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Proposed changes to a dangerous intersection are drawing heavy fire. Most residents and business owners who attended an open house Thursday were opposed to the Ministry of Transportation’s plan to prevent left-hand turns from Stickle Road on to Highway 97. “I think it’s a bunch of BS,” said Bob Tauffenbach, who has lived in the Silver Star RV Park since 1992. “The most common sense is a traffic light.” Serry Massoud, who owns Squires Four Pub, fears the impact of right-in, right-out traffic movements at the intersection. “I depend on the people from the RV park in the summer and they won’t be able to come across the highway,” he said. “People can’t come off the highway for dinner (from the south) and then back on to the highway.” The ministry states that during peak hours, there are 11 to 34 left-turns from the east side of Stickle Road on to the highway, one left-hand turn on the west side and two straight-through movements. Juliette Cunningham, a Vernon councillor, questions the statistics. “Numbers are low on their counts because people avoid (turning left) there,” she said. Ministry figures show there have been three fatalities at the intersection between 2003 and 2012, 18 injuries and 29 cases of property damage. If the plan proceeds, a vehicle on the east side of Stickle Road wanting to go south will have to use Pleasant Valley Road and city roads instead of turning left on to Highway 97. For those on the west side and wanting to travel north, they will
first have to go south into Vernon and make their way over to 27th Street or Pleasant Valley Road to access the highway. “Pleasant Valley Road can’t keep up with all of those semis,” said Pat Loehndorf, general manager of Bannister Honda, which uses large semitrucks to deliver new inventory of vehicles. Loehndorf insists the ministry’s proposal will hurt the economic and future development along the Swan Lake corridor. “I have 27 families in my business and this will impact them. It will be hard for customers to come out there and do business,” he said. That is also the view of Randy James, owner of Vernon Motorsports. “We all rely on customers and if we make it tough for customers, they will find somewhere else to go,” he said. “They (ministry) are not really listening to what people have to say.” The ministry defend the right-in, right-out concept and says a traffic light is not necessary. “It doesn’t meet signal warrants because only five per cent of the traffic makes any turning movements there,” said Rampaul Dulay, project director, adding that 95 per cent of the traffic goes through the intersection on the highway. Dulay says there should be no issues with diverting traffic on to Pleasant Valley Road. “The purpose of a local road is local traffic,” he said. The estimated cost of the right-in, right-out project is $3 million, and a light would add about $400,000 to $500,000. The goal is to tender the work this fall but if there are significant demands for a light, Dulay says engineers will review the option again. “It’s not a done deal,” he said of right-in, rightout.
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Stickle Road resident Barbara Haselhorst and Pat Loehndorf (centre), general manager and partner of Bannister Honda, speak to Sumit Bhasin (left) and Erik Lachmuth, of the Ministry of Transportation, about their concerns.
Government pumps dollars into Silver Star Road paving The ride up Silver Star Mountain is going to be a little smoother. The Ministry of Transportation will spend $1.4 million repaving 15.4 kilometres of Silver Star Road from the Vernon city boundary to the resort village this summer. Also included is repaving of an additional 3.3 kilometres of residential roads at the resort. “It’s a road that is getting more use and
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is moving ahead. “If I produced a map where the problems are, they seemed to have covered it,” he said. Foster says upgrades to Silver Star Road benefits the economy and tourism. “The resort is an economic driver for the community and it’s getting bigger and better every year,” he said. It’s expected that Okanagan Aggregates, of Armstrong, will have the project completed by Sept. 30.
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Celebrity caddy, former LPGA tour player A.J. Eathorne, talks golf with Carey Hull in the NOCLS Charity Golf Classic Friday at Vernon Golf and Country Club. Morning Star editor Glenn Mitchell sprints to the ball as he putts on the 18th green timed hole, bringing their time to 14 seconds, a new record, later tied by the Vernon Home Building Centre team. Brent Both (below) putts as his teammates Brian Westwell (right) and Cordelle Rich eye up the shot.
Community tees up support for NOCLS JENNIFER SMITH Morning Star Staff
Laughter echoed across the course at the Vernon Golf and Country Club Friday as the sun and fun spread smiles for a cause near and dear to many. The North Okanagan Community Life Society’s 24th annual Charity Golf Classic rounded up 128 players, as well as a host of celebrity caddies, who collectively raised $123,317. Those funds will allow NOCLS to purchase capital items for clients and their individual living arrangements. People like Joey Penner, who was beaming from ear-to-ear Friday as he enjoyed lunch with the golfers and checked out the action. “The last couple years we’ve found something for him and it works. It’s wonderful,” said Gary Molitwenik, NOCLS executive director. “It’s a good story, a wonderful story.” Penner, who is autistic, is just one of the examples of individuals who benefit from the support of NOCLS.
But he is not alone. Bruce Townsend has been on the NOCLS golf committee for three years, and golfed it even prior to that. But this year the cause is especially close to the heart. “One of the families we’re working with, the daughter was in an accident and has a brain injury but she was declined funding,” said Townsend. “She was my son’s girl-
friend in high school.” Which is why Townsend not only put together a special datenight package for the silent auction, but he also played in the tourney and his son got his Lower Mainland firm to put a prize in the auction. “Just by being here helps her, it makes it that much better.” For others, the cause may not hit as close to home, but it is also
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Molitwenik, Dean Franks, Gary Gilchrist and John Kehler. The spirit award went to Tom and Mary O’Grady and Lawrence and Dana Brown, while the low gross team with minus 11 was Jeff Homer, Marty Steele, Michael Sherwood and Norman Kreutz. The winning team (low net) at minus 12 was Neil and Mitchell Bradbury and Thomas and Fred Kaiser. During the live auction, the highest item was $4,750 for Pure Granite Rock while a speaking engagement with Washington Capitals’ coach Barry Trotz went for $2,700.
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The Interior Logging Association’s conference and trade show is back bigger and better. The 57th annual event runs from Thursday to Saturday, with about 400 delegates and the outside equipment display returning for the first time since 2009. “It’s probably equal to or greater than any I’ve organized since 1974,” said Wayne Lintott, general manager of the Vernon-based ILA. On Friday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., there will be 90 pieces of equipment in the Kal Tire Place parking lot and 40 displays inside the facility. Lintott isn’t surprised to see equipment suppliers flocking to the event. “From the trade side of things, they have started to sell more equipment,” he said. “That pick-up is due to the fact that over five to six years, there were not many sales and the guys (logging companies) are catching up on equipment.” The public is invited to check out the displays. “It provides an opportunity to learn about the industry and its importance to the community,” said Lintott. “We have got word out to the school district to bring the students to learn about the displays. It shows them there is a future in the forest industry and lots of jobs if they chose to go that route.” The public can also attend a number of seminars for free at the Best Western Vernon Lodge. They include steep slope logging updates Friday at 10 am., a safe companies update Friday at 2:30 p.m. and workplace safety law reform in New Zealand Saturday at 9 a.m. Motivational speaker Philip Jones will provide tips on “How to fit a heart attack into your busy schedule,” Saturday at 1:30 p.m. It is a light-hearted look at managing stress. Admission events are also part of the agenda,
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ith shows set in Las Vegas, Miami and New York, how long can it be before there’s a “CSI: Phoenix” and a “CSI: Indianapolis”? “NCIS” has shows based in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New Orleans. After they run through Chicago, Philadelphia and Houston, they’re going to have to start turning to smaller cities. Maybe “NCIS: Oxnard” and “CSI: Branson.” After that, they’ll have go to suburbs and hamlets. “CSI: Apple Valley.” “NCIS: Senior Living Community Center, Boca Raton.” At some point, “CSI” will even run out of The Who songs to play over the opening credits. Since the “CSI” shows are based on real crimes Jim Mullen ripped right from the headlines, it makes sense to set them in big cities: There, it’s easy to find cunning, evil murderers. There are millions of them. Well, not really, but TV makes it seem that way. Remember “Murder, She Wrote”? Jessica Fletcher lived in Cabot Cove, a little town of 600 people. Someone got killed there every week. That’s 52 murders a year, and the show ran for 12 years. I guess it ended because there was no one left in town to kill. As they add more and more “CSIs,” they’ll have to start ripping the headlines from smaller and smaller newspapers. “How do you know this is the suspect who stole the chainsaw-carved wooden bear off your front lawn?” “Because I was his math teacher all six years he was in high school. And I saw the bear in the back of his pick-up truck yesterday. If he doesn’t put it back by this weekend, I’ll tell the road crew to stop plowing snow from in front of his house.” And the crime labs in those towns won’t have such fancy, expensive equipment to identify suspects. They wouldn’t be able to afford it. You won’t hear lines like, “We analyzed the air in the room and found a puff of your own breath that you left at the crime scene 18 months ago.”
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Or, “The handle temperature of these pinking shears puts you in your penthouse at 3:14 a.m. Thursday, when you were supposedly out stealing fashion ideas from transvestite street walkers. Care to change your story?” Or, “We were able to get DNA results from the sashimi the victim had for dinner, which proves the smoked eel was from southern Maryland, not northern Virginia. Which means the sushi chef is lying.” But without hair samples, DNA swabs, fingernail scrapings, bullet fragments and bloodstained clothing, how will we ever find out who’s been TP-ing the trees at the old Westcott place every week? Without lifting prints from the letter, how will we ever know who sent the notice to the local radio station that the Pancake Breakfast at the Presbyterian Church had been canceled -- when it really hadn’t? We may never get to the bottom of that one. Some suspect the owner of a local restaurant who’s been complaining that all these fundraising church breakfasts kill her weekend breakfast business. But that doesn’t make her a criminal. Besides, she is a Presbyterian, so it seems unlikely. After watching all three “CSIs,” I do have one question. And it’s not about DNA or blood-splatter patterns or the proper way to weigh someone’s brain in the autopsy room. It is this: Are any average-looking people hired by forensic labs, or do you have to look like a movie star to get a job? If you just go by what you see on “CSI” and “NCIS,” it seems as if every law enforcement officer had to make an important decision early on in their career: whether to stay in law enforcement or take up high-fashion modeling. What worries me is that, at some point, as these franchises keep expanding, they will start running out of good-looking actors to play crime scene investigators. By the time they get to “CSI: Nantucket” and “NCIS: Chillicothe,” they’re going to be down to “facially challenged” actors. But that’s OK: In that case, I might finally get a chance to act. I’ve been told I’d make a good dead body. And more than once. Contact Jim Mullen at JimMullenBooks.com.
It’s obvious from Thursday’s open house that the Ministry of Transportation’s plans for the intersection at Stickle Road and Highway 97 need to be sent back to the drawing board. A steady crowd flowed into the ballroom at the Prestige Hotel and reviewed the ministry’s proposal to prevent lefthand turns from Stickle Road on to the highway. People didn’t hold back their disdain. “It’s crazy, so stupid it’s not even funny,” said George Zimmerman, who has lived in the neighbourhood since 1950 and has petitioned for action to prevent fatalities and injuries at the intersection. “I think it’s a bunch of BS,” added resident Bob Tauffenbach. By shutting down left-hand turns on to the highway, the ministry will force vehicles, including large semis, on to narrow and windy Pleasant Valley Road. If you are on the west side of Stickle Road and want to go north, you will first have to go south into Vernon and then back-track. Not only is that inconvenient, but those extra kilometres are not environmentally friendly. Businesses along Stickle Road have reason to fear what the ministry’s plan will do to their bottom line as customers may disappear if access becomes challenging. And the ministry statistics indicating low volume of traffic at the intersection are suspect as many people avoid turning there under current conditions because of the risk involved. If the goal of the open house was to truly have meaningful dialogue with residents and businesses, then the ministry needs to put its process on hold and take another look at the options.
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remier Christy Clark, for a period of 10 days, Feb. 15 to 24, I was a patient at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. For the first eight days, I was in a fourpatient ward and the remaining two, I spent in the hallway, not in an alcove but rather in the hall which is used by patients, visitors and support staff. I was directly across from the clean laundry cart with very little room for traffic and certainly not enough room for a bedside table or chair and certainly no room for patient/bed transfer. I was given an early discharge due to overcrowding and the stress I was subjected to in a high-traffic corridor. I observed Third World, inhumane medical care at its finest. I was left on a gurney due to a lack of proper beds. Hallway medicine is not good for either patients or their family who try to administer to the needs of their loved ones due to a lack of staffing. Doctors and nurses are at their wits' end, trying to cope with the lack of staffing, overcrowding and there is no end in
WATER WOES There is little doubt that the current cost for water in Greater Vernon is unsustainable. We are facing water bills that are three times higher than Kelowna and twice as high as Penticton. It doesn’t end there. We are yet to be saddled with another two per cent increase for 2015. The finger-pointing starts. Where did we go wrong? The Greater Vernon Advisory Committee reiterates the information received from the staff. “The cost of water for Greater Vernon is the result of demands from Interior Health Authority”. Let’s be very clear, IHA is not the cause of the excessive water costs. If IHA was responsible for the current escalating costs, then Kelowna and Penticton would also be facing the same cost escalation as Greater Vernon, since they also receive their licenses from IHA. Instead, those communities have water rates which are substantially lower than those in Greater Vernon. Let’s place the problem where it
really should rest. Somewhere in 2002, GVAC selected Duteau Creek for 20 per cent of our domestic water supply. The decision was based on a consultant’s report which we now know to be missing some critical information. The reality is that we chose a less than optimal source of water and, the treatment required to meet the standards was complex and costly. Yes, IHA was vigilant about ensuring the water supply met the standards. The result is the cost escalation that we are subject to today. This letter is not about placing blame or pointing fingers. This is a plea to our elected officials, especially those with GVAC, to address this problem for the residents of the community. Let’s take another look at the master water plan before dumping any more money into Duteau Creek. The Citizens for Change to the Master Water Plan have presented well thought out alternatives and I ask for the support of GVAC to
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sight. Why has our medical care fallen to such low standards while our health care premiums have steadily risen? Ms. Clark, you are very proud that there is a budget surplus, but it has been made on the backs of those most vulnerable: the very young (students), the very old and the very sick. It is the poor folks (the 99 per cent) take a fresh look.
who take the brunt of your budgetary cuts, especially those who have paid into the health care system via mandatory premiums for many years. This is not what was anticipated in the autumn of our lives. And please, do not give me and my fellow Vernonites the old saw about our new tower of care. It is our community that has been fundraising to equip it, not
Janet Green
RAIL CORRIDOR I disagree with Bob McCoubrey. This only serves a certain amount of the population. Maybe it only costs the residents $27 a year but I do agree with Carol Maveety. A commuter train is the best and most logical choice. Commuter trains are used all over Europe and England. This rail right-of-way or corridor is 30 feet wide. Why can't we have both and avoid the expense of removing the rails, thereby serving all? What a privilege it would be to be able to just hop on a train to Kelowna or any place south, especially in the winter. Couldn't the $27 be used for this? We have the rails. All we need is two passenger cars and a small engine travelling the whole Okanagan Valley. This could be a viable business venture. This way all of the people could enjoy the rail corridor.
the government. Do not take any laurels in that regard. Vernon Jubilee Hospital doesn't just serve Vernon but a rather large population in the Monashees, Revelstoke, the North Okanagan and sometimes in the Kootenays. Beds are being taken up by people who need to be placed in assisted living, but, of course, there is a shortage of those facilities too. This problem has been ongoing for years now, and you and your government are very aware of this situation. The government of B.C., the executives and department heads should be ashamed of themselves, and this includes you Ms. Clark, of the state of our health delivery system, You, Health Minister Terry Lake and MLA Eric Foster are always there for big photo opportunities when things look good, but your absence is quite conspicuous when answers and solutions are needed. Marianne Salewski
We must look to the future and the growth of the Okanagan Valley. L.M. Neufeld TRANSIT I have been reading about possible cutbacks in the Vernon transit budget. I would like to suggest that we remove those large buses and use them where they are needed, mostly between Vernon and Kelowna, in getting the kids to the college. I understand that those buses are usually overcrowded and some people have to stand the whole way which is not very safe. By walking around town, I see the local buses driving around the city all hours of the day, with one or two riders on them. This can not be making any money. Also, the drivers are having a tough time navigating the new smaller roads in town. How about getting some smaller buses, like the handyDart that uses way less fuel and could result in a more efficient transit service, that can run more often and on more routes. A lot of other cities are using
them very efficiently.
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The District Parents Advisory Council has come up with its own ideas for making the $1.8 million cuts needed to balance the North OkanaganShuswap School District’s budget. “Parents have had enough,” said Kari Wilkinson, DPAC president. Upset about the school district’s proposed budget cuts, the DPAC decided to present its own version to school district trustees and administration at a meeting last week. “I think it’s fair to say the reaction included raised eyebrows and ruffled feathers,” said Wilkinson. Glenn Borthistle, district superintendent, says the board values the public input it has received, both in meetings with the DPAC and the various employee groups, as well as the response from parents and the general public in the form of letters or phone calls. “We have received a lot of feedback and a lot of fair comment. The district and board will be reviewing all the submissions as part of our budget process which will continue right up to the meeting on May 12.” That is the date when the school board is expected to vote on the final budget options. Currently, more cuts have been suggested than needed, so some of the proposed cutbacks will be reinstated in this year’s budget. The school district’s proposed reductions to the 2015/2016 budget include cutting student services such as literacy intervention, music, speech and language support, services for deaf and hard-ofhearing students and eliminating the gifted education program. Significant cuts to counselling, grief counselling and healthy living programs are also outlined. “Our position is that if there is not enough money for learning resources, grief counselling, mental health, then we need to be cutting right from the top — employee expenses for travel, professional development, all those things should be going down if we are in such dire straits that we have to cut programs that have direct benefits to students,” said Wilkinson. The DPAC report notes the district enrolment decline should also mean a decline in management and administrative hours at the board office. The DPAC would like more information on how administrative staffing levels relate to the declining enrolment. Borthistle says administration costs for the district are not out of line. “Administration costs are four per cent of our total budget, which is very comparable with other school districts of similar size in our province.” He also notes the provincial government is
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Push made for extra transit p.m., while Vernon buses continue to Some Coldstream serve the public until residents are hoping 9:44 p.m. The situato get their tion is similar politicians on on Sundays, board with when the busincreased bus ses don’t start service. until 11 a.m. Currently, and wrap up buses do not around 4 p.m. run as often Meanwhile in Coldstream Sunday seras they do Keri-Ann Austin vice in Vernon in Vernon, is from 8:30 especially in a.m. to 6:30 the evenings and on p.m. Sundays. On week“Just because it’s nights in Coldstream Sunday doesn’t mean the last bus runs at 6:42 that we stop living,” said Shawna Wadsworth, an avid bus rider and Coldstream resident. JENNIFER SMITH
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SPOUSAL SUPPORT AND INCOME INEQUALITY – A TREND ARRESTED? By Janice and George Mucalov, LL.B.s
Richard, 56, and Alice, 49, (names changed) were married for 20 years. They had no children. Neither made sacrifices during the marriage, and both were self-sufficient and able to make a clean break when they separated. But Alice was earning significantly more than Richard.
between $51,000 and $68,000 a year. The court concluded Richard had chosen to work only part-time and not to become certified or explore other better-paying occupations – so he was under-employed by choice. The court said his annual income should be treated as though it was between $50,000 and $60,000.
