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he seemingly finished facade of the new Centennial Tower at Kelowna General Hospital is hiding the flurry of work inside to prepare the building for completion.

The six-storey tower is slated to be turned over to the hospital next February, but work has already started on the massive task of moving several departments from the existing building into the new tower.

In today’s Capital News close-up, assistant editor Alistair Waters talks to some of the Interior Heath officials responsible for making the move go smoothly while one of the province’s busiest hospital continues to operate at the same time.

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INTERIOR HEALTH’S Norma Malanowich is in charge of the massive planning process currently taking place to coordinate the move of several large departments, including emergency and ambulatory care, at Kelowna General Hospital to the new Centennial Tower.

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NEWS ▼ AIRLINE TRAVEL

Airport surcharges are chasing vacationers south Kevin Parnell STAFF REPORTER

The Kelowna International Airport is losing close to 250,000 passengers each year to airports south of the border as consumers search out cheaper flights in the United States.

And while those passengers may be better off in the pocketbook, it’s the Kelowna area economy that is hit hardest by what

is a nation-wide trend that the Okanagan is not immune to.

“It’s a tremendous strain on the Canadian economy,” said Sam Samaddar, Kelowna International Airport director.

“We estimate that we could be losing between 230,000 and 250,000 passengers a year out of our catchment area.

“It affects all of the industries that are here: Tourism being one of

them, the hotel industry being another.”

Samaddar was reacting to a recent study by the Hotel Association of Canada that found 21 per cent of leisure travelers said they had travelled by car the United States to purchase a less expensive airline ticket last year.

A further 11 per cent said while they hadn’t done it in 2010, they may travel to the U.S. for a cheaper flight this year.

“There is a fair bit of tax burden on the Canadian passenger these days and we know because of the difference in cost between Canada and the U.S., a lot of Canadian travelers are traveling by car to the U.S. to pick up a flight,” said Samaddar.

In the U.S., the federal government bears the cost of many of the same surcharges Canadian passengers are hit with, escalating the price of tickets in

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“At the end of the day it boils down to cost and the consumer is going to go where it has the least impact on them,” he said, noting that it’s not a new trend but one that is impacting the economy in Canada more and more.

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KGH transition taking shape Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR

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othing is as constant as change.

And nowhere in the Central Okanagan is that more evident than at Kelowna General Hospital these days.

As construction of the 33,500-square-metre Centennial Tower at KGH nears completion, the planning for the movement of several large departments into the tower is well underway.

And it is a move that will affect the entire hospital, not just the departments that are relocating.

Like a giant jigsaw puzzle, the movement of departments like emergency, renal and ambulatory care, will free up

space in existing hospital buildings elsewhere on the site, to be taken over, in turn, by other departments.

Ultimately, everything in the oldest part of the hospital, the Pandosy Building, will be moved in order to demolish it and replace it with yet another new structure, the longawaited Interior Heart and Surgical Centre.

That addition will make KGH the fifth heart centre in the province.

But KGH is not waiting for the heart centre to start performing heart surgeries.

And that is part of what the new tower will provide.

New operating rooms in the tower will allow the hospital to refit two

existing operating rooms which will be used for heart surgery starting next year.

But before that can happen, the new tower, along with a new $47-million clinical support building across the street from the main KGH site, have to be completed, commissioned and occupied.

What started in 2009 with the ground breaking for the new $215-million tower, as well as a now completed parkade and a $14-million clinical campus building for the UBC Southern Interior medical school, will continue with the addition of a $47-million clinical support building and the $448-million heart centre.

But to get to those

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INTERIOR HEALTH planner Dave Fowler walks through the new ambulatory care department in the Cenntenial Tower at KGH (top). Windows will let natural light filter through both the patient corridor leading to the new operating rooms, as well as the rooms themselves which are located to the left (above). Pressure gauges (top right) in the tower hallway. buildings, a lot of planning has had to take place for both the short- and long-term.

It’s a huge undertaking, one that involves hundreds of people, a great deal of time and coordination to make the transition a smooth one.

And, to complicate matters, those same

people spending all that time planning also have the largest and busiest hospital in the B.C. Interior to run.

According to Norma Malanowich, chief project officer for Interior Health, that has been one of the biggest challenges facing the team planning the move—the fact the work

is being done in addition to their regular work running a regional hospital.

And she is quick to credit the many department and team mangers, doctors, nurses and others who are working on the project.

So far the project has run remarkably smoothly given its size and scope

and is even slightly ahead of schedule, said Malanowich.

Graham Construction, the company building the tower, will hand it over to Interior Health Feb. 14, 2012 and the official “move-in” is slated for May 2012.

••• The expansion at KGH is currently the largest public works project outside the Lower Mainland. And it shows no signs of letting up.

While the tower is nearing completion, other projects to follow mean there is still six more years of construction to go.

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Construction project will be ongoing until 2017 Transition from A3 a massive undertaking, the planning involved for the actual move into the building has been just as big. “This is an endeavour that is bigger than any one of us has been involved in,� said Malanowich, who not only oversees the work in Kelowna but also the addition of a tower at Vernon’s Jubilee Hospital.

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sure the move is made as smoothly as possible, within a shockingly short time frame and with no interruptions to the health services provided to patients at KGH. Incredibly, the entire physical move is slated to take place over just five days.

That will mean equipment, personnel, supplies—everything.

Malanowich said the initial thought of phasing the move was dropped after the consultant hired to assist with the task recommended it be done as quickly as possible to mitigate problems.

Health Relocations, a Canadian company that has assisted hospitals with similar moves across North America in the past, is considered the expert when it comes to a relocation like this.

But in the case of the hospitals’ busiest department, emergency, the timeframe for the move is even shorter.

According to ER boss and medical director Dr. Mike Ertel, his department will start operation in its existing location one day and finish the next day in entirely new quarters.

The one-day move will be a massive undertaking. “Basically our whole department will be bubble-wrapped and shipped over,� he said, admitting while he is excited about the new larger space— four times as large as the existing emergency de-

partment—the move is providing logistical challenges and creating a level of anxiety in many of his staff.

To help prepare the emergency room staff for their new digs, KGH has been offering tours to staff who will be moving to the new tower so they can see for themselves the areas where they will be working.

Last year, the emergency department saw 55,000 people come through its doors. With the move to a larger area, hospital officials expect that number to grow by as much as 10 per cent next year.

Like all aspects of the expansion, the addition to KGH is expected to satisfy the anticipated needs of the hospital until 2025.

The change from the current, cramped emergency department to the first floor of the new tower is expected to be one of the most visible changes to the public.

Currently, while the hospital’s streaming system for having patients seen by a doctor faster is working well, the lack of space inside the department has forced it to have patients sitting in chairs in hallways for hours.

But with much more room and a modern facility, those days are coming to an end, say KGH officials.

The new building and new department has also prompted more people to want to work at KGH, said Ertel.

While he has hired two new doctors to join the 16 he already has on staff, he said he has a pile of resumĂŠs on his desk from other doctors who want to work here. “There’s no doubt the new building is a drawing

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DAVE FOWLER, project planner with Interior Health, in one of the double x-ray rooms in the Centennial tower.

The doors he is opening will allow an x-ray operator to control a ceiling-mounted camera on either side of the room. card,� he said.

Ertel added the search for new doctors started early here because of competition from other parts of the country. A new hospital being build in southern Alberta was considered a major competitor to KGH. In addition to the new emergency department, the Centennial Tower will also feature a new ambulatory department on the second floor.

Like emergency, that area is expected to handle one of the highest patient volumes as it will be where procedures such as day surgeries and other non-admitting clinical duties will be carried out.

The floor will also house the new ophthalmology and respiratory departments.

The third floor will house the renal dialysis unit, as well as five new operating rooms, part of the new surgical suites.

The addition of those operating rooms will allow KGH to refit the two existing operating rooms that will be used for heart surgery starting next year.

With angioplasties already being done at the hospital, the cardiac care

program will expand even before the heart centre building is completed in 2017.

The fourth floor of the new tower will be mainly a mechanical floor for the building, but it will also house a lounge and sleeping areas for medical students working at KGH now that it has become a full teaching hospital as part of the UBC medical school.

The fifth floor will be used for the new inpatient psychiatry unit and the sixth floor will be partly used for new inpatient beds and allow for future expansion at KGH. Originall,y the top two floors were to be roughed in and used for expansion later, but additional money from the regional health district allowed them to be opened right away.

In addition to the new departments, a helipad has been built on the roof, meaning medical arrivals and evacuations will no longer have to go to the airport and be transferred to the hospital by ambulance.

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The support building will house the hospital’s laboratory and other support services. It is slated to open in conjunction with the Centennial tower next spring. ••• To many who pass it, the new tower looks finished on the outside. But inside it is still a hive of activity as the deadline looms.

In addition to the finishings expected in any building to be used by the public, the fact it is a hospital requires a myriad of other technical considerations.

Once installed those technical aspects, as well as everything else, will need to be tested during the building’s extensive commissioning.

Once completed, it will take several months for the building to be fully tested to make sure it is ready for the hand over in February.

And then there is the massive amount of equipment that has to be moved from one location to another and the new equipment that cannot be installed until after the work crews clean up and go home. Those installations will take place next spring before the opening.

Despite the scale of the job, Interior Health planner Dave Fowler said construction has gone well with no major problems.

Sitting on a massive concrete base, the tower may appear attached to the hospital’s other tower

but it is not.

It is only connected to it. That’s because the existing tower was not built to the same seismic standards—rules have changed in recent years —so it could not be attached without having to retrofit the existing tower.

Walking through the new building it’s clear there will be much more space for individual departments.

Wide corridors, large areas that will be nursing stations, waiting rooms, surgical suites, a new towering lobby and other open areas abound.

As a LEED gold building, it is being built to be as energy efficient as possible, even providing the option of natural light for the new operating rooms as well as in many other areas of the building.

According to Graham Construction officials, 250 workers have worked on site.

The addition of the tower, as well as the other new buildings, is part of an eight-year construction project started in 2009 at KGH and scheduled to run until 2017.

It is expected to solidify KGH’s place as the major tertiary hospital in the B.C. Interior. “It’s a very exciting time for us,� said Tracy MacDonald, health services administrator for Interior Health and woman in charge of KGH. “The project is called building patient care, and that’s what this is all really about.� awaters@kelownacapnews.com

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Bus drivers looking for a ‘minor’ wage hike Kathy Michaels STAFF REPORTER

Transit riders can rest assured, their buses will roll along as scheduled even if drivers vote yes on Sunday to a strike.

Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union have been without a contract since March. This weekend, they’ll see the latest deal offered from First Canada, the company that operates the provincial contract. “This is the last offer from the company, and we expect it to be turned down and take a strike vote at that time,� said Les Milton, union president. “But we don’t want to upset our riders. Even if we get a successful strike vote, it doesn’t mean we’re on strike.

There will be lots of notice.�

Milton explained that bus drivers in Kelowna have been without a contract since March, and they’re holding out until the company that operates the provin-

cial transit contract gives them a cost of living increase and a “minor raise.� “We’re caught—that’s the easiest way to describe it,� he said. “We work for a large multinational transit provider that bids on contracts from B.C. Transit.�

B.C. Transit deals with the company, and the union lobbies through them.

Unfortunately, said Milton, they’ve opted not to negotiate wages, choosing to toe the provincial government’s line by offering zero contract increases to public sector employees. “The offer we got was minimal and the drivers in Kelowna believe they’re entitled to a standard of living increase, and a meager raise,� he said.

Alongside Kelowna bus drivers’ First Canada contract troubles are similar issues in Kamloops. Last week they had a successful strike vote of 98 per cent.

Vernon drivers won’t see their contract expire until next year. kmichaels@kelownacapnews.com

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Fire protection area extended at south end of Lakeshore Road Mike Simmons STAFF REPORTER

An additional 50 hectares of property on the south end of Lakeshore Road has been added into the fire protection area.

The board of the Regional District of Central Okanagan voted Feb. 21 to extend the Lakeshore Road fire protection area to encompass the additional waterfront property.

Under the service area, fire protection is provided by the city of Kelowna fire department.

Regional district communications coordinator Bruce Smith said another similar area is near Brent Road, just south of Peachland.

A group of 10 to 15 property owners agreed that they wanted some kind of fire protection.

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Smith noted fire services for the Brent Road area were contracted with the district of Peachland fire department.

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A police officer who was involved in the rescue of an elderly woman during the Seclusion Bay fire last summer has saved another life, RCMP say.

Around 4 a.m. on Friday, police received a call that a grey SUV was parked near Richter Street and Cawston Avenue with its engine revving for around 20 minutes and that smoke was coming from the engine compartment. “Upon arrival, police found a male passed out behind the driver’s seat of the vehicle that was now on fire,� said Const. Steve Holmes. “Police tried to wake the driver, with no success, so a rear window had to be broken out for officers to unlock the vehicle. “The driver was pulled to safety as the flames began to engulf the vehicle.�

Fire crews arrived to put out the blaze and police officers say the rescued man, who had regained consciousness, was exhibiting symptoms of alcohol impairment.

After being medically cleared, the 27-year-old Osoyoos man was taken to the RCMP detachment and provided breath samples that police say were two and a half times the

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He was later released on a promise to appear in court on recommended charges of impaired driving and having a blood alcohol level over .08. “Police are grateful to the member of the public who called in the incident in a timely manner,� said Holmes. “Were it not for the public’s assistance and the quick thinking of police at the scene, the driver may have perished in the ensuing fire.�

He also added that the officer who pulled the driver to safety—Const.

Greg Barnard—assisted in the rescue of a woman during the Seclusion Bay wildfire last summer. At the time, he was an auxiliary officer.

As part of the evacuations, he and another officer woke a sleeping woman and escorted her to safety as trees started to burn around them. They were taken to safety by a Kelowna Fire Rescue boat that was waiting for evacuees.

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Medical training journey led to Ecuador Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER

After leaving Kelowna, Sarah Pawlitsky was looking for adventure.

She went away to school, set her sights on medicine, and started doing the hard work needed to become a doctor, returning to Kelowna during the summers to work.

Then last year, a Vancouver-based company started by two brothers from Ecuador—one in Canada to play soccer and the other one to attend medical school— helped her see a side of the world, and her chosen profession, she never expected. “It was one of those trips that once you come home and you sit down and you think about everything that happened, it’s just surreal,� she said.

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SARAH PAWLITSKY and her young friend Mia pose for the camera in Chunchi, the small village where Pawlitsky completed the “help� portion of her Help, Learn, Discover project. like in another part of the world. The group learns about life in a developing country, helps those in need and discovers what practicing medicine, or their chosen field of study, is like from the trenches.

“Medicine is so glamourized these days with all the TV shows,� said Pawlitsky. “But it’s really not as glamorous as people might think. It’s definitely a job that takes a lot out of you.�

Pawlitsky travelled to Ecuador in May with her group of fellow students who managed to raise $25,000 in just over a month to complete the help portion of their adventure.

The money was put toward building homes in a rural portion of the country where the students learned to appreciate what life is like in the developing world.

From there, Pawlitsky started to learn about medicine, working in five rotations—surgery, emergency medicine, rehabilitation, internal medicine and with MRI and X-Ray technology.

The medical system in Canada and Ecuador are quite similar, she found. “The public sector, like Canada, is open to all residents of the country,� she said. “So it’s there but, of course, with so many people and so little funding it’s not as polished as the public sector. “So if you imagine, you sit in an emergency room as opposed to going to a specialist where you make an appointment and they see you right away.

That’s the difference.�

Students can opt to look into other careers and areas of study as well, spending extra time in the project village looking at social, economic or health care issues, or exploring the biodiversity of the Galapagos Islands.

At the end of the trip, the company elects to ask certain students to return as leaders and Pawlitsky was among them.

She now wants other students in her hometown of Kelowna to know about the opportunity.

For more information on the program see www. ecuaexperience.com.

The application deadline is March 18. jsmith@kelownacapnews.com

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Surgeon named to head up new cardiac surgery program here Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR

Interior Health has tapped Vancouver General Hospital’s cardiology program for the doctor who will head up its new cardiac surgery program at KGH. Dr. Guy Fradet, the head of Vancouver General’s division of cardiovascular surgery and medical director of cardiac surgery at VGH, has been named to the new KGH post.

He is scheduled to make his first public appearance since accepting the job next week during a news conference in Kelowna. At the news conference he is expected to present his vision for the local program.

Fradet was not at his Vancouver office Friday and could not be reached for comment. Interior Health officials refused to comment on the hiring, saying it would not make any comment until next week’s news conference.

But last week, Interior Health CEO Dr. Robert Halpenny confirmed the health authority had found its man, and had made an offer which had been accepted. At the time he did not identify Fradet.

The cardiac program at KGH has been evolving

in recent years.

In 2009, doctors here started performing angioplasties in preparation for a provincial government announcement last year that it will fund the creation of a $448-million cardiac care centre here.

Construction of the new Interior Heart and Surgery Centre will start in 2013 and is expected to be complete by 2017.

In the meantime, KGH will start offering cardiac surgery at the hospital, using two specially refitted operating rooms that will be made available as a result of the opening of the new patient care tower at KGH next spring.

The opening of the heart centre will make KGH the fifth full cardiac care site in the province, and the first outside of the Lower Mainland and Victoria. Fradet, a well-known cardiologist in the Lower Mainland, is also the associate head of the cardiovascular surgery division at UBC. He graduated from medical school at Laval University in Quebec in 1979 and attended both Montreal’s McGill University and UBC during his training as a surgeon.

His specialties are adult cardiac surgery and general thoracic surgery. awaters@kelownacapnews.com

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Up to five board members positions are currently available. “With our focus on community events, we’re looking for people who have a passion for serving their community and making it a better place to live,� said Festivals Kelowna president Ryan Donn.

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Ticket protest takes to the streets

Cheryl Wierda

If you were parked downtown this week, and got a strange looking violation ticket on your windshield, chances are you shouldn’t have to worry about paying the piper.

Not yet anyway.

A Kelowna group concerned about the CRTC’s recent decision to allow large Internet providers to charge for excessive bandwidth use, while granting independent Internet service providers a small discount, planned to gather at the Sails Saturday.

From there they planned to disperse tickets that warn locals about a new financial burden that could soon be levied.

“The tickets offer a cheeky representation of what’s going on with the CRTC putting a meter on the Internet,” said event organizer Laura Mark, Friday afternoon.

“It pokes some fun at what’s happening, while bringing awareness.”

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A Kelowna man has been granted bail after being arrested for allegedly exposing his genitals to young women at area bus stops over the past five months.

Police announced Friday afternoon that Gregory Joseph Nerlinger, 37, was charged with five counts of committing an indecent act for incidents that occurred between Oct. 6, 2010, and Jan. 28.

Police, however, indicate that their investigation dates back much further, saying that since 2006 there have been 14 documented cases of indecent acts that targeted lone female victims at bus stops, including some in the Baron Road area.

In each case, a man would find a young woman—they ranged in age from 15 to 41—who was alone at a transit stop at night and “deliberately” expose his genitals to the women, sometimes even masturbating in front of the woman.

In 2009, the Kelowna RCMP General Inves-

tigation Section began working on the case after it became “apparent that there were similarities between several of the incidents that set them apart from other indecent act incidents that had been reported,” said Const. Steve Holmes.

Investigators turned to the RCMP’s behavioural sciences section to help further the investigation, but the turning point came in December.

That’s when a transit driver, who picked up a woman who had allegedly just been victimized, ran after the suspect and took down the licence plate number of the vehicle he drove away in.

After receiving that information, detectives reinterviewed witnesses, conducted photo lineups and surveillance and prepared a report to Crown counsel.

Crown counsel recently approved five counts of committing an indecent act, all which occurred in the past five months, and a warrant of arrest was issued for Nerlinger.

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the charge is considered a summary conviction-type offence, meaning that incidents must come before the courts within six months of occurrence if they are to be prosecuted.

However, Holmes says it “is a strong possibility” that all 14 offences, dating back to 2006, were committed by the same person.

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Mental health examined Kevin Parnell STAFF REPORTER

It’s one of the most misunderstood mental health disorders, something local officials hope to change in March with the first of four mental health forums.

Borderline Personality Disorder will be the topic of discussion at the 2011 Knowledge is Power Series: Part 1, being held March 10 at the Canadian Mental Health Association in Kelowna.

Known as BPD, Borderline Personality Disorder affects between two and three per cent of Canada’s population. It is often misdiagnosed and frequently misunderstood.

“We’re hoping to educate people about what Borderline Personality

Disorder is and what treatments are out there,” said Charly Sinclair, with the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Kelowna branch. “It’s not very well understood.”

Key for people suffering from BPD is to get a proper diagnosis of the disorder, said Sinclair. People suffering with BPD often physically harm themselves and have impulsive behaviours, deal with substance abuse and emotional upheaval.

“They are dealing with a lot of extreme emotion,” said Sinclair. “They have relationship problems.

