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Low enrolment and bleak projections have prompted School District 67 to consider closing some of its schools. The district’s Long Range Facilities Plan was presented to the public during a presentation on Oct. 14 at the Shatford Centre. “At the end of the day, offering the best educational opportunity that we can for our students should be our goal,” said Dawn Renaud, former chair of the District Parents Advisory Council (DPAC) who attended the meeting. “It’s nice when we can keep them at a school that’s close to home, but sometimes we just can’t do that.” A total of 16 of the 19 schools are operating under capacity. Overall enrolment has dropped from 7,894 in the year 2000 to 5,842 as of September 2015. Because of this, over $3 million in cuts are expected over the next three years. At least an additional $750,000 each following year if numbers do not increase. The possibility of closures previously became a concern while Renaud was serving as chair, and the end result was the closure of Nkwala Elementary – the school her husband and daughter once attended. “I was upset that my neighbourhood school might be closed and started looking through the statistics, records and all of the rest of it,” she said. “But it became pretty obvious that (closing the school) was what we needed to do; it was in the best interest of the students that were affected in the catchment area. You don’t want to be paying for custodians and heat when you could be paying for teachers and classrooms. We love our custodians, but that’s not where you want to put more of your money than you need to.”

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Renaud said the aftermath of Nkwala’s closure was much calmer than many expected. “People get passionate; they get upset, concerned, worried, and they can put a lot of energy into trying to stop something that they think is going to be negative.” Superintendent Wendy Hyer said no closures or reconﬁgurations will be made before consulting fully with community stakeholders. During the presentation it was pointed out how students at Princess Margaret Secondary School are subject to fewer educational offerings than their Penticton Secondary School counterparts. And among the district’s middle and secondary schools, there are only 3,404 students, but there is capacity for 4,650. Hyer said no target for the reduction of enrolment capacity has been set — only enrolment numbers have been laid out and numerous other factors still have yet to be considered. “We’re holding an open consultation process, no decisions have been made,” she said. One parent suggested to the Western News that the district should reconsider where they are putting their money, for instance retaining so many playing ﬁelds. See SCHOOLS on PG. 4

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VOTE ON OCTOBER 19th! Samantha Troy, Green

Answer People should vote for me because I am representing the best vision which will provide our constituents with a positive future. Canada is at a critical crossroads in history. We can choose to “stay the course” and delve further into a world governed by apathy, fear, greed and international isolation. A world where the very rich get richer and the rest of us do not. Alternatively we can embrace the actual evidence- based challenges which our society is experiencing and we can all become active participants in adapting and prospering. The Green Party platform is smart, sustainable and fair for all Canadians. It was the first of the national parties platforms to be released and, while imitation is indeed a form of flattery, it is noteworthy that both the NDP and Liberal platforms have subsequently borrowed much from the Green vision. The Conservatives, on the other hand, have offered little beyond more wealth shifting to benefit the very few. They are not the party of the future and Canadians will be paying for their $182 billion worth of indebted choices for some time yet. Canadians want confidence that their jobs, homes and families will have a healthy, prosperous and secure future. Investing in education, health care, infrastructure and adaptive technology to facilitate our changing climate is crucial to our prosperity, as is reforming our electoral system so that all Canadian voices can be heard. The Green Party offers fully costed and substantiated solutions which will carry Canada past this historical crossroads and into a progressive future. Voting for a Green Party MP signals a commitment to wanting to be on the right side of history and a confidence in the fact that you are electing a federal representative who will maintain integrity, transparency and accountability to the shared values which we all want to bequeath upon our grandchildren. It is a vote which you can be proud of casting.

Richard Cannings, NDP

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As I’ve talked to people across this big new riding for the past two years, the overwhelming message I hear is “It’s time for change.” And their choice for change in this riding is the NDP — the only party that can defeat the Conservatives here. An NDP government would create a strong economy by supporting small businesses — the real job creators — with a two per cent tax break. We would make big corporations pay 2 per cent more, since the big tax cuts the Liberals and Conservatives have been giving them over the past 15 years have done nothing to create business investment, and have taken billions of dollars out of our pockets each year. We would repair the environmental protections that the Conservatives gutted through their omnibus bills, and redirect subsidies now paid to the oil and gas sector to innovative industries and renewable energy. Our climate change targets are the strongest of all the parties, and will transition Canada to a low-carbon future while creating good jobs across the country. The NDP will bring affordable childcare to Canada, helping young families struggling to make ends meet. We would protect pension income-splitting for seniors and would lift thousands out of poverty through a $400-million boost to the Guaranteed Income Supplement. I have worked throughout this region and across Canada with scientiﬁc colleagues, community advocates and top CEOs; I have the experience and energy to work effectively for you. It’s time for change! Together, we can build a fairer, greener more prosperous Canada.

Brian Gray, Independent

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For many months prior to and over the course of this lengthy campaign I have presented policy which will ensure a progressive and prosperous future for Canada and for our country to play a positive role as a truly independent sovereign nation in our world’s challenging future. None of the other candidates’ platforms reﬂect this much needed policy change. None address the immediate need to restore Canada’s version of Glass Steagall, the “Four Pillars” banking regulations which will protect our economy from the $23 trillion of useless derivative gambling debt held by Canadian charted banks. None of the other candidates are calling for the re-institution of the Bank of Canada to issue our nation’s own credit to ﬁnance infrastructure projects of grand design like high-speed rail, major water management programs and the sustainable and high technological development of our Canadian Arctic. No other candidate is calling for the restoration of our nuclear industry to meet our own energy needs and for global development. Sane nation states around the world are committed to nuclear energy production. No other candidate even mentions the need for Canada to re-vitalize our space program. Not one other candidate has called for the dissolution of NATO. Nobody seems concerned that the Harper government has been spending $67 million each day for Canada’s participation in NATO’s unwarranted and unprovoked aggression. None of the other candidates have called for eliminating the exorbitant budgets of the British monarchy. These are considerable amounts of tax dollars we foolishly waste to maintain our status as a British colony. Canadians need to have a voice for real change in Ottawa.

Marshall Neufeld, Conservative

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The Conservatives have the right policy and I have the ability and experience to be an effective representative for this riding. Having spent over two years working on Parliament Hill for former MP Stockwell Day, I understand how both Parliament and Government work. I will be able to start advocating for this riding on day one. The communities in this large riding are diverse, as are their needs. I have the experience, the ability and the energy to represent this beautiful but vast riding. Only the Conservatives are committed to not raising your taxes. The NDP want to raise payroll taxes on every working Canadian, by $1,500 for the average employee. In contrast, the Conservatives will reduce EI premiums by 20 per cent by 2017. Only the Conservatives will ﬁght for increased trade through increasing our access to global markets. The TransPaciﬁc Partnership will mean the removal of tariffs as high as 56 per cent on Okanagan icewine, 30 per cent on cherries and 50 per cent on beef. Only the Conservatives have a responsible foreign policy. No other party would have led the charge to remove Russia from the G8 after they invaded Ukraine. For the crisis in Syria and Iraq, no other party would have followed a responsible, multi-pronged approach which includes a military response, providing food and water to millions in Western Syria and bringing thousands of refugees to Canada in a responsible manner — keeping the appropriate focus on security. I ask for your vote on Oct.19.

Connie Denesiuk, Liberal

Answer The Liberal party has now taken the lead in the polls, with a wellendorsed plan for immediate, positive change. Stephen Harper is desperately using fear and division to distract voters away from his dismal economic, social and environmental record; and Thomas Mulcair will have to delay NDP action plans because of his balanced budget promise. Below are some of the reasons that I believe make me the best choice to represent the electorate in our riding: 1 – The South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding will beneﬁt most from having their Member of Parliament be part of the governing party. 2 – In my past school board and other roles I successfully advocated for my constituents at local, provincial and federal levels. Voters demonstrated their trust in me by ensuring I topped the polls in every election in which I’ve run. 3– I’m action and goal oriented. Every group and board I have brought together or joined has been geared towards positive and constructive action. 4 – I’m approachable. I’ve traveled to all areas of the riding throughout the past 18 months, talking with residents with to learn about the issues that are most important to them. 5 – I will work hard. I grew up with a sign posted on my father’s ofﬁce door that read: “The harder I work the luckier I get.” I believe that my own commitment to work hard on behalf of South Okanagan–West Kootenay citizens will help to improve our riding’s economic, social and environmental circumstances.

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$1.5 million donation to hospital Steve Kidd

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The fundraising goal for the Penticton Hospital expansion got a big boost this week from the Melville family. George and Sylvia Melville announced on Oct. 15 they were donating $1.5 million to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation’s $20-million campaign to supply the medical equipment for the new Patient Care Tower at PRH. “We have a real connection with Penticton as a family. My parents lived in Naramata for years and we have a place in Peachland,” said George Melville, co-owner of the very successful Boston Pizza International which opened its first franchise restaurant in Penticton in the early 1970s. “We gather as a family in the Okanagan, so there was a connection when I heard about it and thought we would like to help,” said Melville. “I think it is really important that Penticton have a regional hospital of a greater magnitude than what is there now, so I was very happy to hear of the plans to expand and grow the facility.” The Melvilles have deep connections to Penticton. Both George and Sylvia are graduates of Penticton Secondary, where they met. They eventually married and both of their children were born at Penticton Regional Hospital. Melville said he has many happy memories of Penticton, growing up here and going into practice

as a chartered accountant from 1962 to 1973 before leaving to join the Boston Pizza partnership with Jim Treliving. “I had lots of good years there. It’s a fabulous community, great people but the business drew us to Vancouver in order to grow. As a family we have never lost our connection with Penticton over the years, it has always been our hometown,” said Melville. Tom and Betty Melville, George’s parents, were deeply embedded in the community and PRH. For a number of years, his father served as the chair of the Penticton Hospital Board, and his mother, with a background in nursing, was a volunteer with the Hospital Auxiliary. “What an inspiration this family has been to Penticton,” said Janice Perrino, the medical foundation’s executive director. “For people like the Melvilles, they have lived it. They saw it from their parents, they saw it through the birth of their own children here. They know exactly what this hospital means.” The Melvilles’ donation is a substantial addition to the fundraising campaign, which now amounts to between three and four million dollars. But Perrino said they still have a long way to go to meet the $20 million goal needed to equip the 84 rooms, five operating theatres and other amenities in the new tower which is expected to begin construction in 2016, and be completed in 2019. “We are going to make sure that every room is open and every

Former Penticton residents George and Sylvia melville have donated $1.5 million to the South okanagan Similkameen medical Foundation’s fundraising campaign to supply medical equipment for the new Patient care tower at Penticton regional Hospital.

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room is equipped. With the help of people like the Melvilles, it can be done,” said Perrino. “Our hope is

that other families come forward, families that had their success and their start in Penticton come for-

ward to help as well. “What they do for our community will give decades of care.”

Pool repairs expected to be complete by November Steve Kidd

Western News Staff

It’s going to be several weeks before Penticton’s community leisure pool is fully back in operation. “They are saying the repairs should be complete and we will be up and operational by the third week of November,” said Lori Mullin, acting general manager for recreation services. The main pool, hot tub, sauna and steam rooms are open, but the leisure pool remains closed while repairs are made to its drains. Cracks in the drain were discovered when pool staff began refilling the pool after a seven-week closure to replace tiles around the pools, and noticed the level in the leisure pool had dropped. The cause of the cracked drain is not known, but there is speculation an earthquake may have caused the damage. According to Natural Resources Canada, a 2.45 magnitude earth-

quake hit Penticton at 4:45 p.m. on June 18. In September, the city’s communications officer, Simone Blais, stated that it was difficult to tell what caused the cracks, but they were in the same spot tile damage was found following the quake. Mullin said the earthquake is still a theory, and they are still not exactly sure what caused the cracks to the drains. Work on the leisure pool will happen at night, when the complex is closed, to avoid disrupting use of the other facilities, including the main pool. In addition to public swimming, the leisure pool is used for a number of classes, but Mullin said there is no disruptions to the program schedule. “All of those programs our currently happening, they just are put in the main pool for now,” said Mullin. “We really appreciate the patience of our patrons and understand their frustration.”

Taking that appreciation one step further, the city is partnering with the Downtown Penticton Association on a series of weekly “thank you theme weeks” at the Community Centre to reward customers for their patience. Each week will have a theme with a giveaway, activities and new draw prizes. Starting Oct. 19, the theme is Celebrate the Harvest Upper Bench Fruit Farms will be giving away free apples to patrons, young visitors will be able to take part in bobbing for apples, and parents can enter the weekly draw for a six-month pass to the fitness room. The second week is Fall Colours, with The Pumpkin Farmer handing out free mini pumpkins and a pumpkin decorating contest for young children. Each entry in the weekly draw, is also entered into Santa’s Bigger Bag, a draw for the grand prize family pack sponsored by DPA and the city. The grand prize draw will happen during the Santa Claus Parade in December.

