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t’s taken $3 million and three years of intensive, multi-disciplinary study to create the framework and flesh it out with the first information, but the Okanagan Water Supply and Demand Study was finally unveiled Friday. It is unique in the country, but then, so is this arid valley’s enclosed watershed unique in its rapid growth and scarcity of water to service that growth—particularly considering that agriculture is a vital industry underpinning both the valley’s economy and its attractive landscape, and it requires water to survive. More data needs to be added, so work will continue on that, and on making it a tool that’s available for the use of the general public, but it will provide a foundation for water managers to plan for the future. They’ll have more and better information about water resources in the valley—for use not only in the drought years such as now, but also in the normal and the wet years. Capital News reporter Judie Steeves talked to those we depend on to ensure water flows from the tap when it’s turned on, about what the study means. See story A3 JUDIE STEEVES/CAPITAL NEWS
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the Okanagan Basin Water Board, explains the results of the Okanagan water study released on Friday. outdoor water use—water for lawns and gardens—is the second highest use of water in the valley, at 24 per cent of the total. “It’s just for cosmetics. When you think about the possibility of us running out of water, you have to consider how we value it when we use it that way,� she said. Data from the study will be available for the use of the public in the coming months through the OBWB website at: www.obwb.ca.
Access to it will be through a web-based reporting tool, and it will include such information as precipitation throughout the valley, water licences and who holds them and where, groundwater resources and streamflows. It will be possible to create different scenarios, such as how much more water will be required in the next 20 years if everything remains the same, if there are population changes or if agricultural needs changed.
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survival one goal of water study Judie Steeves STAFF REPORTER
OKANAGAN Basin Water Board executive director Anna Warwick Sears would be underwater beside the Manteo Resort’s dock at high water in a normal year. This is shaping up to be the second consecutive year of drought in the Okanagan as the lake level is at a near-record low. SEAN CONNOR/CAPITAL NEWS
Watering our lawns is a big drain on our ongoing limited water resources Judie Steeves STAFF REPORTER
Individuals in the Okanagan use an average of 675 litres of water a day, double what the average is across Canada, 329 litres, and nearly six times that of people in France, 150 litres, and Israel, 135 litres. Yet the Okanagan is the most water-short area of the country, considering precipitation and demand. Water use by those living in the Oliver and Osoyoos areas where their water use is not metered, is even higher, yet it’s even drier there than in the central and northern parts of the valley. That’s just some of the information to be gleaned from the Okanagan Water Supply and Demand Study unveiled Friday. Of the total water use in the valley, the second highest amount used is domestically, for outdoor use. In other words, most of it is sprayed onto residential lawns. The highest use is for agricul-
ture, at 55 per cent, while outdoor domestic use makes up 24 per cent of the total. Domestic indoor use is next, at seven per cent, followed closely by golf courses, at five per cent, commercial, at four per cent, then industrial and parks and open spaces, each at two per cent, and institutional at one per cent. Both agriculture and golf course use contribute to people’s livelihoods and the valley’s economy, but that can’t be said of green lawns, notes Anna Warwick Sears, executive-director of the Okanagan Basin Water Board. “We could provide water for double the population if we took out just a third of our lawns,” she commented. Adding more storage and infrastructure for water is costly and environmentally damaging when instead we could conserve water by changing our concept of landscaping, she adds. In the entire basin, 80 per cent of the total precipitation on average is lost to evapo-transpiration,
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either directly from open water surfaces, or drawn up by the roots of trees and plants and transpired away to the atmosphere, according to Brian Guy of Summit Environmental, project manager for the study. The study contains a huge amount of data that will be used in planning future water management in the valley, notes Sears. There are 101 known water suppliers in the basin, who supply about 82 per cent of the total water used. There are more than 4,000 water licences for storage or use, including 443,000 megalitres (1,000 litres) for off-stream use and about 351,000 megalitres for in-stream, or conservation use. About 95 per cent of the volume used is by 57 main water suppliers, who hold 88 per cent of the licensed storage. There are 36 large upland reservoirs, capable of storing a total of 133,000 megalitres. Surface water sources account for 67 per cent of the water
used, while groundwater is the source for 22 percent; imported water, eight per cent; and recycled wastewater, three per cent. Okanagan Lake, Mission Creek and Kalamalka-Wood Lake are the three main surface water sources. The study is an unprecedented collaboration of the basin’s regional districts through the OBWB; provincial ministries of environment, agriculture, and community development; federal ministries of environment, fisheries and agriculture; the Okanagan Nation Alliance; UBCOkanagan and Vancouver; SFU; University of Victoria; the Water Supply Association of B.C., B.C. Agriculture Council and others. It was funded through the OBWB, provincial environment ministry, the Gas Tax Fund, the Canada-B.C. Water Supply Expansion Program, Natural Resources Canada’s Regional Adaptation Collaboratives program and in-kind contributions from partner agencies.
Normally, McCulloch Lake—the main water reservoir for the South East Kelowna Irrigation District— would fill and spill with melting snow in spring. But this is not a normal year. This is shaping up to be the second consecutive drought year in the Okanagan Valley, and SEKID, with its relatively-small, low-elevation watershed is in the most precarious position of the less than a dozen major water utilities in the Central Okanagan. Another key reservoir, Okanagan Lake, did not fill last year and will not fill again this year. In fact, it is at near-record low levels for the nearly a century it has been controlled by man, using dams. McCulloch Lake was only about two hectares in size and a half-metre in depth 90 years ago. Today, that storage capacity of 7.5 acre feet has been increased to 13,475 acre feet. The reservoir was created historically to serve agricultural users downstream; to permit the growth of Kelowna’s first orchards on the benchland above the city: SEKID was born. It’s a similar history to that of local utilities such as the Peachland, Westbank and Lakeview Irrigation Districts on the Westside; to the Glenmore-Ellison and Black Mountain Irrigation Districts in Kelowna; and to the Lake Country water utility. All source their water from reservoir lakes at higher elevations, created in the early years of the last century to turn the valley from brown to green with orchards. Downtown Kelowna’s water source is Okanagan Lake, as it is for several smaller Westside utilities, and it is an auxiliary source for some of the other irrigation districts, including Peachland’s Trepanier source. GEID and Lake Country have some water rights on Okanagan Lake as well as their main upland sources. Some, including SEKID, also have wells from which they source some of their water. Rutland Waterworks is based entirely on well water, or groundwater rather than surface water. Groundwater sources are inextricably linked to surface water. All depend on snow stored over winter at high elevations around the valley to fill their reservoirs in spring during runoff, for use during the dry months of summer, which is also the growing season. And, that’s where today’s problem lies. For the past two years, the snowpack levels have been well below normal around the Okanagan and last year there was a record low amount of precipitation during June, normally the wettest month in the valley, another blow to water utilities. This year, for instance, the snowpack in SEKID’s See Drought A4
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Water usage getting pared down Drought from A3 watershed is at 67 per cent of normal. Just a little to the north, Vernon’s is at 56 per cent. Ironically, that means that for the second year since it was built, the new Turtle Lake reservoir, constructed by SEKID to store an additional 1,700 acre feet, won’t store a drop of water again this year, notes manager Toby Pike. It also means it’s likely the board of directors will decide it’s necessary again this year to restrict homeowners to outside watering just two days a week, and to restrict the allotment for farm connections to 20 per cent less than usual. It’s a decision that
won’t be taken lightly, and it’s one that will be opposed by many water users, but it’s the only reason the district got through last year without running out of water, says Pike. “We’re releasing the minimum from McCulloch Lake and we’re not doing our full watermain flushing program this spring. We’re paring down water use everywhere we can,” Pike said. “It was really hard on people last year. You can’t minimize that. If we have a wet spring or summer, we can ease up on the restrictions.” However, in the SEKID, there is a culture of scarcity; there has been since 1920, says Pike, adding, “We’re used to it.
Don Dobson We conserve.” It’s because of that SEKID was the first irrigation district to begin metering agricultural use of water. You can’t manage what you can’t measure. Others are now following suit. Pike admits there were complaints last year from both homeowners and farmers about water
restrictions. Some homeowners were warned about over-use, then fined, and some even had their water shut off. So did some farmers, although Pike says those irrigating perennial crops like fruit trees would be the last to see further restrictions on water use, because of the financial hardship it would cause and the long-term damage that could result. Agricultural water use benefits not only the farmer but the economy of the whole valley. However, the Water Supply and Demand study is about managing water not just for the water-short years such as 2003, 2009 and 2010. It’s intended to provide a foundation for
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Remi Allard decisions about water in the coming years. It’s also likely it will be used as a model by other jurisdictions, he commented. And, it’s an initiative that was valley-driven, not top-down, so it’s ‘owned’ by the valley it affects and if reflects what those in the watershed feel is needed. Looking back, Symonds recalls when he began here there was an expectation that water would just flow from the tap when it was turned on. It was taken for granted. That’s beginning to change, he says. “Water is fundamental to the economy, the social fabric and the environment of the valley,” he commented.
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While surface water is visible and quite easily quantified, groundwater is quite the opposite, so the task of people like hydrogeologist Remi Allard in coming up with a groundwater balance for the Okanagan Basin was a challenging one. “There are a lot of misconceptions about groundwater,” he begins. People generally visualize it as a motionless reservoir, or as a flowing river under the surface.
“However, neither vision begins to describe the complex movement and variability of groundwater flow, which is a function of the type of soil, sediment or rock it moves through (the aquifer) as well as the elevation differences between where water enters the aquifer and where it exits,” he explains. Many connections, both natural and manmade, exist between groundwater and the land’s surface and people often don’t understand the short and long-term implications on groundwater as a result of climate change and land development. “The most important thing we can do to protect groundwater, is to pay more attention to it,” he states. Above bedrock, groundwater is mostly in sediments. These are called alluvial aquifers. Below bedrock, much less can be stored because of the solid rock, so it’s only found in cracks or fissures in the rock. Alluvial aquifers are mainly found in the valley bottoms or adjacent to streams above the valley bottom. Prior to this study there was only very sparse data available on groundwater supplies in the Okanagan Basin, which meant there was very little information from wells accessing aquifers to assemble to come up with a groundwater balance for the basin. After identifying the quantity of water that enters the basin from precipitation and how much runs off, they audited groundwater resources
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by using complex spreadsheets. In the end, they couldn’t completely reconcile the groundwater numbers, particularly in some parts of the valley he admits. “There are still things we don’t understand. We need to do more work to gather additional information to fill in those gaps,” said Allard. What was most surprising was that more groundwater is being used in the basin that was thought. In all, 22 per cent of water used is from groundwater sources. Along streams, groundwater can be recharged by surface water in places, while in others, the surface water in the stream can be recharged by groundwater, particularly in winter when surface sources are frozen. Allard sees the impact of this study as very practical science which will identify areas of the basin that have issues, as well as elevating the general awareness of water supply and demand issues. He does believe the results will underline the need for additional work. In addition, he feels it will be interesting to see whether or not the Okanagan Basin Water Board uses this to leverage its ability to manage water in the basin. He’s hopeful that regional districts will look at the results of the study and the water balance in different areas and use the information available to assess where sufficient water is available for growth and development. jsteeves@kelownacapnews.com
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Expansion spilling across Pandosy Street Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR
By the time all the components of the new Interior Heart and Surgical Centre at Kelowna General Hospital are complete in 2017, construction at the hospital will have been going non-stop for nine straight years. And that will make KGH, in the words of Premier Gordon Campbell, B.C.’s biggest building site.
