Penticton Western News, April 24, 2013

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NEWS PENTICTON WESTERN

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PARK A NATURAL ATTRACTION

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Park on shores of Skaha Lake will and O’Mara said the tennis courts will not be impacted by Discovery Park. be city’s first natural playground

PENTICTON WESTERN The price tag for the park is $110,000. It

was announced on Monday that over $80,000 has already been secured from several proj- 150 40 ect partners including the City of PenticThe lonely looking swing set perched be- ton ($30,000), Rotary Club of Penticton hind the concession at the turnaround at Ska- ($25,000), Tim Hortons 2012 Smile Cookie ha Lake is about to become part of something campaign ($11,230), the Community Founbigger. dation of the South Okanagan ($6,000) and Penticton will be getting its first natural another $10,000 from Sun FM and EZ Rock playground, Discovery Park, which will be promotions and the Working Women’s Open Love Corner an imaginative play space aimed at helping golf tournament. children connect with nature. The South Okanagan Children’s Char“This playground will be completely natu- ity has been committed to supporting chilral, it will include things such as rock boul- dren and teens in communities throughout ders for the children to climb on,” said Debo- the South Okanagan for 35 years. Through rah O’Mara, president of the South Okanagan their Miracle Fund, community partners are Example (CH, CH) Children’s Charity. brought together to develop capital projects “Probably the most important feature in all over the South Okanagan that benefit the my opinion is going to be the water feature. health and well-being of children and teens. There is a dry creek bed with a pump and it This includes restoration of bikes at Penticwill teach children the importance of their ton Safety Village and a fetal heart monitor natural environment in terms of water conser- for the Penticton 150 Regional Hospital amongst 40 40 Example (CH, CH) vation and just what a limited and important other projects. natural resource that is, particularly in the “We now have until Sept. 1 to come up Okanagan.” with another $30,000 and I feel very confident Appropriately announced on Earth Day, that as this project is exposed to the broader 40 the unique playground will be custom-built, community, that our business community, our accessible to all and made primarily from service clubs and our very generous donors in Corner natural resources to create earth berm slides, the Love community will step forward to support boulders sourced from local rock quarries, it and I welcome the opportunity to speak to rope climbing features, balancing logs built each and every one of them,” said O’Mara. from beetle-infested pine trees, musical inActing mayor Garry Litke said there has struments, a playhouse and the swings from been a lot of attention on Okanagan Lake the original park will be recycled into the improvements but the city is also focused on Example (CH, CH) project. improving the waterfront at Skaha Lake. Last O’Mara said the designation of calling it year they planted 50 trees in Skaha Lake Park. Discovery Park is actually to encourage the “Penticton’s vision is to make Penticton a use of children’s imagination. vibrant, innovative, adventurous, waterfront “Children will arrive and will not beExample exact-(CH,city focused on sustainability, community and Example (C, CH, C) CH) ly sure how to play. They are going to have to economic opportunity. This project helps with use their imagination to pretty well use every some of that vision, it brings some of that vielement of this park,” she said. sion to life,” said Litke. The area that will become Discovery Park “It will become a unique feature for chil40 Mark Brett/Western News was chosen because the surrounding green dren living here and for children who are vis75 PENTICTON ACTING MAYOR40 Garry Litke gives president Deborah O’Mara of the South space is used extensively by families for pic- iting here. Attracting young families to our Okanagan Children’s Charity a push on the swing at Skaha Lake Park Monday, following nics and is in close proximity to the beach. community is also part of maintaining our Oscar 3 PC Sectional (C, L, C) Example (C, L,Discovery C) the announcement of the planned Park to be built in the same area. Construction is slated to begin in September community’s vibrancy.” Kristi Patton

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