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No stranger to the streets Bob Dien knows how to dress to survive. “Layers, that’s how you do it, I’ve got, one, two, three, four, five six layers of clothes that’s how you keep warm,” said the 60-year-old homeless man standing outside St. Saviour’s church hall where he had picked up some bedding and a sleeping bag. Dien was one of hundreds of people who will be a little warmer on these cold winter nights because of the kindness of Penticton residents and organizers of the sixth annual Cover With Kindness program. On Monday and Tuesday volunteers walked between the tables piled high with everything from purses to blankets to help those who need it. “This is so important for the homeless, they’re poor people and they need to stay warm and these people who are doing that are keeping them warm,” said Dien. “Homeless people don’t have a lot so anything that can help means so much. “I’m homeless and it’s not good.” The hall is tucked in between the church proper and the Soupateria where many of the people have their only nourishing meal of the day. “They do care and we all should care about
VolunTeer lisa Grey-Dreaper helps a lady find some warm clothing on one of the tables inside the St. Saviour’s Anglican church hall on day one of the Cover With Kindness program.
everybody in life, I try to care for people and that’s the way it should be,” said Dien. Although he does his best to stay out of the limelight Penticton notary Greg Litwin has been the driving force behind the project. He can often be seen standing outside the church ringing a Christmas bell and welcoming people inside with a smile and warm holiday wish. Mathie Franchuk was another person who could not say thank-you enough to the caring community she lives in. “I was homeless a while ago but I’ve gotten a place recently but I don’t have any warm bedding or clothing. “The people are so kind and really friendly and not judgemental.” Living on a disability pension, she has limited money for things outside of the basics. “It’s just so nice to be able to stay warm and they have such an
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array of bedding and sheets and pillows and foam sleeping bags and socks and scarves, everything you need for the winter. “It does restore your faith in humanity. There are a lot of good people in Penticton.” Inside the hall Lisa Grey-Dreaper was once again this year donating her time and good spirits to the cause. At the same time she was still accepting donations from people wanting to help. “I think with the way things are going the need is growing every year. I’ve been doing this for a few years and there are definitely some new faces,” she said. “The people who come in here love it, they are so appreciative. “At the end of the day I feel fantastic, it’s a chance to give back and to see the smiles on the faces of the people when they leave is just such a good feeling.”
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Trustees to start ‘digging’ into school closure feedback options open until Jan. 10 for anyone who wants to provide input for feedback that hasn’t done so already,” said school district superintendent Wendy Hyer. That is the end, however, to public input unless the board decides it wants to gather information on a specific issue or plan. “We are starting right on Jan. 1 and we are going to start digging into all the feedback,” said board chair Linda Van Alphen. “We will be
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A decision of the fate of local schools is expected in a little over a month, on Jan. 20. Though the public consultation sessions are now finished, there is still time to register your opinion about the future of schools in the Okanagan-Skaha School District before the board of education begins deliberations. “We still have our online survey and our email
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district, which will come out of those nine options.” Those options range from closing individual elementary schools to major reconfigurations
that would see Penticton Secondary and KVR Middle School combined as a Grade 9-12 high school, with Skaha Lake Middle School and Princess Margaret becoming a Grade 6-8 middle school. Van Alphen said that while these are difficult decisions for the board, she is looking forward to not having to deal with making cutbacks every year to meet the annual $1.2-million budget shortfall the district has experienced for several
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years. “I am really looking forward to seeing how it turns out 10 years down the road,” said Van Alphen. “I have talked to a lot of other districts who have done this and they said it was the best thing they could have done. Even though change is so hard on everyone, I think that if we can get ourselves into that good situation, then we are going to be able to concentrate on those programs that we have been talking about with all the parents.” Both Van Alphen and Hyer said the meetings were well attended, and thought the feedback about changes was the most important outcome, but there are some other benefits. “I think what happened more than anything is that people got to know our school district a lot better. Because we were able to talk about our international program, we were able to talk about the good programs that we have going in each one of the schools, with the parents at each one of those schools,” said Van Alphen. “We were also able to tell them that we can’t afford the system that we have anymore and that is was starving the programs.” The board’s decision on the future configuration of Okanagan Skaha is expected on Jan. 20. Once that is made, Hyer said work will begin on how to make the changes. Those would take effect September 2016, or be spread out over a longer period. “It depends where
they are headed. Once they have made that decision, they are going to make sure staff can do a good job of implementing that decision,” said Hyer. The feedback received at the public meetings will be helpful in that process too, she added. “Through the whole process, we heard about the things they (parents and community members) value,” said Hyer. “If and when a decision is made, then it is district staff’s responsibility to pull those pieces out, and make sure what they value is maintained as we move forward.” If the board chooses to close one or more schools, there are three options for what to do with it: it could be shuttered until it is needed again, which would come with a smaller, but ongoing maintenance cost; it could be leased to a third party; or the building and land could be sold. Money coming through leasing school properties could go into operating budgets every year, as already happens with Ecole Entré Lac, but the third option would see three-quarters of the sale price taken by the provincial government and held in trust for future capital improvements in the school district. “Later on we can apply to use those funds for a capital project. The other 25 per cent stays here, and we can use it for capital projects. But we can’t use it in the operating budget,” said Hyer.
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Life on the railway surged in Abbey’s blood Mark Brett
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Growing up in the 1930s the rail yards and hobo jungles were Bob Abbey’s playgrounds. The youngest of seven children, Abbey’s father worked for Canadian Pacific Railway most of his life and not surprisingly coal was in his son’s blood as well. As a young man, Abbey was the only one of the children who decided to follow in his dad’s footsteps, eventually finding his way to Penticton and a job with the Kettle Valley Railway. So it was fitting Abbey joined members of the Myra Canyon Trestle Restoration Society (MCTRS) at a special donation by the group this week to the Penticton Museum and Archives. The artifacts included 20 original volumes (starting in 1902) written by Andrew McCulloch who was the chief engineer for the Kettle Valley Railway during its construction from 1910 to 1917. He stayed with the railway after its completion, until retiring in 1933. He died in 1945 at the age of 81. “I worked for the KVR and for me the donation of this material is very important, it is a part of history,” said Abbey, 89. “My father was a railroader before I was born so personally for me it’s just a way of life, it is one of my very first memories and even now when I visit
Curator/manager Dennis oomen (left) of the Penticton museum and archives and maury Williams of the myra Canyon trestle restoration Society look over one of the field diaries donated to the museum.
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my youngest daughter in Spokane, (Wa.) when I hear that train whistle in the middle of the night it brings back all those memories.” Making the donation to museum manager/curator Dennis Oomen was MCTRS member Maury Williams who is a history professor at the UBC Okanagan campus in Kelowna.
Williams is also the author of Myra’s Men: Building the Kettle Valley Railway Myra Canyon to Penticton, proceeds from which were used to help purchase the diaries from a private collector. “We’re donating this to the museum because this is more or less the main repository for anything to do with the KVR and we’re happy
that these are here,” said Williams. “From a Penticton point of view, without the KVR Penticton would just be a little community at the southern end of Okanagan Lake. Penticton’s reason for being is because it was the main headquarters for the Kettle Valley Railway.” “We have a fascinations with railways and this was the hay day of
the railway and from the Canadian history perspective the real establishment of Canada as a national country was done in the late 19th and 20th century through the transcontinental railway.” He added another part of the historic importance of the documents is the fact the building of the railway with its 18 wooden trestles hundreds of feet above the valley floor, is the fact it kept this part of B.C. part of Canada. “There was very serious concern that it would become part of the economic and political structure of the United States,” said Williams. “So by building the Kettle Valley line it made certain that the ties would be east-west rather than north-south and now to have the diaries about how that line was constructed adds immeasurably to our knowledge about how we got to be where we are.” Oomen was particularly appreciative of the decision by the society to have the materials donated. “This is a really significant donation for us,” he said. “Every archive wants to have the original documents and that’s what we’re getting here. We’re getting the notebooks carried around by McCulloch as he worked on the KVR. “If you know your history you can apply it to the future and we have the raw materials of history right here.”
Thorpes bring background of giving to hospital campaign Western News Staff
Giving back is not new to Rick Thorpe and Yasmin John-Thorpe. The high-profile Penticton couple have added Penticton Regional Hospital to their list of community support initiatives by donating $30,000 to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation. Born and raised in Trinidad, Yasmin recalled charitable gestures from her childhood years. “My parents raised me on the principle of giving back,” she said. “I can remember my father bringing homeless people to our home, where they would be given a shower, clean clothes and a meal my mom had spent all day cooking. My siblings and I were given coins to gift to each person before they left.” Rick also had a generous family background. Growing up in Southwestern Ontario, he was told by his mother to always help those who truly need help.
“She told me when I was 12 or 13 years old, ‘we help the needy not the greedy,’ and I have remembered that my whole life,” he said. Rick and Yasmin met in Trinidad. They married in 1973, moving back to London, Ontario in 1975 with their first-born daughter, Richa, as Rick continued his career with the Labatt Brewing Company. In 1977, the family was transferred to Israel where their second daughter, Ranette, was born. The Thorpes later moved back to Canada, residing again in London and various other cities in Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Ontario. Life changed in 1988 when Rick suffered a heart attack at age 42. In 1989 after recovering, Rick received a call from his long-time friend, Don Triggs (of Jackson-Triggs fame). “Don was putting a small group together to buy the wine assets from John Labatt Company, as the free trade deal was coming to Canada,” Rick recalled. In 1989 Rick arrived in Penticton where
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ings, which continues today, assisting others to hone their creative talents.” In 2007, Yasmin became the driving force behind the South Okanagan Raise-a-Reader program. Over the next eight years, the unique aspect of this program generated donations to purchase over 30,000 books from Vancouver, Alberta and Okanagan authors to gift to local students. “The authors visited the classes, talked about the importance of reading and writing, then autographed their books and gave each student a book,” she explained. In 2006, the Thorpes established the Rick and Yasmin Thorpe and Friends Scholarship Fund. To date, $125,000 has been awarded to local students attending Okanagan College and UBC Okanagan. Now with their donation to the SOS Medical Foundation, Rick and Yasmin Thorpe and family will help provide medical equipment for the new Patient Care Tower at Penticton Regional Hospital. Construction is due to begin in the spring of 2016.
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the Cartier Casabello winery was located and the rest of the family followed in August 1990. Rick went on to become a shareholder, director and vice-president of Cartier Wines (Vincor) until his retirement in 1994. However, politics soon beckoned. A group of friends convinced Rick to seek the BC Liberal nomination for the PentictonOkanagan Valley riding. He won the nomination in May 1995 and in the 1996 provincial election, he was elected as MLA. Following a boundary change, Rick opted to become the MLA for Okanagan-Westside, which included Summerland, leaving the Penticton area riding for his close friend, Bill Barisoff. After three terms in office, which included three cabinet positions, Rick retired from politics in 2009. Meanwhile, Yasmin had joined four other creative writers to form Penticton Writers and Publishers. “We had no idea how many other local writers were seeking guidance,” she said. “So we used the group to host monthly meet-
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Program breaking bread and cultural barriers Kristi Patton Western News
A program by South Okanagan Immigrant and Community Services is breaking bread and borders over the international language of food. OneWorld Kitchen is a series of cooking sessions for seniors of all different cultural backgrounds. “There is a lot of seniors in the immigrant community who often will be isolated at home. This is a way to break down barriers sharing knowledge, skills and experience to others on how to prepare and present food from their country to others in the community,” said Carole Fitsell, Life Skills Development with SOICS. Participants take home a recipe and an apron at no cost, except spending time with others to appreciate different cultural backgrounds and the possibility of forging new friendships. The sign outside the
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Iyara Thai Restaurant Saturday morning said closed, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t busy inside. Chattering back and forth, a crowd of about 20 participants eagerly waited for Dao Amorntiyakiat to begin showing them how to make spring rolls. Proving that food has
no borders or language barriers, the students listened attentively as Amorntiyakiat searched for the right words to describe the process as she grated vegetables, and explained where to buy the ingredients and answered questions about preparing the popular fried snack.