Should he get spousal support under the federal Divorce Act just because of their “income disparity” or inequality – to give him a similar living standard as before?
The appeal court noted earlier cases where some spousal support was paid to the “disadvantaged” spouse after a long marriage, when there was substantial income inequality post-breakup.
BC’s appeal court decided this case recently. Richard argued that if roles were reversed and a husband made a lot more than his wife after they broke up, she’d almost routinely get some spousal support. Here, Alice had made a career for herself, getting bachelor’s and master’s degrees and a teaching certificate without Richard’s help. She became a high school principal, worked full-time, and earned roughly $120,000 when the marriage broke up.
But it emphasized that marriage alone, even if long, doesn’t automatically entitle a spouse with lower income to spousal support. If you’re both self-sufficient and a clean start is possible after separation, the lower-income spouse can’t automatically lay claim to the fruits of their ex’s future labour. They must prove why they should get support – whether due to need, lack of means or other relevant factors. Here, Richard couldn’t.
After separating from Alice, Richard started living with Richard was working for CN Nick Vlahos another woman who made full-time when they met. He a base salary of $75,000 to continued with CN after they $90,000 plus overtime, close to got married, earning up to $48,000 a year. Then he was injured in a car what Alice earned. He and his new partner accident in 2001, so he later began work as a lived in a condo similar to the one Alice bought post-separation. part-time personal trainer. He said he earned less than $10,000 per year when he left Alice in 2011, but wasn’t able to prove what his earnings really were. He was paid mostly in cash and didn’t keep a record of his earnings or file tax returns. Alice found out after the separation that he also had earnings from questionable activities, selling steroids and growth hormones, but Richard told the court he no longer did that. Economists told the court full-time personal trainers without university degrees averaged
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So the appeal court decided Richard wasn’t entitled to spousal support. (But it allowed him to keep the $17,500 Alice had paid him earlier in interim support – equivalent to transitional support payments.)
Wadsworth collected about 70 signatures of riders who would like to see extended hours in Coldstream. “There’s a lot of support, from teenagers to senior citizens,” said Wadsworth, who says she even gained support from the bus drivers. “I talked to a lot of people that would like to go out for dinner and take the bus home at night.” Fellow Coldstream resident Bill Ellis agrees. “My wife is legally blind and she takes the bus a lot. It would just be awesome for her.” Although no route
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er factor. “When council considered this previously there was some limited ridership for the route,” said Trevor Seibel, chief administrative officer, who will be bringing that data forward for fall budget deliberations. Wadsworth understands changes may take time. “I realize it’s not going to be a quick fix, but the need is still there,” she said, adding that many people rely on the bus for needs ranging from work and school to appointments and entertainment.
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Coldstream farmers looking for a break could soon harvest their own charity. The Coldstream Farmers’ Market is considering applying for non-profit status in order to get a reduced rental rate at the Women’s Institute Hall, where weekly markets are held – currently
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Before, courts were inclined to automatically award support when there was a big difference in income between the spouses after they split. By stressing you must first prove you’re entitled to support, this decision may have put some brakes on this trend. This column has been written with the assistance of Davidson Pringle LLP. The column provides information only and must not be relied on for legal advice. Please contact Nick Vlahos of Davidson Pringle LLP for legal advice concerning your particular case.
changes can be made for 2015, Coldstream has agreed to take a look at the request during its 2016 budget deliberations. It’s not a new request, as service extension was considered during the development of the transit future plan. “Due largely to the costs involved at the time, council chose not to proceed with any of the proposed service adjustments,” said KeriAnn Austin, director of corporate administration, in her report to council. An insufficient number of riders was anoth-
Wednesdays from 2:30 to 6 p.m. “We have paid more than $10,000 in the past year for rent in the Coldstream hall,” said Anita Fletcher, market manager. Fletcher recently requested, but was denied a reduced hall rental rate from Coldstream. “The issue is that they are not a charity,” said Trevor Seibel, Coldstream’s chief administrative officer. “If the farmers market became a non-profit society they would be eligible. It can be done fairly quickly. My Trevor Seibel understanding is it’s a fairly straight-forward process.” Other organizations have taken the same steps to gain the $25 per hour rate, compared to $40 per hour. “I know the music group that has the coffee house took those steps to get the reduced rate,” said Mayor Jim Garlick. “If it (market) is taken over by the community, we don’t have an issue providing the lower rate.” Although they are not a charity, Fletcher says the market acts like a non-profit society. The market has also offered free tables to community groups such as the Girl Guides, Bee SAFE, the Halina Centre and Society for the Protection of Kalamalka Lake. It has also supported young agrarians and is raising funds for a future equestrian Olympian. “It’s struggling to get its feet solidly underneath it,” said resident Hugh Kidston, a regular marketgoer since it started five years ago.
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Nolan Frame of Vernon carries the ball for the Bryn Athyn College Lions against a St. Hilbert Hawk defender in NEAC field lacrosse action.
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Nolan Frame enjoyed a 42-goal season after being pushed by his coaches from Day 1 at Bryn Athyn College near Philadelphia. Frame’s fabulous freshman year was rewarded when the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) office in Gansevoort, N.Y. announced the Vernon Tiger grad is the Offensive Player and Rookie of the Year. Frame, who plays attack, tied for the Division III conference in goals with a 76.5 shots-on-goal percentage. He was second in points with 54 and scored at least one goal in all but one of the Lions’ 13 games while scoring at least three times in seven separate contests en route to also being selected to the AllConference First Team. Frame also scooped up 21 groundballs and caused eight turnovers on the year for the Lions, who were 4-4 in conference play and 8-5 overall. Ryan Landels, also a Tiger grad, was named to the conference’s second all-star team. Landels, a junior short stick midfielder, ranked fifth in the NEAC in points with 27 goals and 21 assists. Three other Lions made all-star teams. The awards are the first NEAC individual men’s lacrosse honors for Bryn Athyn, which joined the conference in 2014. Morrisville State College junior goalie Chris Fiore (Staten Island, N.Y.) was
named the NEAC Defensive Player of the Year for the 8-0 Mustangs. Frame said head coach Johnny Mouradian, a former Vernon summer resident and current GM of the National Lacrosse League Philadelphia Wings, believed in his offensive ability. “Coach Mouradian knew I had the talent to produce points, and help the team win, but wanted me to be the best that I could be,” Frame told The Morning Star. “I owe a big thanks to him and my other coaches, as well as my teammates for an amazing year. “We followed the principles that were implemented by coach Mouradian, and it helped us to win a lot of games this year. I didn’t expect to excel as much as I did, and just wanted to help as much as I could every game. It is way easier to have a great year when you are surrounded by a great group of guys that are all striving for the same goal.” Bryn Athyn has an average class size of 13 students and a student-faculty ratio of 7:1. The 130-acre campus is 14 miles north of downtown Philadelphia. Ex-Tigers Connor Buick and brothers Quintin and Colten Harrish, and Armstrong Shamrock grad Marlon Forrest also boosted the Lions. “We are very proud of our six B.C. players and their contributions to our successful first season in NCAA Division III competition, and extremely happy for
Ryan and Nolan’s individual accomplishments,” said Mouradian. “Ryan is our captain and brings a very high level of leadership on and off the playing field. Nolan’s 52 per cent shooting percentage and his ability to create a lot of opportunities for our left side was a significant factor in our team’s success.” Forrest and the Harrish brothers were recently named to the Dean’s List. “The strengths of our team would all emerge from the amazing team chemistry we have,” said Frame. “It was an incredibly fun year, with a lot of hard work involved. It was a brand new group of guys mixed in with a lot of returning players and we all meshed very well. We worked as a team and were very unselfish and it produced a lot of success.” He found the entire college experience incredible, meeting wonderful people everywhere he went. “I have made lifelong friends in the process. The only challenge is trying to juggle sports and classes, but as students of Bryn Athyn College, we are offered a lot of support in the form of tutoring if needed.” Plans for the summer include living in Bryn Athyn and working an internship to help pay for schooling, or returning home to Vernon and finding a job. “I love this area in Pennsylvania and would love to work here throughout my time in college.”
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The Armstrong Shamrocks sent a strong message to the defending Shaw Cup champion Kelowna Raiders Friday night at the Memorial Arena with a one-sided 16-8 victory. That message: the Shamrocks are ready with a new attitude and young, skilled players. The Shamrocks dominated every aspect of the Thompson Okanagan Senior Lacrosse League tiltfrom loose balls to pin-point passing, a lethal power play and most impressively, with crushing defence. Their 12-runner roster proved that as long as you have the right 12 athletes, anything can happen. The Shamrocks jumped out to an early lead with newly acquired Prince George sniper Andrew Schwab scoring three goals in the first period. Jarret Medhurst, Steven Clark and Kyle Versteeg added singles. Vernon Tiger grad Braidy Webb scored his first senior goal on a blistering outside shot to give the Shamrocks a 7-2 lead after 20 minutes. Armstrong started the second period with a smothering zone defence to punish Raider forwards who cut through the middle. Newbie defensive specialist and New Westminster Junior Salmonbellie grad Dylan Long made an impressive debut with bone-crushing hits made in partnership with Sheldon Nelson and Jamie Cockerill. Ex-Nanaimo Senior A Timbermen Steven Clark notched powerplay and even-strength goals, while Drew Hassard, Medhurst and Versteeg had singles to open a 12-4 lead after two periods. Despite the slower play in the third, Armstrong managed to score four more times, two by Schwab and singles by Versteeg and speedy Kas Boudreau. At the 10:48 mark following Boudreau’s goal on the ensuing face off, Nick Evans challenged Long to a fight. Long used his extensive pugilistic experience from Junior A to stop Evans in a clear, spirited helmets-off decision. Shamrocks’ bench boss Ryan Nitchie was thrilled with his teams performance. “The skills, finesse and winning attitude of this team is a breath of fresh air; the precision passing and playmaking is remarkable and incredibly enjoyable to be a part of,” said Nitchie. “Our guys didn’t worry about being short manned; they came to play lacrosse and really showed how the game can be played. Until the fight we only had six minutes in penalties – that’s how you win lacrosse games” Added Rocks’ veteran all-star goalie Chad Pieper: “We did a lot of stuff right tonight, great defence in front of me, good outlets and our offense guys buried the ball on their chances. Everbody contributed, Austin Lewarne was a machine on defense and on loose balls and Cockerill was a beast.”
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Euro soccer academy set shore of the city of Rotterdam, it was all about soccer in Burnet’s neighbourhood. There were six large clubs within Good friends with similar biking distance from home and soccer Dutch soccer backgrounds, Remco was a way of life, so much more than Wijnhorst and Erick Burnet have a game. jumpstarted the TOPSPORT Euro He and Wijnhorst– teammates with Soccer Academy in Vernon. the Bosman Accounting oldtimers – are The proposed year-round acadrunning TOPSPORT through connecemy has partnership with the Dutch tions with former Dutch professionPremier League (Eredivisie) pro club al Premier League player and Dutch FC Utrecht. Olympian, Hans Schrijver. “We will be taking the Euro phi“Our partnership gives our players losophy and elements of developing opportunities to be assessed and posthe soccer player,” said Wijnhorst. sibly scouted by FC Utrecht professional “It’s about soccer intelligence and staff, as well as benefit from the profescreating an all-round soccer player sional support our staff will be receiving through a wider vision.” in the areas of program and coaching The academy will feature three development,” said Wijnhorst. divisions: Premier for the elite Schrijver was head coach for the 11-18-year-old players; Development Dutch National U20 Team from 2006for the serious 11-18 players looking 2010 and has coached an extensive to advance higher and Mini Stars list of Premier League teams in the for 6-10-year-olds with the focus on Netherlands and outside his native individual technical skills and team country. His main passion in soccer is dynamics. PHOTO SUBMITTED youth development. “There is something for everySchrijver is currently head coach body,” said Wijnhorst, scouted at age Dutch Olympian Hans Schrijver is behind Top Sport. of the youth department/academy of 11 by Dutch Professional Club SVV Dutch top Premier League Team SC before playing Premier Youth League for several years. “We want to bring levels up and make it attrac- Heerenveen and the U19-team. Plans are to bring him to Vernon tive to play in Vernon. With Top Sport, it’s about discovering annually. Dirk Kuyt (Dutch International, 104 caps, 24 goals), who there are no limits. We have received overwhelming response.” The Holland duo hope to expand opportunities and resources started his pro career with FC Utrecht and went on to play for three teams, including Liverpool. so players may reach their true full potential. TOPSPORT will hold open FC Utrecht evaluations on Sunday, “Current limitations vary from short seasonal programs, limited volunteer team coaching quality and abilities, to significant May 10 and Sunday, May 24 at Marshall Field (6-7:30 p.m.) to commercial fees and extensive travel commitments,” said Burnet, determine which players will represent the area at the 2015 FC a 48-year-old father of four who owns Dutch Staffing Company. Utrecht National Talent ID Camp in July. Summer programs will “While we respect existing programs and organizations, and run in July and August. Deadline to register is Wednesday. The academy will bring the FC Utrecht North American appreciate the growth opportunities all these programs have created for the Vernon soccer community over recent years, based Academy to Vernon by hosting the Western Canada Talent ID on our European soccer experience and as life long students of Camp in 2016. A European trip is planned for 2016 for U12-18 boys and girls. our beautiful game, we see things differently.” Visit topsport.ca or call Wijnhorst at 778-257-8999 or Burnet Born and raised only a stone’s throw from one of the most recognizable soccer stadiums in Europe (De Kuip) on the South at 250-309-0758. KEVIN MITCHELL
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The Vernon Silhouettes synchronized swimmers are prepped for the provincials, May 23-24, in Kamloops. The local team strived for excellence at the recent regionals at Watermania in Richmond. Recreational stream athletes Isabella Halford, Rosina FraserBowden, Norah Mallett, Kylie Sheldrake, Maia Cesario and Madison Gilman were coached by Lindsey Beerstra and pocketed gold in the Rec Star 3 & 4 team. In the Star 3 & 4 figure event, Halford placed first, Fraser-Bowden second and Mallett third. In the Star 1 & 2 figure event, Sheldrake was first, Cesario second and Gilman third. Provincial competitive stream athletes were represented in both the 13-15 age group and the 16-18 age group, and coached by Katie Dick, Norlene Keller, Lindsey Beerstra and Lisa Balcombe. Kaitlyn Buchholz, Georgia Elliott, Brittany Hill-Lonergan, Kayla Muller, Carmen Peterson, Zephy Simon and Jenny Sunderland placed first in the 13-15 category after performing their Queen-themed routine. They were
coached by Dick. In the 16-18 group, Jenny Bernard, Kassandra Ferguson, Meagan Sloot, Emma Smith and Jamie Young struck gold after performing their sports theme. They were coached by Keller. In the 13-15 figure event, Ferguson placed fourth, Peterson fifth, Sunderland sixth, Muller seventh, Simon eighth, Hill-Lonergan ninth, Elliott 11th and Buchholz 12th. In the 16-18 figure event, Smith placed second, Sloot fourth, Young fifth and Bernard sixth. Ferguson, coached by Beerstra, was fourth in the 13-15 solo. The 13-15 duet of Peterson and Miller was first, coached by Keller and Dick. The 16-18 duet of Smith and Sloot secured silver, coached by Balcombe and Dick. Masters stream athletes Lisa Balcombe and Kayley McNab placed first in the Masters Free duet age group 30-39. With a routine themed as “Menacing Marionettes,” Balcombe and McNab choreographed and coached themselves over the past six months while also helping out other Silhouettes during regular practice.”
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CHILE - I faced a challenge. How could I explore Santiago, located smack in the middle of the 6,000-kilometrelong shoestring that comprises Chile, in only 24 hours? Under an azure sky I headed up San Cristobal Hill to the gleaming white statue of the Virgin, a religious and visual focal point of the city. Surrounded by parkland and accessible by funicular, the site is popular, drawing walkers, bikers, and picnickers. Panoramic views of the city and Andes foothills lay before me with the 64-storey, 300-metre-high Costanera Centre skyscraper towering over the rest of the city. An outdoor patio full of colourful umbrellas in the fashionable Lastarria district called
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Visitors are provided with information on wines at the Bocanartz Wine Bar. for a lunch break: platters of delicious ceviche, fried conger eel, and pulmay, a stew of mussels, pork, potato and lamb, and a choice of Sauvignon Gris, Merlots and Carmeneres. At the Plaza de Armas, the balconies and columns of Spanish architecture reflected the city’s long history, reaching back to its
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diers in crisp light and dark brown uniforms. Pedestrian walkways flanking teeming streets, took me to the former National Congress building with its tall white columns and lush gardens. Next up was the Central Mercado where I was surrounded by the aromas of exotic spices, meats and cheeses; in another section a kaleidoscope of colourful woolen scarves and handicrafts were on display. The chic Bella Vista area offered me a glimpse into its vibrant lifestyle as I passed by art galleries, bars and cafes. On the way back to my hotel I strolled along the tree-lined avenues of the Park Forestal, one of several green spaces lining the Mapocho River. From my 10th-storey hotel window while preparing for dinner, I could see bustling activity on Providencia Avenue below. The brassy sound of a mariachi band sounded from a square as commuters swarmed like ants to and from the entrance to the subway. One of my best memories is of fine Chilean wine and superb cuisine. Chileans dine late, so I arrived at W Santiago Hotel’s Noso Restaurant after 9 p.m. My salmon ceviche, pumpkin soup with prawns, and ribs dripping with a succulent barbecue sauce was accompanied by
an excellent Sauvignon Blanc. Speaking of wines, Bocanariz, a wine bar in the trendy Lastarria barrio reputedly serves every wine produced in Chile. The sommelier suggested a visit to the Casa Blanca Valley wine region, just 40 minutes away. It has about 20 wineries and produces Chile’s best white wine. Sadly, however, our schedule didn’t allow for this side trip. Visitors with more time might also consider visiting Valparaiso, a UNESCO heritage city situated on the coast, a mere 1.5 hour drive away. Famous for its multi-coloured houses, numerous art galleries and coffee houses, it enjoys a bohemian, laid-back pace of life. Chile’s politicians “voted” for Valparaiso’s in 1990 by moving the national congress here from Santiago. Although we didn’t make the trip, for those who love the crispness of alpine air, four ski centres lie about 60 kilometres to the east, offering steep snow in winter and hiking and mountain biking amongst flower-bedecked slopes in summer. On departing, my head was spinning: I’d discovered that Santiago is an exciting, dynamic city with too much to rush through in a mere 24 hours. Hans Tammemagi is with Travel Writers’ Tales.
