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THE ROTARY CLUB of Peachland donated $1,000 to Cops for kids at a presentation in Peachland on Aug. 14. Shown from left to right are Gail Harrison, Jane Tench, Garnet Lloyd, RCMP Jesse O’Donaghey, Rotary president Wendy Howard, Ted Sinclair and Chris Boyle. Peachlander Garnet Lloyd will be cycling 1,000 km in September to help raise funds, all of which go to helping kids in the southeast region of the province. You can support his efforts to raise funds by making a donation at Peachland Pharmacy or by going to copsforkids.org, clicking “donate to a rider” and selecting Thomas Garnet Lloyd.

Council requests statement from MOTI about future route of Hwy 97 JOANNE LAYH Peachland council is imploring the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) to identify their intent about the future routing of Highway 97 through Peachland when they release the Peachland Transportation Study final Phase 2 report.

At its meeting on August 11, Peachland council received a presentation from MOTI staff regarding the Peachland Transportation Study, in which they were told that after five years of study and community consultation by MOTI, no decision regarding the future routing of Highway 97 would be announced now or anytime in the near future as the highway isn’t expected to reach capacity for another 20 years.

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This came as a disappointment to many on council as it was widely expected that a conclusion would be drawn when the study reached an end.

Since then, Councillors Keith Fielding and Terry Condon requested a special council meeting be held Aug. 20 for council to authorize a letter to be sent to MOTI. “I believe very strongly that we needed to respond to the MOTI presentation immediately because If we don’t I believe we are signaling indifference and acceptance and not our shock and disbelief and extreme frustration at an unacceptable decision,” Coun. Fielding said at the special meeting.

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27-year-old in hospital with serious injuries after Drought Hill crash JOANNE LAYH A 27-year-old female driver is in hospital with serious injuries following a single vehicle collision on Drought Hill early Wednesday morning.

Just before 2:30 a.m.

Wednesday morning West Kelowna RCMP were called to Highway 97S near Drought Road for a single vehicle collision, where a Toyota pickup truck had struck a concrete barrier and a power pole before rolling several times and coming to rest on Drought Road.

The lone occupant of the vehicle was transported to Kelowna General Hospital

by BC Emergency Health Services.

The pickup truck the woman was driving was reported stolen from the Vernon area on August 13, said RCMP Cpl Jocelyn Noseworthy.

No charges have been laid and the investigation is still ongoing.

Anyone with any information about this crime can contact the West Kelowna RCMP at 250-768-2880 or remain completely anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or by leaving a tip online at www. crimestoppers.net.

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Letter dispatched to MOTI “while time is of the essence” Continued from Page 1

“We needed to express our deep dissatisfaction and disappointment quickly because the longer this takes the more diluted the response becomes and it was for that reason that we tried earlier to get this issue dealt with,” said Coun. Condon.

Councillor Pete Coolio agreed time is of the essence and getting the letter to MOTI immediately is imperative.

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respond in a timely fashion,” Councillor Mike Kent said. “We went through this big process and the primary reason we went through a Peachland Transportation Study and the messaging all along was to explore and identify a preferred route or an alternate route. At the conclusion of the study we were left holding an empty bag. There was no decision made. It was basically at best an information gathering exercise with no resolution.”

Coun. Kent said they need to continue to press the community view that four-laning

We do not want this community to be divided by a massive four-lane highway cutting through the heart of the community. That is the crux of the issue for me.”

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work to get them to reopen the file. I believe throughout the community is an unacceptthey’ve been here just recently. They’ve spo- able option. ken to us. It’s still fresh in their minds and “I would be satisfied if MOTI gave an inwe’re still an active concern. Once they’ve dication that that option alone would be put the file away they’ve probably moved on,” removed from the table, that in the future a CONNECT HEARING – Q2 NEWSPAPER BUY alternate route will be the Coun.