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Accused child pornographer admits to taking photos Dale Boyd

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An accused child pornographer in Penticton admitted to police that he took photos of young girls sleeping, saying it was not sexual but to get back at their mother. The trial for a man who cannot be named due to a publication

ban protecting the identities of the victims began on Tuesday in Penticton Provincial Court. He is facing charges of possessing, making, distributing and accessing child pornography and voyeurism. The accused quickly admitted to police in a recorded statement

in 2012 that he took around 200 photos of the nine and fouryear-old daughters of his ex-wife while they were sleeping, though he claimed he didn’t “get off” on the photos and was only doing it to hurt his former common-law spouse. The man failed to explain the links to child pornogra-

phy websites allegedly emailed from his phone to his own email account, though he told police he looked at the website at work and maintained he performed the acts to hurt his wife at the time. “I knew she would find it,” the man said in the interview. “I wanted to hurt her.” The girls were wearing clothes in the photos, however there are multiple closeup photos of the girls crotches. The photos were allegedly found by the ex-spouse in the man’s email, she subsequently reported the man to police. Defence counsel James Pennington argued on Wednesday that the key piece of evidence, the video of the man’s statement at the Penticton RCMP detachment in 2012

where he admits to taking the photos, was a “deliberate ploy to do an end run around the Charter.” He argued that the interview with the accused conducted by Cst. Ryan Harris weeks after the allegations were brought to police three years ago was a form of entrapment, due to the fact that Harris never told the man that what he said in the interview could be used against him. Harris did tell the man that he was not under arrest, free to leave the interview at any time and free to consult a lawyer. “(The accused) should have been told whatever you say to me in this interview can be used against you,” Pennington said. “In my submission that was a deliberate tactic on the part of Cst. Harris in order

to avoid a messy situation of arrest, detention and then all the Charter remedies that flow from that.” “The court should be concerned if that is going to be a deliberate tactic,” Pennington said. Pennington submitted that the interview was not to hear the man’s side of the story as Cst. Harris suggested, but to obtain an admission of guilt. Pennington also noted that there is no record of the phone call on Dec. 7, 2012 between Cst. Harris and the accused, when Harris asks the man to come in for the interview. “When looking at all of the circumstances you need to take into consideration what was said in that telephone call,” Pennington said. “(The Crown) made good

use of understatement when she said that Cst. Harris did not make great notes. The point of the matter is he made no notes.” Cst. Paul Wrigglesworth, the officer who compiled a forensic report on the data from the cell phone and hard drive seized from the accused by police, took the stand Thursday. In his report it was determined that some of the images taken from the iPhone had embedded data which could determine the time, date and place the photos were taken. Only a few of the photos had this data and one was placed at Nov. 11, 2012 at 3:33 a.m. in an address in Penticton. The trial is expected to continue on Friday with the cross examination of Wrigglesworth.

Closure consultation to continue From SCHOOLS on PG. 1 The current chair for DPAC, Derek Hurst, who’s eldest daughter is in Grade 11, felt the presentation was delivered well and minimized hysteria. “We need to make sure that with our children in this district, the most money that we can spend in the classroom is being spent there, and that we’re not spending it on things that are not helping to educate our children,” he said. Asked if maintenance, custodial or clerical jobs will be lost upon closures, Hyer said the lost positions could be offset by schools that take on more students ,which will likely require more staff and longer hours; changes may not offer an equal amount of employment opportunity but the aim is to create cost efficiencies. “Shutting a school down will affect everybody that works in the building,” said Leslea Woodward, president of the Okanagan-Skaha Teachers’ Union. “They might have work, but as the superintendent

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stated last night, it might not be full-time work.” Given that enrolment has been going down for years, Woodward said she wasn’t surprised about the possibility of closures. “It is surprising when you see the total numbers, it makes you realize how many unused spaces there are within the school,” she said. “times are changing, people just aren’t having as many kids; not as many families are moving into the area so enrolment’s gone down.” CUPE SD67 Unit Chairperson Alison Reigh said the community is responsible for ensuring the school board puts education first, and urges local CUPE members and the community to engage in the public process. “Attend future meetings; provide input,” she said in a release. “If change is required, let’s make sure that it is change for the better.” School District 67 will be collecting input during a public meeting on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Shatford Centre.

committee will guide the parks and recreation master plan process; please see the Terms of Reference (TOR) for more information. TOR and application forms

are available online at www.penticton.ca under “Latest News.” Please submit your completed application by Monday, Oct. 26 at noon to committees@penticton.ca.

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Riding is a battleground Steve Kidd

Coming into the final days of the election campaign, it can seem like everyone wants to tell you who to vote for. Marshall Neufeld recently received an endorsement from former Okanagan-Coquihalla MP Stockwell Day and Justin Trudeau would certainly like to see you cast your vote for Connie Denesiuk. The recently-formed GreenPac endorsed Richard Cannings as an environmental leader to vote for. “Dogwood is very particular about not doing endorsements. We are non-partisan. What we are doing is information sharing,” said Merle Kindred, a local organizer for the Dogwood Initiative, a B.C.-only group focused on protecting both the environment and democratic rights. Instead of endorsing candidates, the Dogwood Initiative has attempted to bring together information to help people make up their minds. According to a series of polls commissioned by Dogwood, there are still a lot of people in South Okanagan - West Kootenay riding undecided about who to cast their vote for. Their latest poll was conducted between Oct. 5 to 10 and was posted Thursday on votebc.ca. At 29 per cent, the undecided contingent is ahead of all the parties, even the front-running NDP candidate Richard Cannings, who has 27 per cent support. Conservative Marshall Neufeld comes in at 23 per cent and Liberal Connie Denesiuk at 17 per cent while the Green Party’s Samantha Troy, a late entry to the race, brings up the rear at 6 per cent. Dogwood also attempted to survey all the B.C. candidates about their stance on the environment and on democratic rights. “Richard Cannings responded, Connie Denesiuk responded here. Marshall Neufeld and all the conservatives in B.C. declined to answer the survey. Samantha Troy came in late to the campaign, so she wasn’t surveyed,” said Kindred, noting that the survey results are also available through votebc.ca. “All that folks have to do is put in their postal code and up will come their candidates,” said Kindred, who said her group is now occupied in a get out the vote phone campaign. She said she was impressed by the voter turnout at the advance polls and the election office, where she observed lineups of early voters a couple of times. She said only a small handful of the hundreds of people she talked throughout the riding over the past few weeks said they weren’t planning to vote. “Most people were definitely going to get out and

“Most people were definitely going to get out and vote. I found that was extremely heartening.” vote. I thought that was extremely heartening,” said Kindred. “I was very impressed with the work Elections Canada is doing in the city to get out the vote, to make themselves as available as possible. While Dogwood isn’t promoting a particular candidate, Kindred admits vote splitting and strategic voting is a big issue this election, especially in SOWK, where indications are it is going to be a close race. She said she rarely had to explain what strategic voting was to people. “Being non-partisan, Dogwood is not advocating for or against strategic voting, but in our phone calls we are telling people that if they are considering strategic voting, the polling data might be of use,” said Kindred. “Again just making information available.” While they are endorsing candidates, GreenPac is also non-partisan, preferring to encourage people to support environmental leaders, no matter what party they belong to. They have 18 candidates on their list at greenpac.ca, including Richard Cannings. “We are really focused on support for those candidates. If you are an environmental leader and running for office, chances are you are being outspent and out connected by your opponent,” said Aaron Freeman, the founder and president of GreenPac. He’s hoping to translate the broad support for environmental issues across the country into something that is politically relevant. “What we see over time is the environment punching below its weight in politics. Something needs to change that,” said Freeman. The fact that SOWK is a battleground riding, he said, doesn’t really play into the endorsement, which is based more on actual work done in supporting environmental issues. “We want to elect leaders that can get the job done,” said Freeman. But the other criteria used, he added, is winnability. “You have to have a reasonable shot at winning,” he said. “For some people who want to support people who are in a really tight race, we would certainly point that person to Richard Cannings, who is in that kind of race.”

What you need to know before you vote Western News Staff

Voters in B.C. will be getting an early start on election day. Open hours have been staggered across the country. In B.C., that means polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., in order to minimize the media blackouts that characterized past elections and have become nearly unenforceable in an age of instant communications. If you haven’t received your voter registration card, there is still time to register to vote, right up to election day, Oct. 19. Most eligible voters in the South Okanagan West Kootenay riding will have already received

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their voter information card in the mail, telling them which polling station they are assigned to. But electors who are not registered can still vote in the federal election by registering at their place on A polling D election day. To A find their pollCAN ing place, all you need to do is enter your postal code on Election Canada’s website, elections.ca, or call 1-800463-6868. Unregistered electors who can do so are invited to enter their information online, print a registration certificate and bring it with them for faster service at the polls, though this is not a mandatory step. Being able to identify yourself at the polling station,

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Marathon election campaign finally comes to an end The longest Canadian federal election campaign in recent history will soon be but a memory. We have reached the final weekend in the campaign and polls show the final result is still anyone’s guess. And, if last weekend’s advance polls are any indication, Canadians are taking an interest in this election. An estimated 3.6 million Canadians took time out of their Thanksgiving weekends to head down to their local polling stations. That number represents an astonishing 71 per cent increase in the number of voters who took advantage of advanced polling in the last election and hopefully bodes well that Canada can see an increase in the 2011 voter turnout of 61.4 per cent, the third lowest total in Canadian history. The signs are positive so far. Reports indicate some voters faced lineups as long as two hours to cast their ballots. The sight of hundreds of prospective voters lined up out the door of polling stations is enough to restore even a jaded cynic’s faith in democracy. The vast majority of Canadians will make their way to the polls on Monday. And this year’s marathon campaign has certainly delivered no shortage of reasons to cast a ballot for any one of the candidates. Whether it’s taxes, pensions, health care, infrastructure spending, debt and deficits, security issues or a combination of the above, there are clear differences between the political parties. We would urge everyone to take the time to join in the democratic process. Just identify the PENTICTON WESTERN issue or issues that you feel are important and cast your vote for the party you feel best represents those views. There are no right or wrong answers, only the pride that comes from being part of the democratic process.

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Why on earth would you not vote? Whenever faced with the question, “Do you vote?” I balk. I balk because of-bloodycourse-I-do. We are blessed to have the privilege. Seriously, why would anyone not partake in their democratic right? As I launch into my favourite diatribe, someone else speaks up and says, they don’t vote. Their friends don’t. The lady down the street doesn’t. And the weight of disappointment for my fellow Canadians pushes my shoulders down just a little bit. Because I’m not OK with this line of conversation. I’m not sympathetic. Are we suffering from the downfall of abundance? Is it stupidity? I don’t understand. How can you in one breath complain about the amount of taxes you’re paying or the cost of childcare today, then not vote?

Kathy Michaels

At Random What about that student loan? Do you know what the parties are saying? How can you express heartache about refugees dying on European shores, and not march your butt down to the polling station assigned to you when the time comes? How can you lament the changing weather, and not ask some serious questions about what this country is doing to combat climate change?

Each election reporters write stories trying to encourage Canadians to vote. We point to the issues, we make calls and ask political scientists, “can you tell us what’s wrong?” “If it was easier, would people vote?” “If it was online, would people vote?” “If there was electoral reform, would people vote?” People still aren’t showing up at the ballot box, but I can’t stop asking. While I’m on a roll, I’d also like to know what are Canadians talking about around the dinner table these days? There can’t be such a disconnect that people don’t realize that their individual struggles and triumphs, as well as those of their loved ones and neighbours, are affected by decisions far above our heads. Will your one vote make a difference?

Maybe not in the most obvious way, but now is not the time to take a pass on democracy. I’m fond of what spokenword artist Shane Koyczan, who is from Penticton, said to me recently. “Your vote is the hand on the wheel. You are steering the country, that’s what your vote is for ... things are not going to change overnight ... it’s more of a direction, where we are going.” There are a couple of days left until the polls open on Oct. 19, so I hope everyone will consider what direction they would like to put this country in. Even if it’s not the same direction as I will choose. Just choose. Vote. Be a part of the process that people in other parts of the world are dying for. Kathy Michaels is a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, part of the Black Press family of newspapers.

