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Omicron variant forces British Columbians to pivot yet again DON URQUHART Businesses require COVID safety plan

With the COVID-19 variant Omicron now accounting for 80 per cent of

new cases across the province, COVID-19 safety plans have been mandated for all B.C. businesses.

The Provincial Health Order does not apply to child care, post-secondary or K-12 that have other

plans in place.

B.C’s Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry issued the order on Friday, Jan. 7 after earlier warnings to expect that up to one-third of a company’s employees may be off sick

as the highly transmissible Omicron rapidly spreads.

“We need to anticipate that as many as one-third of your workforce at any one time may become ill with COVID-19 and they may not be able to come

to work. We need to adapt business so that they can operate at these reduced numbers,” Henry warned this week.

“It means a lot of people will get sick but the vaccine will protect most people from serious illness and hospitalization,” she said. She highlighted that B.C. has the means and the foundation in place to mitigate the impact of the virus, “if we all work together.”

She emphasized the importance of existing measures like getting vaccinated, masking (wearing a good-fitting, minimum three-ply mask), social distancing, especially indoors, barriers, keeping gatherings small, reducing the mixing of staff, washing hands, along with staying home and staying away from others when sick.

“Give employees and staff space to stay safe,” Henry urged. Reinforce distance, fewer people in one location at once, using appropriate PPE protocols, vaccinations and requiring employees to declare their vaccination status, are aspects of what should be in the COVID safety plan, she said.

The challenge across the board in the next few weeks, she added, “will be dealing with the number of people who are off ill, off work, off school and it also means health care workers and educators who aren’t able to go to work because they are ill.

“And for most of us, because of the vaccines it will be a mostly mild illness but it is the business disruption that we also need to think about.”

Two essential visitors only

Long-term care home residents in the province will be allowed two essential visitors as rapid antigen testing is rolled out within these facilities. This will be rolled out starting from late last week as the tests are distributed to care homes with every care home developing their plan to support this.

Henry said the decision was based on existing staffing shortages and the

expected attrition due to illness, as well as the need to protect the more vulnerable care home residents.

“We know our seniors in long-term care have been hardest hit by this pandemic and we also know how essential having those social supports and visitors is. We are committed to getting back to having one social visitor in addition to essential visitors as the rapid antigen testing is rolled out across long-term care homes and staffing allows.”

Henry added that the intent always was that once rapid testing was available and more plans were in place to support staffing, “we would then transition to one designated social visitor per resident in addition to essential visitors.”

Nearly 100,000 rapid test kits were deployed to long-term care homes, testing sites, and to rural communities working with First Nations health authorities last week, and more test kits are arriving this week, Henry said.

Henry noted that the issue of essential visitors had been worked through this last summer with the Seniors’ Advocate and long-term care homes.

“There are two different types of visitors that we recognize, both are essential.”

This includes one designated as an essential visitor in terms of the additional care and help with certain things that they provide an individual with and this is a decision that’s made between the resident and the facility.

“But the other one that is absolutely essential for the life and quality of life of residents is having social visitors so we have a designated social visitor for every resident.”

With the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, this means that although the province is moving into a “risk phase,” Henry noted “residents are well protected but because they are older there is still risk and we want to minimize the number of people going through care homes.”

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Trepanier interconnect project officially completed this week JOANNE LAYH The Trepanier interconnect project was officially completed on Tuesday, finally linking Trepanier area residents with the $24 million water treatment plant that was completed last spring.

“This week is the first time we’ve had a full staff complement in the water department and the guys were able to initiate the switch over with the interconnect this morning,” director of operations Shawn Grundy said in an email to the View on Tuesday. “So all serviced properties in the district are now receiving filtered water from Peachland Creek.”

The Trepanier Interconnect project has faced numerous delays, beginning initially with a difficulty getting in some butterfly valves.

Once the valves arrived, staff began a process of extensive testing before commissioning could take place.

Staff began the process

As of Tuesday, all serviced residents of Peachland were connected to the water treatment plant.

by flushing the new pipeline, which, because of the length and diameter of the pipe, alone took quite a few days to complete before they moved on to pressure testing.

Grundy told the View that the pressure testing revealed some leaks within the new pipe that had to be located, excavated, and repaired.