Once the veggies were ready, students got a chance to participate and stuff them into rolls, with an attentive Amorntiyakiat coaching and encouraging them to make the rolls as tight as possible. “If they are too soft, they get oily when they are fried,” she cautioned. Rolling and folding the rolls tight enough to please the chef proved to be a challenge for many. “It is harder than it looks,” said Cindy Grewal, who still planned to give the recipe a try, as did Marge Skead, who was surprised at the simplicity of the recipe. “I figured it would be harder than it is,” she said. “Food has a tie to every person so it is easy for people to connect
over and talk about, which is exactly what we want. Last time we held a session there was
a lady who had lost a lot of people in the last year. She was so grateful that we encouraged her to come and she left with this big smile on her face,” said Fitsell. Funding for the program, which is offered at no charge to the seniors, was provided by the federal government New Horizons for Seniors Program. OneWorld Kitchen is open to all seniors, 55 and older and take place in partnership with various community kitchens, churches and ethnic restaurants. Since November, SOICS has held cooking nights in Osoyoos out of their Oliver office and three in Penticton, some have been interactive cooking sessions and others are demonstrations while participants asked questions. The next
round of OneWorld Kitchen will be in January and Fitsell said they have become so popular they now have to ask people to call ahead and reserve a spot. “We had someone from Denmark come who we hadn’t had a contact with in our society and they are learning about our services at the same time. We have had people from Germany and Italy and people who are born Canadians that start talking about their heritage. Everyone at some point was an immigrant and they start sharing their traditions which is really cool,” said Fitsell. For more information on OneWorld Kitchen, contact SOICS at 250-492-6299. — With files from Steve Kidd/Western News
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Christmas is prime time for toy sales, but one particular set of toys is receiving special attention this holiday season. With the upcoming release of arguably one of the most anticipated films ever, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there has been extra interest in the franchise that led the charge in toy merchandising for movies. Co-owners of Mystery Toys Angel and Sandy Kamps have differing recollections for their first Star Wars memories, but Sandy remembers the toys before anything else. “For me it was mostly the Return of the Jedi figures and a lot of the older ones released around the same time,” Sandy said. “My parents literally bought a shopping cart full of them for us and we ripped into them and played with all of them.” Angel is Sandy’s younger sister, and her recollection of her experience differs slightly. “My brothers would always be watching the original trilogy. To me, as a kid back then, it was just a boring space thing,” Angel said. She identified with Anakin Skywalker in Episode One; the Phantom Menace, being younger when the prequel trilogy launched in 1999. “I didn’t really watch the original trilogy all together until just a couple years ago. Now I’m like, how did I live without it? It’s my favourite thing now. I don’t get excited about many movies, but (The Force Awakens) has me doing the happy dance,” Angel said. One woman came in looking for Star Wars toy for a young child during the interview and walked away with an age-appropriate version of Luke’s X-34 land speeder. “There have been lots of peo-
ple in looking for Star Wars stuff recently. I guess it’s in everyone’s head and so everyone has been looking. A lot of them have been looking for the original characters,” Angel said. They recently sold an original 12-inch C-3PO figure to a man for his six-year-old son, a passing of the torch Sandy said. “It’s going on to a totally new generation of kids, it’s awesome,” said Sandy, who will be taking his kids to the new movie when it opens this weekend. “Kids that age aren’t even familiar with Episode One (The Phantom Menace).” The franchise has long been heralded for leading the way as far as merchandising, and Star Wars creator George Lucas is often called smart or lucky for taking less pay on the original film in exchange for merchandising rights. “The toys really kept it alive I think,” Angel said. Leading up to and after the release of A New Hope in 1977, one of the biggest names in the toy business at the time, Mego, passed on Star Wars and Kenner Products stepped in. Not much was expected of Star Wars at the time prior to the release. The Kenner toys were not exactly on par with what figures looked like at the time, selling smaller figures, but more of them along with scene backdrops. “(Kenner) weren’t the first ones to do that size of a figure, but they did it so they were able to make all the play sets create a world you could play with your figures in,” Sandy said. “Because of that it just took off so huge. Instead of having a bunch of eightinch or 12-inch figures with little accessories, you have all these guys and massive play sets, so you literally set up your whole room like that if your parents could afford it.”
Sandy thinks the toys and merchandising were part of the secret to Star Wars long-lasting success. Mystery Toys has many of the reissues of action figures in the late 1990s to coincide with release of the digitally remastered original trilogy. The toys were sold to Mystery Toys by a collector who used to run a toy museum in Keremeos. Toys from the mid-1980s are the rarest, following the lull after the release of Return of the Jedi and before the remastered original trilogy in the 1990s. The figures released in the late 1990s put the franchise back under Christmas trees and into the public sphere once again. The new film, directed by J.J. Abrams, opens with early screenings in Penticton on Dec. 17. It has Sandy as excited as his sister, though after his experience with the prequel trilogy it is a tentative excitement. “So far, with Disney owning the franchise, I haven’t seen anything bad. I’ve seen tons of merchandising of course. The previews look very good. Harrison Ford is in it, I don’t think at this point he’d do something to tarnish his career,” Sandy said. While the reviews are not in, one thing is for sure, the legacy of Star Wars toys will hold a place in the hearts and minds of many children at heart. “You could open up a place that was nothing but Star Wars and you would be in business all the time. That’s probably the only franchise you could actually do that with,” Sandy said. Only 17 seats were remaining for the first showing at 7:20 p.m. Dec. 17 as of press time. There are four showings on Dec. 17 starting at 7:20 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10:20 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at www.landmarkcinemas. com or at the theatre.
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Decisions made in the best interest of who? It’s important to remember that the overall mandate we gave Penticton City Council when we elected them was to make decisions in the best interest of the community, not individual concerns. However much the residents of Penticton disagree with the decision to lease out a portion of Skaha Lake Park to a developer, it can be argued that council was acting in the best interests of the community and its future prospects. Likewise, as disagreeable as the idea is of going to B.C. Supreme court to have the arbitrated agreement with the city’s firefighters overturned is, there is an element of looking out for the future interest of Penticton’s finances. It’s not quite as easy to apply the future interest argument to the $500,000 planned for half a block of Main Street, especially in light of the lawsuit against the firefighters — supposedly driven by Penticton’s financial need. Like the lawsuit against the Penticton Hospitality Association last year, what the public doesn’t have is the context that council is using to make these decisions. In that case, the question is, what is driving council to proceed? It turned out in that case, not much, at least according to the Supreme Court justice that overturned all the arguments they brought forward. Perhaps what needs to be examined here is not the decisions themselves, but the process that led them to being made and the advice council members were given. There is no denying we have some intelligent people on council, but to make decisions on the many items that come before council requires expertise in business planning, tourism prospects, trend analysis, the legal system, PENTICTON WESTERN finances, urban planning and more. A lot to expect of any group. But these are successful people: entrepreneurs, business people, retirees. We believe council is trying hard to make this community a better place, but perhaps they need to use a little more of their own common sense when evaluating the effects of their decisions.
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TF: At the UN climate conference in Paris, did you speak about natural gas as a transition fuel, and did you find support for that idea? PCC: Yes and yes. The new government in Ottawa is a big supporter of our LNG plan, and part of the reason for that is that they also see it as a way forward for Canada to make a huge contribution to fighting global climate change. There are 150 coal plants on the books in China today. The only way that those plants and the ones that come after will be stopped is if
they have a transitional fuel to move to. TF: B.C.’s 2020 greenhouse gas target, reduction of emissions by a third, is another target that isn’t going to be met. Why? PCC: When the government brought in the carbon tax, it was based on the assumption that other jurisdictions around us were going to eventually catch up. And none of them have. There comes a point where the carbon tax can only get so high before we start chasing all those jobs out of the province. TF: Your advisory committee says the carbon tax needs to go higher starting in 2018 if it’s going to have an effect. Do you have any other choice? PCC: Let’s figure out what the national goal is going to be, which we don’t know yet. TF: On a related top-
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ic, transit spending. Your new minister Peter Fassbender has talked about a “new day” in Ottawa and he’s downplaying the idea of another referendum for new funding sources. Is that off the table now? PCC: It may be possible that the federal government wants to invest more in transit, and take up some of the slack from the local government level. TF: On LNG, oil and natural gas prices continue to go down, and
supply continues to go up around the world. Did you see any positive signs this year? PCC: What I saw this year was developing countries, especially China, making a firm commitment to reduce their emissions. The only way for them to do that is to move to a greater degree to natural gas, and the bulk of their industry is still located on the east coast of their country, a long way from Russia and close to B.C. TF: Are we going to see some policy action on high housing costs in 2016, and will there be some relief from the property transfer tax? PCC: You’ll see in the February budget, but we are looking for ways to provide some relief for home buyers. TF: We’re starting to see government advertising ramp up. We saw a
lot of Jobs Plan advertising before the 2013 election, we saw the federal government do it with their Economic Action Plan, which was very expensive, and to most people’s eye self-serving or political in nature at taxpayers’ expense. Is that what we’re going to see in the next year and a half? PCC: It won’t be political. I think some of that was, really, political. You will see more information-based advertising out there, talking to people about for example, the Registered Education Savings Plan. TF: Not Jobs Plan 2.0? PCC: I don’t think that’s in the plan. I wish I could say to you no, never, but I, you know… Tom Fletcher is the legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.