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Professional agrologists will be arriving in the Okanagan from Thursday to Saturday for the B.C. Institute of Agrologists’ 68th conference and annual general meeting. Two hundred guests will attend the annual event Pokotillo Ukrainian in Kelowna they will explore orchards, vineof Kamlo Danceand rs ops yards, packinghouses, composting facilities, laboratories and nurseries throughout the Okanagan. “Agrologists from all over B.C. will have a chance to discover what the experience economy is in the Okanagan, touring orchards in bloom, visiting the century-old Summerland Ornamental Gardens, and tasting local wines and beer at their finest,” said John Garland, president of the BCIA’s Okanagan branch. In addition to the field tours, communication workshops are also on the agenda. Experts from the University of B.C.’s Okanagan campus and panel guests will work with BCIA
Chamber hosts workshop effective, efficient and results oriThe Greater Vernon Chamber ented,” states a chamber release. The facilitator will of Commerce is hostbe Deb McClelland, ing Governance 101 who specializes in govMay 15. ernance matters, board The workshop will and director develophelp you and your ment, strategic planboard function more ning, assessment of effectively. board performance as “Learn the essenwell as CEO perfortial strategies and best practices of boards Deb McClelland mance evaluations. She is chief executive and board directors officer of the Kamloops who have discovered how to govern in ways that are Chamber of Commerce and Morning Star Staff
the incoming president of the Chamber Executives Association of Canada. Registration for Governance 101 is at 8 a.m., with the session running from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Century 21 building (upstairs). Lunch will be provided. The free is $50 for chamber members and $75 for non-members. Register online at www.vernonchamber.ca or call 250-5450771 for information.
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Hundreds of Okanagan students are feeling the pressure to find a summer job. For one student, this provides an opportunity to not just find a job, but make one. This year, local university student Ryan Beach has become the owner of the Student Works painting company in Vernon. Student Works provides Beach with all of the necessary supplies and tools needed to succeed in
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members to develop media communication and expert witness skills, create effective presentations, and use social media. Dr. David Chanasyk, a professor from the University of Alberta, will deliver the conference keynote address. Chanasyk’s expertise is in hydrology, soil physics and reclamation. Presentations of the BCIA mentor of the year award are a highlight of the banquet and entertainment will be provided by the Sonny Boys from Vernon. “The 2015 BCIA conference and AGM offers new ideas, interesting people to meet and beautiful sites to see,” said Garland. “Participants will leave with an understanding of the experience economy, Okanagan-style, and new friends and colleagues.” For more information about the conference, go to www.bcia.com.
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creating a company from scratch. “There are a lot of preparations to get everything ready,” said Beach, a business management student. While furthering his education, Beach provides other students with summer employment. “It feels good to run my own company and give other students a chance to work and take part in business operations as well.” Beach is currently looking for more employees to join his team as painters and marketers.
Kirk named Rising Star Morning Star Staff
A former Lavington resident, will be recognized at the Peak Awards May 13 in Vancouver. Lana Kirk will receive the Rising Star award from the Association of Women in Finance. Kirk attended Lavington Lana Kirk Elementary S c h o o l and graduated from Kalamalka Secondary in 1995. She left Simon Fraser University with a degree in business administration and joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000, attaining her chartered accountant designation in 2003, after achieving
honour roll distinction on the 2001 Uniform final exam. In 2012, she became the first woman partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ B.C. mining group. Kirk is committed to elevating the profile of women in the industry of finance, and particularly mining. In 2012, she launched Shine, an initiative dedicated to building awareness of the issues faced by women in mining, while also helping to attract and advance women leaders in the sector. In 2013, she also co-founded the Women in Mining mentorship program. She has also been involved with United Way, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the Down Syndrome Research Foundation and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
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Retired baby boomers — professionals looking for something meaningful to do during retirement — might be the answer to helping seniors with chronic illness live independent lives. A three-year study conducted by researchers at UBC Okanagan has determined that with the help of a trained professional to navigate their health care, chronically ill seniors in rural communities are able to maintain better, healthier lives than those without help. “Older adults living in rural areas with advanced chronic illness often live with challenging symptoms and limited healthcare services,” says Barbara Pesut, associate professor of nursing at UBCO. “They have difficulty knowing the services that are available to them and also accessing those services. This
results in poor quality of life.” Pesut, Canada Research chair in health, ethics and diversity, says support is especially important in rural communities because services are limited, or several hours’ drive away. Each visit to a specialist can be mentally and physically exhausting for both patient and caregiver. As part of the research, Brenda Hooper spent the past three years working as a nurse navigator in Castlegar and Trail. In this role, twice a month she visited a chronically ill senior and answered questions about their medical care, resources in their community, and offered advice to families and caregivers. “Evaluation of the project shows that the use of a nurse navigator has a clear and direct impact on older adults and their families by providing much
needed support, education, advocacy, symptom management, and help making complex decisions,” says Pesut. “However, there is also an important potential role to be played by volunteers, trained in navigation, to support these older adults.” Pesut and Hooper, along with University of Alberta researcher Wendy Duggleby, now begin a one-year study of the feasibility of using navigation volunteers to support older adults and their families. This study will take place in Trail, Castlegar and Nelson. Hooper will work with the volunteers to provide navigation services for older adults with advanced chronic illness living in their homes. “An innovative way to assist older adults to age in place is to provide navigation services where a knowledgeable individual advocates,
facilitates community connections, coordinates access to services and resources, and promotes active engagement of frail older adults with their community,” says Pesut. And baby boomers may be the answer to finding these volunteers. “With the retirement of the baby boomers there is this skilled group of people who want to continue to make a contribution to society,” says Pesut. “They have the potential to bring important capacity to the vital role of volunteers.” Once the year-long pilot project is complete, researchers will have a curriculum and protocol for educating future rural volunteer healthcare navigators and a better understanding of the potential benefits of this role. People interested in becoming volunteer navigators or who know
With the lilting tunes of Ireland , Sally (O’Malley) Evans and Molly (Malone) Boyd are hoping to steal your heart away when they perform their “Songs of the Emerald Isle” show May 20 at Schubert Centre in Vernon. The musicians are well-known throughout the Okanagan for their musical tribute to the songs of the Second World War. This spring show features songs so beautiful that they will warm the cockles of your hearts and songs so full of the blarney they
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appeal court judges Griffin, and overturned found that the prov- her order that the govince did not ernment pay infringe on $2 million the constituin damages, tional rights which has of teachers been paid to to bargain the union. working conB C T F ditions. president Jim The appeal Iker said the Jim Iker court pointed decision is, out numerous “very disaperrors in the 2011 judg- pointing.” ment of B.C. Supreme He announced that Court Justice Susan the union will seek
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The Vernon Paddling Centre, which is looking to raise funds to build a facility at Paddlewheel Park, will host the 10th annual Reel Paddling Film Festival Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Vernon Towne Cinema. a dock and put the dock out,” said Woodman. “We’re trying to create a centre so people can come, store their boats there and have a place where people can paddle from to places where the city has put up public lake accesses and picnic tables for a nice outing.” The Vernon Paddling Centre is also
looking for new members as membership has dropped from a high of nearly 120 down to around 30 members. There is no age limit to join. “Club members can use stand-up paddleboards, canoes, kayaks, six-person outrigger canoes,” said Woodman. “It’s a good thing. We’re trying to expand
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It’s a film fest for funds. The Vernon Paddling Centre presents the 10th annual Reel Paddling Film Festival Thursday at 7 p.m. at Vernon’s Towne Cinema. The Reel Paddling Film Festival is an international film tour presenting the world’s best whitewater, sea, kayaking, canoeing, SUP (stand-up paddle) and kayak fishing action and paddling lifestyle films of the year. The event is similar to the Best of the Banff Mountain Film Festival. The films are being shown around the world in more than 100 cities in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Europe and Australia. “With 23 inspiring films short-listed for the world tour, including 10 festival category winners, audiences can expect to see stand-up paddle surfing, hairy whitewater action, sea kayakers exploring remote coastlines, international travel films, motivating environmental documentaries, kayak fishing battles and hilarious short films capturing the lighter side of paddling life,” said Bob Woodman, spokesperson for the Vernon Paddling Centre. Tickets are $12 in advance, and they are available at the Towne Cinema, Innerspace Watersports, Bean Scene and Valhalla Pure, or $15 at the door. Included in the ticket price is a free digital subscription to Rapid, Adventure Kayak, Canoeroots and Kayak Angler magazines, a $39 value. Door prizes for the evening have been donated by Innerspace Watersports and the Vernon Paddling Centre. Proceeds from the evening go to the Vernon Paddling Centre and its quest to create a small boat (nonmotor) paddling centre at Paddlewheel Park on Okanagan Lake. “We’ve already built
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A Golfer’s Dream
In partnership with TELUS and Predator Ridge Resort, Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation is organizing its 6th Annual Charity Golf tournament to take place Sunday, May 24. This year’s event will feature a $10,000 players’ prize table, and thanks to Kal Tire, an amazing item has been added to the live auction line up. Imagine boarding the Kal Tire jet with your best golf buddies and being whisked away to Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon for some rounds of golf at this world class resort. This is every golfer’s dream!
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Pacific Ocean. Four of the courses at Bandon Dunes are the reason it is on the map as a favorite American golf destination. There are a number of accommodations options and restaurants on site, which will make your stay a memorable one! This could still be yours even if you are unable to attend the Charity Classic. There is a $25,000 reserve bid on this item, so plan ahead and get your group together and decide how much you are willing to bid. If you cannot attend and wish to submit a bid, VJHF will represent you during the auction.
The package includes the To date, the Charity Classic return trip use of the private has netted $758,000 for jet to whisk you away within a Vernon Jubilee Hospital. This couple of hours directly from year’s proceeds will support Vernon to a small airport in the completion of the 6th & Oregon near Bandon Dunes Auction at the VJH Foundation Charity Classic sponsored by TELUS will features a private jet getaway to Bandon Dunes valued at more than $25,000. 7th in-patient floors of Polson to start this memorable Tower at the Hospital. adventure. The jet has seating for 8 people but would require sending golf clubs by courier in advance. You can choose how many people you want to Detailed tournament and on-line registration information is available on join you, when and for how long you wish to go because we are giving you the Foundation website at www.vjhfoundation.org or by calling 250-558a $10,000 US prepaid VISA to cover your accommodation and golf costs. 1362. Brochures can be picked up at member and guest services at Predator Ridge. We hope to see you in May! At Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, you’ll find five distinctly different courses built on a beautiful stretch of sand dunes perched 100 feet above the
16th Annual Do-It-For-Dad Run/Walk to Fight Prostate Cancer Teamwork and dedication to the cause are major factors in the ongoing success of the VJH Foundation’s Do it For Dad event held each Father’s Day at Coldstream Ranch. Now in its 16th year, the annual run & walk to support local men with prostate cancer has raised $322,222 since its inception.
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More than 350 people come out faithfully each year to honour the fathers and men in their lives by raising funds to fight prostate cancer right here in our community. Like the origin of Father’s Day, ‘Do It For Dad’ was established as a tribute to fathers. The event was founded in 1999 by then-MLA, Dr. April Sanders, who wanted to raise community awareness of prostate cancer and the need for early diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Sanders remains committed and involved with the planning of ‘Do It For Dad’ and is the Honorary Chair of this year’s event. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian men, (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers) and is the third leading cause of death from cancer in men in Canada. About 1 in 7 Canadian men is expected to develop prostate cancer during his lifetime and 1 in 28 will die from it.
Last year’s event saw the winners in the two fundraising categories bring in nearly a quarter of the total amount of the $33,372 that was raised. Long-time supporter and top individual fundraiser Marnie MacKenzie raised $3,065, while top team fundraisers, Doreen’s T-Bags raised $5,100 in memory of their friend and the 2013 individual top fundraiser Doreen Hourie, who passed away in February 2014. Participant Bobbe MacKenzie, organizer Ed Eyford and top individual fundraiser Marnie MacKenzie at the 2014 Do it For Dad Run & Walk
This year’s funds will provide free prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests for North Okanagan men, as well as help purchase equipment for the treatment of prostate cancer at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. The event is community-oriented, featuring children’s activities sponsored by the Interior Savings promo
team, Face Painting by Christine Turpin, the Kalamalka Highlanders Pipe Band, Kalamalka Caring Klowns and a light lunch donated by SUBWAY. There is also a competitive spirit involved, with prizes awarded to the top three men’s and women’s finishers, as well as the top team and individual fundraisers for the event.
Winning Team Doreen’s T-Bags raised more than $5,000 at last year’s event
Registration for the 16th Annual Do It For Dad Run & Walk presented by Interior Savings takes place Father’s Day, June 21st, at Coldstream Ranch at 8:30 am with the Walk/Run starting at 9:30 am. Registration fees are $10 for youth 15 years and younger and $20 for adults 16 years and older. Raise $50 in pledges to waive one registration fee. Awards will be given to the team and individual that raises the most money. Local businesses have also generously donated prizes for our draws for dads, race participants and volunteers. Pledge forms will be available May 15 at Interior Savings, SUN FM, Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation. Donations can be made online at www.vjhfoundation. org/events/do-it-for-dad. For more information please call the Foundation office at 250-558-1362.
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Elise Allan, President Richard Finn, Vice-President Greg Hamilton, Treasurer
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Donors Deserve Recognition … Thank you for your support! A heartfelt thank you to all of our donors. Due to space limitations, the following list includes donations of $500 or more from September 1, 2014 to February 28, 2015. PRIVATE DONORS Dr. Mahmoud Abdel-Kader Earl Acton Noreen Allsopp Leonard & Carol Anderson Donna Antonishak Gord & Linda Ball Dr. Frank Ballauf May Barfoot William & Agnes Barnes Aaron Barrie Mark Batchelor James & Alberta Bird David & Bernice Blencowe John & Betty Blunt Sally Brigden Sandra Briggeman Dennis & Marianne Bristow Nan Bristow Gwen Brown Darrell & Kelly Buckham Michael & Elsie Burnham Myrtle Cameron D. Ian & Patricia Campbell Joanne Colleaux Dr. Michael Concannon Kenneth & Reta Cote Delores Couch Murray & Donna Crockett Brian & Jane Cropley Lewis & Marjorie Crosby Mark Czerwonka Linda Daly Lorna Dewar Donald & Carol Dodds Dr. Robert Dovidio James & Mary Driver Arlene Duggan Glen Duthie Helmut & Sophie Ehm Mary Eliuk Drew & Jacqueline Eyre Ken & Jean Finch Ted & Lynn Fitchett Dr. M. Jean Flanagan
Yvonne Flock Tom & Barb Frame Darrel & Lorna Frolek Arnold & Barbara Fry Christina Gittins Margaret R. Grant Irene Greenen Richard & Gail Hamilton Clifford & Jean Hanna Dr. & Mrs. Ed & Pam Hardy Art & Helga Harley Helly Hatakka Sandra Hickman Arline Higgins Rose Hoffman Marion Hope Dr. Hamish Hwang Gurjit Jhajj Jacqueline Johnson Dr. Philip Jones Cam Kourany Larry & Mary-Ellen Laidlaw Dr. Carmen Larsen Ivan Larsen Peter & Terry Leggat Ralph & Joyce Leyenhorst Shirley Libby Doris Linemayr Susan Lonsdale Kenneth Lynes Lucy Mann Dave & Marilyn Marcoux Dale Marino Dennis & Lauretta Marsh R. Doug McDonald Joan McNab Margaret McReynolds Robyn McTague Kalman Molnar Roy & Pamela Moor Paul & Mary Anne Morgan Dr. Michael Murphy Greg & Dorothy Mussenden Theresia Nagler Joseph Negraeff
Herbert & Jacqueline Niehaus David & Zena Novakowski Lester & Wilma Odiorne Dr. & Mrs. Dieter & Ursula Osthoff John & Hannah Out Ronald & Billie Paull Jim & Laverne Popowich Brian & Laurie Postill Irene Purcha Gerald & Phyllis Raboch Aubrey & Bev Reed Pauline Reich Ellen Renner William & Maureen Ripley Joerg Rosset Akira & Miyoko Sakakibara Kenneth Sakakibara Mary Sargent Harold & Sachiko Sato Pauline Sawka Werner & Elizabeth Schabesberger Dr. & Mrs. Glenn & Debbie Scheske Cecil & Muriel Schmidt Gladys Schroeter Charles A. & Audrey Scott Eleanor Serson Lorraine Shannon Bruce & Assunta Shepherd William & Diane Simms Michael & Lillian Smith Murray Smith Hilda Sommerfeld J.B. (Dale) Steward Ted & Mavis Strother Brian & Lola Svenson Rob & Laura Tedham Allan & Marlene Thorlakson Arthur & Helen Tonogai Johanna Tul Erna Unruh Zwanntje van Dalfsen Fred Vandenboer Sharon Varette
Dr. G. Vaz & Dr. M.C. Hatfield Tom & Hieke Veldhuisen Mervin & Faye Viergutz Fred & Anne Vorderbrugge Virginia Vulcano Donald Warne Carol Webb Janet Welsh John & Val Wiebe Dr. & Mrs. Douglas & Janet Williams W. Verne Williams Cameron & Dorothy Wilson Byron & Yvonne Wiltse Garry & Teresa Wong Dvoira Yanovsky Robert & Lisa Ydo CORPORATE DONORS
CHARITABLE GROUPS
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Peace Lutheran Church
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Armstrong Spallumcheen Healthcare Auxiliary Army Navy Air Force Vets #5 Ladies Auxiliary Army Navy Airforce Veterans Unit #5 BC Gov’t Retired Employees Assoc. of Vernon Church of God Elks Lodge No. 45 Kiwanis Club of Vernon - Four Seasons Lions Club - Enderby & District Lions Club - Vernon North Okanagan Sikh Cultural Society OK Landing Volunteer Firefighters Assoc. Pythian Sisters Vernon Temple #21 RBC Employee Volunteer Grants Program St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Vernon Alliance Church
Grizzly Curb & Concrete Ltd.
