears post a 9-0 record
to win the Okanagan AAA junior varsity foot-ball title.
• The UBC Okanagan Heat basketball teams get their fi rst ever Canada West victories with the men beating Regina and the women defeat-ing Brandon.
• The host Kelowna Skating Club captured 10 out of a possible 16 medals at the B.C. and Yukon Sectional Championships at CNC.
DECEMBER• Kelowna’s Kelsey Serwa wins the fi rst two
World Cup ski cross races of the season in San Candido, Italy.
• Kelowna hosts the largest ever B.C. high school boys volleyball tournament with 48 teams in three divisions. The KCS Knights win bronze in the A category.
• Okanagan Gymnastics Centre’s Emma Tucker wins a silver medal in double mini at the World Age Group Trampoline Championships in Birmingham, England.
• Kelowna Skating Club member Julianne Delaurier wins gold in the pre-novice division at the Regina at the 2012 Skate Canada Challenge. Jayda Jurome won the novice women’s event, while Cailey England was second.
• The Kelowna Crows fi nish second at the B.C. U19 rugby championship, losing to Bay-side in the fi nal.
• Kelowna Rockets forward Brett Bulmer is cut from Canada’s roster for the world junior hockey championship in Alberta. Rockets coach Ryan Huska and athletic therapist Jeff Thorburn work behind the Canadian bench.
Keefer helps team to Youth Commonwealth Games bronzeReview from A11
Kelowna’s James Turner established himself as one of Canada’s fi nest up-and-coming track and fi eld athletes in 2011 with his most signifi cant per-formance yet.
The 17-year-old es-tablished a personal best of 6,597 points in July in Winnipeg to win the gold medal in the Canadian junior decathlon on his fi rst try.
Turner, the Canadian Legion octathlon cham-pion in 2010, won fi ve of the 10 events in the dec-athlon—100 metres, long jump, shot put, 400 metres and javelin—to edge out Ontario’s Matheson West
by 60 points for the gold medal.
Turner’s win didn’t come without some nerv-ous moments.
In the eighth of 10 events, the Okanagan Ath-letics Club failed on his fi rst two attempts in the pole vault at 2.60 metres.
One more miss and
Turner could forget about the podium entirely, let alone a trip to the Pan Ams.
“I’ve never felt that much pressure in my life,” said Turner, who only began training for the pole vault this year. “If I miss a third time, I’m pretty much done. When I made it on my third, it was huge relief. Only making one jump was a disappoint-ment, but in the big pic-ture, it was just what I needed.”
The Canadian title qualifi ed Turner for the Pan Am Junior Games in Florida where he fi nished in fi fth place.
The underdog role suited the Okanagan Challenge just fi ne in 2011.
After going a combined 0-4 against the Vancouver Thunderbirds and Khalsa Sporting Club during the regular season, the Challenge got down to business when it counted most at the Pacifi c Coast Soccer League championship in Penticton.
Okanagan defeated Vancouver 3-1 in the semis, then edged past Khalsa 5-4 ijn a shootout in the championship fi nal for the Challenge’s second PCSL title in three years.
“I think the guys deserved to be there and they deserved to win,” said fi rst-year head coach Kelly Wolverton. “I think the guys are very worthy of being the best team in this league.”
In a season of ups and downs, it all came together at the opportune time for rookie head Wolverton and his squad.
The Challenge played much of the season undermanned, due to in-juries and other commitments, but still managed a 5-5-2 record and the fourth and fi nal playoff spot.
“There were a lot of obstacles,” said Challenge manager Josh Leins. “The guys put a lot of work into this and were rewarded for it.”
On the same weekend, Okanagan FC captured the Pacifi c Coast League men’s reserve title in Penticton with a 3-1 win over West Van.
Turner wins national title
Challenge win PCSL crown
Warren HendersonSTAFF REPORTER
Okanagan Sun head coach Jason Casey can’t remember seeing a more dominant performance by a defensive player dur-ing the course of a football season.
Defensive lineman Steven Doege made a habit of terrorizing oppos-ing quarterbacks in 2011 on the way to leading the country with 11 sacks.
The 20-year-old Rut-land grad also recorded 31 tackles and 14 assists to compliment his three forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.
For his exploits, the 6-foot-2 230-pound Doege was named the Canadian Junior Football League’s defensive player of the year and was named an all-Canadian.
“He is a one man wrecking-crew, both against the run and the pass,” said Casey. “As a defensive end, he is ex-tremely fast and physical. Not only can he blow by an offensive tackle with his speed and quick hands, but he can use his strength to simply put you on your ass with his powerful bull-rush.
“Steven is one of the most complete football
players I have ever had the honour of being around.”
Doege was also the BCFC’s most outstanding defensive player, the most
outstanding lineman, a conference all-star, and the Sun’s MVP. He is also the BCFC’s all-time sack leader with 31.5.
In local minor football, 2011 may well be remembered as the Year of the Lion.
To be more precise, it was the Kelowna Lions who went undefeat-ed to capture the B.C. junior bantam football championship.
As they did to their opponents all season, the Lions dominated the Meadow Ridge Knights in the B.C. fi nal in Langley, winning handily 44-6.
“We have told the young men all year that this group had a chance to achieve something special,” said Lions head coach Arden Knoll. “Opportunities to win a provincial championships may never come along again in their lifetime as part of a team. Leave everything on the fi eld, play every down with speed
and with all the energy you have.“They all played with heart, ex-
cellence and dedication,” he add-ed. “
Every player committed to theteam and performed their role on theteam without complaint throughoutthe whole year.”
Knoll credited the rest of theLions’ coaching staff and the team’sconditioning as other key elementsin the championship win.
The Lions fi nished 2011 with a12-0 regular season and playoff re-cord, scoring 591 points and al-lowing just 89.
In the peewee division, the Ke-lowna Lions won the Southern In-terior Conference championship,before losing to the AbbotsfordLions in the semis.
National award for Sun’s Doege
Lions roar to championship
James Turner
CONTRIBUTED
KELOWNA Skating Club’s Julianne De-laurier won the national champ in pre-novice women’s title at the Skate Canada Challenge.
FRED SCHAAD/CONTRIBUTOR
OKANAGAN SUN lineman Steven Doege was the CJFL’s defensive player of the year for 2011.
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It is year end, and the bulk of last minute dona-tions to charities will hap-pen today and tomorrow, with online giving be-ing the most cost effect-ive and ‘greenest’ way to give.
According to the Fras-er Institute’s 2011 Gener-osity Index, people living in Manitoba are the most generous among Can-adian givers.
Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island tied for second place and Que-bec ranked last among the provinces and territories. Check out the report to learn where B.C. falls on the list. (www.fraserinsti-tute.org)
When reviewing the average dollar amount given, Albertans topped the list at $2,112. People living in Nunavut ranked second at $1,721 and Brit-
ish Columbians pulled the bronze medal with $1,685.
We are also reminded this week that charities are being stretched to do more with less dur-ing these tough econom-ic times and they defi nite-ly do need and appreciate your fi nancial gift.
Imagine Canada just released its Sector Mon-itor that tracks charities across our nation in terms of their ability to achieve their missions.
Key fi ndings are based on information collected between Nov. 3 and Dec. 2, 2011. This is amazing-ly current data.
One out of seven char-ities continues experien-cing high levels of organ-izational stress. About 50 per cent of charities re-ported increases in de-
mand for products and services.
Charities were less likely to report increases in income and were more likely to report that costs of doing business have in-creased.
Paid staff and volun-teering levels have re-mained the same year over year for about 67 per cent of charities.
Your generous fi nan-cial donations and gifts of volunteer time are the re-sources necessary to en-able charities to serve their clients and meet needs in our community.
It is your choice. You can give directly to a specifi c charity or you can give to charities through the Central Okanagan Foundation or the United Way.
Dawn Wilkinson is the coordinator for the Com-munity Information and Volunteer Centre.
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Utopian or dystopian–what’s your interpretation of Kalnin?In the complex and in-
triguing mural he has created for the Ke-
lowna Art Gallery’s sat-ellite space at the airport, titled Pulse, Oyama-based artist Jim Kalnin has ad-dressed notions about which he feels deep con-cern.
Since retiring from teaching art at UBCO in 2009, Kalnin has had more time to travel, go hiking and camping in the Okanagan, and read and think, as well as work on his painting and drawing.
From all this he has gained a heightened awareness of humanity’s life on this single planet upon which we all exist. He wished to address this, along with the theme of
travel, as the work is in-stalled in the well-wishing area of the departures sec-tion of the Kelowna Inter-national Airport.
Visitors will see a 16-foot-long work creat-ed with mixed media on sheets of paper that have been installed in a grid, so that the whole work reads like a gigantic whole.
Against a yellow sky, an almost visionary pan-
orama unfolds: Buildings, some of them fantastic-al; trees and water; and in one area a pouring deluge of white water. The odd human fi gure has been in-serted, including one pad-
dling a canoe in water in front of some skyscrapers.
The whole scene has a post-apocalyptic feel-ing to it, but it is impos-sible to know for certain whether Kalnin’s vision
is a utopian one or dysto-pian. Both the power and the vulnerability of nature are depicted, and we as humans must learn to deal with both these aspects if our planet is going to sur-
vive and continue to sus-tain life.