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Penny wise and pound foolish As we go through life, we make all sorts of decisions. Some of these involve shortterm goals and others, long-term goals. Many of these involve money or the spending of same. Having said that, it is very difficult to understand the financial programs of our city pundits. Much of their financial planning or seemingly the lack thereof seems to come from self-serving motives. Evidence of this has come to the fore recently. Several incidents have been noted. They range from the arbitrated settlement of firefighter’s salaries; the Skaha Lake Park boondoggle; the dismissal of volunteers at the South Okanagan Events Centre and replacing them with
paid security and the 100 block $400,000 to $500,000 light program. The big question here is, if you don’t have the money, how do you pay for the goods? There is no credit card or revolving payment plan in place. It seems that the city does not like the arbitrated (and deserved) settlement proposal for firefighter’s salaries and they want to claw back some funds. Perhaps some of the proposed fund claw back could pay for the proposed lighting project downtown or the paid security at SOEC. Creative budgeting or what? Recently, references to biodiversity have been made alluding to various local areas, Skaha Park, being one of them. There
Wow lights
A canopy of coloured lights for an extra $110,000, what are they thinking of next? In the meantime there is no money for our firefighters, the art gallery needs a new roof, the Leir House is in need of many repairs, South Main’s pavement is a patchwork quilt with many holes and the bike lanes have not been swept forever. I could go on and on. Is this maybe another behind closed door deal that we do not know about? Penticton’s wow factor is its beautiful setting and vistas at either end. What happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas. Let’s not cheapen our town more. It is bad enough that we now have gas stations and drive-thrus with idling cars on every second block. The mayor likes to use the word “underutilized.” Now that chicken coops are allowed in the city we could install in Gyro Park (rather under-utilized when I drove by there the other day) a few chicken coops. Add some guinea-pigs, rabbits and baby goats and make it into a petting zoo. Fun for all ages and we are keeping the nature element. We instantly have at least four, yearround permanent jobs, we can sell the eggs and the chicken manure, which is supposed to be good for rosebushes. A better return for our money than waiting for the profit-sharing returns of the Skaha Lake Marina restaurant which already closed its doors at the end of September. I doubt that the 100-block of Main Street could improve with a canopy of coloured lights. What happens if there is a fire and the ladder-truck has to be used? Well there goes our $110,000. Do we want to shine more lights on City Hall? It is rather embarrassing what is going on there as it is. Three more years. Heaven help us, what are they going to think of next and do with our money? Elaine Vonck Penticton
Fond farewell
I’d like to take this opportunity to bid a very fond farewell as I retire from my position as a director of Critteraid. It’s never easy to say good-bye, especially when you are dealing with animals that
are currently birds aplenty encompassing many varieties. However, there are no sightings of dodo birds that we are aware of. The last recorded sighting of a specific bird, then found mainly in Madagascar, was in 1662. That bird was the dodo bird. I have contacted the Audubon Society to see if there is any evidence of its existence here locally. Still waiting for a response. The SOEC let down; dismissal, call it what you will, firing of volunteers, is another example of increasing efficiency by spending money that seems to be a bone of contention these days. How will paid security be more efficient than dedicated volunteers? Is the thinking that
you have loved and received love in return. But I have simply became too tired. Critteraid is truly a remarkable undertaking. The volunteers who have risen to their challenges are all people that stand tall, work hard and define “dedication.” What a privilege it has been for me to work alongside these special beings for so long. They, and the animals they care for, need the continued support from the local communities. Please consider adopting some of the special cats who now call Critteraid home. And a good resolution for 2016 is to get involved and volunteer. My goodness, there’s a lot to do. For me personally, I thank so many of you for your human kindnesses over all these years. I am lucky to count many of you as friends met through rescue. I am so very blessed to have become acquainted with the animals that needed human help at a critical time in their lives. What a pleasure it has been for me to bring you news of Critteraid as well as animal welfare issues that are significant to many of us. I have enjoyed my time learning with you, crying with you, getting angry with you, teaching with you, rejoicing with you and laughing with you. Thank-you for the support and encouragement all these 24-plus years. Deborah Silk Penticton
Paving is not salvation
There is no meaningful analysis to support why the Trio Marine agreement was a good decision by elected officials that are supposed to act as responsible stewards of our limited resources and represent the views of its electors. The last time I looked at the Save Skaha Park website (http://saveskahapark.ca/ category/letters) there were only 28 letters to the editor that think it’s alright to lease a massive 110,000 square feet (equivalent to 22 single family 5,000 sq. ft. housing lots) of Skaha Park for a waterslide. That compares to a staggering 405 letters expressing support for maintaining the area as green space, for all to enjoy, without the price of admission. That tells me that there is probably more than a 90 per cent consensus among those that have chosen to write that council’s decision to alienate and convert 110,000 square feet of parkland to plastic tubes is wrong and needs to be overturned. To put
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throwing money at things makes things run more smoothly? The proposed returning process could take months to accomplish based on city performance in other areas. Why should taxpayers, again be on the hook for some half-baked pipe dream of the city? The proposed lighting project will not benefit taxpayers. However, it will benefit the north end City Hall area. Save your money, you say, you so desperately need. What about issues like the foodbank and the homeless? This is probably money allocated to something most taxpayers might not be averse to. Ron Barillaro Penticton
those numbers in perspective, if my child showed symptoms of being ill and maybe 10 doctors told me not to worry, would I listen? Or, would I prefer the advice of 90 or more doctors who told me that a problem needs to be fixed? After reading every letter to the editor regarding the Skaha Park disposition, I still look forward to substantive, educational and informative opinion pieces on the health benefits of riding down plastic tubes compared to destroying almost priceless green space; how paving over an almost priceless 2.5 acres of greenspace will lead to Penticton’s economic and social salvation, and, how Penticton’s families and youth will live happily ever after. Wayne Llewellyn Penticton
Inevitable backfire
A newspaper reported on Dec. 10, The first airlift of refugees lands tonight. Now it would of been ever so nice to airlift 300 Canadian homeless and children in poverty from across our once great land to be on the tarmac to let the homeless know the grass is not always greener the other side of the fence. Only time will tell what happened to the soft hearts of Canadians when the future inevitable backfire takes place ? Ted Azyan Osoyoos
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On A night out with Keep the Cold Off Penticton:
“An amazing, well-written article. Thank you to Mike and others assisting those who need it.”
— posted by Debbie Scarborough
“Dale, thank you for coming with us. Letting me show you what it’s like to change someone’s life and the publics perspective. Great story but I’m not a hero, I am just a guy who wants to make a difference in my community. The people of Penticton are the heroes being so generous and supporting this cause.”
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On Penticton council adds funds to revitalization project for light canopy: “Cool, I can’t wait to look at pretty lights instead of focusing on driving while destroying my suspension on main street..”
— posted by Allen Pelletier
“Let me see if I can cover all the inevitable comments: something something ... city council spends money on this? Grumble grumble teferendum! Can’t afford to pay firefighters but can buy all these lights!? They might be rainbow sometime grumble grumble not my city. Take it out of Jakubeit’s paycheque ... Impeach! Are they going to screw it up like Martin Street? Blah blah ... something about parking spaces.”
— posted by Chelsea Terry
“Is this necessary in these times when the firefighters along with policing are an issue. I think the money could be better spent or simply leave it as a surplus for now? We will see come tax time if there is a tax increase? I have a hard time with this one even if advertising dollars gained will eventually pay for it. I see continuing upkeep and a cost to keep it lit?”
— posted by Mike Rigby
Ok, so rather than pay our firefighters what was fairly settled in a lengthy arbitration, this council thinks it’s better to spend an additional $125,000 to hang a canopy of twinkling lights downtown. Yes, they will argue that those are unrelated but I don’t care whether this comes out of our left pocket or our right one, it’s still our money. They’re already wasting almost $400,000 of our money on this. Unbelievable.
— posted by Brad Crittenden
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Penticton Hospital construction to start in spring
John Moorhouse Foundation Notes The Tree of Dreams campaign is without a doubt the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation’s biggest fundraiser of the year. But there’s something different this time around — there is no set campaign goal and no actual list of individual pieces of medical equipment we need to purchase for Penticton Regional Hospital. At least, not yet.
Instead, there’s a much more different goal — the $20-million campaign to acquire all the medical equipment for the new Patient Care Tower at PRH. The theme of this year’s Tree of Dreams campaign is “A New Beginning,” reflecting the latest chapter in Penticton’s hospital history. The PRH expansion will create a number of new hospital facilities for decades to come. The tower will include 84 new single-bed rooms, new surgical rooms, ambulatory care clinics and more. Phase 2 will see the PRH Emergency Department expanded to almost four times its current size. Construction of the $325-million project is due to start this spring and be completed by late 2019. It’s heartwarming to see so many donations come in
from residents throughout the South Okanagan-Similkameen. *** Our sincere thanks to the Vassilaki family who have generously donated $10,000 to the hospital. John Vassilaki, of course, also contributed 12 years of his life to the community during his four terms on Penticton city council. John is joined by his wife Barb, brother Nick and wife Helen, sister Athena and mother Paraskevi in making the donation towards the new tower, in honour of their late father/husband Florio who passed away in 1997. *** We are also extremely grateful to the South Okanagan division of the RCMP Veterans’ Association. The organization, which represents some 80 retired RCMP
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Kahlon at 250-809-0968, Preet Dhaliwal at 250-4600802 or Jaswinder Grewal at 250-809-7560. *** Kudos to the Survivorship dragon boat team of breast cancer survivors who donated $3,000 to the SOS Medical Foundation’s campaign. The money stems from their sold-out Boob Tour Comedy Show fundraiser at the Penticton Lakeside Resort on Oct. 1. Survivorship plans to bring the show back again in 2016. *** Dozens of teddy bears will be making their way into young patients’ arms following surgery at PRH and the Summerland Health Centre. The Penticton Shriners delivered the bears purchased through the Signature BC Liquor Store at the Penticton
therapeutic, naturally beautiful park to a private (for profit) carnival or amusement park and with increased vendor activity to become known, very likely, as Skaha Lake Fair Grounds. I say “Yea” to the waterslides, but “Nay” for the location anywhere in the Park.
This is not Las Vegas
You know, I really have a hard time feeling sorry for mayor and council who say we have no money and cannot pay our firefighters, when they plan on spending up to a half million dollars on a cockamamie Vegas-style light arch in the 100 block of Main Street. If they didn’t spend so much money on dumb ideas and if they would stop throwing money at developers like some guy in a bad hip-hop video, we would have the money to do what we need to do. Of all the stupid ideas to spew forth from City Hall, this rates right up there with the Skaha waterslide fiasco and the hockey dorm. I’d like to know what is being smoked down at City Hall, because it sounds like good stuff if it messes with your decision-making in this manner. What do they hope to accomplish by erecting such a tacky and gaudy thing? This is not Las Vegas, never has been Las Vegas, and never will be Las Vegas. This will not bring more tourists, and will make downtown Penticton look totally out of place with the rest of the small-city atmosphere. I have many coffee talk sessions with government employees, as well as merchants, and people basically from all walks of life. They all say the same thing. If you want to bring in more tourists, then clean up the city. One guy says he is hesitant to walk downtown after dark, because there are so many drug users and people wanting a handout, he says it is getting more and more like Vancouver’s downtown east side. I keep hearing the term “vibrant” when city hall describes their vision for downtown Penticton. When I hear the word “vibrant” the first thought that comes to mind is colour. Get a hold of the building owners in the downtown core and make them paint the outside of their buildings something other than grey or earth tones. Maybe you could offer them a tax break for doing so. It should resemble something more like Front Street. Pave the streets around downtown and replace the 40 year old sidewalks; get rid of the cobblestone crosswalks that keep wanting to sink into the road bed. More hanging plants and brightly coloured banners. This will bring in more tourists. Not a hotel, not a casino move, and definitely not a waterslide. A light arch. Really? Is this the best you can come up with? (Sigh), how much longer until the next election?