Vernon Christian Fellowship
Inland Kenworth (Vernon)
Vernon Japanese Women’s Auxiliary
Investors Group Matching Gift Program Kineshanko Logging Ltd.
Vernon Royal Purple Lodge #123
Manulife Financial
BEQUESTS
MNP LLP
Estate of John Archer Cochrane
MTCS Holdings Ltd. Nature’s Fare Natural Foods Ltd. Prospera Credit Union Telus Corporation Telus Corporation - Community Affairs The Golf Club at the Rise Ltd. The Rice Box Tim Hortons Tolko Industries Ltd. - Staff Trinity Creek Ranch
Estate of Gail Cowan Estate of Joan Ethelwyn Heriot Estate of Ammy Thestrup Nielsen Peter & Betty Ward FOUNDATIONS Aqueduct Foundation-S & L Knuever Family Fdn Foord Family Foundation Kingsway Foundation London Drugs Foundation Shoppers Drug Mart Life Foundation
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Heart Beat A Lifetime of Giving
Growing up in a serene neighbourhood with a supportive family might not prepare some children for the harsh realities of life, but for Rob and Laura Tedham, it was the perfect foundation that gave them the resolve and dedication to help others. Life-long volunteers, Rob and Laura have seen the other side of life from a local and international perspective. Rob and Laura Tedham “I began volunteering with a youth organization in a rough Calgary neighbourhood,” says Rob. “My childhood was peaches and cream so it was hard to see kids who hadn’t eaten breakfast or lunch and would be going home to a turbulent household or an empty home.” Rob established careers in real estate development, the airline industry and investment business, while his wife Laura was a homemaker and proprietor of a ladies’ apparel retail store. Despite their busy schedules, the couple has always been actively involved in supporting a number of charitable and volunteer organizations. “We have been blessed to be born in this country and in this part of the country. With that comes a strong responsibility to give time and money to help those in need and to teach our children about these things,” says Rob. In addition to raising two daughters and a son, the Tedhams cared for many ‘bonus’ children. “We were the house in the neighbourhood that had the open door. At any given time we would have one or two extra kids. Their parents cared, but couldn’t cope or just needed some space. We were the time-out zone for the parents and the kids,” says Rob. Some of the youth stayed with the Tedhams for years and are still part of their lives. One girl moved in at age 11, and now grown, is part of the family to this day. “It was a blessing to us,” says Laura. We enjoyed them and having them part of the family.” In 2008, Rob and Laura travelled with friends and clients to Liberia, to help install water filtration systems in a country which had suffered the ravages of civil war. “It turned out to be the best of any travel experience we have ever had,” says Rob. “We saw how this could literally be the difference between a tortured life and a sustainable life. The people were always sick with constant ‘runny tummy,’ headaches, lower back pain, and bacterial and viral infections.” Laura adds, “What happens is you go over with a preconceived notion that you are going to give to people in need and bless their lives. But then you find that you have been humbled, you have been blessed, and you realize how much excess we accumulate compared to how little they have.” The Tedhams, who frequently visited the Okanagan for more than 45 years, permanently relocated to Vernon in 2012. “It was always the plan to move here when we retired,” says Laura. “It was just like coming home. Everything here is beautiful; the climate, scenery, activities and the people.” Not long after officially making the move, Rob became involved in with the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation when he was invited to join the Building a Tower of Care, Phase II Campaign Team. “I wanted to be involved in something that would add to the well-being of the community at large,” he says. In addition to Rob’s volunteer commitment to the campaign, the Tedhams have generously contributed a $6,000 gift that will help furnish and equip the top two floors of Polson Tower at VJH. “We need services and facilities that tax revenue doesn’t pay for. We have to supplement tax money with community giving and what could be more important than health care?” says Rob. “We are all one doctor’s appointment away from bad news. We have a responsibility to contribute if the money is cared for with great stewardship as is the case with VJH Foundation.” The Tedhams’ example of voluntarism and philanthropy demonstrates the importance of community giving. Although sometimes the need seems greater than the ability to give, Laura recalls a valuable lesson learned from her experience in Africa. “I met a Liberian woman who had returned to reclaim what was left of her property before the war. I felt that we had done so little to help. But the woman said to me, ‘it takes one drop of water at a time to fill a bucket. If everyone contributes a little bit, eventually the bucket gets full.’”
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Okanagan Landing Volunteer Firefighters Association Leaves Lasting Impact on Community
Although the Okanagan Landing Volunteer Firefighters Association has disbanded, their generosity and service to the community will have a lasting presence in the North Okanagan. The story of the Association began decades ago in the 1970s, when the Okanagan Landing area was without fire protection services. “Okanagan Landing was part of the Regional District,” explains founding member Ed Forslund. “With no fire protection in the area, a group of six men who had trained with the Vernon Volunteer Fire Department realized the need for fire protection.” Answering a newspaper ad for volunteer firefighters, Forslund attended a meeting that would be the start of a 40-year involvement with the Association, including 10 years serving as chief. In 1974, with funding from the Regional District, a 25-man brigade volunteered their time to build the hall on Okanagan Landing Road. “We always did as much as we could with volunteer help,” says Forslund. “We took on janitorial tasks as well as maintenance of the grounds and building. Our goal was always to provide the best possible service for the least amount of cost to the community.” In addition to offering fire protection services, the Association supported community events. Forslund notes that there were two parts to the department which worked hand in hand to create not just community safety, but community cohesion. “We had the brigade consisting of the Chief, Deputy Chief, Captains, Lieutenants and Firefighters and we also had the Association side with a President, Vice President, Secretary and Directors to take care of the social events.” Throughout the years, the group was involved in the community helping out with the OK Landing Elementary School annual Kids Fun Day, presenting the Hallowe’en fireworks display and running the pancake breakfast at the Paddlewheel Park Regatta. The Association also provided scholarships and funded causes to fight cancer and kidney disease. “It was a great way to connect with the community, keep morale positive, and get to know our neighbours. We were a big part of the community and in some ways, the cornerstone,” says Forslund. In the early ‘90s when the City of Vernon and OK Landing amalgamated, the Association formed a non-profit society, providing contracted services to the City. Okanagan Landing resident and Okanagan Landing & District Community Association board member, Murray Hainer, notes the OK Landing Volunteer Firefighters Association was one of the most successful volunteer firefighting associations in the province. “Theirs was one of the most active departments in BC, with 150 members over the years. Community volunteer members displayed a wide variety of personal skills and expertise, and served professionally with an average tenure of ten years. They never had a problem recruiting.” When their contract wasn’t renewed in 2012, members took on the task of dissolving the Association, transferring funds to non-profits throughout Vernon. “As a non-profit society, the department never took practice pay. Everyone donated it back to the hall,” says long-serving member Len Ganz. “We looked at a number of worthwhile charities and narrowed it down, eventually choosing five based on the impact it would have for the community.” The association has generously donated $45,000 to the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation in support of patients at the McMurtry-Baerg Cancer Centre and the Tower of Care campaign, Phase II. Twenty thousand dollars has been allocated to the purchase of eight therapy chairs at the McMurtry-Baerg Cancer Centre. Chemotherapy treatments can take up to eight hours per session for some patients. The chairs not only provide patient comfort, but ease of access for medical staff administering treatments. The remaining $25,000 will help equip and furnish a room on one of the top floors of Polson Tower, improving healthcare for generations of North Okanagan residents, with state-of-the-art care, enhanced infection control, and increased patient capacity, comfort and safety. While disappointed with the demise of the Okanagan Landing Volunteer Firefighters Association, Forslund says he is proud of the organization he served with for nearly four decades and that they are able to help so many groups. A total of $187,000 was given back to community to support many worthwhile causes benefitting residents of the North Okanagan.
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A heartfelt thank you to the community groups and businesses that generously support VJH Foundation! Donations help fund North Okanagan Residential Care Facilites, Community and Public Health programs, as well as equipment and programs at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. Tim Hortons SMILE COOKIE campaign raised $25,702 in sales and a matching donation from owners Dan and Jamie Currie last September. Funds will support Tower of Care Phase II. (Photo by Lisa VanderVelde, Vernon Morning Star photographer)
MNP LLP raised $2,620 from their Vipers Home Goal initiative where the company donates $20 every time the Vernon Vipers score a home goal! Go Vipers and MNP! (Photo by Lisa VanderVelde, Vernon Morning Star photographer)
Thank you to local Shoppers Drug Mart stores for their generous donation of $7,568 to the McMurtry-Baerg Cancer Centre! Funds were raised through the annual Tree of Life campaign taking place in September and October at all three Vernon Shoppers locations. Since 2008, Shoppers Drug Mart Tree of Life campaign has raised more than $31,000 to support the McMurty-Baerg Cancer Centre at VJH. The Knights of Columbus Council 4949 held a Grow it For Your Brother fundraiser to benefit the upcoming Do it For Dad event this June 21st, raising $1,800! The Silver Star Mountain Opening Weekend Lift Ticket Sale for Light a Bulb & the Tower of Care raised $13,000. Lift tickets sold for $20 each, with 100% of sales being donated to help furnish and equip the top two floors of Polson Tower. Designer’s Gallery generously donated $1,511 towards the Tower of Care from their February promotion where 5% of every purchase over $100 was donated to VJHF! The North Okanagan Sikh Cultural Society made a generous donation of time and money in the amount of $11,300 from the Samosa Fundraiser for Tower of Care. This was a wonderful effort with businesses donating food, and Sikh community members making, selling and delivering all the samosas. A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to the Armstrong / Spallumcheen Healthcare Auxiliary for their tremendous donation of $101,900 in 2014, with $51,900 towards medical equipment in Armstrong and Enderby, and $50,000 for Tower of Care Phase II. Thank you to SUBWAY Restaurants and everyone who bought SUBWAY Cookies for Care in February throughout Armstrong, Enderby and Vernon! $14,600 was raised for Tower of Care Phase II.
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The 1st Annual Rockin’ for Radiothon at Checkers Bar and Grill in March raised nearly $800 for the Sun FM Have a Heart Radiothon to support Women & Children’s Health Services at VJH. Thanks to The Rice Box for their ongoing support of VJH Foundation! In January, more than $5,000 raised from Wokathon will be designated to Radiothon to help kids at VJH!
UPCOMING EVENTS Power of the Purse — A Designer Handbag & “Theme” Purse Auction to be held June 4, 2015 at the Prestige Hotel from 7 pm - 10 pm. Join us for an evening of fun and refreshments while helping raise money for a good cause! All proceeds will directly assist North Okanagan families in need. These families are referred by social workers from Vernon Jubilee Hospital, Transition House and the Canadian Mental Health Association. Tickets are $40/person or reserve a table of 8 for $300.00. The evening includes entertainment, appetizers, a glass of wine and special dessert. For more information phone 250-558-5653 or email info@themiraclebucketsociety.com. TEE OFF FOR THE CURE has a new date! June 21st (reception and auction) and June 22nd Golf Tournament at Predator Ridge. Registration is $195.00/player and June 1st is the registration deadline. This year’s theme “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” is a way of using girl power to raise funds working towards a world without breast cancer. With your help Wine Women & Woods would like to raise $100,000 towards purchasing the new ultrasound machine for the Mammography Unit at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. Since 2003 the Tournament has raised over $801,000 to help in the fight against Breast Cancer! For more details please visit www.winewomenandwoods.com. 2nd Annual Savour the Okanagan – July 25th — Bourbon Street Bar & Grill and The Prestige Hotels & Resorts (Vernon) is once again partnering with the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation for this exciting summertime event. Underneath a canvas of sparkling lights, this exquisite evening of wine, spirits and beer tastings showcases an array of Okanagan inspired hors d’oeuvres and canapés, featuring delectable local ingredients. Proceeds of the event will benefit the VJH Foundation’s Tower of Care Phase ll campaign to furnish and equip the 6th and 7th floors of the Polson Tower. The $2.5 million campaign will add 60 new state-of-the-art inpatient care beds and vital medical equipment to VJH. As part of the evening’s activities, there will also be a silent auction and live music by Steve Todd! For tickets call 250.558.5991 or purchase online at www.vjhfoundation.org. 5th Annual Prospera Vernon Dragon Boat Festival & Pledge Drive Saturday August 15 2015 at Kalamalka Beach. Gather your friends and co-workers and register a team for a fun day of Dragon Boat Racing, while raising funds that stay locally to fight breast cancer in the North Okanagan! To date the Festival has raised $30,000 and helped purchase a Digital Mammography machine for the Mammography Unit at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. This year’s event will help fund an Ultrasound Machine for the Mammography Unit. Early Bird Deadline is July 5, 2015, $525 + 5% tax. Regular Deadline is August 2, 2015, $625 + 5% tax. Late Registration subject to space availability. New this year will be a Beachside Market on event day from 9 am - 3 pm! For more info please visit www.vernondbfestival.com
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Annabella Rose, seven months, keeps her eye on Brian Martin of Sun FM as her mom Alycia Defauw and Annie Defauw (not pictured) donate $1,055 and a coffee can of change to the Have a Heart Radiothon while Miss Teenage Okanagan Samantha Sewell looks on Thursday at the Village Green Centre. More than $60,000 was raised, which will go to equipment for women’s and children’s health services at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. Annie Defauw bakes and sells cookies to raise the money to donate each year.
McDonald’s is making smiles for sick kids and their families Wednesday, with the community’s help. The 22nd annual McHappy Day gets underway Wednesday at more than 1,400 restaurants in Canada, including Vernon and Armstrong. McDonald’s will donate $1 from every Big Mac sandwich, Happy Meal and hot McCafé beverage sold to the Ronald McDonald House B.C. “Our goal is to raise $5,000 to adopt a family suite, proving comfort to families for one year,” said Natasha Sellers, with the Vernon/ Armstrong McDonald’s. “Nearly 30 per cent of the families that use the Ronald McDonald House B.C. come from the Interior.” And you never know who might be serving up your meal, since it is tradition on McHappy
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“Could I have a little bit more, please?” This is not a starving child in a Dickens novel but a student asking for an extra portion of the roasted vegetables he and fellow students have prepared in the Cook It. Try It. Like It! after-school program at Mission Hill elementary school. The program, which focuses on tasty, nutritious and easy recipes, could change the way students eat now and for the rest of their lives as they try new ingredients and ways to cook and share them with their families. “It’s a fun experience. I like all the tasty meals and learning stuff. It’s cool to be able to make new foods with new stuff and seasonings,” said Nathaniel Pelosof, Grade 6. “I learned a new way to sharpen knives and that having a good knife is important for cooking. I try most of the things we do here at home, and I look forward to the program.” Jasmin Wright, program coordinator, gardener, local food security promoter and cook, loves sharing her enthusiasm with the students. “It’s a way to help the students learn that healthy choices can be delicious and that cooking is fun. It fosters a good relationship with food and some of the students try new things or things they thought they didn’t like and find out that they really do like them,” she said. “I like to see that big smile when they find a new favourite and learn new things.” So far, the students, in Grades 4 to 6, have made quesadillas and fresh salsa, granola, fruit parfaits and mini pizzas, and they are working on roasted, seasoned vegetables and fruit smoothies. They are learning preparation techniques and proper use of kitchen tools and appliances. “I really like to cook. I cook at home,” said MacKenzie Rawlins, Grade 4. “I learned a new way to make granola and a different way to do smoothies. I like it that we can meet people in the school that we don’t know. This is a great opportunity and we’re the first school to try it. Other schools should try this.” Other students agree. “I cook with my grandma a lot and it’s fun to learn new things. I like learning more about cooking,” said Brooklyn Wright, Grade 4. Each session also includes a short section on nutrition. Students were surprised to learn about the sugar content of beverages that many of them drink regularly. For example, one popular soft drink has 70 grams of sugar, which was demonstrated by sugar cubes to show how much each beverage contained. They thought that it would be better to make their own smoothies because they knew what was in them, and save the sugary beverages for sometimes use, as they had learned about always food, necessary for good health, and sometimes food, occasional additions to a healthy diet. There were lots of questions, with some of the students deciding to do research on what they had heard about caffeine consumption stunting growth in young people. “I’m delighted to see the students have the opportunity to cook and learn about food and see their enthusiasm and interest and bring the samples and recipes home to their families,” said
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Grade 4 students Taylor Smith (left) and Izzy Hamm prepare roasted vegetables with volunteer Donna Antonishak at the Cook It. Try It. Like It! after-school cooking program at Mission Hill elementary school. volunteer Donna Antonishak, retired community nutritionist. Cook It. Try It. Like It! was developed in Kamloops as an after school program by the school district and the city. The program is also in Vernon at Ellison Elementary School and with community agencies in Lumby Vernon and Armstrong. It is funded by a grant from the First West Foundation through the Food Action Society. “I hope we will get funding to run the program again. I think there’s potential for it to continue,” said Linda Boyd, community nutritionist with Interior Health and vice-chair of the Food Action Society. “The kids are very interested and like experimenting with the different food and learning more about food and where our food comes from. They do related activities. When they used cilantro to make salsa, they planted a cilantro seed to grow their own cilantro at home. The response from parents and students has been very positive,” she said. Black Bean Quesadilla 1/2 cup canned black beans drained and rinsed Half a cup of cheddar cheese (grated) 4 whole grain tortillas (10-inch size) 1 red pepper (chopped) 2 green onions (chopped) 1/2 tsp. dry cilantro (or 2 Tbsp. fresh, chopped)
Cole Therrien, Grade 4 (left), and Tyson Stevens, Grade 6, toast the success of the smoothie they made. Preheat oven to 350 F Assemble all ingredients on one half of each tortilla and then fold over the other half to cover the ingredients inside. Place on a baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden and slightly crispy. Serve with salsa and low-fat sour cream. Makes four servings.
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other’s Day is fast approaching and this year I will get to spend breakfast with my oldest son in Toronto and have dinner with my youngest son in Vernon, lucky me and so grateful for the magic of air travel. As a mom I have been reflecting on many happy times with my boys and also remembering some challenging times and how we as a family grew from these. In my own relationship with my mom, whom I loved dearly, we had our moments. I was the fourth child, first daughter. My mom and dad loved us all, that was never a question. However, we did as a family say that Mom favoured the boys and Dad the girls. I was fine with this as I did have a great connection with my father, he was quiet and I loved our annual trips to Montreal. I think being raised in a loud,
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Life
Starting the conversation
large family of six kids, I needed quiet space and a calm person to reflect with and my father provided that. This was all fine until he died when I was 16. I knew he was going to die from the time I was six and he had one of the first open heart surgeries in Canada. That operation was a gift of time and he lived 10 years. But for me it was a difficult struggle as I missed him so much, I was off balance, my rock was gone. We didn’t grieve or talk about our feelings openly, we just tried to move on. When my kids’ father died we learned how to grieve so we could all work through our feelings, acknowledge our pain and learn to live with our loss. Mom was always loving with me, but she could bug me. I know I annoyed her, too. I was confident, stubborn, and on a clear path to get out of my hometown and on to the great adventure of life.
