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Locally owned and operated by Colin Powell.
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School closures opposedParents speak out about loss of two elementary schools
Dale BoydBlack Press
At least 200 parents and students gathered on the front lawn of the School District 67 offices ahead of the official clos-ure of two elementary schools.
School district officials were tasked with trimming just over $1 million from the budget, deciding earlier this month to close three schools including West Bench Elementary and Trout Creek Elementary.
Wednesday night trustees will make the closures official when the final reading of the school closure bylaw is con-sidered.
Emma Wolff attended the rally with her two children who attend Trout Creek Elementary, a five year old daughter Olivia and a seven year old son Elias.
The school closure process has been a lengthy and uneasy one for Wolff since the district set out on balancing the budget last year.
“It’s been really frustrating, especially because Trout Creek came to the table so suddenly and we had so little time to prepare,” Wolff said.
Protesting school closuresTrout Creek students Emily Jell, left, and sisters Bella and Jessica Collins rallied to save their school Tuesday in front of the School District 67 offices in Penticton.
Dale Boyd Black Press
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Emotions ran high as par-ents of Trout Creek Elementary School students and others in the community met last Wed-nesday to discuss a response to the school closure decision.
An estimated 170 people attended the meeting, which was held at Summerland Bap-tist Church.
Earlier this month, Okanag-an Skaha School Board trustees voted to close three schools, including Trout Creek.
The adoption is scheduled for a board meeting on March 30.
The elementary school has a capacity of 277 students but its enrolment at present is 182 students.
The closure will have far-reaching effects in Summerland as the grade structure at the remaining three schools would change. Under the closure model, Summerland students from Kindergarten to Grade 3 would attend Giant’s Head Elementary School, students in Grades 4 to 7 would attend Summerland Middle School and students in Grades 8 to 12 would attend Summerland Secondary School.
Sharon Mansiere, one of the moderators at the meeting, urged a respectful tone.
“We have the potential to pull together as a community or to pull apart,” she said.
She added that the school district’s financial constraints
mean any budget and facilities decision will have far-reaching effects.
“If this closure doesn’t hap-pen, what is going to be cut?” she asked.
According to school district statistics, closing Trout Creek Elementary School is expected to save $423,882.
School district officials have said the budget must be trimmed by approximately $1.025 million this year, with further reductions of at least $750,000 every year after that
until enrolment numbers increase.
Those in the audience said the closure is a mistake and a short-sighted decision.
Jane Compardo said there are 74 new building lots in Trout Creek, including 56 on the market at present.
She added that the real estate agents are specifically targeting young families with these lots.
“There are definitely young families buying in our area,” she said. “There is significant interest. I am seeing growth in
this region.”Mayor Peter Waterman said
Summerland is experiencing growth. In 2015, 42 building permits were issued for resi-dential units. This represents a population growth of slight-ly less than one per cent.
New Demo-crat MLA Jodie Wickens, the party’s dep-uty education
spokesperson, attended the meeting.
She said 240 schools across B.C. have been closed over the past 10 years as boards have had to deal with budget con-straints.
“Our children are not an accounting exercise,” she said.
Coun. Doug Holmes said the closure decision is a dis-appointing blow for the com-munity.
“Summerland is short-changed all the time,” he said.
Christy Tiessen, a parent who has spoken out against the Trout Creek closure and the ear-lier suggestion to close Giant’s Head Elementary School, said any closure decision should be made slowly.
“Closing Trout Creek is not necessary this year,” she said.
Organizers are planning a rally at the school district office in Penticton on Tuesday, March 29 at 3 p.m.
In addition, some of the organizers will make a presen-tation at the board meeting on Wednesday, March 30, before the final reading of the school closure bylaw is considered.
Parents seek change to decision
Discussing closure concernsLora Nield, left, and Sharon Mansiere moderated a meeting of parents and others concerned with the impeding closure of Trout Creek Elementary School. The meeting was held on March 23 at Summerland Baptist Church.
A letter from Summerland par-ents urged the community’s two school board trustees to reverse the decision to close the elementary school.
The letter, from Mike Pleasance, on behalf of nearly 700 Summerland residents who had signed a peti-tion, was sent to trustees Linda Van Alphen and Julie Planiden.
The decision to close Trout Creek Elementary School and two other schools in the Okanagan Skaha School District was made on March 9. The final reading of the bylaw was on March 30.
“You have an opportunity on March 30th at the final reading to do something none of us can,” the
letter read. “You can be a champion for your
community and reverse the deci-sion to close Trout Creek Elementary School and re-configure Summer-land schools.”
In the letter, Pleasance said there are many in the community who want to see Trout Creek Elementary School remain open.
In addition to the peti-tion, there were 82 sur-vey responses and 61 let-ters received by the school board, outlining the nega-tive aspects of closing the elementary school.
“The community of Sum-
merland has spoken; there must be a better solution for educating our children than what has been pro-posed and we can find it if we try,” the letter read.
Letter urges trustees to reconsider vote
The future of a schoolOn March 9, trustees voted to close Trout Creek Elementary School in Summerland. Since that time, parents have been urging trustees to reconsider their decision.
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I am in the middle of moving and I can say, without reser-vation, that moving stinks.
The packing, clean-ing and everything about it. Stinks.
We have too much stuff. I’m talking not only for me but in the broader sense. Why do we need so much stuff?
I have a storage unit full of things that I never need during the course of my day. In fact, much of it I haven’t looked at in more than a year.
I hold onto things on the off chance I might need them someday.
Someday has yet to come.
Every Tuesday at 1 p.m., the sidewalk in front of our offices on Victoria Road are swarmed with people going to the Auxiliary Thrift Store.
I watch as they march by with their treasures.
Retail therapy is a
real thing.I’m convinced I
could live without 90 per cent of the items in that storage unit, however when it comes time to purge I doubt I will be able to part with those items.
I had a conversa-tion recently regard-ing what kind of place I could live in.
I have always thought I could live rather simply. Small apartment, no stor-age necessary.
The truth is I want a large home and enjoy being able to have space to spread out. I’m not sure I
could sacrifice.The biggest thing
that stinks about moving is change. Different surround-ings, different bed-time routine, differ-ent neighbours, dif-ferent drive to work.
Change is hard. Adjusting to
change can be frus-trating.
Why can’t every-thing just remain the same?
I’m convinced that is why most people, in small towns like Summerland, fear density. It’s nothing to do with aesthetics or lost views.
It’s the change. We place value on
having a yard, a base-ment, a workshop. We can’t imagine why anyone would want
to live in a multi-stor-ey building.
That would require a huge purge of belongings for most home dwellers.
The more years in the home, the lar-ger the garbage bin required.
So I return to the question. Why do we need so much stuff?
Do we fear change so much that we are afraid to throw out
that old lamp shade from the 1980s?
It’s comforting, knowing that if I need a small piece of carpet, I probably have it in a bin some-where.
One never knows when you might need the old cell phone charger for the phone you don’t own anymore.
What about the rolls and rolls of elec-trical tape? Never know...better keep it.
I can rationalize keeping almost any-thing.
It’s a disease. In honour of
spring, I’m going to brave the change and get rid of lots of the precious belongings packed away in stor-age.
I will sell what’s worth selling, donate what I can — and probably watch it walk by in the hands of a happy thrift store customer.
I will not let my hoarder brain ration-alize keeping that Calgary Flames fin-ger from 1988 or that pack of electrical switches for a house I no longer own.
Or the jar of nails. Wait. I may need
those nails. Better keep them.Rob Murphy is
the sales manager at the Summerland Review.