officers and auxiliary constables from Summerland to Osoyoos and Keremeos, has donated $10,000 to the PRH campaign. The donation, which gained overwhelming approval at their annual general meeting in November, reflects the RCMP association’s mandate of supporting its members and the communities in which they live. *** Don’t miss a special dinner and post-New Years celebration hosted by the Indo-Canadian community on Sunday, Jan. 3 at the Penticton Seniors Drop-In Centre. The fundraiser for the PRH Patient Care Tower campaign includes a fantastic dinner and entertainment by the musical group En Karma. Tickets are $45 each. For more information call Amar
If you want to bring in more tourists, then clean up the city. — Mark Billesberger
Yea and nay sayers
Regarding Skaha Lake Park, dear editor, it seems to me that the “Yea” sayers do not understand why the “Nay” sayers say nay. Allow me to illustrate, with some humour perhaps, but to the point of the central issue. Suppose a blind prelate in the Vatican would propose to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo finished painting it in 1512. “That’s 503 years ago,” the prelate argues. “Isn’t it time to renovate and get on with the times?” Would you say, “Yea, get on with it?” Suppose an enthusiastic sanitary engineer would get a group of realtors and developers to propose a perfect solution to North America’s garbage problems. Fill in the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Solve the refuse problem of cities for hundred’s of years. Would you say “Yea, get on with it?” Suppose a manufacturer of high-tech machinery and modern heavy duty excavators and bulldozers wanted to show that if we want to we can do anything these days and propose we level Mt. Revelstoke. Would you say, “Yea, get on with it?” Suppose an enthusiastic and loyal Pentictonite wanting to revitalize downtown and bring in more young people got a group of racing enthusiasts together and proposed that we turn Main Street into drag strip starting at Jermyn Avenue with a finish line at Westminster Avenue West (Front Street) It’s one way already. This would allow the racing cars to come to a screeching stop somewhere between City Hall and the court house. “Would you say, “Yea, get on with it?” That’s why I say “Nay” to the destruction, devastation, commercialization, and change, permanently, from a quiet, family oriented,
Harry G. Kapeikis Penticton
Stepping back
Many Canadians are enjoying a rare surge of optimism as they welcome a new prime minister, cabinet, and presumably, a new direction, for Canada. I’m one of them, although I find myself stepping back to a more cautious mindset. After 10 years of oppressive democratic, environmental, and public services darkness it seems almost logical that there is no where to go but up. But it’s important that we keep in mind that “up” comes with a price tag; I’m OK with that, to a degree and for the near term, but discounting costs is dangerous territory. Governments and corporations have specialized in shoving costs down the road with, for example, incremental and now significant cumulative damage to our environment, biological diversity, public and social services, and climate. But with each passing day someone will have to pay with a notch or a chunk taken out of their life, perhaps a lost opportunity or less “on the table” and that “someone” is usually “the people” you and I. Reports tell us there are at least 100 aboriginal communities without water and sewage services. At this stage in our history that’s insulting, and while I remain suspicious that there is some bleeding going on between government funding and native spending in their communities, this critical situation has to be corrected. It will cost us hundreds of millions of dollars. The new census forms, of which I strongly approve, will require tens of millions of dollars to process and analyze. Mail services – to homes, and perhaps maintaining post offices in small communities, another correction I think important, will costs tens of millions of dollars. Resurrecting our Coast Guard, implementing an honest environmental assessment process that ensures Canadians a legal right to be heard without being labeled as radicals, and rebuilding federal science libraries will come at a cost. Reforming our pension system to remove the insult of over half a million seniors living below the poverty line and provide greater payment to all seniors, so they
Plaza. Pat Wand also presented armloads of plush toys from the proceeds of her ongoing bottle collection efforts at Marketplace IGA. Thanks to everyone involved! *** Members of the Penticton Hospital Auxiliary and Summerland Health-Care Auxiliary have visions of air travel dancing in their heads these days. Both organizations are raffling a pair of airline tickets to anywhere WestJet flies. Draw date is Dec. 21 for the Penticton auxiliary and Dec. 22 for Summerland. Stop by the PRH gift shop or the Summerland Thrift Store on Victoria Road to pick up a $5 raffle ticket. John Moorhouse is the development and communications officer for the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation.
don’t descend into that frightening world, and providing long overdue benefits to veterans and disabled persons will consume hundreds of millions of dollars. Why then, I question, as do over half of Canadians polled, is Canada rushing frantically to burden our social system, our already stressed natural environment, our overloaded health care system, in a world in which overpopulation and overconsumption are internationally recognized threats to the earths life support systems, to relocate 25,000 refugees? It has always been difficult for people to link their actions with consequences, particularly when the latter are incremental and diffused. Most humans operate in a short term, visual world. But lack of awareness, or outright denial of impacts, serves only special interests, not society. Canada can, given our relative wealth, help slow, perhaps some day even stop, the exodus of humans from their homeland, but it will take help flowing from here to their land; relocating refugees simply stalls and complicates serious and essential reform. Failure of this rash agenda is something I would accept. Perhaps then we would concentrate on a collective strategy to preempt forced emigration that already threatens to destabilize critical ecological, social, and political systems. Dr. Brian L. Horejsi Penticton
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Local government conservation funds
Robert Handfield
Nature Wise Public opinion polls over the past 10 years show a vast majority of South Okanagan residents think that our impressive natural landscapes, ecosystems and abundant and varied wildlife contribute greatly to the quality of life we enjoy here in the Okanagan. These same surveys show that local people see the importance of protecting natural areas and believe local governments should do more to help preserve our environment. However, funding is often a major stumbling block for local governments and conservation organizations. One of the ways to at least partially address the funding issue is to consider conservation in all its many guises as another service that should be provided by
local governments much as they provide policing, sewer, trash pick-up, recycling, etc. No one would expect policing or potable water provision to be left to individual fund raising or non-profit groups dependent on bake-sales for funding. To this end the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen is currently looking at the possibility of establishing a Regional Government Conservation Fund to help address this funding issue. Now before you jump up and say “I already pay enough taxes” at least take a look at what is proposed and what other communities in B.C. are doing. In its simplest manifestation, a small tax (say $10 or $20) per property is paid into a dedicated fund which cannot be used for any purpose other than approved conservation projects. A board is usually established to determine how the funds are to be spent. The whole thing works much like the Highway Trust Fund in the U.S. where all of the federal gasoline tax goes into a trust fund that can only be spent on highways; as a result U.S. highways in general are much superior to Canadian highways that
have to be individually funded from general tax revenues. Currently in B.C. there are five regional districts that have Conservation Funds, those being the Central Okanagan Regional District, the East Kootenay Regional District, the Central Kootenay Regional District, the Cowichan Valley Regional District and the Capital Regional District (Victoria and surrounding areas). The oldest of these is the Capital RD fund which was established in 2000 while the others range from 2006 to 2014. The exact details vary from one district to another but they all are not only successful in accomplishing their goals but all seem to be very popular. An example of their popularity is that when the Capital RD fund came up for renewal (funds are usually established with a life of 10 years) voters not only overwhelmingly approved its reinstatement, they approved raising the annual levy (now it averages $20 per household). In some districts the levy is a flat fee per parcel while others do it by assessed value. I believe the highest levy is the Central Okanagan where it averages about
$26 per household. Generally these funds allow regional districts to partner with other conservation groups to greatly increase the amount of money available for parkland purchase and other conservation projects. As an example of this making our tax dollars go further the Capital Regional District since 2000 has purchased over $48 million worth of regional parklands of which nearly 30 per cent was contributed by outside organizations such as The Nature Conservancy of Canada and others. I believe an RDOS Conservation Fund is an idea whose time has come. I urge local residents to learn more about this proposal and express their support to their local Regional Director. For a full explanation go to www.soscp. org The next monthly meeting of the South Okanagan Naturalists’ Club will be Jan. 28. Check our website (www.southokanagannature.com) for details. Bob Handfield is president of the South Okanagan Naturalists’ Club but the views expressed here are his own and not necessarily those of the Club.
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Minister’s tour of school district out of this world Dale Boyd Western News
When Minister of Education Mike Bernier came to Penticton he was taken on a trip to
space, had a brief stop on Mars and chatted with students throughout the district without leaving the classroom at KVR Middle School.
It was through the use of technology that Bernier and Penticton MLA Dan Ashton were able to make such out-of-thisworld trips, and it is the
same technology being used to engage students in multiple subjects in School District 67. Trevor Knowlton, a teacher at Summer-
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land Secondary School, was on hand on Dec. 11 to introduce Bernier to some of the creative ways teachers are bringing the outside world into the classroom during the minister’s tour of the school district. Knowlton showed how devices like webcams can be integrated with curriculums bringing events like live surgery to a biology class, having a Holocaust survivor chat with English students, or science students getting a chance to ask Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield what it’s like to be in space. A video outlining a science project to get a balloon into space with an open-source, nanosatellite called ArduSat, which collects data, impressed Bernier, but not as much as one student’s commitment to the project. “When you start looking at the fact that we’re down here and start sending a balloon all the way up into the atmosphere, the biggest takeaway for me was when you have a young individual who is in elementary school way beyond where we’d ever expect him in capacity and knowledge. That’s because we’ve opened the doors for our students to be able to research what they think is exciting for them,” Bernier said. Declining enrolment projections for SD67 and closures looming may not be indicative of the entire province, Bernier said. “There’s decline in enrolment in a lot of different districts, especially in rural parts of the province, but there’s some that are seeing the complete opposite. A lot of stresses when you look at districts like Surrey and even up north in Fort St. John and areas that are growing,” Bernier said. “A big part of getting around the province is just to see all the different avenues of what’s happening and different success stories and different stresses.” However, with the advantages of technology in the classroom there may be openings for greater learning opportunities while facing restrictive budgets and lower enrolment. “To look at what
B.C. Minister of education Mike Bernier, left, and Penticton MLA Dan Ashton chat with Grade 6 KVr Middle school student rachel Bruce during Bernier’s province-wide trip visiting school districts.
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we saw today where you don’t need to bring Chris Hadfield from the East Coast to Penticton and Summerland. You can Skype and use technology and he’s right in the classroom with you, answering questions, engaged with the students. When you see things like that, to me, that’s really exciting and just broadens the opportunities for our students.” These technologies could also open up more options for courses, like a coding course currently teaching students the language of computers in SD67, without being restricted to how many students will enrol, bringing in students from across the districts with webcams. “It’s really about making sure we have the opportunities out there in using technologies. Is it practical if there are only three or four students can we offer that particular course? Maybe not, but if you have the utilization of technology to broaden out the opportunities for students. That, to me, is where we’re going,” Bernier said. “One of the things we’re definitely seeing when we’re rolling out the new curriculum is the use of technology,” Bernier said. “How do we get our students more involved in coding and technology? That’s really important and the way things are going and we need to make sure our students are
trained with that.” SD67 superintendent Wendy Hyer agrees that the use of technology is helping students get ready for the wired-in job market of the future, but it is also shaping the teaching profession. “The style of education has changed a bit where the teacher doesn’t always have to be the expert. There are some students who actually help the teacher with things, so it’s a little bit more of reciprocal learning,” Hyer said. She said the teaching role is starting to revolve more around guiding the interests of students and opening up doors using technology, however the fast-pace tech world is not without its hurdles. “We have a lot of teachers that know a lot about technology, so they use it in the classrooms. The challenge is just staying on top of all the changes in technology and all the new software programs and innovations. It changes so rapidly,” Hyer said. As Bernier chatted through a webcam with students from across the district, one thing was clear to him, education has made great strides in the past few years. “It’s always humbling to get out into classrooms and see students that know so much more than I ever did at that age and I think that’s a success of what we’re doing in the education system,” Bernier said.