The Way I see IT
Michele Blais
When I was 18 we had a difficult year with lots of drama, mostly mine. I was missing my father and knew I needed to connect with my mom in a more positive way. I arranged a dinner for her and I alone. I bought a bottle of wine, cooked her favourite food and closed the dining room doors off from the world and I set the conversation with this question, “tell me about your life, not your mom life: life before us, your hopes and dreams.” I must have got the idea out of a magazine as I don’t think I was that insightful. That night changed our relationship. She was incredibly
honest and funny, and we cried and laughed and hugged. I learned to value my mother as an amazing woman. She was a feminist before there was a word for it, she moved beyond that to a humanist. She had loved and lost, she had grieved deeply, she had so much fun in the air force, was intelligent and hard working. Like her daughter, she was stubborn and determined, curious, and full of life. We spoke for hours after that evening. Our relationship evolved beyond mother daughter, we now had a relationship where we could discuss aspirations, careers, education, politics in a new light. We had a great relationship for the rest of her life. We loved each other deeply and admired each other as
women in the world. I share this story because I believe it is never too late to have those conversations that we need to have with our family
members. Mom died seven years ago and I miss her every day. I loved the way her voice expressed her love for
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Opening Day Sat, May 9th, 2015
Ranch Hours: 10am – 5pm
Don’t forget to purchase your season pass! Admission: $ 25.00 (family of 5) or $ 10.00 per person Free for Season Pass holders
Making Crafts for Mom
EXCITING….Season starts at the Ranch with Making Crafts for Mom • Hayrides (weather permitting) • Crafts – make Mom that special gift(s) • Coloring Station • Mural Painting • Tour the heritage buildings • Take a Family Photo
• Visit our Gift Shop it has unique items • Model Railroad Display - in the Pavilion • Visit Burt in the Pottery Shop • Catlemen’s Club Restaurant
• Visit the new baby lambs • Old Fashioned Candy in
• Visit the ladies in the Quilting Barn SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 10:30am to 4:00pm
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“Fiber Fashion N’ Tea at the Ranch” Sunday, May 10th • 10 am to 5 pm Mom’s and Grandma’s get in FREE!!
O’Keefe Ranch and A Twist of Yarn would like you to bring Mom and Grandma to our Fashion Show. There will be tea served in fine china and goodies, with lots of fiber demonstrations and vendors. This day will consist of a variety of different events such as:
will be cooking up Burgers & Hot Dogs
• Visit Patrick “The Dancing Scot” Blacksmith
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• Spinning & Weaving • Carding • Vendors/Exhibitors • Sheep Shearing Demonstration
• Wool Dying
• Fashion Show with special guests Queen & Princess (1:30pm start) (Queen Silver Star Excellent Program)
• Felting • Kids felting crafts • Stage Coach Rides • And more……
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mother’s day celebration contest Is your mom the greatest mom in the world? This Mother’s Day Vernon Women’s Transition House Society wants to hear about her! In 200 words or less, tell us why your mother is like no other! Story must be original/written by you, and must be true. Winning story will appear in The Morning Star and will receive $100 gift card to Village Green Centre. Email your story to rosalie.p@vwts.ca by noon May 7. 26th annual boat & sportsmen’s show May 3 at The Vernon Yacht Club, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free with a donation to the Salvation Army food bank. Bring the family down to see the expanded list of exhibitors, free Face painting for the kids and more. Info., visit http://vernonyachtclub.com/boating/ annual-boat-show or call 250-545-5518 giant annual book sale The Vernon Friends of the Library holding their annual book sale at the Vernon Curling Rink May 3 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. All proceeds go to fund non-budget items at the library such as children’s programming. To donate books or for more information, please call Linda at 250-549-1466. spring garage/yard sale The Okanagan Humane Society’s annual event takes place May 3 to raise money for spaying and neutering of abandoned and needy animals. Your donation of any good quality household garage, yard or garden items would be greatly appreciated. Info., please call Hazel at 250-542-1607. polson pond kids fishout Annual event hosted by Kalamalka Fly Fishers at Polson Park May 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The duck pond has been cleaned and will be stocked with 900 rainbow trout courtesy of Fresh Water Fisheries Society. Children four to 14 invited to come try their luck at catching a limit of two trout per day. Children under 11 must be accompanied by an adult. Rods and bait will be available for those who do not have their own. the vernon figure skating club Annual general meeting May 3 from 2:15 to 2:45 p.m. in club room at Priest Valley Arena. lumby community market holds sidewalk sale Arbor Mall parking lot, 1879 Vernon St., Lumby, every Sunday May 3 to October 2015 from 1 to 5 p.m. (set-up begins at noon) and all vendors are welcome for drop-in. huge garage sale & breakfast May 3 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at North Okanagan Junior Academy, 4699 S. Grandview Flats. Rd., Armstrong. vernon collectors club meets We will meet May 3 (this was postponed from our April 26 meeting) at 7:30 p.m., Peace Lutheran Church, 1204-30th Ave. enderby lions club hosts gigantic garage sale Runs until May 3 at the Enderby Curling Rink and Lions Gazebo 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Largest garage sale in the North Okanagan. relay for life massive machines meet & greet Join us May 3 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Village Green Centre parking lot. Lots of cool machines on display that kids can actually touch, sit on and “drive!” Refreshments available on site. Donation is $10 per family, with all proceeds donated to Relay For Life Vernon. Info., Jennifer at 250-819-0906 or jharbaruk@bc.cancer.ca haru matsuri spring festival May 3 from 11 a.m. to
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he Vernon Jubilee Hospital Auxiliary Garden Fair will be held Saturday, May 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Polson Park. The fair includes a huge garage sale, bake sale, plants, crafts, knitting, used jewelery, book sale and silent auction. A concession booth will be available all day. Entertainment will be supplied by The Chilly Creakers from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. followed by the Vernon Community Band from noon to 1 p.m. The kids corner will include face painting, balloons, bounce and play, fish pond, games, colouring pages and used toys, books etc. To make donations for the garage, plant or used jewelry sale, please call 250-558-4299 or 250-542-9674 to arrange delivery or pick-up.
3 p.m., Vernon Japanese Cultural Centre, 4895 Bella Vista Rd. Admission $10/family, $3/person. Experience culture of Japan, from traditional tea ceremony to origami to manga drawing and more. Take in the sushi-making demonstration, with sushi available for purchase. Entertainment throughout the day including special presentations by the Yamabiko Taiko Drummers and Saki Suganuma playing the traditional Koto, a 13-string instrument. you are invited to hear the gospel from the Bible told simply and without obligation Sundays 3:30 p.m., Enderby Seniors Complex May 3, 10, 17 and 24 (across from Red Basket Foods). aa meets sundays (X) open meeting 10 a.m., at VTC 281048 Ave. (H) closed meeting 7 p.m., Anglican Church, 3205-27 St. Vernon (back door). (H) closed meeting 8 p.m., United Church, 2315 Pleasant Valley Blvd., Armstrong. Open meeting, 3204 Alexis Park Dr. Vernon (H), 5 p.m. daily. (H) Handicap access (X) no handicap access. Info., 250-545-4933 vernon treatment centre Do you or a loved one have an alcohol/drug and/or other addiction problem? We can help! Day and evening courses available. Call 542-6151 for more info. medievally minded Come and join us and explore what history can do for you. Learn about medieval fighting, crafts and feasting. The Society for Creative Anachronism meets every Sunday at 3 p.m. For information, see www.krakenfjord.org
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conquer lower back pain forever! Free workshop presented by Dr. Roger Drinkwater. Learn to rebuild the lower back, knees and hips for the repair and prevention of injury and pain. Learn to move your body correctly and to build a foundation of strength and flexibility, to support an active lifestyle. Presentation, plenty of discussion and time on the mat to experience a back injury treatment program. May 4 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Inner Light Yoga and Wellness, 2807-44th Ave., Vernon. Email or phone for more info.: 250-307-7485 or newbacktherapy@gmail.com dance at the armstrong seniors drop-in centre The Backyard Band plays a variety of music May 4 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Seniors Drop In Centre on Patterson Ave. All welcome. breathing exercises and yoga in the chair classes At the Halina Centre, Mondays from 1 to 2 p.m. Come to experience the therapeutic and healing power of yoga with Melissa of Blue Eagle Yoga. Classes are by donation only ($6 suggested). For more information, e-mail blueeagleyoga@shaw.ca. little owl family circle Every Monday, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., People Place, 3402-27th
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may 5
the climate is changing: why should we care? Sponsored by Okanagan-Shuswap Green Party, this talk takes place May 5 at 7 p.m., Schubert Centre, Vernon, with Dr. Brian Guy, PhD. His passionate plea for urgent action to mitigate and respond to climate change is a clarion call for anyone still uncertain about the cause and threat of climate change. Dr. Guy will trace climate variations through history and show how today’s change is different. He will explain model predictions for future gloom or triumph. He will outline implications for economies and societies. You can decide if we should do nothing or do something. move for mental health walk Let’s all get together to bring awareness to mental health! Bring your friends and walk for mental health May 5 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Starts and ends at City Hall, 3400-30th St., Vernon. Hot dogs and drinks after the walk. sea cadets and navy league Sea Cadets ages 12 to 18 are meeting at D12 off Commonage/Mission Road Tuesdays 6 to 9 p.m. Navy League cadets ages nine to 13 are meeting at the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) building 3100-28th Ave. Thursdays 6 to 8:30 p.m. Membership for each corps is $20/ year. For more info. on Sea Cadets call Carolynn at 250-503-8345. For Navy League call Doug at 250-503-8319. hold your event at the schubert centre Great place to hold your wedding, grad, bar mitzvah, memorial service, birthday party/luncheon/ dinner, meetings and a lot more in between. They can accommodate up to 300 people in the auditorium, 120 in banquet room (with its own entrance), up to 50 in the meeting room and 75 in the Coffee House and are famous for their catering. The centre also provides meals for The Meals 4401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon on Wheels program. Call 250-549-4201 for further Spaces are limited … for more info call info. or to book your event.
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armstrong seniors activity centre We are at 2520 Patterson Ave. Table tennis every Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., September to May. Annual membership fee at the centre is $12; user fees are $2 members; $4 non-members; dances $5. silver star rotary club meets Tuesdays from 6:46 to 8 a.m. at the Village Green Hotel across from the Village Green Centre. This is a fun, friendly, social club supporting local community and international service, and we are looking for new members. Everyone is welcome to come for a free breakfast. WooD carving club meets tuesDays We meet Tuesdays 1 to 4 p.m. at the Vernon Community Arts Center, Polson Park behind the science centre. Info., Liz Doucette at 250-2606043, 250-306-2684 or shelinek@hotmail.com overcomers’ meeting If you’re totally happy with the direction your life is going, great! If not, perhaps you should consider Overcomers. Provides timely, measurable and attainable goals for dealing with personal issues of brokenness in a safe, caring environment. A 16-week program with daily journaling and a weekly meeting takes place Tuesdays 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the People Place 3402-27th Ave.Info., Harold at 250-503-4582 or Thomas, 250-540-3678. lumby health centre clinics Health Information Services, five days a week. Public Health Nurse five days a week; water quality testing kits available at Lumby Health Centre. the lumby artistic connections is a weekly watercolour painting class (sometimes we do acrylics). Cost $10 per session. Held every Tuesday noon to 4 p.m. at the Lumby Community Hall (2250 Shields Ave.). Everyone welcome. Call Olena at 250-547-8866 for info. the armstrong lions club bingo every Tuesday. Doors open at 6 p.m. and bingo at 6:50 p.m. at the Oddfellows Hall. aboriginal infant & early chilDhooD Development Free swimming Tuesdays from 2 to 2:30 p.m. Meet at the aquatic centre. For more info., 542-7578. the vernon placer (golD) miners’ club Meets the first Tuesday of every month in the basement of Peace Lutheran Church, 120430th Ave. from 7-9 p.m. Yearly memberships: $20 per family. For more info. phone Merv Mathers, 250-547-9690 or e-mail Donna Smith at mrspumpkin36@hotmail.com pregnancy support Every Tuesday we offer a drop-in 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., including lunch. We offer free and confidential service to help you have a healthy baby. We are at 290229th Ave. Gratefully accepting double strollers, maternity and infant clothing donations. teach anD play for KiDs Tuesdays from 10 to 11 a.m., Aboriginal Infant and Early Childhood Development Centre. For more infor-
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mation, call 250-542-7578. armstrong anD District garDen club Our regular monthly meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month in the small room of the Odd Fellows hall and we would welcome anyone interested in becoming a member. mothers for recovery peer support group For any mother in recovery wishing to help herself and other mothers within her community struggling with addictions. The purpose of this group will be to help addicted mothers obtain recovery and parent successfully. Takes place every Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to noon at Kekuli Centre, 2905-28th Ave. Child care available at Early Childhood Development, 2902- 29th Ave. For more information please call Caroline at 250542-5448 or Maureen at 250-542-5311. unDer the spitfire anaf unit 5 Cribbage night and dart league Tuesdays at 7 p.m. New members welcome. We are at 2500-46th Ave. Call 250-542-3277 for more information. poWereD paragliDing club Join the Okanagan Free Flyer’s Powered Paragliding Club and take to the skies under a paraglider with an easy foot-launched backpack model engine. Good chance to meet up with fellow pilots and cruise around the beautiful Okanagan. Meets Tuesday evenings and Sunday mornings. Call James at 546-2812 or e-mail james@gojoli.com for regular meeting times, locations and info. tuesDay evening meDitation group A short reading, followed by a 45-minute silent meditation at the Okanagan Centre for Positive Living, 2913-29th Ave., 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. cocaine anonymous meets Every Tuesday 7 to 8 p.m., at Knox Presbyterian Church on Alexis Park Drive. If you think you have a problem with cocaine, please join us. freeDom group meets Every Tuesday at 1 p.m., Upper Room Mission. This group is intended to give support to people who want to quit the use of hard drugs. While it does accept total abstinence, it does not require it to join. KiWanis club of vernon four seasons Meets Tuesdays at noon at Schubert Centre. New members welcome. For info., call 545-8650.
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club meets May 6 at 7 p.m., Village Green vss neeDs Donations for garage sale Hotel, featuring guest speaker Mike Dunn on Drop off garage sale items and empty bottles and cans May 8 from 3 to 7 p.m., at the school’s 15th Rattlesnake research. vernon & District Kennel club meets St. entrance. Garage sale items include large and The first Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. at the small household items tools, hobby supplies, People Place, 3402-27th Ave. This is an oppor- children’s toys, books, plants and pots, sports tunity to connect with others involved in many equipment; sorry, no clothes. We will also have a different dog sports in the area. A fun club with bottle drop off at our May 9 garage sale. friendly people and new members always wel- maven lane holDs online auction May come. Call Jayne at 250-545-0187 for more info. 8 to 20 and includes flights, accommodation, skigrieving losses During the Dementia ing, dining out, golf lessons, art, cooking classes, journey May 6, free Alzheimer Society of B.C. children’s birthday parties, fashion show. To bid workshop, 1 to 3 p.m., The People Place, 3402-27th on an item, go to www.mavenlane.org. Maven Ave. Pre-registration required: Carly Gronlund, Lane is a non-profit child care centre in Vernon. teen job search WorKshop The school 1-800-634-3399 or cgronlund@alzheimerbc.org author reaDing at vernon library Do year is almost over. Are you starting the job hunt? you like sex? Are you getting older? Do you just Come to the Vernon library May 9 from 2 to 4 like to laugh? Join us as author Neil McKinnon p.m. to learn some valuable skills. In this workreads from his new novel and shares snippets shop you will focus on how to write resumes and from the life of his character, 80-year-old Alberto cover letters, and how to do effective job searchCamelo, aka The Greatest Lover of Last Tuesday. ing. Workshop presented by Leeann Wilhelm and May 7 from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Vernon library sponsored by Work BC and Community Futures. meeting room. Information contact Kristy at Drop in to this free program, no registration 250-542-7610 x6820 or e-mail khennings@orl. required. For more info., call 250-542-7610. bc.ca reel paDDling film festival Hosted Another perfect evening by Vernon Paddling Centre May 7 at 7 p.m., Towne Cinema. Tickets in advance thanks to $12; at the door $15. Enjoy a fun-filled evening of watching some great paddling films, door prizes are part of the fun too. Tickets available at Bean Scene, Valhalla Pure, Innerspace and Towne Cinema. travelling baKe sale Hosted by IODE Lambly’s Landing Travelling in Downtown Enderby, May 7 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. for $3 per plate. eat for mental health May 7 from 7 to 10 a.m. Drive-thru A&W breakfast and wellness food package in support of mental health initiatives. Min. donation $5. Save-On Shop Early for Best Selection! Foods parking lot, 4900-27th St., Vernon. Info., www.cmha.bc.ca or www.mifsc.ca CLOSED spring has arriveD: schubert EASTER SUNDAY centre thrift store The spring line RE-OPEN of clothes has been put out. We still have a MONDAY $1 a bag rack so come in and fill one today. We are in need of any men’s clothing size 30”- 36.” We have larger sizes but it’s 250-549-4777 • #8 - 1800 Kal Lake Road, Vernon Financing Available O.A.C. smaller ones that are needed. Housewares also needed, particularly pots and pans. grannies a gogo travelogue “Dubai and Other Emirates” will be preWhat would make my dog sented by Beverley Barling for Grannies à shed excessively? Gogo: the Vernon-South Africa Connection May 8 at 7 p.m. at The People Place, 3402 Dogs naturally shed their old or damaged hair. Although - 27th Ave. Admission $5 at the door. shedding is a normal process for dogs, the amount and Join us for fascinating look at the drafrequency of hair that is shed, often depends upon their health and breed type. Certain breeds will develop thick coats for the matic changes that have quickly taken the winter that are shed come spring. Dogs that are mostly indoors Bedouin tribes from camels to Cadillacs, are prone to smaller changes in coat thickness and shed fairly driven by the riches of oil. Info., see www. evenly throughout the year. granniesagogo.com
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Vernon artist chosen to represent B.C. Amanda Shatzko puts her painting skills to good use as this year’s B.C. Culture Days ambassador Kristin Froneman Morning Star Staff
Amanda Shatzko has a new reason to float through the air in celebration of art. The Vernon-raised arts advocate and aerial artist, who paints live while performing stunts harnessed in the air, has been announced as the winner of the B.C. Culture Days ambassador and awards program. She will represent Culture Days and B.C. artists at the National Congress on Culture this week at Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre. “Someone sent a call out in The Georgia Strait then online calling for a B.C. cultural ambassador, and I decided to apply,” said Shatzko. “What was interesting to me is hearing what MLA Coralee Oakes (for Cariboo North), who is also the cabinet minister responsible for arts and culture and sport, had to say. I thought aerial art would be a cool thing because it fits into sports and culture development.” In addition to the trip to Edmonton, Shatzko will receive $2,500 towards her Culture Days event, in which she will be presenting a live aerial painting demonstration and inviting discussion and participation from community members. “My main responsibility is to represent B.C. at the National Congress on Culture in Edmonton... I’ll be networking and speaking with other presenters on what they’re doing in their communities and I can tell them what I’m doing in my community of Vernon
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Vernon’s just announced B.C. Culture Days ambassador amanda shatzko performs her aerial art act, which she will demonstrate in Vernon as one of the many Culture Days events in september. and in B.C.,” said Shatzko. As the 2015 B.C. Culture Days ambassador, Shatzko will engage communities around the province to present and participate in Culture Days activities and will also act as spokesperson leading up to the Culture Days weekend, taking place Sept. 25 to 27. “People are familiar with Culture Days, but may not be as familiar as they could be. We have tons of talented artists – visual, performers, musicians – and a lot of people don’t know what venues they can approach,” said Shatzko. “I’m going to try and bridge a lot of artists and presenters to bring every-
one together on what they can do and use social media to let people know what’s going on for B.C. Culture Days.” A graduate of Vernon Secondary School’s high performance program, Shatzko represented Canada competing internationally for seven years as a rhythmic gymnast, coached by local Olympian Camille Martens. She later pursued a career in the arts, studying at Emily Carr University in Vancouver. Since graduating, she has painted numerous sports celebrities and was commissioned by the Canadian government and the Whistler arts council to paint athletes live at the Vancouver and Whistler Olympic and
Paralympic Winter Games in 2010. She has also exhibited in the permanent collection of the Mayfair Boutique Hotels and with international gallery ContainerArt, which was seen by 800,000 people during a three-week run. Last year, her work was exhibited on a 25-storey billboard at Times Square in New York City. Shatzko now spends part of her time in Vernon, where she works on programs at the Vernon Public Art Gallery and serves as vice-president of the Arts Council of the North Okanagan. She also recently spoke on a youth engagement panel at the 2015 ArtsBC Conference and was a judge at the Vernon school district scholarship showcase and competition Thursday. She is also about to unveil a mural she painted at her alma mater, VSS. When not at home, Shatzko can be found travelling the world, where she has performed her aerial act on stage, for film and television, at corporate events and ceremonies and on behalf of multiple charities. “My first act was three years ago at B.C. Place in Vancouver. The rest of the time it is a paid act through corporate events,” said Shatzko, adding she is currently looking for a venue in Vernon to perform for locals during Culture Days. In addition to Shatzko’s appointment as B.C. Culture Days ambassador, 10 local ambassadors will be selected from across the province and awarded $1,000 towards their Culture Days event. The deadline to apply for this opportunity has been extended to May 15. For information on eligibility and guidelines for becoming a local B.C. Culture Days ambassador, visit BC.CultureDays.ca or contact Nazanin Shoja, B.C. Culture Days coordinator at culturedays@allianceforarts.com.