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Stand on guard for thee I visited a localw pub for lunch Wednesday, purposely around 1 p.m. to see the start of the Blue Jays game. During the national anthem I stood in respect to the flag and our country. I, sadly, was the only one that did. If I was in a pub in England, Germany, or the USA and the respective national anthem was

playing, you can be assured that everyone would stand — probably sing along as well. We truly live in the best place on earth but have we become so arrogant and complacent that we can’t stand for our national anthem? Apathy is a sad result when we take for granted what we have. Think of how many have died to

Support Skaha development

Thank you, Doc Holloway (Western News, Time to speak up, Oct. 7) and Alena Zamorano (Western News, Waterslides a benefit, Oct. 7) for your letters. I agree with your views and support the Skaha Park redevelopment as Trio has presented, see it as a wonderful improvement and totally support Penticton’s mayor and council in moving this project forward. To the tree dedicators, I’m sorry for your loss, but ask whether you really expected your dedicated tree to last through our windstorms forever? Unfortunately, trees don’t, but I’m trusting the developers and our council to contract to replace your tree with a younger, stronger memorial tree, thereby extending your memorial. It’s time to make Skaha Park a vibrant southern crown to the beautiful Penticton vista our Okanagan Lake beaches and parks have become. Eileen Hollingsworth Penticton

Sweetheart deal

Are “Doc” Holloway and Alena Zamorano’s heads stuck in the sand? The majority are the signatures opposed to public park lands being developed. In a town of 30,000 (+/-) people, over 6,000 (so far) people have signed the petition against selling a portion of the park lands for a bunch of plastic tubes. We are not opposed to development. Go ahead develop on private lands as much as you want and take your chances. Do not depend on city coffers or taxpayers to prop up this Wally World idea. And, not on sacred park lands. I believe it is a sweetheart deal to the Trio from the present council, but the most worrisome part is what if the slides fail to generate the income. What then will the Trio use the lands for? A major hotel and casino? The only way to make a very clear decision, on this very decisive subject, is to have a referendum, and if the referendum passes against Trio’s proposal — which it will — have town council resign, because they will be a lame duck council afterwards. The cost of a referendum is but a drop of water in a bucket for the town. Saying it’s costly is ridiculous. It will be a black and white choice afterwards and pull the town together. That’s part of our thinking. Georges & Cheryl Jansen Penticton

protect the flag, the anthem, and all that it stands for. I was deeply saddened by the strange looks I received from a table of young men that didn’t even have the respect to remove their hats during the anthem. Can we not do better? Ernie Blumke Penticton

Help shape our parks

Folks, I just wanted to let you know that the City of Penticton is looking for you. Do you have a passion for parks? Are you a dedicated person? The city says they need you. The fact that they have put forth this announcement should indicate that they do want a balanced sector of the community on the parks committee. Their announcement reads: Committee volunteers needed Do you have a passion for parks and recreation? Would you like to be a part of a committee that will help shape the future of parks and recreation in our city? The City of Penticton is looking for 11 dedicated volunteers for the Parks and Recreation Master Plan Steering Committee. This committee will guide the parks and recreation master plan process; please see the Terms of Reference (TOR) for more information. Please submit your completed application by Monday, Oct. 26 at noon to committees@penticton.ca. This summer Penticton witnessed the fact that there are thousands of dedicated people in our community that have passion for our parks. I hope that many of these folks will step forward and apply to help make and preserve our parks to be the best they can be. Remembering that it is the dedicated people on committees that shape our parks’ destiny. Application forms should be available online, or at city hall and should be submitted by Monday, Oct. 26 at noon. Hannah Hyland Penticton

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You are born with a party preference This is more or less an explanation of why some people will vote the way they do in any election — local or federal — and why nobody can do anything to change their minds. A study in Sweden was done in 2012 on a group of random individuals who were asked a series of questions as well as their response to pictures which they were shown. After that, an MRI brain scan was done on them. The results were very inclusive and reported to a number of scientific journals. “In the 16 peer-reviewed scientific studies ... researchers found that liberals and conservatives have different brain structures, different physiological responses to stimuli and activate different neural mechanisms when

confronted with similar situations. For example, conservatives spend more time looking at unpleasant images, and liberals spend more time looking at pleasant images.” The example shown was that of an atomic bomb explosion (conservatives) and a pleasant scene of a South Seas vacation (liberals). “... political conservatism is promoted when people rely on low-effort thinking ... low-effort thought might promote political conservatism because its concepts are easier to process, and processing fluency increases attitude endorsement.” “... individuals with marked involuntary physiological responses to disgusting images ... such as of a man eating a large mouthful of

horrifying. This sort of ‘disappearing’ is the act of people intent on control through ignorance. If there is no evidence or verifiable facts on which to base legislation, policies, financial decisions and changes in regulations — the fox simply walks into the henhouse and picks off what he (sic) wants. The real fox is FAR more innocent, though, as all it wants is a meal, not control over all other foxes and hens. The article also documents the meddling of the Harper government in what information is

Assault on information

For any Canadian who appreciates the critical importance of the historical record and good contemporary information about our society, the article Vanishing Canada in the Sept. 28 issue of Maclean’s magazine should be required reading. The Harper government’s destruction of our collective past, of social, historical, scientific, environmental, and economic documentation and statistics is

allowed to be publicized here or abroad and in the professional and personal lives of people who produce such material. International anger has followed some of the more outrageous of such meddling and, as one prominent American scientist said, “They (the Canadian government) don’t have a compass.” Even diehard Conservatives should be worried by this wholesale destruction of our collective past. Nobody is exempt from the effects of a systematic lack of knowledge however one

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writhing worms, are more likely to self-identify as conservative and, especially, to oppose gay marriage, than are individuals with more muted physiological responses to the same images.” The MRI scans actually showed a difference in the brains of liberals, who have a bigger anterior cingulate cortex and a greater tolerance to uncertainty, while the conservatives have a bigger right amygdala and have more sensitivity to fear. One last item (among many others) pertaining perhaps to religious beliefs as well as political orientation is this: conservatives have stronger motivations than liberals to preserve purity and cleanliness.

may think one is, being on the side of the right (in both senses). This is the work of people who value nothing but their own version of reality and care for nobody but those who are useful to them. Read this article, and weep for Canada. Eva Durance Penticton

If it isn’t broken don’t try and fix it

I listened intently as I watched the program on CBC wherein the uncommitted voters were questioning the political “expert” panel. The common thread could be summed up by one question quote, “How do I get information that I can count on, that is credible and clear?” The first thing for clear thinking you must shut out of your mind, the insulting, character bashing, Hollywood performances of Trudeau and Mulcair. Think about which of the three characters would you be proud to see, on the world stage as your prime minister. I’ve known Stephen Harper for decades. He is a man of intelligence, wisdom and integrity. He has dedicated his life to serving our beautiful country, with all his energy. His experience with the Reform Party, the Alliance, and now the Conservative Party of Canada, has given him the knowledge necessary to lead us in a direction of balance and stability. I would put my life and assets in Stephen’s hands, for the protection of both. I would never run the risk with Trudeau or Mulcair. Managing the Canadian economy, including it’s people, requires tremendous skill. The pie is only so big and all

sectors want a little more than their share. Human beings are working with our Prime Minister and they will make mistakes. Stephen has dealt with the mistakes, quickly. Cancer happens and must be treated to the best of one’s ability, then get on with life. People, from India, Philippines, Vietnam, etc., are lined up, waiting to immigrate to the best country in the world, Canada. Syrian refugees are having their heads and/or limbs cut off and are striving to immigrate here. Which group, and how many from each, and with what security check? It requires a level headed, not just an emotional, decision, if we do not want to make a mistake that could be devastating to our country. Good government does not just happen. You can not just say, “Give me the reins, it is simple, I can do it.” On the local scene, we have a great choice in Marshall Neufeld. He has the experience of several years working under the tutorship of great servants of our constituency, namely Stockwell Day and Dan Albas. These men have set a pattern of great representation for us, along with terrific communication. Please show your love of, and pride in our country and take the responsibility of voting. Joe Driscoll Penticton

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Of one thing I am convinced: the end never justifies the means. In fact, the older I get, the more I see that bad means and bad ends always go together. And so it is with political campaigning: for over a decade now I had to

“... reminders of physical purity influence specific moral judgments regarding behaviours in the sexual domain as well as broad political attitudes ...” Ah, what the heck, let me add one more which should give you a good clue as to which realm you belong: “Liberals follow the direction of eye movements better than conservatives.” Uh, that’s eye avoidance, shifty eyes? Check out your friends on this one. To conclude: It seems you are born with either conservative or liberal/socialist brains and there is nothing anyone can do to change this. Frank Martens Summerland

endure the mud slinging, character assassinations and fear mongering of the Conservative campaign machine. That alone disqualifies them in my eyes, simply because it reveals a mindset that does not fit my vision of a caring, compassionate Canada. My heart is with the agenda of compassion of the NDP, and in this election I will vote strategically anyway, but I must say that as the Harper machine unleashes another barrage of below-the-belt attacks on Justin Trudeau, and that one refuses to get dragged down to their level, it makes him look good: on one hand, an intelligent, likeable person, on the other hand just negativity and fear mongering. If you really want to be scared, think about another four years of secrecy and erosion of democracy. Florian Maurer Naramata

Candidates first

I have been a student of local politics for many years. I congratulate all those that have the courage to place their name before the public for election consideration. Like many, and not all, I tend to vote for the individual I believe that best represents us as opposed to the party affiliation only. There is one candidate with whom I have had many associations over the years. Connie Denesiuk has a long track record of community involvement and elected public service. She is an intelligent and caring individual who is unafraid to deal with the many complex issues which confront our communities. I recommend Connie as a solid representative for our riding. I further

think that Connie, given her many abilities and accomplishments, will be a potential Liberal cabinet minister. She is well placed to support the interests of South Okanagan - West-Kootenay residents. Rory McIvor Penticton

Slight edge

With the Liberal party now enjoying a slight edge in the latest national polls it makes even more sense to vote strategically in our new riding of South Okanagan-West Kootenay. Liberal party supporters can actually help Trudeau beat Harper by ensuring that Marshall Neufeld doesn’t win; every seat is critical and even though Denesiuk has done a great job campaigning for the Liberals, there is very little chance they will win this riding. So Liberal supporters can help Trudeau by electing Richard Cannings. After all, they are not trying to unseat the NDP, they are trying to unseat the Conservatives. Every seat denied to Harper is a win for the 60-70 per cent of us who do not want Harper to have another four years to dismantle our country. There has not been a single poll in our riding that shows the Liberals with a chance to win. So think about this: denying Harper a win in the South Okanagan - West Kootenay does Justin a lot more good than splitting our progressive vote and having Neufeld go to Ottawa. How will you feel if the NDP, Liberals and Greens split 65 per cent of the vote and Neufeld wins with 35 per cent? I know how I will feel — sick about another opportunity lost! Robert Handfield Kaleden

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Way to get tough on crime Our legal system is a joke â&#x20AC;&#x201D; notice I did not say justice system. Recently, in Penticton, a 25-year-old man with 57 previous convictions was warned by a judge that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the ice was getting thin.â&#x20AC;? Mercy was taken

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upon him yet again because he comes from â&#x20AC;&#x153;a broken home.â&#x20AC;? Many people come from broken homes but do not go on to a life of crime. Another issue is Ronald Teneycke. As far as I am concerned, he is a prime candidate

I am very concerned about Stephen Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently stated intention to bring in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;police tip lineâ&#x20AC;? whereby citizens can report incidents of â&#x20AC;&#x153;barbaric cultural practices.â&#x20AC;? This, I suggest, is intended to â&#x20AC;&#x153;augmentâ&#x20AC;? our system of law and order by fomenting vigilantism based on neighbours and friends spying on each other. As history demonstrates, this is not a as far-fetched as it sounds. An example of how such initiatives can go awry occurred in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. One of Stalinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s techniques of building fear and distrust in Soviet society was to encourage â&#x20AC;&#x153;whisper campaignsâ&#x20AC;? in which neighbours spied on neighbours, friends reported suspicious activity of friends and family members denounced family members. The result was widespread paranoia, alienation, and treachery. Repressions, banishments, and millions of innocent deaths followed. For a comprehensive account of this terrible part of Soviet history, I recommend a highly regarded book called The Whisperers, by Orlando Figes. I have been to Russia many times and have visited one of Stalinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many mass graves where some 70,000 souls are buried. To those folks who will say â&#x20AC;&#x153;if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about,â&#x20AC;? I ask them consider how many millions of innocent people rest in unquiet slumber in Stalinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mass graves. And, I have witnessed in contemporary Russian society how fear and distrust still linger. Ask an older lady at a transit stop for directions and she will say â&#x20AC;&#x153;nyet, nyetâ&#x20AC;? and turn away. Knock on a neighbourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s door in an Irkutsk apartment building, knowing that they are home, and no one will answer. Enter this same apartment building and go through no less than five steel doors to get to your flat. Wake up in the middle of the night to the sounds of clanging steel doors and feel shivers going up your spine knowing this is how it must have sounded to folks wondering who was to â&#x20AC;&#x153;disappearâ&#x20AC;? next as a result of â&#x20AC;&#x153;whisper campaignsâ&#x20AC;? and Stalinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s repressions. Now I am not suggesting the Stephen Harper is another Joseph Stalin. To achieve this level of infamy Harper would have to

for â&#x20AC;&#x153;dangerous offenderâ&#x20AC;? status. He has proven time and time again that he is a high risk to re-offend, yet the system keeps letting him back out onto the streets. But if you grow six pot plants in your basement, you

grow a moustache. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just reminding citizens to remember that the freedoms we enjoy can be quickly lost, and to vote accordingly. Allan Markin Penticton