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A 35-year-old man suffered substantial injuries to his hands and face after he was attacked while making a pizza delivery on Monday night. The man was making a delivery to a residence on Westminster Avenue West when he was attacked by a 27-year-old customer armed with a box cutter. The injured delivery man drove himself to the hospital after sustaining the injuries. The victim received stitches and was released from Penticton Regional Hospital. Police attended the residence and arrested the male suspect, who will appear in Penticton Provincial Court Wednesday. Penticton RCMP executed a search warrant on the residence in question. The local detachment has involved Police Dog Services, the Forensic Identification Section and the General Investigation Section in the case. RCMP said in a press release the crime is currently “a priority.” “This is an isolated incident where the lone occupant of the residence attacked a delivery person late at night. Penticton residents should know that police are working diligently on this case to ensure that it is not repeated,” said Superintendent Kevin Hewco of the Penticton RCMP.
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Christmas decorations emitting lasers or bright directional lights could be causing distractions for pilots coming into the Penticton Airport. On Dec. 6 a pilot flying into Penticton Airport reported a green laser light flashing at the aircraft while it attempted to land. RCMP talked with Navigation Canada and with similar reports around Canada and the U.S. it was determined prominent Christmas displays may be the cause. Police could not find the source, but speculated the lights could be coming off Christmas laser light displays. Light displays are not permitted within 10 kilometres of any airport. “I would suggest to the public if you have those Christmas laser light displays that light up your house make sure they are aimed at the house and not beyond it. Be aware of the back drop, tilt it down a bit,”
A man called police on Dec. 12 after a female attacked him while having a cigarette outside his home. The man stepped outside of his home for a cigarette when a female approached and asked him for one. When the man said he didn’t have any, the female proceeded to punch him in the head. When the man tried to go back into his residence the female continually hit him and followed him inside. The man suffered cuts to his head which required stitches. Police attended and arrested the female. Upon arrest, she punched the peace officer in the mouth. The female was held in cells overnight and is facing charges of breaking and entering, assault and assault of a peace officer. The woman is known to police and was released on a promise to appear in court.
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A man arrested in connection with a break and enter at the Twin Lakes Golf Course pleaded guilty and received just over two months in custody Tuesday. Seamus Ronald Alexander Kirby was ar-
rested on Dec. 12 in relation to a break and enter that occurred at Twin Lakes Golf Course on Nov. 15. Kirby and another male were pulled over on Dec. 12 in a vehicle that was being driven without insurance RCMP said. A search of the vehicle found small amounts of methamphetamine and heroin as well as stolen credit cards. According to court documents, Kirby’s coaccused Darcy Emil Lenko is facing charges including two counts of possession of a controlled substance, one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking and one count of possession of property obtained by crime. Lenko is scheduled for an arraignment hearing on Dec. 16 in Penticton Provincial Court. Kirby was sentenced to seven days in jail for possession of a controlled substance and received 56 days incarceration for breaking and entering with the intent to commit an offence. Kirby and Lenko are a well-known prolific offenders RCMP said.
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Crimes dating back to 2011, spanning from Penticton to Edmonton, finally caught up with one man who was sentenced on Monday to just over a year in jail. Scott Bradley Matheson, 36, was sentenced to one year and one month in jail on a total of 10 charges including one count of assault causing bodily harm, one count of obstructing a peace officer and unauthorized possession of a firearm. Nine of the 13 months of imprisonment Matheson was sentenced to in Penticton Provincial Court Monday came from the assault charge, which dates back to Nov. 27, 2011 in Edmonton. Matheson was attending a staff party at the Riverdale Community League Centre in Edmonton when an altercation ensued between Matheson and a man. Matheson ended up striking the man who then fell and hit his head on the concrete. Crown counsel Catherine Crockett said the man was unconscious for two minutes and has faced “long-lasting consequences” due to the assault including losing his sense of smell. Matheson breached a no-contact order between himself and an ex-girlfriend on April 5, 2012 by texting her friend and repeatedly going past her residence and shouting obscenities. This came after Matheson was arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend on April 4, 2012. Matheson failed to appear in court on April 25, 2012 in Penticton, May 9, 2014 in Edmonton and once again later that year in Calgary.
Matheson was pulled over for speeding on May 7, 2012, and gave the police officer a false name, and said he forgot his license and insurance papers at home. Matheson had warrants out for him at the time and was driving with an invalid license plate from Alberta. A police investigation uncovered it was the second time that Matheson had used the same fake name, which was that of his former friends. On April 25, 2014 Calgary police pulled over a Ford F-350 which Matheson was driving. He was arrested on warrants at the time and told the police there was a firearm in the backseat of his vehicle. Police located at .306 Winchester rifle with no trigger lock and a round in the chamber, which Matheson did not have a license for. Matheson received three months in jail on that charge. Finally, on Nov. 9, 2014 police in Merritt responded to a man who said he had a fuel thief trapped in the Norgaard Ready-Mix Ltd. parking lot on Nicola Avenue. The man presented police with a video from Nov. 7, 2014 which showed Matheson using an electric pump to steal 100 litres of diesel fuel
from a construction vehicle on Douglas Avenue. The same pump was found in the back of Matheson’s truck on Nov. 9. Matheson told police he ran out of fuel on the highway and that it was him in the video. Crown counsel had initially suggested a sentencing position of fines on some of the charges, however his inability to pay fines over the past few years had Crown rescinding that position. Matheson had over $2,000 in outstanding fines ranging from Penticton to Kelowna including ICBC tickets and court ordered fines. Matheson defaulted on the fines in court and 32 days were added to his sentence in lieu of pay. “He appears to be somebody who has the ability to work and be a productive member of society and it appears he is choosing not to do that,” said Crockett reading from the pre-sentence report. Matheson was given two years of probation upon his release with conditions including a curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., that he is not to possess tools outside of his home or workplace and received a 10year firearms prohibition.
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Western News photos by Kristi Patton IT WAS A sold out show for the inaugural Balance School of Performing Arts presents Christmas at the Orchard House on Dec. 13. Singing to Frosty the Snowman are (left to right) Sophie Patton, Ava Schwartzenberger, Hayden Selock and Frosty (Owen Kincade).
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productions in countless countries around the world for over two decades. Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games features a troupe of Irish Dance’s most accomplished performers starring world champion dancers Comer, Keegan and Keaney in the title role of the Lord of the Dance. The show also features exciting and ground-breaking new technology, including holographs, special effects lighting, dancing robots, world champion acrobats and, of course, the greatest team of Irish Dancers in the world. The score is composed by Gerard Fahy. Flatley broke the mold of traditional Irish Dancing by incorporating upper body movement and creating edgy rhythm patterns that departed from the traditional. He has created, directed and produced several successful shows including Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames, Celtic Tiger and his latest show Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games. See DANCE on PG. 15
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Celebrate the winter solstice with the Shatford
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In the Arts As mid-winter approaches, there is much to celebrate. The Okanagan School of the Arts, OSA, is in its sixth year after finding and renovating its home, the Shatford Centre. The Shatford Centre is the 30,000 square feet, three storey building on two acres in the heart of the City of Penticton on the Pen High campus. Bringing this lovely and historic ‘late Victorian eclectic’ building back to life has been very rewarding. One of OSA’s highlights this year was the installation of the Rotary Community Learning Kitchen, which
we call the ‘crown jewel in a community treasure of a building.’ On the weekend of Nov. 20 and 21, we held two celebrations: On Nov 20, we thanked the contributors who paid for the renovations that allowed the kitchen to open. The budget was $220,000 and the Rotary Club of Penticton and the OSA each raised $110,000. We thanked the contributors for their generosity through a wonderful dinner created in the new kitchen. There were live performances and contributors were given an original painting named Fruition Celebration, which was created by a collective of artists. We thanked Okanagan School of the Arts kitchen committee chair: Georgia Krebs; project contractor: Greyback Construction Ltd and Architect: Chris Allen, Landmark Architecture Ltd. The next morning on Nov. 21, we were able to invite the community into the kitchen for a quick tour at the Penticton Farmers’ Market. We also provided our guests with a variety of delicious foods — appetizers, soups, salad, fabulous en-
CHRIS PURTON at Pen Henge on Munson Mountain. The Shatford Centre is hosting an event after the winter solstice celebration at Pen Henge on Dec. 21
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chiladas and desserts, which had been enthusiastically prepared during the week. What a wonderful weekend to celebrate bringing the kitchen to fruition. In terms of community events in 2015, Prema Harris, Chris Purton and I have
been working on a creative event to celebrate the longest night of the year (Dec. 21), the winter solstice. With the new kitchen, this year seems like a great opportunity to celebrate with an informative program, food and festivities.
It starts at 3 p.m., where enthusiasts will meet at PenHenge on Munson Mountain to watch the sun set at its most southerly point, followed by 4 p.m. warming drinks at the Shatford Centre at 760 Main St. (If you don’t go up to Munson Mountain, you are welcome to come to the rest of the event). Around 4:30 p.m., there will be a program exploring the meaning of the solstice, astronomically, its effect on nature, and how humanity has responded to it through its cultural traditions. At 6 p.m., there will be a humble dinner with local foods and worldly flavours. The event is open to everyone, by donation. We are hoping that individuals will bring instruments, perhaps a poem or other ways to celebrate this special occasion. You can also let us know if you would like to volunteer with decorating, cooking food, set up and entertainment. All ages are invited to participate. Please RSVP by Dec. 19 to 250770-7668 or e-mail info@ shatfordcentre.com. In 2016, there are exciting events, projects, programs and conferences to
look forward to at the Okanagan School of the Arts, Shatford Centre, such as the Okanagan Valley Writer’s Festival being held April 8 to 10; music programs in July — Strings the Thing, Rock Skool and JazzCool. The first Fibre and Fashion Conference will be held from Sept. 19 to 25, the We Love Documentary Film Festival is scheduled for Oct. 14 to 16 and the inSpirit Festival is being held Oct. 21 to 23. One 2016 creative community event is the Penticton Arts Council’s third Annual Arts Awards being held at the Shatford Centre on Feb. 18. Everyone is invited to nominate in 14 categories. You can go to pentictonartscouncil.com for the details. This column is the first in a series with news of our creative community. If you or your organization have events coming up, please send your information to jane.shaak@shatfordcentre. com. Jane Shaak is the Executive Director of the Okanagan School of the Arts, Shatford Centre.