Kalnin uses colour to good effect. Hot colours such as red, orange and yellow, denote areas of in-tense light or even the im-pression of fi res burning out of control. Cooler col-ours, particularly blue, are used for the peaceful, calm areas of the compos-ition. The tonal range of the piece is extreme: from the darkest depths of the shadows of tall buildings, for example, to the bright white of the unleashed fl ood water that gushes from the left of the centre into the central section of the scene.
It is impossible to take in the whole work with one look as it is so long
and the elements so var-ied. Instead we tend to read it from left to right as a narrative that is un-folding.
This is also the direc-tion in which departing passengers at the airport move to go through se-curity. The left to right movement could also give viewers the impression of a journey being taken, forming a parallel to their own imminent trip on an airplane. What does it mean to travel from place to place; can we allow the experience to sensitize us to the earth’s smallness, and our own responsibil-ity for its care?
Kalnin is original-
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LizWylie
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JIM KALNIN, PULSE, 16-feet-long mixed media on paper, installed at the Kelow-na Art Gallery’s exhibition space at the Kelowna International Airport departures area.
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PEPPADEWS are sweet, spicy little pickled peppers great for stuffi ng as a New Year’s appetizer.
I hope you all have enjoyed a fabulous Christmas and are
continuing making merry this week as we prepare for the arrival of 2012.
If you are planning to ring in the New Year at home, I have some deli-cious ideas this week on what to serve your guests.
Start with a toast to the New Year: “May your hearts be full of love, your glasses full of Okanagan wine and your tables full of good friends and fabu-lous local food. Cheers to 2012.”
STUFFED PEPPADEW PEPPERS
I searched high and low for these tasty lit-tle gems and fi nal-ly found them at Illich-mann’s Meats, Saus-ages & Gourmet Foods on Gordon Drive in their deli. These sweet and spicy little pickled pep-pers are the perfect size to
Great appies for New Year’s entertaining
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When everyone else is doing year in review
columns, I get to do a pre-view of the 2012 movies.
This week’s column covers the fi rst half of the year and while this is not a complete list, it high-lights what to expect over the next six months.
January starts with the re-release of Beauty and the Beast, the fi rst of many 3D re-issues this year; Mark Wahl-berg stars in the action-thriller Contraband; the funny and inspira-tional Joyful Noise stars Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton; Steven Soder-bergh directs the thrill-er Haywire; George Lu-cas produces Red Tails; Kate Beckinsale returns as Selene in Underworld Awakening; Liam Nee-son stars in The Grey; and Katherine Heigl stars in the action-comedy One for the Money.
February starts on an inspirational note with Drew Barrymore in a true story of trapped grey whales in Big Mir-acle; Dwayne Johnson
What’s coming in 2012
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Jamaican music fl avours Kreesha Turner’s musicKREESHA TURNER; TROPIC/ELECTRIC [EMI]
This is the second al-bum from Kreesha Turn-er who calls Edmonton home. However, Turner spent a year in her father’s native Jamaica singing in
church and absorbing is-land music in her mid-teens and that experience has fl avoured her music ever since.
Turner has won a couple of local sing-ing contests in Alberta
erable vaults of Thelo-nious Monk and Jelly Roll Morton.
Marsalis can be found here with a small combo as on the breezy Awak-ening that features a gor-geous fl ute solo as well as in large swinging orches-tras as on the jazz extrva-ganza Northbound-South-bound that features a huge ensemble.
Marsalis’ trumpet is not always at the forefront here as he features him-self as a composer where you might want to check out the string quartet per-forming rag style on Rampart St. Row Rag.
My fave pick here has vintage New Orleans ref-erences on The Pearls that offers both tuba and banjo in the mix.
Wynton Marsalis has a very large back cata-logue for someone only aged 50 and this compil-ation is a superb place to start.
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MASTODON; THE HUNTER [REPRISE]
This heavy metal band from Atlanta has started to see its fortunes rise with The Hunter, their fourth studio album in a decade. This is their highest chart-ing disc to date.
They also scored a coveted spot on a late night talk show (Letter-
man, I think) and for the fi rst time ever, they have scored a rock hit with Curl of The Burl and the frank lyric “I killed a man because he killed my goat”—lyrics aren’t as important to metal heads as the cathartic blast of noise.
Hence, Mastodon try a little metal screamo on Blasteroid, some speed thrash on Spectrelight and some surprising or-chestral metal on the pro-gressive-styled Creature Lives.
The title track is a monster/epic ballad but the killer track for me was the closing song The Sparrow that recalled a little Pink Floyd with its space rock and comfort-ably numb sensibilities.
Mastodon also easi-ly has the hardest working drummer in all of metal with stick man Brann Drailor who approaches his brand of metal synco-pation with the ear of a jazz player which is also the main reason that the group has always had such a large cult follow-ing.
That seems to be changing now with a charting album, TV ex-posure and a hit single.
Metal head bangers will rejoice.
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which led to her indie EP that enjoyed a hit but this new major label release is bound to really grow her career.
Tuner has enjoyed a hit with the sultry techno pop hit I Could Stay, while other songs on this album such as the club-oriented Love Again and R&B original Wherever You Are, promise to get some air time too.
Turner has attracted high profi le producers for this disc with the ca-pable help of The Wizard, Shawn Desman, Greg Or-gan and Bei Maejor who have made for a uniform-ly strong album of club music, techno pop and elctro R&B. Turner even experiments with a little dub music from her child-hood experiences with the handsome I Feel My Dar-ling, a duet with Court-ney John, and I would not mind hearing some more dub style next time out.
Tropic/Electric is a fi ne showing, making Kreesha Turner a talent to watch.
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WYNTON MARSALIS; SELECTIONS FROM SWINGING INTO THE 21ST [COLUMBIA]
Wynton Marsalis is al-most insanely product-ive. In 1999 he released a whopping eight albums and his back catalogue just seems to keep grow-ing at a tremendous rate.
Luckily for him he has a dedicated recording label that strongly sup-ports him—so much so that they hired special as-sistants to help Marsalis when he is in a particular-ly creative frame of mind so that he can document all the music that is hap-pening in is head.
Anyway, Marsalis has just turned 50 years old and to celebrate, Col-umbia records has asked him to assemble a one-CD collection of favour-ites which resulted in this very eclectic and gener-ous 14-track collection.
The record features mostly Marsalis origin-als along with a couple of tracks each from the ven-
ly from Manitoba and came to B.C. as a young child with his family. He has lived and travelled in other provinces, eventu-ally settling in the Oka-
nagan in about 1980. He was a fi xture for many years teaching at Oka-nagan College before the University of British Col-umbia Okanagan cam-pus opened in Kelowna in 2005.
Kalnin was a support-ive and inspiring instruct-or for many people here who have gone on to be artists themselves. We are appreciative of his sensi-tive response to the Ke-lowna Art Gallery’s six-
month-long commission for the airport space. It is worth a visit. Pulse will be on view until May 7.
Liz Wylie is the curator at the Kelowna Art Gallery.
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stars in the sequel Jour-ney 2: The Mysterious Island; Denzel Washing-ton and Ryan Reynolds star in Safe House; The Vow will be a tearjerk-er starring Rachel Mc-Adams and Channing Tatum; Nicolas Cage re-turns as Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance; Reese With-erspoon and Chris Pine star in the action-comedy This Means War; Paul Rudd and Jennifer An-iston star in the comedy Wanderlust; and Star Wars: Episode 1—The Phantom Menace gets a 3D re-release.
In March, the creators of Despicable Me brings us Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax; the Brothers Grimm get a makeover with the ac-tion-thriller Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunt-ers; Eddie Murphy stars in A Thousand Words; 21 Jump Street jumps to
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In April, the Amer-ican Pie cast returns for American Reunion; The Farrelly Brothers remake The Three Stooges; Zac Efron stars in the roman-tic drama The Lucky One; Jason Segel writes and stars in The Five-Year Engagement; and Titanic gets a 3D release.
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Lopez star in the comedy What to Expect When You’re Expecting; The Milton Bradley game Battleship gets a big budget sci-fi makeover; and J & K are back in Men in Black 3.
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lize Theron star in an-other Grimm makeover called Snow White and the Huntsman; direc-tor Ridley Scott returns to science fi ction with Prometheus; and Chan-ning Tatum is joined by Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
Next week I will un-veil what to expect in the second half of 2012.
Rick Davis is the man-ager of the Capitol The-atre in West Kelowna. [email protected]
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STARRING CHRIS EVANS as Captain America (left) and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, The Avengers is one of the most anticipated fi lms of 2012.
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pop into your mouth and they make for a gorgeous presentation with their vi-brant, festive red colour-ing.
They are delicious stuffed with cheese—try goat cheese, mini boccon-cini mozzarella balls or jazz them up even more by adding green olive tap-enade.
Tapenade is a cinch to make at home—just throw the following in-gredients into a food pro-cessor and whizz. Tap-enade is also great served on crackers or crostini.
GREEN OLIVE TAPENADE1 cup pitted green ol-
ives, drained well1 tbsp capers, drained1 garlic clove, minced2 tsp fresh lemon juice
or to taste3 tbsp extra virgin ol-
ive oil Throw all into proces-
sor and whizz into paste.
If stuffi ng peppade-ws: fi ll each peppadew half way with tapenade and top with a boccon-cini mini ball or cube of goat cheese. Sprinkle with chopped fresh basil.
GOAT CHEESEBALL TAPASWhile in Spain, we
truly fell in love with the world of tapas. So many delightful tastes presented at the end of a skewer or toothpick. The look is very inviting and easy to serve and there are a mil-lion different treats that you can serve this way.