Following Campbell’s announcement last month that the $448 million cardiac care centre will be built here featuring two new buildings and renovations to areas in three existing hospital buildings, preliminary site work is slated to start for the first building in June. That work will include preparing the site of the hospital’s new clinical support building on what is now a temporary parking lot across Pandosy
Street from the hospital. The new three-storey 7,850-square-metre building is expected to be linked to the new six-storey Centennial tower by an elevated walkway over Pandosy. The new tower will house several existing hospital services that will have to be relocated from other parts of the facility because of the addition of the heart centre. In addition to the clinical support build-
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which is slated to open in 2012, will change the entire look of the hospital. It also means a massive amount of planning and work to move services around in the hospital, such as all laboratory services into the new clinical support building. And it all must be done while continuing to provide tertiary medical care for the thousands of patients KGH sees every year. Included in the move will be psychiatric care, known as the McNair unit, into the new tower. Huppertz told the Interior Health board this week that the preliminary schedule would see the clinical support building constructed first and
AN ARTIST’S RENDITION of the walkway for the KGH expansion across Pandosy Street. opened in the spring of 2012, followed by renovation to the Royal building between 2012 and 2013. Construction would then take place for the 12,970-square-metre heart centre building to replace the existing Pandosy building, which is to be demolished. That would take place between 2012 and 2016. The final component of the project would be renovations to the Strathcona building between 2016 and 2017. Interior Health officials have met with repre-
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A young deer bitten repeatedly by an offleash dog in Knox Mountain Park has led to a reminder that it is illegal to let your dog run loose in an on-leash city park and to permit it to harass wildlife anywhere. The injured deer was tranquilized by conservation officers and taken outside the city, where it was released in the wild, in the hope it would recover. No blood was drawn in the attack. Owners of dogs not under their control are liable to fines of $345 for conflicts with wildlife under provincial legislation. As well, Central Okanagan dog control officers patrol the park at least once a day, and even walk
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The man who fell to his death after police arrived in a Sunset Drive apartment building to investigate a domestic dispute has now been identified. The B.C. Coroner’s Service said Toronto native Nebojsa William Cihoric, 31, died from his injuries after falling from his girlfriend’s 10th storey balcony. Police say officers received a call about a domestic dispute at 1:40 a.m. on Tuesday. At the apartment they spotted the man on the outside edge of the balcony. “Seconds” after officers stepped on the balcony, the man let go, police said. The Coroner’s Service is investigating the death, and are unable to say if the death is a suicide or not.
The new Aggregate Task Force appears ready to call on the gravel mining industry to fund upcoming public input stages of its 18-month long process. The committee, made up of three Central Okanagan residents, three local politicians, Kelowna-Lake Country MLA Norm Letnick, a UBC Okanagan professor, three
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Central Okanagan Regional District communications coordinator Bruce Smith has been asked to prepare a report for the committee recommending a consultation process and a proposed budget. In addition to the six initial open houses, the task force asked Smith to account for follow up input sessions in the fall, which would be required after the committee had drafted a map proposing red, yellow and green sites that would prohibit, restrict or permit gravel mining throughout the region. Open house dates must still be set. Meanwhile, the task force has also identified some of the public concerns it will use to weigh against those areas identified through the aggregate supply study as prime sand and gravel mining locations in the Central Okanagan.
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NEWS W MISSION HILL WINERY
Traffic could be roadblock to expansion Jason Luciw STAFF REPORTER
Supporters and opponents filled Mission Hill’s new interpretive centre to capacity Thursday as the winery held the first of two public open houses for its proposed expansion. The open houses are part of Mission Hill’s attempt to win West Kelowna council’s approval to rezone the property to allow for comprehensive development. Supporters were wowed by the plans, which call for the addition of a 104-room boutique hotel, a 1,000-squaremetre conference facility, a wellness centre, a standalone restaurant and artisan residences for the winery’s seasonal performers, as well as an art gallery and 30 vacation cottages. Chancellor Place resident Brian Sunderland called the plans “spectacular.” “I’m pretty convinced it will be positive for the community, particularly the tax base,” he said. But he added he would like mitigation work done to address the increased traffic on Mission Hill Road that would result. “It’s a steep hill and not all that safe a road. People drive that road too quickly already. I think added traffic is just going to create a difficult situation.” Mission Hill proprietor Anthony von Mandl said he too lives in the area and agrees traffic issues must be mitigated. “I have a two-yearold and my wife and I are very concerned about traffic. Part of our program is to actually look at how we can slow traffic down,” said von Mandl. “As with any new development traffic is a concern and I understand that and that is why I brought in traffic experts to think of ways to slow people down, including residents that live in the area.” Meanwhile, residents living on Ridge Boulevard, Gala View Drive and Royal Gala Drive expressed concerns about increased construction traffic. Royal Gala Drive resident David Bond disagreed with the plan. “The amount of traffic that will be generated…will destroy the tranquility of the neighbourhood.” Bond believes that
construction and tourist traffic should be funneled up to the winery via a new access off East Boundary Road. “Several engineers said it’s impossible to do. My attitude is if you can go to the moon, you can build the road.” Bond said he believes von Mandl simply doesn’t want to spend money building such a road. “If there was no access coming in from Mission Hill Road or Ridge (Boulevard), as is planned, there would be no opposition. But as it is, he’s trying to put up a brand new business, which isn’t a winery, it’s a hotel and a convention centre. If you want to put in a brand new business, it seems to me
you need a brand new access.” Bond has formed an informal residents’ group to raise concerns with council about the winery’s expansion plans. If council rezones the property and makes way for the expansion without addressing traffic concerns then every council member deserves to be voted out of office in the next election, in Bond’s opinion. Meanwhile, von Mandl said creating a road extending from East Boundary Road is not technically possible. He said the concept would require the acquisition of Westbank First Nation land. But he vowed Mis-
sion Hill would be a good neighbour during construction. “I don’t want to impact access to the winery either. We need to have this (expansion) happen almost invisibly. And to do that we need to have this happen phase to phase.” He said that Mission Hill is his family’s legacy and the expansion must not undermine the enormous amount of energy and resources he has expended to improve the winery and its vineyards since he founded it 29 years ago. The property for the proposed Mission Hill expansion is currently zoned for single and multifamily housing.
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BIOSOLIDS MANAGEMENT PLAN CONTRACT The Regional Board has authorized a contract with Sylvis Environmental to develop a plan to manage biosolid waste materials from the Westside Regional Waste Water Treatment Plant. While its bid of $49,360 was the highest of three pre-qualified responses to a Request for Proposals, Sylvis received the highest overall evaluation score and is within the project budget. A management plan is required for disposal of these materials since the option of burying the materials in the Glenmore Landfill is expected to end later this year.
TRANSIT AND HANDYDART BYLAWS AMENDED The Regional Board has approved two bylaws amending the Regional District Service Area for urban transit and handyDART services. The bylaws remove the District of West Kelowna from the Regional District Service Area and pave the way for the municipality to assume responsibility for both services within its boundary. The Regional District will continue to be responsible for transit and handyDART services for the District of Peachland and Westbank First Nation lands.
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NEWS W KNOX MOUNTAIN PARK
Motorized access to popular lookouts may be reduced Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER
Sunday drivers may be blocked from Knox Mountain altogether if a proposed trial shutdown for the day of rest goes over well with the neighbourhood. Monday afternoon
Kelowna city council will be asked to approve a proposal which will shorten the duration of time motorists can enjoy the park by driving up to its lookouts. The new schedule would be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., rather than 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.; meaning a full four
hours of viewing time could be trimmed from the driving schedule. And the city is also looking to test out potential Sunday road closures in the park with one trial event this year. “When the road is closed in early spring, it has been observed that
City in Action PUBLIC HEARING Notice is given that City Council will hold a public hearing on: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 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 A, Section 8, Township 26, ODYD, Plan 9033, Except Plan 11176 Bylaw No. 10299 (Z07-0084) The applicant is proposing to rezone the subject property in order to allow for a secondary suite within an existing accessory building. Requested zoning change: from the RR3 – Rural Residential 3 zone to the RR3s – Rural Residential 3 with Secondary Suite zone Owner/Applicant: Kathleen Baldwin/Steve Baldwin Text Amendment Bylaw No. 10300 (TA10-0002) Owner/Applicant: City of Kelowna The City of Kelowna wishes to amend the Zoning Bylaw No. 8000 by adding a new definition for Agriculture, Urban and adding a new sub-section 9.10-Agriculture, Urban.
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the road surface can be very popular with walkers, cyclists, roller-bladers and parents with strollers,” said parks services manager Ian Wilson, in a report to council. The city set up traffic counters and entered into an extensive study of park users last year before
making the recommendations. Those not in favour of the road closures tended to express concerns for those who have mobility challenges, followed by those who were concerned about the inconvenience. Work is being done on a master plan for Knox
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CD-21 review process starts with workshop Kelowna city council will hit the books bright and early Monday morning. The first workshop session to help this city council understand the new CD-21 zone, or downtown comprehensive development zone, will be held in council chambers beginning at 8:15 a.m. A brief closed-door session will be held to deal with in camera council business before the three-hour workshop begins. The meeting held to set the agenda for this meeting drew so many people the mayor promised to move the event from their regular morning meeting room to the larger council chambers to accommodate anyone who may wish to attend.
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“I didn’t want to put you out,” I said. “Well I’m put out now,” he muttered, sweaty and stinky from a hard workout at the gym. “I can’t even have a shower.” With the irrigation ofce now closed and a grouchy spouse to contend with, I grabbed a big empty bucket and went in search of some water. I imagined what it would be like to live in a small African village and have to walk 10 miles on bare feet in the searing heat for a pail of dirty water to take home to my family. Of course, that was a massive
stretch compared to the 40 feet I was able to walk to access my neighbor’s garden hose next door. Arriving home minutes later I delivered the bucket feeling like a superhero who had saved the day. “They’re going to charge us an extra $100 for the reconnection,” my husband told me, obviously still irritated and not having the same thoughts about living in a third world country running through his head.