Consider this

From an environmental standpoint, I am dismayed to see Tuesday morningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s polling projections for South Okanagan - West Kootenay. The 308 poll shows NDP 33.9 per cent, PC 32.4 per cent, Liberals 21.7 per cent and Green 11.4 per cent. I would like to reach out to Green Party and other environmentally conscious (green) voters. Richard Cannings, NDP, is an honest and principled candidate with impeccably green credentials. He is a well known biologist with several books to his credit and a lifelong commitment to preserving the environment. He was a member of the B.C. Environmental Appeals Board and is now a director on the Nature Conservancy of Canada board. However, three days before the cut-off for nominations Samantha Troy was put forward as a Green Party candidate and now green votes are split between the Green and NDP parties. Although the polls show the NDP is in the lead in our riding today, the PC candidate is close behind and he appears to have no green credentials. In line with Conservative policy he has mailed out misleading attack flyers but has missed opportunities to answer votersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; questions face to face in some all-candidate forums. The Harper government has weakened, or rejected, every environmental initiative since it came into office. Internationally, Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reputation for environmental responsibility is in tatters. Our country is now best known for its rejection of Kyoto and our patently false commitment to the Copenhagen carbon reduction targets for 2020. As other countries all know, our federal government has done nothing to reach those targets and cannot do so in the short time left. It does not have to be this way. With no disrespect to Samantha Troy personally, the polls clearly show she cannot win the seat herself but she has taken some votes away from Richard Cannings. Likewise for

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are going to the hoosegow for six months mandatory sentencing. What is wrong with this picture? Way to get tough on crime, Mr. Harper. Mark Billesberger Penticton

Connie Denesiuk, another good candidate but one who, even with the Liberal surge under way, is much too far behind to win this constituency. Why on earth would we sabotage the only environmentally aware candidate who has a really good chance of beating the Conservatives? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as if the NDP is weak on environmental affairs: its support for climate change initiatives, clean energy subsidies and pipeline environmental reviews is well known. I am sure no committed environmentalist wants to see the Conservatives returned to power. I am not currently a member of any party but have registered my vote for Richard Cannings already. May I suggest Green Party and green Liberal voters swallow hard and do the same on Oct. 19? You can ensure the election of an environmentalist candidate, whatever the party label. If, as I hope, we end up with a Liberal/ NDP/Green alliance in government, there is a very good chance the next general election will involve proportional representation. Elizabeth May could find herself leading a Green Party with 20 MPs next time round and more well-deserved influence to match. Paul Makosz Penticton

Seniors, get out and vote

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget about yourself, along with all those others out there, that you know to be in the same boat as yourselves. We know the senior population is ageing. We know there are many out there that do not have the means for their own medical needs, such as proper eye care, or new eye glasses when required. Then there is the dental care and or maybe dentures required or need replacements that they know they will never be able to afford. Or, maybe, prescriptions they may be required to take but canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford. This is just a small example of the seniors problems that is out there. Most donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to discuss such personal matters, but the fact is, these seniors need the help. So remember, what you know to be your needs along with so many others. Then make your vote. Thank you. Joan Johnson Penticton

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On Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band at the SOEC:

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International attention for Okanagan artist Dan Walton

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A local painter is about to see her work on display around the world and at home – with pieces ready to show in New York City; Kent, England; the Vancouver Children’s Hospital as well as the Lloyd Gallery in Penticton. Shannon Ford lives alongside horses on a ranch in the South Okanagan, and her deep passion for the animal allows her to uniquely capture their mystique. “I’m not painting a representational photographic image of a horse, I’m painting more about how I feel about the horse,” she said. “Even if I’m painting a horse I don’t own, I always go and meet the horse first so I can get to know it and paint more than just what it looks like.” Ford said she substitutes some realism in her paintings through the conceptual use of colour. “When you look at it from a distance it looks very representational, like how the muscles are in the right place – I make sure that they’re anatomically accurate. But the the colour is one of the things I use to express more than just the character of the horse.” As an artist, Ford said she’s inspired every time she goes outside to see and feed the horses. She was recently inspired after several days of overcast skies before the sun finally came out, when her stallion Ritmo – a palomino – appeared to her as a polished, beautiful golden statue with the sun glinting off him. A painting of Ritmo is set to appear on the program cover at the third annual Equus Film Festival NYC. It was originally painted for The George and Friends Show at the Leir House last year – was the top submission in the selection process. “It’s every artist’s dream to show in New York, it’s like this fantasy, so it’s going to be interesting to go there.” Another one of Ford’s pieces, Horse Power, has been accepted to hang indefinitely at the Vancouver Children’s Hospital, and can be experienced in 3D with special glasses. Marjo Thompson, co-owner of the Lloyd Gallery, said the piece offers meaningful metaphors to the people who will be viewing it. “Horse Power celebrates the intense energy emanating from a horse in full gallop, rivalling and racing against the clockwork — the cogs and numbers breaking out in all directions under the horse’s head as the will-

PAINTER SHANNON FORD takes a seat in front of her piece Horse of Harmony, which was inspired by one of the Arabian mares of the Fairview Arabian Stud in Okanagan Falls. Submitted photo

power and tenacity of the horse here races against time,” Thompson said. “Time may, under normal circumstances, be unexceptional, calculated and unvarying, but for a family and child overcoming an illness, time is anything but regular. The horse is racing to give a boost of energy and rattle the clockwork of time a little to help the children and families who need it most win their race.” “Horse Power has some amazing archetypal stuff – the horse, the power of the horse and the harnessing of that power,” Ford said. “Not only is it a combination of the imagery, but it’s also the colour and fantasy that

will help to empower people – children and their parents – when they’re going through a tough time to find their own power.“ Ford leaves the viewer with no choice but to use their imagination to interpret the images, and said different elements of her pieces will be appreciated depending on how the viewer physically approaches them. “They all consist of drips, scratches, splatters and open ended expressionistic brush work. For me, that’s an important part of my work.” A Canadian gallery that commissioned one of her paintings to a gallery in Kent,

England said the piece was damaged en route, and because only the artist can fix it, she’s being flown to Europe on repair duty. She said she’ll be taking a few extra days to explore England’s art galleries. “My art is taking me around the world, which is fun because I love travelling and sharing my art.” It’s still possible to view Ford’s work without boarding a plane. She has a threeweek long solo exhibit at the Lloyd Gallery at 18 Front St. beginning on Nov. 5. The show runs until Nov. 28, and there will be an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Nov. 5.

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t.g.i.f. concerts Oct. 16 — A pair of friends from Puerta Vallarta who go by Katmandu will be performing at the Dream Café, with support from Canadian musician Jenny Allen. Katmandu features a lively blend of Indian raga/ rock, Latin jazz and blues. There’s no cover charge. Oct. 24 — After taking home four awards from the 2015 Maple Blues Awards, one-man band Steve Hill will be sharing his music at the Dream Café. Tickets cost $26 and can be purchased by calling 250490-9012. Oct. 29 — Locarno will be at the Dream Café to share their blend of Mexican folk, Cuban son and latin Soul for $30. To reserve tickets call 250-490-9012. Oct. 31 — Harmonica and guitar duo Dave Sinclair and Keith Bennett will be playing a mix of blues, gypsy jazz and pop at the Dream Café. Tickets are $22 and can be ordered by calling 250-409-9012. Nov. 3 — Valdy & Gary Fjellgaard in concert at the Barking Parrot Lounge. Show starts at 7:30 p.m., tickets available at The Dragon’s Den, 250-492-3011. Nov. 7 — An evening of music with Gail Riddall and Kyle Anderson, 7:30 p.m. at Opus Cafe and Bistro in the Cannery Trade Centre 1475 Fairview Rd. Penticton. A mixture of originals and favourites with Kyle’s Tribute to James Taylor. All Seats: $15.00. Tickets available in advance at Opus Cafe & Bistro. Phone: 778476-5856 All Seats: $15.00 Nov. 13 — Western Canadian blues and roots music artist Ken Hamm has an international reputation, and he’ll be performing at the Dream Café for $18. Tickets can be reserved by calling 250-490-9012.

events Oct. 24-25 — The sixth annual Penticton Oktoberfest takes place at the PTCC. In embracing the German culture, there will be mouth-watering food, wonderful entertainment and great beverages. Tickets cost $35 and include one beverage. They can be purchased through valleyfirsttix.com or through the SOEC box office and Wine Country Visitor Centre. Oct. 31 — Andy’s Animal Acres third annual 101 Pumpkin Halloween event from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The first 101 kids in costume to come to the farm will receive their own pumpkin with admission. There will be a pumpkin carving contest with prizes, so bring your own carving ideas and utensils. Kids can take their pumpkin home for Halloween and leave their carving mess behind. As well, kids can join in on apple bobbing, pony rides, and a marshmallow and hot dog roast. Nov. 5 — Painter Shannon Ford’s Unspoken Understanding (Our Enriching Bond with Animals) exhibit begins at the Lloyd Gallery. The show runs until Nov. 25 at the Lloyd Gallery, and Ford will be in attendance during the opening evening from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 7 - 8 — The 19th annual Make It! Okanagan Christmas Craft and Sustainable Living Show takes place at the PTCC starting at 10 a.m. both days. Tickets are $4 at the door, and kids 12 and under are free. Proceeds will support the Okanagan Upcycle Resource Society of Penticton; Peach City Radio and Valley First’s Feed the Valley campaign. Dec. 5 — The Louisiana Hayride show is bringing its very special Christmas show to the Okanagan. Tickets cost $35 through the Penticton Visitor’s Centre.

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OSO opening season with guest violinist Dan Walton

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Okanagan Symphony Orchestra will be rehashing the feeling of championing a newly exploited North America before a Penticton audience. Symphony conductor Rosemary Thomson said the orchestra’s goal is to share the composers’ vision with the audience. Classical composer Antonín Dvořák’s From

the New World is a musical record of his time as a visiting professor at the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City. He moved there in the late 1800s from his native Bohemia (now Czech Republic) when he was in his early 50s. “New York was a pretty exciting place then,” said Thomson. “There was a lot of immigration, so there were

many traditions being started in America, and New York was the place to do it.” Dvořák had mainly studied European folk inﬂuences up until then, and he was enthralled by the musical cultures of both First Narions and African Americans. “What he played was his own composed music but he was inspired by the music he heard in the Americas, and he really

felt like what was unique to their culture would be the future of composition in America,” Thomson said. “He was the ﬁrst person, even though he was European, to use America’s indigenous music and inspiration in orchestral writing.” Thomson said next to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, From the New World is probably the most popular symphony ever written.

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Jean Sibelius, in honour of his 150th birthday which is on Dec. 8. “It has quiet beginning that grows into an exhilarating, uplifting ﬁnale – and that’s what music can do, it can really express what was going on politically,” she said. As a Finnish citizen, Sibelius wrote that song as protest against censorship by the Russian Empire, which had been limiting freedom of the press. “And Finlandia is still relevant 120 years later,” she said. “You can hear these grand landscapes, and I relate to his music so well because we have those same landscapes in Canada. The audience will feel the exhilaration for sure.”

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Joining the orchestra for their opening performance of the season will be Martin Beaver, who’s been a guest artist with many orchestras around the world. “We open our season with incredible Canadian violin sensation Martin Beaver, and is one of Canada’s violin ambassadors to the international concert stages,” Thomson said. The show begins at at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 17 at the Cleland Theatre. A pre-concert chat begins at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $56.25 for adults; $49.00 for seniors and $26.75 for youth, and can be purchased through their website okanagansymphony. com or by calling 250862-2867.