Try layering your fa-vourite fl avours, like a cooked prawn topped with a slice of chorizo sausage, basil leaf and semi dried tomato.
The Olive Oil Mer-chant has amazing semi-dried tomatoes from Italy that make every-thing they touch taste in-credible. I make sure that I always have a jar in my pantry along with their ol-
ives, artichoke hearts and of course their fabulous olive oils. Order online from www.oliveoilmer-chant.com.
Cut open a tube of lo-cal goat cheese. Slice into rounds and then roll into large marble size balls. Chop up some walnuts or pistachios; roll balls in
nuts to cover. Top each ball with a
basil leaf and semi dried tomato and then skewer with a pick. Delish.
SMOKED SALMON PATÉIf you are into fi shing,
I would highly suggest in-vesting in a smoker. I use my dad’s and this amaz-ing contraption will trans-form your fi sh into stun-ning smoked fi sh that is delicious on its own, or easily made into a rich paté. Make a big batch to put into cute mason jars and give as hostess gifts.
Combine one cup of smoked salmon with half a cup of cream cheese, zest of one lemon and two tablespoons of chopped dill in your food proces-sor. Whizz until smooth and serve with crackers.
STUFFED DATESThese retro hors
d’ouvres never go out of style. The originals, also known as devils on horse-back (sorry, no clue where that name came from), were usually stuffed with chutney and wrapped in bacon. My version uses prosciutto, which is much less greasy and tidy look-ing.
Easy peasy: Empty a tube of goat cheese, Bour-sin cheese or blue cheese into a zip loc and squish down to one corner. Snip off the end for a pastry bag effect. Pit the dates, insert bag end into date and pipe it full of cheese.
You can also insert a blanched almond at this point if you would like. Wrap neatly with a strip of prosciutto (I pre-fer the original from Par-ma available at Valaroso Foods), skewer tapa style. Broil on low for three to four minutes in the oven until the prosciutto has crisped, cool briefl y and serve.
Jennifer Schell is editor of B.C. Wine Trails.
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For the last two years, students in the veterinary hospital assistant program offered by the Centre for the Arts and Technology in Kelowna, have orga-nized a Pet Photo Shoot on campus to raise funds to donate to the school’s Student Emergency Fund and the Kelowna SPCA.
This year, the photo shoot took place on Dec. 8, and photos were taken by current students in the digital photography pro-gram.
People were asked to donate a minimum of $15 for their photo ses-sion with their pets, and the event was successful in raising $500, with $400 of that going to the Kel-owna SPCA.
Veterinary hospital as-sistant students Anita Nee-ham, Kathryn Koenders and Kayla Murray visit-ed the Kelowna SPCA an-imal shelter on Dec. 19 to present the cheque.
“We are always amaz-ingly shocked at the gen-erosity of the local com-munity,” said Jamie Ar-mor, assistant manager of the Kelowna SPCA ani-mal shelter.
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For me, the Christ-mas time of the year is always a
time for refl ection as an entrepreneur advocate, a father, and as a grateful member of our Okanagan community.
It seems clear to me that it’s always the right time to live life from a place of gratitude.
One of the simplest, yet often overlooked con-tributors I have discov-ered and sometimes over-looked to create a positive culture in my entrepre-neurial world is the ex-pression of appreciation.
Taking the time to say a simple “ thank you” cost nothing but resonates powerful positive inten-tion throughout any or-ganization, any company and in everyday living.
Expressing gratitude is a fundamental quality of conscious leadership.
Gratitude for the con-tribution of others in our entrepreneurial journey is yet another facet of em-pathy.
It refl ects to me our leadership consciousness of natural human desire to be validated and appre-ciated.
Even the most stress-ful of times in challeng-ing situations and envi-ronments may be relaxed through the expression gratitude.
John Maxwell, an in-ternational leadership au-thor and speaker, says the power of expression of gratitude helps to light the candle in the lives of those around us our daily lives.
Gratitude, as com-monly defi ned, is a state of being, an emotion. In any given moment, you feel it or you don’t.
So is fulfi llment avail-able only to those who are naturally disposed toward feeling grateful, as happi-ness is available to those who are naturally dis-posed toward feeling hap-py? Not fair and not true, I suggest.
We can’t force our-selves to feel gratitude, but we can force our-selves to practice grati-tude. And practicing grat-itude does lead to feeling grateful.
We might express such gratitude to hon-our that one person who
changed our life. Give them the thanks
they deserve through a unique exercise in grat-itude and magnify that thank you in a way that will inspire a new gen-eration of entrepreneurs coming our way in our beloved Okanagan.
This is an opportunity for you and I to recognize a entrepreneurial hero in our life through a power-ful gesture that he or she will cherish forever.
By writing a let-ter of gratitude to such a person/s and then shar-ing it with them, you can change their life and your own.
Frankly, no email or phone call can equal the sincerity of meeting in person. This act of grat-itude will greatly move the person/s you seek to thank, but it will also ben-efi t you.
This seemingly self-less act will give each of you an enormous sense of the gifts you have been given.
Nurturing a strong sense of gratitude allows us to see the good in oth-
ers and enables us to rec-ognize and seize entre-preneurial opportunities when they arise.
I would like to con-clude this treatise on en-trepreneurial gratitude with a few expressions of my own please.
First, I am thankful for my inspirers, men and women who never cease to amaze me with their in-ner strength and caring; their steadfast commit-ment to personal growth, their dedication to fos-tering growth in others through their own expe-riences; and their ability to meaningfully connect with those around them gives me immeasurable strength.
Such people are a priceless gift to me in my roller coaster ride though life.
I am thankful for the larger entrepreneurial community of the Okana-gan, a community fi lled with people who see op-portunities in place of ob-stacles, who take owner-ship of their actions, who are on a never-ending quest of learning and self-improvement and who are committed to making our world a better place—one venture at a time.
They give tirelessly to others, they get back up when they stumble, and unquestionably, they are
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CENTRE FOR THE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY students Anita Neeham, Kathryn Koenders and Kayla Murray, in the veterinary hospital assistant program, present a $400 donation to the Kelowna SPCA, accepted by assistant branch manager Jamie Armor.
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our involvement with the school.
“We hope that this do-nation will show others that giving to the SPCA can make such an impact, one person can make a difference in an animal’s life,” added Anita Need-ham.
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What do they mean by “an estate?” Ac-
cording to the dictionary, an estate is the property or everything that you own.
So what happens on death is that the deced-ent’s property is trans-ferred to an estate until all the taxes have been paid and the requirements of the will have been ful-fi lled.
Another name for this is a trust, as a testament-ary trust is created upon death.
There can be signifi -cant taxes when someone dies, so it is advisable for people who have assets to at least have a will and do some estate planning to minimize taxes upon death, or perhaps increase the taxes on death so that the taxes to the benefi ci-aries may be minimized.
There are several other reasons to estate plan such as reducing probate taxes, protect the assets from creditors and to simply or-ganize the affairs before death.
Whatever the reason, to create an effective es-tate plan, an estate plan-ning team is required.
The team consists of an accountant, a lawyer, a tax advisor, an insurance advisor, an investment ad-visor or fi nancial plan-ner, a banker and possibly even a certifi ed business valuator.
The estate also needs an executor or executrix, who has the responsibility to distribute the assets and fi le the various tax returns once the owner of the es-tate is deceased.
One member of the team should be the estate planner, who’s respon-sibility will be to deter-mine where the client is today, to reorganize the present into a better struc-
ture and to provide a plan and procedure to imple-ment goals set for the fu-ture.
This person could also become the executor or executrix due to their knowledge of the deced-ent’s affairs.
There are usually fi ve steps in the estate plan-ning process:
1. Gather informa-tion. List the assets that are owned currently or may be owned in the fu-ture either by way of pur-chase or by inheritance.
Additional items to note on the list are the es-timated current fair mar-ket value, the origin-al cost, or adjusted cost, when and how the asset was acquired, any annu-al net income generated by the asset, if the asset is likely to appreciate in value and an estimate of how much, and fi nally, if shares are owned, the paid up capital value of the shares.
List any present, fu-ture or possible credit-ors that may have claims
against the assets that may stall the transfer of the assets to benefi ciaries. List the names, locations, ages, incomes, net worth, lifestyle, marital status, SINs, children of all heirs.
2. Goal setting and preliminary plan-ning. Document realistic achievable goals that are fairly specifi c and balance any confl icting goals of the plan.
3. Identify poten-tial obstacles and risks to the plan. Items such as creditors, marital separ-ation, taxation, possibil-ity of contesting will, are
minor children involved, or are there any health issues that may lead to in-capacity
4. Plan implementa-tion. Depending on the complexity of the estate, the plan may have several implementation dates and phases.
It is important that there is also a ‘back door’ to unwind the plan if things do not work out.
There should be legal documentation for each phase.
This documentation should indicate the loca-tion of the assets, fi nancial records and the will.
If any changes are made to the plan, the will must also be updated. If the person has a small business, it is very import-ant that the person also have a will because upon death, all bank accounts will be frozen.
5. Ongoing monitor-ing and fi ne tuning. The estate plan should be re-viewed on a yearly basis to determine if the goals are still being met and in the case of any changes to the income tax act or other acts that might af-fect the plan.
The mechanics of the tax returns required when a person dies is quite complex.
There is fi rstly the ter-minal return, the rights and things return (option-al), and the business re-turn (optional).