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“So I do think that it’s ur- yet to be identified gent.” course of action taken,” Coun. Kent said. “We 10.330” × 6.14” 08/12/20 “I too believe that we need to respond to do not want this community to be divided by this. We need to keep this as a top priority and a massive four-lane highway cutting through

the heart of the community. That is the crux of the issue for me.”

Mayor Cindy Fortin was in her own words “steamed” that a letter was drafted and a special meeting was called so it could be pushed through while she was on vacation when they could have waited for a face-to-face discussion or workshop to address the issue upon her return.

“We already knew their decision was a non-decision,” Mayor Fortin said. “We were just doing the proper protocol of letting them announce it. Penning this letter is not going to make them say, ‘You’re right. Let’s spend half a billion dollars on a bypass’...Yes, we are all disappointed. But are we letting our linear focus cloud our judgement and delay some much needed highway safety improvements?”

It is not a sign of weakness or defeat to acknowledge that we need to stand down right now to regroup, to reprioritize, Mayor Fortin said. “Quite the opposite. It takes a great deal of strength to recognize that the path you’ve taken is not leading where you want to go.”

Mayor Fortin said she believes highway safety improvements have been delayed because of the constant continuous pushing for the bypass and argued that highway improvements constitute a “third option”.

Councillor Kent objected to that assertion, saying advocating for a bypass doesn’t preclude any improvements along the existing corridor and the two things could run in parallel.

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The letter drafted by Councillor Fielding addressed to Minister Trevena welcomes the focus that MOTI is making on short and medium term improvements to the existing highway but states the decision by MOTI to defer consideration of a long term solution is “frankly, intolerable.”

The letter asks the Ministry for assurance that a four-laning option be taken off the table in favour of a yet to be determined bypass option.

“Such an assurance is vital, not just for the social well being of the community, but also because we are unable to effectively plan for future growth with such a strategically important matter being left unresolved,” the letter states.

Both Mayor Fortin and Councillor Patrick Van Minsel objected to sending the letter.

Coun. Van Minsel said they should pay more attention to the short and medium term options and get them done for the safety of Peachland’s residents and pointed out that the improvements identified by MOTI already include four-laning a section.

Van Minsel also suggested another survey of residents to get a clearer picture of what they really want.

The motion to send the letter to MOTI carried, with Councillors Fielding, Condon, Coolio and Kent voted in favour, and Mayor Fortin and Coun. Van Minsel opposed.

Councillor Pam Cunningham was absent from the special meeting.

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Promotion doesn’t increase spend Dear editor, Taxpayers are not responsible for the success or failure of local businesses, and that is why the Basrans of the world have no legal or moral right to spend literally millions of our precious tax dollars promoting tourism.

Promoting tourism may motivate tourists to spend their vacation dollars on other products in a different business, but it does not increase the amount of money they have to spend.

The Kelowna Chamber is a clever bunch and now has a sister organization, Tourism Kelowna, hoping that when the city doesn’t give the chamber all the money it’s asking for, its sister organization just might get it.

Tourism Kelowna recently asked city council for $350,000 but was awarded only $143,500 that all comes out of local taxpayers’ pockets.

Some of that money could be spent on putting up even more of those big obnoxious billboards that have been accumulating at the entrances to our city like a bunch of scarecrows, to welcome the people who travelled long distances to visit the Okanagan and see the natural beauty of our valley.

Billboards are like tourism promos, they may motivate the tourists to spend their money on something other than

originally planned, but they don’t bring extra dollars to our city, and there should be a huge fine for displaying them, like a nasty tourism tax, collected from the offending businesses.

Promoting tourism with our tax dollars is like playing a pointless and costly game of ‘tug-of-war’ that offers no benefits to citizens or taxpayers while the working people are being taxed out of their homes.

While the business community is conducting very aggressive marketing programs with our tax dollars, tourism also represents some very negative side effects, like higher traffic loads on our city streets, increasing travel times with a corresponding increase in pollution and noise-levels, and wear and tear on our city’s costly infrastructures.

