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TANYA DURACK is comforted by her daughter Deedee and son Axel Ferguson Tuesday after returning to her Martin Street house for the first time since Saturday night when a fire gutted the building and killed two pets.

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Tanya Durack stares in disbelief at the burned -out shell of what used to be her home. With a couple of garbage bags of clothes stuffed into a car, she pulled up to the residence at 627 Martin St. where a three-alarm blaze was called in just before 10:30 p.m. on Saturday. “Everything I own in life was in this home. There was pictures, baby books, the kids baby teeth that I kept because I was the tooth fairy, video tapes with movies of my brothers and me when we were little; things I can’t replace,” said Durack brushing away tears. “That’s the hardest part. It is absolutely horrible.” Durack was in the bath when her roommate, Brandon Irving, came screaming into the house telling everyone to get out. Irving said the breaker had blown a few times that night and he went outside to have a cigarette and investigate. He smelled burning wires and when Irving checked the side of the house flames were visible in the window. Durack had come out of the bathroom, wrapped in just a towel ensuring her kids got out safely. She went back in with some of the other residents, unsuccessfully trying to battle the blaze with a fire extinguisher, before opening her bedroom door. “The fire came at us like it was reaching at me. It was like a hand that wanted to grab me. That is how fast it came,” said Durack. “It was

so scary. The smoke was burning my eyes and I couldn’t breath. I still have nightmares about it.” Durack grabbed a hoodie and pajama pants from her son’s floor and ran outside. Standing in the backyard she called for help, as one of the occupants rescued a kitten. Two other pets, a cat and a bearded dragon lizard, died in the blaze. Emergency social services provided shortterm assistance to find lodging for the occupants of the house, which included Durack’s kids, her daughter’s boyfriend and Irving. That ended Tuesday at noon. As the kids sat on the curb outside what was once their house waiting for investigators to finish asking their mom questions, they wondered where they would go next. The family has lived on Martin Street for three months, having re-located from Smithers to Vernon and finally finding a home in Penticton. “We are out today and I literally don’t know what we are going to do. We moved here for a fresh start. My daughter just graduated the other day. Then this,” said Durack, a single mother. The family is desperate for a roof over their head and some food. Durack’s daughter, DeeDee Ferguson, said anyone wanting to assist them with any type of aid can contact them at 250328-1010. Ferguson also wanted to thank Grant King’s Menswear, who have taken her prom dress to try and dry-clean and salvage it for her. Fire chief Wayne Williams said there was considerable damage. “The occupants were very lucky to get out, very lucky,” he said.

Teachers picket while high school students write year-end exams Joe Fries

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B.C. high school students started writing provincial exams this week, but a full-scale strike by teachers has ended classes for younger kids. Following a failed weekend bargaining session, teachers on Tuesday began a full walkout after three weeks of rotating strikes.

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“We feel we’ve done what we can,” said Leslea Woodward, president of the Okanagan Skaha Teachers’ Union. “Teachers are feeling very disappointed, of course, that the proposals were not seriously considered.” She noted the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association have more negotiations scheduled this week, so a deal is still possible.

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“We’re not leaving the table,” Woodward said. They’ll also not leave local picket lines to administer and mark provincial exams, since there are enough administrators in Okanagan Skaha to do the job, which was declared an essential service by the Labour Relations Board. Teachers did agree, however, to maintain at least one picket-free entrance at each of the three high Recliners From

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Peach City Beach Cruise ready to roll Steve Kidd

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It’s a car enthusiast’s dream come true. Hundreds of cars of every size and shape imaginable, vintage to modern, street to hot rod, stretching all along the shore of Lake Okanagan. This weekend, the Penticton Historic Automobile Society is bringing that dream to life for the 14th time with the annual Peach City Beach Cruise. The fun gets underway Friday evening with the Beach to Peach parade, with hundreds of cars pulling out of Skaha Lake Beach Park at 5:30 p.m. and heading down Penticton’s main drag to the Peach on Okanagan Lake. Led by the RCMP and with rolling stops blocking intersections temporarily along the way, the convoy cruises along until they get to Main and Eckhardt. “Then the downtown Penticton Association totally closes Main Street and we go two abreast at slow, slow speed,” said Wayne Wood, president of PHAS. If you are out along the downtown parade route, you might catch sight of some of the special vehicles that are attending this year’s Beach Cruise. Wood says one to keep an eye out for is the Apache, a chopped and channelled, cherry-red 1932 Ford roadster that is one of the best known hot rods of the last half century. “It’s probably been in every hot rod magazine that you can imagine. It’s a really special vehicle, it’s been around for a long time,” said Wood. Jim McGowan purchased the

PresideNt WayNe Wood of the Penticton Historic automobile society reads over his program for this weekend’s Peach City Beach Cruise while neighbours ryan, 9, and sara, 6, do some polishing work on his Corvette. see today’s insert with listings of events and other information.

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original roadster in 1952, customized it and the Apache has been a hit since its first car show in Vancouver in 1953. In 2007, at a show in Victoria marking the 75th anniversary of the 1932 Ford, the Apache was given the award for being the most historic hot rod. If you are watching on the downtown portion of the parade route, you might catch a glimpse of a special vehicle joining the parade at Eckhardt.

“It’s the 1889 Waterous, a steampowered pump that the firefighters used. It will be pulled by a team of horses,” said Wood. This vehicle has been at the Beach Cruise before, and Wood said Penticton is lucky to have a return visit. “They have a policy, they almost never go anywhere twice. They actually approached us about coming a second time. That says a lot that we can attract that type of vehicle,” said Wood.

The Waterous will be set up on the corner of Power and Lakeshore on Saturday, next to the classic machine show in Lakwanna Park. “It will be all fired up and the local fire department is working handin-hand with them to get a water supply and all the other things the firemen need so it shoots water way up in the air.” Wood says registration for the show is following a typical pattern, and they are expecting between 600 and 700 cars.

“Whether it goes above that all depends on whether it is a sunny day,” said Wood. There are many things, he said, that keep the show so popular year after year. “It’s hard to beat the setting, cars lined up along lakeshore, side-byside,” he said. “The other is that it is a three-day car show. A lot of other car shows, they are one day or an afternoon, that type of thing.” That makes the three-day Beach Cruise something special, he said. And they keep the participants busy for the three days, with events like the annual auction, a wine tour or the winding road cruise that goes into the back hills up around Apex and over to the Dominion Observatory. “A lot of these guys, they don’t get to drive on those twisty roads, they only drive on highways,” said Wood. The Friday evening has turned into a big show on its own, according to Wood. “You go down Lakeshore and there are hundreds and hundreds of people already on Friday evening wandering by the cars,” he said, adding that the Saturday crowd is even bigger. “It is all packed and Saturday it is just nuts down there. You can hardly walk at times.” If you are looking for a break from walking at the show, you might try resting on the Ken Paton memorial bench, which was just dedicated last week in memory of the Beach Cruise’s founder. Designed by artist Gerry Houghton, the bench, in the shape of a car seat and door, sits on Lakeshore Drive near the beach.

Notice puts house addition on collision course with wrecking ball Steve Kidd

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A Penticton property owner has been ordered to either put his building addition through the proper permit process or tear it down. Like so many other unsightly or nuisance properties city staff has brought before council in the past two years, the file attached to 229 Scott Ave. is a list of enforcement orders, fines, and lack of response from the property owners. “If you looked up ramshackle in the dictionary, you might find a picture of this building,” said Coun. Wes Hopkin after seeing photos of the construction. In this case, the file begins with the construction of an addition last fall without first applying for a building permit. That attracted the attention of the city, and by November, a stop work order was issued, along with an order to apply for a permit by Nov. 30. A building permit was finally applied for in February 2014,

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but the cheque bounced two weeks later, and the permit process was cancelled. Since then, according to records supplied by Ken Kunka, building and permitting manager, there has been no response from the owners despite more enforcement notices, fines and penalties. The owners also chose not to appear before council last week, when staff brought the matter forward and asked that a notice be put on title for construction without permit, and that city staff be allowed to take further action should the owner not take action. “There is 90 days now for that property owner to bring that building into compliance, either through demolition or obtaining a building permit through the city,” said Anthony Haddad, director of planning services. But unlike some problem properties dealt with since the introduction of the “good neighbour” bylaw in 2012, the 229 Scott Ave. file only stretches back nine months instead of the years of orders in some previous files.

Kunka said staff has been working hard to close the historic files over the last 18 months, allowing them to move ahead to more current files. They are also, he said, moving to streamline the process. “The process we went through a number of times over the last 18 months was quite cumbersome. I want to look at streamlining the process where staff feel that there is an obvious safety concern or unsightly concern,” said Kunka, explaining why he was asking for the go-ahead to take further action at the same time as asking for a notice on title. “This process we are starting with on this particular address will be streamlined approach, we will be approaching council in one session instead of two and being proactive in sending out the notices beforehand to reduce delays,” said Kunka. Kunka’s move to speed up the process for dealing with problem properties drew praise from the councillors, who voted unanimously to approve both the notice on title and starting the countdown before the city takes direct action to demolish the illegal construction.