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BPD affects 11 per cent of all mental health patients and 75 per cent of sufferers are women. Ten per cent of people diagnosed with the disease have committed suicide, according to CMHA. “It’s a very serious disorder and it requires a lot of help,” said Sinclair.

The BPD forum is one of four that will be held by the Canadian Mental Health Association this year. Other topics to be covered will be the stigma around bullying, attention deficit disorder and eating disorders. The BPD forum will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m., March 10. You must register because seating is limited. Call 250861-3644 or email kelowna@cmha.bc.ca.

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Exhibit challenges housing ideas Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER

One can have a house without a home, but can one have a home without a house?

Or is it a house of cards?

UBCO graduate Sue Bizecki explores the issue of home with a grouping of paper houses and interactive activities that should leave residents of Kelowna questioning the meaning of this critical element of our lives.

“I sort of consider this a departure point,” said Bizecki who is hoping the show will continue touring beyond the Okanagan borders.

A critical part of the exhibit is its interactive nature.

As part of the work, Bizecki interviewed people on their concepts of home for a video component, and she really wants to build this portion much larger.

“You never know how that public element is going to go,” she said, noting she was quite surprised by

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UBC OKANAGAN graduate Sue Bizecki has created a new art exhibit that explores the issue of home with a grouping of paper houses and interactive activities that search for deeper meaning behind this critical element in our lives—housing. how many people have contributed to various aspects of the work.

“I think it’s the topic,” she said. “There’s a playfulness to the piece.”

Those who go through the Alternator Gallery are encouraged to take one of the cookie cutter paper homes and contribute to building the model community.

This has reportedly been quite a hit with people transiting through the Rotary Arts Centre—particularly the kids.

Bizecki herself is by contrast a seasoned professional.

Graduating from UBCO in 2006 she now works locally in government communications and works as a professional artist on the side.

Her passion lies in video work and she plans to show this exhibit at the Vernon Public Art Gallery where she will continue to build on that video component.

To contribute to the video work please call her at 250-868-3574. jsmith@kelownacapnews.com

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NEWS ▟ CANADA’S NATIONAL DEBT

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GREGORY THOMAS, with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, with his organization’s debt clock, currently on a cross-Canada tour. he considered them “too Draconian.�

But Thomas said history can teach the Tories a lesson. He said after years of not dealing with the debt, the Liberals under former prime minister Jean Chretien were forced to address it and the cuts his then-finance minister

Paul Martin made, were very tough. “They were a lot tougher, and you (may) argue stupid cuts that did not have to be made,� said Thomas.

Before the federal government can deal with the current national debt, it has to wrestle Canada’s

annual deficit of $50 billion down. Ottawa says it is currently working through a plan to do that over the next four years.

Meanwhile, it is paying off some debt and plans to make bigger payments when the budget is balanced. awaters@kelownacapnews.com

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When your ears buzz and ring it is more than just an irritating form of hearing loss, it is also associated with more serious health conditions including dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.

Do you feel guilty that you have to constantly use your “human hearing aid�, your spouse or an adult child? This is when you have to constantly ask them what someone else said or what is happening in the movie and on TV. Does your family laugh at what you say because you keep on mishearing what others are saying? Is it getting so bad that you and your family are worried that your problem is more than just poor hearing, that you are developing dementia or even Alzheimer's Disease? This concern is more real than you may think or even hope.

Researchers reported in the February 2011 edition of the medical journal “Archives of Neurology� that increased hearing loss is associated with an increased development of dementia and Alzheimer's Disease. In this study those people who had severe hearing loss were five times more likely to develop dementia than a person with normal hearing. The people in this study who had moderate hearing loss had a three times increase in developing dementia, and those people with mild hearing loss were only twice as likely to develop dementia. For every 10 decibels of hearing loss the risk of dementia increased by roughly 20 per cent.

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A West Kelowna man convicted of manslaughter in the 2007 death of his roommate has been denied full parole as he has “yet to mitigate� his risk for violence.

Cameron Simpson, 34, was also denied day parole, recently released documents indicate.

Simpson was sentenced to federal jail time nearly a year ago after being convicted of stabbing 34-year-old Robert Isaac in their Stevens Road home after a dispute over whether Simpson could entertain a couple of women at the home.

In their decision, the parole board said they believed Simpson’s positive behaviour in the community before sentencing and his recent positive progress in prison were a “definite step in the right direction,� but that his risk for violence remains too high.

The parole board decision noted Simpson has not addressed his violence

through programming and remains an untreated violent offender.

He also has refused to take responsibility for his criminal behaviour, still insisting the stabbing was an act of self-defence.

The report continued that Simpson has also been assessed as a moderate risk for general and violent behaviour, saying he has refused to work openly and honestly with his case management team.

Prison officials working with Simpson to develop a plan for escorted temporary absences say he began to display behavioural problems and was not “fully disclosive� with his case management team.

He’s since been transferred to a medium security institution, where he asked to be placed in segregation in the early weeks after experiencing issues with other offenders. Simpson, who has no previous criminal record, is currently serving a three year, eight and a half month sentence for the Nov. 3, 2007 manslaughter.

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The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation Debt Clock passed through Kelowna Friday. And during the short time it was here, it recorded thousands of more dollars the federal government owes.

The clock, first used in the 1990s and rescued recently from a barn in rural Ontario where it was being used as a billboard, is the latest attempt by the CTF to publicize the spending habits of the federal government. “From 1997 to 2008, $100 billion (of debt) was paid off,� said Gregory Thomas, B.C. communications director for the federation. “But in the last two years, it has almost all been borrowed back.�

According to the debt clock, the current national debt stands at more than $560 billion and growing by the second. That’s more than 16,000 for every man, woman and child in Canada.

Thomas said the debt clock is currently traveling across the country, having started its trip in Victoria last Tuesday.

Mounted on a trailer and pulled by an SUV, the clock will stop along its journey to Newfoundland between now and the end of March, including a ceremonial stop in Ottawa.

But one place it will not be allowed to stop is at the very place where the decisions that lead to Canada’s debt load are made — Parliament Hill.

Thomas said on Friday the federation was told it will not be allowed to park on Parliament Hill because the generator that powers the clock could leak fuel.

As for ways to reduce the debt, the CTF is advocating a more aggressive repayment plan than the minority Conservative government is currently employing.

Thomas said the federation has proposed a series of cuts to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty but

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Lawyers killed native title legislation To the editor: Re: Campbell Exits, His Legacy Still Uncertain (Feb. 25 Capital News).

I appreciated Tom Fletcher’s column regarding the Campbell legacy. When it comes to the new relationship, I share in the premier’s disappointment that we could not advance the proposal for Recognition and Reconciliation legislation.

I was a member of the Leadership Council then and I led the community engagement with First Nations leaders and citizens. I worked hard to air out issues, questions and concerns, to inform us as we moved the work forward.

Most unfortunately, the lawyers for industry, First Nations, local governments, and others recommended the status quo to their clients. This advice, self-serving to the extreme, benefitted only the lawyers. Recognition and Reconciliation legislation failed because governments, industry and First Nations could not manage irrational fears and their legal counsel.

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Protest is good, until it becomes ‘pointless caterwauling’

M

oaning about Canada’s shortcomings has a certain je ne sais quoi.

It’s cathartic to bash the land known for its polite residents’ ability to resist cold and blindly accept higher prices for everything from escape flights to books.

When I’m really exploring my inner malcontent I can wax on quite eloquently—disregarding assertions to the contrary—about everything from taxes to apathy.

It’s a bit like poking a baby, frankly. Not hard enough to cause it pain, so we’re clear; just enough to let it know you’re aware of what’s under that soft, squishy surface and it’s not all rainbows and puppy dogs. Sometimes it’s downright stinky, even if the majority thinks

to say so.

KATHARTIC it’s impolite Taking this griping/

pastime a step further is delighting in other’s more colourful objections to the status quo, especially when they apKathy pear in the form of public Michaels demonstrations.

Between placards and feisty bon mots shouted over loudspeakers, it’s thrilling to hear people impassioned about a particular issue get their say.

And honestly when it comes to being a reporter, nothing makes better news copy than a public demonstration.

There are tears, jeers, gripping stories and—as we have seen in Libya and Egypt in recent weeks—before everything gets boiled down to 400 words or a three-minute segment, an opportunity for average Joes and Janes to enact

change.

Like all good things, however, there are limits. So it’s not too surprising that there are occasions when what’s been cloaked as a good old cry against injustice, sounds more like pointless caterwauling. Times when voices really shouldn’t be heard at top volume, or at all for that matter.

That, from my view, was the case a couple of times in recent weeks.

While episodes of Mountie misconduct shouldn’t be taken lightly, some of those who chose to have their say should be. I agree it’s clear a few Mounties have made the unfortunate choice to live up to the brutish, moustachioed stereotype that dogs all police forces. I’d go so far as to say their operations are too closed off from the public, and when complaints come to the fore there needs to be an external body sussing out every detail.

But, unlike what some protestors at a recent Kelowna rally would have you believe through their mindless shouts and placards reading Royal Canadian Mubarak Police, we don’t have Hosni Mubarak’s police force.

Sure, there are a few officers who could likely do well in a no-holdsbarred model of policing, but in more situations than not, they’re not really afforded the opportunity and drawing the comparison isn’t just stupid, it’s offensive.

It’s offensive to the men and women who have fought for real change a world away through protest, risking actual life and limb.

Worse yet, it’s offensive that one of my favourite pastimes was tainted.

Kathy Michaels covers local politics for the Capital News. kmichaels@kelownacapnews.com

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B.C. politics devoid of courageous people To the editor: Re: Campbell Exits, His Legacy Still Uncertain (Feb. 23 Capital News).

I am dismayed about such a simple, misinformed and inaccurate column. There is no mention about our debt, which

has risen 16 per cent to a total of $48 billion and consumes 24.3 per cent of our provincial GDP! The interest on this debt is consuming $8 million dollars a day—down the drain for what?

Adding the provincial

debt to the federal at $650 billion and it paints a picture of a house of cards that is starting to and will collapse.

Responsible reporting and government would have put this front and centre.

I wonder if any of you look at what is happening in the U.S. where they threw tax monies down the drain, satisfying vote buying and a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy.

The time has come to address these issues and

we need educated people with courage to do it. I can’t see any here or, for that matter, in any party right now.

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Campbell’s leadership created opportunity First Nations A10 ship and advocacy that resulted in the madein-B.C. Transformative Change Accord. This tripartite agreement, inked by then-Prime Minister Paul Martin, Premier Campbell, and the Leadership Council of the day (including me) continues today.

It is true that the Conservative government rejected the Phil Fontaine-led Kelowna Accord. The Harper government supports the made-in-B.C. Transformative Change Accord.

It is this accord that created the space and opportunity that resulted in the tripartite First Nations health plan.

This tripartite health plan calls for the creation of a First Nations Health Authority that will take control of decision-making on funding, policy, and services directed to First Nations citizens in B.C. We are working in partnership with Health Canada and the B.C. Ministry of Health Services to reach a legal agreement on moving this work forward.

Premier Campbell provided leadership

and advocacy that created a significant opportunity for First Nations to take an active role in closing the gap in health status. In this regard, Premier Campbell has reason to be proud of his work to improve the well-being of First Nations citizens in B.C. Grand Chief Doug Kelly chair, First Nations Health Council West Vancouver

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“There’s nothing I can do about it.”

Fortunately for Canadians, our Conservative government has a different diagnosis. Since 2006, our government has provided tax relief by significantly reducing the tax burden for Canadians. Today, it’s estimated that an average family living in Canada can save as much as $3,000 in income tax.

In the next few days you will be able to go to my website at www.cannan.ca to access our annual tax guide which outlines the tax breaks that are available to families, individuals, seniors and small business.

The Canada Revenue Agency is also available to answer any of your tax questions and can be reached at www.cra-arc. gc.ca or 1-800-959-8281.

This concerted effort to provide tax relief both at a personal and business level has not only helped us get through the worst of the global recession, it is fiscally sustainable.

It also lays the foundation for strong growth in our economy by establishing Canada as a low tax jurisdiction for investment.

Investment is key to any economy. It gener-

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Ron Cannan ates improvements in productivity, leading to wage increases, the creation of new jobs, stronger economic growth and a higher standard of living for Canadians. Now, Canada leads the G-7 with the lowest overall tax rate on new business investment, where just a few years ago we badly trailed some of our key competitors.

As well, our government’s move, prior to the recession, to use surplus budgets to pay down significant amounts of debt—a record $38 billion—enabled us to tackle the global recession with effective stimulus measures to maintain jobs.

By investing primarily in infrastructure spending, in partnership with the provinces and municipalities, we not only ensured that the stimulus funding was going directly into local infrastructure projects where it was needed, it was an investment in the growth of our local economy.

Attention to our debt also enabled us to take

measures to protect those who did lose their jobs in the recession by increasing the number of weeks long term employees could collect EI, by extending programs like Workshare, which many of our local manufacturers depend upon, and by freezing increases in EI payments during the recession.

In the coming weeks, much will be made of the fact that we carry a deficit. It will be characterized by some as a waste of taxpayers’ money. But it is important to consider what our economy would look like had the government stood by and done nothing.

Our commitment to paying down the debt certainly helped put us in a good position going into the recession just as our commitment to reducing the deficit, one-third in 2011-12, less than onehalf of this year’s deficit in 2012-13 and a balanced budget by 2015—will stand us in good stead.

Speaking of a strong local economy, this week I had the pleasure of touring a local company, SkyTrac Systems, which is one of world’s most trusted providers of satellite communications systems for aircraft operators.

My host was Stephen Fuhr, vice-president of the family owned and operated company. Stephen retired a few years ago after having a very dis-

tinguished career as an Air Force pilot. Skytrac employs more than 50 people in our community and has customers on every continent.

Our aviation industry is an important employment cluster for our Okanagan Valley, particularly to graduates from Okanagan College and UBCO, and is the kind of industry that will benefit from our corporate tax cuts. I wish Stephen and his team nothing but continued success.

I’d also like to extend congratulations to Shelley Cook and the John Howard Society on the groundbreaking of another social housing project. This is another great example of a community organization working in partnership with all levels of government to

help provide hope for the homeless.

Last but not least, I had the opportunity to sit down with Karen Hawes, the incoming president of the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce. I look forward to working with Karen and the chamber to help make our community more prosperous than ever. On behalf of the community, I extend many thanks to outgoing president Wesley Shields for his dedication and commitment to the economic growth of Kelowna.

As always, if you wish to discuss any federally-related concerns, don’t hesitate to contact me at 250-470-5075 or ron@ cannan.ca.

Ron Cannan is the MP for Kelowna-Lake Country.

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Kantz’s stellar athletic, academic career acknowledged Kevin Parnell STAFF REPORTER

With a break between the end of the regular season and the upcoming provincial championships, the UBCO Heat women’s basketball team is busy preparing to defend its provincial title.

For team captain Jenna Kantz, playing out her fifth and final year at UBCO, it’s a time to look back on a prolific career with the Heat and look ahead to ending her collegiate basketball career on a high note.

Kantz, 22, was honoured by the Heat last weekend as the fifth year player competed in her final regular season game with the Heat.

“It was cool,” she said.

“Playing my last league game at home was really special. It’s quite sad to have my basketball career coming to an end but I’m really excited about prov-

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UBCO HEAT women’s basketball player Jenna Kantz is playing out her final season and has become the all time leading scorer in women’s basketball there. incials. We’re hoping we can come away with the provincial title.”

Kantz closed out her regular season much the same way she has played

for her entire career, with a strong performance including 19 points, five rebounds, six assists, three steals and the player of the game award.

In a special post-game ceremony, athletics director Rob Johnson and head coach Heather Semeniuk praised Kantz’s excellence in both athletics and academics, noting her positive attitude and strong work ethic on and off the court, giving a nod to her incredible 95 per cent average in her studies at UBCO. Kantz finished her BCCAA career with an astounding 862 points, the all-time scoring record at UBCO. She also had a career 418 rebounds and 276 assists.

“She’s just an all around package,” said Semeniuk. “We count on her. She’s a wonderful person and a great team player. There isn’t a thing not to like about her.”

Her teammates also presented her with a gift: Pictures of her and her teammates that each player signed with a message.

“It was really special that was for sure,” said Kantz, noting that she had requested the ceremony be held after the game because it was such an emotional moment. “It was really touching, a really special event. It will definitely be something I will remember forever.”

Coming out of Princess Margaret Secondary in Penticton, Kantz tore her knee in her freshman year but was back the next year better than ever. Tenacious on defense, she was a great passer and this year has become one of the top scorers in the BCCAA. A few games ago she became the highest scoring woman in the history of the women’s basketball program at UBCO, passing former OUC Lakers player Mandy Trenholm

(see story below).

“I’m really proud of myself for being able to do that,” she said. “I wasn’t aware at all about this record until just recently. It’s a great honour.”

Kantz has managed to bounce between the basketball court and the classroom, taking UBCO’s intense nursing program and now working at Kelowna General Hospital as part of her course’s practicum.

For coach Semeniuk, Kantz is the perfect example of a student-athlete who has had success in the UBCO program.

“It’s picture perfect really,” said Semeniuk.

“She made the commitment to the program here and it was such a good fit.

She found her niche and she found her program in school. The nursing program is a wonderful program and we were lucky that she chose us.”

Kantz credits both

her coaches and her professors for allowing her to perform to high standards on the court and in the classroom. Now with just the provincials to play in before starting her nursing career and moving into the women’s basketball league in Kelowna, the shooting guard finds herself looking back at a long and prosperous college career.

“I remember being in my first year and thinking that I still have so many more years to play,” she said. “Now that I’m in fifth year it feels like it has gone by so fast. It’s unbelievable how fast it flies by but I enjoyed all of my years equally.”

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Trenholm unaware she had held UBCO scoring record Kevin Parnell STAFF REPORTER

Former Kelowna collegiate basketball star Mandy Trenholm had no idea she was in the record books at UBCO. Maybe that’s because she was too busy.

Since finishing a five year collegiate career— first with the OUC Lakers, then at UBCO— Trenholm has completed her bachelor of education degree to go along with the bachelor of science she earned at UBCO. With her playing career over she moved into coaching basketball, first at the elementary level and this year with the KSS senior girls team as an assistant coach.

And now she’s working as a teacher-on-call for the Central Okanagan School District as she looks to secure a full-time teaching position.

So when graduating player Jenna Kantz (story above) passed Trenholm’s all-time scoring mark in the women’s basketball program, it was news to her.

“I found out through the news that I did have that record,” said Trenholm with a laugh this week. “When I found out I was really honoured.

I put a lot of hard work into the program so it was nice to hear. When I was playing I was Mandy Trenholm really passionate about it so if I had a break I was in the gym shooting and practicing.”

Now 25, Trenholm remains passionate about the sport of basketball. As an assistant coach at KSS she is focussed on making today’s high school players aware of what opportunities are out there after high school.

“I find it very rewarding,” she said of coaching. “Some of the girls are really eager and want

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Coming out of the basketball hotbed of Salmon Arm, Trenholm joined what was then the OUC Lakers. The team would medal at the provincials each of the five years Trenholm played as the versatile 5-foot-9 player hit the court at every position.

“For me as a player each game was a challenge and I did as much as a I possibly could to make our team successful,” she said. “My overall goal was to help the team get to where we wanted to for that season.”

Trenholm also was in the unique position of playing through the transition from OUC to UBCO as she played her final two years for the UBCO Lakers, graduating the year before the sports teams at UBCO became known as the Heat.

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Growing up in Salmon Arm with the Jewels basketball program, Trenholm knows what it takes to have a successful high school program.

Now as an assistant with KSS senior girls— ranked just outside of the top 10 in the provincial rankings—Trenholm is excited to be able to try and build a solid program in Kelowna.

“You have to have coaches at the lower levels that are doing the same things we are doing in senior ball so it’s not a big change when players get to senior,” she said, noting that her passion for the sport hasn’t changed from being a player to a coach. “I love basketball whether I’m playing or coaching. I’m very passionate about it. For me being a coach is about helping build players’ fundamentals and helping them move on to the next level if that’s what they want.”

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Kelowna’s Special O team wins silver at B.C. championship Kelowna Special Olympic athletes had great performances at the Special Olympics B.C. Provincial Curling Championships held in Coquitlam on Feb. 11 and 12. r Twenty-two Special Olympic B.C. (SOBC) curling teams competed for medals by division.

Kelowna sent a team that competed in Division C while several individuals also took part, playing on different teams.

Kelowna’s team

convsisted of Teri-Kay Lawrence, Dayle Booth, Joanne Seefried, Jonathan MacDonald, with coaches Cheryl Longeway and Jason Jensen.

They competed with teams from Powell River, Port Alberni, Oceanside and Nakusp.

In the final the Kelowna team came up just short and claimed a silver medal.

“The final game was an intense game as our team was up against some

difficult ends,” said coach Longeway. “We managed to bounce back taking three in the last end.”

The Kelowna rink came home proudly with a silver medal and their win was also celebrated by the Kelowna Curling Club, a long time supporter of Special Olympics in Kelowna.