Because the leaks were

detected through a pressure loss at the injection point rather than water pooling in specific areas, a leak detection company was brought in to determine the location, but the task proved difficult even for the professionals.

“Eventually, each pipe joint was sequentially exposed to find the leak,” said Grundy. “The portion of pipe that showed the

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pressure loss was on the steep slope behind the elementary school so you can understand that it took longer to do this work that what would typically be expected on flat ground.”

Once the leak was repaired and the pipeline was deemed ready, it still needed to be drained out so the water inside could be replaced with a “superchlorinated”

detected.

Once those issues were worked through, more bacteriological testing was required, which fortunately came back good. However, by now it was Christmas break and the operations department were dealing with staff illness and vacation time and unfortunately fell into a period where they didn’t have the appropriate staff levels where they were comfortable making such a significant change.

At around that time they were also had the water main break on Princeton and the resulting boil water notice, which pushed them back about a week or so, said Grundy.

While it took longer than planned, eventually the last obstacles were overcome and the switch over officially took place Tuesday morning.

Grundy said the system seems to be cycling appropriately but if they run into any further issues as they move forward they’re “ready to tackle them if they arise.”

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solution, ensuring that any sort of contamination within the pipeline would be removed prior to bacteriological testing and eventual activation.

After the superchlorination was completed, the pipeline was filled with regular system water so bacteriological samples could be taken at a number of different locations throughout the new length of pipe, as per health guidelines, and when the results all came back good, the contractor was then given the okay to tie the new pipeline into the existing one, said Grundy.

The tie-in took place at two connection points (Trepanier Bench Rd and Ponderosa Drive/Place), each of which took a couple of days to complete.

After the tie-in was complete, some final electrical, instrumentation, and telemetry work had to be completed, said Grundy.

Unfortunately, the project hit another snag after commissioning began when some valving issues were

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Of the three options presented, labelled 1.1, 1.2 and 2, and mentioned in your Jan. 4 article, “Latest Options for Turner Park Now on Display at Community Centre”, all have accommodation for: a dog park (biggest in Option 2), pickleball and basketball courts, children’s playground (on northeast side with a lake view in Option 2), bookable event space, parking and baseball/soccer (some with restrictions).

Only Option 2 restores the old softball field on the southwest side of Turner Park and provides a full-sized soccer field in 2022.

Options 1.1 and 1.2 both require a lot more funding, not available in the 2022 budget, because what is not stated in the consultant survey is that options 1.1 and 1.2 will also require excavation and removal of the current toboggan run and lacrosse box loved by so many in the wintertime at Turner Park. This will need to be done to make the old little league left field on the northwest side long enough to also be a softball field.

The costs and time frame associated with Option 1.1 and 1.2 mean a ball field and soccer field could not be operational this year.

But they will be both available, as mentioned by the director of community services in the Dec. 24 issue of the Peachland View, if we choose Option 2. She said, “We had a ball field up there for years and there is no reason why that one field cannot be restored for use in 2022 within our operating budget.”

For soccer, Option 1.1 only provides a mini soccer field length. But children play on a full size soccer field after the age of 10-11, so a mini soccer field is insufficient. Turner Park is the only park in Peachland capable of having both a full-sized baseball and soccer field. If we don’t get a full-sized soccer field here, Peachland kids may never have a youth soccer club.

Option 1.2 provides a full-sized soccer field but has it running through the gravel infield of the ball field. This is not done because it is unsafe to have soccer players playing on a field with a combination of grass and gravel.

Option 2 provides a full-size soccer field that doesn’t run through the gravel baseball infield and provides a full-size baseball/softball field that has only right field at less that 300 feet, which is acceptable as a softball field throughout B.C. with proper fencing. It doesn’t require the toboggan hill to be removed or the lacrosse box removed.

The Option 2 restored Turner Park softball field would have a 260-foot right field.

Peachland’s Cousins Park has only a 235-foot right field and three of the five tournament softball fields at nearby Summerland’s Dale Meadows Park have less than a 260-foot right Continued on Page 6

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NEWS | OPINION

School absenteeism will be the ‘canary in the coal mine’ Continued from Page 2

Absenteeism trigger for schools

As children across B.C. headed back to school this week provincial health authorities have said absenteeism will be the ‘canary in the coal mine’ as to whether a COVID outbreak may be underway.