It also limits access to our recreational facilities, including our precious few parks and beaches.

The seasonal nature of the industry also increases part-time employment, pays lower wages, increasing seasonal unemployment, all at higher social costs.

Basran’s only mandate is to get serious about protecting us from that nasty COVID virus, and to protect homeowners and taxpayers from a very aggressive and predatory Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Kelowna duo.

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Umbridge taken with mask remarks Having read the letter in your August 14, 2020 edition I am disappointed that you did not fact check it. The coronavirus is not airborne. If it was, we would all get it.

While I agree that masks are good idea in enclosed spaces, I take umbrage to Mayor Fortin holding herself out as a medical professional when she was only a Licensed Practical Nurse years ago.

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Your feedback will help refine potential short, medium and longterm safety and mobility improvements.

You can provide feedback from Wednesday, August 12 to Friday, September 4 at: gov.bc.ca/peachlandtransportationstudy

In regards to a letter titled: Reader praises Mayor Fortin for forward thinking on mask issue, I am disappointed that you would publish letters with wording that only spreads and fear and anxiety throughout our community and is full of misinformation.

The COVID-19 pandemic does not have dire consequences for many! In fact, very few people will have “dire consequences” if they even know they have it all. This fear you are spreading through our community has dire consequences for the readers and it’s about time you pick up on it.

It’s about time media stops playing this game of fear mongering and sensationalizing this virus and about time to publish the truth.

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LOCAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES BOHEMIA opens August 29 at the Peachland Art Gallery. Carney Oudendag, Elaine Hatch, Allanah Weston and Lisa Hewitt embrace selected notions of bohemia. The off beat, the far out, along with lush colours, patterns, textures and objects are explored in these mixed media works. The exhibition runs until September 27 and the gallery is open Tuesday - Sunday 9 am - 5 pm in August, with hours moving to 10 am- 4 pm in September.

THE SUMMER ARTS PROGRAM wraps up soon at the Peachland Little Schoolhouse on Brandon Lane off Fourth Street. The program, sponsored by the Peachland Community Arts Council, has run every Thursday to Saturday in July and August from 11 am - 3 pm. Darlene Romanko will be holding a series of workshops through Saturday.

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Weekend of film screenings to take place at the former Turner Park JOANNE LAYH The former Turner Park will be transformed into a drive-in movie theatre for two nights in September when FortisBC Fresh Air Cinema will be bringing a big screen into town.

The first evening will offer a showing of Back to the Future (1985) on September 11 and the second night will offer a screening of the even more kid-friendly Toy Story 4 (2019), showing on September 12.

One hundred per cent of all donations collected at the event will go to the Peachland Food Bank.

The event is presented by Fortis BC, with event partner Peachland Recovery Task Force, community partner VantageOne Credit Union and provincial partner Encorp Return It. Tickets went live at 6 p.m. on August 27 via Eventbrite THE PEACHLAND RECOVERY Task Force says this outdoor cinema experience is just the first event they’re planning for this year. and are limited to 50 vehicles so the event is expected to sell out been happy to take the restaurants to expand looks pretty nice now. ed enough to allow this quickly. lead on making this into their parking area “We’re extremely charity event to hapRick Ingram joined event happen and says out front and we’ve been grateful to the land- pen. We’re just grateful the Peachland Recov- rather than serving an brainstorming about owners for giving us we’re able to put on this ery Task Force because economic purpose, this what other things we as permission to use the kind of event to lighten of his combined roles event is more a feelgood a group can do to help property for this event,” things for people and as the chair of the thing and a fundraiser the morale of the town Ingram said. “It is a to get some money into former Peachland Eco- for the food bank. and help local business- very big deal that they the food bank.” nomic Development This is the task force’s es,” Ingram said. are being civic-mindIngram says Fresh Air Committee, which has first event and plans for While there were renow rolled into Tour- a Christmas Un-Gala cent complaints that BELL, JACOE & CO. ism and Economic internet based event are the weeds at the former Development, as well also underway, Ingram Turner Park were out of R0060892355 as his position on the told the View. control, the grass has PV01 board of the Peachland “We’re the group that been freshly cut and Wellness Centre. He’s got council to allow Ingram says it actually

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This will be Fresh Air Cinema’s fourteen year bringing movies to parking lots and outdoor venues throughout the province and they have experience adapting their format to make sure it aligns with the current COVID-19 social distancing guidelines set by health authorities, the organization said in a press release sent on Tuesday.