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For seniors wanting to learn how to better use their computers, laptops, tablets, and iPads, you may now do so by joining the Penticton Seniors’ Drop-in Centre. Computer Lab drop-ins and classes have been added to the many programs available at the centre. Techs and instructors are available to guide you in better use of your device in classes. Drop-in sessions are designed to assist in solving the problems many of us experience. The lab is available for ‘Drop-In’ sessions on Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 1-3 p.m. for those 50
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Strong qualifying performances Emanuel Sequeira Western News Staff
The path to earning qualifying spots from the Okanagan Men’s Playdowns was different for the two winners. Jeff Richard out of the Kelowna Curling Club went 2-0, while Mark Longworth’s Vernon rink went 3-1 to advance to provincials. Richard defeated Andrew Nerpin’s rink 9-2 in six ends. “We actually played really well both games,” said Richard, who opened the playdowns by defeating fellow Kelowna Curling Club member Sean Matheson 8-4. “Our first two games being together as a team this year, we’re pretty happy with the outcome.” Richard’s rink opened against Nerpin by stealing three points and that helped his team take control. Nerpin’s Kelowna rink scored one in the third, but Richard got it back in the fourth. Nerpin added another in the fifth. In the sixth end, Richard scored five to seal the win. Richard admitted to not knowing a lot about Nerpin’s rink, which had Penticton Curling Club member Matt Tolley, but said they had good throwers. “We knew they were going to make a lot of shots,” said Richard, who won provincials in 2010. “Even though we had a bit of a lead, we had to stay focused. They played well right through.” After losing their opening draw 10-5 to Nerpin, Penticton’s Blaine Black, who played with Longworth, said things got better after getting used to the ice. They struggled with it against Nerpin and made poor shots. They ended up meeting Nerpin again in the second qualifier, this time winning 10-7. “I thought we played extremely well. We made some big shots and had them chasing us all the time,” said Black. “The whole team — we didn’t have much for misses. We didn’t give them too many opportunities. There’s a few ends that they played really well.” Nerpin’s rink took
BLAINE BLACK, curling third for Mark Longworth’s Vernon rink at the Men’s Okanagan Playdown held at the Penticton Curling Club last weekend. Black’s team defeated fellow Penticton curler Matt Tolley, below, on the Andrew Nerpin rink based out of Kelowna, to advance to provincials. Steve Kidd/Western News
a 1-0 lead after the first end, then Longworth scored four in the second. The lead was cut in half in the third, but Longworth added another four to their total. Leading 8-3 after five, Black thought maybe they would end up doing the traditional hand shake to conclude the game. Nerpin’s side didn’t quit and doubled them up 4-2 in the last four ends. Being a new addition to the Longworth rink, Black said this will be his third provincial appearance. “I think I add quite a bit of experience holding the broom in the house there when Mark is throwing,” said Black, who has played with Longworth before. “That seems to be an asset. You have to get on a roll. If you get on a roll things can go your way. You need some luck as well when your’e facing guys like (Jim) Cotter and (Dean) Joanisse, who are ultimately the favourites.” Eight other teams qualified for the Canadian Direct Insurance BC Men’s Curling Championship in Nelson, Feb.10-14.
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DARIUS DAVIDSON (28) of the Penticton Vees does his best to move the puck against the Salmon Arm Silverbacks. Acquired from the Surrey Eagles last week, Davidson scored his first Vees goal in a 4-3 double overtime win on Dec. 12. Below, Colton Poolman shows off the puck plaque given to him by Vees equipment helper Don Cameron. Steve Kidd/Emanuel Sequeira/Western News
Vee loves first junior goal memento Emanuel Sequeira Western News Staff
Colton Poolman sported a big grin when asked about his newest hockey memento. After scoring his first career junior A goal in 87
games, his 31st with the Penticton Vees, equipment helper Don Cameron handed over a personalized puck plaque to the blueliner. “Oh God I love it,” said Poolman, who next fall will play Division 1
hockey with his brother Tucker, a Winnipeg Jets draft pick, with the University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks. “I saw him bringing it to me and my eyes just lit up. I’m keeping this thing. This is going up in the room. It
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was pretty cool. Nice of him to do that for me.” That joins the collection which includes the puck from his first high school goal and a few trophies. Poolmans goal gave the Vees a 2-1 lead in a match that finished 4-4 on Dec. 5. After playing high school hockey at East Grand Forks High in Minnesota, Poolman played 57 games in the USHL with the Fargo Force, registering 10 assists. Poolman said it was more of a relief to get his first goal. “I was still excited. I didn’t know what to really do,” he said. “I just kind of went to the guy (Nicholas Jones) who passed to me and thanked him because I was just really relieved more than anything.” Cameron decided to present Poolman, who turns 20 this Friday, with the plaque. Cameron said that most guys get a taped puck with the date and name of the opponent written on it as a keepsake. “I decided to do a bigger keepsake for him. All the guys got a howl out of it,” said Cameron. “I like doing different things like
that. Just goofy things to lighten things up a bit.” The six-foot, 180-pound defenceman feels like the scoring chances are coming and that he can provide that element for the Vees. “I’m really coming into my own offensive skill set,” said Poolman, who
has 24 assists. Poolman has learned a lot from playing with potential first round NHL pick Dante Fabbro. “He makes you look good that’s for sure,” said Poolman of Fabbro. “He makes so many plays out there that I don’t even see it. He will make a great
pass and make you look really good. He will get you points out there. I shouldn’t have as many points as I do have. I have it because of Fabbro and Jost and guys like that.” He has also enjoyed playing with a recent partner, rookie Griffin Mendel, who he said can make plays and uses his six-foottwo, 190-pound frame. “It’s been fun playing with him. I think we’re starting to get used to each other,” said Poolman. With the absence of Fabbro, as well as Gabe Bast and Seamus Donohue Poolman feels he has stepped up. On Saturday, Poolman was key in the Vees’ 4-3 double overtime victory goal against the Salmon Arm Silverbacks. He skated towards the goal and provided a screen as Scott Conway snapped the winner. “I was trying to screen, but I didn’t think he was going to go through my legs,” said Poolman. “Having him shoot it between my legs looked pretty cool. Thank goodness it didn’t go too high. I was shocked it went through my legs.”
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The Summerland Secondary Rockets senior boys basketball team opened the season with a third-place finish in a Kelowna tournament. The Rockets started the Kelowna Christian tournament last weekend with a 75-73 win over the Osoyoos Rattlers. Jared Breitkreuz sealed the win with a layup with .03 seconds remaining. Spencer McIntosh earned Player of the Game recognition for his 34-point performance. Scott Richards was given the Hustle Award for his outstanding rebounding.
Against the host Kelowna Christian Knights, No.1 in single A, Richards was named Player of the Game, while Breitkruz won the Hustle Award in a 68-53 loss. In their final game the Rockets took on the Okanagan Mission Huskies. The Rockets rebounded in the second half from a slow start to win 75-50 and take third. Landon Brickenden was named Player of the Game after he racked up 23 second half points and Geoff Stathers was given the Hustle Award for his excellent effort. The Rockets next action is at the Pen High Christmas tournament Dec.17-18. They will also be playing in the SSS alumni tournament on Boxing Day.
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Brydon chipped in 13 points and grabbed 17 boards. Grade 10 Emma Schneider put up 12 points with eight boards. Against Nanaimo, the Lakers cruised to an 85-38 victory. Grade 12 Anika Holowaty led the charge with 15 points, while Hannah Clarke stepped up to deliver 13 points and 10 assists, while also grabbing six boards to go with five assists. “It was great to get this type of all-around per-
formance from Hannah,” said Lacroix, adding that Clarke’s sister Emily was on hand to watch; she plays for the Vancouver Island University Islanders. Brydon performed well offensively again, scoring 11 points, while Grade 10 Mattie Philip added 11 points. Described as a pure shooter, Lacroix and Hyde are excited to see her develop into a significant and consistent scoring threat this season. Grade 12 Sydney
Clarke had a fantastic performance, Lacroix said, with nine points and seven rebounds, adding “an element of aggressive play that our team needs.” The Lakers handed Edmonton’s M.E. Lazerte and 69-11 loss. Caron drained 22 points while collecting eight rebounds and five steals. Brydon added 16 points to go with six boards. In their fifth and final game, for fifth place, the Lakers took on Nanaimo’s
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FIRE WAGON HOCKEY — Penticton’s Sarah Kupczyk fires a shot that found its way past Kelowna goalie Caitlyn Price during a female novice game at McLaren Arena on Dec. 13. Below, Penticton’s Kate Pinsonneault carries the puck up the ice. The Penticton teams faced off against Kelowna. Kristi Patton/Western News
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(As of Dec. 14) Interior Division GP W L T Otl Penticton 33 29 3 1 0 Salmon Arm 32 20 8 2 2 W.Kelowna 34 19 13 0 2 Vernon 35 15 18 0 2 Trail 32 15 17 0 0 Merritt 35 10 23 0 2