“The bill was only $103.13,” I replied, looking at the statement that he had dug out from my in-tray. “Sounds like a scam giving us one measly warning and then shutting our water off over such a small amount.
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Paramedics face wrath of driver Cheryl Wierda STAFF REPORTER
A FIREFIGHTER takes a heat reading on a car that crashed through a fence at Rutland and Klassen Roads, then ran into a hedge at Maple and Klassen. The occupants of the car fled the scene on foot. Police searched the nearby neighbourhood with a police dog and set up road blocks.
The driver who hit a pole on Wallace Road on Tuesday morning is awaiting word on whether he needs surgery on a broken arm he says paramedics failed to diagnose when they spoke to him at the accident scene. Benjamin Brendle, 25, said he swerved off the road to miss an oncoming truck that veered into his
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The hopes for the future of Rutland’s Centennial Park will be riding on the Ferris wheel at this year’s May Days celebration. Rutland Park Society director Mary-Ann Graham said it is important the event be successful, since it is the chief fundraisers for the upkeep of the park and Rutland Centennial Hall. The Rutland Park Society was founded in the 1930s and exists to look after the facility. When Rutland was incorporated into Kelowna in the 1970s, the park remained in the care of the society. “In a sense, it’s owned by the society on behalf of the community of Rutland,” said Graham.
She added that looking after the park is more difficult for the society than it would be for the city because of funding issues. Rutland May Days, a festival held annually on the May long weekend, is the major source of funding for the society. Graham said the festival is a community event, but at the same time the society is supposed to be making money from it. At present, the society needs funds for major maintenance initiatives such as the replacement of the Centennial Hall roof. She noted the society has done many repairs over the years, as a new roof for the close to 50year-old building would be a large undertaking. Graham said the festival will cover four days
this year, over the May long weekend. Plans to shift to another date were scuttled by the availability of midway company West Coast Amusements. Graham noted that carnival rides have replaced the traditional baseball tournament, carnival row and teen alley. Other events taking place include bingo, a beer garden, events for children and entertainment on the outdoor stage. Graham noted May Days is primarily a family event, but does include a singles dance for adults on the Saturday evening. The May Days parade will take place on the Saturday, traveling from Hartman Road down Rutland Road. Graham acknowledged that May Days attendance has gone down
in recent years. She pointed out that May Days is in competition with other events, it’s held on the first long weekend of summer when many people head out of town, and simply that times are changing as Kelowna continues to grow. “What we have to offer isn’t as great anymore. People want a little bit more excitement.” Aside from the festival, Graham pointed out the society doesn’t do other fundraising events. “We rent out the hall. We used to get donations from the different service groups, but the well has dried up. We no longer get those donations.” Graham said the society was fortunate enough to receive a grant from the city this year. Another fundraising
strategy around the May Days festival involves a sponsorship package, designed for businesses. Graham said if businesses want to sponsor part of the event, they are given promotion in society advertising. The move represents a change in strategy and a stronger fundraising focus for the volunteer organization. Graham pointed out the society has only one paid employee, who lives as a caretaker in Rutland Centennial Park and provides security. “That person is a very important person,” said Graham. “He kicks out the druggies and the addicts, the people drinking in the park, the people walking
Curb appeal is about the all important first impression. Curb appeal can be the difference between a prosperous business and an ailing business. As a first impression, a business with a well tended storefront identifies it as a business where the operators are invested in both its success and relationship with the surrounding community. Conversely, a business frontage that is littered with debris, flaunts dirty or cracked windows, outdated signage, or generally exudes an air of neglect will deter prospective customers. Even current customers may wonder about your ability to pay attention to those details. As spring has arrived with gusto, many businesses realize it’s time to give their office or store a fresh face that will appeal to potential new customers. While budget constraints may preclude a major renovation, a few inexpensive changes can make a big and positive impact on customer. New signage, planters or a fresh coat of paint on window and door trims can transform a business’ first impression. Adding a bright new awning can distinguish your business from others. Even cleaning the windows and a fresh spring window display can entice customers to come in for a closer look. ••• On April 24, URBA and the Rutland Family YMCA-YWCA will partner together to host Spring Into Action Day, a one-day Rutland community cleanup (see story on A15). Families can participate by just dropping by the YMCA-YWCA on that day to pick up maps and bags. Businesses can participate by making sure the area around their business is attended to. In 20 minutes you can pick up litter, sweep the entrance and clean your windows. As a special promotion, from April 17 to 24, Mara Lumber (located on Highway 33) will offer a storewide discount of 10 per cent to all Rutland businesses. This makes sprucing up your business—whether it’s new paint for trim, trash cans outside your business, or a complete face lift—an affordable and accessible option, which should yield, at minimum, improved customer confidence in your business. To learn more about the Spring Into Action day, contact the Rutland Family YMCA-YWCA 250-7655916 or URBA at 250-451-9861. Dave Willoughby is president of the Uptown Rutland Business Association.
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their dogs off leash.” Graham noted the caretaker has a difficult position, that garners ire when people use Centennial Park in a way that a City Park would not be used. “I hate it when people mistreat him because he’s doing what we need him to do.” Graham wants to see the park become familyoriented, and get usage back up to where it was in days gone by. She said there has
been pressure to do different things with the property. The society briefly looked at the idea of developing part of the park with multi-unit housing, but the plan never proceeded. Graham said that if the society does dissolve, the park and hall would go over to the city or another non-profit society. She said dissolving the park society would be the last possible step, and would be hard to do. “The only reason you’d give it up is because you can’t af-
ford it.” Graham said Rutland May Days has always been a fundraiser, but most people think of it as a community event, balking at the $2 gate fee. She pointed out if the society can get people to sponsor the event, then they will get rid of the gate fee. “This is a fundraiser, so think of your two dollars as a way of donating to the park.” Graham said the society is considering other possible ways to raise money, but the reality is just organizing May Days
is a huge challenge for the volunteer-driven society. “Everybody get ready for a wonderful weekend,” said Graham. “It’s going to be exciting this year.” Uptown Rutland Business Association executive director Deborah Guthrie said her organization supports the Rutland Park Society for May Days, but URBA doesn’t participate due to their own limited resources. “This is a one-staff office, and we’re stretched to just look after our own events. We don’t want to
stretch ourselves too thin.” Guthrie noted URBA does take part in the May Days parade, and she helps put out information for the event. “They’ve had their struggles,” she said. Guthrie said keeping an event fresh year after year is tough, especially one that has a reliance on volunteers to organize it every year. She said volunteers get tired or move on to other pursuits, so you always need new people to get involved and bring in new ideas.
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Crows will do well to avoid Rutland this fall with the expansion of the annual scarecrow festival and harvest market. Uptown Rutland Business Association executive director Deborah Guthrie said the organization is excited about the event, which will take place in mid-autumn. “URBA is really putting considerable resources into this event this year.” Guthrie said URBA puts on three events in a year—an outdoor movie night in August, a Christmas light-up event in winter, and the scarecrow festival. The fall event received solid acclaim last year. “We really felt the community really loved the event. We got really strong participation.” Guthrie said last year was the second time for the festival, and the first time that URBA added the harvest market. She added that URBA would like to do the market again this year on a larger scale, in partnership with the B.C. Fruit Growers Asso-
ciation. While the market has been popular, Guthrie believes the biggest attraction to the festival is still building scarecrows. “Some families have never done it before.” She said URBA provides all the materials, and people compete to see which family can build the best scarecrow. She added that URBA is hiring a marketer and an event planner this year to scale up the festival and bring it forward. Guthrie noted the organization is also opening up the festival to sponsorship from businesses. Some financial support for the scarecrow festival is already in place, with a $5,750 grant from the city. “It will definitely help. Our budget was quite limited last year for this event.” She said the business association feels uptown Rutland needs a signature event, and hopes the festival will become a community event that draws people from surrounding areas of Kelowna and the Central Okanagan. “This is very much a grassroots event, we are just working on building it up.”
City awards $5,570 grant for Scarecrow festival URBA is the recipient of a $5,750 grant from the City of Kelowna. The grant is the next step in expanding the Scarecrow Festival & Harvest Market to where it will showcase the rich agricultural history of Rutland and become a signature annual event for the community.
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A combination of pressures is making homes in Rutland fly off the market. “It’s booming right now,” said Ken Dempsey, a realtor with Re/Max Kelowna. Dempsey noted that homes priced at $550,000 and below are attracting a lot of attention. Dempsey pointed out the time of year is partly responsible for more sales across the entire city. Another contributing factor, he said, is the price point of homes in the Rutland area. “You get more bang for your buck in Rutland.” The lower-priced starter homes are just as appealing for young famrilies as those in the downtown core, noted Demp-
sey. He pointed out the Rutland area has appeal for those looking to live around other young families and have a decentsized yard. “Not all young families want to live down in the city core.” Dempsey noted homes in the $350,000 to $450,000 range are moving quickly. Homes with secondary suites are also being snapped up. “We’re seeing a huge run right now on homes with suites.” He attributed the movement of homes with suites to people buying these types of properties before mortgage qualifying thresholds change. After April, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation will take less of basement suite income into account for their mortgage qualifica-
tions. Dempsey noted the threshold will be quite a bit less then at present. He pointed out the pressure is creating a small market boom on homes with suites before the threshold change makes them less affordable. “It takes quite a few people out of the market and makes it unobtainable for some folks.” When asked about the area’s perceived negative reputation, Dempsey pointed out such a reputation can be found in any part of the city. He lives in the Glenmore area, and tells people there are streets in Old Glenmore that a person should stay away from. Dempsey pointed out the hospital area is the most expensive area in Kelowna, and there are streets there that people should stay away from as
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well. He noted that unfortunately, there are a few streets in Rutland that have appeared frequently in the media over the past several years. While expansion and growth are still possible in the area, Dempsey said Rutland should
focus more on growing up. He anticipates higher density in the downtown area around Plaza 33 over the next few years. This density could be
accompanied with four- to five-storey buildings and even a high rise or two. Dempsey pointed out that undeveloped land is still available on the edge
of the Rutland and Black Mountain areas that was formerly agricultural reserve. “A lot of it has been pulled out and is now developable.”
