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Does Peachland need non-medicinal cannabis home delivery?

JOANNE LAYH Home delivery for non-medical cannabis products became legal in British Columbia a few weeks ago, but Peachland’s sole cannabis store, Budding Creations, is taking the approach of walking not running into it.

Last month the provincial government announced that licensed cannabis retailers will be able to deliver non-medical cannabis products directly to consumers starting July 15. Within the announcement, the government also stated it will be removing security verification requirements for cannabis workers.

Patrick Van Minsel, general manager of the Peachland Chamber of Commerce, says the announcement represents a policy win for the BC Chamber of Commerce.

At the provincial association’s 2020 AGM and Conference, the Chamber

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network approved a policy resolution that called on the provincial government to enable better access to cannabis and reduce regulations that cause operational inefficiencies.

“Allowing licensed retailers to deliver non-medical cannabis directly to consumers and removing security verification requirements for cannabis workers, are meaningful steps to protect public health and safety and improve the viability of the legal cannabis sector,” said Van Minsel. “And there is much work still to do. We look forward that the BC Chamber continues to work with the provincial government and stakeholders to ensure that regulatory changes introduced to protect consumers and unlock B.C.’s burgeoning cannabis sector.”

Steve Allison, one of the owners of Budding Creations, says the new legislation is definitely a step forward, and relaxing

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the hiring restrictions, with their associated costs and delays, will help the stores,

deliver one customer’s order at a time,” Allison told the View. “So, if two next-door

lengths to be ‘green’ and is part of the Paris Agreement on climate change, that we

It’s just hard for me to understand when Canada goes to great lengths to be ‘green’ and is part of the Paris Agreement on climate change, that we couldn’t bundle a few orders together, if from the same general neighbourhood.

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so that part is a good thing in his mind.

However, he still sees much room for improvement.

“We’re still looking at all this. It certainly isn’t a green initiative, no pun intended, as the current rules indicate that you can only

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neighbours way up Princeton both ordered something minutes apart, our delivery driver would have to drive one person’s order up the hill, and then drive all the way back to the store to pick up the next-door neighbour’s order, and then drive right back up the hill.”

Despite those challenges, Allison also sees some positives.

“I support the initiatives to fight the black market sales, which is better for the health and safety of the consumers, and a benefit to the government, retail cannabis store operators and their employees, and all law-abiding, tax paying citizens,” said Allison. “It’s just hard for me to understand when Canada goes to great

couldn’t bundle a few orders together, if from the same general neighbourhood and deliver them all at the same time. I’m sure they have their reasons, which may be security related, but the environment suffers with this policy for sure. And, it’s obviously not cost effective, requiring more gas and labour to achieve, so that’s my other concern, whether it’s even economically viable. I believe the rules state that it has to be delivered by a store employee in a store vehicle, so we’re still doing our analysis on the feasibility of all that.”

Budding Creations store manager Chris “Mano” Manolescu says delivery is something they will definitely get into at some point.

“I think right now we’re being very cautious, trying to build the business before going out and putting a bunch of money into something that may not be overly necessary in the very beginning,” said Manolescu.

“As a cannabis dispensary we love the fact the fact that the industry has pushed forward very quickly and they’re changing the rules on the fly to try and help businesses, which I think is spectacular.”

Manolescu is hoping for improvements to the legislation that would allow privately owned vehicles to make multiple deliveries in a trip, similar to liquor deliveries.

“To go and spend ten, twelve grand on a car and then go and insure it, you also have to go and house another person in the room no matter what so we’re looking at a possibility of starting deliveries maybe Thursday through Saturday, do deliveries and see how it goes. We’re just looking into every idea that anybody in the business can come up with.”

Manolescu says that while they won’t jump into purchasing a vehicle right away, they are appealing to the community to speak to them if there is a demand.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity that given some more time, it’s going to be much more feasible for a business like ours,” said Manolescu.

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Dylynn Couttie captured this photo of a bear on Beach Avenue around 9:30 on Wednesday morning. “We saw the bear swim around the Wibit water park and swim to shore to later climb up a tree,” said Couttie. West Kelowna RCMP blocked the road and shortly thereafter the bear was relocated by a conservation officer.

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Structural protection at Headwaters demobilized due to progress crews have made JOANNE LAYH The Brenda Creek wildfire that has been out of control since July 14 has remained unchanged in size over the last week, continuing at an estimated 824 hectares.