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The Summerland Chamber of Commerce’s new #discoverhome cam-paign, which was launched March 30, uses video to encourage Summerlanders to shop locally.
The message is that there are far-reaching benefits which come as a result of keeping money circulating in the com-munity.
While we can appreciate the positive tone of this campaign, the initiative is a bit puzzling.
The period of the campaign, beginning in spring and continuing until early fall, coincides with the peak of the tourism season.
This is the time of year when retailers, wineries and businesses in the hospitality and service sectors are working to attract visitors to the community.
This is not the time when one would expect to see a shop local initiative.
And even during the winter season, when the support of local customers is far more important, the message of the #dis-coverhome campaign seems to fall flat.
At its core, it is like so many other local shopping promotions and initiatives, used by many other chambers of commerce.
Such campaigns encourage local shopping as a way of showing support for the community.
In the case of #discoverhome, the benefit is to organizations which serve the community.
Hometown pride is fine, but when it comes to drawing customers, it’s not enough.
Customers need tangible reasons for dealing with local businesses.
The most successful businesses con-sistently offer a good product, good ser-vice and good value for the money.
Customers will remain loyal to such businesses and they will tell their friends about the treatment they have received.
Businesses which understand this are the ones which also succeed in main-taining a customer base — with or without a local shopping campaign.
EDITORIALPromoting
local shopping
I’m convinced I could live without 90 per cent of the items in that storage unit, however when it comes time to purge I doubt I will be able to part with those items.
From here
Rob Murphy
Dear Editor:Tom Fletcher recently
suggested that the nanny-state is making Grand
Theft Auto a favourite pastime of Canadian ado-
lescents and druggies. Two weeks ago they
played the game with my car in Abbotsford.
The thief/thieves jimmied a closed window and the ignition of our 1990 vin-tage Honda, put their just-stolen plunder in the trunk and drove across town, pre-sumably home.
The police, the towing company, and ICBC made it clear that this is common, and without conse-quences to the perps; prosecut-ing and incarcer-ating them costs the government more than let-ting us pay our $300 deduct-ibles and letting ICBC/insurance pay the damages over and over again.
F u n d i n g “drug bazaars” like Vancouver’s East Hastings developments , and a stoned-criminal class is the governments’ idea of charity. Who are these politicians real-ly working for? You? Your chil-
dren? Who truly bene-fits?
Mr. Fletcher inadver-tently points to the family as the real solution.
He notes that isolated, rural farming facilities are a better alternative than subsidized “low barrier” booze and drug saturated “harm reduction” pro-grams.
Of course they are. He warns, however,
that they are “costly pro-grams.”
Of course they are; like everything else funded by money we have forced from our fellow citizens at government gunpoint (taxes).
But the historically therapeutic and success-ful Canadian family farm was not a “costly pro-gram.”’
It still is not. Families working
together is not costly. The family living and
eating together, laugh-ing and learning togeth-er, growing food togeth-er is not costly — it is rich.
Whether rural or urban, the family is the answer.
There is no other that even comes close.
All legislation must be family-friendly.
Jonathan SevyPenticton
Construction then; renovations nowThanks to a group of residents who were passionate about preserving our history, Summerland’s first museum was con-structed in 1971. It was a small brick addition on the north side of the arena, big enough to store artifacts and even exhibit a few items. As of 1983, the museum has occupied a much larger building close to the same spot. While the original structure was demolished, we don’t want that to happen to the present one. However, after 33 years it is in need of a bit of facelift so we will be undertaking a few interior renovations. Please note that we will be closed as of April 1 with plans to reopen by early June. We’d appreciate it if you could hold onto potential donations until that time. If that’s not possible, or if you have an urgent research request, please call us at 250-494-9395.
Photo courtesy of the Summerland Museum
THE EARLY YEARS
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Last week the Liberal govern-ment tabled the first budget for the 42nd Parliament in Ottawa.
As some may recall during the recent election the Liberals prom-ised their first two budgets would have deficits capped at $10 billion each year before returning to a balanced budget in 2019.
The budget announced this week with a deficit of $30 Billion adds more debt than what was promised over the entire term and does not forecast a return to being balanced in 2019.
With such a large increase in defi-cit spending the obvious question is where is this bor-rowed money going to be spent?
While it is diffi-cult to summarize a budget document in
a single MP report I can list some of the areas that are tar-geted for increased spending.
Public transit will see spending of $3.4 billion over the next three years.
While public tran-sit is not available in some parts of Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola it will be helpful in others.
Green infrastruc-ture is another area in the budget tar-geted for $5 billion in spending over the next five years
Spending on First Nations will also be significantly increased in Budget 2016 with a commit-ment of $8.4 billion over five years.
There are many First Nations com-munities within Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola and this funding can help ensure many much needed pro-
jects and programs are completed that are beneficial to the region.
In spite of such a large increase in deficit spend-ing there are areas where spending will be decreased or other programs will be eliminated in this budget.
One example of this is $3.7 billion in planned military equipment spend-ing is being deferred down the road.
In addition, expenditures such as the children’s fit-ness and children’s art credit are being phased out starting by reducing them in half for 2016 and eliminated in 2017.
On a more local note Budget 2016 does propose to re-open the Veter-ans Affairs office in Kelowna although one cannot not be certain if this means at the same location
nor does the budget specify an exact date.
From a British Columbia perspec-tive ferries built out-side of Canada and imported to prov-inces operating ferry fleets will no longer be subject to a 25 per cent tariff.
The 15 per cent mineral exploration tax credit that was introduced by the former government and was set to expire at the end of March will be extended for another year until March of 2017.
Given the import-ance of mining to many regions within Central Okanagan- Similkameen-Nic-ola this continued program can be of benefit to local econ-omies.
Tourism will also see a $50 million funding commitment however this is over two years and is Can-ada wide.
Missing from the
budget? From my own per-
spective while the budget does mention the Canada-Euro-pean Comprehen-sive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) international trade deals there is nothing significant on inter-nal trade.
A glaring over-sight considering a new Agreement on Internal Trade is due this month and it appears to have fallen off the federal Government’s radar screen.
There is also no mention in the budget on a num-ber of Liberal elec-tion promises such as restored door to door mail delivery, a reduction in the
small business tax rate and of course no plan to return a balanced budget in 2019.
This is only a brief summary of a 269 page budget docu-ment and I welcome your comments, questions and con-cerns on Budget 2016 or any subject before the House of Com-mons.
I can be reached at [email protected] or toll free at 1-800-665-8711.
Dan Albas is the MP for Okanagan Coquihalla.
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Spring is here but our new members provide services to help you year round.
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Nailed It! Projects can help make your garden an oasis by building pergolas and patios, landscap-ing, installing under-ground irrigation and making other indoor and outdoor projects in reclaimed wood.
Originally from El Salvador, tattoo artist Erick Vasquez of Familia Tattoos spends time with his clients to work together to create a detailed, personal design.
Toni Boot, Jam-berry consultant helps you create your signature style with
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As we look for-ward to this year’s local fresh fruit and vegetables OMA Goodness provides their delicious salad dressing and marin-ade with lemon, fresh pressed garlic and no water added.
Nomad Cider Ltd. will be wander-ing into local stores and restaurants this Spring with their hand crafted cider from fresh-pressed apples, grown by local farmers in the Okanagan Valley.
Ensuring your craft refreshments get to you, Direct Tap is a specialized logis-tics and distribution company for BC.’s rapidly growing craft liquor manufactur-ers.
Social You is a video modelling tool
designed to develop socially confident and healthy youth through videos and resources for both professionals and parents.
To help you keep your financial records in order E.M.S. Con-sulting offers book-keeping services.