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Community clean-up set for April 24 The streets will get a spring cleaning this April courtesy of the Uptown Rutland Business Association and the Rutland YMCA-YWCA. URBA executive director Deborah Guthrie said the two organizations are partnering to do a oneday clean-up all over uptown Rutland on April 24. She noted the cleanup efforts will be across the area, and not just restricted to the town centre. The clean-up is open to volunteers or anyone who would like to come out and lend a hand. Guthrie said interested people can go to the YMCA-YWCA that day for supplies. The Y will supply volunteers with garbage bags, gloves, maps and refreshments. Guthrie said the volunteer opportunity qualifies people for Disney’s Give A Day, Get A Day program. She noted theYMCAYWCA has used the program with great success in the past. It involves giving a day to the community in volunteer work. In exchange, volunteers receive a day’s pass to Disneyland. Guthrie noted URBA’s contribution to the clean-up effort also involves putting the word
out to businesses in the area. She said the day should encompass a community clean-up, and not just people picking up garbage on residential streets.
Guthrie said buinesses can be encouraged to take part as well by freshening up buildings, painting over graffiti and weeding properties. “They don’t have to
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Racing through a Panamanian archipelago by sport boat, I couldn’t help but feel like James Bond. It was just me and a mustachioed driver, speeding toward a remote island where I would spend a few decadent days at an eco-resort, hiking the rain forest, sunning myself by an infinity pool and suck-
ing down rum cocktails to a soundtrack of rolling, tropical surf. That’s how I spent this past Christmas—as far away from reality as possible—because my reality was that I didn’t have my son for the holidays. My ex and I alternate Christmases, which works great when it’s my year. When it’s not, I wallow in misery. At least that’s how I’ve spent previous years.
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mayed as soon as I passed through the gates of the community, one of several such enclaves cropping up in western Panama and catering to American and European retirees who build out-of-place mansions on lands once used for local agriculture. Panamanian in an idealized, Vegas sort of way, Valle Escondido is a lush, luxurious estate made up of a hotel, townhome complex and country club, complete with a golf course, indoor swimming pool, spa, restaurant and bar. I couldn’t wait to leave and go into town. I’m the sort of traveler who wants to experience the local culture, so although Valle Escondido was nice, it wasn’t my kind of place. It wasn’t of the people but removed from them. At the recommendation of the desk clerk, I took a taxi. The twominute trip in a small pickup truck painted yellow and decked out in cabbie stripes cost $2 and took me to the only restaurant in town that serves Panamanian cuisine. The dimly illuminated and largely empty Sabroson was staffed with Spanish-speaking locals who danced to Shakira as they served me a buffetstyle dinner of marinated chicken, fried rice, salad and fried bananas, which I washed down with a box of pear juice for $2.75. It was still early, so I wandered through the town, a mix of subsistence-level groceries and American-targeted real estate offices, restaurants, hotels and tourist operators. As I strolled the potholed street—there are no sidewalks—I came upon the small dessert spot, Choka Chetta’s. Intrigued, I stopped in and ordered a bowl of locally grown strawberries, which were served with a ladle of melted chocolate bars, a mound of whipped cream—and a dollop of disdain from the shopkeeper, who should have been pleased with getting the $3.75 she charged for
this confection but instead seemed wary. I couldn’t blame her. Just a few years earlier, this was a small town populated mostly by locals, but now the American influence is unmistakable. I walked back to the hotel in a driving but warm, rain, which was lovely for an Angeleno who almost never sees it, and rested up for the following day’s activity: whitewater rafting. The driver, who also turned out to be the rafting guide, was exactly on time the next morning, at the brutal-for-vacation hour of 7. Scooping up two other couples on the way, we raced northwest on the Pan-American Highway, then took secondary roads and, finally, a treacherous deep-in-thejungle dirt road. Twenty minutes from the river we would be rafting, the driver slowed to pick up another man who seemed to appear out of nowhere. He was the driver who would move the van from the head of the river to its tail and pick us up a few hours later. I know how to swim—not well, but I can—but I had never been whitewater rafting. In fact, I’m terrified of water, especially “Deliverance”style rapids. Hoping to conquer my fear before I die, I signed up. Arriving at the base of the Talamanca Mountain Range just miles from the Costa Rica border, we were greeted by guards who let us through the gate that would lead us to the churning Chiriqui Viejo—a river that would soon no longer exist as I was seeing it. Construction is under way to dam it for hydroelectric power to support development spurred by a Panamanian policy that encourages foreign settlement. For a $300,000 investment in Panamanian banks, business or real estate, Americans can gain citizenship—and a long list of benefits that include no taxes on foreign earned See Panama A19
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No in-room telephones in tiny Cala Mia boutique hotel Panama from A19 Janet Evanovich novel (no doubt read by an earlier tourist) and a bottle of Chilean Syrah. Even the lovely, locally caught trout dinner at the Panamonte wasn’t enough to persuade the Swiss to be my substitute family for Christmas. So midday on Christmas Eve, I made the twohour journey from Valle Escondido to the coastal town of Boca Chica,
where I hitched a ride on a speedboat that would take me to the tiny Cala Mia boutique hotel, off Panama’s western Pacific coast. It looked as though it would be just the Syrah and Evanovich and me for Dec. 25. It wasn’t. I spent my day as a sort of international orphan, having breakfast with a Texas couple who were in Panama to shop for beachfront property; hiking the lush island and spotting howler mon-
keys with a couple from England and then having lunch; and dining on locally caught lobster with a family from Seattle for dinner. I did a fairly good job of distracting myself from the idea that mothers are meant to be with their 6-year-olds on Christmas. On Cala Mia, it turned out, mothers can’t call their 6-year-olds. The 11 cabanas don’t have in-room telephones, and there was no cell phone service. Any other time,
that would be a perfect antidote to the stress of a working L.A. mom. The island resort, founded three years ago by a European couple, is run on solar power and supplied, at least in part, with locally grown produce and its own dairy operation. One of the 100, mostly deserted islands that make up the Archipelago de Chiriqui, the sun-dappled island and its warm ocean breeze were a wonderful distraction. I didn’t go snorkeling, but I did manage to
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take a few strolls along the island’s private beach and also polish off my Evanovich novel sitting on the private porch of my grass-thatched cabana as I sipped a concoction of rum and pineapple. All of it was wonderful, though none of it was an adequate substitute for spending Christmas with my boy. I’m happy I went, and I’d do it again. But if I had to do it over, I’d make sure to bring a friend to enjoy the sunsets and surf with me.
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tainous coffee-growing region. Doubles $144$180 a night. Panamonte Inn & Spa, Boquete, 720-1324, http://www.panamonte. com, in business since 1914, has 25 recently renovated rooms and a spa with two treatment rooms. (The Panamonte felt more comfortable to me than where I was staying, Valle Escondido Resort & Spa, which was nice but too exclusive for my tastes.) Panamonte doubles from $236 in low season, and $295 in high season. Cala Mia, Isla Boca Chica/Boca Brava, Archipelago Chiriqui, 8510059, http://www.boutiquehotelcalamia.com. This eco-resort in the Gulf de Chiriqui is on an island where solar power rules. This little bit of paradise is dotted with private cabanas overlooking the Pacific. Doubles $180$400. Where To Eat: Panamonte Inn (see info above) offers inventive, gourmet fare. Entrees $9.50 to $28. Sabor Escondido, 702-2454, http://www.resort.valleescondido.biz/ sabor.html, Entrees from $14.50. Learn More: Embassy of Panama, (202) 483-1407, http://www. visitpanama.com.
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Front yard water park would save the resource To the editor: Headline: Protecting Water Resources Not a Political Issue. Headline: Okanagan Water Quality Faces Pressure. Article: Purchase wooden barrels to support the Rotary Water Park. What? Is this an oxymoron? This is all in the same paper. (March 24, Capital News) Quote from above articles: “…it’s a myth there is abundant water.” “…vigilance is needed to ensure water is managed in sustainable ways.” “Support the Rotarians to build their water park, purchase a wooden barrel for $40.” In light of the fact; “leaving a tap run five minutes equals leaving a light bulb on for 14 hours, we have established two things: The length of time the water park can be used and the cost of water. Costs that the taxpayer will pay because, as we all know, increasing costs of food, fuel, water and everything else will increase the amount of it.
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From confusion emerges organization at KGH
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hen you think about going somewhere to spend some quality time alone with your child, Kelowna General Hospital is not the first place that might come to mind. But that’s what happened for my wife and our fever-ridden 14-month old son this past week. It’s the second time we have gone through this little adventure, as our then 1 1/2 year old daughter was incarcerated at KGH for three nights with mom last winter while dealing with Respiratory Syncytial Virus, more commonly known as RSV. It is an experience that always borders on daily frustrations coupled with a touch of anxiety when some of the sharpest medical minds in town can’t
figure out what’s wrong with your kid. But trying to figure out how a hospital functions is a mystery, I have yet to solve. How all the various Barry departments interact, the Gerding miscues of communication between hospital staff on who is doing what or when can be a little puzzling for we outsiders to understand. From the outside looking in, the place seems to be pure chaos on some level, yet things seem to get done. Still the patients, and their parents in the case of toddlers, are left shaking their heads and often asking the constant question of ‘Why?’ about what’s going on around you. For instance, why do people who work at a hospital smoke? You’d think
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hospital workers who see the ravages of what smoking has done to patients on a daily basis would cease their nicotine habitat. But such is the power of cigarettes and probably the stress level of working in a hospital environment. If a parent has to stay with their toddler day and night when they are in hospital, why can’t they be fed just like the patient? Why do you need to spend five hours in emergency on a Sunday night/ Monday morning before being admitted to a room? We have written many stories in recent years about new systems piloted at KGH for speeding up how patients are dealt with, but just once I would like to be on the receiving end of those organizing efforts. Last time around, my wife and I spent about four hours waiting for our daughter to be admitted for RSV, at
which point she was put in an isolated room due to her condition, this after she was walking the hallways of emergency at varying times during those four hours. I guess spreading her germs around in emergency wasn’t a concern. But working on a newspaper, I know well what it is like to work for an organization that most people don’t understands but they don’t let that stop them from throwing darts at how things get done. I have tip my hat to anyone who chooses to work in the patient care side of any hospital, from the doctors to the nurses to all the x-ray and laboratory techs. Still, while KGH can be an interesting place to spend some time in, it’s just not my idea of the ideal place to bond with your child. Barry Gerding is managing editor of the Capital News. bgerding@kelownacapnews.com
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All residential development must stop To the editor: I see that a number of our formost “thinkers”, including our mayor, heads of the various water regions and others, met March 25 to discuss our looming water shortage crisis in Kelowna area. Nowhere did I hear a single person mention that the problem of water shortage in the Okanagan is due to one thing and one thing only—overdevelopment of the valley. Our resident geniuses don’t seem to realize that the valley is a semi-arid re-
gion, meaning in the most basic terms, semi-desert. On that basis the valley can only support a small population as water is the most basic requirement for life. That seems elementary to me and to a number of people who have written her worship’s office asking that all development be curtailed in the Kelowna area because we have reached the population limit that the Kelowna area, likely the entire valley, can support. Lack of water is the main problem and will
continue to be. We should have no highrises, in fact, no more residential development period because we have already overreached the limit that our habitat can sustain. We will be able to muddle along for awhile as some water administrations, such as the South East Kelowna Irrigation District, impose draconian water restrictions on its residential customers, but the day is coming when we will all have to face the fact that there are too many of us in the val-
ley for the water resources to sustain. Agriculturists will also have to face the fact that they will be forced to go back to ground irrigation (drip systems) instead of spraying water up into the air which wastes 50 per cent of the water. Urban dwellers will have to forgo their beautiful lawns and lush shrubbery which require constant irrigation in the hot, dry Okanagan summers and go back to the natural grasses and shrubs of a semi-arid country-side.