Looking for a book club? The Penticton Public Library hosts monthly meetings, with the next taking place on Oct. 26 from 1 - 2:30 p.m. The theme for this year’s club is Around the World and Beyond. Despite the name, the club will be discussing Ru by Canadian author Kim Thuy, and hosting a reading by a local author at their October meeting. Florence Barton, retired Penticton veterinarian and ﬂight school instructor, will be reading from her latest book, Living with Death, sold under the pen name Carolyn Dale. Penticton readers may also recognize Florence as Anne Barton, the pseudonym she uses when writing her popular Robin Carruthers mystery series. Although it doesn’t feature Robin Carruthers, Living with Death is a mystery novel. On a cold, rainy November evening, Dawn Packard is found dead at a bus stop. Detectives piece together evidence at the crime scene, and won-

der what could have induced someone to kill this young woman in such a brutal and heartless manner. The mystery surrounding the murderer’s identity serves as a backdrop for the book’s central theme: euthanasia. In fact, Dawn may have been murdered by someone who took her brother off life support after he was in a devastating motorcycle accident. Dawn had threatened to sue those she felt wrongly left her brother to die. Throughout Living with Death, the characters – from parents to doctors --- hold varying but mostly black and white positions on the morality and legality of euthanasia. Brian’s mother is unrelentingly cold and approves of letting Brian die. Chillingly, one of Brian’s doctors is heavy-handed in his active pursuit of Brian’s organs for donation. Barton enjoys using the characters’ dialogue to advance the discussion. In fact, when the police detectives conduct their interviews for the murder investigation, many of those questioned are more interested in debating euthanasia than about discovering the identity of the murderer. Whatever your take on euthanasia, Living with Death should prove to be the start of a good book club discussion. For more information about Barton’s reading or the library’s book club, contact Karen Kellerman at 250-770-7781. Upcoming books for discussion include: White Russian by Vanora Bennett, Dovekeeper by Alice Hoffman, Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, White Princess by Phillipa Gregory, Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson, and The Spark by Kristine Barrett.

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October 16 Friday Social dance with Glory Days at the South Main Drop-In Centre, 2965 South Main St. starting at 7:30 p.m. $7 per person. learning at lunch at noon. Scott Austin of GardenWorks will talk about putting your garden to bed for winter. Bring your questions to this free program in the library auditorium. Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be served.[106p] eagleS club haS Friday Night Live dinner at 5 p.m. and entertainment at 7 p.m. Members and guests welcome. elkS club on Ellis Street has drop-in fun darts and pool at 7 p.m. Funtime Dancers upstairs at 7 p.m. SingleS lunch group for 65-plus seniors meets at noon. Meet new friends and chat. Call 250-4965980 or 250-770-8622 for more info. South Main drop-in Centre has yoga at 9 a.m., Tai Chi at 10:30 a.m., Mah Jong at 1 p.m.[fr] anavetS haS their kitchen open from noon to 4 p.m., mixed doubles at 7 p.m.

royal canadian legion branch 40 has fish and chips lunch at 11:30 a.m. Oktoberfest dinner and dance starting at 5:30 p.m., music by Goldstream with Jerry Flaman. bereaveMent Walking group from 9:45 a.m. to noon. Meet at the Bereavement Resource Centre, 129 Nanaimo Ave. W. No registration required. Call Andrea at 250-492-9071 (ext.2203) for more information.[109c] al-anon MeetS at the Bethel Pentecostal Church at 945 Main St. from 6 to 7 p.m. For info call 250-490-9272. the bereaveMent reSource Centre at 129 Nanaimo Ave. W has weekly drop-in grief support sessions Fridays at 10:30 a.m. Adults welcome. For more information on other available programs or support in the loss of a pet, please call 250-490-1107.[fr] the oliver Senior Centre, 5876 Airport St., has bingo with a loonie pot every Friday at 1 p.m. Everyone welcome. the oliver SeniorS’ Centre, 5876 Airport St., has bingo at 1 p.m. every Friday and regu-

lar drop-in pool Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12:30 p.m.[091c] alcoholicS anonyMouS haS Nooners meetings Monday to Friday noon at 1265 Fairview Rd. Call service 24 hours is 250490-9216. Friends group meets at Bethel Church at 7:30 p.m., 945 Main St. The Summerland group meets at 7:30 p.m. at 13204 Henry Ave. in the basement.

SATURDAY

October 17 Mental WellneSS centre education course is offering a 10-session national education program on the topics associated with living daily with a mental illness for families and friends of individuals who have a mental illness from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. starting Oct. 17. Call 250-4937338 to register.[107p] Fall dirty book Sale at the Penticton Public Library starting at 9:30 a.m. Come early for a great selection of books both used and new, movies, magazines, and audiobooks . Great prices and all proceeds support your public library.[107p]

Fall Fair at St. Saviour’s Anglican Church Hall, 150 Orchard Ave., on Oct 17 from noon to 2 p.m. Home backing, Jewellery table, door prizes, lunch is $6.[107p] in honour oF Waste Reduction Week, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? is hosting their first-ever e-waste drive in Penticton taking your old electronics and diverting them from the landfill. When you drop off your e-waste in the blue junk trucks, you can also take the opportunity to donate non-perishables to the Penticton Food Bank. It’s a one-stop way to give back to the planet and its people.[107p] okanagan FallS legion has meat draws and 50-50 draws on Friday and Saturday at 5 p.m.[107s] alcoholicS anonyMouS haS daily meetings in Penticton and area. Call 250-490-9216 (24 hours). the oliver SeniorS’ Centre, 5876 Airport St., has dancing at 10 a.m. to the Oliver Seniors Volunteer Band.[0912c] elkS club on Ellis Street has crib at 10 a.m., dropin darts and early bird draw at 4 p.m., a meat draw at 4:30 p.m. and

dinner at 5:30 p.m. followed by karaoke with Anita. eagleS club haS member appreciation day, burgers and fries at noon, beaver races at 4 p.m. charity bottle drive with all money going to the Penticton Regional Hospital paediatric ward, SPCA, Critteraid and the Summerland food bank. Drop off from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays at Penticton and Summerland IGA stores. royal canadian legion branch 40 has crib at 10 a.m., beef dip lunch at 11 a.m., meat draw and Ladies Auxiliary 50/50 draw at 2 p.m. anavetS haS the kitchen open from 9 a.m. to noon, drop-in pool at noon, dinner by Stu at 5:30 p.m. Entertainment by Buzz Byer at 6:30 p.m.[sa] alcoholicS anonyMouS haS its 12 bells group at noon at the Heritage Centre on the Penticton Indian Band. The Saturday night group meets at 8 p.m. at 150 Orchard Ave. and in Summerland, the Grapevine meeting is at 8 p.m. at 13204 Henry Ave. Call service 24 hours is 250-490-9216.

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October 18 Jazz veSperS at St. Saviour’s Anglican Church, 150 Orchard Avenue in Penticton at 4:30 p.m. featuring Justin Glibbery, Bernie Addington, Tavis Weir, and Mike Treadway.[108p] oktoberFeSt dinner and dance at the Oliver Senior Centre, 5876 Airport St.,

starting at 4:30 p.m. with live music from the Oliver Seniors Volunteer Band.[108p] okanagan FallS legion has FunDay Sunday with bingo, horse races and hot dogs. Pancake or French toast breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. and fun darts at 1 p.m. On the first Sunday of each month, there is an open darts event from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.[108s]

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lakelands ChuRCh holds Sunday services at 1265 Fairview Rd. (the Greek Orthodox Church) at 10:30 a.m. Everyone welcome. For more info contact info@lakelandschurch.com. anavets has hoRse races and meat draws at 2 p.m.

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October 19 the senioRs dRop-in Centre, 2976 South Main St. will be hosting the federal election polling station from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.[109p] elks Club on Ellis Street has American crib at 7 p.m. and pub league darts at 7:30 p.m. Royal Canadian legion branch 40 has lunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., dart dolls at 11 a.m., bridge at 1 p.m., Fitness Friends Ladies Fitness class at 10:30 a.m. General meeting at 1 p.m. iode thRiFt shop at 464 Main St. is open from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Clothing, kitchenwares, China items and more. line danCing at the Oliver Senior Centre at 7 p.m. Get moving with Claire Denney. Call 778439-2070 for more info. FRateRnal oRdeR oF the Eagles has league darts

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at 7 p.m. Members and guests welcome to the hall at 1197 Main St. Weekly suppoRt gRoup at the Penticton Regional Hospital Mood Clinic for family or friends of any person who has a mental illness from noon to 1 p.m. Call 250-493-7338 for details.

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October 20 Move and gRoove at the Okanagan Falls Zen Centre from 11 a.m. to noon.[102p] the pentiCton ConCeRt Band practices weekly, September through June from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 205 Martin St. Intermediate to advanced players welcome to audition. Call musical director Dave Brunelle for more information or visit www.pentictonconcertband.ca.[092s] ContRaCt bRidge at St. Stephen Anglican Church in Summerland every Tuesday from 1 to 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun, refreshments available. For more information, please call Sheila at 250-4948996.[106s] bRoWn bag leCtuRes return every Tuesday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Penticton Museum Auditorium. This week’s lecture is by artist Dianne Bersea, with her presentation Extra-Ordinary Places in Our Backyard. Suggested donation for admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children and includes include coffee, tea and confections. Everyone welcome.[102c] pentiCton tune-ageRs ChoiR practice with conductor Gordon Dawson on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon at the Shatford Centre 760 Main St. Over 50 and enjoy singing? Come and check us out, or call Gordon at 250492-9844.[098s]

toastMasteRs, WheRe leadeRs are made. Drop in to South Okanagan Toastmasters any Tuesday at 7 p.m. at 5876 Airport St., Oliver. See and hear what we are all about. Contact Bill at 250-485-0006 or stillbill938@gmail.com. anavets has Wing specials from 3 to 6 p.m. yoga Meditation/vegetaRian suppeR is upstairs in the Elks Lodge at 344 Ellis St. in Penticton on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Donations accepted. Everyone welcome. pentiCton toastMasteRs Meet from 6 to 8 p.m. in room 200 of the Shatford Centre, 760 Main St. Have you ever want to improve your public speaking skills? More information at 2392.toastmastersclubs.org.[0915s] vispassana (insight) Meditation for beginners or mature practitioners every Tuesday evening from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. Please call Debora for details at 250-462-7340 Everyone welcome. south Main dRop-in Centre has ultra-beginner line dance at 9 a.m., social bridge at 9:15 a.m., sing-along at 10:30 a.m., lunch at 11:30 a.m., partner bridge at 12:45 p.m., improver line dance at 1 p.m., knitting and crocheting at 1 p.m., square dance sessions from 6 to 9 p.m. tops b.C. 4454 has weekly meetings from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at 445 Ellis St. Use back lane entrance. Meetings are downstairs. Phone Pat at 250-493-7887 or Sally at 250-492-6556. FRateRnal oRdeR oF the Eagles has drop-in euchre at 7 p.m. Mental Wellness CentRe has individual support for family members in Summerland from 10 a.m. to noon at 13211 Henry St.

elks on ellis Street has yoga at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday Dart League and 10-card crib at 7 p.m. Royal Canadian legion has lunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., service officer at 1 p.m. and wings night at 6 p.m. Jam contest hosted by the Surf Cats at 7 p.m. 890 Wing oF South Okanagan Air Force Association gets together for a gab and coffee every Tuesday at 9 a.m. at 126 Dakota Ave. the south okanagan and Similkameen MS Society has an informal coffee group that meets at 10 a.m. Tuesdays at Cherry Lane Shopping Centre. For more info, call Sherry at 250-4936564 or email sherry.wezner@mssociety.ca. pentiCton photogRaphy Club welcomes all photographers for slide shows, speakers, tips and networking every fourth Tuesday of the month from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Shatford Centre. More info at pentictonphotoclub@gmail.com. $5 drop-in, $50/year.[tu04] MotheR-to-MotheR bReastFeeding suppoRt with the Penticton/ Summerland chapter of La Leche League Canada. Meetings on the third and fourth Tuesday of the month from 10 a.m. to noon. Call 250494-1894 or email pentictonlllc@gmail.com for the location of the meeting. All mothers and babies are welcome. More info at www.lllc.ca.[tu034] alCoholiCs anonyMous young person’s group at 7:30 p.m. in the Skaha Lake gazebo for the summer. Call/text Guy at 250460-2466 or Niki at 250460-0798. al-anon FoR FRiends and family of alcoholics meets at 10:30 a.m. at the Concordia Lutheran Church, 2800 South Main

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UPCOMING EVENTS sMaRtshoppeR is donating proceeds from coffee sales between 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Oct. 23 to the Penticton Soupateria Society. Please stop in at Smartshopper, 232 Main St.[1023p] the pentiCton publiC Library invites everyone to a fabulous family movie, Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie on Oct. 24 at 3:30 p.m. in the library auditorium. This event is free and open to all ages. For more information, call Julia Cox at 250-770-7783 or ask in the children’s library.[1024p] the pentiCton legion Ladies Auxiliary have a Fall Tea in the hall, 502 Martin St., from 1 to 3 p.m. on Oct. 24. There will be sandwiches and lots of yummy sweets, huge bake sale, 50/50, custom jewelry table, raffles with a lot of prizes and a door prize. Tickets are $ 5.[1024p] bRidge touRnaMent at the Oliver Senior Centre, 5876 Airport St., on Oct. 25 with registration starting at 9:30 a.m. Bring your own partner. Contact Fern at 250-498-6453 for more information.[1025p] senioRs housing is the topic at the Okanagan Falls Library from 10:3011:30 a.m. on Oct. 28. For more details, call 250-497-8188.[1028p] the pentiCton publiC Library invites all kids aged 5-12 to some spinechilling fun at their Haunted Halloween celebration with spooky stories, a creepy craft and a petrifying puppet play. Come in your costume or come as you are on Oct. 30 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the children’s library. For more information,

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Financial planning issues aren’t any different for men or women, but their approach can be. “From a behavioural point of view, women seem to handle these things differently,” said Judy Poole, a financial advisor with Raymond James. “Women are nurturers by nature. We raise kids and when we approach financial planning decisions, we don’t always do it with our own best interests in mind, first and foremost.” Poole, a former columnist with the Western News, has just launched a new book aimed at changing that kind of thinking. How to Keep, Make and Share Your Money While the World Spins Like Crazy is meant to keep women grounded

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in their finances as the world continues to spin around them, and is available for download directly from Poole’s website at raymondjames.com/judypoole/ Looking out for your own financial future doesn’t have to be the whole plan, said Poole, but it does have to be

part of it. An example, she said, is when your kids come to you needing help to get their first mortgage. “A women doesn’t always think about what that is going to do to her situation as clearly as she should. Quite often, the main focus is help the kids,” said Poole.