We are also pleased to welcome the South Okanagan Victim Assistance Society as an associate mem-ber. SOVAS provides counselling, court support and informa-tion to men, women and children who have experienced abuse. Businesses host children’s Easter event
On March 27, sev-eral Summerland businesses teamed up to provide an Easter Egg hunt for local children. The Easter EGG-strava-
ganza, spearheaded by Remax Orchard Country, took place in Memorial Park on Easter Sunday with lots of other activities.
Teaming up with Remax to support the event were Algorithm Millwork, All You Need Is One, Beauty and the Brit, BMO Bank of Montreal, Chantelle Meriam of Edward Jones, Marten’s Electrical Contracting, Master Care, Nesters Mar-ket, Par-T-Perfect, Pearce Schneiderat, Summerland Credit Union, Summerland Legion, Summerland Montessori School, Summerland Rental Centre, the Sum-merland Waterfront Resort, and Tim Hor-tons.Bead Trails business grows
Established in 2010, Bead Trails has grown into a popular Summerland attrac-tion. The company, which encourages people to visit indi-vidual businesses to collect unique beads, benefits Summer-land businesses, by attracting visitors to Bead Trails partici-pants and neighbour-ing businesses.
2015 saw the Bead Trails Experience expand from seven Okanagan commun-ities to nine, and this year the company adds Vernon and Armstrong to Sum-merland, Kelowna/Lake Country, West-side, Peachland, Pen-ticton, Naramata, Penticton, Oliver and Osoyoos.
The Bead Trails now directs tourists from as far-afield as the Merritt Visitor Centre to 164 busi-nesses, artists and organizations in the region with 24 Sum-merland businesses on the trail, including the Kettle Valley Rail-
way, the Art Gallery and Artisans of the Okanagan.Old vineyard given new life
Back Door Winery was opened by Piet-er and Leizel Smits last August right on Highway 97 at Jones Flat Road.
The vineyard was there previously but Pieter restored it after deciding to move to Summerland from Alberta to raise a family in a more rural setting.
His parents, Ada and Arjan Smits, owners of Sonoran Estate Winery, passed on their love of wine-making to Pieter and he hopes to produce 6,000 cases of wine this year from grapes grown in his vine-yard.
Restoration is another passion of the family and they feature recycled crafts and furniture in the wine store, which also benefitted from finds at local thrift stores and Habitat for Humanity’s Restore. They have plans for a patio and self-guided vineyard tours but now they are focus-ing on production and their daughter, Lhexie, born in Janu-ary.B and B marks first year
Congratulations to Harvey and Eleanor Brown of Harvelle House on the first year anniversary of opening their bed and breakfast.
In their first year they “…shared in weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, family trips, first trips to Canada!, business trips, wine tours, sporting events, and simple get-a-ways for two...”
On top of all that their beautiful Clydesdales carried people around Sum-
merland on sleigh rides, dropped chil-dren off at Centre Stage for the Good Will Shakespeare Fes-tival, and dropped Santa off for his photos at the Sum-merland Festival of Lights. A very busy year.Pink shirts brighten village
On Feb. 24, more than 100 residents and staff at the Sum-merland Seniors Vil-lage supported the end of bullying by dressing appropriate-ly for Pink Shirt Day.
Mayor Peter Water-man, was in attend-ance along with Councillors Janet Peake and Toni Boot and representatives from many commun-ity organizations. Bakery looks closer for ingredients
True Grain Bread, a craft bakery and grain mill with locations in Cowichan Bay and Summerland, is moving to baking exclusively with B.C. grown organic flour.
As of April 2016, everything True Grain bakes will be made with organic B.C.-farmed and B.C.-milled flour.
Todd Laidlaw, co-owner says, “We have an environ-mental responsibil-ity...When one of our customers buys a loaf of our French bread at our Sum-merland bakery, they can feel good know-ing that the organic flour used to craft it logged less than 160 kilometres. Same thing for a croissant or baguette. That is huge. A small change in behaviour can have a big impact.”
True Grain Bread has retail bakeries in Cowichan Bay and Summerland and True Grain flour is available in many
B.C. grocery stores and available to craft bakeries in B.C.Ag company adds team members
Okanagan Spe-cialty Fruits Inc. recently welcomed two new team mem-bers, Jessica Brady and Chris Creese, to their marketing and communications team.
Jessica cites her love of baking as one of her reasons for being excited at joining the company, while Chris cites nos-talgia for her child-hood, picking apples with her family in Ontario.
The new staff were brought on board to help tell the story of the small, agri-cultural biotechnol-ogy company based here in Summer-land, that specializes in developing tree fruit varieties with novel attributes that benefit fruit produ-cers and consumers alike.
The company’s recent development of the Arctic apple varieties made the news due to their ability to keep their natural colour when they are sliced, bitten, and frozen. Resort updates services
The Sum-merland Water-front Resort is this month celebrating its ranking as fourth out of 157 “Hotels in the Okanagan” on Trip-Advisor.
To ensure they con-tinue to receive great reviews from their customers the resort has been updating its services and facili-ties.
In their events room they have upgraded their audiovisual system with a beautiful new projector and dedi-cated sound system.
In the guest rooms the resort is investing for a com-prehensive telecom-munications and internet upgrade to create a faster, more efficient experience for guests.
Vicky Jones is the communications and membership coordinator with the Summerland Cham-ber of Commerce.
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Continued from Page 1She and her family moved
to the Summerland a year ago from Germany
“It means three different schools in three years for my son,” Wolff said.
She hopes the rally will get the attention of the school board trustees, but wants to move forward without animos-ity.
“We want to offer them an out. We want to work with them, work together,” Wolff said.
Multiple people spoke at the rally, including young students who stated they loved the staff and school didn’t understand why it is closing.
Should the school close, Wolff’s kids will attend Giant’s Head Elementary, which she said will be at capacity.
“It will be full, if any children
move to the community during the school year, there won’t be space to take them. That’s why we’re trying to pull together as a community, to oppose it as a community, not just save Trout Creek School, but save all of the schools. Save all of the students in Summerland from the mag-nitude of impact this decision is going to have,” Wolff said.
Doug Hutcheson spoke at the rally, noting the lack of elected officials.
“Any trustees here today? Raise your hand,” Hutcheson said, no one did. “Is Dan Ash-ton here? No. Christy Clark and Dan Ashton should be here, should be listening to these people, we all pay taxes, we fund these schools and they should be carried on for the safety of the children.”
Rick Hatch also spoke at the rally.
He said the uncertainty of the months-long school clos-ure process has been “heart-wrenching.”
His young daughters started attending West Bench Elemen-tary two years ago when he and his family moved to the area from Alberta.
“We moved to this city with-out knowing anyone, met all of our good friends through the school. It’s really the heart of our community and when you close a school like that you pull the heart out of a community,” Hatch said.
“You’re going to see prop-erty values drop, you’re going to see young families stop mov-ing to these areas and you’re going to see a slow decline of the neighbourhoods, Trout Creek and West Bench, if you close the schools.”
Hatch said there is still a mist
of uncertainty, but his daugh-ters will have to make the trip to Carmi should the school close.
“There’s talk of a lawsuit against the district, we just hope it doesn’t come to that. Our kids will go to the pre-scribed school which is Carmi,” Hatch said.
Having his children com-mute to Pentic-ton is the exact opposite of Hatch’s inten-tions when he moved his family close to a school.
“We moved close to the school specific-ally so we could walk to the school and keep
our kids healthy, keep them out of vehicles as much as pos-sible,” Hatch said.
Many speakers at the rally questioned the numbers put forward by the school district, the use of 2011 census data and not approaching creative or public funding resources.