If there is the require-ment for probate or other issues with the estate, the estate’s assets will need to be transferred into a trust and a trust return will need to be prepared every year until the trust is dis-solved which is what hap-pens when the assets are distributed to the bene-fi ciaries.
If the trust was created upon death or through the terms of a will individual tax rates apply.
There are a number of tax elections that can be made upon death that need to be taken into con-sideration when fi ling the fi nal tax returns.
Finally, when all taxes have been paid and all assets have been distribut-ed, the executor or exec-utrix of an estate can fi le for a clearance certifi cate, on both the individual and the estate.
Gabriele Banka is a Certifi ed General Ac-countant, owner of Banka & Company Inc.
250-763-4528 [email protected]
the engine of economic growth and recovery in our re-gion and our Canada.
I am thankful for the ability to give back. I am thankful to all the organizations, and fellow entrepre-neurs and the plethora of wonderful colleagues and as-sociates that have recognized my value, and provide me the opportunity to share my knowledge and experienc-es with others.
My successes and failures provide lessons that will help others in their entrepreneurial journeys and profes-sional growth and self-discovery.
Helping others succeed is truly my passion, and the gift of sharing is one that I will forever appreciate and cherish.
And fi nally, thank-you to all of my dear readers for your loyalty and support as I strive to contribute to the building of an Okanagan entrepreneurial culture.
My purpose in this contributory goal in building a successful culture is to help others create a “culture of greatness” in their own lives, personally and profession-ally, and to assist our leaders build extraordinary cul-tures to attract and keep extraordinary people in our midst.
I would not be able to carry out this vision and mis-sion without the loyalty and support of those of you who believe in me.
I wish everyone the completion of a wonderful hol-iday season.
Joel Young is an entrepreneurial leadership coach, consultant and educator and founder, Okanagan Valley Entrepreneurs Society.
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November marked the start of wintery weather, but it was short-lived, and December has been mild and extremely dry.
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in December, and there’s been only about seven centimetres this year.
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The National Traf-fi c Safety Board in the United States
issued a press release Dec. 13, 2011, calling for an outright ban on the use of portable electronic de-vices by drivers.
Not just a ban on handheld devices, but an outright ban on the use of all portable electronic devices—even hands-free.
The call for an outright ban arose from yet another series of deaths and in-juries arising from drivers distracted by cell phones.
The chairperson of the National Traf-fi c Safety Board said: “The data is clear; the time to act is now. How many more lives will be lost before we, as a society, change our attitudes about the deadliness of distractions?”
In British Columbia, hand held cell phone use was banned in January 2010.
In my Jan. 24, 2010, column, I quot-ed from a summary of research fi ndings from the motor vehicle branch in this province: “Evidence also concludes that there is no difference between the lev-el of driver distraction associated with hands-free and hand-held cell phone use.”
I posed the rhetorical question of when will we take the other step forward and prohibit wireless chatting while driv-ing altogether.
It’s not having only one hand on the steering wheel that causes crashes. It’s being distracted by the conversation. In-terestingly, studies have shown that con-versations between driver and passenger are not as distracting.
Banning hand-helds did nothing for us except stimulate the cell phone indus-try.
I wonder how many millions of dol-lars have been wasted on cell phone pe-
ripherals as a result of the hand-held ban.
Aside from the hor-rendous cost to British Columbians, I would ar-gue that instead of mak-ing our roads safer, ban-ning hand-helds actually made our roads less safe.
Before, concerned British Columbians
would have limited or completely avoid-ed their cell phone use, conscious of the dangers of distraction. The truly safety conscious drove with their cell phone in the trunk.
With the hand-held ban, British Co-lumbians were sent the message that hands-free cellphone use was safe, that the problem was with the hand-held, not with the conversation.
Cell phone use by drivers has more likely increased, rather than decreased.
We have seen what effective legisla-tion can do to stop crashes and save lives.
The new impaired driving legislation in B.C. has been brilliantly effective.
Have you seen the statistics? There has been an astoundingly beautiful re-duction in alcohol related crashes. Yes, there is more work to be done, but it is a fabulous start. Let’s heed the results of the research done by our own superinten-dent of motor vehicles. Let’s notice the calls to action in other parts of the world.
Let’s reduce crashes and save lives with another bold legislative move and ban the use of all portable electronic de-vices by drivers.
Until the political will builds to the point that effective legislation is fi nally passed, how about be proactive. Use this time of resolutions to resolve to pop your cell phone into the trunk in 2012.
One crash is too many.Paul Hergott is a lawyer at Hergott
Law in West [email protected]
For many people, the start of a new year is a time to refl ect
on what did and did not go well in the previous 12 months, as with New Year’s resolutions comes the chance to start anew.
You might call it a pe-riod of assessment. But for property owners, New Year’s assessment means something rather more lit-eral.
Some time ago, I was approached by the West Kelowna Residents’ As-sociation about concerns they had with their as-sessed property values and the organization that does this, the B.C. Assess-ment.
The WKRA studied the assessment of proper-ties over a two year period and believed the assess-ments were not consistent within their neighbour-hood.
BCA has a nation-al and even internation-al reputation as one of the most-respected proper-ty assessment bureaus in North America.
I asked WKRA for more details, and received a comprehensive pack-age, which included an-alytical information on neighbourhoods, specifi c cases and lakefront prop-erties.
WKRA established a committee in 2010 to look at property assessments in the District of West Kel-
owna to do this work.I’m not an expert on
property assessment, so I approached BCA’s of-fi ce in Kelowna and asked them to prepare an anal-ysis and response to WKRA’s study.
But because WKRA were concerned about fairness, I didn’t want BCA to simply respond; it would be much better to meet face-to-face.
BCA agreed, and hosted two meetings in June and November with myself, the WKRA, and the District of West Kel-owna.
The BCA described—in full detail—the process used to assess properties,
not just in West Kelowna, but across the province.
It’s amazingly in-depth, and I won’t go into signifi cant detail here; if you’re interested, BCA’s website is very informa-tive.
While they did not agree with all the BCA’s fi ndings, the WKRA members accepted the statistical standards used are in fact more demand-ing than accepted interna-tional requirements.
They were “satisfi ed” with the responses from the BCA and myself—and I’m sure are anxious-ly awaiting their 2012 as-sessments, coming in Jan-uary.
BCA and WKRA will continue this cooperative working relationship in 2012 should there be any concerns.
Of course, if you don’t own a home or even live in West Kelowna, you might ask yourself why this affects or should in-terest you. Perhaps it doesn’t.
But this story is a nice capsule of the role elected
offi cials can play. From town and city
councillors and mayors, to MLAs, and your Mem-bers of Parliament in Ot-tawa, it’s important to re-member these people were elected to help and serve their constituents.
Please don’t be shy or hesitant about reach-ing out to them, including myself.
Most MLAs and MPs host open houses, and even if you can’t make it, they have staff to guide you along the way.
No matter where you live, I wish you nothing but the best this holiday season.
Ben Stewart is the Liberal MLA for West-side-Kelowna.
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Two men involved with the Hells Angels dished up their own variety of holiday spirit Tuesday, by allegedly assaulting a Kelowna Mountie.
The melee started shortly after 2 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 27, when Ke-lowna RCMP’s downtown enforce-ment unit came upon a fi ght in front of Sapphire nightclub on Leon Av-enue.
“When (RCMP) members moved in to make an arrest of the
main aggressor, one of the offi cers was jumped from behind, put into a head lock and punched in the face several times by a second male,” said Sgt. Ann Morrison.
Both men were arrested and taken into custody where their gang affi liations became clear.
Pedro Amestica, 39, is from Ke-lowna and has been charged with as-saulting a police offi cer and resisting arrest. “He does not have a crimin-al record and is a known associate of the Hells Angels Mission city chap-ter,” said Morrison.
The second man, Thomas Volk-
er, 37, is from Mission and has been charged with assaulting a police of-fi cer.
“He has a criminal record and is a member of the Hells Angels Mis-sion City Chapter,” she said.
Both men have been released and are set to appear in provincial court in Kelowna next month.
There were fi ve men involved in the tussle, and Morrison said it’s un-clear as of yet if the fi ght had any-thing to do with gang business.
As for the offi cer, he suffered minor injury to his face and head but did not require medical attention.
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HLADY: ANN (NEE TYMCHUK)
Born January 14, 1917, Ann passed away peacefully on
December 24, 2011 at the age of 94. Beloved wife of the late Michael Hlady, loving mother of Alvin (Sharon),
Audrey (Bernard Rousseau), Ruby (the late Tim Theilmann)
and Debbi (John Milligan), grandmother to Mark, Susan, Chantal, Angelina, Kathryn
and Alan, great-grandmother to Ben, Gavin, Ian, Isabel and
Carmen, dear sister of Ella (Hlady). She will be greatly missed by all. She was
predeceased by brothers Mike, Peter and Steve and sisters Nellie, Irene and Stella. Ann was born and raised in
Brokenhead, Manitoba and moved to the Okanagan in 1960, fi rst to Peachland and then in 1968 to Kelowna. A lover of
nature, she could often be found in her garden. Baba provided home-made meals to all who came to visit, and the
last year of her life was no exception. Whether she was known as Mom, Baba, Grandma, Great-Grandma or Ann,
she will be remembered fondly by family and friends for her devotion, caring, patience and kindness. The family wishes
to thank the staff of The Good Samaritan Society at Mountainview Village Assisted Living for their caring attitude towards our mother. Prayers will be held at the Chapel of First Memorial Funeral Services, 1211 Sutherland Ave on Monday, January 2, 2012 at 7:00 pm. A Funeral Mass will
be held at the Dormition of the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Parish, 1091 Coronation Avenue, Kelowna on
Tuesday, January 3 at 10:00 am. Interment will follow in the Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery.