“In schools, absenteeism will be a trigger to inform the health authority and school community that an outbreak may be underway,” said Henry.

“As public health has advised us, individual case management and contact tracing is no longer a helpful tool for us in tracking cases in schools,” said Minister of Education Jennifer Whiteside, owing to the shorter incubation period of the Omicron variant. A “proxy” is instead needed to understand what’s happening with the transmission in schools.

After the province distributed 100,000 test kits last week, more kits are expected to arrive this week and will be increasingly used in schools for teachers and school staff.

“Our expectation, subject to more home tests being available, is to expand within school communities to provide to children who are symptomatic and eventually with more tests, for parents to do at home with symptomatic children,” said Henry.

Although not a concrete figure, an absenteeism rate of 10 per cent higher than normal will be used. This depends on a number of factors though, with the call being left in the hands of individual schools and school boards.

“If in doubt keep your child at home,” Henry urged adding that “vaccination makes a huge difference especially for the 5-11 age group.”

“We’re seeing increasing evidence that Omicron does affect younger people, more the upper airway and it can exacerbate asthma,” she said. Even after one dose, there is a benefit she added.

As of Friday, 39 per cent of 5-11 year olds in B.C. have had one dose of the COVID paediatric vaccine with nearly 48 per cent of this age group having booked a vaccination and up to 52 per cent registered, according to Adrian Dix, B.C.’s Minister of Health.

Rapid tests are not a green light to socialize

Rapid antigen tests have become the latest tool in the pandemic toolbox replacing

strategies like contact tracing which has been rendered useless by Omicron’s blazing transmission speed.

Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry emphasized last week that in B.C. the testing focus has been on “where the risk is the highest and where the test will have the highest impact. They are a precious commodity that remains in short supply both in Canada and globally,” she added.

The first focus last week was on hospitals, care homes, and First Nations communities which expanded to K-12 schools this week and over the next few months to symptomatic people to do at home.

“Tests are being used to slow or stop outbreaks and to allow people to go work,” Henry said. “They are used as a red light to help us understand if they’re positive that somebody has covid or that COVID is in an area or community. They are not being used as a green light to allow people to socialize as we’ve seen being used in other places,” she said.

Not everybody needs a test she emphasized. The focus is on people over 55, women who are pregnant, people living or working in high risk settings like hospitals, long-term or assisted living and many rural and remote communities and people with higher risk medical conditions.

“Those are people who may need these tests to help us keep them out of the hospital, make sure they get the treatments that are available as quickly as possible.”

“If you are fully vaccinated, at lower risk and have mild symptoms you don’t need a test.

Omicron is spreading widely in our communities if you have those mild symptoms, if you have a runny nose and a cough and you’ve been out in connection with other people it’s very likely that you have COVID. What you need to do is stay home and stay away from others and manage your symptoms.”

Henry said that for most people who catch this new strain, the onset of illness is within a very short period of time after exposure, about three days and that the illness is mostly mild if you are vaccinated. Under these conditions, it tends to go away in 3-5 days.

“So, we are saying to people if you have mild illness and you’re vaccinated stay home and away from others for five days and then you can go about your business as long as you’re feeling better and no longer have a fever or symptoms. But you need to continue wearing mask,” she said.

Resident grateful to whoever cleared exercise station path snow A sincere and appreciative thanks to the person or persons who endeavour to clear and maintain the path which goes beside the exercise stations.

Even in winter this path is used by many, with and without dogs. Given my diminished

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John D Ingram, Peachland

Option 2 offers significant advantages, but “delete the dog park” It was good to see that we are being consulted on future use of Turner Park, but I can’t help feeling we are being offered the choice of spam, spam or spam (with apologies to Monty Python). For, example, all options include a dog park,

so in choosing any of the three options, I am automatically voting for a dog park.

Peachland does need dog parks, for all the reasons put forward by Mayor Fortin, but Turner Park is a poor choice.

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a dog park alongside a sports field or playground, for all sorts of health and safety reasons.

There would be an especial challenge at Turner Park, as proposed, in preventing contaminated water from flowing from the dog park to both the playground and sports field.

I do concur with Randey Brophey that

Option 2 offers significant advantages over 1.1 and 1.2, but recommend that the dog park be deleted. Perhaps more pickleball courts, a full-size basketball court or bocce pits could replace it? The dog park could be at the nearby Sanderson Park, per the current district strategy.