Concerns raised about changes to schools
Campaign promotes local shoppingSeries of promotional videos cost $7,800
John Arendt
The Summerland Chamber of Commerce has launched a video campaign to encourage local shopping.
The #discoverhome cam-paign, which began March 30, features a series of 30-second videos, showing how the com-munity benefits from local shopping.
The videos will be shown in users’ Facebook news feeds as sponsored ads.
The chamber will also use Twitter and Instagram posts to promote the videos.
The concept began more than a year ago with a cham-ber video titled Our Connected Community.
Christine Petkau, executive director of the chamber, said $68 out of every $100 spent locally will circulate here, bene-fitting local organizations.
“There’s a trickle-down effect,” she said. “The money stays in the community.”
The videos will direct view-ers to the business directory on
the chamber’s website.A total of 10 to 12 videos will
be created. At present, three
have been completed.The cost, including the cre-
ation of the videos and the dis-
tribution through Facebook, is $7,800. This includes $5,000 from the municipality and
$2,800 from the chamber.ET2media is creating the vid-
eos.While Erick Thompson of
ET2media is the president of the chamber, Petkau said he was not part of the board of directors when the concept was developed or when the video contract was awarded.
Members of the chamber hope the campaign will benefit Summerland businesses.
“If the #discoverhome cam-paign can shift 10 per cent of residents’ discretionary buy-ing back to Summerland that will put millions back into the local economy,” Thompson said.
The campaign will run until the end of September and is part of the chamber’s business retention activities.
While the late spring and summer months are the peak tourist season in Summerland, Petkau said the #discoverhome campaign is necessary.
“It would be a relevant cam-paign at any time of the year,” she said.
She added that the elements needed for this campaign are in place at present.
Promotional videosChamber manager Christine Petkau shows the #discoverhome video series. The videos, produced for the Summerland Chamber of Commerce, explain the benefits of doing business within the community.
NDP calls for better money laundering controlsBlack Press
Suspicious transactions in real estate, casinos and even a government liquor store show the need for greater attention to money laundering in B.C., say NDP MLAs.
NDP leader John Horgan released documents Wed-nesday on three incidents. One involved a traffic stop by RCMP at a Chilliwack casino in December, where the driver was found leav-ing his car in a parking spot reserved for disabled people. Inside the car were $16,000 cash and $29,000 worth of casino cheques,
along with pills and crack cocaine.
B.C.’s Civil Forfeiture office has applied to court to seize the money and the 2014 Camaro the man was driving as proceeds of crime. The suit alleges the man has laundered more than $2 million in drug dealing profits through small regional casinos in northern B.C.
Emails released by Hor-gan and liquor and gam-bling critic David Eby show a manager at the “Signa-ture” liquor store in down-town Vancouver question-ing a series of 2015 cash
purchases of more than $10,000.
A senior Liquor Distri-bution Branch manager replied that liquor stores are not covered by federal financial reporting rules, but large transactions should be reported inter-nally.
The third case emerges from testimony at the B.C. Securities Commission, where a realtor allegedly deposited a $50,000 money order obtained by fraud at a West Vancouver bank as part of a $500,000 down payment for a Vancouver home.
The federal Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC) requires reporting of trans-actions more than $10,000 that may be money laun-dering. In a casino, money can be laundered by using cash to buy a large amount of chips, gambling a small amount and then cashing in the chips for a casino cheque.
“FINTRAC is simply a warehouse of informa-tion for law enforcement, respondent to requests for assistance and analysis when requested,” Horgan said.
at the Summerland Yacht Club13209 S. Lakeshore Drive
Quick action taken during collapse at golf course
Carla McLeodSpecial to the Review
If someone next to you col-lapsed from a cardiac arrest would you know what to do, or would you remain a bystander?
Stu Pigot knew what to do and as a result was able to save his friends life.
Six years ago, Pigot was out golfing with a couple of others.
As he watched Doug Power get a line on his ball, he saw him fall to his knees and then flat on his face.
He rushed over to his friend, rolled him over and deter-mined he had no pulse.
He handed his cell phone to his other companion and told him to call 911.
“I started CPR right away,” explained Pigot. “It was just an instinctual thing.”
Even though Pigot had received CPR training through his employer, he had never actually used it before. That day on the golf course, he used simple chest compressions on Power.
“What that does is circulate the blood so there is no brain damage,” said Pigot.
During the process, Pigot broke Power’s ribs.
“If you don’t get the com-pressions deep enough, if you are concerned about hurting someone, you’re not going to keep that heart primed,” he explained.
Earlier in the day, Pigot had taken note of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in the golf shop.
When two other golfers approached, Pigot sent them up to the shop, one to bring back the defibrillator and the other to wait for and direct the ambulance.
Pigot had been performing CPR for approximately 20 min-utes before he had the defibril-lator in his hands.
“The defibrillator is fairly self-explanatory. It tells you where to put the pads and it tells you whether the heart is ready to be shocked or not. If the heart is not quite ready it tells you to continue CPR,” said Pigot.
“It actually gave Doug a shock and I can remember Doug coming off the ground from that shock. That was about the same time as the ambulance was coming down the 18th fair-way. Doug’s heart was beating when the ambulance attend-ants arrived.”
Doug Power only remem-bers small glimpses of being in emergency and being trans-ported by air to Vancouver.
“My memory is waking up in St. Paul’s Hospital. I don’t remember the interim,” he said. “I ended up by having by-pass surgery.”
His wife Colleen thinks it was “quite miraculous” that her husband survived without any brain damage.
“I think it is because the CPR was started within seconds, lit-erally,” she said.
“That’s why you want to do CPR. You’re not going to actually revive a person, but you’re going to keep their brain oxygenated until they can be defibrillated.”
Pigot agreed. “If people stand around and wait for an ambulance, you’re not going
to get revived. You’re done,” he said.
“It’s the brain dead part of it that’s the worst. People don’t realize how fast that happens. You don’t have that long. You have only minutes.”
“My continued existence is predicated on what Stu did. I wouldn’t be sitting here other-wise, I truly believe that,” said Doug. “We just had a grand-daughter who I would never have seen.”
People have asked the Pow-ers what they have done for Pigot in return.
“What do you do for a per-son who has saved your life?” exclaimed Colleen.
Pigot said it was an honor for him, because it is not often that a person can help a friend in such a meaningful way.
“The gift for me is that Doug is still around,” he said.
“If you can help a stranger that’s fantastic, but if you can help a best friend, it’s very cool.”
The advice from Pigot and the Powers is for people to take a CPR course and to take note of where the AED’s are located in public places.
The Heart and Stroke Foun-dation has a current campaign on, that encourages people to jump into action and use CPR, telling them that it can’t hurt, it can only help.
They have also launched an app in order to get more people to act, because B.C. has one of the highest bystander rates in the country.
If you would like to learn more in order to change that statistic or to download the free Cardiac Arrest Action App, go to https://callpush-restart.ca/.
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Friends for lifeDoug Power, right, lives to golf another day because of the quick actions of his friend Stu Pigot who administered CPR to him on the golf course, six years ago.
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Banner effortAlex Widdis, 10 years old, is one of the many young artists creating street banners at the Summerland Community Arts Centre. The banners will be displayed around the downtown area later this spring.
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The gazebo, outhouse and signs along a section of the Trans Canada Trail in Summerland were van-dalized during the spring break.
The damage occurred around 1.2 kilometres from the Fenwick access to the trail.
Henry Sielmann, presi-dent of the Summerland Trans Canada Trail Soci-ety, said the repair work will be significant.