Shades (Cardinals) .......................................23 23 Lachi (Chiefs) ..............................................10 Parkers (Jaguars).........................................51 Canadian Tire (Browns)................................24 Parkers (Rams) ............................................21 Pacific Rim (Saints) .....................................24 Doug Chapman (Panthers) ............................38 Rooms To Go (Redskins)...............................24 Penticton Toyota (Patriots) ..........................27 Lachi (Steelers) ...........................................33 Fehlings (Jets).............................................30 IGA (Eagles) ................................................23 Boyd Auto (Raiders) .....................................15 Appleton Waste (Packers) .............................28 Rooms To Go (Seahawks)..............................35 Kettle Valley (Giants)...................................31
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Pts Otw 59 6 44 0 40 1 32 2 30 2 22 0
Island Division GP W L T Otl Nanaimo 34 22 11 0 1 Powell River 31 18 12 0 1 Cowichan V. 33 16 12 2 3 Victoria 36 13 19 0 4 Alberni V. 32 12 17 2 1
Pts Otw 45 3 37 2 37 1 30 1 27 3
Mainland Division GP W L T Otl Chilliwack 32 22 6 1 3 Wenatchee 34 20 9 3 2 Langley 32 18 13 1 0 Coquitlam 34 14 15 1 4 Prince G. 34 8 24 0 2 Surrey 33 5 27 1 0
Pts Otw 48 1 45 1 37 1 33 4 18 0 11 1
League Leaders GP G A PTS Sheldon Rempal, NC 34 37 35 72 Scott Conway, PV 31 28 36 64 Tyson Jost, PV 30 24 37 61 Devin Brosseau, NC 34 14 35 49 Colton Kerfoot, CE 34 17 30 47 Matthew Hoover, NC 34 24 22 46 Jackson Cressey, CE 28 20 23 43 Liam Blackburn, WK 34 17 25 42 J.Kawaguchi, CC 31 23 18 41 Vimal Sukumaran, CC 27 22 1941 Gavin Gould, MC 31 19 22 41 Colin Grannary, MC 34 18 22 40 Kylar Hope, WK 34 18 22 40 B.Gelsinger, VG 36 13 27 40 Taro Hirose, SAS 32 7 33 40 Yanni Kaldis. NC 34 7 32 39 E.Brodzinski, PV 30 21 17 38 Matthew Graham, LR 32 17 21 38 Austin McIlmurray, CE 33 15 2338 Dante Fabbro, PV 24 7 31 38
PIM 30 34 28 61 12 44 42 32 12 37 19 32 32 29 10 18 26 34 12 16
Goalies G.Nieto, WW
GP W L T GAA SV% 8 5 2 1 1.85 .926
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19 16 0 1 1.91 .934 14 12 2 0 1.93 .935
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Aidan Pelino, CC 22 13 7 1 2.28 .919 B.Kegler, SAS 9 5 3 0 2.30 .932 C.Perry, WW 27 15 9 2 2.33 .901 Jeff Smith, PRK 25 16 9 0 2.39 .930 Matt Galajda, VG 26 11 14 0 2.58 .909 Bo Didur, LR
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Vees Scoring Scott Conway Tyson Jost Easton Brodzinski Dante Fabbro Darius Davidson Nicholas Jones Colton Poolman Chris Gerrie Demico Hannoun Owen Sillinger Luke Voltin Dixon Bowen Mitchell Brooks Griffin Mendel Domenic Masellis Benjamin Brar Seamus Donohue Desi Burgart David Eccles Gabe Bast Taylor Ward
GP 31 30 30 24 32 17 33 31 26 33 30 25 33 29 29 31 18 26 32 6 32
G A PTS PIM 28 36 64 34 24 37 61 28 21 17 38 26 7 31 38 16 12 14 26 12 8 18 26 6 1 25 26 18 9 14 23 10 11 7 18 32 7 8 15 8 3 11 14 27 4 7 11 12 4 7 11 19 2 7 9 2 1 7 8 51 3 3 6 11 0 5 5 16 3 1 4 6 1 3 4 8 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 11
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Castlegar 31 Grand Forks32 Nelson 32 Spokane 33
21 9 1 0 0 43 14 16 0 0 2 30 13 18 0 0 1 27 4 25 0 0 4 12
Doug Birks Division GP W L T D Otl Kamloops 34 22 8 0 0 4 100 MH 32 20 8 0 0 4 Chase Heat 30 17 9 3 0 1 Revelstoke 29 13 13 1 0 2 Sicamous 32 5 22 1 0 4
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Pts OTW 48 4 44 5 38 4 29 3 15 1
League Leaders Cole Keebler, FG Rainer Glimpel, OC Jason Richter, KD Jared Marchi, KD Eric Buckley, KD Alec Wilkinson, CVT Jordan Busch, KD Jack Mills, SS Zach Befus, FG M. Cardinal, CVR Nick Headrick, CR C.Cartwright, CVT Tayden Woods, CR Jace Weegar, BVN Justin Peers, FG Braeden Tuck, OC Braden Fuller, BVN Chris Breese, CR Hunter Kero, KS Bobby LaRue, OC
GP G A PTS PIM 24 24 24 48 10 29 16 32 48 28 29 23 23 46 4 31 15 29 44 18 31 14 30 44 62 28 9 35 44 26 31 5 36 41 24 30 18 22 40 54 28 19 20 39 31 31 17 21 38 71 31 10 28 38 16 28 21 16 37 20 31 18 19 37 14 28 12 25 37 22 23 11 25 36 23 27 16 19 35 36 25 12 22 34 60 30 13 20 33 24 31 8 24 32 10 25 15 16 31 46
GP W L T GAA SV% Anthony Brodeur 19 16 0 1 1.91 .934 Zach Driscoll 14 12 2 0 1.93 .935
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(As of Dec.14) Okanagan Division GP W L T D Otl Pts Otw Osoyoos 29 22 6 0 0 1 45 1 Summerland 30 20 9 0 0 1 41 1 Kelowna 31 16 10 2 2 135 2 N.Okanagan 33 8 20 1 0 4 21 1 Princeton 31 7 23 0 0 1 15 1 Eddie Mountain Division GP W L T D Otl Pts Otw Kimberley 31 25 3 0 0 3 53 4 Creston V. 29 18 8 1 0 2 39 1 Fernie 30 18 9 0 0 3 39 1 Columbia V. 33 17 16 0 0 034 1 Golden 32 4 25 1 0 2 11 1
Neil Murdoch Division GP W L T D Otl Pts OTW Beaver V. 30 22 5 1 0 2 47
Goalies GP W L T GAA SV% Matthew Huber, SS 14 10 3 0 1.67 .933 Jacob Mullen, SS 13 9 4 0 1.82 .932
Brett Soles, OC 20 154 0 1.89 .937 Tavin Grant, KS 11 8 3 0 1.90 .931 Tyson Brouwer, KD 23 194 0 2.02 .928 B.Lefebvre, CVT 24 158 1 2.04 .940 A.Derochie, 100 MH 9 7 2 0 2.08 .946 M.Traichevich, KD 9 6 2 0 0 2.11 .921 Aidan Doak, RG 15 9 5 1 2.14 .927 J.Tetlichi, KC 12 6 3 2 2.21 .913 Coyotes Scoring — Top 10 GP G A PTS Rainer Glimpel 29 16 32 48 Braeden Tuck 27 16 19 35 Bobby LaRue 25 15 16 31 Ryan Morrell 28 7 15 22 Carter Shannon 28 9 10 19 Daniel Stone 26 8 11 19 Jackson Glimpel 29 6 13 19 Colin Bell 29 7 10 17 Judd Repole 24 4 11 15 Cody Allen 29 3 12 15
PIM 28 36 46 27 25 4 10 39 8 28
Coyotes Goalies GP W L T GAA SV% Brett Soles 20 15 4 0 1.89 .937 Adam Jones 11 7 3 0 2.29 .909 Steam Scoring — Top 10 GP G A PTS Jack Mills 30 18 22 40 Riley Pettitt 29 13 18 31 Paulsen Lautard 29 15 14 29 Wyatt Gale 30 8 15 23 Jarrett Malchow 25 7 14 21 Braden Eliuk 28 6 12 18 Cole Williams 30 10 7 17 Cody Egilson 27 4 7 11 Adam Jones 29 2 9 11 Josh Pilon 20 2 8 10
PIM 54 68 39 45 26 18 16 45 26 14
Steam Goalies GP W L T GAA SV% Matthew Huber 14 10 3 0 1.67 .933 Jacob Mullen 11 9 4 0 1.82 .932
Men’s Rec Hockey (As of Dec.14) GP Biscuits 16 EcoDry 19 Broncos 17 Wolverines 18 Wolfcreek 14
W L T GF GA Pts 12 3 1 119 81 25 11 5 3 109 99 25 7 7 3 82 79 17 5 12 1 93 130 11 3 11 0 69 83 6
Dart Association Week 14 Dec..14 A-B Division Rnk Team Mon Pts 1 Smokin Aces 7 2 Allley Brats 5 3 The Elks Factors 4 4 Anaf Wreckers 5 5 Clancey’s Snipers 4 6 Claney’s Dreggers 2 7 Elks Crue 5 8 Dart Bags 4 9 Anaf A&H 2 10 Hand Grenades 2 11 Alley Crushers 3 12 Clancey’s Arrows 7 13 Legion DDT 3 14 Anaf Vixens 3 15 Shooting Stars 2 16 Eagle Eye 0 17 Elks Bullits 5 18 Eagles Outsiders 4 19 OK Falls Legions 0 20 Elks Points 3
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IN BRIEF Edged from the podium
Summerland’s Justin Kripps just missed getting onto the World Cup bobsleigh podium in Konigssee, Germany. On Dec. 12, Kripps and teammate Alex Kopacz came agonizingly close to winning their first World Cup medal together after a fourth-place finish in men’s two-man bobsleigh racing. The Canadian duo were edged off the podium by .01 on a track that feels like home for the nation’s top pilot. The Canadian sled clocked a time of one minute, 39 seconds and 51 tenths of a second. “It came right down to it,” said Kripps in a press release. “We had good pushes today and overall I thought the drives were really good. I just had trouble with the echo corner all week and I didn’t quite get it again today so that is where you can make up the hundredth. It was pretty close, but that is bobsleigh racing.” The next day Kripps and his four-man crew go into the holiday break with a 10th-place finish. The team clocked a time of 1:38.67. “Our pushes were a little slow and we made a couple of mistakes down the track,” said Canadian bobsleigh head coach Stefan Bosch. “It wasn’t a horrible run, but we are after more out here. When you are a tenth behind in the push and make little mistakes going down the track, it eventually catches up to you and you are going to fall back.”
Ninth for Naude
The Canadian Freestyle mogul ski team opened its season in Ruka, Finland on Saturday. Penticton’s Andi Naude came in ninth. The next scheduled event for the team is the FIS World Cup in Lake Placid, NY on Jan. 15.
Money for friends
The Penticton and Friends golf tournament raised more than $42,000 for Penticton and South Okanagan charities in 2015. Penticton and Friends is also proud to support Agur Lake Camp, Toys for Tots to Teens, Penticton Minor Hockey, Penticton Mental Wellness and Moog and Friends Hospice.
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The Apex Freestyle Club have added new faces to their coaching staff. Ted Dunnigan is heading the Jumps and Bumps and Freestylerz programs this year. Dunnigan brings vast experience in the coaching world, both in alpine and freestyle. Louis Durham is the new slopestyle coach and brings his expertise and fun to the slopestyle community. They join secondyear coaches Matt Crosby and Nathalie Bazin, who work with head coach Kenni Kuroda. Crosby is a Summerland native, who grew up skiing at Apex Mountain and went through the AFC program. He competed with the national team from 2005-09 and during his career earned top10 finishes in North America competitions and competed in na-
FORMER CANADIAN NATIONAL team members Matt Crosby and Nathalie Bazin enter their second season as mogul coaches with the Apex Freestyle Club. Submitted photo
tional championships. Bazin, who grew up in Quebec City, moved to B.C. when she was named to the national team and competed from 2006-09. During her career she reached the podi-
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coach, as well as Jeff Queen, Sean Queen and Debbie Vollett for Jumps and Bumps. Those interested in joining AFC can do so by going to www.apexfreestyleclub.com. This weekend Apex
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May 8, 1953 – December 7, 2015 On Monday December 7, 2015, Mrs. Bobbie Dawn McKiver of Oliver passed away at the Penticton Regional Hospital at the age of 62 years. Bobbie will be fondly remembered by her loving family including husband Richard Peter McKiver; mother June Willis; brothers Dale and Chris; sisters Billy and Kim as well as many extended family and friends. Bobbie and Richard enjoyed volunteering their time helping with the Oliver Elk’s Sunday children’s breakfast. A wake and visitation was held at 11:00 A.M. Friday December 11, 2015 at the Nunes-Pottinger Funeral Chapel, 5855 Hemlock St., Oliver, BC. Condolences and tributes may be directed to the family by visiting www.nunes-pottinger.com Arrangements entrusted to Nunes-Pottinger Funeral Service & Crematorium, Oliver & Osoyoos.