So it seems to me that meetings such as the one held recently are simply a waste of time, conducted in order that our municipal governments, water resources managers, and civic leaders can demonstrate to the public that they are doing something about the problem, whatever that something is, and however useless that something may be. V. Boyko, Kelowna
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Province giving away its taxing authority To the editor: I’d like to invite you to think about some other aspects of the HST that you may not have considered. There is nothing wrong with the concept of a “flow through” tax that provides input tax credits to business. The Liberals claim they are adopting the HST in order to make busilness more competitive. But there is no need to harmonize with the federal government to achieve that. The province could easily make PST work the same way as GST, and apply it to all goods and services. They could then reduce it to three or four per cent, and it would be truly revenue neutral for government and consumrers, and business would not pay. The problem with the HST is that the province is handing over its sovereign constitutional authority to set, collect and control taxation in the province to the federal government. In addition, by keeping it at 12 per cent, they are going to drive a larger proportion of the tax base underground. This has happened all over Europe, where in places like the U.K., they are losing between $20 billion to $30 bil-
lion in direct VAT losses due to leakage outside the legitimate tax structure. Most VATs there started off at around 12 per cent and are now between 14 and 17 per cent, and as high as 24 per cent in some nations, killing consumption, economic growth and jobs. The biggest beneficiaries of the HST will be the large resource companies that do not sell directly to the public, who will net a tidy profit from this on the backs of working people. None of those resource companies will create a single job or pass a nickel of savings on to consumers, because their business and pricing models are set by world commodity prices. For many, the HST will add another $2,000 to $2,500 to their household expenses yearly. For many low income earners, seniors and working families, it is the difference between a family vacation or not, a new TV or a new bike, meals at restaurants, a home renovation, new appliances, or summer camp for their kids. The HST applies the same to a person earning $30,000 as it does to a person earning $300,000 but is a much bigger proportion of the smaller income earner’s wages, so they
must go without and reduce their consumption. The number of small business people we hear from daily, especially in rural B.C., who are sick with worry about what this tax will do to their businesses, is alarming to say the least. These people, business owners and consumers alike, all realize that if consumption is curbed as a result of the HST, there are no winners. Even if businesses are immediate beneficiaries of the HST, what good is that if we live in a province where the federal government controls our tax policy? Where the Bloc Quebecois votes on what kind of taxes we will have rather than the B.C. legislature? Where the economy goes underground, and where working people on the margins have nothing while others prosper? Where retail sales are curbed dramatically as consumers cut back? Where we could have achieved the same thing for business by simply modifying the PST, without the tax grab to citizens? How long can any economy sustain that kind of model? Bill Vander Zalm, leader, Fight HST, Vancouver
Weird economics lead to weird decision-making Water from A22 Hmm? Too bad my farmer father did not figure that out. We would have had the silo full and our bank account too. All this being said, again, I sit here in the dark, thirsty, cold dreaming about using my
vehicle and ponder life. Who will get their pockets lined, who owns the property, who will get the extra votes, who will get the bill? Water park! I have a novel idea. Why not hook up the hose in the front yard, turn it on, everyone—kids, dogs, cats the neighbours— can run through the sprinkler, and as a bonus
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Thoughtful care at KGH To the editor: Although we often hear horror stories from people regarding our health care and hospital staff we would like to share with you our family’s very positive experience. On Feb. 12th our father was taken to KGH emergency and subsequently was admitted to
ward 4A. Our dad passed away on Feb. 16. During the time of his stay on 4A, we experienced nothing but an outpouring of concern and compassionate care from the staff. Not only were they looking after dad, they also went the extra mile enabling us to stay with dad and offering services
for our comfort. Their caring made a stressful situation easier to bear. We can never repay what they did for our family but would like to take this opportunity to extend a public, heartfelt thank-you. Adelheid Korsch, Horst Grams, Kelowna
the garden and grass will be watered with the runoff. You even decide how much you want to pay. You have control over your water bill. Wow. This should fly. Just like the newest idea I heard—drying clothes on a clothesline. Who would have guessed? Mary Walker, West Kelowna
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Taking steps to help reduce pending health care crisis I have written before about the importance of interests and goals for health and happiness. Now research has confirmed that patients who maintain a greater sense of purpose in life as they age may have greater protection against Alzheimer’s disease. Those with a sense of purpose had more than a 50 per cent reduced risk of the disease. Any drug that could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s by 50 per cent would be a runaway blockbuster. A sense of purpose will do that while having the side-effects of making you happier, more fulfilled and extending your life all at the same time— and it doesn’t cost anything. In this longitudinal study 951 communitydwelling older patients without dementia and a mean age of 80.4 years were followed for up to seven years. During that time, 155 developed Alzheimer’s disease. Greater purpose in life was associated with a substantially reduced risk of disease.
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Paul Latimer The association persisted after controlling for several factors, including depressive symptoms, neuroticism, social network size, and number of chronic medical conditions, all of which can be associated with greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Similarly, those who developed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were older and reported lower purpose in life scores. They also had a higher number of depressive symptoms. Many people I meet can’t wait to retire and seem to be living their life for that end. Many of them don’t have any real sense of purpose for their retirement; it is just that they want to escape from what they are doing now. They may not enjoy their work or they may
feel that retirement will be the answer to other problems. Some are unhappy, lacking in energy or without interests and feel that retirement will resolve these problems. In many cases it just means that they have even less sense of purpose. They remain at home, isolated, lonely and
watching television. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If retirement is an opportunity to change direction and try new things that were previously not possible due to the demands of work, it can be a very positive and refreshing new beginning. This can be good for one’s health and vitality. Economists are pre-
dicting that most people are going to be working longer in the future. Whereas many people have longed for retirement by 55, it may be that future generations will work until they are 80. It is predicted this will happen for a variety of reasons including: • Insufficient funds for re-
tirement • Improving longevity and overall health • A shortage of manpower due to a shrinking younger population. This might be a good thing. Providing older workers are doing jobs they enjoy, are reasonably healthy, and have a sense of purpose they may live longer and be happier if
they don’t retire. This may also help prevent the impending crisis in health care that seems inevitable if health care costs continue to escalate and the health care needs of an aging population outstrip our ability to provide for them. Paul Latimer is a Kelowna psychiatrist. dr@okanaganclinicaltrials.com
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Easter egg hunt planned for Parkinson Ten thousand colourful Easter eggs will decorate the lawn behind the Parkinson Recreation Centre during the Easter Pancake Breakfast. Victory Life Fellowship will host this seventh annual free Easter event on Good Friday, April 2, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m, at the Parkinson Recreation Centre, 1800 Parkinson Way.
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Braem to cross oceans to qualify for 2012 Games A Kelowna product has been named to the Canadian national sailing team, but there are oceans to cross between her and the 2012 Olympics. Jen Braem found out in early March that she would be one of the 35 members of the 2010 Canadian sailing team. While Braem has been sailing since the age of 12 in a career that began at the Central Okanagan Sailing Association, this year marks her first time as part of the national squad. Braem narrowly missed a 1999 attempt to make the junior national team. “This year, I made it.” Braem currently sails out of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club. Several other sailors from Victoria also made the national team. Hoping to compete in the women’s double-handed event, Braem shares an International 470 dinghy with crew Erin Flanagan. “My job is to drive, and trim the mainsail,” said Braem. She noted that Flanagan trims the jib and handles the spinnaker sail.
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JEN BRAEM has been named one of the 35 members of the 2010 Canadian sailing team. “She does most of the work,” laughed Braem. The pair are training both on and off the water. Braem and Flanagan are following a half-marathon running program. They also incorporate yoga, weightlifting and other training activities into their schedules. Fitting training and
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sailing around a fulltime job is possible, said Braem. She works as a manager at Victoria’s Carmanah Yacht Sales. Braem noted that her boss is also a sailor, and has been understanding in giving her time to sail and to compete. The team selection is still fresh for Braem, but
competitions have yet to begin. The qualification regatta for London 2012 takes place in Perth, Australia in December 2011. A series of pre-qualification races for Braem and Flanagan lead up to that event, with the first this summer in the Netherlands. There are a number of other events that Braem
and Flanagan are expected to compete in as members of the national team. Those competitions are far away yet, but Braem said making the Canadian team has improved their chances of success. “We have so much support now. We have access to all the sports centres across the province, coaching and so many more resources we could never access before.” The oceans of the world are a long way from Okanagan Lake, and the sailing itself is different. Braem said the air in the Okanagan is light and shifts rapidly. “You just have to be more savvy in terms of where you think the next wind shift will come from, and how that will affect the course.” In contrast, Braem noted a sea breeze on the ocean will often come from the same direction all day. She pointed out that tides change the sailing and so do currents. msimmons@kelownacapnews.com
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Jay Stone Apply these stresses to stiff, de-conditioned bodies and the results will usually be injury. By following a few helpful hints, many golf injuries can be avoided. Below I discuss six areas that you can address to decrease your chance of golf related injury. 1. Always maintain an off-season strength, flexibility and cardiovascular program. Maintaining conditioning throughout the winter provides you with a strong foundation to start the spring. This is also the See Physio B3
Kelowna Minor Hockey players rally around Aaron Vanda Urban CONTRIBUTED
A few weeks ago a colleague approached me with a special request given my connections to the world of hockey. The colleague’s son is in Mr. Wong’s band class at KSS. Mr. Wong’s son is Aaron and is currently fighting a brave battle with cancer. As Aaron is a lover of hockey (and also a Kelowna Minor Hockey player, as I was to find out later), would it be possible to do something special for Aaron to provide him with encouragement? I took my request to the players and parents of the Kelowna Minor Hockey Midget Tier 1 Rockets team and within days was delighted to discover
the outpouring of support from this group. Over the next week, a care package was created to present to Aaron. It included a signed team jersey and stick, signed team pictures of the midget team as well as team socks, pucks, toys, and chocolate. Aaron was also fortunate to receive a signed game stick from former NHL player and current coach of the Midget Tier 1 Rockets, Brent Gilchrist. During our trip to Ridge Meadows, where the Midget Tier 1 Rockets became provincial champions, we made a visit to B.C. Children’s Hospital to meet Aaron and present him with a care package. We were delighted to meet Aaron and his father Neil and were truly inspired by their courage.