While the supplies are inexpensive the time and effort will require sub-stantial volunteer effort.
“This is fluorescent, vibrant, high-intensity paint,” he said of the spray used. “I don’t know how we are going to fix it.”
The trail has had vandalism damage in the past, but not to this extent, he said.
He is concerned that the extent of the damage will discourage volun-teers with the trail society.
“Vandalism is demotivating and leads to questioning why we should apply ourselves to providing enjoyment for others,” he said.
“The KVR Trail and the picnic area around the gazebo is maintained by volunteers who not only do the work, but also invest additional time to raise money for materi-al.”
Each spring, volun-teers from the trail society spend time on trail main-tenance and repairing other damages from over the winter.
Sielmann is asking for municipal assistance with the repairs.
The trail and gazebo are in a municipal park, but are maintained by the trail society.
Vandals damage gazebo along trail
VandalismVandals with spray paint left their mark on a gazebo along the Summerland section of the Trans Canada Trail. The damage is believed to have been done during spring break.
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There are a couple of great events head-ing our way this coming week that really highlight that excellent variety of entertainment that passes through Sum-merland. I love being able to write about these events because every once in a while something comes through here that surprises me and not in a, “Never thought I’d see the day,” kind of way. It’s more of a, “Oh cool. What a great idea,” way.
First up, we have
the Okanagan Sym-phony Orchestra pre-senting the first ever Chamber Salon Ser-ies, with a perform-ance by their wood-wind quintet.
A woodwind quin-tet is made up of five instruments — flute, oboe, clarinet, bas-soon and the horn, which isn’t wood-wind, but since none of us put the quintet together, who are we to argue semantics?
Having seen the Okanagan Symphony before, I know this promises to be a nice,
intimate performance put on by some of the finest musicians in the Okanagan.
The concert takes place at the Sum-merland United Church on April 1 and the show starts at 1 p.m.
For more informa-tion call either 250-862-2867 or 888-974-9170.
Up next is another fun event, The Great Balanzo, who’s bring-ing his Old Fashioned Circus and Comedy show to the Centre Stage Theatre on Sun-
day, April 3. This show hark-
ens back to the days before television and almost back to the dawn of movies themselves, when one of the only ways to be entertained was to get out to your local theatre and see these acts as they toured through town.
The show features feats of juggling, physical comedy and is the kind of show that children of all ages will just love.
Tickets are avail-able at Tumbleweed Gallery in Penticton or at the Centre Stage box office on the day of the show.
While everyone is off enjoying this week’s entertain-ment, I’ll be locked away in my writer’s cave trying to come up with the new title for this column.
If I’m lucky, inspir-ation will strike soon and I won’t miss my daughter’s next
birthday or gradua-tion, but being the slave to the printed word that I am, it might be a bit of a photo finish.
Douglas Paton is a Summerland writer and musician. If you know of a local arts and culture event, contact him at [email protected].
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The United Way of Central and South Okanagan/Simil-kameen has raised more than $1,253,257 in its 2015 fundrais-ing campaign.
The campaign officially
closed last Thursday, achieving 84 per cent of its goal.
“Despite the state of the econ-omy, our community continues to support United Way mak-ing an extraordinary impact
throughout the Okanagan Similkameen,” said executive director Shelley Gilmore.
“Our volunteer impact teams will now go to work evaluating agency applications and deter-
mining the best, sustainable investments for these funds.”
The money raised will be invested in programs address-ing the root causes of poverty throughout the region.
The United Way has served the region for 65 years. It is working with agencies, gov-ernments, municipalities, associations, businesses and individuals.
Campaign brings in $1.25 million
Minimum wage to get boost
Black Press
B.C.’s minimum wage will get an extra bump in September because of improved economic growth, Jobs Minister Shirley Bond says.
Bond issued a statement Friday say-ing the new rate will be announced this spring, and it will go beyond the cur-rent annual increase based on the fed-eral Consumer Price Index.
“The scheduled increase, based on this year’s B.C. CPI, does not reflect the economic circum-stances of the prov-ince,” Bond said.
The formula added 20 cents to the hourly minimum wage last September, bringing it to $10.45 an hour.
The rate for restau-rant and pub servers, discounted due to tip income, went up from $9 to $9.20.
The B.C. Federa-tion of Labour, which led a “10 bucks sucks” campaign to promote an increase that took effect in 2010, is now calling for a $15 minimum wage.
Using the CPI for-mula, it might take until 2034 to reach $15, the federation says.
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Thursday Al-Anon offers help to families and friends of alcoholics. Summerland Serenity Group meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. in the United Church hall. Call 250-490-9272 for more information.Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Venturers meet at the Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre on Thursday evenings. Beavers meet from 6 to 7 p.m. Cubs meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Scouts meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Venturers meet from 7:30 to 9 p.m. For details call Trent at 250-494-1990. Euchre is played every second and third Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Seniors Drop-in Centre, 9710 Brown St.Lyme Disease support group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. at Theo’s Restaurant in Penticton. Everyone welcome.Recreational volley-ball for all. Tuesday and Thursday mornings, 10 a.m. at the Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre. Contact Frank or Jane at 250-494-4666.Summerland Caregiver Support Group meets the second and fourth Thursdays of every month from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Summerland Health Centre lower conference room. For more information call Cindy at 250-404-8072.Summerland Masonic Lodge meets at the IOOF Hall on the third Thursday of the month at 7:30 p.m. and meets for coffee every Wednesday at 9 a.m. at Santorini’s Restaurant. If interested in learn-ing more, drop by or call Craig Brown at 778-479-3795 or Orv Robson at 250-494-1504. Summerland Material Girls Quilt Guild meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month from September to May at 9 a.m. at the Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre, 9111 Peach Orchard Rd. For more information call Cathy Patterson at 250-494-8274 or Annie Smirmaul at 250-494-2286.Summerland Sports-men’s Association meets every third Thursday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Summerland Legion. The SSA focuses on
fishing, shooting, hunt-ing, archery and con-servation and is affiliat-ed with the B.C. Wildlife Federation. New mem-bers welcome.Summerland TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets every Thursday at 5:30 p.m., lower floor of Summerland Seniors Centre. For info call Vicki at 250-494-5484. The Summerland Multiple Sclerosis Group meets on the first Thursday of every month at 10:30 a.m. at the MS office, 3373 Skaha Rd., Penticton. Everyone welcome. For more information call Sherry at 250-493-6564.The Summerland trad-itional rug artists get together at Summerland United Church every Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. New members and visitors are always wel-come. For more infor-mation phone 250-494-1278.
FridayBridge is played every Friday at 1 p.m. at the Seniors’ Drop-In Centre, 9710 Brown St. Phone Irene at 250-404-4562. Cribbage is played every Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Seniors’ Drop-in Centre, 9710 Brown St.Ladies’ Drop-in Volleyball every Friday, 10 a.m. to noon, at the Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre. Everyone welcome. For more information call Donna at 250-494-9718 or Debbie at 250-494-7733.Pleasure Painters meet every Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre, 9111 Peach Orchard Rd. Come and enjoy or check it out. Drop-ins welcome.Tai Chi beginner and intermediate, at the Summerland Seniors’ Drop-in Centre, Fridays 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. For further information call Susan at 250-494-3370.The 890 Wing of the South Okanagan Air Force Association of Canada have a get-together every Friday night from 4 p.m. at the clubhouse at 126 Dakota Ave. in Penticton. New members are welcome. For more information, phone Fred Monteith at 250-497-8490.