Powerful play offers some divine thought
sparse, stark stage may greet theatregoers when they enter Powerhouse Theatre to witness The Diviners but by the end of the night the production proves to be fertile ground for plenty of food for thought. The powerful but accessible play stays with you Glenn Mitchell on the drive home as one begins to ponder the intricacies of a play that introduces the comings and goings of a Depression-era Indiana town with enough characters, both serious and comedic, to fulfill most people’s need for variety. The wide-open set also allows transitions from scene to scene in a fast-paced manner that is reminiscent of a TV edit where the sound of the next scene begins to
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overlap the previous scene before it’s even over, tapping into modern attention spans I might add. But the centrepiece is Buddy Layman, the brain-injured man/ child who is blessed/cursed with the gift of divining, which means he has the power, with the use of a divining rod, to find precious water for the farming community, even to the utter dismay of at least one bemused resident. In fact, Buddy is so in tune with aqua that he can successfully predict when it’s going to rain, another blessing for the community but a problem for him because he’s deathly afraid of the element that claimed his mother and left him, well, confused. His family and community love his zest for nature and childlike innocence that also gives the gift of life, water, but they are woefully unprepared or unwilling to deal with the darker side of the tragedy that ultimately leads to even more heartache.
Well, that is until C.C. Showers (irony and imagery is rampant in this play, even the names), the reluctant former preacher, shows up from the outside world and makes a connection with Buddy that transforms both their lives, and all around them. Gus Hansen is marvellous as Buddy, complete with flailing arms and manic episodes, contrasted capably with boyhood wonder and amazement in the lighter scenes that gives off an energy that is infectious. And his foil is Erik Chirkoff in the role of Showers, who may be guilty of “thinking too much,” but is actually working out a crisis of confidence and faith through his relationship with Buddy. The two actors interact wonderfully and capably as the elder ministers and build a bond with the willing ‘Layman’ as the characters grow and develop to the wonderfully dramatic and inevitable conclusion. The cast of characters that
make up Zion, Indiana also strut their stuff ably on the stage, especially Caileigh Doroschuk as the smitten but responsible Jennie Mae Ferris, sister and protectorate of Buddy, and Felisha Anderson as the feisty, little-bit-naughty Darlene Henshaw as she struggles with the rules of small-town America. There’s also a rant on industrialization and the future of modern society by Howard Joynt as Basil Bennett that is also not to be missed, so do pay attention. The cast of characters also deliver the lighter moments well, too, and there are enough of them to give the sometimes dark play a nice balance and feel. The music, highlighted by Amazing Grace and You Are My Sunshine, along with the lighting and big-sky backdrop also add to the ambience and religious imagery of the play. Opening night may have had a few hiccups with a couple of
dropped lines and at least one lighting miscue but all was forgiven as the night unfolded and the play developed pace and personality and this production deserves a much bigger audience than it had on Wednesday. There’s much to chew on here, including the mysteries of life, death, heaven, religion, truth, ignorance and the consequences of living in denial, but it’s also an entertaining and rewarding night at the theatre that anyone with a stake in the human condition should be able to enjoy immensely. The Diviners continues today at the Powerhouse Theatre with a matinée at 2 p.m. and Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with a matinée Saturday at 2 p.m. The play also opens the Okanagan Zone Drama Festival, hosted at Powerhouse, May 24 to 30. Tickets for all productions are at the Ticket Seller, 250-549-7469, www.ticketseller.ca.
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Adaline suffers from narration
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fter driving off a bridge and drowning in her car, young widower Adaline (Blake Lively) dies, but only for a few seconds. A bolt of lightning strikes the car, starting her heart and Adaline swims to safety. Miraculously, after this event, she forever remains 29 years old. For more than 80 Taylor and Howe years, Adaline hides her true age from all but her daughter, by moving, changing her name and job every decade. When Adaline meets a young man named Ellis (Michiel Huisman) tenacious enough to break through her crafted solitude, she allows herself to love again. Meeting the family of the young man turns problematic when his father William (Harrison Ford) recognizes Adaline. We say, “The Age of Adaline could have been amazing, rather than merely adequate.” TAYLOR: This is a fun idea for a movie, performed well and captured adequately, but it unfolds like a comic book. I don’t usually approve of narration and The Age of Adaline has the worst kind: unnecessary and cheesy. If Adaline had come by her apparent immortality in some unexplained fashion and if you were to watch the first 10 min-
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Blake Lively plays a woman who stopped ageing 80 years ago in The Age of Adaline. utes of this film with the sound muted, it would be a much better film. Frankly, it’s insulting and it makes me mad. Everything has to be dumbed-down these days or producers think people won’t understand. It’s supposed to be art, maybe you’re not supposed to get it right away. Movies should show us things, not tell us things. HOWE: I thought the narration was
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Arts Choir presents Spring Sing Paul Moore and the Kokanee Singers to perform some of their favourite songs at concerts Morning Star Staff
The Kokanee Singers, led by local tenor Paul Moore, are about to swim into their spring concert season, with performances in Armstrong and Vernon this week. Started in 2012 by Moore as an expression of his love for harmony with mixed voices, the choir meets each week Paul Moore on Tuesday at Vernon’s Gallery Vertigo and Wednesday in Armstrong at The Zion United Church. “One of the best training experiences for singers is the ensemble or group singing experience. Singers join the choir only or do private lessons and sing in the choir which gives everyone a choice for deeper, rounded study if they wish,” said Moore. Accompanied by Mabel Thibault on piano, the choir sings a mixture of music from classical to contemporary. “Music may be chosen because of vocal demands, language, beauty or just because the members like it and want to sing it,” said Moore. “I call it choir mutiny, when one of the singers brings up the name of a song and then everybody gangs up on the director (me) who then has to say yes or face vocal unrest. I think the mutinies are worth it, though, because the singers have good taste. In every piece there
is always beauty and there is always something to be learned by singing it.” Music for the Spring Sing concerts was chosen by Moore and the members based on songs the choir likes. “The music turned out to be mostly pop or contemporary with two exceptions,” said Moore, adding the choir will perform Bridge Over Troubled Water, You Raise Me Up as well as choir favourites Danny Boy and Ubi Caritas. “Ubi Caritas is a song composed by Maurice Duruflé in 1960 but it sounds like it’s a very early piece of music, maybe from the 13th century.” The concert will also feature soloists who currently study with Moore or who have been students in the past, including mezzo soprano Patricia Howorko (Kelowna), mezzo soprano Theresa Beach (Vernon) and baritone Darren Roesler (Lake Country), who will sing a mixture of contemporary, musical theatre and opera arias. Moore will also sing throughout the evening, accompanied by Thibault, and has chosen favourite songs, which include opera arias, musical theatre and classical song repertoire. In addition, members of the Kokanee Singers will participate as a team in the Relay for Life June 6 at Polson Park. The team will join others in running or walking non-stop over a 12-hour period in order to raise funds in the fight against cancer (donations for the event will be accepted at the concerts or contact team captain Theresa Beach at 250-308-2181). The Kokanee Singers’ Spring Sing takes place Wednesday at Zion United Church in Armstrong and Saturday at All Saints Anglican Church in Vernon. Both concerts start at 7 p.m. Tickets are available from choir members, at Wentworth Music in Vernon and Chocoliro in Armstrong and at the door for both shows.
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Award to help local voice student Morning Star Staff
The Elizabeth Scott Vocal Choral award committee is looking to help a talented voice student or vocal piano accompanist, who will be continuing his/her post-secondary education in the next year. Since 2008, the directors of the Elizabeth Scott Vocal Choral award have helped talented young people with a bursary that is open to those 17 to 35 years of age and have lived in the North Okanagan for at least a five-year period. The award, named after Scott, a retired youth choir leader and voice instructor, is made possible through a fund administered by the Community Foundation of the North Okanagan. “It was created by donations from many local lovers of vocal music, who had benefited from studying with Elizabeth and had heard her choirs perform,” said Catherine Dawson, with the bursary committee. “(They) watched with delight as their children grew and flourished musically and in so many other ways under her tutelage.” A former recipient includes Siobhan Raupach, who is cur-
rently studying voice in California and recently performed as soprano soloist with the Okanagan Symphony in its presentation of Haydn’s The Creation. A former student of Terry Logan, Raupach earned her bachelor of music at McGill University in Montreal.
“Other previous winners are singing, teaching and studying in various locations across Canada and the U.S.,” said Dawson. The deadline for applications for the award is June 15. For more information, or for an application, contact Dawson at 250-545-6494.
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Mary (Maria) Sokol
It is with deep love and sorrow that we announce the passing of our mother, Mary (Maria) Sokol, on Monday, April 20th, in her 98th year. Predeceased by her husband Tony, sister Sophie and brothers George, Bill, Mike, and John. She will be sadly missed by her son Andrew (Jeanette) of Stouffville Ontario; daughter Lillian (Mike) Smith of Vernon; son William (Marlene) of Vernon; grandchildren Brad, Alison, Sandy, Leilani, Kursten, Sonja and David; and great grandchildren Aidan, Ryan, Quinlan, Mary and Katherine. Mary was an active member of the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Auxiliary for 45 years and was recognized in 1996 for her service by receiving a Life Membership. She was also a longtime member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and member of the Ladies Auxiliary. Mary will be sadly missed by her family and many close friends. Prayers will be recited Sunday evening May 10th at 7:00 PM and the Funeral Service will be Monday May 11th at 10:00am. Both will be at the Assumption of Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Interment will follow at the Pleasant Valley Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorial donations in Mary’s name may be made to the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Memorial Fund. Arrangements are in the care of Vernon Funeral Home, 250-542-0155. Condolences may be offered at www.vernonfuneralhome.com
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Doreen Mae Krusel (Kilborn) April 4, 1936-April 24, 2015
It is with heavy hearts, we regret to announce the passing of Doreen (Dodie) Krusel on April 24, 2015 in Vernon, after a courageous battle with PSP. She is survived by her loving husband Luther (Lou) and Son Bruce (Kristina), daughters, Brenda Hautaluoma (John), and Tracy Hayward (Ron). Dodie will be missed by her Grandchildren Arek, Kevan, April, Aubree, Chanel and Madison, Brother Ken, Sister Patty, as well as many other relatives and special friends. Dodie was passionate about her family, relatives and friends and everyone was always welcome to her home. Dodie was born in Virden, Manitoba and moved to Vernon in 1951 after her Father’s death in the war. After graduation, Dodie moved to Vancouver in the fall of 1954 and met Lou and a lifelong relationship began. Lou and Dodie were married on September 3rd, 1955 in Vernon and started their family in the lower mainland until returning to Vernon in 1971 for good. An irrepressible spirit, Dodie was always grounded in her community and roots in Vernon. Her infectious smile and welcoming attitude were loved by all and she will be missed by a great number of friends in the community. Dodie was predeceased by her Father Frank, Mother Marion, Brothers Terry and Bob. The family would like to thank Dr. George Borchert and the caring staff at Heron Grove for their dedication over the past few years. She will be truly missed by all. A celebration of Dodie’s life is to take place on May 30, 2015 at Peace Lutheran Church at 2:00 p.m., with a tea to follow. Donations to the BC Cancer Society or the North Okanagan Hospice Society in lieu of flowers would be appreciated. Arrangements have been entrusted to Vernon Funeral Home, Phone: 250 542 0155. Condolences may be offered at www.vernonfuneralhome.com
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Whitevalley Community Resource Centre’s Summer Day Camp requires two students to work as an Assistant Supervisor and Program Assistant to work full time. Qualified applicants are invited to submit resumes, with at least two references on or before May 8th, 2015 at 4pm to: gjewitt@whitevalley.ca Subject: Summer Day Camp Funded by Canada Summer Jobs For more information, visit www.whitevalley.ca
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Full time office clerk position, avail in Lumby. Must have experience in Microsoft office, Sage accounting program, be able to multi task, busy office. Send resume to dtmaclean@shaw.ca
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EXPERIENCED LANDSCAPERS Practical knowledge of irrigation, block wall construction and operation of bobcat equipment would be an asset. We offer a competitive wage with full time seasonal employment. Please submit your resume to Swan Lake Nurseryland 7920 Highland Road, Vernon, BC V1B 3W6 attn: Randy Holtz or by email to randy@myswanlake.com
Vernon Towing requires immediately a PART TIME DISPATCHER / OFFICE SECRETARY for two days per week (Friday and Saturday). Good communication skills a must and a good working knowledge of the Vernon and outlying areas are an asset as well. Wage based on experience. Apply in person to Vernon Towing at 4617B - 34th Street, 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Saturday. 250-545-2311
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PRT Growing Services Ltd. operates 13 forest nurseries in Canada and the USA, producing over 180 million seedlings annually. We currently have an opening for an ambitious, competent individual for the position of Intermediate Accountant at our Administration Office located in Armstrong, BC. Specific duties include accurate coding, processing and payment of AP vouchers, maintenance of purchase contracts, coordinating with the Purchasing Agent and general month end accounting duties. The successful individual should have formal education in accounting and preferably 2 years related experience. A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office is required.
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Sales/Kitchen Designer – Salmon Arm Job Overview Under the general direction of the Dealership Manager, this position is in the Sales and Marketing department of Westwood’s showroom in Salmon Arm. Responsibilities include developing, growing and maintaining a local contractor and customer base, developing sales leads, issuing quotations and generating sales using 20/20 software and providing input for strategic growth with new product introduction and product quality. Employees perform their duties both in the administrative offices and out in the territory, in a team like work environment. Qualifications include: • Minimum two years of experience in basic office software including use of Microsoft Word, Internet, Email, Access and/or Excel software • Completion of a post-secondary design program or four years work experience • Experience with reading & interpreting design layouts & architectural plans. • Capable of providing consistently accurate work under pressure situations and time lines • Strong customer service skills including personal contact, phone and email • Able to read and write English • Able to learn quickly, interact well with all employees and have a high degree of attention to detail • CADD experience is an asset To apply, come in person and complete an application form, or forward resume and work references to: Westwood Fine Cabinetry 2140 Leckie Place, Kelowna, BC V1Y 7W7 Phone: (250) 860-3900; Fax: (250) 860-6097 hr@westwoodfinecabinetry.com Attention: Dealer Sales Manager We thank all applicants for their interest however, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
When you join Tolko Industries, you are signing on with an industry leader in world markets that has built success through three generaƟons with over ϯ000 employees and growing. We provide a dynamic environment with compeƟƟve compensaƟon where people succeed as our most valuable resource. Our structure and culture encourage innovaƟon, growth, and change in an open environment, and we believe in and pracƟce environmental sustainability. POSITION OVERVIEW: ZeporƟng to the Divisional ^upervisor, the caretaker will provide daily site security year round and assist in irrigaƟon of nursery and seed orchard crops aŌer hours and during weekends and holidays when required throughout the year. The residence on site will be rented out at $500/month (including water, electricity, and heatͿ payable at the ϭst of each month. ZesidenƟal Tenancy greement will be completed between the landlord (Tolko) and tenant (caretaker). Maintaining the residence and the grounds at the residence will be at the renters risk on his Ɵme. QUALIFICATIONS: • Demonstrates sound knowledge, understanding and compliance with safety and environmental programs. • Mechanical familiarity and understanding of basic agricultural or nursery related mechanical, electrical, mobile eƋuipment, and water ͬ irrigaƟon systems. • Competent computer skills and knowledge. • ble to comprehend compledž instrucƟons and maintain detailed records. • Capable of working eīecƟvely alone and as part of a team. • ssenƟal to hold a valid C Driver͛s >icense. • Must be prepared to work evenings and/or weekends. • 'rade ϭϮ ducaƟon reƋuired. APPLY TODAY! Kur tradiƟon of edžcellence is built on strong company values, a challenging environment, and conƟnuous development. To edžplore current career opportuniƟes and become a part of our community, apply online today at www.tolko.com. pplicaƟons will be accepted unƟl May 3, 2015. We thank all candidates for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Little Seedlings Daycare Ltd, is looking for a P/T ECE to join our team. Please call Jennifer 250-546-3600. MOA (experienced) required 1 day/wk and Holiday relief. EMR helpful. Submit Resumes in person to the office of Dr. Lepage and Dr. Perrier at 3591 31st Street, Vernon, BC. Now hiring part-time positions @ The Garden Ice Cream Parlor. Drop resumes off @ main office of Blue Stream Motel, 4202 32nd St, Vernon, BC Part time drivers wanted for Summer months to deliver and set up RV travel trailers through out Okanagan and Shuswap. Some cleaning required. Ideal for couples. Applicants must have own 1/2 ton or bigger vehicle. Serious enquiries only. Pls call 4-9pm weekdays. 250-545-3238.