In addition to the Kelowna team, three other members of Special Olympics-Kelowna had the opportunity to com-

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WESTSIDE WARRIORS forward Grayson Downing has been named the BCHL Interior Conference’s most sportsmanlike player.

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Downing a unique blend of size, skill, smarts recognized this week as the BCHL named an all rookie team for the first time in many years.

Boyle was 20-16-1 with a 3.02 save percentage and a .902 save percentage this season.

••• The Warriors opened its first round BCHL playoff series on Friday night at Royal LePage Place in West Kelowna, hosting the Trail Smoke Eaters.

Game two was Saturday night. Due to the Capital News press deadline, the results of those games

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If necessary the series will shift back to Westside for games five and seven on Thursday and Saturday while a potential game six would take place on Friday night in Trail.

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Westside Warriors forward Grayson Downing has been announced as the Most Sportsmanlike Player in the Interior Conferrence for the 2010/2011 BCHL season. r Downing was second in team scoring with 70 points (34G, 36A) in 52 games played. He also finished 15th in league scoring, while compiling only 30 penalty minutes.

Downing amassed those feats while missing significant time playing for Team Canada West at the World Junior A Challenge in Penticton last November.

The 18 year old is already in his third season with the Warriors and will be suiting up next year for New Hampshire and playing NCAA Division 1 hockey.

At 6’1 and 185 pounds Downing is a unique blend of size, skill and smarts on and off the ice.

Rookie Warriors goalie Kevin Boyle was also

pete at the championships as they were loaned out to help out other B.C. teams.

Angie Young and Danny Sperling competed as members of the Princeton team and sixteen year old Jake Penney curled with Penticton and earned a silver medal in Division A. “It was awesome!”

Jake said of his SOBC provincial championships experience.

••• The Kelowna Cougars floor hockey team took part in the 2011 Special Olympics B.C. Provincial Floor Hockey Championship on Feb. 18 and 19 at the UBC Student Recreation Centre in Vancouver.

The Cougars were seeded in the top division along with four other B.C. teams including Abbotsford, Burnaby, Island Composite, and Nanaimo.

The Kelowna Cougars came home with a silver medal after being edged out of the gold medal by Nanaimo.

“We came oh so close to winning gold,” said coach Bill Farley. “Our only loss came in our first game when the Nanaimo team scored a goal with about one minute remaining, breaking a 2-2 tie. For the next four games, we were undefeated and won convincingly. The Cougars played very hard, maintained their composure and focus and continued to be very professional. Our goalie, Ryan Courtemanche did a terrific job and got a shutout (40) in our fourth game.”

••• The Special Olympics B.C. Winter Games are coming to the area.

Eighteen cross country athletes will be competing in the SOBC Winter Games this coming Friday and Saturday at Telemark and five athletes will

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Five alpine athletes will be competing in the alpine event of the SOBC Winter Games at Crystal

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••• Team Canada’s Special Olympics softball team representing Canada in June at the 2011 Special Olympics World Games

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Blackhawks win Young Am Day tourney The Kelowna Pee Wee Blackhawks won the prestigious Young American Days Tournament earlier this month in Spokane, Washington.

The team rallied from a 4-1 deficit with seven minutes to go to defeat the Rossland-Trail Blackhawks 5-4 to take first place overall in the round robin portion of the 12 team tournament. Teams were from Western Canada and U.S. The Blackhawks then defeated the Rossland Trail Warriors 3-2 in a dramatic shootout for the title.

Members of the team include: Scott Rutter, Colson Makus, Mackenzie Schaupmeyer, Jordan Mann, Harrison Hiscock, Scott Freeman, Brett Selby, Griffin Bennett, James Mutter, Jacob Peterson, Christian Wood, Aaron Meikle, Liam Gallagher and Quinn Stewart.

Missing were Kyle Butchart and Brandon Willis.

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Notice is given that City Council will hold a public hearing on: Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 6pm Kelowna City Hall, 1435 Water Street Council Chambers Council will hear representations from the public who deem an interest in the properties affected by proposed amendments to Zoning Bylaw 8000 for:

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Lot 19, District Lot 14, ODYD, Plan 3769 Bylaw No. 10482 (Z10-0096) The applicant is proposing to rezone the subject property in order to construct a 3 storey mixed use development.

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Lot 14, District Lot 14 ODYD Plan 3856 Except Plan KAP90797 Lot 11, Block 2, District Lot 14 ODYD Plan 4743 Except Plan KAP90797 Lot 19, District Lot 14 ODYD Plan 3856 Except Plan KAP90797 Bylaw No. 10484 (OCP11-0001 / TUP10-0003) The applicant is proposing to amend the OCP to allow a Temporary Industrial Use Permit for construction staging and preparation on the subject properties.

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Lightning in six finals Club records fell like snowflakes as the Liquid Lightning Swim Club sent seven swimmers to compete at the 2011 Speedo Western Canadian Championships held Feb. 17 to 20 at the Canada Games pool in Kamloops.

Swimmers set 15 personal best times and made six finals.

Kierra Smith, 17, swam to top ten finishes in all five of her events and won silver in the 200 metre breaststroke with a club record 2:26.89. Smith broke Hayley Pipher’s records set in 2010 in the 200

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m. breaststroke, the 50 m. breaststroke with a 32.57, the 100 m. breaststroke with a 1:09.84, and the 200 m. individual medley with a 2:16.09. Smith also set a club record in the 200 m. fly with a 2:18.51, taking out Lynette Bayliss’s record from 2003.

Makayla Skrlac, 14, swam to sixth place in the 200 m. breaststroke with a 2:41.58, breaking Hayley Pipher’s club record from October 2008. Skrlac also set a club record in the 50 m. breaststroke with a 35.25, breaking Pipher’s record from April 2007.

The Kelowna Rockets top draft choice from last year’s Western Hockey League bantam draft pick continues to get his feet wet.

Jesse Lees joined the Rockets on its fourgame road trip through the WHL Central division this week.

A native of Calgary, Lees was selected ninth overall by the Rockets in last summer’s WHL bantam draft.

With regular defencemen Colton Jobke (suspension) and Mitchell Chapman (injury) out of the lineup, Lees played on Tuesday in a 4-2 Rockets loss to Kootenay.

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He stayed with the team through games on Friday and Saturday but with the return of Jobke on Friday night in Red Deer, it was unknown if Lees would play in another game on the trip.

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Danielle Douglas, 14, swam all best times and broke her own club record again in the 50 m. freestyle with a 27.81, good for 22nd place.

Christina Russo, 15, went swam personal bests in the 50 metre freestyle and 50 metre fly and equalled her best time in the 100 m. freestyle.

Jennifer Short, 16, went two for three in best times and finished in the top 20 in the 200 m. breaststroke.

Kate Aguiar, 17, swam to a best time in the 100 m. breaststroke.

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PUBLIC MEETING Notice is given that City Council will hold a public meeting on: Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 6pm Kelowna City Hall, 1435 Water Street Council Chambers In compliance with Development Application Procedures Bylaw No. 8140, we wish to advise that Council will be considering a Temporary Use Permit for the following property:

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Lot 14, District Lot 14 ODYD Plan 3856 Except Plan KAP90797 Lot 11, Block 2, District Lot 14 ODYD Plan 4743 Except Plan KAP90797 Lot 19, District Lot 14 ODYD Plan 3856 Except Plan KAP90797 TUP10-0003 Owner/Applicant: P 218 Enterprises Ltd / P 218 Enterprises Ltd & Wayne Holdings Ltd The applicant is proposing to use the subject properties as a construction staging and storage location and is requesting a Temporary (Industrial) Use Permit subject to the following conditions: a) Construction of temporary fencing including a visual/noise barrier to the satisfaction of the Director of Land Use Management; b) The entire area to be surfaced with a suitable dust free material; c) The properties to be remediated with suitable vegetation and street trees upon the expiration of the Temporary Use Permit.

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No representation will be received by Council after the conclusion of the public meeting.

Correspondence, petitions and e-mails relating to this application must include your name and civic address. Petitions should be signed by each individual and show the address and/or legal description of the property he or she believes would be affected by the proposal. Correspondence and petitions received between February 18, 2011 and 4pm on Monday March 7, 2011 shall be copied and circulated to City Council for consideration at the public meeting.

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SPORTS

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re you experiencing pain to the outer side of your hip when walking, climbing stairs or sleeping at night? You may be developing trochanteric bursitis—an inflammation of the bursa (bursitis) that is located on the outer side of your hip.

A bursa is a fluidfilled sac that lies over a bony prominence in the body. We have multiple bursas throughout our body. They are designed to cushion and decrease the friction that is created when a tendon or muscle moves across the bone.

The greater trochanter is a bony prominence of the upper leg bone (femur) that is located on the outside of your hip. Here is a quick way to find your greater trochanter. Stand, let your hand hang straight down by your side, the crease of

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Robina Palmer your wrist is at the same level as your greater trochanter. This bony prominence is an attachment site for many muscles, including the glut muscles that help control hip movement.

Inflammation of the bursa occurs when additional friction is created, either from tight overlying muscles, or from direct trauma. Tightness in the glut muscles or the iliotibial band (IT band) can create extra friction as it crosses over the bursa.

A fall onto the side of the hip or a direct hit during contact sports can also re-

sult in inflammation to the trochanteric bursa.

Once the bursa is inflamed, point tenderness to the side of the hip usually develops. Pain is often described as a deep aching sensation. The pain can often radiate into the thigh and knee, and occasionally into the lower leg.

The pain can also refer into the lower back and tailbone area. Pain is reproduced when climbing stairs and hills due to the compression action of your glut muscles on the bursa.

You may even experience difficulty laying or sleeping on the affected side, as this also directly compresses the bursa.

If you suspect you have trochanteric bursitis, the best thing for you to do is to avoid the irritating activities. Stop running or walking, and mini-

mize stair climbing. Icing the inflamed bursa for 10 minutes at a time will help to reduce the inflammation. Avoid things that compress the bursa, for example bucket seats and lying on your side. Begin stretching the IT band, the

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Outfitted in his trademark cowboy hat and long black overcoat, Lloyd Wilkins took a stroll down West Bennett Street in Compton on a recent weekday morning, engaging residents along the way.

“Hey, man, she’s a beauty,” Wilkins said as horse trainer Ricardo De La Torre approached atop a pristinely groomed quarter horse.

A short time later two other riders sauntered by, greeting Wilkins with a wave.

“This is what I’m talking about,” Wilkins said, gesturing toward the equestrians. “Where else are you going to see this kind of scene in the middle of a city?”

Less than a mile from the 91 Freeway and from downtown Los Angeles, Compton’s 10-block Richland Farms neighbourhood—zoned for agricultural use—is an unlikely rural oasis plopped down in the middle of the gritty urban landscape.

The close-knit community’s African American and Latino residents are awakened each morning by the rooster’s crow.

Horses share the roadway with pickup trucks and SUVs. And a cacophony of clucking hens, bleating goats and squealing pot-bellied pigs drifts from backyards.

“It’s a garden paradise,” said Wilkins, 72, dubbed “the village chief.”

For more than four decades, he has owned property in Richland Farms, including rental homes and stables where he raises Tennessee walk-

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ing horses. “We have to maintain it.”

Many of the older generation are dying out, and Wilkins and others fear that increasing development pressures threaten the future of Richland Farms.

Over the years, the city has imposed limits on certain animals, granted variances allowing for multiple structures on a single lot and introduced new parking restrictions.

“They are sabotaging the community so that developers can eventually come in and take over,” said Wilkins, a retired teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Others complain that the new parking rules hinder their ability to park feed trucks and other

vehicles needed for hauling agricultural products.

They view the move as yet another attempt to force them to get rid of their animals.

But Councilwoman Yvonne Arceneaux, a Richland Farms resident for more than 30 years, said the restrictions are needed to ensure that the neighbourhood remains safe for all residents.

She said that at times the community has been plagued with problems, such as illegal cockfighting and dog fighting, gambling, poor animal maintenance—even the illegal sale of cows’ milk spiked with alcohol.

“When you have a total disregard for the law, you have to take steps so that everyone can live here peacefully,” she said.

“You’re forced into doing this…so that all the community can live in peace and raise their families here.”

Scant information exists about stipulations that Griffith Dickenson Compton may have set forth when he created the town in 1868.

Although there are no city records to confirm this, many old-timers believe that part of the land was to remain zoned for agriculture.

Eldredge Willis, 75, and his now-deceased first wife, Precise Lavon, moved into their Richland Farms home in the early 1960s when the neighbourhood was still largely a white enclave.

“She saw the large lots. She saw the horses, and she said ‘I like this,’”

Willis recalled. “So we bought the house.”

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horses, goats, rabbits, even emus. “I’m a country boy. I come from a

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Willard McCrumby, 79, moved from nearby Watts to Richland Farms in 1967. He and his wife, M. Elayne, were also among the community’s first black families.

“There were more animals than cars,” she recalled. She and her husband liked the spacious lots and the lack of sidewalks and streetlights.

“Here you have space to breathe,” she said.

The couple raised one

daughter, Lorenita, now 36 and married. Growing up, she was actively involved in a neighborhood 4-H Club, which offered youngsters hands-on experience learning about animals.

Today, she is a veterinarian, and her parents credit her close contact with animals.

But the McCrumbys and others acknowledge that the neighborhood has changed.

Over the years, residents have battled city leaders who sought to prohibit certain animals.

In the mid-1980s, residents agreed to limit the

number of horses, goats and sheep to five each per family, Wilkins said.

Some also worry that the city is too eager to grant variances that allow homeowners to build more than one dwelling on a lot.

Residents can build a second structure without having to subdivide the property into two parcels, as long as the structure is no larger than 800 square feet, according to the city clerk’s office.

In the latest skirmish, the city recently started enforcing an ordinance that requires each vehicle parked on a city street in

the neighbourhood to display a parking permit.

Residents may apply for up to four permits.

Compton Mayor Eric Perrodin has told residents that the parking program might be revised to address their concerns, but so far no action has been taken.

“We are a small rural community,” said Jerry Godinez, 52, who raises horses, roosters and pigs.

“We don’t need these kinds of rules.”

But Arceneaux said that animal control officials have had to confiscate livestock kept in poor condition, citing one in-

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stance where some cows were alleged to have been kept in knee-high mud and feces. “Some people have a total disregard for the regulations,” Arceneaux said.

Whenever there is a need to rally the community, Wilkins sets out in his Toyota Forerunner, blasting gospel music and Spanish-language songs from loudspeakers mounted on his truck, and announces the time and place of the next public meeting.

For years, he has used his own money to print fliers, pamphlets and a four-page community newspaper.

He would like to organize an agricultural collective, which would allow residents to pool their produce for sale, and to operate a petting zoo.

“It is necessary to preserve Richland Farms in order to build a strong cultural community bond between two minority groups, African Americans and Latinos,” said Wilkins, who no long-

er lives in the neighbourhood but still owns property there.

“And the animals can provide a successful foundation for our children.”

So intent was Anthony “Magic” Moultrie on making a life in Richland Farms that, each Sunday after church, he and his wife, Tracy, would ride up and down the neighbourhood’s streets scouting “for sale” signs and talking with residents with offers to buy their homes.

The couple finally moved into the neighbourhood six years ago.

“This is a diamond in the rough,” said Moultrie, 47. “There’s nowhere comparable.”

The couple started raising a range of livestock, including miniature horses and ponies, which they rent.

Moultrie, who organizes pony parties and petting zoos, shares the concerns of Wilkins and others that the city is overly aggressive in charging residents with violations.

“They make it so hard for us to stay here,” he said. “I continue to fight, but if the (housing) market had not dried up, I would have moved out.”

Andrew Johnson, 51, the neighbourhood farrier, is a third-generation Richland Farms resident.

At age 13, his grandfather taught him how to shoe and groom horses.

The family owned equines, goats, and scores of chickens.

Today, Johnson teaches local horse owners to trim their animals’ hooves and maintain their coats.

He also teaches neighborhood children how to ride. “This keeps the kids out of trouble,” he said.

For Johnson and other residents, it is their shared love of animals and the rural character of their community that makes Richland Farms special and worth preserving.

“It’s the unity of the neighbourhood, the smalltown atmosphere,” Johnson said. “You can pass by on the freeway and miss it.”

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Technology for the home is not a distant idea, but a real tool that can enhance entertainment and make household tasks simpler.

This weekend’s Kelowna Home Show at Prospera Place will have several home technology companies with booths, displaying everything from 3D TV screens to wireless sound systems.

Andre’s Audiotronic in Kelowna is gearing up for the launch of household 3D projection TV. At the home show, you will be able to try out the new standard home 3D TV and experience how it has revolutionized home television.

“Right now 3D Tc is mostly for movies, but there is more content coming out all the time,” said Justin Hamilton, custom home manager for Andre’s Audiotronic.

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“Home automation renovations can be accomplished easily. A system can operated everything from the household alarm and lights to monitoring vital systems while the owner is on vacation,” he said. “You can now manage your home for optimum energy efficiency.”

As an authorized Telus dealer, Andre’s can offer Telus Optic TV. Hamilton says the benefits of that particular system are great. “You can have one PVR and stream to all of the TVs in your home. In the past you needed a different PVR for each TV.” Starwatch Audio Visual will also have a booth at the home show. The company has been selling home theatre systems and more in the Okanagan for 10 years.

The staff has THX and CEDIA certification, industry recognized designations that set the standard for technical knowhow.

The new 3D projection TV is coming soon to Starwatch as well.

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many homeowners and Starwatch president Robert Farr says the ability to hide technology has improved to the point where tech systems can be made virtually invisible.

“We have art screens where the canvas rolls up to show the TV screen.

Now there are speakers that can be installed into the drywall with a special surfacing,” Farr said.

“They are so well hidden we are concerned you might put a nail through the speaker to hang a picture, because you can’t tell the speaker is located right there.”

Indoor and outdoor music is something many homeowners are looking for, especially as summer is approaching, says Farr.

“There is portable music for landscaping that will work with your home system. You can run this system and so many others from applications on your computer or iPhone.”

If it all sounds complicated, Farr says it need not be. “My job is to train people at how easy it can be. You just touch a few buttons and everything works,” he said.

Interior design source of help Great interior design is not beyond the reach of the average homeowner.

At this weekend’s Kelowna Home Show, you will be able to get a free 15 minute design consultation from licensed interior designers.

Okanagan chapter members of the Interior Designers Institute of B.C. and the Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) will be at the home show to help people with their most vexing design questions in the popular, ‘What’s Your Design Dilemma?’ booth.

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Listing details describe the backyard as a Garden of Eden.

How appropriate since Metcalfe, 32, played teen gardener John Rowland on Housewives from 2004 to 2009.

He starred in the films John Tucker Must Die (2006) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009).

Metcalfe now has a lead role in the NBC crime thriller “Chase” (2010present).

The actor bought the property in 2008 for the same price at which it is listed.

He is selling because he’d like to get a place close to the ocean where he can hear the waves.

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A Bel-Air house that actress and singer Judy Garland once called home has come on the market at $5.5 million.

The 1938 two-story house, with dormer windows and white columns set against a red-brick clad veranda, was designed by Wallace Neff for Garland and her mother, who lived there until the early 1940s, according to the Movieland Directory.

On more than 2 1/2 acres, the 5,500-squarefoot house has five bedrooms and 6 1/2 bathrooms. A swimming pool, cabanas and a writer’s cottage sit in the backyard.

The Oscar-winning Garland, who died at 47 in 1966, is remembered for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

The property last changed hands in 1975 for $335,000, public records show.

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The 1981 post-andbeam house has soaring ceilings, a stone fireplace in the living room and a dining area large enough to seat 12.

There are two master bedroom suites, two additional bedrooms and a total of 3 1/2 bathrooms in the home’s more than 2,900 square feet of living space.

Outdoor entertainment areas include wrap-around decks and a patio with an eight-person bar, a spa and a fire pit.

Dorough, 37, is the oldest member of the early ‘90s boy band, which has sold more than 130 million copies of its seven albums worldwide.

He purchased the property in 2006 for $2.75 million, public records show.

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Former Laker Chris Mihm has listed a Manhattan Beach house for sale at $2,099,000.

The Mediterranean, custom built in 2002, has a 25-foot-high entry, coved ceilings in the formal dining room, a game room and a center island with seating in the kitchen, which opens to a family room.

The more than 4,300square-foot villa includes five bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms.

A large deck surrounds the pool with spa and fountain. A two-car garage and a one-car garage have separate driveways.

The 7-foot centre found the home great for entertaining and particularly appreciated the 8-foot high doors.

Mihm, 31, played for the Lakers from 2004 until 2009, when he went to the Memphis Grizzlies and was then sidelined by an injury.

He purchased the property in 2004 for $2,160,000.

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The living room, which has an exposed beam and pitched ceiling, is anchored by a central fireplace. The office has a separate entrance.

The yard has a patio and kitchen for entertaining, as well as a swimming pool.