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Relay for Life raises $33,000 for cancer programs Joe Fries

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Donations to the Relay for Life fundraiser in Penticton were down by nearly half this year, mirroring a trend the organizer said has been noticed by many non-profits. “People are just too darn busy,” said Chantel Reems, a community giving co-ordinator for the Canadian Cancer Society. “There are so many causes, so many events, and people just kind of get (confused) as to what to do, who to give to, all that kind of stuff. “That’s my personal opinion on it.” Nonetheless, the 10th annual relay here saw 253 participants on 34 teams set out at 6 p.m. on Saturday to do laps of the Penticton Secondary School track for 12 hours straight, while another 30 people volunteered to help keep the event in stride. Their efforts brought in donations totalling approximately $33,000, down from about $56,000 in 2013. “It was a ton of fun,” said Reems, who recorded her eighth year of involvement. “It didn’t rain, which was lovely, and everybody really seemed to have a good time.”

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The crew from Enamel Dental Centre was the top fundraiser with a total of $3,957. Team captain Kristina Consolo said it was the first time the clinic entered a team, and she led the effort after receiving a call about the event from the Canadian Cancer Society. “I thought it was a really great cause,” she said. “A lot of our team member have family members affected by cancer.” Consolo was at a loss to explain her group’s fundraising success. “Beginner’s luck, maybe?” she said with a laugh, adding, “Our family and friends were really supportive.” RBC Cares brought in the second highest total with $2,870, followed by Cruisin for a Cure at $2,240, Team Kutschera at $2,055 and Curesaders at $1,900. Reems said all of the donations stay within B.C. to help fund things like the Canadian Cancer Society branch office here in Penticton and a ride service that transports patients to treatment in Kelowna, plus programs with broader reach such as online educational resources. Last year, 16,224 relay teams across Canada raised a total of $46.5 million, according to the society.

Hot and dry forecast could spell wildfire trouble Joe Fries

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Wildfire activity is up slightly so far this year, with a warmer-than-normal summer expected to follow on the heels of a relatively dry spring. Through last week, there were 69 blazes reported within the Kamloops Fire Centre, down from 66 in the same period in 2013, according to information officer Melissa Klassen. Sixty of this year’s fires were human-caused. “That’s a pretty normal ratio right now this early in the season given the fact we don’t have our major lightning storms until July and August,” Klassen explained. And with the height of the fire season just around the corner, a lot is riding on what falls from the sky this month. “Obviously we do receive a lot of our precipitation in June. That kind of moisture does predict in some ways for us what kind of fire activity or fire behaviour we’re going to see,” she said. “It’s definitely wait-and-see. It’s too early in the season to tell.” The fire danger rating in the Penticton area was low as of Tuesday, but, “If we’re seeing high temperatures one or two days in a row, that can drastically change our fire danger rating and dry out those forest fuels,” Klassen added. That change could begin this weekend with Penticton forecast to reach a high of 30 C by Sunday. Environment Canada meteorologist Allan Coldwells said residents

can expect a summer that is about 1 C warmer than normal, thanks to the El Nino effect. “All the models are in fairly good agreement there will be an above-normal trend,” Coldwells said. He also noted that precipitation recorded through the first five months of the year at the Penticton airport was just 88 per cent of normal at a total of 120 millimetres. “It’s not huge, but it is below normal,” Coldwells said, adding, “The trend is we’re staying below normal, precipitation-wise.” While a lack of rain won’t improve B.C.’s fire situation, it could help on the flooding front. “The risk going forward really is going to be related to if we see any kind of severe rain,” confirmed Dave Campbell, head of the B.C. River Forecast Centre. He said although the snowpack in the Okanagan basin was at 123 per cent of normal as of June 1, and at 167 per cent in the Similkameen, those figures are somewhat skewed because they’re based on fewer readings from higher elevations where most of the snow is left. “Warmer weather in May has melted off quite a lot of the snow at mid-elevations and so for a lot of those areas they are snow-free now, and in terms of how that’s impacting river flow and flood potential, there’s a real decrease in the risk right now,” he said. Even if a good amount of rain does come, Campbell added, “I think we’ve got enough room in the rivers that it isn’t posing any risk at this point.”

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School trustees ineligible for pay raise Joe Fries

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A dip in the consumer price index left local school trustees without a basis on which to give themselves a pay raise this year, although they likely would have rejected it anyway “on principle.” Trustees for the Okanagan Skaha School District are entitled by policy to raises tied to inflation in B.C., but a staff report presented at their regular meeting this month showed the cost of living actually decreased by 0.1 per cent in 2013. School board chairman Bruce Johnson said trustees would have had a tough time increasing their pay rate had they been eligible. “Our board in the past couple of years… we’ve felt very awkward voting ourselves a raise — even if it would be a very minor one — when other staff has been frozen, when teach-

ers and (Canadian Union of Public Employees) have been in negotiations,” he explained. “So in the past we’ve chosen not to vote ourselves a raise, mostly on principle.” The staff report showed that of the nine other school boards to which the group compares itself based on similar population numbers, just two accepted pay boosts this year. Okanagan Skaha finance director Maureen Maywood said the board received its last raise during the 2011-12 school year. Trustees here earn $10,620 annually, below their cohort average of $13,084, while the chairman collects $13,290, well under the group standard of $15,798. Meanwhile, trustees also voted 4-3 to adopt a new committee meeting schedule for 2014-15 that will see the monthly gatherings set for twice a month over two afternoons through November only, at which point the newly elected board can make its own arrangements.

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A forum to learn more about Boonstock Music and Arts Festival from the organizers will take place on July 8. Originally scheduled for June 17, the Chamber of Commerce issued a press release stating the open forum had to be postponed due to circumstances beyond their control. The July 8 meeting will give the public an opportunity to review the traffic and safety plans, learn about the economics behind music festivals and ask questions. Organizers, including president Colin Kobza, will also provide information about how local business can tap into the economic impact they believe the festival will bring to Penticton. From Aug. 1 to 3, 8,500 ticket holders and more than 50 bands and DJs will come together in a fourday celebration of arts and music in the South Okanagan on Penticton Indian Band locatee lands. The festival has received support from the Penticton and Wine Country Chamber of Commerce and recently announced a community-based board of directors. “Speaking on behalf of my fellow society board members, I am honoured to be working with Colin (Kobza) and his executive to bring this event to town,” said Mark Ziebarth, chair of the Boonstock Entertainment and Arts Society. “Colin has vision and what he’s creating will be a fantastic, long-term cultural and economic development cornerstone for the South Okanagan community.” The chamber said festivals of this kind throughout North America have created a booming business and many communities such as Squamish, Pemberton, Salmon Arm are well known for their festivals and the rejuvenating effect they have contributed to those communities’ tourism industries. “The marketing benefits of this festival will be massive,” said Campbell Watt, president of the chamber. “It is attracting a younger demographic, one that may be visiting Penticton for the first time. “We have an opportunity to welcome them and turn them into repeat visitors.” The forum will take place at the Chamber of Commerce board room on the second floor of the B.C. Wine Info Centre on July 8 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. RSVPs are encouraged as seats are limited.

Committee meetings had previously been scheduled over several lunch hours each month. However, Trustee Tracy St. Claire pushed to have the meetings condensed into a single afternoon in order to save the cost of providing food to those in attendance and to make the trustee’s job more appealing to working people with busy schedules. St. Claire was unsuccessful in her bid to keep the meetings to one day, despite noting that only rarely do all four committees meet each month. “If you’re looking to have people commit to run in the next election… I think they’re well served to know what the commitment is,” she said. “And if the commitment’s going to be two short days, that looks a lot different to people with jobs than one longer day.” Trustees Johnson, St. Claire and Linda Beaven were the three votes in opposition to the new schedule.

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Students paying price for strike There’s a lot of fuss over the B.C. teachers strike, and true enough, graduating students have something to be concerned about. Who is going to take any notice of this illtimed strike? Except for the students, those with their futures riding on the outcome of their provincial exams and those who are just happy to be released into their summer vacation a week early, that is. For the rest of us, the first 11 weeks of the strike are going to be tough to tell from the annual school summer holiday. There is only one group that stands the possibility of being hurt or inconvenienced by a teacher’s strike. And that’s the students whose education teachers say they are trying to protect. Whether or not teachers deserve a raise is not the question here. The question is whether either side in this dispute should be using students as pawns, or worse yet, sacrifice students’ education in pursuit of their own goals. Especially when one of the big themes of the dispute so far has been teachers coming forward in media, advertising and blog posts to talk about how devoted they are to their students. You can’t have it both ways. In the case of the strike, the better choice would have been to hold off until September; then students would have been able to finish their school year properly, and the strike action would have come at a time when it would have been both less damaging to student education and more effective as a bargaining tool. But both sides need to start negotiating fairly, PENTICTON WESTERN leave the students out of the advertising campaigns and get this dispute — which has roots stretching back to 2002 — over with. Then, maybe, we can do away with labour disputes for a while, and get back to educating our young people. After all, that’s the most important thing, right?