Poole has solid credentials, both as a financial planner and as a woman struggling to keep up. Over the course of 30 years, she built a successful career; outside of the office, Poole was a divorced single-mother who worked hard to raise her children while taking care of the family’s financial security. But three years ago, Poole suffered a heart attack, and was forced to slow down. As a woman who has endured many life crises and is now able to maintain a healthy lifestyle, Poole is sharing her insights in order to guide other women so they do not make the same mistakes she and others have. Poole admits that the book may help drive business her way, but says there is more to it. “I guess I am maybe

a bit of a nurturer too. Through my years I have seen my mother struggle with financial issues and I have had my own fair share of situations. I know how things can go,” said Poole. “It just seemed to me absolutely worthwhile to share information, like I did with the column. It was a great thing to do.” Her next project, she said, is to do write a book of financial information for teenagers, which she expects will be more difficult. “To write it from a perspective that they will accept and understand and be interested in is going to be a real challenge,” she said, adding that most people aren’t exposed to financial planning in education. “There is a ton of information, the simple things you can do: save a little bit of money over a very long period of time, it’s not nearly as hard and the results are fantastic,” said Poole. “They don’t get taught that in schools.”

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B.C.’s Asia trade will benefit from the TransPacific Partnership, the world’s largest free trade agreement, reached with 11 Pacific Rim countries, according to business and provincial government officials. Jobs Minister Shirley Bond cautioned that legal work and ratification by the 12 countries involved still remains to be done, but the TPP removes barriers for B.C. producers of seafood, minerals, forest and farm products in countries such as Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam. “Generally speaking, any time British Columbia can compete on a fair and level playing field, we’re going to do well,” said Bond, citing trade growth in cherries, blueberries and wood products. Much of B.C.’s progress in lumber exports has been in China, which is not part of the TPP talks. The tentative deal has emerged as a major issue in the federal election campaign. Prime Minister Stephen Harper outlined a $4 billion “income guarantee program” for Canada’s protected dairy and egg producers, to compensate farmers for lost income due to new foreign imports for 10 years after the TPP takes effect. NDP leader Thomas Mulcair blasted the agreement as a “sellout” of Canadian auto workers and farmers that will also see drug prices rise in Canada. Mulcair said his party would not be bound by the agreement if it forms the new government. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said his party is pro-free trade, but will study the agreement and “take the responsible time to do what’s right for Canada.”

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ON THE RUN — Grade 5 boys leave the start line during the annual Naramata Cross Country Championships at Manitou Park Wednesday. Over 400 grade four and five boys and girls from 14 elementary schools took part. The race winner in this event was Ethan Askey (left, wearing blue) from Holy Cross. The winning school for Grade 4 girls was Holy Cross, while Trout Creek won for Grade 5. For the boys, Wiltse Elementary won in Grade 4 and Uplands won in Grade 5. Wiltse Elementary’s Gabby Lindsay set a new course record in nine minutes, 58 seconds. Mark Brett/Western News

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Luke Voltin’s stint with the Langley Rivermen was short, seven games. Voltin, who was dealt to the Rivermen in the off-season by the Vernon Vipers, said he was initially upset when told by head coach-general manager Bobby Henderson that he had been traded again. However, his feelings quickly changed when he learned the destination. “When he said I was traded to Penticton, then I was trying to hold back a smile on my face,” said Voltin, who scored a goal and an assist with the Rivermen. Voltin enjoyed his time with the Rivermen and it didn’t hurt that they sit atop the Mainland Division with seven wins and three losses. “I think Langley has a pretty good team this year,” said Voltin, who traded to Penticton on Oct.10 for the BCHL/CHL listing rights to defenceman Griffin Foulk. “We were on a hot streak when I left.” Voltin debuted with the Vees on a line with Demico Hannoun and Dixon Bowen against the Chilliwack Chiefs the day he was dealt. His lone stat line in the Vees 5-1 win was five minutes for fighting with Olivier Arseneau in the third period. “I think I can bring more of a physical side of the game,” said Voltin, who in 44 games with the Vipers last season chipped in 10 goals and 26 points. “Just getting in the dirty areas and going

to the net hard. Getting shots on net. Just playing a fast pace.” Voltin described Hannoun and Bowen as “such skilled players.” “It’s pretty easy to fit in with them. They can find you and you don’t know that they can even see you,” said Voltin, who played for Team USA in the 2011 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge. “It’s just fun playing with them. We’re definitely gelling together. Even in that first game I thought after the first couple shifts that we had had a little bit of chemistry and we were gelling a little bit.” This weekend, Vees fans get their first chance to see Voltin as they host the Prince George Spruce Kings on Friday at 7 p.m., then on Saturday, it is Voltin’s former team, the Rivermen at 6 p.m. Voltin said it won’t be weird to face Langley. “It won’t be the first time I have had to face former teammates,” he said. “It’s almost like an extra boost before a game. You get up for it a little more. It’s fun to play those guys when you have been playing with them for a little bit.” In the Spruce Kings, the Vees face a team that is in fifth-place in the six-team division with a 3-7-0-1 record. Their top scorer is Corey Hoffman, who has four goals in eight games. Away from

the Prince George Coliseum, the Spruce Kings are 2-3-0-1 with both wins coming Oct.10 and 11 against Vernon and Salmon Arm, 4-3, respectively. Their power-play ranks eighth among the 17 teams scoring six times on 27 chances. Their penalty kill has allowed 10 goals on 35 chances. When it comes to the Rivermen, Henderson likes how his team has been playing, but said a 4-2 loss to Chilliwack at home on Oct. 11 was a let down. In facing the Vees, the Rivermen studied their tendencies. “They are pretty dangerous all the way through their lineup,” said Henderson. “All four lines have to be aware. Just make sure that we’re defending hard against everyone.” The Rivermen’s success starts with their goaltending. Nickolas Trenciansky is 5-3-0 with a 2.60 goals against average and .918 save percentage, while Bo Didur is 2-1-0 and is second in the BCHL with a 1.46 goals against average. Anthony Brodeur of the Vees is ahead of him with a 1.37 mark. Didur also sports a .935 save percentage. “We like to think we have pretty good team speed. We can create off the rush,” added Henderson. “Our leadership core has done a good job of helping the young guys’ transition.”

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The Penticton Peerless midget Vees improved to 2-0 in Okanagan Mainland Amateur Hockey Association league play. The Vees earned their second straight win against Kelowna, 7-2. The Vees won in dominant fashion from building a 3-0 lead in the first 10 minutes. Manny Bahniwal led with a goal and three assists, Sammy Gabriel and Linden Gove pocketed a pair with one goal each from Reid Newson and Carson Erhardt. Bobby Milligan picked up the win in net.

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SUMMERLAND’S SARAH CORNETT-CHING could make some history in Kansas this weekend in the final ARCA race of the season. Sarah Cornett-Ching Racing photo

One year ago, Sarah Cornett-Ching had a dream to race professionally. She scraped, saved and sacrificed daily in order to have enough money simply to race a single event at Daytona. Fast-forward a full year and the Summerland native has overcome obstacles, broken down barriers and carried herself to the precipice of history. Following the event at Kansas this weekend, Cornett-Ching is in position to become the highest finishing female rookie in the history of the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards. But her successes weren't without struggles. In the initial ARCA pre-season tests at Daytona, Cornett-Ching was in the top 15 in speed with the legacy SB2 engine package, but the new ARCA Ilmor 396 technology advanced prior to raceday in February. Despite the engine disadvantage and other bad luck, Cornett-Ching turned enough heads to find funding for the rest of the year through her media and charity work. During her second career ARCA start, she was swept up in a first-lap crash at Mobile. But she persevered to a top-15 finish. At Nashville, the team fought handling problems after a lapped car knocked the front end out of alignment and yet she still nearly cracked the top 10 at the end. "It was a bit overwhelming the first few races we ran this season," said Cornett-Ching in a team statement. "We had crazy things happen and a bunch of bad luck, but I believe that helped me to gel that much quicker with the team and to get comfortable faster than maybe I would have otherwise." As the season wore on, the No. 2 team made a habit of fighting adversity and overcoming it. The rookie driver gradually worked her way up in the standings, sitting as high as sixth, just a few markers out of the top-five. She set the record for highest finishing female in an ARCA

road course in New Jersey. She captured a bundle of top10 finishes at some of the tour's most difficult tracks and drove through the field at Chicago to finish eighth after missing the drivers meeting. "When we really started hitting our stride, things went very well mid-season," she said. "I had never been on a road course in my life and set an ARCA record. Then, to knock off top-tens at Winchester and Chicago was something special, and I really began to feel at home in these big, heavy cars." Entering Kansas, Cornett-Ching sits 60 points out of sixth in the standings, the equivalent of only twelve on-track positions. If she is able to ascend back to sixth, she will tie the overall year-end finishing mark for any female in ARCA competition set by former NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Shawna Robinson in 2000. "I got to meet Shawna a few months ago and it's truly amazing the things she did and the hurdles she had to overcome," said Cornett-Ching. "Sure, we've had some bad luck this year, but it pales in comparison to some of the obstacles Shawna had to overcome as one of the trailblazers for other women in the sport at this level, including me. She's a fantastic role model, a great mentor, and someone I'm honoured to have in my corner as I pursue my career in the sport. But I still hope we can match her record." No matter how Kansas plays out, Sarah Cornett-Ching is truly living her dream. One year ago, the experiences she has been part of this season were only dreams in her head and countless people quietly had their doubts if they would ever materialize. As 2015 comes to a close, those doubters will continue to talk, but Cornett-Ching plans on exceeding her own expectations and working towards goals and records that many said were once unattainable. The full version of this story can be found at www. pentictonwesternnews.com/sports.

Lakers volleyball teams see positives in loss to Owls Lakers coach Rob Gunning said that is an area his players have improve. “It wasn’t the best volleyball I’ve ever seen. It shows you that we’re close,” said Gunning, whose team is ranked sixth provincially among 4A schools. That’s the No.1 team in the province. We won the first set easily. Could have had the third. We just

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A strong start gradually faded for the Pen High Lakers senior boys volleyball team against the Kelowna Secondary School Owls. After taking the first set at Pen High Wednesday night 25-21, the Lakers lost 20-25, 24-26 and 19-25. “I feel like we kind of dominated in the first set,” said Laker power Nick Everton. “We let up a little bit in the second and third. It was pretty close but it didn’t go our way. It kind of got us down in the fourth.” Everton said they served and blocked well for the most part, but added their passing could have been better. In the fourth set, Everton agreed that their energy level didn’t match the Owls. “It wasn’t too bad of a set. We definitely could have kept our energy up to bring us back into the set,” he said. “As they started to get more sets on us, momentum went their way and they started energizing.”

got to be more consistent.” The problems Gunning saw were his players making too many mistakes and not getting enough blocks. “That’s probably the number one thing we need to improve on,” he said. “I thought we played pretty good defence. Didn’t pass as well as we would like. We’re in the conversation with the best team in the province so that’s a good thing.”