The gifts were presented by siblings of the tier 1 boys as the boys were busy preparing for one of the toughest games of the
tournament. Upon our return to the hotel, pictures of Aaron with his signed jersey were shown to the boys
and they then took a few minutes to reflect upon his battle before dedicating their final battle to him. Aaron is expected to
be in Vancouver until June receiving treatment, while his parents juggle the demands of caring for him, and tending to the busy lives of their two older sons, also Kelowna Minor Hockey players. Neil expressed his appreciation for the love and
support shown to Aaron and their family from the Kelowna Minor Hockey family. For more information or to help Aaron Wong contact minor hockey at admin@kelmha.com.
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Several Kelowna Minor Hockey bantam tier 1 players have been selected to represent the Okanagan at the 2010 Male Under-16 B.C. Cup tournament. The B.C. Cup will be held in Prince George from April 14-18, 2010. Kelowna Minor Hockey says being selected to the BC Hockey High Performance Program is a great honor and wishes each player the best of luck. The players are: Brennan Clark Connor Demelo Alex Gran Matthew Hill Morgan Johnston Ayrton Nikkel Riley Ostofor
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COSBA to store kayaks The Central Okanagan Small Boat Association (COSBA) has announced that it will now begin accepting applications for kayak and canoe storage at its Hobson Road facility. The boat facility is already home of the Central Okanagan Sailing Association, which has received national and international recognition for its Learn To Sail programs. With the addition of kayak storage, Kelowna residents now have the opportunity to further take advantage of the club’s facilities and excellent water access. Paddlers interested in storing their craft at COSBA will be pleased to learn that a competitively priced storage structure has been created based on the length of kayak being stored. Boats will be stored indoors on specialSee Storage B3
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THE KELOWNA KWEENS U-15 volleyball team (from left to right) are Jenica McKenzie, Sarah Roberts, Erin Konrad, Gabrielle Down, Kate Roseberry, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Kelsi Taron, and Katelyn Valgardson.
Kweens snatch 3rd place Down a set and losing 22-14 in the second game of a match for third place, Kelowna volleyball player Kate Roseberry went to the serving line for the Kelowna Volleyball Club Under-15 Kweens. A few minutes later the Kelowna team was suddenly ahead and on their way to a third place finish at a super series
tournament in the Fraser Valley last weekend. Roseberry got her jump serve going and the Kweens rattled off nine straight points to take a 23-22 lead over Seaside. A few plays later the team had won 25-23. The Kweens finished third out of 26 teams, many of them the top volleyball teams from around
the province. Playing with just eight players the Kweens lost to eventual winners Fraser Valley and won against Focus On Fire and BCO Red. In the playoffs the Kweens beat the Prince George Kodiaks before losing to Coquitlam and facing Seaside in a match for third.
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National recognition has come to UBC Okanagan volleyball player Alex Basso. After a highly successful season with the Heat, Basso was named Canadian collegiate women’s volleyball player of the year. Basso said she did not expect to get named for the honour, especially as she is only in her second year with the university. She said the UBCOkanagan squad had a solid showing, playing through a largely undefeated season. She noted the team played consistently through the first and second semesters, and picked up the pace through provincials and nationals at the end of the season. “I think we have a very close group of girls.” Basso said head coach Steve Manuel had a plan for the team to conserve their energy and pick up the intensity of play towards the end. “Not to coast, but to go steady throughout the season.” A co-captain of the team, Basso said she doesn’t think the label makes a difference in how she plays on the court. She did not find anyone on the UBC Okanagan team needed to be led, or have someone step up and make plays. “Everyone does their jobs.” In addition to the national honour, Basso was ranked third in kills by the BCCAA with an average of 3.55 per game. Basso said the standings are just a result of how players perform. She added getting a high number of kills
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UBCO volleyball player Alex Basso was named female Canadian college player of the year this season. is not a specific goal she sets out to achieve. “I don’t really go out there and say ‘I want to be number one in kills’.” During the semester, Basso also referees games, coaches various volleyball clinics and camps and volunteers for the food bank’s ‘Stuff the Bus’ program. These activities are in addition to a full slate of courses in the Human Kinetics program. Basso said she works her studies around her schedule. “You find ways to fit it in. It’s definitely challenging at times.” Basso noted she had
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Anyone interested in storing their kayak at COSBA is encouraged to attend one of two open houses being offered on April 3 and April 24, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. This will allow the public to view the facilities and sign-up for kayak or canoe storage. Spaces
are limited so early attendance is recommended. Further inquiries are welcome by calling the boating facility at 250764-2203, or e-mailing cosa@shaw.ca. The Central Okanagan Small Boat Association is located at 4220 Hobson Rd.
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fPhysio from B1 time of year that you can build up strength in the key golf muscles to help tyou hit the ball that extra t15 to 20 yards. 2. Break yourself in r slowly at the beginning of the season. Your body isn’t ready to hit two large buckets of balls your first time out. Start with hitting a small bucket and build up from there. Also be aware of trying to practice your driver too much too early. It is the longest club in your bag and usually encourages the hardest swing. Not what you need to do after a winter lay off. 3. Perform a warm up and stretch before practicing or playing. Ideally, you would like to increase the temperature of your muscles before stretching. This could be a brisk walk around the parking lot or running on the spot for five minutes. After that spend five to 10 minutes stretching your spine and extremity muscles. 4. Take lessons to improve technique. It has been shown that professional golfers actually put less stress on their body during a single swing than amateurs because of better technique. A qualified golf professional can help you develop better tech-
nique. 5. Use good equipment. Depending on your age and strength certain types of clubs may be easier on your body. For instance, graphite shafts produce less vibration, which helps dampen the forces that cause some the overuse injuries of the upper extremities. Equipment also refers to good shoes, gloves and protection from the sun. 6. Don’t neglect aches and pains in the early stage. All too often we think that injuries will go away by themselves. Sometimes aches and pains are normal and do go away but if icing the sore area and a few days of rest doesn’t get rid of your pain, you should consider seeing your
health care professional. It is also advantageous to be seen by someone who understands the game of golf and is up to date on the current research regarding golf injury treatment. This helps in determining what is the cause of your injury and how to a make a plan to correct it. I hope you have a great golf season and by implementing some of my tips, stay injury free. I will be giving a lecture on golf injury prevention March 30, 7 p.m. at the downtown Sun City Physiotherapy clinic. Call 250-861-8056 to reserve a seat. Jay Stone is a partner at Sun City Physiotherapy. 250-861-8056.
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ELSIE CLARIDGE
AUNTIE NANNY’S DAYCARE has 1 opening for ages 1-5yrs. Fun, caring, safe environment, healthy snacks incl. Park next door. References. 250-8618484.
Born: July 10, 1927 Died: March 24, 2010 A tea for Elsie Claridge will be held Saturday, April 3 starting at 2 p.m. at the Oyama Community Hall, 15710 Oyama Road. Everyone is welcome.
Coming Events THE SPRING Has Sprung Sale Sunday March 28th, 2010 10am - 4pm At the Accent Inns (corner of Harvey &Gordon) door prizes... bring your donations for the Food Bank
Information GREEN DRINKS. Network, socialize, learn. Doc Willoughby’s 353 Bernard Ave, Kelowna. 1st Thursday of each month. 5-8pm. Please join us for our monthly sustainability networking event! If you are or want to be more sustainable and get to know like-minded individuals and businesses, we meet upstairs & the next event is April 1st. Hope to see you there! (Please note this is a non-partisan function, not affiliated with a political party) Our mailing list is managed by the Okanagan Greens Society, a non-profit organization working towards sustainability in the Okanagan Valley. To join the list and receive updates about upcoming events and news, visit http://www.okanagangreens. ca/newsletter.php
Personals Complete Wellness (12); Excl.Tantra; Prostate Health; Bodywork; Dena 503-3851. SM 60’s share home, w/sf, rent in exchange for personal services, 250-404-0187 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.
Lost & Found FOUND: Blk male cat w/red collar. Neutered. Approx 3yrs old. Found March 17. Sutherland Ave near Hwy 97. Call 250-769-5996 LOST: Ladies prescription glasses in case. Possibly Zellers or Superstore area. Call 250-766-2193 LOST: March 19 at Sarsons Beach, Maui Jim Sunglasses. Prescription, reader bifocals. Reward offered. Call 250-7647264, 250-862-6915 Kelowna RED iPOD missing from girls locker room at the h20 centre on March 15. “rachel rocks” engraved on back. Reward call 250-768-3005.
Sports & Recreation ADULT SAILING LESSONS. April 6 - April 29th. 8 classes, 4 Saturdays on sailboat & 4 weeknights in clubhouse. Registration is now until April 5th or until classes are full. Cost is $170. Kelowna Yacht Club, 250-762-3310. www.kelowna yachtclub.com/education-6.htm
Childcare Available AT TIGGER & ME Too Daycare: Spots available for 21/2 5year olds & Kindercare. 250765-4900 (Rutland).
EXP. Childcare provider in Black Mountain area (5 mins from Rutland). Safe & fun environment. Lots of toys, crafts & games. Fully fnc’d. Strict N/S environment. Up to date First Aid/CPR and crim. records check. Providing care for infants to 8 yrs. Receipts. Call Alison @ 250-491-8254 for more info and availability.
Education/Trade Schools ESTHETICIAN Course starting May 4, 2010. www.natural healthcollege.com, 250-8683114. 1772 Baron Rd Kelowna
2 VINEYARD workers required by H&M Vineyards in West Kelowna for 6-8 weeks starting mid May. $9.14 $9.50 per hour 40-50 hours per week. Ph 250-769-6817
Farm Workers FARM Workers req’d. Picking, weeding, cultivating, harvesting. Call 250-826-1274
ORCHARD Workers needed for thinning, pruning & picking. Starting June 15, 40+hrs/wk. $9.14 per hour, 250-765-7172
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Business Opportunities ARE you highly motivated and looking for a home based online business? Flexible hours, free training, great income and incentives, real support. www.greenlivingconnection.ca HIGHLY PROFITABLE recession proof business looking to expand. Email info@TechProSolutions.ca or call (250) 540-8898. ONLINE TRAINERS NEEDED Earn full time $$, work part time hrs. Turn 5-10 hrs per week into $2000-$4000 monthly. www.123bossfree.com PRESSURE Washing Business for sale, equipment & cube van. Call 250-260-8473 SUCCESSFUL Owner/Operator Irrigation business for sale. 500+ customer list. Incl. equipment. Great starter or expansion business opportunity. Call 250-718-4744
On April 17th with family and friends in Kelowna In Memoriam
CORRECTION NOTICE Please be advised the Taylor Pro Training ad published Friday, March 26, 2010, Kelowna Capital News was in error. The Driver Training for Class 1 is $3,995.