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Charity bottle drive at Summerland IGA each Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Proceeds from the collections will go to support the Summerland Food Bank and Critteraid.Cribbage wil l take place at the Summerland Seniors’ Drop-in Centre every fourth Saturday until June, beginning at 1 p.m. Singles welcome. Refreshments will be served.Summerland Ladies Hockey takes place at the Summerland Arena Saturdays at 8:30 pm. All skill levels welcome. Contact Judy Beck at [email protected].
SundayVintage Car Club, South Okanagan Chapter, meets the last Sunday of every month at 2 p.m. in the Youth Centre on Peach Orchard Road. Anyone interested in vintage cars (those 25 years or older) is invited to attend. For more infor-mation on the club phone 250-494-5473.
MondayBirthright, serving the South Okanagan, has Monday drop-in from 10 a.m. to noon at 200 Bennett St. in Penticton. This weekly program provides light snacks and an opportunity to build friendships, share life skills and participate in baby item swaps. Please contact Sandy Mikkelsen at 250-492-4901 for more info.Dabber Bingo is played at the Senior Drop-in Centre, 9710 Brown St., every Monday at 1 p.m. 16 regular games, Lucky 7, Odd/Even, Bonanza. Everyone is welcome. License #832873. The South Okanagan Orchid Society meets the third Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Shatford Centre in Penticton. The group meets September to June. For more infor-mation, contact Joan at 250-494-4293.The Summerland Crokinole Club meets Monday nights at 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Summerland Seniors Centre. Contact Darlene at 250-494-9310.
TuesdayContract Bridge is played at St. Stephen Anglican Church in Summerland every Tuesday from 1 to 4 p.m. Everyone is wel-come to join in the fun. Refreshments available. For more information, please call Sheila at 250-494-8996.Dementia Caregiver
Support Group — Are you providing care or support for someone dealing with Alzheimer’s or another dementia? Please join us at our Summerland meeting to explore how we can assist you. The meet-ings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Summerland IOOF Hall, 9536 Main St. Call Laurie Myres at 250-493-8182 or email [email protected] o t h e r- t o - m o t h e r breastfeeding sup-port — the Penticton/Summerland chapter of La Leche League Canada meets on the third and fourth Tuesday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon. Please call 250-494-1894 or email [email protected] for the location of the meeting. All mothers and babies are welcome. Find out more informa-tion visit www.lllc.ca.Penticton Concert Band practices Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Intermediate to advanced players wel-come to audition. Call Musical Director Dave Brunelle, 250-497-7180, or email [email protected] Kiwanis Club meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Kiwanis Lodge on Quinpool at 6 p.m. New members are welcome. Contact Tom Jacques at 250-494-4339.Summerland VIP (Visually Impaired Persons) members and friends meet the second Tuesday of the month at Parkdale Lounge at 1:30 pm. Contact Donna at 250-494-4206 for more information.Tai Chi at the Summerland Seniors’ Drop-in Centre, Tuesdays at 9 a.m. for beginners and 10 a.m. for advanced. For more information call Nancy at 250-494-9802.The Mental Wellness Centre, Summerland Branch, will be open the first, third and fourth Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to noon at the Summerland United Church. Inquiries welcome.The Quest Society is inviting women interest-ed in assisting children and adults with hearing or speech impairments to join them on the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Parkdale Place meeting room at 9700 Brown St. For more information call Pat at 250-494-1076 or visit questsociety.shaw-webspace.ca. The Summerland Multiple Sclerosis Group joins the Penticton MS
Group every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. for a cof-fee social at the Cherry Lane Mall Food Court.Whist is played every Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. at the Seniors Drop-In Centre, 9710 Brown St.
Wednesday Be.Free, a 12-step Christ-centred recov-ery program that is not addiction specific, meets every Wednesday at Summerland Alliance Church at 7 p.m. For more information con-tact the SAC office at 250-494-9975 and ask to speak to Pastor Rick.Did you know Summerland has a Garden Club? Meetings are casual. Gardening experience varies. All gardeners are wel-come. Meetings are the third Wednesday of the month. Contact Jan Carlson at 250-494-5112 for more information.Indoor pickleball is played Wednesdays at 6 p.m. in the gym at Trout Creek Elementary School. Experienced players are welcome. Contact Angela at 250-276-4323 for info.South Okanagan Genealogical Society is open Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Penticton Library Museum building. Contact Nola Reid at 250-492-0751.Summerland Art Club meets every Wednesday, September to June, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the lower level of the former library build-ing on Wharton Street. Painters of all levels are welcome. Workshops available. For informa-tion call Mary at 250-494-5851.Summerland ATV Club meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the lower level of the former Summerland Library building on Wharton Street. The club promotes respon-sible ridership including registration, insurance, safety certification and scheduled pleas-ure rides. Membership includes orchardists, farmers, ranchers and fun seekers of all ages including those with disabilities.Summerland Bad-minton Club plays every Wednesday at 7 p.m. For information call Shaun at 250-494-1513.The Heritage Advisory Commission meets the third Wednesday of each month at 10 a.m. in Council Chambers of the Municipal Hall. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.
UpcomingEnjoy an afternoon of ‘Young at Heart’ music with the Penticton Tune-Agers choir and orches-tra. They will present their spring concert April 2 and 3 at 2 p.m. at the Shatford Centre, 760 Main St., Penticton. Tickets are available at the Beanery, from members of the Tune-Agers, and at the door. Proceeds will be shared between the Tune-Agers and the Shatford Centre. For information contact Peggy Nicholson at 250-487-1413.Spring is in the air and The Musaic Vocal Ensemble voices are also springing into action as they prepare for their April concert, Roses I Send to You. The concert in Summerland will be held at St. John’s Lutheran Church on April 24 at 2:30 p.m.Summerland Bakers is a new, fun baking
club where it doesn’t matter if it didn’t turn out perfectly; we’ll eat it anyway! We meet monthly to share our creations, eat, laugh and take home heaps of leftovers. Email Sophia at [email protected] for more info or join Summerland Bakers on Facebook.The South Okanagan Kin Club, in partner-ship with the District of Summerland, is host-ing a Community Expo in Summerland. It will be held Saturday, April 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Summerland Curling Club. The event is sponsored by the South Okanagan Kin Club and the District of Summerland.The Summerland Library will host an all new Gardener’s Delight Evening presentation on seed saving on April 12 at 6:45 p.m.
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Celebrating
EASTERDespite the dreary, rainy weather, children and their parents came to Memorial Park for the Easter Eggstravaganza event on Sunday morning.
It was a mad scramble as children rushed to collect eggs and treats during an egg hunt at noon. Additional pictures are available on the Summerland Review’s Facebook page.
Loftlin Ward, two months old, was held by her mother Sarah Ward during her first meeting with the Easter Bunny.
Ashleigh Parent, four years old, tries to climb a rock wall.Sheena Fowlie paints a design on the face of Troy Murphy, three years old.
Sofia Keyes, six years old, holds up the eggs she collected during the Easter egg hunt.
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Variety of activities planned for April
Did you know that only about one per cent of the Earth’s water is available to support the natural diversity of life on the planet?
That’s just a drop in the bucket! Summerland’s sev-enth annual Earth Week events and activities focus on the importance of understand-ing, protecting and conserving
our water. The wide variety of free
events and activities are educa-tional, hands-on, thought pro-voking and fun.
From tours of the Summer-land Water Treatment Plant and Lakeshore riparian properties to learning about rain garden-ing to neighbourhood garage sales and a clean-up challenge, there is something for every-one.
There will be a talk and film
on daylighting restoration pro-jects and a screening of the award winning film Fractured Land.
You can listen to a presenta-tion on Indigenous Aboriginal water rights of the Okanagan (Syilx) peoples at Summerland Philosophers’ Café.