Graham Smith, Peachland

Turner Park Option 2 advocate Continued from Page 4 field. All they do to make them playable is put up a fence at the end of right field and that is all we have to do here, too.

So calling the Option 2 ball field “Non Regulation” as has been done in the consultant survey, is, in my opinion, somewhat misleading. It leads folks to choose the far more costly and time-consuming Option 1.1 or 1.2 to deliver a needlessly expensive ball field and inadequate soccer field at a much later date.

We are already paying $3.1 million for this park and want to utilize it as quickly and inexpensively as possible by simply restoring the softball field used there for 30 years, which

will, in doing so, also allow a full-sized soccer field and little league field in 2022.

We do not need nor want another cost overrun project in Peachland.

For the kids of Peachland, to allow them to finally play together on Peachland soccer and little league teams on Peachland fields in their community, and for the adults of Peachland, to give them another softball diamond and a full-sized soccer field as soon as possible, please vote for Option 2.

Survey voting forms are available at the Community Center or can be accessed online via the following link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NVZ9F68 Randey Brophy, Peachland

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Chamber of Commerce actively pushing community to #shoplocal PATRICK VAN MINSEL

PEACHLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GENERAL MANAGER We are here for you!

The last two years have turned our community and economy on its head. During a global pandemic, the Peachland Chamber works around the clock to provide you with the most up-to-date information and relevant resources. As a membership-based organization with 125+ members, we rely on our membership fees to operate. The chamber is led by a volunteer board of directors, who dedicate their time to serving our business community.

The 2021-2022 board of directors are (shown left to right) president Greg Sewell (Lauren Heights), Nicole Moreau (Royal Lepage), Mur-

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Small business is the backbone of our economy.

We must support these businesses through all available means so that their doors can stay open.

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ray Wood (Eagles Nest B&B), Bella Huang (Hainle Vineyards), vice-president Adriana

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The 2021-2022 board of directors are (shown left to right): president Greg Sewell (Lauren Heights), Nicole Moreau (Royal Lepage), Murray Wood (Eagles Nest B&B), Bella Huang (Hainle Vineyards), vice-president Adriana Preston (Century21), secretary Curtis Urlacher (TNI), and John Anderson (Supplement King).

Not pictured are treasurer Andrew Grieve (Acubed Holdings) and Colin Aves (Southern Comfort Air Conditioning).

Preston (Century21), secretary Curtis Urlacher (TNI), John Anderson (Supplement King), treasurer Andrew Grieve (Acubed Holdings) and Colin Aves (Southern Comfort Air Conditioning).

These are challenging times. The chamber helps our business community get through it, and we’ll be here through every step of the recovery. Already, the feedback provided by our local businesses helped shape the federal and provincial emergency response funding for COVID-19. We also relayed your requests for immediate relief and flexibility on tax remittance, provincial school tax on property, and other wage replacement programs.

We continue to be an advocate and go-to source of information regarding COVID-19, funding for a business, government updates, and education and training resources.

Also, we are actively pushing the Peachland community to #SupportLocal through these challenging times. Small business is the backbone of our economy. We must support these businesses through all available means so that their doors can stay open. Keep your

eye open for our 2022 “Ok We Got That” buy local campaign starting

in February 2022, a partnership with six other Okanagan chambers to

support local.

Now, more than ever, the Peachland communi-

ty needs its Chamber of Commerce to help them.

So we’ve rolled up our sleeves and are ready to do whatever it takes to ensure our business community sees this pandemic through. We are here for you now, and we’ll be here for you as we prepare to revitalize our post-pandemic economy.

We encourage non-member businesses to join and strengthen the organization.

Feel free to set up a meeting by sending an email to peachlandchamber@gmail.com, so you can learn a bit more about us and we can learn about your expectations and needs.

You can join the organization by visiting our website www.peachlandchamber.com and filling out the membership application.

Be here for us now, because together, we got this.

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The family of Nancy Chapman are saddened to announce her passing. She passed away peacefully on December 14, 2021 at the age of 69 years.

She will be sadly missed by her husband, Blair Chapman; son, Jason; father, Ben Syrenne; sisters, Gayle Lavigne and Dyan Broderick.