Coulier, 51, is performing stand-up comedy at colleges, theaters and clubs across the nation.

He has a production company, Cumulus Entertainment, and does voiceover work.

For his next project, Coulier plans to build an energy-efficient home in Michigan.

He bought the Encino ranch-style house in 2001 for $990,000, according to public records.

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Bono, who died in 1998 at 62, was known for such hit songs as I Got You Babe and The Beat Goes On as part of the ‘60s duo Sonny and Cher.

He later got involved in politics, landing a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.

Mack, 49, serves as a Republication representative for California’s Palm Springs-based congressional district.

Built in 1940, the house last sold in 1998 for $1.4 million, according to public records.

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THE CLASSIC French beef stew Pot-au-feu is sold along Rue Cler in Paris.

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A paradise of Parisian foods on tourist-beloved rue Cler Nancy Leson CONTRIBUTOR

PARIS—I still remember my first sight of rue Cler—the Paris market street canonized by European travel guru Rick Steves, idolized by tourists and beloved by lucky denizens of the 7th arrondissement who call its well-trod cobblestones their own. One look and I cried real tears.

Why? Because it was my first trip to France, spring was in the air and my husband-to-be and I had rented a studio apartment—with a kitchen!—here in Paris’ answer to Seattle’s Pike Place Market.

Far less misty-eyed on a visit to rue Cler this winter, I found myself still as enamored of this marvelous market and its surrounding Left Bank

neighborhood where schoolboys (and girls) zipped around on their Razor scooters, working men lifted glasses at corner cafes, and chic matrons clicked their heels past me, disappearing into the hidden courtyards, their housekeys— and the inevitable baguette—in hand.

The 7th is home to the Eiffel Tower, which cast its long shadow over the Hotel Duquesne Eiffel. There I hung my hat—and hung out on a balcony for a golden view of the chapel dome at Les Invalides, part of the historic military complex that helps define the neighborhood. My room also provided a view of d’Chez Eux—the auberge where dinner begins with complimentary charcuterie, and a whole Bresse chicken is expertly carved tableside by a friendly Englishspeaking maitre d’hotel.

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On foray after foray I feasted with my eyes, making the rounds of rue Cler’s many shops and stalls, passing bushels of oysters—among them huitres de Bretagne—and sidewalk slurpers settling in to enjoy them (I’d had my fill of icy oysters during a memorable meal at La Mascotte in Montmartre).

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Instead, I ogled an ocean’s worth of sea treats at La Sablaise, where the fishmonger’s displays included seaweed-draped baskets full of wiggling shrimp. The sight immediately made me long for that rue Cler apartment, my 7-quart Lej Creuset and time to make a proper bouillabaisse.

Had I needed garlic, olive oil and saffron for an accompanying sauce, I wouldn’t have had far to go.

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You might forgo the wine to taste aged balsamico Rue Cler from A22 might buy a bottle of fine French wine here, too, though I sipped something every bit as appealing: aged balsamico, from a shelf full of tester-bottles of vinegar. This is a great spot to stock up on souvenirs for your favorite cook (may I suggest a Dijon mustard sampler), or better yet for yourself.

(I’m still hoarding tiny Vietnamese peppercorns as fragrant—though not quite as numbing—as the Szechuan version.)

Steps away is MarieAnne Cantin—Paris’ premiere fromagerie, or cheese shop. A cross between a jewel-box and a shoebox, this shop is enough to make any cheese-lover shed tears of joy. The window display is ravishing, but step inside and be swept away by the possibilities—and the improbability—that so many cheeses may be found in such small quarters.

Taste and discuss with the knowledgeable cheese-

mongers. Traveling with cheeses in hand? Consider the magic words: “Shrinkwrap s’il vous plait.”

People-watching is at a premium day and night at classic French-food haunts like rue Cler’s Cafe du Marche, where the plat du jour is described on a blackboard menu. But if you’re looking to eye before you buy, why not do as the locals do: Hit the street for ready-togo meals from neighboring shop Jeusselin. Here, foie gras wars play out indoors (“No, no, not that slice, this slice!”), while street-side vendors dish up steaming pot-au-feu and other homey fare under signage wishing patrons “BON APPETIT!” Had your fill of French food? Rue Cler has you covered with Chinese and Japanese cuisine and— as I found out when I stopped in for a crepe at the small cafe Ulysee— Greek food.

But if there’s a single shop on rue Cler that has my heart in its hands

(as my cardiologist might suggest), it’s Davoli, aka La Maison du Jambon— the House of Ham. This Italian temptress was founded in Paris a century ago, and its picnic quotient cannot be overstated.

It was here that we became “regulars” 15 years ago during my first rue Cler stay, stocking up on salami and saucisson, terrines, seafood salads and smoked fish. Prosciutto haunches hang overhead, driving the customers’ little dogs that sniff the tile floors crazy. It was here at Davoli that rue Cler became a household name in my household.

“Be sure to stop at La Maison du Jambon!” my husband said when he dropped me off at the airport, where I (sadly) flew to Paris without him.

“Bien sur!” I assured him, promising to eat well— and I did—in his absence.

IF YOU GO:

Where: Rue Cler is on the Left Bank; nearest Metro, Ecole Militaire.

Shops: L’Epicerie Fine Rive Gauche: www.epicerief-

inerivegauche.com Marie-Anne Cantin: www.cantin.fr

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Just as M.F.K. Fisher, America’s greatest food writer, argued that the Gare de Lyon was “not a station but a place,” so is Le Train Bleu not just a restaurant. Fisher wrote about that in her book, “As They Were,” recounting her first lunch in the station’s restaurant.

Her meal? A simple repast of bread, good butter, Parma ham that tasted like violets and a half-bottle of Champagne. Memories were coined and a silent vow made to return.

Fisher did go back, but this was the late 1960s.

Both the train station and the restaurant were distinctly down at the heels.

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NEWS ▼ KEEPING PERSPECTIVE

Backyard landscape renovation creates wave of ideas W

ell, looks like I’m in the market for a set of gumboots. So is Tez. Perhaps a wheel barrow with really wide inflatable tires as well.

Something that can ride well in the mud,

cause baby—there’s going to be mud.

Our once pretty flower gardens and backyard has largely disappeared into a sod and soil frozen morass, still clearly violated by the distinguishable tread tracks of a mini-cat-

erpillar machine.

Ah yes, the joys of replacing an entire sewer line, not to mention the massive stump and roots that had so much fun causing the mayhem to begin with.

I had to admit to a slight lump in my throat as the two and three year old hand-crafted flower beds literally tumbled into oblivion beneath the blades.

But what stung most was the landscaped and recently structured crush pathway, created last summer for our wedding.

For the most part, however, I watched the process with relative calm and even a bit of wit and laughter.

After all, there was still lot to be thankful about—at least now I know what I’m doing this spring, instead of what I was planning to do.

As well, I get to do it all over again now that I’ve had some practice.

(This is where the gum-

HODGE PODGE

Charlie Hodge boot part comes in).

The toilet works. So does the shower, sink, dishwasher, washing machine…

And, having a gaping mudscape in the backyard where there was once a large tree stump (with a funky stand-up table on it), flower gardens, crush pathway and a bunch of ugly dead grass leaves us with multiple options.

We are only limited by our imagination and lack of funds.

Tez and I can now spend countless hours together ‘planning’ the yard —again. Hours and hours stretched out on our lawn chairs, sunglasses on, cold beverage and a sketch pad.

We can visualize all kinds of amazing things—like hot tubs, swimming pools, ponds, waterfalls, massive perennial plants.

And then with equal imagination, find all the funds and techie-talented types to do the work.

But by then I just might create an X-Game version of Croquet or full contact ‘Barren Land Bocce.’ Perhaps just a good old badminton net?

The possibilities are endless.

I do know one thing for sure. Whatever we finally create in the backyard, it will include a small Bridge to Nowhere.

Still, the real reason I managed to keep fairly calm about the whole backyard dig-up was because of a wonderful person I met two days previous.

I was scheduled for a meeting with a group of very busy folks including a visiting guest from Zambia.

Five minutes before I was to leave the house, the downstairs toilet flooded. I scrambled around turning off water and other necessities, then dashed out the door to the meeting, I raced into the room about five minutes late (I hate being late) and immediately apologizing for my tardiness.

Naturally my flooding toilet drama was mentioned in hopes of not only an easier forgiveness but also empathy. All nodded politely and most expressed concern for my potty plight.

The guest began her presentation and we all sat somewhat spellbound as she spoke eloquently about her home, family, village, and the state of affairs in her home country.

It was a wonderful and very educational meeting as I left there greatly invigorated about life.

Then it struck me as I was heading home that the problems I had await-

ing me were pretty minor.

Our guest earlier that day did not even have a toilet in her home to worry about. In fact she had no bathroom.

And so, as the caterpillar dug up the 50 feet of sewer line, gardens and all, I kept on smiling at how lucky I was.

Let’s see, where’d I put those seeds?

••• Here’s a reminder of something you, or someone you know, might like to take in.

An information session on the Senior Centre Society relocation plans is set for Thursday, March 3, at the Water Street Senior’s Centre, 1360 Water St. The City of Kelowna has completed the conceptual design for the facility (located at the Parkinson Recreation Park).

City staff will be available to answer questions and explain the new design on display. The event runs from 3 to 6 p.m.

Yard waste curbside pick-up service about to return Another sign that spring is on the way, it’s almost time to start filling up your yard waste cart.

Starting March 1, all residents on municipal curbside garbage collection will benefit from yard

waste pick up every second week until the end of November.

Simply place your

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To determine your yard waste collection week, please refer to your Living Greener Calendar, or visit regionaldistrict. com/recycle.

Rae Stewart, the regional waste reduction facilitator, says residents make great use of the every two week collection.

“Last year alone we collected approximately 12,000 tonnes of yard waste at the curb and turned it into high quality compost instead of it being buried at the landfill,” Stewart said.

Accepted items for yard waste pick-up include leaves, wood chips, bark, tree needles, garden plants, grass clippings and branches and pruning’s up to five cm (two inches) in diameter and less than one metre (three feet) in length.

Not permitted is garbage, plastic bags, rocks, sod, flower pots, landscape cloth, fruit droppings or kitchen scraps.

Up to two additional 360 litre yard waste carts can be purchased from your municipality.

For additional yard waste carts and collection options, contact your municipality or visit regionaldistrict.com/recycle. To learn more, call 250-469-6258.

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The art of happiness to him in appreciation.

Those moments were beyond thrilling to him.

Of course, there were others who would take the paintings with barely a thank you and his little heart would be crushed.

But only temporarily.

Eventually he learned to only ask for autographs from certain players and keep the paintings for himself.

Now an arts director at a graphic design

company where he applies his creative talents on a daily basis, he still has that passion for sports art and paints whenever he can find time. It’s not an easy task with his busy schedule, a full time job and now coaching his own kids in hockey.

But if there’s a will there’s a way. If there’s a passion to do something you really love, like Jim said, we should never give up. Perseverance is

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SILGA RESOLUTION The Regional Board has agreed to send a resolution to the Southern Interior Local Government Association convention. It asks that the Provincial Government cooperate with local governments, the aggregate industry and residents in developing and implementing regional plans identifying sites that are suitable and not suitable for extraction and that the Province provide financial support for completion of those plans and the authority for local governments to implement them.

REZONING AT LA CASA LAKESIDE RESORT The Regional Board has given second and third readings to proposed Official Community Plan and Rezoning bylaws for the strata at La Casa Lakeside Resort. The application would see development of an outdoor swimming pool, a workshop and recognize an existing outdoor storage yard on a 1.47-hectare parcel adjacent to Terazona Drive.

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When we were young, Jeremie was constantly drawing, designing and painting.

He had a huge love of soccer and hockey and would often run out on the field or somehow get to the locker rooms with one of his oil paintings and hand it over to the famous athlete he had painted.

Sometimes they would take off their sweaty jersey and hand it over

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I’ll be releasing later this year. In every aspect he’s been a dream to work with. Even though I’ve never met him and he lives about 3000 miles away, he’s become a good friend and mentor whom I often go to for advice.

A great success in his line of work, I find it amazing that he’s managed to make such a good living from his cartooning since graduating from high school. Isn’t that something we were always told you couldn’t do? “Art’s a hobby,� my younger brother was often told as a kid. “It’s very difficult for people to make a decent living in the arts.�

And, sadly, there’s some truth to that statement. Most artists, including writers, struggle to make money pursuing their passion and often have to get a “real job� to make ends meet. But, like Jim Hunt, my brother is a testament to perseverance and going for it regardless.

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y talented cartoonist, Jim Hunt, posted on Facebook the first of several rejection letters he received from MAD Magazine. Under the picture was this comment from him: Just found this note. It’s my first rejection from MAD Magazine.

Took me about FIFTEEN YEARS to finally break

into the magazine. Trust me. The feeling of finally making it was worth the wait. Never give up if you truly want something.

I printed off the rejection letter as well as his note and hung it in my office because it was such a great example of perseverance.

I’ve had the privilege of working with Jim for over a year now and I’m still pinching myself at how lucky I am to work with such a consummate professional and brilliant talent. Not only has he been cartooning for this column on a weekly basis, but he’s cartooned two children’s books and a line of greeting cards

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Genomics and Medicine: Should you be afraid?

Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground

Wednesday, March 9, 4 p.m.

Monday, March 7, 7 p.m.

Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Ave., Kelowna Enjoy a screening and panel discussion of the Emmywinning documentary Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground.

No charge and open to the public, but online pre-registration is required.

TO REGISTER, OR FIND OUT MORE: www.ubc.ca/okanagan/celebrateresearch or call 250-807-9932.

CafĂŠ ScientiďŹ que: For Better or for Worse: Women’s Efforts to Promote Men’s Health Monday, March 7, 5 to 7 p.m.

Bohemian CafÊ, 524 Bernard Ave., Kelowna Hosted by Marion Barschel (CBC Radio’s Daybreak South), this cafÊ provides an informal opportunity to learn about and discuss the latest research and local initiatives related to women’s involvement in men’s health.

No charge and open to the public. RSVP to healthyliving.research@ubc.ca to conďŹ rm a spot.

Fipke Centre, room FIP 140 3333 University Way, Kelowna Find out more about new technologies in Human Genomics — the study of all genetic material — including how they are currently being used in medicine and the capabilities for the future. Presented by the BC Clinical Genomics Network.

No charge and open to the public. RSVP to ashelin@interchange.ubc.ca to conďŹ rm a spot.

Lunchtime Feature Presentations March 7–10, 12 noon to 1 p.m.

University Centre ballroom (room UNC 200) 3333 University Way, Kelowna Celebrate Research Week showcases a wide variety of important research being done on campus —including the following lunchtime features: Mon. Roadmap to an integrated design and manufacturing of polymer composite products Tue. Memory politics and digital media: a new chapter in Argentina’s past Wed. Psychological ownership: dilemmas in knowledge sharing, innovation and change Thu. Future delta: motivating climate change action grounded in place No charge and open to the public.

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NEWS ▼ RELATIONSHIPS

Inner peace starts with validating your own feelings O ‘‘

ne of the more common mistakes that people make when searching for their potential mate is not leaving adequate healing time between relationships.

We often think that our lack of happiness is because of the partner we are with, and that our happiness will be restored when we are with someone else.

Often, people jump relationships only to find that once the honeymoon phase of the new relationship wears out, they have actually recreated the same old relationship— with the same challenges—only this time with a different face.

True healing depends on so many factors, like

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Annie Hopper your personal history, the length of the relationship, the intensity of the relationship, circumstances of the breakup, etc.

How long should this healing process be? Some rules of thumb are half the length of the relationship or two months for every year of the relationship.

One rule of thumb that I highly recommend is to wait at least a year after a divorce before seriously dating.

Divorce has a lot of

associated emotional baggage that takes a lot of time to sort through.

But more important than starting a new relationship is to finally have a relationship with yourself.

True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace that we find within ourselves, when we truly get to know and love ourselves.

We often run to relationships to hide from feelings of loneliness.

Addressing the seemingly scary and darker places within us actually represents our invitation to see and know our light.

Part of this acknowledgment is to allow ourselves to feel all of the uncomfortable feelings that may be surfacing.

BUT IT IS ACTUALLY THROUGH THE PAIN THAT YOU FEEL AFTER THE BREAK-UP THAT WILL LEAD YOU TO PROFOUND PERSONAL GROWTH WITHIN.

A sense of inner peace is only possible when we can stop looking externally for our sense of worth and validation.

The end of a relationship actually represents an awesome opportunity for you to look deeper within yourself. ‘ You can learn to dig

past the pain of the relationship and truly find yourself, perhaps for the very first time in your life.

Even when we end a relationship that is unhealthy, it can feel akin to withdrawal from an addictive drug.

But it is actually through the pain that you feel after the break-up that will lead you to profound personal growth within.

In the book The Journey from Abandonment to Healing, author Susan Anderson borrows from the Japanese language, calling this process this personal and spiritual growth “akeru.”

“This word has many meanings, among them, to pierce, to end, to open.

It helps to describe the hidden opportunity in

feelings of abandonment.

You can use your feelings of separation and isolation as fuel for internal growth,” she writes in her book.

“As you strengthen your adult self and address the needs of your inner child, you will learn how to become emotionally self reliant.”

So, if you find yourself in a position of avoidance or distraction from those deeper uncomfortable feelings that may be bubbling up within you, know that you can get through it.

Try to resist the urge to immediately jump into another relationship and spend some time with yourself.

Those uncomfortable feelings that are surfacing

within do not magically go away.

They are being presented to you to work through to gain a better understanding of you, of your gifts and ultimately of the love and light that lies within you—all waiting to be discovered.

You deserve to be in a healthy, loving, compassionate, respectful relationship.

The image in the mirror is worthy of this time and is the most rewarding relationship you will ever have.

Annie Hopper is a core belief counsellor and brain retraining specialist.

250-862-1766 www.anniehopper.com

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Great – now you have found the right property! Sometimes it takes only a few showings for you to establish the property or home you want – sometimes it takes a little longer. Ensuring your REALTOR® understands your likes and dislikes is essential in determining the right properties to show.

Once you have decided and prior to making the offer, it would be prudent to look at the recent sales for similar properties in the area. This will help you make an educated decision on the value of the property and give you a better understanding of the negotiation process.

Your REALTOR® will be able to give you direction based on your prequalification and their experience. Typically your offer will have subject clauses allowing you to complete some due diligence regarding the title, your financing, the property condition and insurance. For more information go to www.sharonblack.ca look under Buying or call Sharon 250-878-5533

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Blum has a new line of touch drawers that are electronically controlled to open and close.

These are very nice and operate with style and grace second to none. As with all things in the upgrade optional world price will invariably help you decide how much you want to spend on this feature. Drawers are considered a personal feature as most likely you are the only one that will see or appreciate the value and function of the aspect of your kitchen.

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Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) or Omega oils are crucial for many biological processes and are foundational building blocks for every cell in the body.

Essential fatty acids are specific fats & oils that cannot be produced in the body, and that are lacking in most North American diets. EFAs must be obtained in proper ratios through one’s diet or a deficiency will exist. There are a number of different types of EFAs. The brain is 60% fat, and about 30% of that is in the form of long-chain fatty acids (DHAs).

DHAs have positive effects on brain function, vision and motor skills. EPAs are important in strengthening the cardiovascular system. Omega 3 helps lower triglycerides and increase HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol). Some studies suggest that Omega 3 may help lower high blood pressure. It is important to be aware of the ratio of Omega 3s to Omega 6s in your diet: the ideal ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 is 1:2. In general selecting a product that has the correct balance of Omega 3-6-9 is going to be the best option. If your diet is high in vegetable fats, then consider an Omega 3 like flax or fish oil. Always select a product from a reputable company that can ensure quality testing and production.

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WAHL, IRMA IDA (NEE DEY) Passed away quietly in her sleep on February 22, 2011 just days shy of her 75th birthday. She was born in Torn, Poland, the third of four children of Gustav and Hildegardt Dey. She is survived by her children Dolores (Siegfried) Schulz, Sandra (Robert) Prcic and Douglas (Donna) Wahl; her grandchildren Nicolas, Genevieve, Robert, Nathaniel, Benjamin, Alexzander, Bremah and Hania; her sister Lydia Brandt. Her dog, Truffles, was her special companion. She immigrated with her family to Redcliff, Alberta, then moved to the Okanagan to make Kelowna her home. Irma was a very active member of the German Canadian Harmony Club. She was passionate about cooking and fishing. She had a big heart and a generous nature, but her greatest loves were her family and friends who brought her much joy. She will be greatly missed by all and our memories of her will always bring us comfort.

Funeral service will be held at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2091 Gordon Drive, Kelowna on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 1:30 pm; interment will be at Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery. As an expression of sympathy, you may send flowers or make memorial donations to Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church Memorial Fund or BC Heart and Stroke Foundation www.heartandstroke.bc.ca or Agur Lake Camp www.agurlakecamp.ca.

Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.springfieldfuneralhome.com 250-860-7077.

May 20, 1922 – February 22, 2011

Fred was born in Toronto and joined the Canadian army at age 18. He was posted to Red Deer, Alberta, where he met his wife Jean on a blind date. He was disappointed that he saw no action during the war, but the Colonel of the Regiment saw his talents in administration so he was desk bound. After the War Fred did use his administration talents and was the Administrator of Red Deer, Lethbridge and Calgary hospitals. He retired from the Rockyview Hospital in Calgary at 57 years old and moved back to Red Deer, where he and Jean had started their life together 68 years ago this year. Daughter Diane encouraged a move to the Okanagan Valley and Fred and Jean have enjoyed 18 years in the Kelowna area. As one of the first residents of Sun Village Retirement Community, they made many friends and enjoyed the clubhouse events. Fred didn’t love Bridge like Jean but was a good Golfer and enjoyed billiards and darts.

His sense of honesty was evident in his family and work lives. He loved a good party and was a super host. Fred survived by his wife Jean, daughter Diane (Ed) Murray, grandsons John (Shannon) Worth, children Ella and Maisie, Stewart (Melanie) Worth, daughter Jayne, niece Katherine (Rob) Butler, children Curtis and Stephanie, nephew Richard (Cris) Mabb, daughter Elizabeth and step-grandson Christopher Newton. Fred was predeceased by son John Charles Lamb in 1969. A family memorial will be celebrated in the Summer. Thank you to the wonderful staff at Lake Country Lodge and Manor.

Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.springfieldfuneralhome.com 250-860-7077

CURRIE, JOHN ARTHUR (ART) Was called home to be with the Lord on Monday, February 14, 2011 in his 94th year. Survived by his loving wife Helen of 69 years; son Bruce (Bobbie) and granddaughters Meghan and Tanya (Brendan) of Kelowna. Art was born in Vonda, Saskatchewan May 21, 1917 with twin brother George.

Graduated from Nutana Collegiate and Robertson’s Business College in Saskatoon. He enlisted in 1939 and was stationed in Kamloops, Victoria, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa in the RCAF audit board. Art received his discharge in 1945, as Flight Lieutenant in central accounting records office at Rockcliffe RCAF station in Ottawa. After he was discharged, he went to Vonda, SK to work with his father in the farm implement business. In 1955, he became Municipal Manager in Kitimat, BC. Art served as treasurer of the YMCA, Masonic Lodge, Rotary Club and was on the Session and Board of Stewards of the United Church in Kitimat, BC. He retired in 1977 to Kelowna, BC. He spent his summers golfing and helping in his son’s apple orchard, while spending his winters in Mesa, Arizona with his wife Helen. Predeceased by his father John William Currie, mother Jessie May Cheyne, twin brother George, sisters Olive, Elsie and Jessie and son John Glenn (1970). No service at Art’s request. There will be a family memorial at a later date. Special thanks to all the caring staff at Cottonwoods.

Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.springfieldfuneralhome.com 250860-7077.

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CREATIONS By Sera in Kelowna. Seeking one person for permanent FT position for alteration seamstress. Duties incl: Sew by hand, operate a sewing machine, repair, fit, alter garments & iron. 2yrs exp req’d, oral communication, continuous learning & working with others is essential. $14.01/hr, 40hrs/wk. Fax Resume to: (250)-712-0269

Electricians and Apprentices needed Summit Electric Ltd. with offices in Kamloops and Quesnel is looking for certified electricians and 3rd and 4th year apprentices for full time work. Applicants must have the ability to travel to job sites across Western Canada.

Company pays for travel, LOA and any flights.

CORE COMPETENCIES • Industrial and commercial experience an asset • Must demonstrate the ability to work under pressure and adapt easily to severe time constraints as needed • Able to work with little or no supervision • Must be able to pass mandatory drug testings Reply To: robcouturler@summitelec.com or by fax to: (250)992-7855

APPLE Thinners & Pickers, June 15 - Sept 30. $9.28/hr.

Fax resume to 250-763-5421 Bella Rosa Orchards.

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SECURITY COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR UBC Okanagan The University of British Columbia Okanagan is currently accepting applications for the Security Communications Coordinator, Security Services Department. This position operates the Dispatch Center, duties include monitoring alarm systems, access control and Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) in support of campus security and acts as liaison with other University Departments and emergency services.

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ASSISTANT Cook/ Kitchen helper. Exp with sushi & cook Filipino dishes. $12-14/hr DOE Drop off Resume #2-1155 KLO Rd. Kaibigan Restaurant BILGA Farms. Kelowna BC. Orchard work. Thinning, pruning & picking. Start May 2011.

40hrs/wk, $9.28/hr. 250-2124431 bilgafarms@hotmail.com SALES HELP WANTED. Will Train. (250)860-5554

BUSY construction co. requires experienced Traffic Control Supervisor. Min 5yrs exp as a Supervisor req’d. Experience with Traffic Graphics an asset. Competitve wages & benefits avail. Please apply by fax: 250-765-9603 BUSY construction co. requires Shop Labourer. Apptitude for mechanics an asset, competitve wage & benefits avail. Only those serious about a career in the industry need apply. Please apply by fax: 250-765-9603

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Please apply in person with resume to Steve Munro, General Sales Manager

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DEMO PEOPLE Mature and responsible people needed to demonstrate new concept in water. 4hr shifts, excellent pay. Sales or demo experience preferred but not required. Send resumes to: info@sweetwatersprings.ca JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! No experience necessary, we will train. Must be 18+yrs. of age.

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Data entry, answering phones, managing records, & other clerical duties. Must be detail oriented with basic computer knowledge and previous office exp., HVAC Industry exp, an asset. Please apply to Box #308 Capital News 2495 Enterprise Way, Kelowna, BC V1X 7K2

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MEDICAL OFFICE Trainees Needed! Hospitals & Dr’s Need Medical Office & Medical Admin staff! No Experience?

Need Training? Local Career Training & Job Placement also Available! 1-888-778-0459 TOLKO INDUSTRIES LTDLake Country Division requires a part time (1 to 2 days a week) casual Industrial electrician. This is an ideal job for a retired electrician only wanting a couple days a week of work.

Please drop resumes off at 400 Beaver Lake Rd.

WE WANT YOU Earls is hiring Kitchen Partners for the busy summer season. Drop your resume off at Earls on top between 2pm & 4pm.

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If you don’t know the difference between these hammers, but you like helping people… then we want to talk to you.

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FORT MCMURRAY based company seeking experienced Class 1 or 3 Drivers, Min 3 yrs exp. Flights & Accommodations provided. Clean drivers abstract; drug & alcohol test required. Also seeking Labourers.

Contact Raven (780) 750-5653 or email : callmevac@live.com

HILDEBRANDT Homes seeking Residential Support Workers for casual positions supporting adults with disabilities in Kelowna. Must have related education, experience and a valid drivers license. Email resumes to hhadmin@telus.net or fax 250-717-1883

You may not know everything when it comes to home improvement, but after our training and hands-on coaching you will. The Home Depot, one of Canada’s top 100 employers, is hiring for spring. You bring the desire to put customers first and we’ll offer competitive rewards including company paid health & dental plans, 70+ benefits, tuition reimbursement & much more.

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The benefits of ProCare training are: • Over 98% employment rate • Proven method of training • Instruction on site by experienced nurses • Small class sizes • Earn $18-$22 an hour after graduation • Convenient locations Requirements for the program are: • Grade 11, or have adult student status We require photo ID as proof of age for our adult students.

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LEVEL II - WATER DISTRIBUTION OPERATOR A large Irrigation District in Kelowna has an opening for a ‘Level II Water Distribution System Operator’. The successful candidate will be part of an Operations Team and will contribute to the ongoing operations and maintenance of a Class IV water distribution system. You must possess Level II Water Distribution system certification, or have a Level I certificate with additional related education and experience.

You must have a proven track record with a minimum of three years experience. A thorough working knowledge of the various facets of water distribution operations including chlorine handling, PRV operations and maintenance, and watermain/water service repairs and installations, as well as aClass 1 Driver’s License would be an asset. Good interpersonal skills and ability to adapt and liaise with engineers, suppliers and the public is required.

Salary will be dependant on qualifications and experience. The job comes with an excellent benefit package. Those interested are invited to forward resumes by March 11, 2011 in confidence to: Operations Superintendent, Black Mountain Irrigation District, 285 Gray Road, Kelowna, BC V1X 1W8 or by email to: bmidinfo@ shawcable.com

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TOLKO INDUSTRIES LTD. is currently seeking a FOREST TECHNICIAN to join our team in LUMBY, B.C. Tolko is a forest products company with marketing, resource management and manufacturing operations throughout Western Canada. We are an equal opportunity employer offering full pension and benefit programs.

TO APPLY: All applications will be handled in confidence and should be submitted by March 11, 2011 to: Tracey Harrison Phone: (250) 547-1223 Email: Tracey.Harrison@tolko.com FOREST TECHNICIAN The Forest Technician is responsible for assisting in the effective delivery of Regional timber development goals.

Working under the direction of a Timber Development Forester, as part of USW Local I-423, the incumbent will conduct forest development activities (Road/Cutblock Layout, Timber Cruising, Site Plans, Cutting Permits) in a timely, cost effective, and professional manner.

QUALIFICATIONS: The successful candidate must be a strong team player with above average organization, communication, and computer skills. A demonstrated ability to meet regularly set performance measures and the potential for future mobility within the Company will be considered a definite asset.

Applicants must be registered or eligible for registration with the Association of BC Forest Professionals as a Registered Professional Forester.

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Medical/Dental Kelowna Dentistry by Design is seeking to add a dynamic and motivated team member to our comprehensive client care focused practice. The right person is career motivated, client focused and willing to learn advanced techniques and quality comprehensive client care management. You process a YES attitude. You will be involved in client care from start to finish from greeting with a smile, clinical care and administrative duties to scheduling and appointment completion.

The position would suit either a CDA or RDH. Learn more about us at www.kelownadentistrydesign.ca Reply privately and confidentially to: kelownasmile@shaw.ca.

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QUALITY Cleaning Services avail. 9 yrs exp., one time, weekly, monthly,call Karen for a great clean. 250-718-7562

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Professional As-Built Drawings Complete & Partial Renovation Back Yard Living & Sundecks Door & Window Replacements Master Framer & Trim Finishes Wood & Laminate Flooring Professional & Free Estimates

250-215-0237

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PAINTING

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SILKAN CONSTRUCTION 21 yrs. experience.

Renovations, additions, basements, custom home, decks, bath, tile, flooring, painting, etc.

Licenced, insured, new home warranty.

250-878-5872

HANDYMAN Larry’s Handyman & Renovation Services • Interior & Exterior Renovations • Carpentry • Painting • Small Repairs • Pressure Washing

• Kitchen & Bathroom Upgrades • Yard Maintenance • Fences, Decks • Tile • Graffiti Removal

250-718-8879

PERSONAL CARE

ELITE TRADE PAINTING

AFFORDABLE PAINTING

Senior’s Specials Experience & Quality New Homes & Repaints Ceilings Bondable. Insurance Work Call Terry 250-863-9830 or 250-768-1098

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1-877-663-5483

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250-317-8275

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• Bath Remodels • Decks • Drywall

• Kitchen Remodels • Painting • Plumbing

• Electrical • Tile Work • To-Do Lists • Much More

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Call Troy, 250-718-0209

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TILING

M. SAURA CONSTRUCTION • New Construction •Renos • Baths • Sundecks • Kitchens • Concrete Serving Kelowna Since 1980 Call Mauri

250-718-8131

WELDING

TILE SETTER

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Custom tile setting.

Travertine, marble, granite & ceramic.

Decks, kitchen, baths.

Guaranteed work.

Call 250-870-1009

METAL FABRICATION LTD. Fences • Gates • Railings • Security Bars • Cargo Racks • Rollcages • Boat Railings & more. Tube Bending Specialists www.getbentmetalfab.ca

250-863-4418

Specializing In Residential Renovations Bathrooms, Kitchen, Basements Why Move - Just Improve 250-808-2739 breezeway@shaw.ca

HEATING SOMMERFELD HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING

• New & Existing Heating Systems • Heat pumps, A/C • Gas fitting • Licensed & Insured. • Replacement Furnace.

Call Wayne (250) 215-6767

PLUMBING KOSKI PLUMBING, HEATING & GAS FITTING

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250.718.6718

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Fencing

Masonry & Brickwork

ALL KINDS OF FENCES, 6x8 Cedar panels starting @ $65.

Gates & custom orders, staining 250-491-4622 www.akf.ca

Floor Refinishing/ Installations NEED Installer? We install carpet, lino, hardwood, laminate. Andreas 250-863-3402.

ONE CALL DOES IT ALL Carpet, lino, ceramic tile & laminate. Free est. 20+ yrs experience. 250-862-9667.

Garage Door Services GARAGE Doors- install, service, repair all makes of doors & openers. 250-878-2911

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Dethatching, aerating, hedge & tree trimming. Full maint services. Free est. 250-863-8935 GreenRidge Landscape. Custom ornamental tree, shrub, hedge, pruning, yard maint.

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Home Improvements BREEZEWAY Construction Inc. Specializing in Residential Renovations. 250-808-2739 Engel Construction Since 1973! Custom homes, Reno’s Additions, Decks, Kitchens, & Baths. Doug (250)-215-1616 M. Sauri Constuction Serving Kelowna since 1980. Call Mauri (250)718-8131 SILKAN Construction 21 Years exp. Reno’s, Additions, New Home etc. (250)878-5872 VIRTUAL Concept. Prof drawings, reno’s, yard/deck, door/ window etc. 250-215-0237

WILDSTONE MASONRY Stone Fireplaces and Exteriors - Call Greg for estimate. 250826-6989. wildstone@shaw.ca

Services

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Real Estate

Rentals

Tiling

$100 & Under

Misc. for Sale

Apt/Condos for Sale

Acreage

TILE Setter. Artistic Ceramics.

Custom tile setting. Call 250870-1009

2 step ladders, 6’ wooden & 4’ aluminum, $60 for the two.

250-862-8246.

BRAUN Food Processor, $12.

250-862-8246.

Dbl. Bed, headboard/foot, dresser w/mirror,nite stand Teak, all matching. 763-4099 SANYO Microwave, white, turntable, med size, Clean. $30. 250-765-9022 SONY CD/ cassette/ radio player, remote, portable, AC/ DC. $90 obo.Mint . 765-9022 TRENCHCOAT. Classic, new, size 8, champaigne color, belted. $50. 250-769-5507

1970’s Hanging goddess oil drip lamp. In perfect working condition.

Email pictures available. $75.00 Call 250765-7811.

BRAND new 5 stage reverse osmosis water filtration system. Retail price: $795. Now: $250. Call 250-863-1544 HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available.

1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com PRIVATE Collector will buy gold & silver coins! All conditions. Check your safety deposit box! Todd, 250-864-3521

THINKING OF SELLING? For a confidential, no obligation, free market evaluation of your property call

30 Acres of Prime Farmland for Lease in Upper Mission.

Call Rick 250-215-2449, or John 250-212-2386

$200 & Under

Misc. Wanted

CRYSTAL SPRINGS

Pets & Livestock

Misc Services

Equestrian

ALL KINDS OF FENCES, 6x8 Cedar panels starting @ $65.

Gates & custom orders, stainning,250-491-4622www.akf.ca

SAWDUST - Great for paddocks, riding rings, stables.

250-766-1927 / 250-868-1927

Moving & Storage

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Anything, anywhere. Local and long distance throughout 2010 Packing service available, weekly trips to Vancouver, Alberta, full and partial loads.

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Free Estimates, 250-493-2687 JOE’S MOVING.reasble rates fully equip’d trucks, local-long dist, no job too small470-8194 NORTH END Moving Service Local/Long Distance. Free Estimates 250-470-9498

Painting & Decorating 100% AFFORDABLE Painting Exp, quality. Int Paint/ceilings.

Winter Specials. Terry 8639830 or 768-1098 110% P&D Painting serving Western Canada for 32years.

Clean quality work at reasonable rates seniors discount call Derek 250-769-9068 1ST. In customer service, Cando Painting, prof. reliable crew, 15yrs. in business, Int/Ext. Eddie 250-863-3449 DALE’S PAINTING Service.

Painting Kelowna a better place since 1982, 862-9333 ELITE Trade Painting. Int, ext, comm. (FREE EST). A name you will come to trust. (250)808-3626

Plumbing DREGER MECH. Plumbing, Gasfitting, comm/res & reno, ins’d, 24hr. Call 250-575-5878.

KOSKI Plumbing-Heating Gas Fitting Reno’s Res. Bonded/Insured Troy @ 718-0209

Feed & Hay 1st crop alfalfa mix round bales, no rain, barn stored, 250-547-6584 ALL TYPES of hay for sale! all in medium squares (3x4x8).

For all your Dairy, Horse, Feeder Hay needs, visit www.hubkahay.com or call Cale @ 403-635-0104. Delivery available and Min order is a semi-load.

Good quality hay, alfalfa grass mix, heavy square bales, barn stored. 542-9419 or 309-5956 Hay for sale dry rounds & haylage. $50.00 & $55.00. Armstrong 250-546-0420.

HAY FOR SALE; Grass or Grass Alfalfa mix, Round bales $70 each, approx.

800lbs, delivery avail. on larger orders, also Silege bales or Feeder hay. 250-838-6630 *HAY-SALES-GUARANTEED Quality Grass, Alfalfa, Mixed square bales, round bales & Silage bales. Delivery avail.

(250)804-6081,(250)833-6763.

Organic hay (Alfalfa & Brome) extremely high quality. $8.00 bale. 250-503-7889.

Pet Services ACRES DOGGIE DAY CARE Cornish & Morrison. Rutland Exercise area. (250)765-2580

Pets Adorable Lab puppies, innoc. $500. Yorky/Shi. Family raised Fun fun! $350. 250-547-9224 Havenese pups and Bichon pups. Micro chipped, first shots, dewormed, great dispotions. For more info and pricing call 250-832-4923.

Miniature Dachshund pup.

CKC registered. Red female, smooth coat. Family raised, vet checked, vaccination MC. $750. (250)832-9941 WOLF HYBRID Cubs res. now. Sun Valley Wolf Kennels

Rubbish Removal

www.sunvalleywolfkennels.com 250-765-4996 Kelowna, BC

250-808-0733 SKYHIGH DISPOSAL. Full service Junk Removal & Bin Rentals.

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LARRY’S LITTLE DUMPER We haul little loads of anything, landscaping materials, & Junk to the dump. 250-7181114 BOB’S ONE TON TRUCKING. All your rubbish needs.

FREE scrap car hauling.

25yrs of satisfied Customers.

Bob 250-765-2789, 861-0303 pgr DIGGINOLES N SHIFTINSTUFF. Pickup & delivery service. Rubbish & recycling removed. Landscape, building supplies & Hay delivered, small equipment transferred.

Yes we work weekends!! www.digginoles.com or Ph: Ian 250-864-2339 EDSON’S West Kelowna & Area. Rubbish Haul. 1 Ton Dump truck. (250)-718-1595

Antiques / Vintage 1911 Nickel plated cash register, excellent condition, $800.

250-545-5846.

WELL BUILT CONSTRUCTION

Renovation experts. Int/Ext. Ins’d. Call 250-826-2284 WHITE Science. Teeth whitening. Call 250-215-0237. Visit: whitescienceteethcare.com.

Home Repairs

LARRY’S Handyman & Reno Serv., Lg. & Sm. jobs, Graffitti Removal etc., 250-718-8879

Landscaping

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DIGGINOLES N SHIFTINSTUFF. Pickup & delivery service. Rubbish & recycling removed. Landscape, building supplies & Hay delivered, small equipment transferred.

Yes we work weekends!! www.digginoles.com or Ph: Ian 250-864-2339

Machining & Metal Work GET BENT Metal Fab, fences, gates, railings, security bars, 863-4418www.getbentmetalfab.ca

ERIK the STUDENT Rubbish, Tree & Appliance Removal.

Hauls from $39.99 & up

250-859-9053

Snowclearing

TREMBLAY’S EXCAVATING Comm. snow removal & comm snow blower. 250-979-8033

Sundecks KELOWNA DECK & RAIL. Vinyl, Mod. Flooring, Alum., GlassTopless/Picket878-2483.

Tiling Highly skilled and experienced tile setters in all kinds of tiles and natural stones, Satisfaction guaranteed at reasonable and competitive rates. Senior discount 15%, free estimates call Joe: 250-859-7907 or email: letstalk@live.ca

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32 Styroforms, quadlock, for pouring cement. 4’ x 1’ x 4” thick. 6 & 8” thick clips. $95.00. Email pictures avail.