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For comparison purposes, B.C.’s deficit swelled briefly beyond $3 billion in the wake of the Great Recession of 2009, and the books stayed in the red until last year as the B.C. Liberals unwound the Harmonized Sales Tax and repaid a $1.6 billion HST transfer allowance Tom Fletcher to Ottawa. B.C. Views You think B.C.’s energy policy is a disaster? Canada Pension Plan. Check out Ontario, B.C. has a similar where the cops are still pension program in the investigating the $1 works, to be offered to billion cancellation of the two thirds of small plans to construct two business and selfnatural gas-fired power employed people who plants before the 2011 don’t have a group plan election. with their employer. The gas plants were Ours would, of to stabilize erratic outcourse, be voluntary. put from wind and solar Not so in Ontario, power, a European-style where large and small climate change gesture businesses will be rethat involved Ontario quired to cough up half ratepayers giving a huge of the required pension subsidy to Korean tech payments. giant Samsung. The Ontario model is The Ontario Liberals dumb on several levels. clung to power in part It is to be imposed by promising a provinjust as the baby boom cial pension scheme on retirement wave breaks the same scale as the across Canada’s most

populous province, increasing risk that the pension pool may run dry. And it sticks small business with a new payroll tax in a province that has lost much of its traditional manufacturing base and needs to innovate. Here’s the funny part, if you don’t live in Ontario. Wynne tabled her spending-spree, deﬁcitbe-damned budget in an effort to convince the NDP to keep propping up the Liberal minority government and avoid an election. Instead, she won a majority and now has to implement her piein-the-sky promises. Ontario is bracing for a downgrade in its credit rating based on the election result, and is about to go into province-wide bargaining with public service unions who want their share from the Liberal money tree. Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim

Hudak ran on a plan that sounded similar to the one presented by Christy Clark in 2013: hold the line on spending, balance the budget, reduce the size of government, stimulate job creation. Hudak was rejected for a second time, and resigned the leadership on election night. B.C. voters now have three years to see how the Ontario version of Liberal government plays out, compared to the B.C. Liberal version. For us, much depends on resource development, including forest products, natural gas and other trade with Asia. If all goes well here, B.C. can continue to send transfer payments to the fantasyland of Ontario. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @ tomﬂetcherbc Email: tﬂetcher@blackpress. ca.

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Resolution difficult when reality is idealistic Here we are at the end of the school year with teachers and the government entrenched and battle lines becoming more drawn. Shots have been fired on both sides, some of which are, in essence, ricochet shots fired 10-15 years ago but failed to hit the targets. The bullets are still errant to this day and the targets remain untouched, let alone hitting the bulls-eye! In any battle, there has to be a winner, although not without fallout of some kind. There is a price to pay in most victories. The ongoing teacher-government agree to disagree scenario entails collateral damage but it is not a major point of concern. The collateral damage is the educational process of students. Both sides pay token lip-service to this issue, however, neither one seems to take the students’ educational goals as a first and foremost priority. It seems to center around the dollars and the infusion and spending of same. From my perspective as a former and witnessing the progress, or lack of progress is more apt, it appears that reality has

Carmi Grade 5 grateful

Thank you to all community and school members who came to breakfast and made donations. Thank you to the staff of the Penticton Herald and the Penticton Western News for attending and publishing such great photos of our event. Thank you to the Carmi parents, teachers, principal and staff for supporting this initiative with your time and energy. Finally thank you to the children and parents for their enthusiasm in spite of the rain. The success of events such as this really highlights our supportive and involved community.

... it appears that reality has been thrown out or totally forgotten on both sides. been thrown out or totally forgotten by both sides. Until both sides agree on what is reality, not much will change. The demands will go on along with finger-pointing, innuendoes and accusations. The students will pay. The agree to disagree scenario will prevail. The students will pay. The realization on both sides needs to be that this is not a chess game where pawns are expendable and the king must be protected.

Andrina managed to get the attention of a number of local politicians and media who attended the event and reported on it in their media. We were gratified by the acceptance of the public and the media in helping our community celebrate this auspicious event. Some limited-edition special covers with picture postage cancelled and signatures are still available. We sincerely thank everyone who had anything to do with the great success of this launch of our stamp. On behalf of all the club members, Gus Boersma, President Penticton and District Stamp Club

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Penticton had another highlight event enjoyed by over 150 people. They came to the opening of the Steamfest celebrations marked by the unveiling of the limited edition picture postage stamp painting depicting the S.S. Sicamous and the Naramata tug, created by well-known local historian and artist Randy Manuel. As with many events, nothing can and will be accomplished without the help of many. The Penticton and District Stamp Club would like to recognize some of the hard working people behind the scenes. The Stamp Club members who over two years ago agreed to seek someone who could help produce a stamp depicting the S.S. Sicamous and asked Canada Post to produce a national stamp in honour of the 100th anniversary of the launching of the Sicamous. Randy Manuel produced a painting we could use as an example for the postage stamp. Harv Baessler arranged matters with Canada Post to have a picture postage stamp printed in limited numbers. Bob Otway, retired Penticton Postmaster, agreed to cancel stamps on the day of the event. The local people at Canada Post – Penticton Depot helped make sure our official Canada Post Cancel arrived in time. This event was pulled off with the valuable help of Andrina Iliffe who coordinated the activities of all parties involved making the official opening of the Steamfest Celebrations a success. We owe thanks to the many volunteers who helped greeting people coming aboard, serving cake and refreshments, displaying original era postcards, etc. I personally have to thank Nigel Skermer for stepping into the breach when I got sick.

Pond all splash, misses boat

(re: Back from the bottom; Western News; May 28) Michael Pond claims he is genetically predisposed to alcoholism, There is absolutely no proof that alcoholism is passed genetically. Countless alcoholics have used this to rationalize their drinking and to throw blame elsewhere. Pond thinks that living vicariously through his clients’ traumas led to his downfall, He is most likely right as alcohol is a downer and alcoholism is an addiction to all downers (depressants) in any form, when used by the individual to seek escape from a condition that he or she is unsatisfied with, in what appears to them as the shortest possible time and route. When the drug’s effect wears off the escape route is re-sought again and again until the user perceives the drug induced condition as normal. Pond says he was in a recovery house that was based on a dated 12-step program and got sober despite the recovery house. He doesn’t understand that the recovery house is part of his road to his possible recovery. Pond goes on to say, “I got sober, I believe, because I said I’m not going to let you ... take me down and I just got very defiant.” If the ‘you’ in this statement refers to the drug alcohol then Pond has just affirmed a principal component of AA philosophy . Pond claimed 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous are based on religion and folklore, not science, and while great for camaraderie and support, do not constitute treatment. Pond obviously does not understand the AA 12-step program, or what he is up against. Pond is calling on the government to treat addiction as it would any other disease and begin pumping money into finding ways to

From the teacher’s point of view the king might be salary and working and learning conditions whereas from the government’s point of view, demands and money seem to be at the forefront. In both cases, the students are being used as pawns to achieve an end even though both seem to show concern for the students albeit in a somewhat self-interest way. For things to change, both sides need to change. If both sides started with some small issues and came to some resolution on those, then the more difficult ones could be dealt with intent to reach an amicable agreement. The I want what I want scenario will not accomplish anything. Reality is the key here. It’s time to experience reality and take the real best interests of students to heart. The question might be, how does one eat an elephant? The answer is, one bite at a time.

curb it. First, the government makes billions of dollars suppling alcohol to the people. Second, there is a massive pharmaceutical industry in Canada supplying millions with a multitude of types of downers (among other things of course). Third, to treat addiction like any other disease implies that a pharmaceutical company may find a cure . I have been lucky enough and lived long enough to have been through five different government-funded treatment programs, and have attended hundreds of AA and NA meetings. I have also been lucky enough to have had a lot of very good counsel and some, unfortunately not-so-good counsel. I have the wisdom to know the difference. Timothy H. Birmingham Cawston

Media, justice dismiss evidence

(re: Explosives found in home; Western News, June 11) If you own a diesel truck, some lawn fertilizer, some spare computer or telephone cables and some old coffeepots with timers, you are a potential terrorist, because you have bombmaking material in your possession. This is how law enforcement officers interpret the evidence. If you, in addition to the evidence, are looking at alternative media, which they call right-wing extremist or white supremacist, you are definitively a terrorist and a menace to the establishment. The judges do not look at the presented evidence. They are taking the word of law enforcement at face value. Most people believe what the media presents is the holy truth. Fortunately, there are millions of intelligent people that see a bit further and they question the evidence. They see there is a concerted effort to push for gun control. They also see the war on terror is an invention by the establishment. The kingpins see there is a revolution on the horizon, by the intellect with guns and ropes, against those behind the scene, which pull the strings. By the way, I know who pulls the strings. Most people think everything is just fine and are not much concerned that they are satisfied slaves and are the greatest defenders of their slave condition. Most people do not know that we are in a war of truth against lies. Unfortunately the liars are still in the driver’s seat, but that seems to be changing all over the world, as more and more people are unemployed and have more time to look into

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alternative media. If someone has a business or tries to make a go of politics, such person better watches that he never tells the truth, because his career is over as soon as he opens his mouth for truth, because there is a holy cow which one cannot criticize. You are of course OK, if you have a political correct way of expressing your sentiments, even if you have to lie. If one wants to know, who rules the ruler of the country, he has to look for those that he cannot criticize. We do not live in a democracy we live in a mediacracy. Otto Sturhahn Penticton

Bigfoot does not exist

Here I am judging a book by its cover again. I have watched Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet for three years hoping the title of the program would come true. But not to my surprise, it did not. The program has produced not one hair, foot print, photograph, or video. Just the same comical interviews with nutty eye witnesses, and walking through the woods at night speculating about noises and sounds. Animal Planet please change the title of the program to Not Finding Bigfoot. I could have been watching the Canucks not make the playoffs. Richard vanRyswyk Naramata