This weekend, the Lakers head to Kelowna Secondary to play in the Owls’ Best of the West senior tournament.

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The Pen High Lakers senior girls volleyball team were handed a three-set sweep by the Kelowna Owls, 25-22, 25-14 and 25-17. Bruce McElroy, filling in for Lakers coach Andy Botero, said the Lakers, ranked ninth provincially among 4A schools, fought really well against the second ranked Owls. “We were up 19-13 in the first set and then just found a way to lose,” said McElroy. “The girls worked hard. I don’t think they have that killer instinct yet to know when to put a team away.” McElroy said good things came out of the match. Now that the team has seen the Owls, they know what to do better the next time they meet. The Lakers will also be going to Kelowna for the Owls tournament and then their next league match is Oct. 21 in Rutland at 5 p.m.

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NET PROTECTOR — Penticton Soccer Club (PSC) goalkeeper Tony Sheremeta positions himself while under attack during the PSC’s 36th annual Old Timers Tournament at King’s Park. Vancouver’s Castaways won the 35+ mens division, taking home $1,000, as did Kamloops’ Piva Financial Services in the 45+ division. The womens recreation division was won by the Okangan Impact. Steve Kidd/Western News

The KISU swim club’s opening season meet is being used as a benchmark. That’s how coach Tina Hoeben is viewing the Barnett Construction Triple Pentathlon at the Penticton Community Centre Oct.16-18, which is attracting 270 of the region’s best. Those swimmers represent Kamloops, Vernon, Kelowna, West Kelowna, Summerland, Trail, Shuswap and the Kootenays. “It’s good for goal setting to see where we’re at. It gives us an idea of where we want to go,” said Hoeben. “I would like to win it. We had a very successful season last year, but we didn’t win this meet last year.” KISU took second. Hoeben is pleased with where her swimmers are in terms of training. She has seen a more focused group that is eager to build off of last season. Along with the focus, there is more support among the swimmers and good spirit. Another aspect that excites Hoeben is the quality of swimmers competing. “We have some very fast swimmers coming to our meet,” said Hoeben, who has taken a glance of the sheet that shows who is attending. Among the group competing is Canada’s Kierra Smith, who won gold at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. She will be joined by Kelowna’s Josh Zakala, who has been on the Canadian youth national team. Locally there will be Andrew Cooke and Riley McLean, KISU’s Para Pan Am athletes as well as provincial members Jaren LeFranc, Riley Wall, Tyler Wall and Sam Lasinski. Two members of KISU, Xelian Louw and Samuel Matthews, share her excite-

ment for the weekend. Louw said its by far one of the most fun meets for him. Part of it is hanging out with the athletes and the other is the accomplishments made. Louw always looks forward to meeting new goals and he’s been training hard to accomplish that. Working against Louw, however, is an illness. He is simply hoping to accomplish more personal best times. Matthews is a new addition for the season. Matthews has competed with the Nelson Neptunes, but due to a pool closure for the year, he decided to come to Penticton. Having trained with KISU before, that familiarity resulted in him wanting to join the club as he also wanted to increase his training. “It’s been good so far,” he said. Typically a breast stroke swimmer, Matthews has made improvements in his butterfly and backstroke. “There has been technique things to fix up,” he said. “It will be good to put those into action. See if I can take off some time.” The public is invited to come and watch the meet starting Friday at 4 p.m. and continues Saturday and Sunday morning. The club said some of the faces seen this weekend may compete at the Olympic Games this summer in Brazil or in Tokyo in 2020. In other KISU news, the club had eight swimmers qualify for the 12 and under regionals: Evan Peters, Elijah Kliever, Ashley McMillan, Marlee Caruso, Alice Wang, Justin Fotherby, Hayden Krause and Liam Wallich. They also had the Wall brothers and Lasinski make the prospects team for 13 to 16 year olds. Swimmers for that are selected from the top in B.C. and will attend a camp in Kelowna Nov. 15-16.

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The Princess Margaret Mustangs senior girls volleyball team earned another topfive finish in tournament play. The Mustangs competed in the UBC-O tournament last weekend, which featured 44 teams, and finished fourth. The Mustangs lost in the semifinal to the Kelowna Secondary School Owls. The Mustangs are ranked fifth provincially in 2A, while the Owls are second in the 4A league. “We played very well. We had three girls missing from the team because of family and the long weekend,” said Mustangs coach Shawn Lum. “Other girls stepped up and did very exceptional. One of these girls is Emma Klingspohn, who stepped up and set an amazing game against KSS (we won the first set but lost the next two) and Caitlyn Neary … as libero.” At the end of September, the Mustangs traveled to Kamloops and finished third in the Thompson Rivers University 32-team tournament, which had 3A and 4A teams competing.

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A 3-0 win over the Summerland Rockets gave the Princess Margaret Mustangs girls field hockey team its first win. The Mustangs started the season with three straight losses, but managed the victory in its final home game on Wednesday. Leading the offensive charge were Emily Bowen, Makeena Hartmann and Belle Grant. Coach Brenda Kelly said Madison Cook was a powerhouse on the offensive line firing several shots on goal and helped to set up the goals. Sylvia Barnett played a very strong defensive game in the midfield, while Sophie Biollo and Joycelyn

Legary worked hard on defence. Goalies Emily Trupp and Kassidy Funk shared the shutout. “It was an enjoyable and fun game for both teams,” said Kelly. The Mustangs next action is this weekend at the Oliver Field Hockey Festival which is a two-day tournament with teams from B.C. They have entered two teams: Team Maggie and Team Mustangs. Team Maggie plays Mt. Boucherie and Stanley Humphries from Castlegar on Friday, Clayton Heights and Enver Creek on Saturday. Team Mustangs plays J.L. Crowe from Trail and Trafalgar from Nelson on Friday and KLO on Saturday.

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Citizens will soon have their say in the future of governance models for Electoral Area D. The governance study committee announced in August that it would be working with consultation firm Leftside Partners, and in September the committee toured the electoral area alongside Leftside Partners in an effort to understand the diversity, scope and varying needs of the large electoral area. The tour sites included Upper Carmi, Heritage Hills, Lakeshore Highlands, Skaha Estates, Okanagan Falls, Kaleden, Vasseux Lake, Twin Lakes/St. Andrews and Apex Mountain.

The RDOS awarded Leftside Partners the $47,500 contract funded by the province in August, one of six submissions for the job. The next step is engaging with citizens regarding the governance study in the coming months. The committee will be distributing fact sheets detailing each service provided by the Regional District to the areas. Governance forums will be held in various areas and the surveys will be provided in central locations and online. Information and updates on the study will also be posted on the bulletin boards in local neighbourhoods. The study will only be the first step in a long process and

will look at different ways of creating more responsible local government. Possibilities include incorporating Okanagan Falls, or adding a new director, though these questions won’t be sent to a public vote for a couple years at the earliest. Towns like Oliver, Osoyoos and Princeton have incorporated governments, and are around the same population size. The study is set to be completed and delivered by Dec. 31, 2016. “The committee would like to emphasize to citizens that all committee meetings are open to the public,” the RDOS stated in a release. For more info visit www.rdos.bc.ca.

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Two men are facing charges for the alleged poaching of a pregnant mule deer doe in April. The charges against Edward Richard Neave, 41, and Jason Kevin Thurston, 37, were sworn by the Crown on Oct. 13. The two are charged with hunting/killing wildlife out of season as well as hunting during prohibited hours, unlawful possession of dead wildlife, failure to retrieve wildlife. Thurston alone is

charged with possession of a firearm contrary to a court order. “Thank you to the people that worked with us,” said Jeff Hanratty, conservation officer in Penticton. Hanratty thanked a witness who photographed the suspected vehicle at the time of the incident as well as those who respond with tips to the RAPP (Report All Poachers and Polluters) line at 1-877-952-7277. Hanratty reported that a doe that was pregnant with two fawns was shot during the early morning hours on

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Dolphins eating doughnuts in the desert? That is just one of the unusual and colourfully-illustrated tidbits from the minds of siblings Andrea and Robert J. Bull that can be found in their new children’s publication, Animal Appetites. This book of very unusual ABC’s is designed in large part to take a bite out of the stigma of autism which the brother and sister know all too well. Robert, 28, who lives with his parents Carol and Bob in their West Bench home, was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at age four. Due to the closeness of their

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in October as part of Autism Awareness Month, actually began for Andrea as creative writing, alphabet-alliteration challenge. At the same time she was thinking about how to best package the many brightly-coloured drawings Robert does daily. “I started wondering what he could do with this (her writing) because his art is generally so detailed and so vibrant,” recalled Andrea. “So I just sent them off to him and said ‘Rob draw me some pictures — here this is what I want you to draw’ and I didn’t give him any perimeters. But as soon as the first couple came back I was really amazed because they were so detailed and exciting. See AUTISM on PG. B7

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Siblings book share the ABC’s for Autism From AUTISM on PG. B6 “Even for someone who believes in him 110 per cent and knows his strengths and weaknesses I never really believed that I would get back something so great.” At that point the light bulb came on and Andrea decided a children’s book would be a perfect vehicle to showcase the abilities of someone with the disorder. “It was about changing the conversation around autism, instead of what they can’t do or what their limitations are, what can they do and how do you find a way to work around the limitations,” she said. “To think of the strengths of those individuals and how if you give someone the right support they can do just as amazing things as anyone else.” But really, gorillas eating garlic in graveyards? “The alphabet is harder to alliterate than you think,” said the author with a laugh. “There are tons of alphabet books out there that are A for apple and B for ball, they’re boring and even if they’re exciting to look at they’re boring in structure so it’s a way to engage by being a little bit different and a little bit crazy. “I just started thinking what would be something outlandish that would capture someone’s attention, not just autistic kids, but all kids.” But it was her brother who was tasked with the onerous job of figuring out just exactly what a snail eating spaghetti in space would actually look like. “They just came to my mind and then I put it on the paper,” said Robert while working at home on a new illustration. To raise the $6,500 needed to produce the book, Andrea began a month-long Kickstarter crowdfunding platform last April. To her surprise they

Audiologist and author Andrea Bull (right), who, with her brother Penticton’s Robert Bull (left), launched a very successful Kickstarter to fund their children’s book about autism awareness.

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reached their goal less than halfway through the campaign finally topping out at nearly $9,000. “It was really overwhelming,” said Andrea. “Yes, I think there is more awareness out there but also that people are more willing to see something be done about it as well.” With the additional money they decided to include companion activity sheets for kids to practice writing and colouring skills. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the publication go the Canucks Autism Network which provides innovative, sports, recreation, arts and social programs for those with autism and their families and raising awareness in B.C. So what is the next creative chapter for the brother and sister team? “I was thinking about making this a series of books at first but Robert has already moved on to bigger and better things,” said Andrea. “He’s talking about computer or video games, so I guess we’ll see, I’m just trying to keep up with him now.” Animal Appetites is now available in stores and online and the Bulls are scheduled to be on a Vancouver morning news program later this month.

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One of the biggest — and most heartening — surprises I’ve discovered in the eight months I’ve been with the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation has been the unexpected generosity of local residents. Such was the case recently when Janet Brouwer walked into our ofﬁce beside the front lobby of Penticton Regional Hospital. Janet quietly said she’d like to make a donation and asked if it would be alright if she wrote a cheque. When told, of course that would be ﬁne, Janet then re-

vealed she wanted to donate $10,000 towards our campaign to provide medical equipment for the new Patient Care Tower at the Penticton Regional Hospital. Wow! Somehow managing to recover from having our jaws drop wide open, we gratefully accepted Janet’s gift. A retired teacher, Janet told us she taught for 35 years in Penticton at Carmi, Uplands, Nkwala and O’Connell elementary schools before ending her career a dozen years ago. I’m not sure how many of her former students still live in the Penticton area, but I bet it’s substantial. There are family ties too. Janet’s sister, Alvina Brouwer, worked for 33 years in the hospital’s ﬁnance department. A few minutes later, Alvina walked in and also made a donation. Just another day at the Foundation ofﬁce, it seems.

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Our sincerest thanks to members of the Penticton Rotary Club for their incredible donation of more than $250,000 for the PRH tower. The donation includes $100,000 from Rotarian John Pankiw who said he would

match the total donations from other club members. Peter and Fran Beulah of Summerland also pledged $30,000. I recall my very ﬁrst day on the job with the Foundation back in February, when I accompanied our executive-director Janice Perrino and Lori Motluk of Interior Health who addressed a Rotary luncheon meeting about the pending hospital expansion. A club member quietly mentioned to me afterwards that he hoped Rotary would donate $250,000. “Really?” I thought. Really.