Arrangements entrusted with First Memorial Funeral Services, Kelowna. 250-762-2299
PENNER, HELEN
Helen Penner went to be with her Lord on Sunday, December 25th, 2011 at the age of 93 years of age. She
is survived by her loving family; two daughters, Mary Schroeder of Calgary, AB, Ruth (Mervin) Neufeld of West
Kelowna, BC; two sons, David (Rita) of Sherwood Park, AB, Edwin (Peggy) of Belize, daughter-in-law Phyllis of Swift
Current, SK, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Sadly predeceased by her husband Frank and son Dennis. A time of visitation will be held at 2:00 pm on Friday, December 30, 2011, at Springfi eld Funeral Home, for those wishing to pay their last respects. Interment will take place at 2:45 pm at Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorial Service will
follow at 4:00 pm at Springfi eld Funeral Home, 2020 Springfi eld Road. In lieu of fl owers, memorial donations may be made to The Huntington Society of Canada: 13
Water Street North, PO 1269, Cambridge, ON, N1R 7G6 in Helen’s memory would be appreciated.
Condolences may be sent to the family by visitingwww.springfi eldfuneralhome.com,
250-860-7077.
POBLETE, MARCELA(1956 – 2011)
Passed away suddenly at Kelowna General Hospital
after a courageous and lengthy battle with herillness. Marcela will be
forever and lovingly missed by her husband Ivan Kurnik and children Jessica, Jenny and Mike. A Memorial Mass
will be held on Friday,December 30 at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church,
2547 Hebert Road, West Kelowna at 11:00 a.m.Messages of condolence
may be sent to thefamily by visiting
www.hansonsfuneral.com
PITTMAN - ANITAWe are going to miss you Mom, but we know you’ve missed dad, your dancing partner these past four months. And we know you’ve missed you son Roger for the last 39 years.
You and dad have left behind a wonderful legacy. Rogers’s wife Lynn (since remarried), Roger’s son Stephen Zaharia, wife Sylvie, their daughter Chloe, Son David, wife Penny, their daughter Amy Takekawa, husband Akira, their son Masato, their daughter Jessica and , and son JP (JamesPeter). Daughter Karen Berard and her husband Lee and
their sons Jason and Cody. Mom was born in St. Boniface, a suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba, 91 years ago. She was one of six children. All but one, her brother who is still living in
Winnipeg, have predeceased her. Mom moved to the Okanagan when she was 19 years old. She met the love of her life shortly thereafter and married him in 1943. After the war in 1947 they moved to Kelowna and resided in the same
house for 50 years. They paved paradise and put up aparking lot when the city tore down out home. Your priority
in life was providing a warm and loving home for your family. You were our energizer bunny, always ready to do
something. A trip somewhere, shopping and lunch, or a game of bridge or bowling. I know you’ve been missed these
last few years by the girls in your bridge club, as well as your bowling team. A Graveside Service will take place at
Lakeview Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Dry Valley Road on Friday, December 30th, 2011 at 11:00 AM, followed by a
Memorial Mass at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 839 Sutherland Ave at 1:00 PM. In lieu of fl owers, memorial
donations may be made to the Kidney Foundation inmemory of Anita. Condolences may be sent to the family by
visiting www.mem.com, clicking on stories and typing inAnita Pittman.
Arrangements entrusted with First Memorial Funeral Services, Kelowna. 250-762-2299
PYLATUIK, NICK Nick passed away quietly in Lethbridge, Alberta in his
87th year. Service will be held in the community hall at Beaverdell, BC. January 11th, 2012 from 1-3 pm.
Refreshments will follow in Nicks honor.All are welcome.
WESTGATE, VIOLET BEATRICEViolet Beatrice – Born on March 7, 1921 Passed
away on December 23, 2011 in Kelowna. Survived by her loving family: son, Daryl (Gail);
daughters, Darba and Dwli (James); six grandchildren, thirteen great grandchildren;
sisters, Dolores and Pat (Bob) as well as all of her extended family. A service will be held in the summer. In lieu of fl owers, donations to the B.C.
Children’s Hospital, 4480 Oak Street, B321 Vancouver, B.C. V6H3V4.
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STRAND, RALPH ELMO
Ralph Elmo Strand, age 93, of Kelowna BC, passed away gently on December 23, 2011.
Ralph was born to the late Nils and Anna Strand,
January 20, 1918 in the Alpine District of Manitoba, the third
of six children. He was predeceased by his wife,
Madeleine (Allard) in 1984, son Ralph in 1969, son David in 1974 and sons-in-law, Ron
Sclater (1979) and Mikko Sibakow (2009). He was also predeceased by his brothers Leonard, Arnold, Glen and sisters Irma and Irene. He is survived by four daughters,
Marlene Boback (Ernie) of Kelowna BC, Phyllis Willox (Bill) of Brandon MB, Bernice Sibakow of The Pas MB and Vera
Clark of Kelowna BC. Also surviving are nine grandchildren, Michael Boback (Corrine), Robert Boback (Tammy), Susan
Stewart (Dave), Michelle Boback Toufexis (Elias), Angie Willox, Sarah Stewart, Bryan Willox, Mikael Sibakow
(Brandy), Lindsay Sibakov, and seven great grandchildren, Makayla Boback, Ethan Boback, Bailey Sibakow, Samuel Stewart, Lincoln Boback, Madeleine Boback, and Isabella
Toufexis. A service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, December 30, 2011 at Springfi eld Funeral Home Chapel,
Kelowna BC. To accommodate family and friends in The Pas, Manitoba, a service will take place Tuesday,
January 3, 2012 at 1:00 pm at Hemauer Funeral Home. Interment at Lakeside Cemetery, The Pas, Manitoba.
In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made to the Canadian Lung Association.
Condolences and extended obituary may be viewed by visiting www.springfi eldfuneralhome.com 250-860-7077
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HandypersonsNEED a hand inside or outfrom painting to yard work.250-215-1712, 250-768-5032
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cabling services, Prompt quality service. Licensed & Bonded
Call Steve 250-864-2099 (cont#90929)
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• I nterior & Exterior Renovations• Carpentry• Painting• Small Repairs• Pressure Washing
• Kitchen & Bathroom Upgrades
• Yard Maintenance• Fences, Decks• Tile• Graffiti Removal
250-718-8879
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HIGH CALIBERCONSTRUCTIONRepair, Replace, Remodel.All Home & Office Reno’s.No Job Too Big or Small
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CeilingsBondable. Insurance Work
Call Terry250-863-9830 or 250-768-1098
FAMILY MOVERSLocal, Long Distance
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RENOVATIONS
NOW is the best time to prune or remove fruit trees or elms.
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Call Jeff 250-869-9583 250-868-1075
REFACE DON’T REPLACE1/2 the cost of replacing Corain & Granite Designs.
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CONTRACTORS
In business since 1989765-6898
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In businesssince 1989
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NEW LIFE CONSTRUCTIONConcrete Rejuvenation Specialists. 15 Years
Renovation Experience, Work Ethic & Respect second to none. Permits pulled & all jobs completed
on time. Call Spencer @778-214-9000
Services
Moving & StorageDAN-MEL MOVING SERVICES Local & long distance, also Fifth Wheel moving. 250-215-0147 or 250-766-1282
FAMILY Movers. Moving? Anything, anywhere. Local and long distance trips. Packing service available, weekly trips to Vancouver, Alberta, full and partial loads. Cheapest rates in the valley. Free Estimates, 250-493-2687
NORTH END Moving Service Local/Long Distance. Free Es-timates 250-470-9498
Painting & Decorating
CALL COR’S PAINTING. On time, on budget. Neat & tidy. Focus on repaints. Lic & ins. Senior discount. Cory Doell 250-768-8439
Services
Painting & Decorating
DALE’S PAINTING Service. Painting Kelowna a better place since 1982. 862-9333
PlumbingBAYSIDE Plumbing & Gas Fit-ting Service. Qualifi ed, reliable & Bonded. 250-317-2279DREGER MECH. Plumbing, Gasfi tting, comm/res & reno, ins’d, 24hr. Call 250-575-5878.
Rubbish Removal#1 AAA Junk Removal. Any-thing,Anytime,Anywhere! Con-struction/Appls. 250-469-3275
SnowclearingSNOW Removal, sanding, comm.lots/acreage.Tremblay’s Excavating. 250-979-8033
Services
SundecksKELOWNA DECK & RAIL. Vinyl, Mod. Flooring, Alum., GlassTopless/Picket878-2483.
TilingTILE Setter. Artistic Ceramics. Custom tile setting. Call 250-870-1009
Tree ServicesNOW is the best time to prune or remove fruit trees or elms, Blue Jay Lawn Care 575-4574
Pets & Livestock
Feed & Hay800 lb round bales: this years grass hay $50./bale, last years grass hay $25./bale. Shavings & Sawdust available 250-804-6720
Pets & Livestock
Feed & HayHAY FOR SALE; Grass or Grass Alfalfa mix, Round bales $70 each, approx. 800lbs. Large square bales, 3x3x8, $160/ton. Delivery avail. on larger orders. 250-838-6630
*HAY-SALES-GUARANTEED Quality Grass, Alfalfa, Mixed square bales, round bales & Silage bales. Delivery avail. (250)804-6081,(250)833-6763.