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Honours for Peach City Radio Steve Kidd

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When a community radio station that isn’t even on the air yet starts winning awards, it must be doing something right. Earlier this month, two programmers from Peach City Radio received honourable mentions at the annual National Campus and Community Radio Association annual awards. Craig Henderson, vice-president of the Peach City Community Radio Society, said even an honourable mention was a tremendous honour considering the company they were in, which included wellfunded campus and

long-running community stations. “It has 92 members across the country, so there is a lot of great local radio being produced by this organization, a lot of experience and talent out there,” he said. “For Tim Tweed, my colleague and I to get honorable mention, we were quite tickled.” This was also Peach City Radio’s first year of submitting applications to the NCRA National Awards, which recognize exceptional efforts in volunteerism, participation and programming. Henderson won an honourable mention in the Outstanding Achievement in a Docu-

mentary category, for Messages from a P.O.W., his look at the efforts of volunteers who received and recorded radio transmissions from overseas during Second World War. Tim Tweed (a.k.a. Tenacious T), the society’s membership director, picked up his honourable mention in the Music Program category, for his Undercover episode I Have a Dream, highlighting music that celebrated Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. Messages from a P.O.W. was an eyeopening project to work on, said Henderson, documenting the work of a different kind of ra-

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dio involvement in the community. During the Second World War, North American ham radio operators would listen to foreign radio stations — Berlin, Tokyo and others — and pick up messages about the condition of prisoners of war. Those messages would be passed on — either as large 78 RPM records or perhaps just a postcard — to family members of the PoWs. “We have all heard of recycling metal in times of war, recycling war bonds, that kind of thing, but this was a quiet civilian effort that was being done in Canada and the US and people mailing postcards and recordings to say I heard something, perhaps this was your husband or son and it sounds like everything is OK when they weren’t getting word through any official channels,” said Henderson. Peach City Radio, Henderson said, is well on it’s way to broadcasting live. They’ve already been streaming their broadcast online since February, and have created more than 500 programs, and trained many people locally to produce. “We are very proud of the work we have done and the foundation we have built to date with both the inventory of programs and the training we have done. We will hit the ground running,” he said, adding that the society is almost ready to submit its CRTC application for a broadcast license. “The future bodes

Tim Tweed, membership director for Peach City Radio was one of two programmers with the fledgling community radio station was honoured at the National Campus and Community Radio Association awards recently.

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well for reflecting Penticton and the South Okanagan back to the community and encouraging the community to make their own radio,” said Henderson. “That is what we are all about, training folks to get involved and make programs on their laptops. Our ranks continue to grow and

people are having a hoot making their own radio programs.” Dave Del Rizzo, president of the society, said anyone interested in getting involved and making programs for Peach City Radio can get in touch at info@ peachcityradio.org. “We are hosting and producing nationally

recognized programming in the campus/ community radio sector, and we can help you too, if you are interested in Penticton hearing your voice on Peach City Radio.” Listeners can tune into Peach City Radio live through their website at www.peachcityradio.org.

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City hosts party to mark downtown revitalization Western News Staff

With the completion of the revitalization of the western gateway into downtown penticton, the city is hosting a block party, June 21, along the 200 block of martin Street.

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Work on the first phase of Penticton’s downtown revitalization project is drawing to a close, and city hall is throwing a party to celebrate. The community is invited to check out the newly revitalized Westminster-Martin western gateway into downtown Penticton during a block party on the 200 Block of Martin Street set for June 21 during the regular Saturday market hours. “Completing the western gateway to Downtown Penticton is a significant milestone for the revitalization project,” said Mayor Garry Litke. “Downtown revitalization is designed to inject new energy and investment into the community’s commercial core. “The Westminster-Martin project has become a stimulus for additional economic activity in the area, and it’s exciting to see the vision of council’s strategic priority come to life.” For the first day of summer, the block party will make the downtown markets an event bigger event, extending along Nanaimo Avenue and onto the 200 block of Martin, where the new street will be open for pedestrian access. A ribbon cutting will be held at 10 a.m., with free cake while quantities last. The downtown Penticton western gateway project included new sidewalks, new lamp standards, energy-efficient lighting, banners, flower baskets, irrigation and street furniture along all three blocks. Along Martin Street, water infrastructure and connections to businesses will be improved and asphalt along the road will be replaced as well, and bollards were placed alongside the flexible parking space that offers businesses the opportunity to expand their retail space in a vibrant and cost-effective way. A variety of the businesses along Westminster and Martin are planning some special stalls to showcase both the redeveloped streetscape and their goods, like Beads and Beyond on Westminster. On Martin Street, City Centre Fitness will host a free Rise Above Circuit Training Class starting at 9 a.m. on their new sidewalk for anyone looking for an outdoor workout. Pharaoh’s Men’s Hair Salon will welcome summer with discounted buzz cuts ($8) for men and wish braids for girls. “We are so excited to see the relaunch of the Westminster-Martin project and to see the business owners enjoying their new storefront areas, all the extra activity on the street adds to the colour and vibrancy of our downtown,” said Kerri Milton, executive director of the Downtown Penticton Association. The public is also invited to take part in planning future projects along Main Street. A two-day charrette for the planned new park areas, the North and South Greens was held in early June with 40 residents, business owners, stakeholder organizations and youth to envision what the spaces could look like in the future. After site tours, intensive dialogue and working sessions, MMM Group has developed concepts for each park space featuring many of the suggestions and comments received during the charrette. A consultation session is scheduled for those concepts on Saturday, June 21 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the downtown block party celebration. More information about the project is available at www.penticton.ca/downtown.

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High-tech puts White on cutting edge of Top 40 Mark Brett

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Publish or perish is a term often tossed around in research facilities when it comes to success and survival, but it was not the path Geoff White was prepared to take. So, after leaving his job at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in Summerland several years ago, he decided to go the route of any self-respecting scientist: commercial. It was a decision he hasn’t regretted. Now, working out of his 2,500-square-foot laboratory in Penticton, the 37-yearold father of two, who is the founder and CEO of ProgenyBio, has just started his second agricultural services business. “Branching out from the research side of the world was an independent direction, being my own boss, having my own lab, things you strive for as well in research but it was a different path for me.,” said White, who admitted he was just as surprised as anyone to learn he had latent retail tendencies. “I figured in the end that going private was a faster means to an end because if I stayed in the academic side and continued down that path I would not likely have my own lab for another 10 or 15 years. “It’s an exciting time. It’s sort of one of those dream and reality things that you keep pinching yourself and then waking up and realizing that it hasn’t been a dream.” Rather than just having the results of his research work published in journals and sit on shelves, White wanted to see his efforts put to practical use. “We’re bridging the hightech world into agriculture. There is actually a huge gap between research and practical use in production sys-

ScientiSt Geoff White works with one of his research projects under the lights in his Penticton laboratory tuesday. in a very short time he has started two businesses which provide a wide range of agricultural services to the commercial growing industry.

tems,” said White. “With this route I saw an opportunity with agriculture service needs in the valley and especially in the wine industry — the viticulture world — as well as the orchard industry. There is a lot of information that I could put in the hands of the producers that could help them with their bottom line and sustainability. For White, the transition from the public to the private commercial sector involved a very steep learning curve. He said his success in learning to make pitches

for funding to the business community was due largely to the Jump:Start:Challenge program run by Accelerate Okanagan. As a top five finisher with his idea for ProgenyBio, he qualified for some serious tutelage from powerful and knowledgeable mentors. “The eight weeks of training we had really helped us tune what our pitch and delivery is,” said White. “Through their guidance and feedback I actually found out I have pretty solid business instincts so I’m learning to trust those a little bit more.

“It was quite a leap to take and it was quite scary and it’s still scary. “It’s a risk-reward scenario and you have to be a bit of risk taker to take on a venture like this.” As exciting as starting ProgenyBio was, his latest business, CanGenX BioTech, which will provide research and development services to the new medical marijuana industry in Canada really has him stoked. With the increase in the production of medical marijuana and the possibility of recreational use down the

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business was a way to remain here, it was a challenge he was happy to take on. “The responsibility as a father and parent is a very important thing in my life and taking this step is also about laying down a legacy for my children,” said White. Penticton Top 40 under 40 is presented by the Prospera Credit Union and White Kennedy LLP Chartered Accountants in partnership with the Penticton and Wine Country Chamber of Commerce, JCI Penticton with support from Community Futures Okanagan Similkameen.

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Kenny Rogers leaves rich memories

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Kenny Rogers said there are a couple different types of people that come to his show. The long-time fans, the casual fans and the people with arms crossed they dragged along with them. A magnetic personality, funny and the consummate entertainer, Rogers, for whatever he lacked at hitting the higher notes at 75 years old, proved at his South Okanagan Events Centre show in Penticton on June 12 that he has not lost his ability to connect with an audience.