Belinda Jean Taylor
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ith saddened hearts, the family of Kenneth William McCallum regretfully announces his passing. He passed peacefully on Sunday, March 14, 2010, in Kelowna with his loving family by his side. It was Ken and Marg’s wishes to have a private family graveside service in Quesnel which was held on Friday, March 19 where son Kenny spoke on behalf of his family. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to World Vision Canada (www.worldvision. ca), which for many years has been dear to his heart. KENNETT, Douglas Arthur “Doug” Two weeks after celebrating his 90th birthday, Doug passed peacefully from this life on March 24. Born in Zealandia, Saskatchewan on March 10, 1920, he is survived by his wife of over 64 years, Gwen; sister Evelyn Steele of Gabriola Island; daughter Nancy Henderson of Bellingham, WA; daughter Colleen (Ray) Keith, presently of Kelowna; grandchildren Jason and Kathy Guilbault, and Benjamin, Jonathan and Audrey Henderson; and great-grandson Astin Henderson. Since moving to the Kelowna area following retirement 25 years ago, Doug was very actively involved with the Winfield OAPO, the Winfield Senior Centre, the residents’ carpentry shop at Bristol Gardens, and the Imperial Oil Annuitants. His craftsman-quality carpentry projects continue to be used and enjoyed by his family and by many at both the Senior Centre and Bristol Gardens. Memorial Services will be held at the Winfield Senior Centre, 9832 Bottom Wood Lake Road, Winfield, on Saturday, March 27, at 2:00 pm. Interment will be in Calgary, Alberta, at a future date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Kelowna General Hospital Foundation, 2268 Pandosy Street, Kelowna, BC V1Y 1T2. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.springfieldfuneralhome.com, 250-860-7077.
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Valleyview Funeral Home 165 Valleyview Rd., 765-3147 Proudly serving Westbank, Kelowna, Rutland, and Lake Country. We are located off Hwy 33, above Willow Park Church KONRATH – Muriel Audrey It is with great sadness that wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother passed away on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at the age of 74. Muriel is survived by her devoted husband Richard (Dick) and her children Cathy (Rene) Cote, Judi (Blake) Sharp, Dale (Wendy) Konrath, grandchildren Alison (Jamie), Colin (Breanne), Elizabeth, Kenneth, Leland, Kinley and her great grandchildren Sara, Carsen and Cara. Muriel was born in Boissevain, MB, on July 8, 1935, moved from Manitoba, living in various cities, finally residing in Prince George where she was a government employee for many years. Muriel was a charter member of First Baptist Church as well as being a Sunday School teacher for years. Muriel married Richard Konrath on May 28, 1955. Muriel, Richard & Dale moved to Kelowna in 1976. Muriel retired and continued her life by attending church and enjoying countless years with her Sorority Friends. She will be remembered for her tasty treats, her flare for fashion, her gift of gab and her zest for travel to Arizona, Europe, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Caribbean and of course Prince George. Memorial service will be held on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 1:30 pm at First Baptist Church, 1309 Bernard Ave. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation or the BC Lung Association
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Executive Assistant Administration & Finance UBC Okanagan
The University of British Columbia Okanagan is currently accepting applications for the Executive Assistant to the Associate Vice President Administration and Finance. The Executive Assistant exercises considerable initiative and judgment in providing departmental administrative leadership in a wide range of administrative, financial, facilities and communication responsibilities. For application instructions and a detailed job description, visit the website: www.hr.ubc.ca/careers
All interested applicants, please bring your resume to the front desk at Nature’s Fare Markets, #120-1876 Cooper Road.
UBC is one of BC’s top 55 employers. Find out why we’re an employer of choice for more than 19,000 faculty, staff and student employees at www.ubc.ca.
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Our client, a leading Mortgage Services Provider doing business throughout Western Canada since 1985 is seeking a career and results oriented individual for an exciting opportunity as a Mortgage Lender/Broker. The successful candidate will have a minimum of 2 years lending experience combined with excellent communication and relationship building skills. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail are also required in this fast paced environment. You will be goal oriented and excel at providing exceptional customer service from start to finish; virtually all leads are generated by the company. The successful applicant will have or be willing to obtain their Mortgage Brokers license. A competitive base salary plus generous commission structure is offered with a group benefits program. To learn more about this opportunity, please visit: www.okanaganstaffing.com. Applications may be emailed to: Jody@OkanaganStaffing.com or faxed to 250 862 5181. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only short listed candidates will be contacted.
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ESTABLISHED underground construction company requires highly skilled professional pipe layers, equipment operators, truck drivers, aggers, concrete ďŹ nishers & foremen. Strong work ethics and extensive experience are mandatory. The successful applicant will be self driven, have an aptitude for the construction industry and a high level of motivation. As well, they will pass a mandatory skills and safety written exam and drug testing. Top wages and extensive beneďŹ ts pkg offered only to those that have a strong desire to be successful and maintain the highest standard of work results & ethics on a long term basis. Please apply in person to BC Underground, #203-171 Commercial Drive, Kelowna BC,
ACCENT Custom Furniture seeking person experienced in ďŹ nishing (automotive or cabinetry) staining and ďŹ nishing cabinets and furniture an asset, wages DOE. Send resume, 330-1405 Stevens Rd Kelowna BC, V1Z 3Y2 Fax 250-769-2144 phone 250-7692211 email accent@shaw.ca ACCENT Custom Furniture seeking person experienced in building kitchen furniture and built in cabinetry. Must have own hand tools & transporttion. 5+yrs exp., wages DOE. Send resume or apply in person at 330-1405 Stevens Rd Kelowna BC, V1Z 3Y2 Fax 250-769-2144 phone 250-7692211 email accent@shaw.ca EXPERIENCED Pipelayers & Excavator Operators - Min. 5yrs. exp for Sewer & Water installation. Fax 250-862-2845 Email: cruisercon@shaw.ca
HOME Support/Dietary Aid w/14yrs. exp. available for respite or temporary care starting immed. until Apr. 22, 2010. Resume avail., will travel. Pls. Call 778-479-2289 Peachland.
#1PREMIUM Quality Cleaning. Let me shine for you. I will clean your house top to bottom. Weekly/biwkly. I also do errands, (banking, shopping) Seniors . 250-717-0995
PRACTICAL NURSE w/Alzheimer’s exp. for respite, personal care, cooking, outings, companionship for seniors needing a helping hand. Compassionate & professional. 250-491-8294
A BETTER CLEAN, 20 years experience. Reliable thorough, non smoker. One time, permanent, move outs. 10% discount for seniors. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. Also offer ‘sterile clean’, have 10 years experience in that industry. For estimate call 250-317-4747.
Kelowna PaciďŹ c Railway Ltd. Currently has an opening for Track Supervisor. This position will be based out of our Vernon, BC ofďŹ ces and will report to our Manager of Track. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in track maintenance and inspection and be able to supervise unionized employees. Please submit resumes to: info@khawk.ca or drop them off at our Vernon ofďŹ ce at 2806 – 27th Ave. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
The Kelowna & District Safety Council Society is looking for two or three enthusiastic, motivated individuals to instruct children’s safety classes and birthday parties at the Little Travellers’ Safety Village as well as to help with a rafe fundraiser. Must be able to work weekends. Some heavy lifting is involved with the pedal cars. This is part-time, oncall work, but could work into more hours for the right individual. Email resume, cover letter, and 3 references to Tania Meyer, Executive Director, tkmeyer@kdsc.bc.ca. No phone calls.
Hotel, Restaurant, Food Services CABANA BAR AND GRILLE - Busy restaurant in the mission is looking for self motivated staff to assist in daily food prep and dish washing. Some experience is an asset but we will train as needed. Seeking to ďŹ ll a Kitchen Management position as well. Offering competitive wage. Interested in catering contract work? Looking for both front house & kitchen staff for catering. Email resume to cabanamelanee@ shawbiz.ca or drop off in person at 3799 Lakeshore Rd. Kelowna. Monday to Thursday from 3 to 4pm ask for James, Melanee or Ned. EXP Chinese Dim Sum Cook req’d, $17/hr. Apply in person or fax: 250-763-2397, Yamato Resturant, #1-2575 Hwy. 97N. HIRING FT Breakfast Cook. Experience necessary. Hourly rates $10-$14/hr. Apply in person or by resume at A&W, 2112 Harvey Ave.
Insurance SEEKING Licensed level 1, 2 or 3 Insurance Agent for Sussex Insurance. Under new management. Great remuneration & beneďŹ ts Call 1-250377-3093, fax: 1-250-3773096 or email: jewelinsurance@telus.net or drop off resume at Sussex Insurance inside Super Store
Retail OPEN ROAD Is hiring SALES ASSOCIATES for their Westbank store. Open Road is a motorcycle concept store specializing in motorcycle apparel and accessories. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about customer service and are self-motivated. Competitive base pay, plus incentives & staff discount. Please submit resume by fax: 403-255-2641 OR email: shelley@ boutiqueoeathers.com
Teachers ESL Teacher Wanted. Teach in China. Good experience, good pay. Send resume to qizhansun@gmail.com
HD/CT MECHANIC Required Fulltime for Western Star & Freightliner Dealer based on Vancouver Island. Excellent Wage & BeneďŹ t Package. Fax to 250-746-8064. E-mail: michele@prwstar.com
Alternative Health Chantale Masse RCRT, Registered Canadian Reexology Therapist and natural health coach is now accepting new clients. Call and make an appointment at 250-864-1775 or email chantale@telus.net
Mind Body Spirit 10% OFF F/B Massage. Prof. courteous service. Clean warm studio, Linda 862-3929 A-1 MASSAGE. More treatments avail. for an extra price 7/day/wk. 250-870-2820 ASIAN MASSAGE! Very private setting. Professional Asian lady, $50/hr. Everyday. 250-317-3575 BLISS. French Massage. Days. Discreetly yours. 250215-7755
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Carpet Cleaning BONDED & Insured. Top of the line equipment & supplies. $60./4rms & hall extra $10./rm. Call Jeff @ 250-681-4245
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MIRAVISTA was the first condominium development in West Kelowna started by Renascence Developments, a firm based out of Calgary that has since started a second development on the Westside called Sundance Ridge.