There are also week long events like the “Beauty of Spring” – colourful wheel-barrows decorated by Sum-merland Merchants, our annual
Freshette Contest, which chal-lenges you to guess when Thirsk Dam stops spilling and True Grain Bread will be cele-brating with educational and interactive fun.
The weekend is full of family fun activities.
The Library and Art Gal-lery are hosting Earth Day water themed hands-on activ-ities for children on Saturday, April 23.
And you can view the
entries for the Summerland Museum’s photo contest that will be on display in front of the museum.
Earth Week culminates on Sunday, April 24 with Summer-land’s 10th Annual Earth Day Celebration at Peach Orchard Park.
Mark Earth Week, April 16 to 24, on your calendar and stay tuned for more details or visit our Facebook page: facebook.com/SummerlandEarthweek/?fref=ts
Earth Week events focus on water
Railway directorsThe Kettle Valley Railway Society has announced its 2016 board of directors. From left are Ken Sewell, treasurer, owner man-ager of Summerland Timber Mart; Ted Morrison, secretary, retired software developer; Doug Hardman, joint chair, fundraising; Jeff Andrews, retired store manager; Bill Roper, security specialist and Doug Clayton, president, security specialist.
The Kettle Valley Steam Railway Society has announced its board of directors for 2016.
The members began their term at the Annual General Meeting on March 19.
New to the board is Doug Hardman, a retired Vancouver police officer, who will assist general manager Ken Orford with a fundraising campaign to help with the ongoing maintenance of the railway.
The historic steam engine will require new tires next year.
The cost is estimated at $180,000.“The wheels wear out over time. This is
perhaps the second time in the 100 year old engine’s life,” Orford said.
The funds cover the cost of installing a drop table to take the wheels off. The machining will be done in a shop in Cache Creek.
The work is expected to be done after Christmas next year.
Other members of the railway board of directors are treasurer Ken Sewell, secretary Ted Morrison, Jeff Andrews, Bill Roper and Doug Clayton.
Railway director to assist with fundraising
The Okanagan Similkameen Parks Society will be holding its 51st Annual General Meet-ing on Friday, April 1.
The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at Summerland’s Cen-tre Stage Theatre.
The evening will be com-prised of a short business meet-ing and a presentation entitled “Preservation of Species and Habitat — Focus on Wolves”.
The presenters are Craig Pet-titt, a British Columbia environ-mental specialist and advocate from the Valhalla Society and Sadie Parr, the executive direc-tor of Wolf Awareness.
Pettitt is a director and one of the founders of the Valhalla Society.
The society is based in east-
ern B.C. the group was formed as a non-profit society in the 1970s.
They describe themselves as “a small group of committed people making a difference for bears and other species.”
Parr is currently involved in a wolf feeding ecology study in B.C.’s Chilcotin region and is about to begin a similar project in northeastern Alberta where bounties are underway.
Parr’s organization, Wolf Awareness, is a non-profit organization established in 1987.
This group focuses on wolf conservation through research and education. It incorporates outreach and education about methods of coexistence in
every project they are involved in, using informed advocacy to help people better understand wolf behaviour and ecology.
Parr has learned much about the perils that even “protected” wildlife face in Canada.
She has committed herself to raising awareness about the need for improved wolf con-servation across Canada, home to one-fifth of the world’s remaining wilderness.
The annual general meet-ing will also honour two of the pioneers of the society, David McMullen and Jurgen Hansen.
McMullen was one of the original members of the society. He was involved with raising awareness and funding for the
Vaseaux Lake sheep protected area which became a park.
His signature can be found on the application for the non-profit society status of the organization. He and his wife Ruth reside in Summerland where they retired after David’s career as a scientist at the Can-adian Agriculture Research sta-tion was completed.
Hansen was a well-known figure in the Okanagan con-servation community.
He is credited with educat-ing the communities up and down the valley about the con-cept of governing by consensus building.
He was an enthusiastic supporter in many projects, including parks like Okanag-
an Mountain and Cathedral Lakes, habitat in the winter range for the bighorn sheep at Vaseaux Lake and the estab-lishment of the ecological reserve at Haynes Point.
An outspoken advocate for protecting natural resources, Hansen worked on the nego-tiations over forestry which became the Okanagan Shus-wap Land and Resources Man-agement Plan on which he worked as a member of the society’s representative team for about 10 years.
He was recognized for his efforts with a life time member-ship in the society. He and his wife, Marilyn, were very active members of the society until his death in March, 2009.
Parks society to honour McMullen and Hansen
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Now that the season has concluded for the Summer-land Steam, John DePourcq, coach of the Junior B hockey team is looking forward to the next season, which will begin in fall.
The team had its strongest season in the Kootenay Inter-national Junior Hockey League, finishing second in the Oka-nagan/Shuswap Conference: Okanagan Division in regular season play.
The Steam finished regular season action in second place in the division, with 34 wins, 16 losses and two overtime losses.
The team advanced to semi-finals, defeating the Kelowna Chiefs in six games.
In the division finals, the Steam faced Osoyoos Coyotes, the top-ranked team in the div-ision, winning that series in six games.
In the conference champion-ship, the Steam lost to the 100 Mile House Wranglers in five games.
“I was very, very proud of the boys,” DePourcq said. “They worked hard to the end.”
He added that the competi-tion was tough. In three of the games, the Wranglers won in overtime.
“It was a hard-fought ser-ies,” DePourcq said.
While some of the players will leave the team for next
year, either aging out or mov-ing on to Junior A hockey, some will return.
DePourcq said up to three-
quarters of the players on this past year’s roster could be back in fall.
In addition, the team’s
performance this year could bring out strong players to try out during the Steam camp in fall.
Coach looks forward to strong season
As the IIFH Women’s World Hockey Cham-pionship tournament continues in Kamloops, Bob Hamilton of Sum-merland is assisting the
Canadian team.Hamilton volunteered
as a team host for the games, which began March 25 and continue to April 5.
“I lucked out and got Team Canada,” he said. “I’m pretty fortunate to get this.”
Hamilton’s work as team host involves look-
ing after the team’s needs and dealing with any problems they may have from the time the mem-bers arrive to the time they depart
E i g h t teams, from C a n a d a , the United S t a t e s ,
Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic, Japan, Switzerland and Russia are competing.
The Canadian and American teams are con-sidered the strongest at the competition.
“They’re 23 of the best hockey players we have representing our coun-
try,” Hamilton said.While Canada has won
in women’s hockey in the last three Winter Olym-pics, the United States has also developed a strong team for the tournament.
“It’s very exciting hockey,” Hamilton said. “The girls are giving it their all out there.”
Hamilton assists at women’s hockey championships
Team effortThe Summerland Steam, in white, defeated the Princeton Posse during a regular season game earlier this year. Summerland’s Junior B hockey team faced the Kelowna Warriors in the semifinals and the Osoyoos Coyotes in the finals. Earlier this month, the Steam lost the championship series to the 100 Mile House Wranglers in five games.
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Summerland’s Sarah Cornett-Ching continues to make moves in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East.
In her last race in Mobile, Ala-bama Cornett-Ching passed the most cars and won the Coca-Cola Move of the Race Award, taking the checkered flag in 11th pos-ition.
On Saturday, March 26, she raced for the first time at the Greenville Pickens Speedway in the Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150 on the historic half-mile South Carolina oval.
“I’m excited to race at Green-ville Pickens, it’s a track with a lot of history and is known for some great racing,” Cornett-Ching said before the race.
“We have momentum from last week at Mobile that we will take to this new track this week-end.”