Just ask Patrick, who Rogers pointed out sitting with arms crossed in the front row under the soft glow of lights that illuminated the front half of the ﬂoor. Rogers promised to make him a fan by the end and tossed U.S. $10 bills at him all night long for naming each hit he performed. “By the end of the night you are going to have $120 to $130 of my money. Tomorrow he is going to be so excited about country music he is going to go out and buy a Garth Brooks album,” Rogers said, which had the audience laughing. Known for packing a great song and story along with it, Rogers did not disappoint. He teased the crowd, suggesting that in Quebec they sang along to Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town better, “and they don’t even speak English.” He also pointed out a woman on the ﬂoor using binoculars.

“There is a lady here tonight about 90 feet away with the biggest binoculars I have ever seen. What are you trying to see?” he said, joking that it was a violation of his privacy. As the name of his tour suggests, Through The Years, the Country Music Hall of Fame member took the audience through his 55-year career as a Grammy Awardwinning recording artist. He dug into the 1960s tunes, a time when he said he wore sunglasses and looked a bit different. Just then a photo of him on a Just For Men hair dye box popped up on screen, much to the delight of the ladies in the crowd. He sang Something’s Burning, a song he said despite going radio station to radio station they would not play because they said it was “too sexual.” Rogers said he decided to go to England and play it on the Tom Jones TV show, which airs in the U.S. “I came back and every station had it on.” Sticking in the 1960s he sang Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In), a song written by Mickey Newbury said to be a warning against the dangers of using LSD. Rogers made sure to review the lyrics after singing his ﬁrst Top 10 hit on the Billboard charts with the audience. “They just don’t write songs like that anymore,” he joked. Rogers then moved into some of his most famous tunes new and old; Have A Little Faith, The Gambler, You Can’t Make Old Friends and We’ve Got Tonight. The man who puts an indelible stamp on songs doesn’t move around with ease anymore and told the crowd he wasn’t

KENNY ROGERS, above, dished out some humour, some cash and a nearly two dozen of his chart topping songs at the SOEC last Thursday night; Charlie Major, left, opened the evening with his brand of blue-collar country music.

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going to hide behind one of the curtains waiting for them to call him back for an encore. Instead he jumped right in with Lady and Islands In The Stream, both of which became pop/country/adult contemporary hits for Rog-

ers and duet partner Dolly Parton. While not everyone left the concert with a fuller wallet and a free concert T-shirt like Patrick did, the audience did leave rich with memories of a remarkable career of a

music legend and country music icon. Opening for Rogers, was Canadian country singersongwriter Charlie Major who performed an acoustic set with the standout being My Brother And Me.

Performing Arts Provincials perfect harmony for local singer Kristi Patton

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Teigan Litke can remember being just a toddler crawling around on the ﬂoor of a community centre pretending to be a wolf in a sled race. “I’ve been acting and singing since those ﬁrst acting classes I was in. Ever since that moment I have been pretending and imagining; portraying the vision in my head to an audience,” said Litke, who won the Intermediate Musical Theatre award and Honourable Mention in the Intermediate Vocal Variety category at the B.C. Performing Arts Festival provincials held in Penticton.

Teigan Litke Two months ago Litke landed a spot at the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts

in Toronto and last week she graduated from Penticton Secondary School. Litke said she also was invited to a performing arts school in New York, but chose to stay in Canada. Earlier this year she performed in the Soundstage Production of Les Misérables. With a busy year full of successes it was the win at provincials she cherishes most. “I was deﬁnitely more excited that I won provincials than I was about graduating. I have been performing for so long and ﬁnally it was my year to earn a win. It was something I was not expecting because it is one of the biggest categories in provincials that is why it is so amazing,” said Litke. “Having provin-

cials hosted by Penticton in my last year was a great experience. Then winning on top of all that was amazing.” Litke won over the adjudicators at provincials in the Intermediate Musical Theatre category by singing two songs from the production Dogﬁght. “I think the contrast development of the character stood out as a whole. Putting two pieces together from the same production made me stand out at the festival. I think it gave me an edge,” said Litke, who won a partial scholarship to Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance in Vancouver this summer at provincials. See PERFORMER on p. 14

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The Ajna jazz trio, led by Keremeos-born saxophonist Jonnie Bridgman, will be embarking on their second annual tour of the Okanagan with a brand new album of innovative original music. Bridgman, who taught music at Similkameen Elementary Secondary School from 2010-2012, is making a name for himself as a saxophonist in the Victoria’s vibrant music scene. The tour kicks off on July 10 in Naramata at the Cobblestone Wine Bar at the Naramata Heritage Inn. July 12 they will provide entertainment at the Similkameen BBQ King in Keremeos at the Historic Grist Mill. They also will play at the Okanagan Crush Pad as part of their summer concert series on July 17 and will wrap up the tour in Penticton in Gyro Park for the Sunshine Cabaret on July 18, which will also feature a number of guest musicians. Ajna will also feature Naramata-based jazz guitar guru, Shpengla, and the bass role will be shared by two of B.C.’s ﬁnest: Tim Croft from Victoria and Bernie Addington of Kelowna. The group of highly skilled musicians will be performing their own unique arrangements of a wide variety of traditional and modern jazz standards as well as original compositions from their debut album The Day After, which is due to be released at the beginning of the tour and will be available at each performance. The music features excellent musicianship blending elements of swing, hard bop, tango, funk and drum and bass. The album also features cover artwork by Okanagan artist Barb Hofer.

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Asteroids indicate life could have originated elsewhere Over the last decade or two we have learned that sending a space mission to another planet is not the only way to get rock samples. Those samples also get here all by themselves. When a body such as the Earth or some other planet is hit by a large object, such as a comet or small asteroid, a lot of material is blasted into space where it orbits the sun until it hits something, like another planet. For example, we have now a growing collection of rock fragments that have come from Mars and landed on Earth as meteorites. The composition of the rock, plus any liquids or gases that might be trapped in it, are a guide to where it came from. The frequency with which pieces of one planet get blasted off and then impact another planet have led to a revival of an old idea — panspermia — that life everywhere comes from a common seed which is transported from world to world, germinating when conditions are suitable. Of course the journey those seeds would have undertaken are unlike any form of travel we know. For us, travel is, or we would like it to be, sitting in a comfortable seat, gently accelerating to a speed that gets the journey over in a reasonable time, and then gently decelerating to rest, disembarking, and then hoping our luggage made it. This is very different from being blasted off a planet by a gigantic explosion, imposing an acceleration that would pulverize us.

Then, exposed to radiation and probably the vacuum of space, the passengers would orbit the Sun for thousands or millions of years. Any survivors of this process will then have to endure the landing, which involves entering the atmosphere of the destination world at tens of kilometres a second. The outer layers of the rock protecting the passengers would melt and be heated to thousands of degrees, and the deceleration would be almost as violent as it was at takeoff. The trip would end with a high-speed impact with the ground. What sort of living creatures could possibly survive an ordeal like that? We know for sure that large animals like us could not handle any stage of this method of interplanetary travel. In 1969, when the astronauts on Apollo 12 visited the lunar lander Surveyor 3, which had been sitting on the Moon’s surface since 1967, they removed some components of the lander to take back to Earth. They were surprised to see that Earth bacteria had hitched a ride to the Moon on Surveyor and were still alive. This demonstrated that simple creatures like bacteria can survive for long periods in space, exposed to radiation, vacuum and huge temperature changes. We also now know that bacteria and viruses can survive a wide range of hostile conditions for very long periods by going dormant. However, could they also survive the stresses of takeoff and landing?

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Bullrider heading to school nationals Emanuel Sequeira Western News Staff

Shaun Greenhough never thought he would reach the 66th National High School Finals Rodeo only two years after entering the sport. The Penticton/Princeton resident is going to Rock Springs, Wyo., July 13-19 to compete in bareback and bull riding. It’s a good feeling for the 18-year-old after his hard work. “It kind of just hit me. I just got the hang of it all of a sudden,” said Greenhough of his improvement. “I didn’t think I was going to make it for the bull riding. That was a shock.” Greenhough ranks No.1 in bullriding in the B.C. High School Rodeo standings and is alone in bareback riding for the south. In the BCHSR, Greenhough won every bull riding event. In allaround boys leaders for the south, Greenhough is fifth out of nine. In the finals, Greenhough earned a $750 scholarship for his efforts. “It was good. They were on their game,” said Greenhough of the riders in high school. “They wanted it as much as I did.” In the B.C. Rodeo Association, Greenhough ranks fifth and recently won the 67th annual Kispiox Valley Rodeo. Among his season highlights were winning his first bareback in Valemount a few weeks ago and riding 13 of 14 bulls into the finals. Even an injury makes the list such as when he was knocked out in Merritt. “A bull stepped on the back of my neck. I tried to get up and they were tackling me to the ground because my neck might have been broken,” said Greenhough, who lucked out with just a cut. “The next day I show up and get a 76-point ride (for the win). Everyone was so shocked I showed up. The doctor said I couldn’t ride. I asked for a note because I wanted to.” Greenhough credits Trevor Thompson and new trainer Nik Smith, a fellow bull rider, for his success. Greenhough has put time into training and working on things such as getting over the bull and not pumping his arm too much when spinning. When asked about what Greenhough has

done, Thompson said he has come a long way because of his work ethic. “Shaun has developed more A bull stepped patience,” said Thompson, who on the back of won the 1985 NaHigh School my neck. I tried tional finals bullriding to get up and c h a m p i o n s h i p and is also a 1985 they were All-American tackling me to Team-Bull Riding/ Bareback. “Before the ground. he would be upset with himself when — Shaun Greenhough being bucked off. He now knows you won’t ride every one but you will learn from every one you get on. He also has better control of his upper body, which is crucial.” Greenhough has been focused on qualifying for the NHSFR from the start. Greenhough has benefited from Thompson’s support as he is more critical of his performances now. “He is picking out all my little errors, correcting them,” said Greenhough. “It just makes me work harder to fix that. It gives me more motivation.” What excites Greenhough about nationals is the chance to be a North American champ and the experience. “They are going to be very good,” said Greenhough of the riders he goes against. “I just hope I get the right bull and horse. Good bulls will give you high points.” Thompson is confident that Greenhough will do fine, it’s just important he doesn’t get ahead of himself. “Treat the nationals as just another rodeo,” said Thompson. To become a national champion, contestants must finish in the top 20 base on combined scores and times in the first two rounds. National champs are then determined by three-round combined scores and times.