Nancy is predeceased by her mother, Lucy Regis; brother-in-law, Ken Chapman; sister-inlaw, Joanne Chapman.

Nancy will always be remembered by all for her love of humour and compassion for animals.

She was raised in Fannystelle, MB and moved to Winnipeg in her early 20’s before retiring to Peachland, BC. Her fun, mischievous character and infectious smile will be missed by all.

In lieu of other tributes donations would be welcome to The Humane Society of Canada at https://humanecanada.ca.

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Not for profit hopes to bring new recycling option to Peachland JOANNE LAYH A B.C.-wide recycling company is hoping to create a drop off location in Peachland where residents could return a variety of ready to drink containers for deposit, including aluminum cans, plastic bottles, drink boxes, tabletop bag in box containers, milk and milk substitute containers (such as soy milk, almond milk, oat milk, and rice milk) as well as products like Tim Hortons and Starbucks coffees that have milk as a first ingredient.

Allen Langdon, president and CEO of Encorp Pacific,

made a presentation to Peachland council on Tuesday night on behalf of his company’s Return-It program to seek support in securing a location within the municipality.

Langdon said Return-It is a non for profit stewardship agency that is responsible for managing the recycling system for most ready to drink beverage containers in the province.

The organization’s operating costs are offset by funds received through unredeemed deposits, commodity revenue from materials, and separate recycling fees.

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163 independently owned depots, nine Express & GO locations, two Return-It Express Plus locations, and “other collection points” that account for five per cent of the organization’s volume.

Another two per cent of volume comes from 260 grocery stores and 195 government liquor stores, council was told.

Currently Peachland residents do not have a Return-It facility to bring back their used beverage containers and the nearest place they can return these items for recycling is in West Kelowna.

A bonus to having a location in Peachland is any eligible containers returned to the facility would receive a full deposit, he said.

Langdon is hoping to install an Express & GO location at the Peachland Village Mall or an alternative location in town.

“We have explored different options for siting an Express & GO station with no success and are now seeking assistance from the District of Peachland to find an appropriate location that meets the needs of local residents,” Langdon said in his

presentation to council.

The Express & GO locations are generally sea can structures that are solar powered and unstaffed.

The sea can would require about two parking spaces and access to electricity and internet.

Express & GO sea can structures are currently operating in Tofino, SFU Burnaby, UBC Vancouver, two locations in North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Big White Ski Resort, the Village of McBride and Victoria.

Langdon said their express locations offer “fast, convenient, contactless and easy recycling experience in under a minute.”

He explained the process works like this: customers create a Return-It Express online account, print their labels at either the bag label printer located in the Express & GO or at a nearby kiosk, place the unsorted containers in a transparent plastic bag, tag their bag, open the door using a unique PIN, drop off the bags and wait for a deposit refund, which can be redeemed via e-transfer, provided the balance in their

account is over $10.

Langdon said they have a huge improvement in customer satisfaction because “people like not standing at the depot and waiting in line to sort their containers.”

“We were hoping to partner with the main mall in Peachland,” said Langdon.

“We’ve had the support of IGA, which is great, but we just haven’t been able to convince the landlord that it’s a good option for them . . . it would be great if we could get some support from city council.”

Coun. Mike Kent said the Peachland Village Mall would be an ideal location and motioned that council direct staff to meet with the landlord and the proponent.

That motion was met with unanimous council support.

“I can’t think of a location that would provide better access for the entire community,” said Kent.

Langdon said they are more than happy to reach some agreement with the landlord to pay a reasonable amount for the space and would be willing to go in on a one-year trial basis.

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“We’re not looking for a free ride. If there’s a cost to taking up two parking spots what is it on a yearly basis, so let’s reach a commercial agreement,” he said. “If it doesn’t work out for the mall we would take it away.”

“I love the idea,” said Coun. Pam Cunningham. “I think the IGA would be the number one choice.”

Langdon noted the service is compatible with local charities and service groups that want to fundraise through bottle drives. Service groups can set up an account and then send their phone number out to their list to let people know about the bottle drive so all bags dropped off with their phone number attached will be credited to their account.

Groups that are more proactive can distribute bags with preprinted labels to their supporters to drop off and any deposits with the label attached will be credited to their account.

“Definitely we would like to see charities take advantage of the system to drive refunds to their accounts,” said Langdon.

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