This was her second race with Dickies on-board as a sponsor, after the company announced
their plan to team up with Cornett-Ching for the remain-der of the 2016 season just before the race in Mobile. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the Wil-liamson-Dickie
Mfg. Co. is the number one manu-facturer of work apparel world-wide.
Off the strength of her solid finish last week, Cornett-Ching moved into a tie for 12th place in the K&N Pro Series East driver points standings, and is only four points outside of the Top 10.
She finished Greenville in 13th place.
“Not a bad finish, but it doesn’t reflect how much effort we are putting in and we are still look-ing for more,” she said after the race.
Cornett-Ching races at Greenville course
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“Every Life Tells A Story”
ALEXANDER J. GRIMMER of Summerland, BC passed away peacefully in his 99th year at Westview Place, Penticton, BC on March 17th, 2016 with family by his side. Who was this wise and remarkable man? He was someone who taught us the true values of life – honesty, integrity and love. He was someone who taught by example and sage advice to inspire us to work hard – to be strong every day as we journeyed through our lives. He was someone who encouraged us to care for others – to be brave as we charted new waters. He was someone very special. He was a true gentleman. He was our dad. We will love him ‘til forever ends. God speed. Dad was pre-deceased by Coral, his wife of 60 years, on August 25th, 2004. He is survived by sons Ross (Monika) of Kelowna, BC and David (Janis) of Penticton, BC; grandson Shayne of New Westminster, BC; and daughter-in-law Linda of Kelowna, BC. Dad was born and raised in New Westminster, BC, the youngest of 4 siblings, from a 2nd generation pioneer family. Aft er graduation from high school he attended university in Chicago, ILL where he obtained degrees in structural engineering and law. Upon returning home, Dad enjoyed a very successful career working primarily in the pulp and paper industry. He began his engineering career in 1939 with the Powell River Company. He moved to North Vancouver in 1944 where he worked for a number of consulting engineering fi rms before going to Alaska Pine and Cellulose in 1951 which became Rayonier Canada and fi nally Western Forest Products. He retired from Western Forest Products in 1982 where he held the position of Chief Engineer. Dad and our mother moved to Summerland, BC in 1984. He quickly became active and involved in the community as a member of the Summerland Lions Club, the Summerland Chamber of Commerce and the Summerland Advisory Planning Commission. Dad was one of the driving forces behind the creation and building of the Summerland Youth Centre. Dad was a ‘Lion’ for over 60 years and received a number of awards including the prestigious Judge Brian Stevenson Award. He was one of the founding members of the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation. Dad moved to Angus Place, Summerland in 2005 and within a short period of time there was no question that he was again happy and content. Angus Place was his home. Sadly, in December 2015 he was stricken with a debilitating pneumonia. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all staff at Angus Place who on a daily basis go beyond expectations to ensure that all the residents enjoy a safe and happy home. We would also like to acknowledge Dad’s very special friend Mary Coates. Th ey were inseparable and looked out for each other’s well-being every day. We would also like to extend our thanks to all the caregivers at Westview Place. Th ere will be no service at Dad’s request. In Dad’s memory, donations can be made in his name to Parkdale Housing Society (Building Fund), 100-9302 Angus St., Summerland, BC V0H 1Z5.
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MERIAM, CHARLES BUDJuly 5, 1934 – March 25, 2016
Bud Meriam passed away peacefully on the aft ernoon of March 25, 2016 in Penticton, BC.He was born on July 5, 1934 at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. He lived in Creighton Valley until the age of 5, then his family relocated to Penticton. In 1948, he returned to Cherryville and spent his years logging, running his own sawmill and operating the Cherryville Estates Mobile Home Park. It was in Cherryville where Bud met his wife Liza Paul and where they raised their daughters Chantelle, Raquel and Ashley.Bud was known for his storytelling, dry sense of humour and homemade spicy pickles. He was generous, always giving back to his community, loyal to his family and a reliable friend. Bud enjoyed old cars, going for drives, spending time in nature and spoiling family pets.Bud passed at the age of 81 and will be missed by his wife Liza; daughters Chantelle, Raquel (Rylan) and Ashley; older sister Maude (Ron); granddaughters Rylee and Penelope; and nieces, nephews and close family. He was predeceased by his parents Charles Sr. and Delphine and stepfather Pat Flemming.Friends and family are welcome to attend his Celebration of Life taking place at the Cherryville Community Hall, 158 North Fork Rd, Cherryville, BC on Saturday, April 2nd at 11:00 am.
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B.C.Views
Tom Fletcher
The first Justin Tru-deau budget continues the new Liberal gov-ernment’s epic string of broken promises.
Expanding the Can-ada Pension Plan went by the wayside to start the year, as jacking up payroll taxes wasn’t seen as a good way to respond to rising unemployment. Then there was the national carbon price, which dissolved into a vague commitment to keep working at it with the disagreeing provinces.
Now there is the torrent of red ink that washes away the solemn promise that deficits would be no more than $10 billion a year, for no more than three years.
According to rookie Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s new guess-es, deficits will be $29.4 billion this year, $29 billion next year, $22 billion in 2018 and a mere $17.7 billion in 2019 as the governing party campaigns for re-election. The budget projects another defi-cit for the year after, apparently assuming that all this borrow-ing and spending will deliver another major-ity government.
The campaign promise was built around the claim that infrastructure
spending was needed because the country had slid into deficit and recession. Turns out there was no recession, except in oil-dependent Alberta and Newfoundland, and no deficit until the Liberals opened the spending taps.
And what about the promise to cut the fed-eral small business tax from 11 to nine per cent? Priming the engine of job creation and all that? Gone. Not even the infrastructure promise is kept. Most of the spending is for ongoing programs, including “equal-ization,” even though B.C. appears to be the only “have” province left at the moment.
On budget day, the B.C. government sent out Commun-ities Minister Peter Fassbender with strict instructions to bite his tongue about this busted fire hydrant of borrowed money. Fassbender announced that he and Premier Christy Clark are “delighted” at the infrastructure spending, of which the only identifiable new project for B.C. is a sewer system in North Vancouver.
Massey Tunnel replacement? Nope. Transit lines in Van-
couver and Surrey? We’re continuing pre-liminary engineering work. Widening the Trans-Canada High-way and Highway 16 to Alberta? Maybe these will be promises for the next election.
Fassbender tap-danced when asked why the only prov-ince with a balanced budget should be pleased about a fed-eral pledge to increase the national debt by about a quarter.
He kept circling back to his key talk-ing point, that Ottawa didn’t sabotage B.C.’s liquefied natural gas plans by taking away capital cost allowan-ces for this industrial investment. Instead Ottawa is jeopardiz-ing the biggest LNG project by dithering over environmental impacts that have already been studied
for three years.The biggest Tru-
deau promise of all is to rescue the middle class from the awful stagnation inflicted by the Harper years. The title of Morneau’s debut budget is “Growing the Middle Class.”
A quick fact check takes me to Statis-tics Canada’s most recent table of medi-an family income by province. After the 2009 economic crisis (triggered by reck-less debt among other things), B.C.’s median income for all family types was $66,970 in 2010, $69,150 in 2011, $71,660 in 2012 and $74,150 in 2013.That’s about the same increase as the nation-al rate – not spectacu-lar, but pretty good considering low infla-tion. Better than most of the world, in fact.
Again, this gov-ernment is borrow-ing gobs of money to throw at a problem that may not even exist.
At this point I’ve all but given up on the Trudeau government displaying actual competence, for anything other than going to parties and flinging rose petals at climate change.
I’d settle for hear-
ing them tell the truth about something.
Tom Fletcher
is B.C. legislature reporter and colum-nist for Black Press.
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