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IN BRIEF AA peewee Expos get win

Penticton’s peewee A baseball team defeated West Kelowna 9-7 on Monday at Kiwanis Park. Coach Matt Nelson said his team played great and received strong defence from Dominick Escalante and Donte Brown, each catching ﬂy balls. Jordan Picheniuk was the starting pitcher and allowed two runs in the ﬁrst inning, then Taylor Jones pitched nearly two full innings, allowing only one run in each. Dylan Hickson came in as the closer and allowed one run.

In other peewee action, the AA Thunder are on a four-game losing streak in games against Rutland 1 and Kamloops, 12-6 and 13-3, respectively on the weekend. Prior to the weekend, the Thunder defeated the Kelowna Cubs 9-6 on June 9. They wrapped up their regular season with a road game in West Kelowna. Playoffs begin this weekend in Kamloops.

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The Penticton Schooners Grade 7 boys basketball team lost 44-34 in the Kelowna

SHAUN GREENHOUGH’S bullriding skills is taking him to Rock Spring, Wyo., July 13-19 for the National High School rodeo. He will also compete in the bareback event. The nationals features more than 1,500 contestants in 42 states, five Canadian provinces and Australia. Along with more than $200,000 in prizes, there is $350,000 in college scholarships available. Greg Sabatino/Black Press

Legends League championship game. Conrad Scotchburn led the Schooners with 13 points with Stevie Searcy and Jordan Moore adding six and four points, respectively. The Schooners were able to cut the lead to six points with ﬁve minutes remaining, but ran out of steam. The Schooners earned a berth into the championship with a 52-49 win over the Bobcats. Scotchburn led with 28 points with Owen Labadie and Spencer Toneatto adding 12 and four points, respectively. “The boys had a great season,” said Schooners coach Doug Scotchburn.

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Former Flame gets honour

Penticton’s Jean-Luc Chetner of the Coquitlam Adanacs was recently named the B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League’s player of the week. Chetner, a former South Okanagan Flames and Penticton Heat product, netted ﬁve goals and added six assists in three games for the Adanacs. In 10 games this season, Chetner has 14 goals and 23 assists for 37 points.

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Championships won in early years Emanuel Sequeira Western News Staff

Success came quick for the Penticton Soccer Club. After starting in the fall of 1954, the Queen’s Park Rangers went undefeated to win the Okanagan Valley Soccer League, which averaged 28 games, and the Royal Cup, which featured the top four squads, in the spring of 1955. Back then, seasons were split between fall and spring and along with Penticton, the league featured the Kelowna Kickers, Vernon National Hotel, Kamloops United, Armstrong Indian School and Osoyoos Realto Hotel. Charlie Goeckel, a lifetime director with the club, joined the team in spring of 1955. He said the quality of teams in the OVSL was strong. “Some had played what now would be considered professional soccer in England and Scotland and Holland,” said Goeckel. “It was tough to make the team because they were that good.” Goeckel, who was 20 at the time and came from Germany, said the Rangers had a tremendous team. Playing for the Rangers in the fall of 1954 were Graham McLaren, Rob McLaren, Bob Conway, Wally Morgan, Ryan Conley, Charly Preen, George Brochu, Elmer Brochu, George Christy, Stan Kelly, Jim Johnson, Bob Rodledge, Casey Jong, Cherry Ritchy and Len Pinske. Tom McLaren and Goeckel joined in the spring of 1955. The Rangers defended their 1955 Royal Cup title in 1956. Several players came from Europe and the only locals were George Brochu and Preen. The strength of the teams resulted in some heated moments on the field. “In those days there was a lot of fights that broke out,” said Goeckel, adding that players brought the hockey mentality into the game. “Some of the local players that came in figured it was hockey. They understood the game. You bump a guy and he starts throwing fists.” Tom McLaren, who played with his brothers Graham and Rob, recalled a small altercation he had with an opponent. “He ran after me. He had a pole in his hand with the flag,” said McLaren. “Rob just bonked him on the head and knocked him down.” Among McLaren’s highlights was going undefeated the first year and what the players did once to deal with the heat of Osoyoos. “It was so damn hot. It was 103. We were playing and at half time our whole team were near the lake and ran into the lake with boots on and everything to cool off,” said McLaren, adding they won the game. Travel to games in the late 1950s required catching a ferry to get to Kelowna. Goeckel said there were times they rushed to catch the ferry. Driving to Revelstoke required dealing with roads under construction. They travelled up and down the valley every Sunday to play. The PSC would win another Royal Cup in 1973, this time as the Molson Canadians — Molson Brewery, beginning in 1966, supported the club for 20 years. To keep a pipeline of players feeding into the PSC, youth soccer was started in 1962. Goeckel advertised in the newspaper for kids ages 12 and over to go to Queen’s Park and try the sport on a Saturday afternoon. “I figured there would be 15 kids or so that would come out,” said Goeckel, who arrived at the field with ball in hand. “There were 70 kids there waiting. I thought they might be there for hockey, it was October. I asked them what they were doing there and they said they were there for soccer.” That session lasted for an hour and a half. Goeckel wrote down names and had 120 kids total. During that

THE PENTICTON SOCCER CLUB’S RANGERS in 1954 that won the Okanagan Valley Soccer League and Royal Cup. From the left in the back are Casey John, D. Cowie, Ryan Conley, Jerry Ritchie and Jack Vass. Middle row is Jimmy Jenkins, Rob McLaren, Graham McLaren, George Christy and Doug Patterson. Front row is George Brochu, Robert Conway, Alf Preen, Stan Kelly, Oskar Madsen, Jimmy Johnson and Elmer Brochu. Missing is Wally Morgan. Penticton Soccer Club photo

year, Goeckel, along with Les Robert and Helmut Gedig, coached four teams with players aged 10 to 12. In 1963 they had eight teams, which grew to 11 in a short period. George Miller, who coached youth soccer in 1972, said the kids had fun. “It was getting kids together and giving them some skill,” said Miller, who helped reorganize youth soccer and helped get the association going. “Letting them play and letting them enjoy the game. It was good soccer for that time and getting the basic skills. They were enjoying the skills of the game.” Nearing the end of the PSC’s first 20 years, the club played an exhibition game against the Montreal Olympus at King’s Park in 1972. A crowd of 1,000 watched as Montreal won 5-1. Bob Jonson scored Penticton’s only goal. “They were the top team in Canada at the time. All professionals,” said Goeckel, who got them to come to Penticton after learning they were playing a game in Vancouver a week later. The club also started organizing a soccer tournament, now known as the Pacific Western Brewery May Classic, which had its 53rd tournament last month with 24 men’s and women’s teams from B.C. and Alberta. This story is part of a series to commemorate the Penticton Soccer Club’s 60th anniversary.

CHARLIE GOECKEL, left, of the Penticton Soccer Club Rangers chases for the ball with Kelowna United’s Alex Roth in an Okanagan Valley Soccer League match in 1958 at Queen’s Park. The Rangers won 3-1. Penticton Soccer Club photo

High school teachers serve up volleyball camp Western News Staff

High level volleyball instruction is being offered to athletes in Grades 4 to 12 June 30 to July 4. The camp will take place at Princess Margaret Secondary and Pen High and instructor John Buckley anticipates between 100 and 200 players, mostly locals, will sign up. The camp features drill practice, skill progressions, game strategies, fitness and advice on nutrition, as well as beach game sessions.

“It is like a season of practice condensed into one week of 15 hours,” said Buckley, who has been holding the camp for more than 20 years. Joining Buckley are Rich Corrie and Robert Gunning, experienced high school coaches with eight provincial championships between them. Buckley said the camp offers players further development to prepare for their upcoming school seasons. The co-ed camp has students in Grades 4 to 6 from 9 a.m. to

noon. Older boys and girls will be separated in Grades 7 to 9 and 10 to 12. The boys session is from 9 a.m. to noon and the girls from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Princess Margaret and Pen High, respectively. The camp also includes a barbecue, game play and athletes will receive T-shirts. The cost for the camp is $150. After June 30, there is a late registration charge of $20. For more information and camp registration contact Buckley, Corrie or Gunning at JBuckley@summer.com, RCorrie@summer.com, or RGunning@summer.com.