BUSY commercial contractor looking for tradesman. Experience in metal cladding, framing, cabinetry, painting, tile, electrical, plumbing, drywall would be an asset. Must have transportation. Must be willing to work some nights and travel. Non smoking company. Email resume hanconconstructors@gmail.com
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PRODUCTION WORKERS Wood Productionpackaging,assembly, chop saws, Seasonal! $11.00/hr. Fax resume to 250-545-7203 or email valleywoodreman@shaw.ca
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Swampers with own transportation required. Must be able bodied, part time leading to full time. Start wage $13./hr. Fax resume to: 250-542-9627
Garden Rototilling, Pressure washing, lawn maintenance Call Darcy 250-550-0428
Medical/Dental CERTIFIED DENTAL ASSISTANT WANTED Vernon Dental Center (Dr. Anthony Berdan) is immediately seeking CDA for office in beautiful downtown Vernon. Position is 4-5 days a week. New grads welcome! Please email, fax or apply with resume to our office. Fax (250) 542-0723. Email drberdan@gmail.com.
Ofce Support WE are a busy small animal practice in Vernon, BC looking for a full time receptionist/veterinary office assistant to join our team. Must have basic knowledge and/or experience in receptionist duties. Must be willing to learn and enjoy working with animals and clients. Veterinary experience is preferred however we are willing to train the right candidate. Competitive salary and benefits will be offered to the successful applicant. Please forward your resume to cahvet@telus.net or fax to 250-549-3594 attention Janet.
Teachers GPRC, FAIRVIEW Campus requires Heavy Equipment Technician Instructors to commence August 15, 2015. for more information visit our website: www.gprc.ab.ca/careers
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8X8X20 New Containers Household/ Commercial rentals. $65-$110/mo. Your place or mine. Warren 250-545-8118 Vernon. Rent, or Sale. U1ST MOVING 2 men $90/hr. Local and long distance. Call 250-859-8362.
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ROGERS FOODS LTD. FLOUR & CEREALS
PRODUCT TECHNICIAN I GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES: A Product Technician I is responsible for performing all lab quality control tests and functions on an assigned or rotational basis as required at the Armstrong Division labs. The position will also support product development initiatives as required. QUALIFICATIONS: • Graduation from a recognized food sciences program, with training in quality control. • Completion of Grade 12 including Grade 12 Mathematics and Chemistry, plus at least one post secondary course in Chemistry. • Proficiency with currently used software applications. • Willing and available for shift-work, including weekends, holidays and emergency call-outs as required. We offer: • Full-time work (minimum 40 hrs/wk) • $17.80 hourly plus applicable shift premium • Annual wage adjustments in accordance with the collective agreement • Company-sponsored benefits (after probation) • Industry-specific job training If you are interested in joining our team, please submit your resume by May 11, 2015 to rogershr@rogersfoods.com. We thank all applicants for their interest, but advise that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Rogers Foods is an equal opportunity employer.
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Rubbish Removal *1 Vernon’s own DumpRunz Fast courteous service for around 1/2 the price of the big guys. 250-307-9449
Ginseng tarps 24’x80’ for shade or windbreak. Inexpensive and attractive solution for hay shed, livestock shelter etc. $160. ea. 24’x160’ @ $300.ea. Quote available for installation. 22’ gooseneck tip pg trailer, 27,000 lb axles, 95 lb winch. $7500. 250-558-8322.
Pets END HOMELESSNESS & SUFFERING Call the Animal Care Society at 250-542-7203 for info about our lifesaving programs: • Spay/neuter • Feral cat trap/neuter/ return • Spayed/neutered barn cat adoptions WE ARE NOT A SHELTER - WE HELP REDUCE THE NEED FOR A SHELTER
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CKC PB Registered American Cocker spaniel pups. Tri and parti colours $700. 1-250-5497138 or 250-308-8665
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OPTICAL POSITION AVAILABLE Only experienced optical practitioners need apply. Busy Vernon Optical Store requires a reliable, friendly and knowledgeable individual to fill a customer service position. Working hours exclude evenings, Sunday and statutory holidays. Please call 250
260-6220 for appointment.
The Vernon Veterinary Clinic is looking for a full time Registered VETERINARY TECHNICIAN to join our fabulous team. We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated team player who possesses great organizational and interpersonal skills. We are a fast paced modern, growing, four doctor practice with digital x-ray, in-house diagnostic equipment, laser therapy, ultrasound and a warm and inviting crew. We offer staff discounts, uniform & CE allowance, competitive wages and the beautiful sunny Okanagan. Please send resumes to vernonvets@shaw.ca or fax: 250-542-1772 Attention: Annette Farkas
MAINTENANCE MANAGER.
Please see our website at www.vernon.ca for a complete job description and method of application. Closing date is May 8, 2015. Please quote competition # 48-COV-15.
MANAGER, DETENTION FACILITIES
(Exempt) Under job evaluation review Reporting to the General Manager, Municipal Support Services – RCMP, and under the direction of the RCMP Officer-in-Charge, the Manager, Detention Facility is responsible for the safe and secure operation of the Vernon RCMP Detachment detention facility. This includes the care and handling of all custodial inmates, the supervision of full-time and casual custodial guard employees and the management of DNA sampling. Please see our website at www.vernon.ca for a complete job description and method of application. Closing date is May 8, 2015. Please quote competition # 46-COV-15.
250.542.7520
ACROSS FROM VERNON GOLF COURSE ENTRANCE
609 KAL LAKE ROAD
PICK UP OR DELIVERY NOW OPEN Mon - Fri 8AM - 5 PM DECORATIVE ROCK Saturday 8AM - 4 PM Sunday 9AM - 4 PM WHITE DOLOMITE Closed Statutory Holidays BLAST ROCK VISA, DEBIT, MASTERCARD, INTERACT, SENIORS DISCOUNT LAVA ROCK BARK MULCH SLATE / FLAGSTONE LANDSCAPE FABRIC TOP SOIL MIXES SAND & GRAVEL www.justrocks.ca
JUST
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NO ROCK TOO BIG • NO PURCHASE TOO SMALL
Auctions
VERNON 1 KM NORTH OF SWAN LAKE NURSERY
Auctions
Household, Estate, Warehouse Dispersals and Miscellaneous consignments.
Chartwell Carrington Place Retirement Residence is currently accepting resumes for the position of
(Exempt) Reporting to the Director, Recreation Services, this position coordinates and oversees the administrative function for the division and is a confidential assistant to the Director, Recreation Services.
We load pickups, trailers, etc … and we deliver! • Screened Topsoil • Decorative Rock • Natures Gold Products • Bark Mulch • Manure and Peat • Sand and Gravel
Independently owned and operated by the Raffan Family since 1963.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
OFFICE COORDINATOR – RECREATION SERVICES
SPRING HOURS
Monday to Friday 8 - 5:30 PM Saturdays 8 - 4 PM Sundays (April/May) 9 - 2 PM
This role is an exceptional opportunity for a dependable, self-motivated individual with a minimum of five (5) years of related work experience. The primary responsibilities for this position will include, but are not limited to: minor repairs, including minor dry wall work and painting to residents’ suites and common areas, conducting monthly fire drills, oversee Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee, and overseeing service contracts. Responsible for supervising housekeeping department. Availability to work days and weekends is also required. The successful candidate will have a good working knowledge of all maintenance-related issues, including plumbing systems, electrical systems, carpentry, mechanical systems, HVAC and sprinkler systems. The incumbent must have a clear understanding of local fire code requirements and will be working within a pre-determined budget. The ideal candidate possesses effective communication skills and is a co-operative team player. Experience in a retirement residence is an asset. A current driver’s license is also required. Successful candidates must provide a current criminal record check and vulnerable sector search. Please forward your cover letter and resume, in confidence, to: Carmen Glabus, General Manager Email: cglabus@chartwell.com Fax: 250-545-5793 We thank all applicants for their interest in Chartwell Retirement Residences. Please be advised that only those invited to an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
NEXT REGULAR AUCTION SALE THURSDAY, MAY 7 STARTING AT 9:00 AM
903 Raffan Rd. Armstrong, BC 250.546.9420 www.valleyauction.ca
Livestock
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SHAVINGS & SAWDUST 10 TO 150 YARD LOADS BARK MULCH FIR OR CEDAR
- Regular & Screened Sizes -
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BUSINESSES & SERVICES HOME MAINTENANCE / RENOVATIONS /CONSTRUCTION
EAVESTROUGH Eave ‘n Flow Eavestrough Cleaning
LOUIE
Variety Pack Team
Starting @ $8900
QUALITY BATHROOM RENOVATIONS INC.
Call Jim
TUB TO SHOWER • CUSTOM SHOWERS • TUBS VANITIES • COUNTERTOPS • SINKS • FAUCETS • TOILETS ACCESSORIES • TILING • DESIGN • PACKAGES
for average size home. Manual. No mess. Reliable. Professional. 778-475-4801 (Vernon)
BADABATHROOMS.COM
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CONTRACTING Book your project now!
250.308.6230
Burk’s Renovations 30 Years a Carpenter Also skilled in • Drywall • Painting • Flooring • Tiles • T-Bar Ceiling Need Help? Please Call...
Bob - 250.275.0706
• Fences • Railing • Renovations • Decks • General • New • Siding Carpentry Construction
CALL 778-212-4804
HOUSE EXTERIORS SEAMLESS GUTTERS
• SOFFIT • FASCIA • SIDING • FENCES • DECKS
250-540-5674
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Larry Penner
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Tom - WHITESTONE PAINTING Handyman Renovations
Since ‘89 - Free Estimates
250-308-8778
CABINETS
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www.allserviceokanagan.com
Kitchen & Bath SOLUTIONS Showroom
kitchencabinetsvernon.ca 2001 - 43 St, Vernon BC 250-542-1294
patricia.murdock@hotmail.com
250.545.5623 • 250.503.7854
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• &ull ^ervice ZenovaƟons • DIz ConsulƟng • Interior Θ Zeno Design • WainƟng 27 yrs experience, references, before/aŌer pics
Brian Harris 250-540-6205 (cell) or 250-549-5110
WINDOW CLEANING WINDOW CLEANING GUTTER MAINTENANCE PRESSURE WASHING 20 yrs experience Est. Vernon since 2005
CONCRETE
250 - 308-0689
Tazz’s -Concrete Foundations
Construction - Framing Concrete - Concrete Floors - Siding/Roofing Hardi Plank/Vinyl “All Your Concrete Needs” - Driveways - Retaining Walls - Decks/Patios SENIORS DISCOUNT - Sidewalks/Curbs - Renos Complete Ph: 558-5452 • Cell: 308-8268 - Suspended Slabs - Post & Beam
CLEANING SERVICES Make your House GREEN!!
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Hire AAA - MAID FROM PHILIPPINES
250-550-7900
Call Evangeline
250-540-3644
MOVE IN AND OUT SERVICES Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly, One Time • Competitive • Insured • Bonded jjhelpinghands@outlook.com
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HANDYMAN
HANDS Renovations & Repairs Painting & Decorating Kitchens & Bathrooms Seniors Discount
TIM 250-307-8772
Quality Work Guaranteed
FREE ESTIMATES
250.308.2125
WINDOWS & DOORS • WINDOWS • DOORS • FOLDING WALLS • • INSTALLATIONS • Renovation Specialists Showroom
odws.ca 2001 - 43 St, Vernon BC • 250-542-1294 1044 Middleton Way, Vernon
• New Construction or Renovations • Installations • Milgard Vinyl, Fiberglass & Aluminum Windows • Interior & Exterior Doors • FREE ESTIMATES Toll Free 1-800-661-8003 • Phone (250) 545-6096 • Fax (250) 545-1977
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Call Robert
250-309-4802
DECKING Vinyl Decking
KELOWNA • WINFIELD 250-212-3075 Marcel Labrecque
VERNON • SALMON ARM 250-550-4598 Rod Forgo
15124 Middle Bench Rd, Oyama • Fax: 250 548 4045
Aluminium Railing
PAINTING SIMPLY CEILINGS AND WALLS
Repaints our specialty • Also T-bar Installed! g • Walls • Doors • Windows • Trim • Textured Ceilings Painted - Repaired or Retextured
GET MY ESTIMATE OR PAY TOO MUCH!
INCOME TAX SERVICE E-FILE
Specializing in Small Businesses
250-545-8294
STUCCO
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308-9783 or 549-5140 URRPV IRU (2 coats any colour)
&HLOLQJ DQG WULP H[WUD Price includes Cloverdale Premium Quality Paint NO PAYMENT Until Job Is Completed!
www.PAINTSPECIAL.com 1.250.899.3163
CARWAY STUCCO Terry’s Painting
COMMERCIAL CLEANING SERVICE
250-550-7900
Post House Cleaning • Yard Cleanup Hauling • Home Renovations Construction Cleanup • Homemade Cheesecakes & much more!
• CABINETS • VANITIES IN 48 HOURS • INSTALLATIONS •
JJ Helping Hands
CONTACT CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT
PAT
New Construction, Re-stucco & Repairs 25 + years Experience
Ph: 307-0387
YOU
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Interior Exterior Repaints Ceilings - Wall - Trim
Free Estimates 25 yr exp. 250 307 5685
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JACK WESSELL PAINTING
INTERIOR - WALLS, TRIM, DOORS, CEILINGS EXTERIOR - REPAINT, VINYL, WOOD, FENCING
FREE ESTIMATE - WORK GUARANTEED CALL JACK 250-308-2870
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BUSINESSES & SERVICES LAWN MOWING
TREE SERVICES
LANDSCAPING OK Landing Lawn & Garden
LAWN MOWING
SPRING TREE SERVICES
Pruning • Leaf Removal • Yard Cleanup Shrub & Hedge Shaping • Mowing
Retired guy looking to keep busy. Reasonable rates for weekly or one time work. Call Warren 250-545-2298 or 250-306-3395
• DEEP ROOT FERTILIZING • TREE REMOVAL & STUMP GRINDING • TREE PRUNING, SHRUBS & HEDGING • SNOW DAMAGE REPAIRS
LANDSCAPING - MAINTENANCE - RETAINING WALLS - PATIO STONES - MASONRY - IRRIGATION - YARD CLEANUP
Commercial • Residential • Strata Call or text Jake 250-550-5849
**OVER 16 YEARS EXPERIENCE**
(778) 930-1031 Rocknyards.ca
MERIDIAN LAWN & GARDEN CARE Landscape Renewals - Journeyman Gardener
ROOFING
YOU
* Residential * Commercial * Strata
mazerjan@hotmail.com FALL CLEANUP PRUNNING, AERATING, FERTILIZING 250-550-5386
PURPLE HORIZON ROOFING
BELONG
HERE!
Specializing in re-roofing.
Fiberglass Shingles • Metal • Torch-on Call Dan for a FREE ESTIMATE!
250-306-0049
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250-550-7900 if you have any questions
25 + years creating beautiful, low maintenace Xeriscaped Gardens Mark Zintel BSc. Botany • 250-542-3774 • www.zingardens.ca
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Pets
Pets
Farm Equipment
$1,000 Reward for Missing Dog!!! Lost on April 13th, 2015. She is a small black miniature pincher. 11 lbs, black and tan color with a bit of grey due to age. When she went missing she was wearing a beige jacket with brown teddy bear patterns on her coat. The coat has a blue trim. She was last seen near old Sicamouse road in Grindrod. Please call me if you have any information at 778-883-7219 or donnadinh2@gmail.com. Thank you and please help me, she is my family.
Tiny Chihuahua puppies, CKC registered, microchipped, Champion sired, intelligent, cuddly, adorable. 3 boys left, $800. 250-309-5429. Website: tanzanitechis.webs.com. Email redlox21@hotmail.com
2 Bottom plow, 8’double disk, 8’cultivator. Offers. 250-5493958.
Shampooches Pet Grooming 4311 25th Ave, Vernon. Call for information 250-275-1385
Auctions
Misc. for Sale
runs EVERY
250-542-7525
Poultry Brown laying hens just starting to lay. $12.50 each. 250308-7972.
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Flooring 650sq’ of gently used laminate flooring with underlay $500. Located in Kelowna. Phone: 250-215-8959
Free Items DO YOU NEED CLEAN FREE FILL, Foothills Area, Vernon call 250-549-1554
Firewood/Fuel FIREWOOD FOR SALE We have apple, birch, fir or pine. Delivery available. 250-260-7932
Heavy Duty Machinery A-CHEAP, LOWEST PRICES STEEL SHIPPING Dry Storage Containers Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated containers all sizes in stock. 40’ containers as low as $2,200. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift. Ph Toll free 24 hours 1866-528-7108 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com SCRAP PAPPY Will pay cash for oversized scrap steel, cats, yarders, saw mill equipment, farm equipment, etc., All insurance in place to work on your property. www.scrappappy.ca 250-547-2584.