PetsCocker spaniel puppies, black/white, born Oct. 31, $450. 250-499-5397 Email: [email protected]
FREE Dog to a good home. Cane Corso Mix. 4yrs old. Some issues. Call for details 250-869-7245
Pets & Livestock
PoultryPULLETS, 16 week old pullets, ready for laying. We did all the work, now you enjoy. Sex-a-link large brown egg layers for $10/ea, $8.50 if over 12 chick-ens purchased. 250-549-5060
Merchandise for Sale
Camera EquipmentOLYMPUS Digital E 500 Camera 40-150 mm f3.5 - 4.5 Telephoto Lens. Lrg & small carrying cases, still brand new never used, paid $800 asking $500 Cash Firm. Have receipt. Call Bill (250)769-4765
$100 & Under6 year old kenmore washer. $100 (250)765-1633
Merchandise for Sale
$100 & UnderOLDER Model Maytag Dish-washer. Black front. Works great $100 250-763-6458
$200 & UnderComputer System, Windows Internet ready Excellent Cond. $200. 250-869-2363 Kelowna
$300 & UnderComputer Laptop, Windows, Wireless, Excellent Condition, $300. 250-869-2363 Kelowna
FirearmsBoxing Week Sale Tuesday- Friday at Weber & Markin Gunsmiths. The Best Little Gun Shop Around, 4-1691 Powick Road Kelowna 250-762-7575 Tues-Sat 10-6
Merchandise for Sale
Free ItemsFREE All white toilet, sink &tub., comes with cabinet andmost fi ttings & accessories. From a bathroom reno. Take all or nothing! Call 765-1541FREE Dog to a good home. Cane Corso Mix. 4yrs old.Some issues. Call for details250-869-7245FREE for the taking..old but very functional double sizesofa-bed. Call after 6pm, 250-765-2600FREE: Fridge, table & freezer. Call 250-768-4974 You pickupFREE Pick-up of used bicyclesthat you no longer want. Ok ifneed repair 604-800-2104FREE P/U- Appliances, Rads,Batteries, Old machinery, vehi-cles. Harley 778-821-1317FREE Stove, Washer & Dry-er. All white appliances, Youpick up. Call (250)768-4974
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Heavy Duty Machinery
Will pay cash for oversized scrap steel, cats, yarders, saw mill equipment, farm equipment, etc. All insurance in place to work on your property. 250-260-0217
Misc. for Sale4ft BIRD HOUSES, Tall old barn wood and vintage decorations, some from old mining ghost towns. Prices vary $75-$135, (250)542-0364CAN’T GET up your stairs? Acorn Stairlifts can help! No obligation consultation. Com-prehensive warranty. Can be installed in less than 1 hour. Call now 1-866-981-6591.
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*FIREWORKS FOR SALE!*At Duck Lake Race Trac Gas Winfi eld Hwy 97N 12-7 pm
Dec 26- Dec 31STEEL BUILDINGS End of season deals! Overstock must go - make an offer! Free deliv-ery to most areas. Call to check inventory and free bro-chure 1-800-668-5111 ext 170
Misc. WantedPRIVATE Buyer looking for old coin collections, mint sets & hoards of coins, specialty coins, loose, sets, etc. 250-864-3521WE will Pay 6.5x for silver coins. Can., US. Also buying gold. 778-932-2316
Sporting GoodsBoxing Week Sale Tuesday- Friday at Weber & Markin Gunsmiths. The Best Little Gun Shop Around, 4-1691 Powick Road Kelowna 250-762-7575 Tues-Sat 10-6
Stereo / DVD / TVTV Stand $30 & 2 TV’s $10 each. Call 250-764-6135
Real Estate
Apt/Condos for Sale55+ clean, bright top fl r condo. Cov’d parking, 6appls, extra storage. $185,900. MLS Char-lene Bertrand, Coldwell Bank-er, 250-870-1870MISSION Top Floor Condo - 1 bdrm, 1 bath, 866 sq ft, condo located in a well managed 50+ bldg. Beautiful unit. Close to all amenities. Price: $148,000.00. Call (250) 861-6882.Rutland 2BD, 2bth, spacious top fl r, 5appls, extra storage, secure prking, quiet conven-ient location. $186,500. MLS Charlene Bertrand, Coldwell Banker, 250-870-1870
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Mobile Homes & Parks
Down payment holding you back from moving into a
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$189,900 Tax included. Call Accent Homes
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✰Free washer /dryer.Factory outlet featuring Can-Am Palm Harbor Homes. Singles starting at $54,500 + Tax. 1500 sq ft. 3bed, 2bath Double section $109,500 + Tax. Includes shipping & handling within Lower B.C. Regions.Show Homes at: 1680 Ross Rd. West Kelowna.Accent Homes 250-769-6614 www.accenthomes.ca promo code 31/12/11VERY CLEAN 2bdrm, 1bath home RV parking, large cul de sac lot in Adult section. $79,900.00 No Tax. Accent Homes (250)-769-6614
Rentals
Apt/Condo for Rent1BDRM apt. for rent. Avail Now. secure building, close to all amenities, $650+ utilities. (250)-861-47002BD Condo, 1200sq’, 2car cov’d garage at door, storage. Small pets ok. WD. Chantel Pl. $1075. 250-575-44842BDRM 2bth Ground Floor Access with Small Outdoor Patio. 55+ building NP, NS, no children. $890/mo. Bertram and Bernard. Live-in manager Contact Gord (250)860-4056BROCKTON MANOR. 1 & 2 bedrooms. The large, bright units are a short walk to down-town, hospital, beach & shop-ping. Transit is right outside the door. Please call us at 250-860-5220CONDO copper sky new 1 bd lakeview, 6 appl, ac, sec park/storg, pool, tennis gym etc non smoker/pets. 250-769-0530FAIRLANE CRT. 2 & 3 bdrms, heat & hot water incl. Located on Lawrence near Gordon, close to downtown & Capri shopping mall. Please call 250-860-4836MILL CREEK ESTATES. Vari-ous fl oor plans avail. 1, 2 & 3 bdrms within walking distance of the Parkinson rec center, Apple Bowl, Kelowna Golf & Country Club & Spall Plaza. 250-860-4836. [email protected] Bedroom downtown. Everything is new. Close to lake & bus. $900 Call 778-753-3656 or 778-214-0087WILLOW PARK MANOR. Aurora and Hollywood. 1 & 2 bdrms. Steps away from Wil-low Park shopping center, transit & the other shops of Rutland. Direct bus route to UBCO. 12-15mins. 250-763-3654
Rentals
Apt/Condo for RentAPARTMENTS FOR RENT
in Granada Gardens for Nov & beyond, ranging from
$800-$850/mo 250-766-4528, 250-718-0881
Duplex / 4 Plex2bdrm reno’d, 4 appls, NS. NP. working couple pref’d $1000 + utils. Ref’s req’d. Avail Jan.1 after 6pm 861-1059
2bdrms w/d, yard, 2prking spots. Reno’d. Beautiful area. $900 + utils. Avail Jan. 1 (250)470-0000
3BD, 2bth, 5appl, skylights, carport, near hospital, college, lake, bus & Mission Mall. NS, NP. $1300+utils, ref’s. 250-826-7501, 250-763-5225
Available Immediately 4 plex unit 2bdrm + den 1.5 bath st ,fr, Quiet area 610 Katherine Rd near Westside Rd $1000/mo + utils. 250-769-0109, 250-878-9970
Modular HomesOKANAGAN Villa. Adult Park, 55 and over. No pets, 1bdrm, $875/mo. Call 250-765-1758
Homes for Rent2BD. Upper, $1100 2BD Low-er $1000 or All $2000 ac, gas f/p up, 2-car grge, shared heat, Avail now, 250-868-7360
3 bed 2 bath that is close to schools. $1300 + util Pet neg 250-300-7377 for an appt
4BD house, 2bth, Lake Coun-try, $1500. Call 778-483-1247 or 250-863-1102
5Bdrm /bsmt inlaw suite in 1/2 Duplex 2200 sqft.,close to bus hosp lake Lrg yard garden space, $1900 (250)868-9059 or text (250)-863-5164
Beautiful new 4bdrm home, great location in Lake Country. f/p, ensuite bath, a/c. Rent in-cludes utilities, n/s, n/p, $1675. Call anytime. (250)550-4096
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DROWNING IN THE RENTAL POOL? If you can make monthly mortgage payments but don’t have a down payment, you may be eli-gible for a $45K non-repayable grant to put down on a brand new home-no strings attached! Contact us about the Project Build II At-tainable Housing program today! Gino 250.317.2707 or [email protected]
UPPER Mission Lakeview. Lovely 3bd, 3bath, + fully fi n-ished bsmnt. Pets OK, Avail Jan.1, $2050. 778-577-5007
Offi ce/RetailNEWLY reno’d offi ce space, w/lake view. 700sq.ft. $800 + T.N. 250-768-9083 Westbank
Room & BoardFURNISHED Large Living Space, Priv. Ent., Shared Full Kitchen, Bth & Lndry, utils. incl. NS $800 (250)718-7455
Rooms for Rent#1 Accesible address. DT area, furn’d, cable, w/d, w.int, quiet, avail immed. 862-9223
#1 Available, Furn’d. Quiet DT area,Int,Cbl/Utils. WD. Wrking/ stdnt/senior $400+ 861-5757
ROOM for rent. High speed int, all utils incl. $500. Call 250-862-4624
Rentals
Shared Accommodation
787 Harvey Ave. 2bdrm, 1bath walk to amenities NS. NP. $800. (250)-863-0285
AVAIL immed. 1bd $460 utils incl. Downtown Hospital Area, Bus Route, 778-478-1316FURNISHED big room down-town by bus. Working person or student. $450 monthly $200 deposit call 250 861-6104OC-UBCO-CATO Profl , $400 utils, int, cbl, +DD. NS, Cntrl, immed / Mar 1. 250-860-7108ROOMMATE wanted from $450. 250-860-8106, 250-718-3968