Call 250-765-7811

$100 & Under 13X14’ light dusty rose carpet/ underlay, great cond., ideal for girls room. $75. 250-766-4690 27” RCA color TV, 6 years old. $100. 250-863-3361

KENMORE Washer & Dryer, white, excl shape. Heavy Duty. $200. Phone 250-768-3472 LOVELY Modern Queen size hide-a-bed. Excellent condition. $200. 778-478-2110 QUEEN size boxspring & mattress, good cond., $135. 250707-2889

CASH Paid for quality used books, Records & Cd’s Pandosy Books, #138-1889 Springfield Rd. 250-861-4995 Cash paid for Silver coins.

Paying 10 times face value.

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$300 & Under

Musical Instruments

10” DEWALT Radial arm saw, $225. 778-478-2267 or 250215-3352.

MOIR Pianos. New & Used Grand & Upright Pianos. Call Richard Moir 250-764-8800

$400 & Under

Sporting Goods

KENMORE washer & dryer, set, white HD, $350 obo. Super capicty. Call 250-765-9022

2SETS left handed golf clubs, incl 9 irons, all fairway woods, driver(selection) & putter $150.

Other sets + extra woods at good price + golf bags 250493-9364 HOCKEY collection, $12,000 for all. For info call Steve, 250763-7787 ext 226 LASER Sights, Red Dots, SKS’s from $199, CZ 858’s $749, CQ-A1 AR15’s $749, Glock’s & CZ’s from $699.

AMMO: 9mm, .40, .45, .357, .38, .223. Repairs, refinishing, reblueing. All at The Best Little Gunshop Around Weber & Markin 4-1691 Powick Rd, Kel. 250-762-7575 Tues-Sat, 10-6 TREADMILL, 5hp motor, hardly used. $750.Call 250769-1826

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FREE P/U- Appliances, Rads, Batteries, Old machinery, vehicles. Harley 778-821-1317 WE will pick up & recycle your wire pipes, & aluminum windows,from reno’s, batteries radiators etc.too.(250)717-0581

Firewood/Fuel

Tools MISC Tools and Machine Equipment for sale. Call 250765-3287 Moving must sell, welding table with steel top, 4’ x 5’ $40, 32 Styroforms (for pouring cement foundations) quadlock 4’ x 1’ x 4” thick, 6 & 8” thick clips $95, 2 sheets hickory veneer $15, 2 - 8 foot teleposts $15.

Call 250-765-7811.

Garage Sales

Garage Sales Moving Sale. Saturday, 26 February, 9-4. IKEA sofa and chairs, 3-light patio lamp post, household items.

1439 Bentien Road

Real Estate Acreage for Sale

LOGGING truck loads of firewood for sale. Call 250-2121157 OKANAGAN PELLET CO. INVENTORY SALE. Off-grade stock blowout at $95/ton.

Products sold “as is”. All sales final. We are located at 2677 Kyle Rd West Kelowna. Call 250-769-1427

3 Acres, Whitevale Area, Lumby. Flat, trees, drilled well, gas/hydro to driveway. Price $235,000.00 + HST OBO. 250-547-6932.

SPECTACULAR Black Mountain View Lots! Fully serviced & graded sites from $169,900 plus HST. Loseth Drive to Nishi Court. Call 250-863-2717 or go to www.minehill.ca

Furniture

Apt/Condos for Sale

ANTIQUE To MODERN Home Furnishings for all Budgets & Tastes. Come to OK Estates Furniture and More. 3292 HWY 97N (beside Sheepskin Boutique) (250)-807-7775 okestates.ca

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Heavy Duty Machinery A-STEEL SHIPPING Containers/Bridges Super sale on now New/Used/Damaged.

BEST PRICES 20’24’40’45’48’53’ insulated reefer containers 20’40’48’53’ CHEAP 40’ Farmers Specials all under $2,200! Semi Trailers for hi way & storage. We are overstocked. Delivery BC & AB. 1-866-528-7108 Call 24 hours www.rtcontainer.com

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Mark Jontz Royal Lepage 250-762-9446 or 250-860-1100 anytime

THINKING OF SELLING? For a confidential, no obligation, free market evaluation of your property call Mark Jontz, Royal Lepage 250-762-9446 or 250-860-1100 anytime.

For Sale By Owner

Lovely DW 1344sq’, 2 bdrm, 2 baths, family rm, breakfast nook, 55+, new flooring & appliances- upgrades. Garden area, lovely yard, tool shed. Sm pets are welcome.

778-755-0070 250-212-0898

FULL SXS, fin. up/ down, Capri/creek, total reno’d, 9 bdrm, 4bth. $540,000 obo. 718-8866 INN AT Big White, #307, sleeps-4, FP, pool, hottub.

Owner use or rental income. $65,000. See www.okhomesellers.com Call 250-768-5510 MUST sell 1 & 2 bdrm condo’s, $115,000-$195,000. By Spall Plaza. 250-718-8866 THINKING OF SELLING? For a confidential, no obligation, free market evaluation of your property call Mark Jontz, Royal Lepage 250-762-9446 or 250-860-1100 anytime.

Houses For Sale ******* OKHomeseller.com Where smart sellers meet smart buyers! View Thompson Okanagan properties for sale.// Selling? No Commission. (250) 545-2383 or 1-877-291-7576 3.69 Acres Home and Shop in Vernon Completely updated home, Detached 1000 sqft Shop with hoist. Great holding property! Call Wade 250-5506364. 6177 Okanagan Ave Vernonwww.okhomeseller.com #26513l

DISTRESS Sale. 4bd, 3.5bth, walk-out bsmt, $259,900. For a Free List of Foreclosures & Distress Sales call Lloyd @ MacDonald Realty 215-5607 KelownaDistressSale.info Kal Lake view home, Husband Rd, Vernon. 2620 sqft, 5 bdrm, 3 bath, handicapped friendly, suite-able, large RV parking, professional landscaping, large waterfall. $599,000. 250308-9368 or 250-309-4986 MORTGAGES LOW RATES. 5YR. 3.94% VARIABLE 2.25% Trish at 250-470-8324 THINKING OF SELLING? For a confidential, no obligation, free market evaluation of your property call Mark Jontz, Royal Lepage 250-762-9446 or 250-860-1100 anytime.

Mobile Homes & Parks Enjoy Sierras Lifestyle, New Homes, Neighborhood in Central location.

From $698/biweekly or $169.900 O.A.C. www.accenthomes.ca (250)-769-6614 WHOLESALE FACTORY DIRECT. Manufactured, Modular & Park models.

Tremendous savings. Luxurious 1512 sq. ft home including delivery and installation only $ 109,950. Many other plans available. 877-976-3737 or 250-814-3788 www.hbmodular.com

O’KEEFE2 Team @ Century 21 / 1-877-509-9009

Mortgages

2BD, 2bth, 1500sq’, bright top flr corner unit, great loc. MLS $199,900. Betsy Price, RE/ MAX Kelowna. 250-212-5520 HOLLYWOOD Station. 1182 sq’, 2bd, 2 bath, SS appl, brnd new W/D. Immed poss. $10,000 dwn, $237,500 balance. By owner. 250-762-3966

BANK ON US! Mortgages for purchases, renos, debt consolidation, foreclosure. Bank rates. Many alternative lending programs.Let Dave Fitzpatrick, your Mortgage Warrior, simplify the process!1-888-711-8818 dave@mountaincitymortgage.ca

Apt/Condo for Rent 1&2BD apartments.

Completely redone. Secure building. Call 250-861-4700 1BD, mature complex at 1469 Bertram St. Lrg, clean, mainflr, NP, ref’s, $750 incl heat. Call 250-870-8746 2Bdrm Furnished UBC/Quail Upgraded Deluxe Furniture Top Floor. View. Avail now. $1495 utils included. 250-5400539, 250-859-1300. To view okbccondos.com/cc1614.html 2BD Top flr. Steps to Superstore. Close to all amens, NS NP. $895/mo. 250-769-2099 325 McIntosh Rd. 2bd, 2bth, 1000sq’. Insuite lndry, lrg patio, ground flr, alarm, sec ug prking, 1yr lease req’d, NS/NP, ref’s. $975. 250-870-4185 AVAIL immed. 1 or 2bd, quiet, secure, updated building, location in DT area. Building is within walking distance to shopping, culteral district & Waterfront Park. On bus route.

Apt incl FS, DW. Building amens incl beautiful landscaped courtyard, lndry room & cov’d secure prking. Info: Jagoda, 250-762-0571 BEHIND Safw Dilw, 1Bd, reno, sgl person pref., W/D, NS, NP, ref’s. $825. 250-717-5802 BELGO AREA, Rutland Rd. South. 2bd, $900 hydro, f/s, NO PETS, bus route, Avail. now. 250-491-3345, 869-9788

BEST DEALS IN KELOWNA!

Affordable 1, 2 & 3 Bdrms AC, near schools, shopping & bus route. Insuite laundry H.Up’s. Across from Park.

Clean Quiet & Spacious.

Sorry NO Pets. Well Managed Building 250-861-5605 BROCKTON MANOR. 2bd, starting @ $700 incl. parking & utilities. 1Bdrm, starting @ $620 (250)-860-5220 CAPRI MALL area. Senior Orientated building. NP, laundry, 2bd $800/mo 250-979-2771

FAIRLANE CRT.

Close to shopping, bus rt, 2BD APARTMENT Heat & hot water incl.

New adjustable rates.

Call (250)-860-4836 LOFT located Downtown on Sunset Dr. next to Waterfront Park & Prospera Place. Featuring over height ceilings and windows, rooftop deck, 2 bdrms, 2bath, 5appls. window coverings, secure covered parking, avail immed. $1295/mth.

250-763-6600, 250-878-5968 MILL CREEK ESTATES

1590/1588 Spall Rd. Premiere Rental Complex in Kelowna. Different Floor Plans Available Close to Shopping / Restaurants.

Call for Availability.

Affordable rental amounts.

(250)-860-4836 or email: millcreekestates@shaw.ca

RUTLAND: THUNDERBIRD EVERGREEN APTS. 435/395 Franklyn Road 1 & 2 bdrm suites, 3/appls, AC, drapes, walk-in storage, u/g secure parking, hot water included. Laundry facilities on site. Close to excellent shopping, major bus routes (excellent bus service to all campuses, Orchard Park Mall & downtown), theaters, medical facilities & restaurants.

250-762-5932 for appointment to view WESTBANK 2 bed & den, lake/golf view, kids & sm pet OK. 6 appl, f/p, 1 u/g parking.

No parties. $1100 mo plus deposit. 1 yr lease pref, refs req.

Available lmmed. Phone 250681-1968 lv msg.

WILLOW PARK MANOR. 270 Aurora Cres 239 Hollywood Rd. S 1 & 2bd units S Next door to the full service Willow Park Shopping Center S Free parking S Resident manager 250-763-3654 1&2BD suites. Kelowna’s best apartment complex. www.thepalisade.ca. 250-762-3455

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WEST KELOWNA Waterfront + Dock. $1800 + utils. 5 bdrm 2.5 bath. Garage. N/S N/P. 250-869-8504.

WINFIELD 10419 Okanagan Center Rd. 3bd 2full bath 2 livingroom,dbl car garage covered deck Mar 1 $1300 + utils NP.NS.(250)498-7757 WOODLKE VIEW, dividable 2-kit, 5bd, 5ba, carprt, grg/wrk shp, in-grd pool, acre, pet neg. $1800+ utils, 250-766-4322 2BD 4Appl Patio Gar $1150 OR 3Bd 3Ba 3Appl FamRm Deck Gar $1500 - 250-8601961. www.cdnhomefinders.ca

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2BDRM gr level,priv entry, legal suite,5 appls,heat,nr bus route NS. NP, ND, ideal for wrkng cple.or.student, Avail immed. $1000 (250)-762-6519 2Bdrm W/O Lake Country Backyard/deck, cable, sep.entry laundry, storage, NS. NP. $950 utils. incl’d. (250)7664020, or 778 821-0115 2BD suite avail soon,Laundry incl NS NP $600. (250)-7659471, (250)-718-6505 $900 utils incl. Mission area.

Pets negot.. 2bd, 1bth. Storage, shr’d yard. 250-762-9703 AVAIL NOW. 2 bed Bsmt Ste $850/m inc util, share laund. 5 min to DT. 15 min to UBCO and OC. No dogs, one cat maybe. NS, no party. 250-7627004 BEAUTIFUL 1 Bdrm Dillworth fr. st. shrd lndry. cen air prking priv entry/patio. Sngl wrkng perf’d. $800 250-317-2071 BRAND new 2 bdrm, sep ent, porch, lndry, big kitchen, NP, NS, wrking cpl. Avail March. $1000+ utils. 250-864-6722.

BRIGHT 2bd, Capri area, gas FP, own lndry, utils incl, cats ok, Mar 1. NS. 250-869-7144 Bright, 635 sq ft. 1 bdrm bsmt.

New appliances, fridge, oven/stove, microwave, and insuite washer/dryer. $800.00 (utilities, full cable, wireless internet and laundry).Ref req. N/ S. Available after March 15.

COZY 2bdrm Capri Mall Area. Close to bus route. Pets negotable. $900 + 1/2 utils.

Laundry inc’d. (250)212-2686 DOWNTOWN, 1bd., f/s, share w/d, sm. deck, nr. shops, bus & schools, 250-317-1864 Excl suite/loc. 1bd. All utils, int, lndry, nprtys, ns. $850. Pets neg. Mrch 15+. 250-317-6963 GLENROSA 2BDRM. Large fenced yard. Close to all ammenities.$1000 all inc &sat tv & internet. 250-768-9360 LAKE COUNTRY/OYAMA. 1 Bedroom. Walkout Incls Cable/Internet/Hydro.

Shared laundry. Available March 1st.

250-859-3022 LRG bchelor suite, furn/ unfurn, $675. Steps to bus. Call 250-765-2532, 250-826-2532 MISSION-BEACH-Location! 2 Bed + LR. Ldry, Strge, NS, NP. New paint & more. $890.

Hugh 250-470-8262 NEWER 1bd+den bsmt suite, Westside. $850 utils incl, steam shower. Call Sue 250769-3080 North Glenmore 2bdrm suite 1100 sq.ft. gr. level, priv. entry 4 appls. own laundry, Utils., incl’d. NS. NP. Avail. Mar.1 $1000/mo (250)-859-0857

SCRAP BATTERIES WANTED We buy scrap batteries from cars & trucks & heavy equipment. $4.00 each. Free pick-up anywhere in BC, Minimum 10.

Call Toll Free 1.877.334.2288

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Homes for Rent

APARTMENTS FOR RENT in Granada Gardens for Mar.1 & beyond, ranging from $800-$850/mo 250-766-4528, 250-718-0881 2Bdrm.+3bdrm apt.suites Spacious, close to all amenities, NS, NP, 1yr lease, Avail Jan. 15th incl heat. 250-763-6600

120’ WATERFRONT. Lrg 5bd New appl, Boat dock, Westbank. Quiet cul-de-sac, AC, 2 FP’s, NS, NP. nr. Wineries, walk to orchards, beaches/ golf.$2000.Brett 778-838-1955 2Bdrm Carriage house, Avail March 1st. DT. $1100/mo.+ Utilities. NP. (250)212-8909

1st Time Home Buyers!! Zero Down. Same payment as rent.

Call LLoyd Taverner (250)215-5607 McDonald Realty 2Bdrm house upper level in Capri area shar’d laundry mature working couple, $900 +utils (250)448-8507 2bdrm Kiliney Beach lakeview 1bath, huge lot, Apr. 1. $1050. ref’s a must, 604-596-5645 3/2 Lake Country, Rent to own nice Family home. $10K down 1600/mo. 30% rental credit includes suite, can be rented for $850/mo.( 250)-317-5360 3/4 BD., Winfield area, $1575 +utils. NO PETS. Avail Now. Overlooks Wood Lake on East side. Close to schools. Call 250-869-9788, 250-491-3345 3BDRM, Central Locationclose to everything, NS, NP, $1200/mo. 250-470-7291 3BDRM Home, Large in-law suite, gas fp,garage,downtown Kelowna, 5yrs old. Available April 1. NS. Ref.’s $1900/mo + utilities. (250)769-6413 4BD N. Glenmore, pet friendly, 5appl, deck, dbl garage, $1300. 250-868-0607 DOWNTOWN. 1bd loftstyle carriage house, garage, 5appl, newer, small pets ok, $1200.

Close to bus & shops. Avail March 15 or April 1. Please call 250-899-0911 FURN’D 1bd carriage house, FS, DW, WD, AC, priv patio overlooking nature pond. Quiet are w/access to hiking/walking trails. NS, NP, NP. $1000.

March 15/April 1. Ref’s req’d.

Call 250-862-8646 GLENROSA Area. 3/bdrm $1500 mo+utils.

Available now. NO PETS. Lrg back fenced yard. 250-869-9788 or 250-491-3345 LACASA Lake Cottage Resort for rent or for sale, Elegant & Modern 2bdrm, den, fully furnished, Move in ready, avail Immed $1150+utils or $397,000. 250-491-0823 NO STRINGS ATTACHED! If we told you there’s a $45K non repayable grant for a down payment on a brand new home, wouldn’t you want to know more? If you can make mortgage payments but haven’t been able to save a down payment, find out about Project Build II Attainable Housing program.

Contact Gino Dal Ponte at 250-317-2707 or info @ thepropertysource.ca NOW AVAILABLE! Lovely & immac. 2 bdrm Rancher w/ sunroom, all appls, propane fireplace, updated flooring and paint throughout. Large lot, det. garage, and steps to lake Okanagan. “FINTRY” is a small quiet lake community, 35min to Kelowna or Vernon.

Pet neg, N/S, refs req. $1200 mo. Long term avail. Call Kristi 1-604-862-8039 or email: kristip@telus.net RUTLAND- 3bdrm, 2baths, nr school/bus Very nice quiet neighborhood Avail. March15 NP, $1300/mo + utils. Call 250-317-1672, 250-863-5616 WESTBANK. 2-bd 2-bth main floor home located near golf course, shopping, theatre and restaurants.

Home has hrdwds, gas fp, office niche, lndryrm, Lk and Mtn views. $1,600 plus shared utilities with owner in dwnstrs suite.

Available Apr 1/11. 250-7683028 or email at maggie3707@gmail.com

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Cars - Domestic

Commercial/ Industrial 1/2 - 4 acre serviced, fenced industrial lots for lease. Light, heavy or industrial use including auto wrecker & storage.

7000sq’ serviced coverall shelter for storage or workspace or build to suit. Westbank Industrial Park. 250-769-7424 2000sq’ Industrial shop & office w/ 3/4 acre fenced yard.

West Kelowna. Avail immed. $3700/mo neg. 250-768-5768 HWY Front avail at 1694 Ross Rd Ship/rec doors, prking C1 2000sqft. $2500 TN. 769-6614

Duplex / 4 Plex 2BD, 1.5bth side x side 4plex, Smid Rd, Westbank. $850+ utils. March 1. 250-212-1282 2BD, 1bth, 4appl, nice priv fenced backyard, NP, NS, $1000. 250-212-9189 or 250764-2057 2BD Rutland 4plex on Hwy 97. $700+utils. Pet ok. Ref’s req’d.

250-765-5578 3BD, 2bth, 5appl, skylights, carport, near hospital, college, lake, bus & Mission Mall. NS, NP. $1200+utils, ref’s. 250826-7501, 250-763-5225 4BD & 2bd, 3 full bth, 6appl, garage, all windows blinds.

March 1. NP. (250)860-8583 BEAUTIFULLY RENOVATED 2 & 3 Bdrm end units.(x3) Available immediately. Near all Amenities. Fenced yard.

Pets negotiable. $950, $1090, & $1290. To view, Call Mark 1-250-938-8040 BLK MTN. 4 bed + den, 2 bath $1250+Util.5 appl. 2 decks.

Lrg yrd. NS/NP. 250-869-8504 GLENMORE Duplex, 3bd, 2bth, secure garage, FS, WD, NS, NP, close to schools & shops. $1350. 250-863-8380 Rutland 3 or 4 bdrm top flr Avail Mar 1 fr st dw. Lrg eat in kit w/skylight dining room lrg livingroom With sep laundry rm 2 decks, carport. $1225/ $1325 + utils (250)765-4210 Store Front on busy Rutland Road available immediately.

Contact Rick 250-862-7439.

High traffic area with good parking.

Modular Homes WINFIELD, 2bd Mobile, NP, NS, Nparties, wrking adults, ref’s. $850+utils. NP. Mar 1.

250-766-3395, 250-861-0656 Winfield 3bd 2 ba No bsmt. on Orchard, 6appls a/c deck, drapes. Mar 1st. NS. NP. Working persons. ref’s req’d $1250 + DD & utils. 250-7663395 Cell (250)-861-0656

Homes for Rent

2005 HYUNDAI TUSCON FOR SALE 2 ltr, front wheel drive, AM/FM stereo w/MP3 CD, alloy wheels, anti-lock brakes, power brakes/ steering/mirrors/windows/locks. Roof rack, five doors,tilt steering,4 wheel disc brakes,electronic stability control, block heater, heated front windshield & heated mirrors. New winter tires, timing belt, windshield & front brakes. Good on gas +/- hwy 30, town 28 m/g. 100,000 kms.