As of Wednesday, 18 firefighters, three helicopters, and 12 pieces of heavy equipment were assigned to the fire, in addition to two support staff, two danger tree assessors/fallers and an incident management team.

That’s a slight reduction in resources assigned to the fire compared to previous weeks.

Earlier in the week the focus was on structural protection of the cabins in the Headwater Creek area, but that protection was later demobilized due to progress that crews have made, BC

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An aerial view of the Brenda Creek Wildfire taken on the morning of July 26.

Wildfire said on Wednesday morning.

At that time crews were patrolling and extinguishing

hot spots along the guard south of the fire perimeter and under the power lines.

The fire received one to

two millimetres of scattered precipitation on Monday, which provided a slight reprieve in fire behaviour.

The fire also received strong winds early in the week but fire guards and crews have held the perim-

eter successfully.

In the Regional District of Central Okanagan an evacuation alert remains in effect for 18 properties, three recreational camping areas and Crown land within West Electoral Area, south of Highway 97C and northwest of Peachland, while an evacuation order continues to be in effect for a number of properties in the RDOS. An evacuation alert has also been issued for Eneas Lakes, Pennask Lake, Trepanier, and Pennask Creek provincial parks.

On July 16 BC Wildfire implemented an area restriction order for the vicinity of the Brenda Creek wildfire that will remain in place until noon on October 15 or until it is rescinded.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Trail of the Okanagans receives $10,000 grant for Peachland segments JOANNE LAYH A trail connecting Peachland with the rest of the valley is one step closer, thanks to a $10,000 active transportation grant announced by the province on Tuesday.

The Trail of the Okanagans Society received the grant funding for planning work on segments of the proposed trail through Peachland.

Back in April Trail of the Okanagans Society president Janice Liebe and director Elsie Lemke presented an update to Peachland council regarding proposed connections through and to the north and south of Peachland and received council’s support in applying for the grant.

The society is advocating for the development and completion of the trail between the Bennett Bridge and the US border to an all ages and abilities design standard.

The trail to the north running between Kelowna and Vernon is close to complete, and Armstrong to Sicamous is under design.

The proposed multi-use trail in Peachland requires design approval from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) for the section between Seclusion Bay and Buchannan Road.

The society recently met with MOTI and has submitted a design for their approval.

“It still has to come through Peachland and get up to the Fur Brigade Trail,” Liebe told the View. “So how do we have a safe cycling connection from the piece that MOTI is looking at with us down to Peachland along Beach Avenue then out towards the Fur Brigade Trail?”

The rest of the trail through Peachland is envisioned to come down Buchanan Rd, along Beach Avenue, and the hillside of the highway to Renfrew Rd then up Thorne Rd.

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“There has to be a planning study done to identify how the pathway can be provided along that route,” said Liebe.

Peachland currently doesn’t have an active transportation plan, but that could change soon.

“This piece would provide information for that active transportation plan and it would provide a spine that other pieces could connect into,” said Liebe.

“It is kind of coming together. If we even just talk about the Trail of the Okanagans from the Bennett Bridge to the border, 75 per cent of that 125 km currently exists in some form,” said Liebe.

“I would love to be in a position where next spring we have the planning work done, we would have the engineering approved and the detailed drawings done so that when the grants become available next spring we could apply for them.”

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The unmentioned defects of forest management activity Wildfires are increasing in number and intensity in Peachland’s watersheds.

This year six local wildfires and scores of others pepper our Okanagan valley. The common reasons given for this increased fire activity are climate change, increased human back country visits and expanding residential communities at the interface to forests.

Few residents are posing this question: Are province-wide forest practices also fueling wildfires?

Jim Witiw is a self-described retired professional.

After reading his opinion piece, I was left wondering to what professional association did he belong? In his robust praise of B.C.’s forest industry, Jim Witiw neglected to mention the many forest management practices that contribute to our runaway wildfires.