Suites, Lower1BD, avail now. Rutland. Near schools/shops. $650 incl utils. NP. bus route. 250-863-1302.1BD suite. Up. Mission, bright, quiet, priv entry, laundry,$800 share utils. Pets negot. (250)764-9798 no calls after 92BD bsmt suite avail. Rutland area. $800 incl utils. Nov. 1st. NS, NP. Call 250-864-74042BD. Lg., KLO & Gordon, ns, np, nprty’s, $900.mo. incl. utils. Cls. to bus rte. 250-763-12752 BDRM Suite avail. for rent in Mission. Near school & bus. NP, NS. $900 250-317-3462360 Wallace Rd. 1bd grnd-lvl bsmt suite, $625 incl utils. Avail immed. 604-758-2206BRIGHT 2bd, Capri area, gas FP, own lndry, utils incl, cats ok. NS. 250-869-7144BRIGHT w/o basement suite in peachland, close to lake, 2bd + den, new kitchen, good soundproofi ng, 5 appl, $850/mo. + 1/2 utils. NS,small pets only. Call (250)878-2193WEST Kelowna, Avail Jan 1st, large, bright, above ground bachelor suite. Near bus, pre-fer single, working female. No pets, $600 + DD, utils incl. Share lndry. 769-7286
Suites, Upper1BDRM Suite. Shared W/D. L.Mission. $750/mo + utils. Avail. Immed. 250-215-15623 bedrm 2 ba Upper fl oor of house. Separate laundry, util., and entrance. Large yard and full attached garage. Rutland area close to schools and YMCA. 1350/month + utilities. NP NS Avail Jan 1st or ASAP.. Contact Don at 250 764 8305.789 Harvey Ave. 3bdrm, 2bath walk to amenities NS. NP. $1350. (250)-863-0285PEACHLAND. Close to lake, spectacular views, 3bdrm, upper level, NS, pets ok. See pics on Castanet. $1050/mo. plus 1/2 utilities. 250-878-2193Vernon: EastHill, modern re-no’d 3bdrm, 6 appl, ac, cat ok, $1100. all inclusive. avail. Jan 1/15 or Feb 1. Damage De-posit not necessary in 1st month. 250-938-1889 aft 6pm
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ICEPRO Winter tires, 275/ 65/R18. $750. Call 250-317-4815
LYLE’S TOWING Free remov-al of unwanted vehicles. Pay up to $1000 for good vehicles. Lots of used parts for sale. 765-8537
SCRAP Car Removal. $100 cash paid for unwanted vehi-cles. 7 days/week Call Paul Haul (250)808-9593
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Cars - Domestic2003 Monte Carlo 3400 V6-100,000kms, some SS equip, snows on wheels, $6000 Firm. 250-860-0521
2007 Pontiac Wave, blue, au-to, 59,000 kls, exc. cond., sun-roof, fully loaded, theft immob, asking $9000 obo, no dealer fees, phone 250-545-7594
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Scrap Car Removal1AA SCRAP CAR REMOVALMin $60 cash for full size vehi-cles, any cond. 250-899-0460
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Trucks & Vans2006 Ford E-450 with ambu-lance body, diesel, all emer-gency equipment, very clean, recent inspection $24,900obo 250-546-0994
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JANUARY • Mount Boucherie Sec-
ondary School principal John Simonson was named one of the top 32 principals in Can-ada. Simonson was acknow-ledged for improving oppor-tunities for aboriginal students at his previous school: Const. Neil Bruce Middle School.
• Crystal Mountain Resort general manager, Mike Morin, said that business had already been much better on the ski hill than it was the previous sea-son. “Last year, the Olympics really hurt us,” said Morin.
• Jamie Naka, a Mount Boucherie Secondary graduate and training opera singer, re-turned to Kelowna to preform art songs, English pieces and a few Canadian contempor-ary songs.
• Talks moved forward for an additional community gar-den on the Westside; demand was high with waiting lists for spots in all the other Central Okanagan gardens.
• Assessed values climbed for Westside residential and commercial properties but the Westbank town centre core took a hit, according to the B.C. Assessment Authority.
•A national cancer study kicked off in West Kelowna. The B.C. Generations Project’s goal was to gather information on cancer and other illness-es from B.C. residents. A West Kelowna clinic gave residents the chance to contribute infor-mation and biological samples to the research effort.
• Kelowna conservation of-fi cer Ed Seitz made use of his days roping cattle to save the life of a young buck trapped in the deep end of an empty swimming pool in West Ke-lowna. Seitz lassoed the deer so a tranquilizer could be safe-ly administered.
• Lavern Panich, a West-side music teacher, was rec-ognized by the Lions Club for his long record of work in the community. Panich beat out close to 200 nominees to earn the Westside Citizen of the Year award.
• West Kelowna council asked for a face-to-face meet
ing with the Central Okanag-an Board of Education to ex-plain the district’s resistance to funding school land purchases through a charge on Westside developers.
• District of West Kelowna council granted an appeal for a six month extension on the by-law amendment required for a beach resort project proposed for West Bay Road.
• A bench was installed on the Peachland waterfront in memory of Ashlee Hyatt, the 16-year-old who lost her life in June, 2010.
• West Kelowna opted to not enter into the running to have a correctional centre built in the area.
• yahoooDistrict council decided not to complete the entire recreational corridor at
Gellatly Bay in 2011. Coun. David Knowles argued that the district should bite the bul-let and complete the project. “It has become quite a destina-tion,” said Knowles.
•West Kelowna council de-cided to move forward with a
provisional tax increase of just over four per cent in its 2011 budget.
•West Kelowna agreed to provide $5,000 in fi nan-cial support to the Okanag-an Symphony Orchestra in ex-change for OSO services and
programs for West Kelowna schools.
• Several community groups walked away with less than they asked for in cash gifts as West Kelowna council looked at grants-in-aid during the 2011 budget process.
• A West Kelowna man ar-rested in October, 2010, in connection to an alleged at-tempt to import cocaine into Canada in a fruit grinding ma-chine, was granted bail.
•A small chunk of funding allowed crews to get started re-moving some of the forest fi re fuels on the Westside. The fi rst areas to be treated were: Black Canyon Park, Rock Ridge Park, Casa Palmero Park, Falkner Creek Park, Shan-non Highlands Park and Hor-izon Park.
• Getting rid of the divid-ed highway in West Kelowna came in at the top of the list for Westside capital projects that required provincial backing.
• West Kelowna council voted to work with the Cen-tral Okanagan Garden Society on a new community garden at the northern end of Shannon Woods Park.
FEBRUARY • Westside-Kelowna MLA
Ben Stewart requested input from constituents about the
issues affecting residents on the Westside. “It’s really get-ting things prioritized in our area, so when it comes to issues around capital, we know clearly what we want,” said Stewart.
• West Kelowna became more welcoming to the world with the addition of a part-time extension of immigrant servi-ces through Kelowna Com-munity Resources. The agency rented a room in the West Ke-lowna Visitor’s Centre with services available every Tues-day morning.
• A homeowner’s associ-ation in West Kelowna asked the B.C. Assessment Author-ity to justify what it said seems to be an increasingly random method of property valuation. “We feel they’re failing,” said West Kelowna Residents’ As-sociation director, Carl Zanon.
• Copper wiring was stolen from West Kelowna street-lights at a great cost to the dis-trict and its taxpayers. Accord-ing to police, thefts resulted in $20,000 worth of damage to the streetlights.
• District of West Kelow-na council rejected an invita-tion to participate in a plan by the regional waste reduction offi ce to keep electronic tabs on residents’ waste disposal patterns and take photos of bin contents.
• West Kelowna council nixed a pay raise for itself and remained at the 2010 levels of remuneration. With no in-crease, West Kelowna council salaries remained at $60,853 for the mayor and $20,501 for councillors.
• A counteroffer was made by the District of West Ke-lowna on the Whitworth land exchange proposal that re-mained unsettled after more than a year. Council passed a motion to offer an exchange of the Whitworth Road and 4129 Gellatly Rd. properties, with an added contribution of $300,000 and a 12-foot-wide right of way down to the lake.
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• West Kelowna coun-cil opted to fence off the aging CNR wharf from divers. Council also de-cided that moving the existing diving platform at Gellatly Bay would not make the popular swim-ming area any safer.
• District council set its priorities for the com-ing year. They included: Economic development, community enhancement, infrastructure works, water system and targeted road improvements.
• A quantity of wild meat and sausages valued at $500 was stolen from the West Kelowna Food Bank.
• Erika Nairismagi, a student at Mount Bouche-rie Secondary School, was named the recipi-ent of the 2011 Global Citizen Week Kelowna youth citizen of the year award. Nairismagi re-ceived $1,000 towards her ongoing education.