EXCELLENT CONDITION, great winter vehicle.

Asking $9,500 obo.

CALL CELL: 250-617-9944

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Rooms for Rent 2BD, furn’d, sem-priv, sep ent Share kit/bth/lndry/lvngrm, utils incl. $525+dd. 250-765-0746 All Comforts of Home, furn.rooms/suites DT. wireless int. ca. WD.fr $450. 861-5757 MODERN Furn’d. bdrm. all cbl/utils. incl’d., $450mo. $475. Call 250-317-2546

RV Pads ACRES R.V. PADS We are “Out of Town”, but we are “In Town” Full Hk. Ups. Incl.cable.

SPRING SPECIAL MAR.1 Winter Rates All Summer!

Phone (250)-765-2580 Kel.

Shared Accommodation 1BD frn’d’/unfrn’d. WL int, lndry, prking, TV, responsible $425. 250-451-9057 2BD Condo, share w/wrking female. WD, DW, micro, gas FP, 2bths, near bus, sec. lit prking, near amens. $600 utils incl. Sharla, 250-878-3582 or Linda 250-832-6199 4 Rent Today. Fully furn’d, incl. wl int access, utils/wd/cbl, $500mo +dd, in quiet home.

Student/disability welcome. No partiers. Call 250-860-7146 CENTRAL Glenmore, room w/ a view, $550 utils incl except phone, NP, ND. 250-4691238, 778-478-2288 MIDDLE aged couple looking for responsible roommate, behind Costco, NP, Nparties, NS. $450. Utils & net incl. Call 250-801-8648 N.RUTLAND: Student or working, 3 bdrms, share LR, kit, bath, lndry, sat, int & hottub. On Bus route, CRC req. $450 utils incl. 250-765-7239 WESTBANK house to share, priv bth, cbl, cov’d prking. avail now. Ref’s.$475.250-769-8287

Suites, Lower 1000sq’ 1bd house, newly reno’d, DW, WD, storage shed, 1521 Bernard, natural gas, bus stop nearby, NP, $1000 all utils incl. Avail immed. Call Anthony, 250-491-0626 1BD 5Appl AC Patio $700 Incl Util OR 2Bd 6Appl Deck Pet OK $875 Incl Cable -250-8601961. www.cdnhomefinders.ca 1BD. $700. incl. utils., Rutland, ns, np, cls. to UBC, bus rte, Avail now 250-448-4461 1BD Lakeview Heights suit single, ind. NS NP quiet area $730 + DD Avail March 1 (250)769-5142 1BD., Off McCurdy, f/s, w/d, priv. ent., nr. bus, ns, np, pref 1 person, $800. util/cbl. incl.

Avail Feb 1 (250)491-9006 1Bdrm bsmt suite, Mission Flats area, self contained, priv entry, laundry, 4appls, basic cable, internet incl’d, No smoking, No pets. $800/mo. Single pref.’ed Mar 1. 250-215-1616 1Bdrm Upper Mission w/d priv entry/yard/parking $750 cable, net, utils incl’d 250-764-7294 1BD w/o bsmt suite, 1658 Lynrick Rd. $590 utils/cbl incl. Call 250-765-9596 2BD. Bright wo in Springvalley WD, FS, corner lot, shr’d utils, prking. $795. (250)868-9059 2BD bsmt suite, full bth, nice kitchen, WD, wifi, $895 utils incl. NS. Sergie 250-681-2577 or Brian 250-212-7175 2BD lower lvl suite, some utils incl, NParties, NS, NP, near shopping & bus, quiet area, Area of Rutland. Lndry HU’s. $895, dd req’d. 250-765-2931 2BD LRG bright kitchen, all appls., partially furnished. Pets ok. Quiet & very clean. $900mo. 250-766-1265 2BDRM, bright 1100sq.ft, insuite lndry, gas frpl, Rutland, $1000 util incl. 250-317-3286

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Beautiful 1100 sq. ft. legal suite, utils., wireless & cable incl’d. shrd laundry, on bus route, Avail Mar. 1 $875+ DD Adults only NP NP NS 250769-0222 cell 250-864-2178 RUTLAND. 2 bd suite.

Utils/cbl incl, ns, np 950/mo.

778-753-1147 Rutland 2bd utils. incl’d except electicity, No laundry. nr. school & park. $800 NP. NS. Avail. Mar15. 250-869-9530 RUTLAND, grnd lvl 2bd suite, sec prking, 5appl, incl utils, $800. Mrch 15. 250-863-9373

Suites, Upper 2BDRM 4 plex unit, behind Plaza 33 in Rutland. 5 appl, carport & storage. Older adults preferred. NS. $800/mo + utils & DD. 250-451-9923 3BD. 2ba., Newer Hm., 2-car grge., bk. deck,. elec. f/p, 6appl., Winfield,school & bus rte., $1400. util. incl. 766-5076 3BD, 2bth, Peachland. $1200 utils incl. Avail now. Call 250869-2186 4BD upper flr, 5appls, sep.entry & laundry,1 bath FP, NS, NP.No parties! $1200+1/2utils.

Rutland. 250-807-2006 AVAIL immed. 2bd bsmt suite. $700+40%utils. Call Janice at 250-762-8901 LRG 3bd 5appls. Close to school, and all amens, fenced yard, NS, NP. $900+utils. ref’s.

Avail. Now. 250-317-8515

Townhouses THINKING OF SELLING? For a confidential, no obligation, free market evaluation of your property call Mark Jontz, Royal Lepage 250-762-9446 or 250-860-1100 anytime.

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Lots of used parts for sale.

765-8537 TIRES- ASSORTED. 205-7514. 215-70-15 4 Ford alum tire w/rim. 205-75-15. 205-70-15.

185-70-14 snow tire w/rims, like new. 185-70-13 w/rim, new. 4- 265-70-14 Bridgestone, exc tires, 80%. 250860-8127

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Trucks & Vans 2000 GMC Sierra SLE Extended cab 4x4, well maintained good running truck, $4500 obo.250-762-4163 2002 Chev Silverado Crew Cab,1500HD, 6L, auto, trailer tow pkg, canopy, boat rack, 2sets of tires on rims, 155kms, 8600GVW, 4.10 r.end, fully loaded, leather int., 250-4927315 $15,000 OBO 2002 GMC Sonoma, 3dr automatic, extended cab, loaded, only 79,000km, $7450. 250938-8370 2005 Chev 2500 HD, 4x4, LS, 160k, ex/cab, l/b, loaded, exc. cond. $10,900. 250-306-5362 2007 GMC Sierra. 1500HD. SLE crew cab. 109KM, Very clean. $18,900. 250-547-6611 2010 Toyota Tacoma, crew cab, TRD sport, 6spd, loaded.

13,000km. $25,975.

2006 Tacoma, 4dr, ext cab, auto, loaded, 96,000km. $16,975.

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250-547-9290 2005 Hyundai Tuscon. 2 ltr, front wheel drive, AM/FM stereo w/MP3 CD, alloy wheels, anti-lock brakes, power brakes/steering/mirrors/windows/locks. Roof rack, five doors, tilt steering, 4 wheel disc brakes, electronic stability control, block heater, heated front windshield & heated mirrors. New winter tires, timing belt, windshield & front brakes.

Good on gas +/- hwy 30, town 28 m/g. 100,000 kms. EXCELLENT CONDITION, great winter vehicle. Asking $9,500 obo.

Call: Cell 250-617-9944

Cars - Sports & Imports 2001 Audi A4, 1.8 Quattro, 128,000k. auto, sunroof, leather, $7,995. 250-260-6002.

2001 Audi, standard, mint cond. 160Km, fully loaded. $8,000. 250-545-8190 lv mess

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2007 FORD F-150 XL

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Maintained, well kept.

Great reliable work/personal truck.

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Clamshell shape, fiberglass, fits 2 full size sleds. Keeps things clean & dry. Very light alum frame.

Front & rear open, in excl cond. $3800 obo. Call 250862-6020

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Polly is a very sweet Torbie who loves a good head and ear scratching.

Being an older gal she would prefer a relaxed environment for her ‘retirement home’, even though she can still be a robust kitty at times. If you have the perfect home for this beautiful girl please come down to the shelter for an introduction.

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Odie is a fairly quiet lady and enjoys spending much of her day watching the world from her hide n perch. She loves having the top of her head scratched and her cheeks stroked. She would do best in an ADULT ONLY home or one with older children. If Odie would make a good addition to your home, please come down for a visit.

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Roxy is a sweet Staffi mix who enjoys car rides, loves to sleep in the middle of the bed and knows her basic commands (sit, shake a paw, roll over).

She loves to walk and is good with other dogs and older children. She is ready to go to her “forever home”, so if you have the right environment for this beautiful girl, please come down and spend some time with her.

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Kipper is approx 4 years old, unsure of his surroundings and quite shy. He does come for attention, loves his head being scratched but is timid in doing so. Kipper would do best in a home with calm, caring, patient people who can help him realize that the world isn’t such a scary place. We feel that with time he will become a wonderful lap cat. If you would like to meet him please come down for a visit.

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Drey is a sweet but cautious dog, and bonds well with people he gets to know. He had some special privileges at his former home (sleeping under the covers, regular belly rubs etc) so would love to have those continue. Positive reinforcement is the best way to relieve Drey of his fearful behaviour and to bring out the very best in him. He is a great dog and hopes that there is a good, loving home for him in the near future.

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Heidi is looking for her retirement home. She loves to play football and enjoys the company of other dogs.

She is a big girl who needs to lose weight. She loves walks and hanging out on her big fluffy bed. Heidi is beautiful inside and out and would love to go to her “forever home” with her best buddy William. Please come down for a visit with her.

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TREACLE ID# 226102

My name is Treacle and I am big love bug! I am soooo sweet and affectionate, all I want to do is snuggle. I have had a couple of litters in my short life, but am now spayed and tattoo’d, and my ears have been treated...so I am totally ready to be adopted and would love a home with another dog or at least a place where people will give me lots of love and spend quality time with me. I hope that my “forever home” is out there somewhere.

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Sasha is a very sweet girl who loves to be fussed over. She will throw a paw at your for attention and meow away. Sasha would do best in a home where she can be a lap cat and her needs looked after (she can become uncomfortable at times if picked up or too much attention is paid to her)...in other words she needs to have her comfort zone respected. If you have the proper environment for Sasha and think she would make a good “fit”, please come to spend some time with her.

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CUISINE from Jude’s kitchen Healing Spices There’s lots of literature available extolling the health benefits of particular herbs and spices, but a new book by Bharat B. Aggarwal with Debora Yost puts it all together in one volume, called Healing Spices, complete with recipes using each.

I have no way of judging the veracity of the claims made in this book, but some of it is ancient and traditional, proven over and over again; and there has been scientific research into the link between certain spices and the prevention and treatment of some health problems.

Published by Sterling Publishing of New York, there is a certain amount of common sense in this book, as well as some intriguing suggestions.

Quite apart from the healthful or mystical qualities of some spices, they can unquestionably elevate the humblest of ingredients to heavenly nourishment, so I will continue to use and experiment with spices and herbs as long as there is breath in my body.

And, according to Healing Spices, the more of these I eat, the longer that might be—which is encouraging to me.

Subtitled ‘how to use 50 everyday and exotic spices to boost health and beat disease,’ Healing Spices could be very useful and it’s also wellorganized and interesting.

Certainly, I will enjoy trying out the advice that cocoa helps prevent dementia and fatigue, heart disease and memory loss, stroke and wrinkles, not to mention a host of other problems, because I’m a keen fan of dark chocolate.

I’ll let you know how that goes.

In the meantime, you may wish to reserve your copy of my upcoming book called Jude’s Kitchen, which is being published this spring by the Okanagan Institute. Go to: www.judiesteeves.com JUDIE STEEVES / CAPITAL NEWS

Spiced Mixed Nuts Haven’t tried these, but they look like they would be really tasty, and nuts are good for you. A B.C. VQA viognier might pair well with these spices, but with that amount of sugar, you might have to match them with a late harvest riesling instead.

1/2 c. (125 ml) sugar 1 tsp. (5 ml) cinnamon 1/2 tsp. (2 ml) cloves 1/4 tsp. (1 ml) allspice 1/4 tsp. (1 ml) nutmeg 1/4 tsp. (1 ml) ginger 1/2 tsp. (2 ml) salt 1 egg white 2 tbsp. (30 ml) water 2 lb. (1 kg) whole mixed nuts

Use nuts such as almonds, cashews, pecans and walnuts.

Spray two cookie sheets with an oil spray and pre-heat the oven to 275 F. Combine the sugar, spices and salt, if using, in a large bowl. Stir in the egg white and water and mix.

The mixture should resemble a smooth paste. Add the nuts and gently stir so each nut is thoroughly coated with the spice mixture.

Spread out the nuts on the cookie sheets, separating them so they don’t touch and stick together.

Bake for 40 minutes or until the coating is crisp and golden brown. Cool and transfer to an airtight jar.

Makes about 5 cups.

Carrot & Squash Soup Whether you serve this as a first course or the whole meal, it’s a satisfying way to use the last of those hearty winter vegetables.

1 1/2 tsp. (8 ml) coriander seeds 1/2 tsp. (2 ml) yellow mustard seeds 2 tbsp. (30 ml) oil 2 c. (500 ml) diced onions 1 tbsp. (15 ml) diced fresh ginger 1/2 tsp. (2 ml) turmeric 1/2 tsp. (1 ml) curry powder 1 lb. (500 g) carrots 1 acorn squash 1 tsp. (5 ml) lime zest 6 c. (1.5 l) chicken stock 1/2 c. (125 ml) light cream 1 tbsp. (15 ml) fresh lime juice salt and pepper, to taste 1/2 c. (125 ml) fresh parsley Dry roast the coriander and mustard seeds separately and cool. Place both in a

spice mill and grind to a fine powder.

Halve and seed the squash. Peel and coarsely chop the carrots and the squash.

Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed large Dutch oven and brown-fry the onions for 10 minutes until they are golden brown. Add the ginger, turmeric and toasted seeds and the curry powder and stir for one minute. Add the carrots, squash and lime zest. Cover and cook for five minutes, stirring frequently.

Add the chicken stock and bring to a boil.

Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until the vegetables are soft. Cool slightly.

Working in batches, puree the soup in a blender or food processor until smooth.

Return the soup to the pot. Stir in the cream and lime juice and season with salt and pepper.

Sprinkle with parsley.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2011

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▼ WEST KELOWNA

Chamber opts out of tourism promotion Mike Simmons STAFF REPORTER

Tourism initiatives promoting the Westside will continue, but the organizing committee formerly run under the auspices of the Westbank and District Chamber of Commerce will start reporting directly to local governments beginning this April.

Acting vice-president Craig Brown noted the chamber wanted to focus more of its efforts on its membership.

He said the chamber found over the last few years that tourism had been overshadowing the core work of the group for its business members.

“It’s really affected the chamber as a whole.”

Brown said it will continue to be business as usual for the tourism committee, and the chamber will maintain contact with them up until the end of March.

After that time, the tourism committee will start reporting to the District of West Kelowna, the Westbank First Nation and the Regional District of Central Okanagan.

“The committee itself will continue, as far as we see it.”

Brown noted the chamber is in full support of tourism and recognizes it is an important part of the community.

He added that the organization needs to focus on its membership.

He said the tourism committee has done a tremendous job and the move is a positive step.

Brown said looking at

Doug Findlater the other chamber models of operation across B.C., the groups are not involved in tourism as it differs from their role as a business advocacy group.

“What we really wanted to do is to hand it over to the three governments, (and) say, ‘This is something you really need to handle yourselves.’”

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WHAT WE REALLY WANTED TO DO IS TO HAND IT OVER TO THE THREE GOVERNMENTS. Craig Brown Westside Chamber

Brown said the committee had previously discussed breaking from the chamber and becoming a separate society, and a subcommittee has been struck to examine the idea.

He noted the chamber is in full support of the move, as the tourism body needs to find professionals to really market and support tourism in the area.

He added that tourism work had come to take

up close to 60 per cent of chamber staff time.

“The membership of the chamber has been suffering.”

The chamber will continue to operate the West Kelowna Visitor Information Centre, which they have run for 30 years.

Brown said the chamber will be looking to the district to help fund the operation.

He added that improvements to the visitor’s centre will make it more a retail type of outlet, where visitors can get tourism information on the area but also have the opportunity to purchase and look at local art.

West Kelowna Mayor Doug Findlater said the chamber basically tossed it back to the three funders who put money into this to design the program from here on in.

He noted he had been told the chamber wanted to focus on being the voice of business in the community.

Findlater noted Tourism Kelowna broke from their own chamber of commerce a number of years ago, and it is not a unique situation that may be emerging here.

Economic development officer John Perrott said its always a concern leading into a tourist season, that West Kelowna businesses don’t feel abandoned midstream.

Coun. Duane Ophus noted the tourism committee are a focused and dedicated group of people.

“I think we can turn this minor negative into a very big positive.” msimmons@kelownacapnews.com

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FAITH LANTHIER, manager of the Westside Community Food Bank, appears to have finally found a permanent home for the community service on Hebert Road in Westbank.

▼ COMMUNITY

Food bank finds permanent home Mike Simmons STAFF REPORTER

A temporary home may soon become permanent for the Westside Community Food Bank.

The district of West Kelowna had given the food bank property at 2600 Hebert Road a temporary zoning while monitoring to see if there were any issues arising from the operation being in that spot.

Westside Community Food Bank manager Faith Lanthier said numbers are up and the food bank is seeing a lot more people.

She noted the food bank was previously in a modular unit, and it is nice to have a proper space.

Planning supervisor

Brent Magnan noted the temporary zoning currently on the property expires in August of this year, and was a function to allow the food bank society an avenue to look at long-term planning.

“They have determined that this would be an appropriate location.”

Magnan added the temporary permit has also given West Kelowna staff time to monitor the site and use, and said the district has not received any complaints or responses from the public regarding the use of the site for the food bank. He said the rezoning would be consistent with surrounding commercial properties.

Coun. David Knowles said the food bank at

that location is a great improvement on the previous structure, through the contributions made

by Gorman Brothers and various volunteers.

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THEY HAVE DETERMINED THAT THIS WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE LOCATION. Brent Magnan

Mayor Doug Findlater said he was happy to support the rezoning. He pointed out the surrounding property uses include a funeral home, a former

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“I certainly don’t see any conflicts with neighbours.”

Findlater said that for people on a limited income, access to transit is not very far away from the location.

He added the district has had no complaints about the food bank, parking concerns failed to materialize and the society has maintained the property well.

The zoning change is set to become permanent pending review by the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Highways and a public hearing. msimmons@kelownacapnews.com

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Healthy communities need healthy kids, says CATCH Mike Simmons STAFF REPORTER

As West Kelowna develops, consideration of the needs of its children will help them grow as well.

CommunityActionTowards Children’s Health spokesperson Amanda Turner told West Kelowna council last week more than one in five local children reach school age vulnerable on at least one developmental scale.

Those areas include cognition or emotional development.

Turner said the result is the approximately 11,000 children startingschool over the next five years, more than 2,500 will not be developmentally ready when they enter kindergarten.

She pointed out families now face rising costs of housing, food, health care, childcare and transportation. She added they also face unchanging minimum wage and social assistance rates, along with declining sources of aid.

“So, they’re dealing with a lot.”

Turner noted a community that continually creates and improves its physical and social environments has positive effects on child development.

“You’ll often find people who live in such healthy communities feel a great sense of ownership and pride in their communities.”

She said that when communities and families cannot provide the basic needs of food, shelter and clothing, they will struggle to develop to their full potential.

“Our young children deserve thoughtful planning and actions.”

When asked what the District of West Kelowna can do to increase and enhance healthy early child development, Turner noted first of all, the area can value children.

She pointed to a 2006 survey done by CATCH. When people were asked to describe children today with two words, 60 per cent of respondents chose negative words, from difficult or unruly to undisciplined.

Turner noted the district can take action to make West Kelowna a welcoming community

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YOU’LL OFTEN FIND PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN SUCH HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FEEL A GREAT SENSE OF OWNERSHIP AND PRIDE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. Amanda Turner

for children and celebrate them as citizens.

She said the district can consider children and family friendly policies in their work. She gave the example of a community square, which gives children a place to explore, teens and adults a place to meet, and seniors a place to walk. She pointed out making an area stroller-friendly also makes it wheelchair accessible, and additional foot traffic promotes community safety.

Turner said that in the district, the largest proportion of children are

vulnerable on the social competence scale. Social competence involves cooperation, respect for others, knowledge of socially appropriate behaviour, self-control and selfconfidence.

She added the district could look at developing safe environments for families to come together, giving children the opportunity to interact with their peers and other adults besides their parents.

“I’m aware the District of West Kelowna has been taking numerous steps, and I commend you on those efforts.”