Medical students utilizing residence

It has been almost six months since the April opening of Jobling House, the residence at Penticton Regional Hospital for visiting medical students and locum physicians. The six-room facility located near the hospital’s psychiatric unit off Industrial Avenue, is almost always full, showing the huge need for the new premises. Our thanks again to the family of Lloyd and Lotta Jobling, who donated more than $500,000 in their estate for the residence. Jobling House replaced

the aging trailer near the PRH parking lot entrance off Government Street, which at times almost seemed to be enjoyed more by the marmots living underneath, than those visiting students who opted to stay there.

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Fundraising efforts by the healthcare auxiliaries in Summerland, Penticton and Princeton have been given a big boost from WestJet. The airline has graciously donated three pairs of tickets to anywhere WestJet flies which will be raffled off by the auxiliaries to assist their various campaigns. Members of the Penticton Hospital Auxiliary are already selling raffle tickets for $5 each. Top prize includes two WestJet tickets plus $500 in spending money. Draw date is Dec. 21. I’ve already bought three tickets so the prize is obviously spoken for — so sorry, but buy a ticket anyway! John Moorhouse is the development and communications officer for the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation.

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Misc. Wanted Private Coin Collector Looking to Buy Collections, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins, Estates + Chad: 250-499-0251 Local.

Sporting Goods HUNTING Season Savings on selected used rifles/shotguns. Quality Firearms Buy & Sell. Weber & Markin Gunsmiths The Best Little Gunshop Around 4-1691 Powick Rd Kel 250-762-7575 Tue-Sat 10-6 facebook.com/WeberMarkin VERNON SKI SWAP Saturday, Oct 17th, 8:30 am. Vernon Rec Centre. Buy, sell, new and used skis, snowboards, Cross Country clothing and equipment. www.vernonskiclub.ca

Firearms Local Okanagan Resident looking to purchase firearms, fully licensed, will travel, Call or text, (250)809-9664

Real Estate

Fruit & Vegetables Trout Creek Fruit Stand, 6215 Hwy 97, Summerland, apples, pears, prune plums, squash pumpkins, gourds, tomatoes, sweet & winter onions, potatoes, peppers, beets and more!

Home Improvements BELCAN

Painting & Reno’s

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roong, painting, tiling, ooring, kitchen/bath reno’s, carpentry nishing,

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Journeyman Carpenter Renovations, small jobs, free estimates, Phil Kennedy (250)488-9420 IN FIND IT THE CLASSIFIEDS

Moving & Storage FAMILY Movers. Moving? Anything, anywhere. Local and long distance trips. Packing service available, weekly trips to Vancouver, Alberta, full and partial loads. Cheapest rates in the valley. Free Estimates, 250-493-2687

Painting & Decorating HERE COME THE PAINTERS, 16 years experience, Interior/Exterior, 250-486-2331 Valleywide Painting Services Residential & Commercial, quality work at competitive rates, 250-809-1779 or 250770-9026

Mobile Homes & Parks

Apple firewood, dried, $125 standard pick-up load, can help load, you pick up, call 250-490-1895

#16 Riva Ridge Penticton Spacious modular home located in family park. Enjoy the lake view from your private covered deck. Warm up next to a real wood fireplace in your new home. You will have room for company with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Ample parking with two paved driveways, and a nice workshop for the handyman. 1440 sq.ft., $69,900. Vendor Financing available to qualified buyers, Ernie Sheridan, 250488-1688, Coldwell Banker, Ok Rlty MLS., OPEN HOUSE, SATURDAY, NOON TO 4PM

Help Wanted

Firewood/Fuel A-1 Firewood, Fir, $250/cord, mixed, $225, Pine, $200, full cords split & delivered, 1/2 cords & 1/4 cords avail., Free delivery locally 250-770-0827, 250-809-0127 evenings.

BLACK PRESS Busy Press & Newspaper distribution centre in Penticton has an opening for a Collating person. This is an evening shift, hours may vary. You must be able to stand for long hours, be in good health, reliable & eager to learn. Competitive salary & benefits. Please submit resume to: Penticton Western News-Black Press 2250 Camrose Street, Penticton, BC V2A 8R1 (No phone inquiries please)

Four Michelin 245/60/R18, snow tires with snow flake symbol, $400, (250)493-2669

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Used Tires, Huge Selection of used tires and wheels in stock. We might have what you need. Prices vary according to size and quality. Starting at $25. Call us or drop in to Larsens Excel, 555 Okanagan Ave East 250-492-5630 Penticton

Furnished 2bdrm, 285 Edmonton Ave., s/f/m/dw/w, quiet, clean building, np, ns, avail. Nov. 1, $950/mo., call Dennis at 250-488-5678

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1000 sq ft of Industrial/Commercial space for lease. Warren Ave. 250-765-3295 APPLE PLAZA, Prime Central location in busy plaza; ample parking. 2300 SF build to suit; 220 SF shared office space; 600 SF up 1100 SF, call Barb 250-770-0536 Business Opportunity at APPLE PLAZA, furnished & equipped upscale office space, 1500 sqft. up to 2300 sqft. ready for occupancy, call for details, Barb 250-770-0536

Duplex / 4 Plex SUMMERLAND, near town, 2bdrm, 1bath, ns, np, $800+ util. 250-487-9220 or (250)494-9331

Homes for Rent Avail. now, quiet area of, Penticton, 2300 sqft. home, 3bdrm, 2.5bath, 5appl., ns, np, $1600+ util, 1 year lease req., call (250)770-0888

Suites, Lower 1bdrm basement suite, ns, np, $600 (incl. util), no laundry, avail. Nov. 1, working person pref, Ref’s Req, 250-492-0556

Townhouses 2bdrm, Baskin Gardens, reno’d, painted, f/s/w/d, fenced yard, large storage room, close to school, kids welcome, 1 small pet, ref’s req., $1050, Avail. Oct. 1, 250-490-9082

Scrap Car Removal #1 GET the MOST for Your Junk Vehicle and scrap steel. A Portion of proceeds to your LOCAL FOOD BANK. Call 778-581-cars (2277)

Trucks & Vans 1989 Ford F150, runs good, great hunting truck, $2225, (250)497-8318

Adult Escorts JANICE, A delightful mistress for the discerning gentleman. Attractive, clean & affectionate, afternoons, Penticton, appointments only, 250-4601713, No text messages MALE 4 Male Erotic Massage $95., Winfield, 9-9 Daily 250-766-2048

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I WANT YOUR WORK! Trent’s Yard and Home Service 250-462-4615 email: tnhickie@gmail.com

Lawn and yard services, pressure washing, irrigation blowout’s, yard and job site clean-up, dump runs, small deliveries, deck and fence repairs, snow shoveling. I do a wide variety of jobs around your yard and home. If you have a job that needs to get done, just give me a call. If I have the equipment I will get it done. Penticton and surrounding communities.

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CANADA WIDE CLEARANCE NOW EXTENDED

PURCHASE FINANCING FOR UP TO

MONTHS* ON SELECT 2015 MODELS

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SIERRA 2500HD SLE DOUBLE CAB STANDARD BOX 4X4 MODEL SHOWN

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INCLUDES $1,000 OWNER CASH¥ AND $750 PACKAGE DISCOUNT

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ON NOW AT YOUR BC GMC DEALERS. BCGMCDealers.ca 1-800-GM-DRIVE. GMC is a brand of General Motors of Canada. Offers apply to the finance of a 2015 Sierra 2500/3500HD 1SA Double Cab 4X2, Sierra 1500 Double Cab 2WD 1SA, Terrain SLE-1 AWD, Acadia SLE-1 AWD. License, insurance, registration, administration fees, dealer fees, PPSA and taxes not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited time offers which may not be combined with other offers, and are subject to change without notice. Offers apply to qualified retail customers in BC GMC Dealer Marketing Association area only. Dealer order or trade may be required. * Offer available to qualified retail customers in Canada for vehicles delivered between October 1 and November 2, 2015. 0% purchase financing offered on approved credit by TD Auto Finance Services, Scotiabank® or RBC Royal Bank for 84 months on select new or demonstrator 2015 GMC vehicles excluding Yukon, Yukon XL, Sierra 2500 HD Diesel, Savana, Canyon 2SA and Canyon 4x4. Participating lenders are subject to change. Rates from other lenders will vary. Down payment, trade and/or security deposit may be required. Monthly payment and cost of borrowing will vary depending on amount borrowed and down payment/trade. Example: $45,000 at 0% APR, the monthly payment is $535.71 for 84 months. Cost of borrowing is $0, total obligation is $45,000. Offer is unconditionally interest-free. Freight, air tax ($100, if applicable) included. License, insurance, registration, PPSA/movable property registry fees, applicable taxes and dealer fees not included. Dealers may sell for less. Limited time offer which may not be combined with certain other offers. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate offers in whole or in part at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ®Registered trademark of The Bank of Nova Scotia. RBC and Royal Bank are registered trademarks of Royal Bank of Canada. †† $11,000 is a combined total credit consisting of a $10,000 Cash Credit (tax exclusive) available on 2015 GMC Sierra HD Gas models (excluding HD Gas Double Cab 1SA 4x2), $1,000 Owner Cash (tax inclusive), which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $10,000 credit, which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. † $10,380 is a combined total credit consisting of a $3,000 manufacturer-to-dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) $5,195 Cash Credit (tax exclusive) available on 2015 GMC Sierra Double Cab 1SA 4WD models, $1,000 Owner Cash (tax inclusive), $750 manufacturer-to-dealer Elevation Package Discount Credit (tax exclusive) for 2015 Sierra 1SA Elevation Edition with 5.3L Engine and a $435 manufacturer-to-dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) on any 2015 GMC Sierra Elevation double cab all-wheel drive with a 5.3L engine, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $5,630 credit, which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ¥ Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer car that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 model year GMC SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between October 1, 2015 through November 2, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $750 credit available on eligible GMC vehicles (except Canyon 2SA, Sierra Light Duty and Heavy Duty); $1,000 credit available on all GMC Sierras. Offer is transferable to a family member living within the same household (proof of address required). As part of the transaction, dealer may request documentation and contact General Motors of Canada Limited (GMCL) to verify eligibility. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited. See your GMCL dealer for details. GMCL reserves the right to amend or terminate offers for any reason in whole or in part at any time without prior notice. ‡‡ $5,000/$1,750 is a combined credit consisting of a $1,000/$750 Owner Cash (tax inclusive), $3,000 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) for 2015 Sierra Light Duty Double Cab and a $1,000/$1,000 manufacturer to dealer finance cash (tax exclusive) for a 2015 Sierra 1500/Terrain, which is available for finance offers only and cannot be combined with special lease rates and cash purchase. ‡ $4,950/$4,750 is a combined total credit consisting of $750/$750 Owner Cash (tax inclusive) and a $4,200/$4,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for a 2015 Terrain SLE-1 FWD/Acadia SLE-1 FWD, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $4,200/$4,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model and cash credit excludes Terrain SLE-1 AWD/Acadia SLE-1 AWD. ** Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov).

Call Murray Buick GMC Penticton at 250-493-7121, or visit us at 1010 Westminster Avenue West. [License #31223]

Wise customers read the fine print: *, †, Ω The All Out Clearout Sales Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating dealers on or after October 1, 2015. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,695) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees, other dealer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Dealer trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select new 2015 vehicles and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. †0% purchase financing available on select new 2015 Ram 1500 and Ram Heavy Duty models to qualified customers on approved credit through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Example: 2015 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT 4x4 (25A+AGR) with a Purchase Price of $28,998 with a $0 down payment, financed at 0% for 72 months equals 156 bi-weekly payments of $186 with a cost of borrowing of $0 and a total obligation of $28,998. Ω$10,000 in total discounts includes $8,500 Consumer Cash and $1,500 Loyalty/Conquest Bonus Cash. Consumer Cash Discounts are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. $1,500 Ram Truck Loyalty/Conquest/Skilled Trades Bonus Cash is available on the retail purchase/lease of 2015 Ram 1500 (excludes Reg. Cab), 2014 Ram 2500/3500 or 2015 Ram Cargo Van and is deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. Eligible customers include: 1. Current owners/lessees of a Dodge or Ram Pickup Truck or Large Van or any other manufacturer’s Pickup Truck or Large Van. The vehicle must have been owned/leased by the eligible customer and registered in their name on or before October 1, 2015. Proof of ownership/Lease agreement will be required. 2. Customers who are skilled tradesmen or are acquiring a skilled trade. This includes Licensed Tradesmen, Certified Journeymen or customers who have completed an Apprenticeship Certification. A copy of the Trade Licence/Certification required. 3. Customers who are Baeumler Approved service providers. Proof of membership is required. Limit one $1,500 bonus cash offer per eligible transaction. Some conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. TMThe SiriusXM logo is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc.

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