As a “retired professional” with experience in dealing with wildfires, I would have expected Mitiw to be familiar with those

forest practices that contribute to the increasingly severe fire seasons we are experiencing; for example: • Clear-cut logging (drier clear-cut’s/plantations are more likely to ignite if they are hit by lightning than is a forested canopy, according to Krawchuck and Cumming 2009); • Excessive road building; • Slash piling, burning and increased CO2 emissions; • Prevention of First Nations historical fire keeping; • Prohibition of prescribed burns; • Eradication of fire-resistant deciduous trees; • Spraying of toxic Glyphosate to eliminate competitive broadleaf species like Aspen that hinder fire; • Replanting of fake forests with only highly flammable coniferous nursery seedlings (mixed age and mixed species prevent wildfires); • Rejection of thinning as an option for healthy forest

management; • Discounting ladder fuel reductions and skirting as a fire prevention in preference to clear cutting; and • Draining of wetlands and the logging of non-fish bearing riparian areas.

According to Witiw’s reasoning, BC’s forests would have completely burned up and we would be living in a degraded landscape bereft of water and biodiversity.

Forests do not need us. But, we need an abundance of intact, natural forests to provide the essentials of life, one of which is not industrial timber extraction.

Clear-cut logging and mining activity in our watersheds have caused the degradation of our water and forests resulting in insect infestation, disease, windthrow and wildfires.

Also logging and wildfires have increased emissions of carbon into the atmosphere to the extent that forestry is the number one cause of climate change in B.C. The logging industry

has been heavily criticized and recently taken to court over dirty drinking water, floods, mudslides, droughts, and unsustainable logging practices. What is next, wildfire?

The government’s own forest experts and the Forestry Practices Board have already investigated and found that industrial logging practices add to wildfire intensity.

As an example, after the 2018 Shovel Creek fires near Fraser Lake, BC Wildfire Service personnel lodged a complaint, which resulted in confirmation that the lack of prescribed burns, logging debris and old, decked timber contributed to the spread and intensity of the Shovel Lake wildfire.

Do we need to continue forestry practices that are based primarily on profit-oriented corporate economics rather than ecological science and community safety?

Taryn Skalbania, Peachland

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Increasing size and intensity of wildfires of particular concern Re.: Unsung merits of forest management activity in Peachland upper watersheds (July 29, 2021) One of the lessons of climate change is that much of our past forest practices is no longer relevant. This unsettling situation is being borne out by provincial data collected over the past two decades.

Wildfires in B.C. have surged so dramatically that they, together with logging, have overtaken fossil fuels as the province’s major source of climate-destabilizing CO2. You won’t find this in the provincial government’s carbon accounting because it has deftly chosen to ignore carbon emissions from logging and wildfire.

But government data on wildfires does show that the number of lightning strikes over a fire season has increased over time. The data also show that lightning is more likely to ignite a fire in clearcuts and young plantations than it would have done in the original forest cover.

Of particular concern is the increasing size and intensity of wildfires. Data appear to

point to clearcuts and young plantations as one of the contributing causes for increasing size and intensity.

As for Jim Witiw’s apparent endorsement of logging in watersheds, I should like to see him make his argument to the residents of Seattle, New York, Vancouver and Victoria all of which have the watersheds supplying their drinking water 100 per cent protected from all human activity.

On the subject of logging in watersheds, Jim Witiw might refresh his impressive experience with current science that tells us that logging in watersheds is detrimental to water quality, quantity and flow.

Of particular note is attribution science in in the fields of climate and hydrology, which tells us that logging in watersheds is directly related to the magnitude, frequency and duration of peak flows, i.e., flooding in the Okanagan.

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SUMMER ARTS PROGRAM WORKSHOPS will be held from Wednesday to Saturday at the Little Schoolhouse. This week features Chris Millar and Millicent Winston, members of the Peachland Art Group. Both Millar and Winston use acrylics but their styles could not be more varied. Millar works with mixed media and Winston is on a learning curve that explores new territory each year. You’re invited to drop in and visit them from 11 am to 3 pm.

ARTISTS IN STUDIO opened Aug. 2 and runs until the 29th at the Peachland Art Gallery. The show features four new artists each week who will display, create, and sell their works in the gallery. This week’s artists are Robbin Roberts, Maureen Warner, Wayne Power and Dianne Clowes. This show is run in conjunction with a tribute to Mary E. Smith.

Smith founded the Peachland Art Group in 1955, displaying numerous works spanning her many years of painting.

BATS OUT OF THE DARKNESS display at the Peachland Community Centre is open daily during July and August from 10 am - 6 pm. Many of us are in the dark about bats and their survival depends on our enlightment. This four-wall exhibition including videos, specimens and scientific equipment used to find and study bats, brings the bats of British Columbia ‘out of the darkness and into our consciousness’. The exhibition will serve as a reminder of how essential bats are to the environment and provide a chance to celebrate these amazing creatures.