Medical Supplies Furniture Emporium WANTED: Good used Medical equipment, walkers, power lift chairs, scooters and other items. Phone 250-545-0240 MOVING MUST SELL - Brand New Bruno Elan Stair Lift-RH 11 Step with folding rail. Used only 3 months. Paid $4300.will sell for $2500. Please call 250712-0790
Misc. for Sale
BUY-SELL-CONSIGN Furniture, Tools, Appliances Antiques & Collectables, Vehicles
*Wednesday Auctions 6PM www.doddsauction.com
CALL DODDS AUCTION 250-545-3259
1995 Calista Cove 28’ 350 motorhome low mileage1995 Frontier 24’ 5th wheel New Holland square baler, makes 16”x18” bales.New Holland 1032 Bale Wagon 500 gal 60’ boom sprayer 16’ cultivator with 4 rows of spring harrows 18’ tandom discmisc greenhouse equipment 9 rolls barb wire 30 stems 2” irrigation pipe Honda 3813 lawn tractor single size hospital bed4’x6’ Ubuilt trailer 1995 Ford 150 truck.250-546-6978. Basket ball hoop on adjustable stand. Good condition. $50 firm. 250-308-7671. Dodge running boards, 5th wheel hitch, air nailers and tools. 250-833-2092. Estate Sale: MacGregor 26’ Sailboat, fine cond., tons of extras,view at Vernon Yacht Club Boat Show this weekend. Trailer included. $8,500. ; Honda easy start gas Lawn Mower, good condition, $125. (250)838-6098 NEED BUILDING PLANS New or renovation. Call Okanagan Blue Print. 250-558-8791 SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397. Make money and save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info and DVD: 1-800-566-6899 Ext: 400OT www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT
Simmons King size bed set. H.board & metal frame, exc cond. $500.obo 250-308-8412 STEEL BUILDINGS “Spring sales with hot savings!” All steel building models and sizes are now on sale. Get your building deal while it’s hot. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422 www.pioneersteel.ca WANTED: Good used furniture, beds & appliances. Phone Furniture Emporium, 250-545-0240
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Rentals
Rentals
Transportation
Transportation
Auto Accessories/Parts
Recreational/Sale
Scrap Car Removal
1993 Terry Resort 20.5ft
#11AAA Automotive recycling will meet or beat all competitors cash offers for your scrap vehicles. (250)808-1894 #1Summit Auto Recycling, fair value for your unwanted vehicles 778-212-8726
Misc. for Sale
Lots
Apt/Condo for Rent
Storage
Well-x-Trol wx 251(62 Gal) pressure tank w/stainless fittings and 1/2 hp pump (new). $450. or offers. (250)549-2614
2.5 - 3 ACRE park like view lots, wells, paved private road, natural gas, starting at $139,000. 5 mins from Lumby Mable Lake Rd. Call 1(250)317-2807.
Bachelor East Hill, Lakeview Manor, n/p, n/s, on-site laundry, covered parking & storage 250-260-5870. Bachelor/studio avail. Clean & bright, in quiet well managed adult building, bus route, heat, h/w, cable, locker/pkg., HAD video security, n/s n/p. Starting at $575. 3900-24 Ave. 250550-4069 HILLSIDE TERRACE 39th Ave, adult oriented, clean & well maintained; 1 bedroom, No Smoking, No Pets. $690.&up 250-545-5773 Rickford Manor-Belmonte 1 & 2 bdrm suites to mature renters. Cat friendly. Non smoking building close to downtown $680.00 & up. Ask about the move in incentives.Office hrs 8-5 Mon-Fri Call 250-549-5254
M&K Storage 8x20 containers for sale or rent, our yard, $100/mo. 24 hr access 47th Ave & 31 St. 250-545-2936 & 250-549-0500. SPECIAL Yearly Rate Available.
Misc. Wanted Buying Vintage - older clothing jewelry, wind up watch (old), old lace linens 778-475-4806 CASH Paid for 10K-24K jewelry, old coins & $5 coins & higher. Todd - 250-864-3521 Handyperson needed to help with home/yard upgrade, suits retired person. 250-542-2926 Private Collector Looking to Buy Coin Collections, Silver, Antique Native Art, Estates + Chad: 250-863-3082 in town. PURCHASING scrap gold & old Canadian & American coin collections. 250-548-3670
Musical Instruments Pey Vey amplifier KB60 and electric guitar. $180. 250-5468938.
Open Houses Open House Sunday, 11-1pm 592 Guildford Crt Coldstream, Modular For Sale $209,500. No strata fees. 250-306-7698
Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent royallepagevernon.com PROPERTY MANAGER REALTORÂŽ
Bachelor suite all utilities included. Shared washroom, cooking unit. $500 OWNERS OF RENTAL PROPERTIES:
10� table saw. $300. 12� portable planer. $175. 250542-4735.
We have qualified potential tenants looking for homes. We would like to manage your rental. Please call for details.
Real Estate
Thor Chinchilla 250.309.1742
Business for Sale
VERNON MANAGEMENT LTD. 2805 - 35th Street, Vernon
Tools
COIN-OP BUSINESS FOR SALE. Pool tables, juke boxes, digital music systems, & various games. All coin operated All on Locations Revenue producing Okanagan & Area. Serious Inquires only waitingtretire@gmail.com Asking $55,000.00
For Sale By Owner LEVEL ENTRY RANCHER with bsmt & Legal Suite many features, Drive by at 420017th St., and pick-up brochure off 43rd Ave., $437,500. 250542-3031 Brian or Jane
Houses For Sale
DISTRESS SALES
FREE computerized printout of foreclosure properties www.OkanaganForeclosures.com
Vernon
250-549-7258
MATURE RESIDENCE
Adult bldg by hospital, 2 bdrm, 2 baths, FS, DW, laundry HU, 1 cat allowed, FP, view, UG parking, storage, guest suite, great bldg. $915/mo. Available May 1. Sorry NS.
LAKEVIEW PLACE
Corner suite, 2 bdrm, 2 bath,new paint & new floors, good view back to the city and Silver Star, on bus route, adult oriented, FS, DW, on-site laundry. $800/mo. Available May 1. Sorry NS, NP.
250-542-5580 1bdrm, level entry, quiet convenient location near Schubert Center & bus rte. incl. cable,H/W, parking F/S. NS, 50+, $650. Call 250-309-3763 2 bdrm apt in older bldg, downtown location, clean & bright, f/s, heat & hot water incl., no pets, no smoking. $750. 250-308-8500. 2bdrm Armstrong f/s, w/d, n/s, n/p, Avail immd, $850, utilities included. Call 250-306-9909
Fully renovated 4 + 1, 2 bathroom home, situated in the Harwood area, centrally located. www.houseforsale44th.shaw webspace.ca $399,000 Phone 250-558-2959
Homes for Rent
4 Units. Extra Deluxe 2 Bed 2 Bath, (no stairs from secure underground parking to unit) $990 to $1150 incl heat. Large bright corner 2 Bdrm + Office $815. All large sundecks w/view. Mature Residents, NS NP(cat?) 250-309-2000
Commercial/ Industrial VERNON MANAGEMENT LTD. 2805 - 35th Street, Vernon
1bdrm (bright), sep. laundry & entry, RV/Boat prkg, n/s, $850. incl/util,int & cable, pet negotiable. May 1. 778-930-0879
WRECKING GM, Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, FWD CARS, Since 1994. All parts on the shelf. Armstrong. 2 5 0 - 5 4 6 - 9 0 5 5 . www.anchorusedautoparts.net
Townhouses 3bdrm unit in family oriented Co-op $755/mo, $1250 shares deposit. Avail July 1. 250-5494599 or 250-542-2468
Cars - Sports & Imports
Want to Rent 43 year old male with 13 year old dog (very gentle) and cat, quiet non/smoker, non/party wanting to rent 1 bdrm bsmt or in-law suite with backyard and on site laundry (if possible) util included, Vernon only! (250)540-3826
2002 Honda Accord Spec Edit, auto, sunroof, loaded. 143K, $9,000.obo 250-549-6852
Off Road Vehicles
Transportation
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ATV REGISTRATION SPECIALISTS
Antiques / Classics 1967 Chevelle, 350 engine from 69 Camaro. Needs a little TLC. $5,000. 250-540-2134.
250-545-5311 3923 - 32 Street, Vernon
Cars - Domestic
Cars - Domestic
2013 CHEVROLET IMPALA
250-542-5580 Duplex / 4 Plex 3bdrm, f/s, avail May 1, n/s, n/p $1000.+util, Harwood area. DD & Ref’s R. 250-542-8496
Homes for Rent 1A Avail immed. 2bdrm with addition, Westside Rd, Louie Lane, f/s, lrg lot, private access to beach. 250-542-0060 4bdrm house with 2bdrm basement suite in Enderby, $1600,newly renovated. You may sublet basement suite. 1-250-838-6630 A1 3bdrm large, 5 appl., upper level, clean, private, commonage Rd. Avail now, 5 acres, view of city, $1200., Shared utilities. 250-542-0060.
Seasonal Accommodation
Stk# 14-392A
Loaded, only 27,769 kms
17,800
Homes for Rent
Cars - Domestic
Terry Baptist
BANNISTER
4703 - 27th Street, VERNON DL#9133 Selling GM 250-545-0606 • Cell 250-308-8599 vehicles in Vernon www.bannisters.com for 28 years!
*plus $499 doc fee & taxes
Recreational/Sale
Recreational/Sale
Time to UPGRADE! Now accepting NEWER RVs for consignment sales!
Trucks & Vans New vinyl floors, axels flipped for clearance, 2-way fridge, propane 4 burner stove, hot water, dual sink, lots of tread left on tires, sleeps 5, queen bed, fold down kitchen table with bunk above, two 6V batteries, A/C works awesome, outdoor shower, stereo with aux/cd, easily pulled with half ton, tows great, hitch available.
1978 GMC ExCab, auto, new brakes & fuel pump, good runner $300. 250-307-8600
Boats 7.5 HP Honda outboard motor, 4 cycle, complete tune-up, $650. obo (250)832-8025 Estate Sale: MacGregor 26’ Sailboat, fine cond., tons of extras,view at Vernon Yacht Club Boat Show this weekend. Trailer included. $8,500. ;
$4,350
Adult
25’ Okanagan 5th wheel, many up grades, all equipped, $4,000 250-545-6599
MALE 4 Male Erotic Massage $95., Winfield, 9-9 Daily 250-766-2048 SOOO SEXY SANDY The Original K-Town Girl. 38D, 29,34.Let’s Play 250-878-1514 Vernon’s Gentleman’s Lesuire. In/out, Beautiful attendants. Hiring. 778-363-1074
Call Derek at: 250-718-4969
Escorts 27’ Travel Aire 5th wheel, dual axel, full bath, excellent condition. $1800.obo 250-307-8600
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Must be clean with clear title. Call for more info. Low consignment fees.
Since 1969
Shared Accommodation 1bdrm, D.T. $475 incl.util. furniture, cable. N/P, N/S. 250-549-0644
Sale
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WANTED:Lot to rent/lease on Okanagan Lake/Westside Rd for the Summer. Preferably from June until the ďŹ rst of September. 250308-7671.
Bachelor 1&2 bdrm, 50+ downtown, f/s, avail now, n/p.$540-$800. 250-260-8454.
Immaculate Condition
Set of 4 Michelin 31x10.50/R15LT tires, on chrome 8x15 on 5 hole Ford 1/2 ton rims. Never used in Winter, excellent cond. $500. 250-308-1042.
Suites, Lower
OFFICE
2nd floor above Vernon Optical. Good location, elevator. Newer, neat & clean, already divided into offices. 1200 sq. ft., private washrooms, parking for staff and customers. $1,000/mo. plus triple net. Available April 1.
RE-MANUFACTURED ENGINES 2 Year, 60,000 km, Warranty. 250-542-2685.
Transportation
• Government Certified Techs • Best Parts selection, new and used, in BC • 46 Years of Trusted Service
Go to www.kenkraft.ca or call 250-545-5101 kenkraftsalesltd@shaw.ca
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Cars - Domestic
Cars - Domestic
CLASSIFIED SPECIAL Professional Property Management Services
R entals V ernon.com #101-2901 32 St., Vernon
Apt/Condo for Rent
250-550-2120
Apt/Condo for Rent
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Palliative care week creates awareness Morning Star Staff
One of the best ways to spread a message is by turning to your own social circles. This year’s National
Hospice Palliative Care Week campaign, which runs until Saturday, is titled the Power of 10: Let’s talk about Hospice Palliative Care, and
encompasses the idea of using our social circles to spread the message on the importance of quality hospice palliative care in our country.
The Climate is Changing Do Something Do Nothing
Tuesday, May 5 at 7pm
The principles underlining this year’s campaign are simple everyone is part of a sphere of influence that includes family, friends and acquaintances. Similarly, all individuals within your sphere of influence are connected to their own social circles. Through these spheres of influence you have the potential
to reach a vast network of individuals. “This year, we are urging people to spread the message by sharing our National Hospice Palliative Care Week resources and speaking to 10 people - friends, family, acquaintances about the importance of quality hospice palliative care in Canada,” said Sharon Baxter, Executive Director
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of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. “We are then asking you to ask those ten people to speak to ten people and so forth.” The hope is that this critical message will be spread exponentially, like ripples in a pond, by each of your contacts - whether face-to-face, e-mail or social media using the National Hospice Palliative Care Week resources as conversation starters. For this year’s campaign, the CHPCA has released a bilingual poster featuring answers to the most common questions surrounding hospice palliative care including “what does receiving it mean,” “how it applies to families,” and “what is the difference hospice palliative care can make.” The campaign also includes smaller bilin-
gual postcards that can be easily handed out. “We are hoping for an increase in general knowledge and awareness concerning hospice palliative care by having these resources spread throughout communities across Canada.” The resources can be utilized by both professionals working in the healthcare field as well as patients, and caregivers to advocate for systemic change. According to the national facst sheet by the CHPCA, hospice palliative care programs allow patients to gain more control over their lives, manage pain and symptoms more effectively, and they provide support to family caregivers. For more information, and promotional materials for National Hospice Palliative Care Week, visit www.chpcaacsp.org/week.
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JONTZ - VAN BUUREN-ELTON JONTZ - EDWARDS We are happy to announce that Nathan Jontz, son of Stephen & Yolanda Jontz, and Marie Edwards, daughter of David & Patricia Edwards, were married on August 2nd, 2014 at the South Thompson Inn, Kamloops, BC, surrounded by their family & friends. After the bride arrived in a horse-drawn carriage, the couple was married by Pastor Everton Weekes, of Vernon, BC. Kollin King was the best man and Shellaine Lang was the maid of honor. The bride wore a stunning strapless dress accented by lace, and the bridesmaids wore soft mint green strapless dresses. The floral arrangements included delicate purple, cream & pink roses. The indoor reception was held in the main dining room at the same location following the beautiful outdoor ceremony. John Peitsch, Marie’s uncle from Kelowna, was the fun & gracious MC. Nate & Marie have made their home in Falkland BC, where Nate is employed with the family construction business, & Marie is completing her education to become a Certified Education Assistant through the Okanagan College. Congratulations to the both of you!
HAPPY 16 th BIRTHDAY Love from Mom & Dad + your sisters
Jared Jontz, son of Stephen & Yolanda Jontz, and Atisha van Buuren-Elton, daughter of Sharon van Buuren & the late Saul Elton, were married on December 8, 2014 at the beautiful rustic chapel in Westwold BC, surrounded by their immediate families. The couple were happily married by Pastor Jeremy Kinniburgh from Jared & Atisha’s church, Vernon Alliance. Jared’s brother, Caleb, was their best man and Atisha’s sister, Jahnaya, their maid of honor. After the intimate ceremony, pictures were taken at the Jontz Ranch, and the families headed to a small reception in an elegant ballroom at the Prestige Hotel in Vernon. Jared & Atisha have made their home in Falkland BC, and the two are planning a summer reception to celebrate their marriage with all their family and friends this coming July! Best wishes to the happy couple from both your families!
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Grade 12 Clarence Fulton student Rajvir Randhawa practices a selfdefense move on Grade 11 Vernon Secondary School student Emily Dolphy-King at the 2015 RCMP Jean Minguy Memorial Youth Academy Wednesday at DND. Pacific Top Team, of Vernon, volunteered to teach the 33 students from all over the Okanagan defense tactics.
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Notice is hereby given that City Council will hold a Public Hearing to hear representations of interested persons or persons who deem their interest in property affected by the below-mentioned bylaws at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 11, 2015, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 3400 - 30th Street, Vernon, B.C.: 260 Vineyard Way Plan Vernon Amendment Bylaw Number 5556, 2015 Location:
260 Vineyard Way (see map at right)
Legal Description:
A Portion of Lot 2, Plan KAP87536, Sec 31, Tp 9, ODYD Except Plan KAP88166
Applicant:
Leona Snider
Present Designation:
Area A: Tourist Commercial & Park Area B: Tourist Commercial & Park
Proposed Designation: Area A: Park Area B: Tourist Commercial Purpose:
To redesignate the property in order to improve the park and residential use of the land.
260 Vineyard Way Rezoning Amendment Bylaw Number 5557, 2015 Location:
260 Vineyard Way (see map at right)
Legal Description:
A Portion of Lot 2, Plan KAP87536, Sec 31, Tp 9, ODYD Except Plan KAP88166
Applicant:
Leona Snider
Present Zoning:
Area A: RTR – Resort Tourist Residential and P1 – Parks and Open Space Area B: RTR – Resort Tourist Residential and P1 – Parks and Open Space
Proposed Zoning:
Area A: P1 – Parks and Open Space Area B: RTR – Resort Tourist Residential
Purpose:
To rezone the property in order to improve the park and residential use of the land.
Enquiries relative to the above proposed bylaws should be directed to the Planning Department located at the Community Services Building, 3001 - 32nd Avenue, Vernon, B.C. or by calling 250-550-3634. Copies of the bylaws and relevant background documents are available for inspection during normal business hours (8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.), Monday to Friday inclusive (excluding Statutory Holidays) from May 4 to May 11, 2015. Any correspondence relating to these applications can be delivered to the Corporate Officer, City of Vernon, 3400 - 30th Street, Vernon, B.C. V1T 5E6 or by sending an email to PHearings@vernon.ca. All correspondence and petitions received between May 3, 2015 (the date of notification) and 3:00 p.m. on Monday, May 11, 2015 shall be copied and circulated to the members of City Council for consideration before the Public Hearing. Any submissions received after 3:00 p.m. on Monday, May 11, 2015 will not be accepted. Correspondence and emails must include your name and civic address. You may present your verbal submissions and speaking notes at the Public Hearing. If you are unable to attend, you may appoint an agent to act on your behalf. NO REPRESENTATION WILL BE RECEIVED BY COUNCIL AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING. Month
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