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Flames burned by defence Emanuel Sequeira Western News Staff

The South Okanagan Flames lacrosse team struggled offensively and defensively against the Kamloops Venom on Sunday. The end result was a 15-5 loss at Penticton’s Memorial Arena. “Our guys worked hard. We have got things to improve on,” said Flames coach Kevin Thompson. “There are some positives and a bunch of negatives.” The Flames trailed 6-1 after the first period, then 11-2 after two periods. The Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League’s top team, the Venom, are now 12-0. Thompson wasn’t pleased with losing again as his Flames have a record of two wins and eight losses, putting them fourth in the five-team circuit. Thompson said the Venom pulled out the perfect defence as they knew

who to focus on, while not allowing other Flames players to get involved. Defensively, Thompson said the Flames need to try and toughen up. “We have to not let these teams come to Penticton and think they can just bowl us over,” said Thompson. “Play good, hard, aggressive defence. We don’t take lots of penalties. We can still play hard, aggressive defence. That’s what we’re going to be working on.” While the Flames did score three goals in the third period, they had a few other chances denied by Venom goalie Matt Hans or missed the net entirely. Flames captain Kaid McLeod said they didn’t play as well against the Venom as their last game, which was a 20-12 loss on May 31 in Kamloops. “We need to work on defence. We can’t give up 14 and 15 goals a night,” he said. “We have been scoring nine or 10 goals a game.

Once we improve our defence, we will be right with these guys and other teams in the league.” Near the end of the game McLeod received special attention from Venom Marc Dumont, who cross checked him several times in the chest and forced him into the boards at one point. Dumont didn’t get any reaction from McLeod and was eventually sent to the penalty box. “I didn’t do a single thing to him,” said McLeod, when asked about the incident. “He just didn’t like me I guess. I don’t know.” Scoring for the Flames were Tanner Thompson, Mitch Brodt, McLeod, Chris Pond and Brad Stel. Leading the Venom offensively were Brady Jorgensen with six goals and Monty Chisholm with four. The Flame’s next game is June 21 against the Venom in Kamloops at Memorial Arena at 7:30 p.m.

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Williams Lake won the Penticton Harlequins Sunfest rugby tournament title game 19-5 at McNicoll Park, but the hosts were still happy with the finish. “I think that’s one of the first times we’ve made it to the final,” said Harlequins coach Ken Sommerfeldt. “I’m relatively happy. I think the game was probably a little closer. There was two converted tries by Williams Lake that came off mind-freeze goof-ups.” Had it not been for that, Sommerfeldt is convinced the final would have been 5-5. The Harlequins coached described the finale as intense with solid running and hard tackling. “It was certainly good, hard hitting,” said Sommerfeldt. “A well-fought affair.” Prior to the final, the Harlequins were 3-0 with wins over Gibsons, 19-17, Trail, 17-5, and Merritt, 17-10 in the semifinal. On the women’s side, which featured Kelowna, Ridge Meadows and the Harlequins, Kelowna won both their games, but didn’t stay for the final. The Harlequins lost 35-7 to Kelowna. Adrienne Penner scored a try for the home side with Jana Clarke kicking the convert. The Harlequins also lost to Ridge Meadows 35-24 and faced them again Sunday, losing 17-12 while playing seven a side.

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Music, dancing and pirates marked a busy weekend

AMANDA CHICKLOSKI, 15, (clockwise from top right) lifts Michelle Miles, 15, during the youth performance team’s rendition of Badtameez at the Get Bent year-end showcase Sunday, at the Cleland Theatre; The Spirit of Summerland steams into the Kettle Valley Steam Railway station near Summerland recently. The summer schedule for the popular attraction begins July 3 with regularly scheduled runs Thursday through Mondays; Three-year-old pirate Ruby Hauber reaches out to catch this bubble at Penticton’s first pirate festival at the SS Sicamous Sunday as part of the combined 100th birthday celebrations of the vessel and Father’s Day; Harold Pudwell (centre) and Bill Smith of Powell River with the other members of the Sunnyside Bluegrass Gospel group from Salmon Arm perform on stage during open mic gospel session Sunday at the 19th annual Summerland Bluegrass Festival at the rodeo grounds.

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Fall festival expects to crush numbers Western News Staff

Record crowds are expected by organizers for the Festival of the Grape this October, the Okanagan’s largest family fall wine festival. “We generally attract approximately 3,500 guests to the Festival Of the Grape,” said Bonnie Dancey, CEO of the South Okanagan Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the event. “We expect that number to climb closer to 4,000 this year. The word is out the Festival Of the Grape is the family fall event to attend to sample some of the world’s finest wines and celebrate Okanagan cuisine and culture.” On the list of activities this year are the parade of wineries, the popular grape stomping competition, eight wineries with food pairings prepared on site, over 50 Okanagan wineries, 15 food vendors, 60 trade vendors, live entertainment with the Paperboys, a petting zoo with activities, indoor art show. The Paperboys are a Canadian based genre-bending band. They have received a Juno Award for Best Roots and Traditional Album of the Year and Juno Award nominations for the three of their albums. Amongst their other awards

are two West Coast Music Awards for Best Roots Recording and three more nominations in that category. They have also been nominated for a Genie Award. Festival of the Grape is held annually at the Oliver Recreation Centre to celebrate the grape harvest in the Okanagan Valley. It was originally launched in 1997 and has continued to thrive and grow each year. Organized by the South Okanagan Chamber of Commerce and hundreds of volunteers, the event allows people to sample wines from local wineries and taste the best Okanagan cuisine from innovative local chefs and local food vendors. This event is smoke free and pet free. There is free parking and shuttles are available. Tickets for Festival of the Grape, taking place Oct. 5 from noon to 5 p.m., can be purchased in Penticton at the B.C. Wine Info Centre, in Oliver at the Shopper’s Drug Mart, Imperial Office Pro and the South Okanagan Chamber of Commerce. To purchase online through PayPal visit www.sochamber. ca. Advance tickets are $23 or they can be purchased on the date at the door for $25. Amy HAncock of the trio Filthy Feet stomping at the Festival of Kids under 18 are allowed the Grape in oliver last year. kristi Patton/Western news in for free.

Joy Road opens patio restaurant at Black Hills Western News Staff

Joy Road Catering has partnered with Black Hills Estate Winery to open the Joy Road Vineyard Kitchen. Chefs Dana Ewart and Cameron Smith are well known in the Okanagan for their use of local products and wine and beer paired dinners. They will open the patio restaurant at the Black Hills Wine Experience Centre to provide visitors with both lunch and wine pairing options. Joy Road is creating a fresh new menu focused on Okanagan food along with a new selection of flat bread pizzas that have been carefully paired with each of the Black Hills Wines. Joy Road will be based on site creating the food, and crafting the seasonal “cuisine du terroir” that they have become famous throughout the Okanagan for. From their inception of selling pastries at the farmers’ markets, Joy

Road has primarily used local ingredients for the simple reason that they believe fresh tastes better. The chefs said it also sustains the farmers and artisans who represent the agricultural heritage of the area. Black Hills Estate Winery opened the Wine Experience Center on Black Sage Road in 2012 and have been providing sit-down wine tastings on their vineyard setting ever since. Their knowledgeable “Wine Evangelists” guide visitors through the entire portfolio of six Black Hills wines with each wine being served in a varietal specific Riedel glass. It allows visitors to taste the progression amongst the varietals and blends from the winery, ending with a tasting of their wellknown flagship Nota Bene wine. The Nota Bene is a Bordeaux-style Estate wine produced 100 per cent from grapes growing right beside in the

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Rubbish Removal Garbage hauling, metal hauling, batteries, furniture/appliances hauled to dump, dirty jobs too! (250)488-6707 PENTICTON Junk Removal! Anything goes! Household waste, furniture and appliances to the dump 250-770-0827 Trainor Family Hauling. Will haul your junk, big and small, to the dump. Will also do small jobs. We’re here to serve you with a smile. Call Pat with your needs. 250-486-4867

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DOBERMAN pup, Ready to go now; $600. Can deliver. 778-212-2468 WOLF Hybrid Cubs. Reserve now. Sun Valley Wolf Kennels Kelowna. $1000. 250-765-4996 www.sunvalleywolfkennels.com

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STEEL BUILDINGS. Summer meltdown sale! 20x20 $5,419. 25x26 $6,485. 30x30 $8,297. 32x34 $9,860. 40x48 $15,359. 47x68 $20,558. Front & back wall included. Pioneer Steel 1800-668-5422 or online: www.pioneersteel.ca

3 dressers, need some work & refinishing, (250)497-8774

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Garage Sales

Wanted, 250-Gallon Victair Orchard Sprayer any condition. Call 250-462-5885

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ALLEYCATS Alliance Huge Yard Sale Sat June 14 8am2pm Total Pet parking lot 402 Industrial Ave E. You name it we have it. GARAGE SALE Saturday June 14, 102 - 142 Wyles Crescent, Household Items Gigantic Yard Sale, 1334 Leir St., Fri/Sat/Sun, June 20-22, 9am-3pm, assorted items; tools, household, collectibles, too many to list, rain or shine, no early birds please. JUNE 14- 7-1pm Household, clothing, games, sports equipment! 2655 Evergreen Drive up Balsam Ave

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4 Wheel walker with hand brakes, basket & seat, like new, w/4 post collapsible walker, $150 (both), (250)770-8657 Shoprider Mobility Scooters and Power Chairs, New & Used. Stairlifts, Vertical Platform Lifts, Platform Stairlifts. www.okmobility.ca Kamloops: 250-377-3705 Kelowna: 250-764-7757 Vernon: 250-542-3745 or call TF 1-888-542-3745

Misc. for Sale A- STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS Used 20’40’45’ 53’ and insulated containers all sizes in stock. SPECIAL Trades are welcome. 40’ Containers under $2500! Also JD 544 &644 wheel Loaders JD 892D LC excavator Ph Toll free 1-866-528-7108 Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com FOR Sale 4 post car hoist. 110 plug in. $2500. 250-492-6756 KILL BED Bugs & Their Eggs! Buy Harris Bed Bug Killer Complete Treatment Program or Kit. Available: Hardware Stores, Buy Online: homedepot.com KILL ROACHES! Buy Harris Roach Tablets. Eliminate bugs- guaranteed. No mess, odorless, long lasting. Available at Ace Hardware & The Home Depot. SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT or call 1-800566-6899 Ext:400OT.