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BOOK SIGNING of the newly-released To B&B Or Not To B&B book by Peachland author Sue Marko at Cibo & Vines Aug. 15 12 pm – 3 pm. The book (Humour, Non-Fiction, Adult) recalls Marko’s 14-year experience as a B&B owner.

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Okanagan Town Crier Bruce Klippenstein was outside the 50 Plus Activity Centre to welcome people in.

Eric Hall, Betty Loyst and Marion Hall (shown left to right) were amongst the early birds at last Sunday’s breakfast.

Volunteers Virginia Schmidt, Barb Opinko and Kat Lefebvre (left to right) were busy serving up breakfast last Sunday.

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Just the facts, please It is a good feeling when I get the View that our news is actually reported truthfully, as news, and not as sensational and frightening media releases intended not as new and true news, but as fear mongering.

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Logging industry complicit Jim Witiw’s recent opinion piece seems to be taking advantage of the current public appreciation for wildfire crews, in order to push the fable that the logging industry is our saviour. While it’s noble that loggers are assisting in the fire fights, this is a crisis in which the logging industry is complicit.

The myth that clear cut logging reduces wildfire risk is a part of a risky narrative put forward by the logging industry to squeeze more profit from already crippled public lands.

To describe current logging practices as protecting communities from wildfires is one of many scare tactics in this public relations game.

The science tells us catastrophic wildfires are not caused by forests. Trees do not have to be cut down nor do forests have to be clear-cut to reduce wildfires – in fact industrial logging methods make forest fires worse.

Wild fires today are now larger, more frequent, and more unpredictable than any in the past 2000 years, a result of intense industrial logging and human-cause climate change.(https://theconversation. com /rocky-mountain-forests-bur ning-more-nowthan-any-time-in-the-past-2-000-years-162383 We know that logging changes the micro-climate - a clear-cut block is hotter and dryer than the forest.

We know these blocks are full of slash debris which dries out and becomes the perfect kindling for wildfires. Wildfires race through these dry cut blocks faster and with greater intensity than in a forest.

The largest fire in the USA today, Oregon’s bootleg fire, occurred in a forested and logged landscape, but the majority of the burn covered the clear-cut portion, over 76 per cent was no longer intact forests. Oregon researchers found the fire slowed from moving 3.4 miles per day on managed land to 2.1 miles per day in the Gearhart Wilderness- undisturbed forest.

What B.C. and especially the dry Okanagan is dealing with in this summer of 2021, and in the past few years, are the cumulative effects of decades of irresponsible logging or “forest management” as the industry like to call it, all contributing to the frequency, intensity, and unpredictability of wildfires.

Mr. Witiw neglects to mention that thinning, prescribed burns, bodies of water, selection logging, deciduous trees, roads, communities, emergency fireguards and native, healthy, intact forests, all act as successful fire mitigators. And, unlike an industrial clear cut, these other options do not also degrade water quality, quantity and timing of flow, cause floods, mudslides, dried out landscapes and biodiversity loss.

We believe there is a more equitable and sustainable way to generate critical revenue for rural communities while harnessing B.C.’s forests to store more carbon and prevent wildfires while supporting public and wildlife values.

PWPA has accumulated a healthy library of current forestry research and we’d be happy to share more with Mr Witiw or anyone who would like to arm themselves with independent research and data about the state of our forests, and our watershed. There is a list of links to current independent research on our website, peachlandwpa.org.

Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance Board of Directors

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Arts council’s first open mic event brings live entertainment to town Entertainers at last week’s first open mic event included musicians from age nine to 89 PAULA MCLAUGHLIN The Peachland Art Gallery was a beautiful venue for the first open mic musical evening, sponsored by the Peachland Community Arts Council (PCAC), and hosted by myself, a local musician and teacher and also a member of the arts council.

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who spent 40 years working with students from around B.C. She rose to the occasion by coming to the piano and playing and singing Danny Boy, one of the high points of the evening. Afterwards, Betty had a little advice for our youngest singer, Chloe Thompson, age nine. She said, “Keep on singing sing all your life!”

Every musician commented afterwards that this had been a wonderful evening of music, and they all hope it will be repeated in the near future.

With such a positive response, I’m certain that we will make this happen again. Musicians of all ages, abilities, and instruments are invited to participate, when the second open mic is announced.

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