• Tourism initiatives promoting the Westside
continued, but the organ-izing committee formerly run under the auspices of the Westbank and District Chamber of Commerce was directed to start re-porting directly to local governments beginning in April.
• A Westbank Shop-ping Centre went up for sale. The portion for sale was listed at 73,910-squarefeet, was 99 per cent leased and includ-ed tenants such as White Spot, Wendy’s, TD Can-ada Trust, Starbucks, Landmark Cinemas, Tim Horton’s, Blockbust-er Video, Lammle’s Li-quor Depot, The Source, Westbank Shoes and Wok Box.
MARCH • Regan Toker, a busi-
nessman and father of two, was killed in the col-lapse of a warehouse loft off Kyle Road. The 36-year-old warehouse and sales manager was be-neath a wooden storage structure inside the Col-lins-Toker Agencies Ltd. building when it col-lapsed, bringing down a heavy load of materials stockpiled there.
• The Interior Health Authority awarded Glenr-osa Middle School teach-er Mary Anna Cimbaro
a small grant to purchase composters for the school garden, which were used as part of the Grade 7, 8 and 9 food security coursework.
• Peachland’s water-front was nominated as one of the Great Places in Canada: An online competition hosted by the Canadian Institute of Planners that got people across the country to vote for their favourite places.
• West Kelowna coun-cil sought public opinion to help create a plan that would balance develop-ment, recreation and ecol-ogy for the future of the district’s waterfront.
• Following a meet-ing between West Kelow-na and Interior Health Au-thority offi cials, it was re-vealed that an urgent care centre, which would have provided health care ser-vices such as day surgery, was not likely to be built anytime soon.
• Claire Sokoloski, a local district commission-er for Girl Guides, was named West Kelowna’s 2011 Citizen of the Year.
• The federal govern-ment announced it would grant Westbank First Na-tion $102,000 over the next two years to help im-prove living conditions for band members living
on two Westside reserves.• West Kelowna coun-
cil gave the green light to consumption-based bill-ing for water utility cus-tomers in West Kelowna Estates, the Pritchard area and in the former Lake-view Irrigation District where users were previ-ously paying a fl at rate for water.
• Only 12 residents showed up to talk with the mayor, councillors and municipal staff about the 2011 municipal budget and answer fi ve questions aimed at garnering public response.
• West Kelowna coun-cil rejected a request from the Westbank and District Chamber of Commerce to have a councillor sit on its board. “We should remain objective, and sitting on the bord would make that diffi cult,” said Coun. Bry-den Winsby.
• District of West Ke-lowna council was ap-plauded after it was deter-mined that the new West Kelowna RCMP building was constructed success-fully, under budget.
APRIL • Anthony von Man-
dl explained his desire for expanding Mission Hill Estate Winery to mem-bers of the West Kelowna Residents Association. He said he wants to attract the kind of visitor who is “re-
cession proof.”• Two doctors, who
perform Liberation and stem cell treatments over-seas, came to West Ke-lowna to discuss their fi ndings. The Multiple Sclerosis Society of West Kelowna and the Re-formed MS Society of Canada brought the infor-mation session to the Em-manuel Church.
• The Central Okanag-an Regional District in-vestigated the possibility of giving Westbank First Nation a vote. In 2007, WFN was given an invi-tation to sit at the CORD table as a non-voting member.
• The Central Oka-nagan Regional District worked to remove pine beetle infested pine trees in West Kelowna. Sta-cey Harding, parks super-visor for the DWK, said that they had complet-ed 19 pine beetle removal projects in parks and dis-trict-owned land so far in 2011.
• Ground was broken on the Okanagan Lake Shopping Centre, a small outdoor mall that would be located just south of the Westbank First Nation offi ce building. The facil-ity was said to include a multi-screen movie the-atre and several retail out-lets.
• Dan Albas stepped up his federal election
campaign as the Conserv-ative Party representative in Okanagan-Coquihalla.
• Summerland NDP candidate David Finn-is said he is very familiar with the Westside. While on the federal election campaign trail, he said, “The advantage I bring is that I live in one part of the riding, but I have worked in (the Westside) for 11 years.”
• Westbank First Na-tion and the Okanagan Regional Library board signed an agreement that provided a library ser-vice to the total on-reserve population.
• West Kelowna’s de-sire to cut three under-utiliized bus routes in or-der to add Bus Rapid Transit to the system hit a procedural roadblock. Despite ordering muni-cipal staff at a meeting in March to prepare a com-munications plan based on the recommended “route rationalization” that would see buses serv-ing the Smith Creek, Bear Creek and Horizon neigh-bourhoods axed, coun-cil seemed to have second thoughts. In the end coun-cil opted to have staff identify the next steps to implement changes to the transit system.
• Coun. Bryden Wins-by questioned the traffi c issues that would come with Mission Hill Family
Estate Winery’s expan-sion. “I agree it’s a won-derful facility, but I am still concerned about traf-fi c,” said Winsby.
• West Kelowna used the Southern Interior Lo-cal Government Associ-ation to support a call for a registry for scrap metal dealers in a bid to stop copper wire theieves.
• Water-parched resi-dents of Upper Glenr-osa were offered some re-lief by the District of West Kelowna in the form of a bulk water dispensing system.
• The race for the Oka-nagan-Coquihalla seat in the Federal Election grew by one when a sixth can-didate, Dr. Dietrich Wit-tel, announced he would run as an independent on a platform he said sup-ports healthy, educated people, who are more productive and require less medical intervention.
• Although its con-struction wouldn’t be hap-pening anytime soon, the land earmarked for a new West Kelowna health cen-tre was fi nally rezoned to allow it to be built one day.
MAY• Mayor Doug Find-
later said taxpayers were on the hook for another $42,000 as a contribution to more than $227,000 paid by the Central Oka-nagan School District to build a path for students to get safely to Mount Boucherie Secondary School during construc-tion to Royal LePage Place.
• The Bear Creek Park boat launch was closed by the Regional District of the Central Okanag-an. The launch had been in trouble for some time as silt and sediment, along with low water levels, forced the district to act immediately.
• The body of a driver, believed to be in his 60s, whose Cadillac careened into the lake after alleged-ly sideswiping another car on Westside Road, was recovered.
• Dan Albas was elect-ed MP of the Okanagan-Coquihalla region. Albas earned 53.6 per cent of the total votes and joined Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s 167-seat Con-servative Party majority government.
• West Kelowna coun-cil killed a controversial proposed land swap that would have seen the dis-trict give up a small strip of waterfront land at the intersection of Whitworth Road and George Court in return for a larger prop-erty to expand Marina Park and $300,000.
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• Mayor Doug Find-later announced that he would seek a second term as the mayor of West Ke-lowna.
• Martha Jenkins, de-scribed by one of her nominators as “an in-defatigable worker for her community,” was pre-sented with the commun-ity’s top honour—the Cit-izen of the Year award— at the recent annual Spirit of Peachland Awards ceremony.
• With the Westbank and District Chamber of Commerce announcing that it would close the Westbank Tourism Vis-itor Centre, the munici-pality struck a deal with the local museum society to operate a visitor centre out of the museum for the spring and summer.
• A group of West Kelowna teenagers re-quested that DWK coun-cil pay more attention to the needs of youth in the community. Student Voice, a group of Mount Boucherie Secondary
leadership students, told council that they want-ed to see a police liaison program at their school, an annual Westside youth forum to provide input re-garding issues and assist-ance to local businesses that want to open facilities where young people can congregate.
• West Kelowna coun-cil decided to postpone any decision to accelerate its proposed multi-million road rehabilitation pro-gram until the following year. The program, which could see the district re-pave 200 km of road fast-er than would usually be the case, could cost West Kelowna as much as $48 million.
• A group of West Ke-lowna residents asked the municipality to force pri-vate property owners in their area to clean up land the residents feel presents a potential forest fi re haz-ard to their homes. But the request by residents of Huntsville Green, a strata development off Horizon Drive, did not fi nd much support from council.
• Gordon Minaker, a student at Mount Bouche-rie Secondary School, won a total of $2,300 in scholarship and bursary awards for his presenta-tion about cardiopulmon-ary resuscitation at the highest level science fair in Canada.
JUNE • A Peachland fi re-
works display celebrated the life of Ashlee Hyatt, who was murdered in June, 2010.
• Construction on the Westside Road overpass caused rush hour traffi c back-ups on the William R. Bennett Bridge.
• Students of Our Lady of Lourdes Elemen-tary School in West Ke-lowna showed their sup-port for the Vancouver Canucks’ drive for the Stanley Cup by sporting jerseys and team colours.
• The sensitive en-vironmental area of Bald Range on the Westside was closed to dirt bik-ers and ATV riders. They were fenced off Bald Range to protect the
grassland area.• West Kelowna was
accused of discriminat-ing against a resident who is disabled. Glenn Olien, whose partner Linda For-ner required a large rec-reational vehicle for her living accommodation, said the municipality has a duty to reasonably ac-commodate people with disabilities, and as a re-sult, should allow a “re-laxation” of its bylaws to allow the RV to be con-nected to their existing property’s sewer and elec-trical systems.
• The offi cial start of construction began on the West Kelowna spray park. The Westbank Rotary Club raised $249,000 to make the project happen.
• Gloria Taylor, 63, who was diagnosed with ALS—popularly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease—18 months ago, joined a lawsuit aimed at giv-ing Canadians the right to physician-assisted sui-cide. “I will die with dig-nity,” vowed Taylor.
• Quails’ Gate win-ery’s Pinot Gris won
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