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Sporting Goods RIFLES, shotguns, pistols, revolvers, muzzleloaders sold, bought & serviced at Weber & Markin Gunsmiths. The Okanagan’s friendly Gunshop. 4-1691 Powick Rd Kelowna 250-762-7575 Tues-Sat. 10-6 facebook.com/ WeberMarkin Women’s Nishiki Colorado Mtn. bike, white steel frame, 7spd, front/back fenders, 26” x1.95 tires, alloy rims, handle bar basket, $65, 250-493-8007

Real Estate For Sale By Owner PRIME LAKEVIEW LOTS from $140,000. www.orlandoprojects.com Also: Spectacular 3 acre parcel owner financing. 250-558-7888

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent 1bdrm unit, parking avail. great location, $700 heat/cable incl. n/s, cat ok w/deposit, 250-488-7902 Bach room, downtown, shared bathroom, mature person, util. included, $350, 250-809-5989 or (250)496-5989 Clean 1bdrm suite, full size f/s & a/c, $650/mo +util., 250492-7129

Commercial/ Industrial APPLE PLAZA, Prime Central location, 2300sqft. in busy plaza, ample parking, also 220 sqft. shared office space avail., call Barb 250-492-6319 WARREN Ave. 1000&1500sq’ units of comm/industrial w/ compounded yard & overhead doors. 250-765-3295

Duplex / 4 Plex 2bdrm 2bath unit, laminate floors, central location, private parking, cat ok with deposit, $900/mo., 250-488-7902 563 Burns St Penticton 3 bed, 1 bath, 1200sqft, 5 appl: $1200/mo. Available July 1st call 250-492-2070

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The above mentioned bylaw and supporting information will be available for public inspection up to and including Monday, June 23, 2014 at the following locations during hours of operation: Development Services and Corporate Administration (City Hall, 171 Main St.), Penticton Public Library (785 Main St.) and the Penticton Community Centre (325 Power St.); or online at http://www.penticton.ca/ EN/meta/city-news/latest-news.html.

The deadline for submitting completed application forms including supporting documentation is JULY 31, 2014. Successful applicants may be asked to publicly acknowledge the exemption. If you require further information, assistance completing your application or wish to view the Property Tax Exemption Policy, please call Michelle Sideroff, Finance Department at 250-4904227 or email at msideroff@rdos.bc.ca

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Order Of St. Luke Healing Service in the chapel of St. Saviours’ Church at noon. Everyone welcome. S Outh O kanagan and I mmIgrant Community Services is offering free English classes. For more info, stop by the office at 508 Main St. or call 250492-6299. the Bereavement reSOurce Centre at 626 Martin St. hosts weekly drop-in grief support sessions Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Adults welcome. alcOhOlIcS anOnymOuS haS Nooners meetings Monday to Friday noon at 1197 Main St. Call service 24 hours is 250490-9216. Night group meets in the Baptist Church at 7:30 p.m. at 1498 Government St. The Summerland group meets at 8 p.m. at 13204 Henry Ave. in the basement. care clOSet thrIft Store at 574 Main St. has weekly specials and special auctions. Open Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All proceeds to the local hospital and hospice. Donations always welcome. Summerland art cluB meets Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Summerland Library. Painters of all levels welcome. Workshops available. Contact Mary at 250-494-5851 for info. PentIctOn duPlIcate BrIdge Club holds weekly games Wednesdays at 7 p.m., Thursdays at 1 p.m. and the Under 100 Club Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. in the Penticton library. Call Birgitta at 250-770-1154 for info. fOSter care InfO sessions every Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at MCFD Resource Office. For info call Moe at 250770-7524 or visit www. fosterbc.ca or www.mcf. gov.bc.ca/foster. al-anOn fOr frIendS and family of alcoholics at 7:30 p.m. at United Church, 696 Main St. Call 250-490-9272 for info. Okanagan fallS SenIOrS’ Centre has music and coffee from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and carpet bowling at 1 p.m. t he P entIctOn academy of Music String Orchestra rehearses from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. in the lounge of the Leir House, 220

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Manor Park Ave. New members welcome. Please call 250-4937977 for more info. new tO the Oliver Senior Centre: Zumba lessons, all-around active exercise. Every Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Call 250-498-6142 for more information. Everyone welcome. BIngO every wedneSday in the Legion hall with the Ladies Auxiliary, 502 Martin St. at 1 p.m. Lunches are available. SenIOrS’ recreatIOn and Wellness Centre at 439 Winnipeg St. hosts euchre every Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Call Betty at 250-490-0468 for more information. the Order Of St. Luke meets on the first and third Wednesdays in St. Saviours’ Church at noon for healing prayer.

OlIver dOuBle O Quilters have drop-in activities Wednesdays. hand and fOOt canasta at 1 p.m. in the Penticton Leisure Centre, 439 Winnipeg St. Lessons available for those who have never played before. Call June evenings at 250-492-7630 for info. anavetS haS humP Day with Stu’s kitchen open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Entertainment by Buzz Byer at 6:30 p.m. SOuth maIn drOP-In Centre has beginner line dance at 9 a.m., a coffee social and medical Qi Gong at 10 a.m., and easy to intermediate line dance and cribbage at 1 p.m. Call 250-493-2111 to confirm line dance activities. kIwanIS cluB meetS at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at 390 Brunswick St.

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the Rotary community kitchen at the Shatford Centre, takes place at Red Rooster Winery from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $60, including wine, appetizers, door prizes and a champagne toast with a chance to win a diamond. Tickets available at the Penticton and Wine Country Visitor Information Centre or through Rotary at 250486-0367. learning at lunch, a free program for senior adults at the Penticton Public Library, presents Cheryl and Arthur Halsted on medication awareness for seniors, how to interact with doctors and pharmacists, and how medications have the potential to be abused at noon in the library/museum auditorium. Everyone is welcome to attend these sessions, so bring your lunch; tea and cookies will be served. eagles have a $5 lunch from noon to 2 p.m. Guests welcome. Friday sOcial dance at South Main Drop-In Centre, 2965 South Main St. Join us for music by Vince’s Orchestra starting at 7:30 p.m. $6 per person. All welcome. PentictOn seniOrs cOmPuter Club drop-in sessions Monday and Friday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. People may sign up for memberships, classes or have computer problems solved. Picture class on Mondays from 2:30 to 4 p.m. the Oliver seniOr Centre, 5876 Airport St., has bingo with a loonie pot every Friday at 1 p.m. seniOrs singles lunch Club welcomes 65-plus each Friday. For location call 250-496-5980 or 250-770-8622. anavets has karaOke with Jack at 7:30 p.m., Scotch doubles pool at 6:30 p.m. Stu’s kitchen open for breakfast and lunch. Bereavement the resOurce Centre at 626 Martin St. hosts weekly drop-in grief support sessions Fridays at 10:30

a.m. Adults welcome. For more information on other available programs or support in the loss of a pet, call 250490-1107. c anadian r Oyal legiOn branch 40 has fish and chips lunch at 11:30 a.m. Dinner dance with Timeline at 6 p.m. elks cluB On Ellis Street has drop-in fun darts and pool at 7 p.m. eagles have dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. with entertainment following. al-anOn meets at the Oasis United Church at 2964 Skaha Lake Rd. from 6 to 7 p.m. For info call 250-490-9272. 890 Wing OF South Okanagan Air Force Association meets at 4 p.m. in the clubhouse at 126 Dakota Ave.

UPCOMING EVENTS F iFth annual Golf s uvivOrshiP Classic on June 21 at 2:30 p.m at Skaha Meadows Golf Course in support of the Suvivorship Dragon Boat Team. For more information, call Sarah at 778-476-7330. the hamlets yard sale on June 21 from 8 a.m. ot 1 p.m. at the back of the building facing Cossar Avenue, $4 for hamburger, hotdog and a drink. All funds donated to the residents and tenants enhancement fund. the naramata heritage Museum will be hosting an open house on June 22 from 2 to 4 p.m. The museum has been closed since September 2013 for updating of the exhibits and catalogue system. PentictOn cOncert Band at Music in the Park on June 26. Show tunes, soundtracks, jazz, disco and classics from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Oliver Community Stage bandshell. 6359 Park Drive. Admission by donation. Bring a lawnchair. Come early! Art market and food vendors 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, email OliverCAC@ gmail.com.

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