This includes: • Limiting attendance to vehicles; • Limiting the number of vehicles to 50; • Encouraging people to stay in their vehicles unless visiting the restrooms; and • Other measures so that people can enjoy their experience while physical distancing.

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Public Safety Minister announces strict new COVID-19 fines SOPHIE GRAY

LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE The province has put in place new measures to penalize those disobeying COVID-19 public health orders.

Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said police and other enforcement officers are now able to hand out fines of up to $2,000 for those participating in house parties, large gatherings or refusing to adhere to health orders. The new violations are effective immediately.

Farnworth said these measures are aimed at the minority of British Columbians who are refusing to play by the rules, after being given ample warning by provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.

“The vast majority of people in this province are following the guidelines, they are doing the responsible

thing,” said Farnworth. “So what we’re seeing, and particularly from Dr. Bonnie Henry, is that a number of these spikes that we’ve seen in cases are coming from private house parties. They’re coming from inside residences and that’s the real problem.”

The new fines will see organizers and businesses hosting non-compliant parties, gatherings and events fined up to $2,000.

Two hundred dollar tickets can also be issued to those who deliberately break public health orders or refuse to leave or follow the direction of enforcement officers.

Police will be targeting promoters, venues and repeat offenders.

Farnworth also said people disobeying COVID-19 safety plans at businesses can be fined. This especially applies to restaurants and bars, where patrons being abusive to serving staff are in violation according to to-

day’s announcement.

Restaurants and bars have accounted for a number of COVID-19 cases in the last few weeks due to reports of patrons refusing to adhere to COVID-19 safety plans.

“Don’t yell at the waiter who asks you not to push your tables together at a restaurant,” said Farnworth. “Don’t be belligerent towards the hard working people who are trying to keep us all safe.”

Enforcement of violations will be based on a complaints model. Police and enforcement officials will respond to complaints raised and people are encouraged to report any violations of concern.

“To be clear, just because your party has less than 50 people, does not make it legal. You must follow all guidelines. So if you’re hosting a large penthouse party, organizing a street gathering or drum circle on the beach, we will be watching,” said the minister.

COVID-19 active cases continue to surge in British Columbia SOPHIE GRAY

LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE B.C. officials announced 90 new cases of COVID-19 in the province last Friday.

The new cases bring the cumulative total of cases in B.C. to 4,915 with 824 currently active. Over 2,500 people are currently being monitored by public health teams as a result of an identified exposure.

Interior Health continues to report the third highest number of cases behind Vancouver Coastal Health and the Fraser Health Authority. Interior Health now has a total of 417 cases, up six from Thursday.

The new cases numbers come after an earlier announcement on Friday by Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Mike Farnworth, about new fines effective immediately for violating public health orders.

“Today, Mike Farnworth … announced new enforcement measures focused on those locations and activities that are known to be at highest risk and the sustained sources for transmission. These measures help to shore up a gap that has emerged,” read a joint statement by

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Minister of Health Adrian Dix and deputy provincial health officer Dr. Réka Gustafson.

“It is important to remember that the people who choose to disregard public health orders are the exception,” continued the written statement. “Rather, we are heartened that the vast majority of people in B.C. are doing their part to protect themselves and each other.”

Active COVID-19 cases in the province are the highest that have been seen since the pandemic began in March and have continued to climb throughout the week.

B.C. also reported two additional deaths last Friday, bringing the total number of deaths in the province to 202.

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