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Purpose of Meeting To conduct the Annual General Meeting of the Naramata Water Advisory Committee (NWAC). This committee is comprised of the Electoral Area “E” Director and seven local citizens (volunteers) appointed by the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) Board of Directors. Purpose of Naramata Water Advisory Committee The committee may consider and form recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding annual water system operating budgets, user fees, rate structures, proposed capital upgrades, watershed management issues, potential boundary expansions, and monthly operational status reports, provided by the Manager of Public Works. Nominations To nominate an individual to sit on the committee, or if you are interested in being nominated, please be advised that nominations must be submitted in writing up to two days prior to the annual general meeting. The nominations must clearly state the name and address of the nominator and must include written consent from the person being nominated. Additional information regarding nominations may be obtained from Karla Kozakevich, Electoral Area “E” Director, RDOS at kkozakevich@rdos.bc.ca or (250) 809.2557. Written nominations may be returned to the Director, or to the Regional District of OkanaganSimilkameen, 101 Martin Street, Penticton, BC. or info@rdos.bc.ca. Eligibility: In order to be eligible to be nominated for office or to vote for the committee, an individual must be a ratepayer or spouse of a ratepayer within the boundaries of the Naramata Water System Service Area. Furthermore, all user fee accounts for the use of water in the service area must be current and not in arrears. Meetings: The committee meets once a month and all members of the general public are welcome to attend. Bill Newell Chief Administrative Officer
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calendar WEDNESDAY December 16
The MulTiculTural SocieTy of Penticton has bocce on Wednesdays from 2 to 6 p.m. at 135 Winnipeg St. Everyone welcome. Call 250-493-9124 for more info.[we] The SouTh okanagan Similkameen Volunteer Centre wants to hear from you with a fiveminute survey and be entered to win a $100 gift card courtesy of The Real Canadian Superstore. Click the survey link at www. volunteercentre.info. or drop by their office from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 102-696 Main St. [124p] Bingo e v e ry WedneSday in the Legion hall with the Ladies Auxiliary, 502 Martin St. at 1 p.m. Daily lunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. SouTh Main drop-in Centre has social line dance at 9 a.m., medical Qi Gong at 10 a.m., coffee social 10 a.m. to noon, cribbage at 1 p.m., pilates at 3:30 p.m., ukulele strumalong at 6:30 p.m.[we] Senior SingleS, 65 and
over, meet from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Penticton Golf and Country Club for coffee. Call 250492-7078 for more info on this event. kiWaniS cluB MeeTS at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at 390 Brunswick St. Call 250-493-8901 for info. T he p enTicTon acadeMy of Music String Orchestra rehearses from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. in the lounge of the Leir House, 220 Manor Park Ave. New members welcome. Please call 250-4937977 for more info. oliver douBle o Quilters have drop-in activities Wednesdays. hand and FooT canasta at 1 p.m. in the Penticton Leisure Centre, 439 Winnipeg St. Lessons available for those who have never played before. Call June evenings at 250-492-7630 for info. Everyone welcome. carpeT BoWling FroM 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Seniors’ Recreation and Wellness Centre, 439 Winnipeg St. okanagan FallS SeniorS’ Centre has music and coffee from 9 to
10:30 a.m. and carpet bowling at 1 p.m. penTicTon duplicaTe Bridge Club has games Wednesdays at 7 p.m., Thursdays at 1 p.m. in the Penticton Legion on Martin Street. Call Birgitta at 250-7701154 for more information. a l c o h o l i c S anonyMouS haS daily meetings in Penticton and area. Call 250-4909216 (24 hours) for more information. anaveTS haS huMp Day with Stu’s kitchen open from 9 a.m. to noon. Dinner by Stu at 5:30 p.m. and entertainment by Buzz Byer at 6:30 p.m. al-anon For FriendS and family of alcoholics at 7:30 p.m. at United Church, 696 Main St. Call 250-4909272 for info. care cloSeT ThriFT Store at 574 Main St. has weekly specials and special auctions. Open Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All proceeds to the local hospital and hospice. Donations welcome. SuMMerland arT cluB meets Wednesdays
from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Summerland Library. Drop-in fee is $10 and painters of all levels are welcome. Workshops available. Contact Evelyn at 250493-9279 for information. FoSTer care inFo sessions every Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at MCFD Resource Office. For info call Moe at 250-770-7524 or visit www.fosterbc. ca or www.mcf.gov. bc.ca/foster. SeniorS’ recreaTion and Wellness Centre at 439 Winnipeg St. hosts euchre every Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Call Jeanne at 250-4927266 for more info. elkS cluB haS a management meeting at 6 p.m. and a lodge meeting at 7:30 p.m.[126p]
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December 17 elkS cluB haS Crib Wars at 1 p.m. and snowball darts at 7 p.m. c anadian r oyal legion branch 40 has lunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., crib at 7 p.m., 502 Martin St.
Fitness Friends Ladies Fitness class at 10 a.m., Musicians Christmas party at 7 p.m. hosted by Analog Delay. FraTernal order oF the Eagles has tacos at 5 p.m. and musical trivia bingo at 7 p.m. Members and guests welcome to the hall at 1197 Main St. T une p enTicTon orcheSTra a gerS practice with conductor Gordon Dawson on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon, Shatford Centre 760 Main St. Over 50 and play a musical instrument? Come and check us out, or call Gordon at 250-492-9844.[091s] SouTh Main dropin Centre has Spanish conversation at 10 a.m., carpet bowling at 10 a.m., bingo and a crafters meeting at 1 p.m., introductory ukelele at 2 p.m.[th] al-anon For FriendS and family of alcoholics meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Summerland United Church. Call 250-490-9272. anaveTS haS Wing specials from 3 to 6 p.m. TopS B.c. 1640 meets from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.
in the Bethel Church basement at 945 Main St. Phone Beverley at 250-493-5968 or Liz at 250-493-7997 for more info. TopS (Take oFF Pounds Sensibly) meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Church of the Nazarene, 523 Jermyn Ave. Call Merle at 250770-8093. line dancing WiTh Claire Denney every Thursday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Oliver Seniors Centre, 5876 Airport St. Call Claire at 778-439-2070 for information. deSerT Sage SpinnerS and Weavers Guild meets at 10 a.m. at the Oliver Community Centre. Visitors are always welcome. If you are interested in becoming a member stop by or contact Gail Erickson at rgerickson@telus.net or 250498-4959. penTicTon Fly FiSherS meet the first Thursday each month at 216 Hastings St. at 7 p.m. They welcome new individuals and family memberships. For more info, visit www. pentictonflyfishers.ca.[th01]
a l c o h o l i c S nighT a nonyMouS group meets at 8 p.m. at 150 Orchard Ave. in the Outreach Centre. The Okanagan Falls group meets at 8 p.m. at 5328 Hawthorne St. and the men’s book study group runs at 7:30 p.m. at 102 1825 Main St. Vineyard Church.
FRIDAY
December 18 SingleS lunch group for 65-plus seniors meets at noon. Meet new friends and chat. Call 250-496-5980 or 250-770-8622 for more information. eagleS cluB haS Friday Night Live dinner at 5 p.m. and entertainment at 7 p.m. Members and guests welcome. c anadian r oyal legion branch 40 has fish and chips lunch at 11:30 a.m. Steak or rib dinner at 5:30 p.m. SouTh Main drop-in Centre has Tai Chi at 10:30 a.m. and Mah Jong at 1 p.m.[fr] anaveTS haS Their kitchen open from noon to 4 p.m., Scotch doubles at 7 p.m. Karoke at 7:30 p.m.
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calendar The Oliver SeniOr Centre, 5876 Airport St., has bingo with a loonie pot every Friday at 1 p.m. The Oliver SeniOrS’ Centre, 5876 Airport St., has bingo at 1 p.m. every Friday and regular drop-in pool Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12:30 p.m.[091c] O kanagan F allS legiOn has meat draws and 50-50 draws on Friday and Saturday at 5 p.m.[107s] a l c O h O l i c S haS a nOnymOuS 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. elkS club On Ellis Street has drop-in fun darts and pool at 7 p.m. Funtime Dancers upstairs at 7 p.m. Karaoke by Anita. al-anOn meeTS aT the Bethel Pentecostal Church at 945 Main St. from 6 to 7 p.m. For info call 250-490-9272.
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December 19 r Oyal c anadian 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. Branch Christmas party with music by Daria at 4 p.m. The Oliver SeniOrS’ Centre, 5876 Airport St., has dancing at 10 a.m. to the Oliver Seniors Volunteer Band.[0912c] 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. elkS club On Ellis Street has crib at 10 a.m., drop-in darts and early bird draw at 4 p.m., meat draw at 4:30 p.m., dinner at 5:30 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 Gypsy and Rose at 6:30 p.m. a l c O h O l i c S anOnymOuS haS daily meetings in Penticton and area. Call 250-490-9216 (24 hours). a l c O h O l i c S 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 7 p.m. at 13204 Henry Ave. Call service 24 hours is 250-490-9216.
SUNDAY
December 20 The mulTiculTural SOcieTy of Penticton has card games on Sundays from 2 to 6 p.m. at 135 Winnipeg St. Everyone welcome. Call 250-493-9124 for more information.[su]
cOme dance TO the greatest dance music ever made with DJ Emil from 7 to 9 p.m. at the South Main Drop-In Centre, 2965 South Main St. $3 per person, all welcome.[su] elkS club On Ellis Street has dog races at 2 p.m., food draw and door prizes, Last Man Standing, pool and darts. c anadian r Oyal legiOn branch 40 has meat and 50/50 draws at 2 p.m., branch buffet breakfast at 8:30 a.m. SOuTh main drOpin Centre has R&R Rounders at 12:30 p.m. anaveTS haS hOrSe races and meat draws at 2 p.m. Hot dogs and hamburgers for lunch. General meeting at 11 a.m. 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. a l c O h O l i c S anOnymOuS meeTS in OK Falls at 10:30 a.m. at 5328 Hawthorne St., then in Penticton from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in July and August for the women’s group at the Lawn Bowling Club, 260 Brunswick St. The Sunday 123 group meets at 8 p.m. in the Education Room in the basement of the Penticton hospital. The closed men’s group meets at 11 a.m. at the Eagles hall at 1197 Main St., side door, upstairs.
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December 21 T he a STrOnOmy SOcieTy is holding a Winter Sostice celebration at 3 p.m. at PenHenge on top of Munson Mountain. The event continues at 4 p.m. with warm-
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ing drinks and snacks, followed by a program emphasizing the multicultural aspect of solstice.[12p] FlOOr curling every Monday from 1:30 to 3 p.m., with coffee after, at the Seniors’ Recreation Centre, 439 Winnipeg St.[102s] SOuTh main drOp-in Centre has Scrabble and Mah Jong at 10 a.m., carpet bowling at 10:45 a.m., intermediate line dance and duplicate bridge at 1 p.m., computer open house from 1 to 3 p.m.[mo] anaveTS have Their kitchen open at noon. Dinner at 5 p.m. Pool and dart leagues at 7 p.m. line dancing aT the Oliver Senior Centre at 7 p.m. Get moving with Claire Denney. Call 778-439-2070 for more info. O rder F raTernal OF the Eagles has league darts at 7 p.m. Members and guests welcome to the hall at 1197 Main St.
UPCOMING EVENTS The penTicTOn hOSpiTal Auxiliary has two fundraisers, starting with Plan your Dream trip raffle. First prize is a trip for two anywhere WestJet flies plus $500. Tickets are $5 each and are available at the Hospital Gift Shop. Draw will take place Dec. 21. The group is also looking for volunteers in December to gift wrap at Cherry Lane Shopping Centre. Call 250-490-9786 for more info.[1221p] SOuTh main drOpin Centre is celebrating New Years Day with music by Vince’s Orchestra, a buffet lunch from 2 to 6 p.m. Advance tickets on sale now at the centre’s front desk, 2965 South Main St., until Dec. 28. For more info call 250-493-2111.
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