Mayor Doug Findlater noted that childcare continues to be a challenge for families, and asked what a municipality could do to facilitate more and better childcare.

Turner noted childcare facilities have their own realm of challenges in providing the services they do, from retaining childcare workers and funding their facilities to even being able to afford to pay early childhood educators adequately.

Kent Stralbiski, administrative director of the Highlands EduCare Children’s Centre, noted the difficulties of childcare facilities are largely a funding issue. There is a dependence on provincial governments being able to provide the subsidies necessary.

Stralbiski noted that he sees areas partitioned into residential and commercial uses, with childcare facilities placed in the middle.

He added there is a negative view of childcare facilities as being too noisy, and he finds they are often unwelcome in a neighborhood. msimmons@kelownacapnews.com

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CLEAN UP CREW…

The cold, clear weather—without many people present— presented a perfect opportunity for work crews to clean up the beach area at Gellatly Bay earlier this week.

▼ RETAIL

Westbank Shopping Centre up for sale Alistair Waters The Westbank Shopping Centre is up for sale.

Primaris Retail REIT, which owns 29 shopping malls across the country, including Kelowna’s Orchard Park Shopping Centre, is selling the leasehold of the Westbank Shopping Centre, a parcel that includes all but the large Zellers and former Extra Foods stores on the site.

The portion for sale is listed at 73,910-squarefeet, is 99 per cent leased and includes tenants such as White Spot,

Wendy’s, TD Canada Trust, Starbucks, Landmark Cinemas, Tim Horton’s, Blockbuster Video, Lammle’s, Liquor Depot, The Source, Westbank Shoes and Wok Box. The site is described as an 8.6 acre, L-shaped parcel.

Neither Zellers nor the former Extra Foods building are included but are listed as “shadow” anchors. Extra Foods closed in November when the large nearby Real Canadian Superstore opened.

No asking price is listed in the sales brochure, put out by Vancouver realtor Avison Young. But it

Food bank theft

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says the Bank of Montreal holds a $9.45 million mortgage on the centre.

The current 10-year term is set expires in 2015. The outstanding balance of the mortgage is $8.3 million.

The net operating income for the centre in 2011 is estimated at $1.447 million.

The mall is located on Westbank First Nation land, at the corner of Highway 97 and Gosset Road, and the lease covering the land the mall is located on will expire in 2091, according Avison Young, which is handling the sale.

6 p.m. on Saturday and 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, someone broke into the outside freezer at the Westside Community Food Bank.

A quantity of wild meat and sausages, valued at approximately

The mall was the first major retail development in the Westbank area when it was built in 1996. Since then, it has been expanded and there have been several other commercial retail developments built on nearby WFN land, including large Home Depot, Canadian Tire, Walmart, London Drugs and Staples stores, as well as several smaller stores, restaurants and services such as banks.

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Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact the West Kelowna RCMP at 250-768-2880 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.

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The 17-year-old blueliner has accepted an NCAA Division I scholarship to attend Quinnipiac University, of the Eastern College Athletic Association for the 2013 season.

That means Sherbinin will complete for the Warriors for the rest of this year plus two more seasons for the Warriors, preparing himself to play for the Bobcats in 2013.

“This is an exciting day for Brayden, as he continues to grow into an exceptional prospect in the BCHL and beyond,” said Warriors head coach/ GM Darren Yopyk.

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“We are proud that the majority of players that play for us secure scholarships in either the NCAA or in Canada, in the CIS or ACAC.”

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Sherbinin is a 6-foot1, 180 pound defenceman who played in 47 regular season games this year registering four goals and eight assists while racking

up 44 penalty minutes.

He’s a native of Kelowna.

Warriors Rap… Due to press deadlines, we can’t tell you how the Warriors did in the first two games of its openingj round BCHL playoff series against Trail.

Games one and two were scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights at Royal LePage Place in Kelowna. The next two games will take place Monday and Tuesday in Trail before the series will bounce between West Kelowna and Trail for games five, six and seven, if necessary.

A game five, if needed, would be this Thursday in West Kelowna. If a game six is needed , it would be Friday in Trail and a game seven, if required would go March 5, back in West Kelowna.

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Council concerned about fishing resort’s development plans Mike Simmons

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“Quinnipiac has recruited a very good young man who will be a tremendous asset to their institution on the ice, in the classroom, and in their community. (Quinnipiac’s coaches) have done an excellent job and Brayden will help them build on an already storied tradition at Quinnipiac.”

It’s been quite a year for Warriors players committing to NCAA scholarships. Sherbinin becomes the 13th player to commit to a Division I institution on this year’s squad.

The 13 scholarships are best in not only the BCHL, but Junior A hockey across all of Canada, according to the Warriors.

“As an organization, we continue to demonstrate we are meeting our mandate of developing players and moving them forward in their hock-

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Further development at a fishing resort on Jackpine Lake is concerning West Kelowna officials, as the lake forms part of the reservoir system within the district’s watershed.

Jackpine Lake lies approximately 10 kilometres outside the district, west of Crystal Mountain Resort.

The lake is considered an upland reservoir.

Planning supervisor Brent Magnan said the proposal before the Integrated Land Management Bureau is for the conversion of a lease on the existing site and extending the lease for 30 years.

The intention is to put up eight seasonal cabins for the use of people who own a portion of the resort.

The Regional District of Central Okanagan requires a 30-metre development setback from upland reservoirs. Magnan said West Kelowna staff have concerns regarding source water protection for Jackpine Lake and other reservoirs.

He added there are concerns that building

may impact the potential for future reservoir development improvements on the site.

Coun. Bryden Winsby said even though West Kelowna may promote themselves as a tourist destination, facilities like those offered at the Jackpine camp are few and far between.

He noted the concern of potential damage to the watershed is an obvious one.

“I want to be satisfied those concerns are real,” said Winsby He added those familiar with the lake know there are other places around it to camp.

“If we’re concerned about potential contamination to the water, be aware there is ability elsewhere to camp, and as much or more contamination could occur from increased use.”

Magnan noted the lease area has been well maintained, and the applicant also operates a nearby forestry recreation site.

Coun. Carol Zanon noted she has been to the site several times, and agreed the property management was of the high-

est standard one could possibly hope for.

“He is a true steward of the environment up there.”

She noted there is no substantial change in what is proposed, with eight cabins replacing eight existing campsites.

She said the upgrades would allow septic disposal of waste instead of outhouses.

Zanon added there has been an application in for eight years to raise Bear Lake by seven metres, and Jackpine Lake is not be seen as the primary upland reservoir in the watershed.

Jackpine is a shallow lake that sometimes goes quite dry in the winter, with a high degree of colour in the water making processing more expensive.

Timing of any dambuilding and raising of water levels at Jackpine would depend on West Kelowna’s water development master plan, a plan that is still under way.

Director of engineering Gary O’Rourke said the district should protect their water resources now if they can, rather than

having to go backward in future.

Mayor Doug Findlater said the camp is wellknown as a good steward of the lake.

Over the longer term, West Kelowna has to protect an asset originally fostered by the Westbank Irrigation District.

“I’m concerned about a long-term tenure, like 30 years, something that would encourage the applicant to do a lot of investment.”

Findlater said if it turns out the district requires the upland reservoir, it becomes more complicated to terminate the arrangement with the resort.

He said a partially completed water supply and demand study by the Okanagan Basin Water Board seems to be showing that climate change may not necessarily decrease the amount of precipitation in the region, but there would be more compression of precipitation into seasons, and more water storage capacity may be required.

Council voted to wait on recommendations until hearing from the resort owner.

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WESTSIDE ▼ TAG

Canadian navy plays a part in big Caribbean drug bust

Stockwell Day line ripple all the way back to the nerve centres of the dealers and manufacturers.

It doesn’t mean it scares the whole network of drug lords enough to make them totally shut down.

But for awhile it does put a major dent in their capabilities to have their poisonous product dumped onto our streets here at home.

So here’s a salute to our troops for once again having an impact and keeping our world a little more secure.

Also on the world front, Canada played a lead role at the G-20 meetings in Paris this week.

At the risk of over complicating things, I can tell you this was a strategic set of meetings to try to agree on what measures should be put in place to monitor a coun-

try’s debt levels and sound the alarm to avoid future financial meltdowns A number of the key players at the meeting are saying it was Finance Minister Jim Flaherty who came up with key proposals to keep China and the US in play.

••• NDP Leader Jack Layton was for a while this week looking and sounding like he might decide to support the upcoming budget. Then by week’s end he was saying he would vote against it.

All I’ll say is that we are not pushing for a federal election. We believe that most of you want us

to stay focused on jobs and the economy. That’s our plan.

As a matter of fact that’s pretty well what I heard as I was doorknocking last weekend.

I’ve explained in this paper before that I doorknock year round. It’s a great way to stay in touch and to get a sense of how people are feeling about the issues.

With no fear or reprisals and with no cameras around, I have found

people are pretty good at getting right to the point with me.

That was certainly the case this weekend. A number of people brought up the issue of a federal election. And they were very clear. They don’t think we need one.

I assured them, and I’m assuring you, we don’t think this is the time for an election.

Our economy continues to do well, but there are still risks globally.

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Paul Hergott when advising my clients on whether or not a settlement offer is a what I consider a fair one.

I point out that a lawyer acting on a percentage fee basis benefits from settling cases and, therefore, my interest in settling the case may be in conflict with their best interests.

I do my best to identify and resolve that potential conflict of interest by carefully reviewing the reasons for my advice and, as may be appropriate, recommending that my client obtain a second legal opinion.

I believe in full disclosure.

Unfortunately, in most cases, including those I’ve given, the law doesn’t require it.

Adolescent boys are not required by law to disclose to young ladies that they’ve got one thing on their mind and that therefore their interests may be in conflict with the interests of the young ladies they encounter.

Neither are personal injury lawyers required to disclose the potential conflicts I’ve identified.

One conflict of interest that gets under my skin the most, because in my view it results in the greatest unfairness in car

crash settlements in this province, is the conflict of interest faced by insurance adjusters.

On the one hand, insurance adjusters dealing with crash claims owe a duty to injured victims to administer their entitlement to a basic set of “no fault” benefits in good faith.

I call that basic set of benefits “no fault” benefits because they are available to almost everyone who is injured in a crash, even if at fault.

When I say a “basic” set of rights, I mean it.

In most cases, these “no fault” benefits are limited to only a portion of treatment expense.

They do not include, for example, any compensation for pain and suffering, nor compensation for income loss apart from a meagre stipend of total temporary disability benefits.

On the other hand, when dealing with an injured victim who was innocent of fault in a crash, the exact same adjuster’s sole allegiance is to the insurance company to pay out as little as possible in compensation for the bulk of the claim which is over and above the “no fault” benefits, even if it is unfair.

It is this portion of a claim that is generally referred to as the settlement.

An example of when those two interests conflict is when the adjuster is considering whether or not to authorize that additional two months of physiotherapy treatment.

On the one hand, the adjuster owes a duty of good faith to authorize medically recommended treatment.

On the other hand, how much is that adjuster impacted by the fact that by authorizing the additional care, the adjuster is adding credibility to the claim the adjuster will later be trying to settle for cents on the dollar?

In my view, insurance adjusters ought to disclose those conflicting interests to injured victims.

Further, when telling injured victims what their claims are worth, essentially giving them legal advice, in my view insurance adjusters ought to encourage injured victims to obtain independent advice.

The reality is that, quite to the contrary, those conflicting interests are never disclosed and insurance adjusters actively discourage injured victims from getting independent advice.

I think that’s wrong.

I hope that by pointing out these conflicting interests I might be able to save some people from learning this particular life lesson the hard way.

This column is intended to provide general information about injury claims. It is not a substitute for retaining a lawyer to provide legal advice specifically pertaining to your case.

Paul Hergott is a lawyer at Hergott Law in West Kelowna. paul@hlaw.ca

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e go through life largely by trial and error, learning life lessons along the way.

Some life lessons can be very expensive, such as when we learn that if an investment opportunity seems too good to be true, it probably is.

So why have I needed to learn that lesson more than once?

But I digress.

One life lesson I wish my children— particularly my daughters— could learn by means other than by trial and error, is the importance of recognizing the interests of those we deal with.

I’m thinking of the particularly powerful interests of adolescent boys.

I bring that one up with potential clients when, after considering their particular circumstances, I recommend they hire a lawyer to handle personal injury claims.

The obvious interest that my potential clients must consider is that I financially benefit from taking on personal injury cases.

I point out that my interest in recommending that they hire a lawyer may be in conflict with their best interests.

I do my best to identify and resolve that potential conflict of interest by recommending that each and every potential client interview other lawyers before making a decision of whether or not to get me involved in their claim.

I also bring it up often

We need to stay focused.

As the time for the federal budget draws closer, I hope the Opposition parties will see it that way too.

••• I’ll was in Vancouver last week with the prime minister, then back to the riding or meetings and some announcements.

Stockwell Day is the Conservative MP for Okanagan-Coquihalla and president of the federal Treasury Board.

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Using the HMCS Toronto, a chopper and surveillance planes we were involved in an operation that stopped major drug shippers in their tracks, seizing a load of cocaine in the process.

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The latter “war” has entered the political vocabulary in Vancouver, where city council has been trying to reduce reliance on private automobiles; in Toronto,

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Seattle, where bike lanes and increased parking fees have come under fire.

In the U.K., they’ve been calling it a war on motorists.

It’s not really much of a war, though. If anything, it’s just a bit of catch-up to create better public spaces and to allow more sensible forms of transportation some room in our car-dominated cities.

Let’s take a look at some of the battlefields – and the casualties.

In Vancouver, opponents and local media predicted “chaos” from a bike lane on the Burrard Bridge, which connects the city’s downtown with the West Side.

After the chaos failed to emerge, opponents, rather than learning from experience, went on to predict the same thing for other bike lanes in the city, mostly in the downtown core.

Despite a few bumps, the chaos has yet to reveal itself. At the same time, the provincial government is spending $3 billion on

a new 10-lane bridge and expanded highways to move cars and trucks in and out of the city.

In Seattle, in addition to a few new bike lanes and a slight increase in downtown parking rates, politicians are considering spending $7 billion on a new bridge and a new tunnel to keep the cars and trucks moving.

Nowhere has the term been more ubiquitous than in Toronto, where it became a rallying cry leading up to and during last year’s civic election.

Numerous headlines in business-friendly newspapers raised the alarm about the city’s war on cars, with one newspaper even referring to it as a “nutty war on cars”.

It was all because the city council of the day was spending money on public transit and bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and, according to opponents, not enough “to make it easier for cars to move throughout the city”.

Rob Ford, who won the election to be-

come Toronto’s mayor, campaigned on ending the war and, in his first speech after taking office, announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, the war on the car stops today.”

He had already declared a new war “on the streetcar” and promised to rip up bike lanes. Part of Mayor Ford’s battle includes ending the city’s Transit City plan, even though the city has already spent $137 million on it and committed to another $1.3 billion in contracts.

The plan, seven years in the making, had also received funding commitments from the provincial and federal governments.

If there is or has been a war on cars, the cars are winning. Cars – often with a single occupant – still rule our cities and roadways, and they’re still relatively inexpensive to operate.

And despite minor reductions in parking in cities like Vancouver to make way for bike and pedestrian infrastructure,

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real estate to our ever-expanding road systems, often at the expense of public spaces.

As for casualties, 32 per cent of the 44,192 accidental deaths in Canada between 2000 and 2004 were from motor-vehicle accidents, 70 per cent in the 15 to 24 age group, according to Statistics Canada. Add to that the numerous injuries caused by vehicle accidents –

often caused when cars come into contact with pedestrians and cyclists – and you get a pretty good idea of which side has the upper hand in this “war.”

And, much of the health-damaging pollution and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to dangerous climate change come from private automobiles.

So, if there were a war on cars, we would have to conclude that people are on the losing end. Of course, there is no war on cars.

The only battle regarding cars is a propaganda war, and, as Guardian writer George Monbiot points out, it’s “about private interests trumping the public interest, about allowing people to pursue their desires, regardless of the cost to society.”

Maybe it’s time we really did wage a wars on cars. with Faisal Moola David Suzuki is a scientist and broadcaster based in Vancouver. davidsuzuki.org

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Mt. Boucherie Secondary School Community Connection February 2011 Q MBSS Bear Stage presents Alice in Wonderland

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BY TAHNEE PIERSON-ROBERTS played by Cam Fish, the larger than Mount Boucherie’s Bear Stage life Red queen played by Morgan will be putting on the production of Taylor, the charismatic Cheshire Alice in Wonderland. A classic tale Cat played by Devon Gylytiuk, and is rewritten to have more relevance the spoken about but never seen for the youth Jabberwocky. of today, In this adaptawith Shaelin tion of Lewis Fritzsch playCarol’s beloved ing the role of classic you will Alice. Imagine be sure to notice though, instead the intriguing of falling down relationship the rabbit hole, between the Alice falls up Mad Hatter and and finds her- A CLASSIC TALE with a modern twist, Alice. This self in Bethel, shows run March 10,11,12,15,16, and 17. relationship New York on stems from the August 14th 1969. initial attraction that blossoms over She is joined by a cast of over 30 the course of the play. dedicated students, their roles range Rehearsing since the beginning from the legendary Mad Hatter of October, the cast is surely not

going to disappoint. Whether it’s Morgan Taylor taking control with her tiny stature but enormous stage presence, or Lore Green putting the audience in a trance with her performance as the White Queen, that is sure to steal a few scenes, the cast have put months of effort into creating a play that coincides with the original story about the pleasures of enjoying youth.

The creativity and imagination that goes hand in hand with youthfulness has been captured perfectly by the productions director Fred Way. Shows run March 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, and 17 starting at 6 pm. Tickets are $10 for students and seniors and $15 for adults and can be bought at the door or by calling 250 712 7040.

Change in store for youth on the Westside?

BY STEPHANIE GREENWOOD In November of last year I wrote an article about the lack of things for youth to do on the Westside.

Because of the positive feedback from students at my school and members of the community, I created a survey that my school distributed to all grades within Mount Boucherie. It was almost unanimous within the entire population surveyed that Mount Boucherie students were not satisfied with availability of youth activities on the Westside.

When asked what facility they’d most like to see introduced, the majority of the 398 tenth graders chose either a bowling alley or an indoor/outdoor water park.

This preference was mirrored by both eleventh and twelfth graders no matter what the gender. Other popular options were an indoor soccer field, sports complex,

music venue, or access to biking trails. Overall, centers for youth to hang out have been slowly dwindling down to almost nothing, and teens are obviously unsatisfied with the slim options offered. And we don’t necessarily need to pay and build a lot, perhaps older buildings can be refurbished to accommodate youth – just a hint, the old Extra Foods building would be the perfect size for a bowling alley and hang out place.

Not only would these new buildings bring more fun to the students, it would also provide more jobs for teens as well as money to the Westside. The Student Voice group at my school plans to bring the survey results to the mayor and hopefully bring some change and activities for youth, as well as the rest of the community. The only question left to ask is: do we have your support?

Embarking on a once in a lifetime Latin-American adventure This past July, a Mount Boucherie student set out on a journey that would change her life. In March 2012, several more dedicated students will be embarking on the same trip.

Jazmin Welder, a grade 12 student, spent 18 days in rural Ecuador working on Free the Children development projects. “I was able to see all these projects that students at home had fundraised for.” The children, she says, were the most moving part of the entire trip.

Upon her return, it was almost ironic to discover the Global Service Club that Welder had been active in was going to be sponsoring a new village through Free the Children in Ecuador. Led by Counsellor and Head of Leadership Irene Maier, the Global Service Club has been active

for four years and has already raised $25,000 for a village in Kenya, and was able to send 15 students to see the results of their hard work last year.

During spring break of 2012, 23 students and two teachers will be embarking to Ecuador with Free the Children to see the projects that they have fundraised for and meet people that they have helped.

The students have already raised $4200 this year through their Arts for Ecuador concert and Change for Change campaign. It is guaranteed to be a life-changing experience for everyone on the trip.

The first information meeting for interested students will be held in the MPR at Mount Boucherie, 7pm, February 28th.

Students resolving issues MBSS students got to voice their opinions at the BC Student Voice Okanagan Region Forum this past week. Students from all across the Central Okangan Region came together to look at some common issues the Ministry of Education say are a problem.

The topic of discussion was “How has technology influenced ethical behavior?” Cell phones along with many other technical devices are frequently being used within schools, in and outside the classroom. Students agreed that technology can cause many unnecessary problems but it can also open a number of doors and be a successful tool towards education.

Many problems are avoided in the schools of Central Okangan because of the presence of a police liaison officer. The officer is able to educate students on how to avoid problems with technology such as possession, or sending of inappropriate photos. Mount Boucherie is the only school in Central Okangan not to have a police liaison officer. It is something the students of Student Voice feel is necessary for the well being of the school, and are going to work towards fulfilling that need.

Student Voice will be working on resolving some of the issues Mount Boucherie is facing with technology and working towards having a police liaison officer present at the school.

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