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Question: Tell us about the Renascence Development Corporation—how long have you been in business and what you have built over the last few years? Ron Knight: Renascence Developments came on the scene in early 2005 when two senior executives of one of Western Canada’s largest multi- family development companies came together. The founding partners, Larry Kelly and myself, have over 35 years of
multi-family development experience and have overseen the development approval, sales, marketing, construction, customer turnover and service of more than 7,000 multi-family homes in over 30 communities. We have drawn upon this experience to specialize in three or four storey multi-family communities that provide low maintenance homes with desirable features and amenities. We hit the ground running in Calgary’s northeast community, designing and building two multi-family communities. Both locations were sold out in the framing stages.
During the sales and construction of the two Calgary developments, we commenced planning for two West Kelowna Developments, Miravista and Sundance Ridge. In October 2006, Miravista, the first development in West Kelowna, was launched and it’s currently 87 per cent sold out. Then in April 2007, we brought on the second of our Westside locations, Sundance Ridge, a three storey wood frame development overlooking Shannon Lake and Shannon Lake Golf Course. Sundance Ridge offers a number of unique floor plans with a smaller number of homes per building. It is a four phased development with the first three phases, 116 units, now completed. Q: Briefly give us an overview of
the Miravista community? Lisa Thomas: Miravista is a 224unit condominium development located within the heart of Westbank and offers comfortable living spaces with sizes ranging from 1,117 to 1,212 square-feet. All the homes come equipped with stainless steel kitchen appliances, granite countertops and maple shaker cabinets. Tile flooring for the entry, kitchens and bathrooms and plush carpet to the living areas. Each home also comes equipped with washer and dryer and blinds. The underground parkade provides one or two stalls per unit and houses storage units for each home for added convenience. The location of the community is one of the major benefits of Miravista. Not only do we offer views from
nearly every home, but we offer the ability to walk to all amenity areas. We are less than half a block to groceries, coffee shops, drug stores, doctors’ offices, movie theatre and novelty shops. We are also conveniently located next door to the Johnson-Bentley Aquatics Centre which offers a pool, hot tub, weight room and basketball courts. To add to the sense of community and convenience, Miravista also has on-site amenities such as a pool, hot tub, guest suite, and an amenities room. Prices start at $269,000 for a third floor, two-bedroom plus a den at 1,122 square-feet. S�� A���� B10
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Tips to help new home journey You’re about to invest in your most valuable asset—a new home. Below are eight recommendations to increase your confidence as you start your home buying journey.
CREDIT RATING
Getting your finances in order is probably the most important step you should take. You must know exactly what your credit reports say about your financial history before you apply for a mortgage, because the reports play an important role in the mortgage approval process and in determining the interest rate and other loan terms that a lender offers you.
UNDERSTANDING HOW MORTGAGES WORK
Get familiar with the mortgage laws, structure and options. That way, you will be able to decide on the right loan and lender—crucial to your home buying success. It’s up to you to determine which lender is best for your needs, and it’s always a good idea to have at least a bit of background about the loan process before you talk to a lender.
GETTING A MORTGAGE PRE-APPROVAL
Do you know how much house you can afford? Probably not, unless you’ve talked to a lender. Pre-approval helps you in other ways. Consider this scenario. A home seller gets two similar offers. One is accompanied by a letter from the buyer’s bank that states she is pre-approved for a mortgage in the amount of the offer. The other has no supporting documents. Which offer do you think the seller will consider first?
SORTING OUT YOUR NEEDS AND WANTS
Buying a home isn’t as difficult as you might think, even if you’re short on funds. But the process will go a lot smoother if you get familiar with your real estate
market and narrow down your wants and needs before you start looking at houses.
PREPARING TO WORK WITH REAL ESTATE AGENTS
Real estate agents represent buyers, sellers, or both. It’s essential to understand agent duties and loyalties before you make that first phone call.
THE GREAT HOME SEARCH
The Internet is a great tool—you can spend endless hours searching the public version of the Multiple Listing Service website. You can also pick up House For Sale magazines and read classified ads in your local newspapers. You might even plan an afternoon drive to preview neighbourhoods. These are all excellent ways to see what’s available out there.
PRE-OFFER INVESTIGATION
Deciding whether or not you want to buy a house involves a look at its structure and its features, but there are many other topics that are every bit as important to your purchase. Appoint a professional to conduct the home inspection. Study what kind of house it is and consider its market value.
MAKING THE OFFER
There is no one set of instructions that can cover all the differences in real estate laws and customs that exist throughout, so its important to meet with your agent, attorney or advisor to fine-tune your offer and take care of all the contractual considerations. Of Prime Interest is a collaboration of mortgage professionals Trish Balaberde (250-470-8324) and Darwyn Sloat (250-718-4117). www.kelownahomemortgages.ca
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Finding the right roommate can be a tricky process L���� C���� CONTRIBUTOR
It was a one-in-a-million roommate disaster and, frankly, it was disturbing. Two years ago, a man with whom Rose Foronda shared her rented, Oakland, Calif., four-bedroom home “lost it,” Foronda says. He left one day and never came back. Two weeks later, when Foronda and her other housemates became concerned about the welfare of the man’s pet snake, they went into the room and found filth. “It was disgusting,” she says. “There were stacks of dirty plates, cigarette butts, bullet casings. We even found buckets of urine in the room.” Foronda and her housemates paid someone to clean up the mess and she learned a valuable lesson: Pay attention to your inner voice when you are interviewing someone you eventually will share a home with. “I had a thing in the back of my head, a reservation,” Foronda says of the man’s initial interview. “But it was a panic decision, a ‘you have to move in now’ type thing.”
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TRICIA RENKAN, left, works the grill while roommate Rose Foronda looks on. Whether for company or, more often, to help pay bills, especially in a slumping economy, many adults live in shared housing situations. Whether for company or, more often, to help pay bills, especially in a slumping economy, many adults live in shared housing situations—bedrooms, homes, apartments or attached in-laws. Finding the right person to live with is half gut feeling, half research. Jason Martin has a strategy for finding roommates, and it’s not scientific. The 29-year-old financial adviser has had roommates since he was 18, and currently shares a five-bedroom San Ramon, Calif., home with three others.
It’s cheaper and more entertaining than renting a one-bedroom apartment to live on his own, he says. Martin values a safe, friendly living situation. “I want to make a house where people want to come over. When my friends and family come over, I want them to feel like they want to be there,” he says, acknowledging that picking the right housemates is a tricky endeavor. Like thousands of others, Martin posts ads on Craigslist under the S�� P������ B11
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We also have a wonderful selection of homes priced between $284,000 and $299,000 with either a two-bedroom corner home or a two-bedroom with den interior suite. And if you want lakeviews, Miravista currently has homes ranging from $324,000 to $354,000. Q: What’s different or unique about Miravista versus other comparable projects in Kelowna? Thomas: Being within such an established community, Miravista provides more conveniences to our residents. It attracts a variety of people for many different reasons. Some choose it because it is within walking distance to so much, some choose it because they are a single professionals and do not have time for yard maintenance, some choose it simply for the views, and some choose it as their first stepping stone into the housing market. Knight: Affordability coupled with the location and amenities make Miravista the best choice for many. There are other locations that offer great prices and others that offer great views, but we basically offer both… the best views for the best price in West Kelowna. Q: What unique features are in the homes themselves, and why are these important to your buyers? Thomas: Most visitors to the site comment on the size and lay outs of the Miravista kitchens. The amount of (kitchen) counter space is amazing and the cabinet space and pot and pan doors are a big hit. The open concept layouts and the fact that all of our homes offer separation between the bedrooms is a feature that many people like. It allows people to have privacy from overnight guests and provides the option for a roommate if needed. Another feature many people love is the den area, offered in the majority of the homes. It allows for a separate space for the computer or can be used as a flex room for sewing or a quiet reading place. Our corner suites provide residents with two deck options, very popular given our stellar Okanagan location. There is a deck off the master bedroom as well as a larger deck off the kitchen/ living room. We have a number of homes available that offer two underground parking stalls, a feature that is very difficult to find in this type of a community. We currently have eight homes available with the double parking stall option. Q: Who are your key buyer groups and why have they chose your new community to live? Thomas: We have attracted single professionals, young couples and families, individuals who are down-
sizing, people who are part-time residents and seniors who are independent and want to get out and walk to the amenity areas. Q: What are your most home popular plans at Miravista and why? Thomas: We have found that Kelowna buyers really gravitate toward spacious layouts and deck options. — The two most popular plans are the two bedroom and den, and the two bedroom corner units. Both are very open and have a great flow. Q: What options or upgrades are popular with Miravista’s buyers? Thomas: Because construction is completed there is not the opportunity to make changes to the home. We built each unit with high end features such as upgraded appliances and hardwood flooring to a handful of suites, but most visitors are happy with what we have created as the standard level of specification due to the granite, stainless steel, maple cabinets and tile flooring. Q: As local developers how have you noticed the development industry change over the last few years? What have you done to continue being successful? Knight: The main change that we have experienced is a change in the consumer. We are not seeing people from out of province in the numbers experienced in the past. Our main consumer is the local buyer seeking either their first home or seeking a maintenance free lifestyle that is more conducive to retirement and the traveling that goes with it. Thomas: Miravista has had continued success in this changing market due to our customer service model and ensuring we have sales staff that can adequately work with people as they go through the home buying process. We pride ourselves on being helpful in all areas. Whether that is offering referral sources for a realtor, banker, personal organizers and/or home stagers, to sell existing homes…whatever each customer has need for. In some situations we offer the ability to secure a home subject to the sale of their existing homes. In other situations we offer payment plans to work towards having the down payment required for the purchase. We are here to help our customers buy. Q: Why do you choose to build in the Okanagan? Knight: It is the greatest place to live in Canada! We wanted to give the people choosing to live here a greater choice of maintenance free living. Q: How can interested buyers view the homes at Miravista and/ or access more information on the project? Thomas: Miravista is open noon to 5 p.m. daily and is located at 3406-3832 Old Okanagan Highway. Our phone number is 250-768-0302 and our website is www.miravista.ca.
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intimate arrangement. He has even paid the rent on an empty room for a month or two because he didn’t find the right person to sublet it. Mary Lou Podlasiak, former high school guidance counselor and author of “Rules for Roommates: The Ultimate Guide to Reclaiming Your Space and Your Sanity,” says “birds of a feather flock together”-type thinking is the best way to pick and choose roommates. “Hippies and preppies don’t work. Divorced dads with weekend visitation won’t work if you don’t have kids and can’t relate,” she says. “It may seem silly, but you need to ask questions such as, ‘What kind of music do you prefer?’ I have lived with a country music lover and found myself plotting to get rid of her.” Podlasiak has had many housemates and she says some of her worst situations happened when she was in a hurry to find a renter. “Unless you’re just desperate to share the bills, you may want to take time,” she says. Time, and a clear conversation about your values and what you want, are key to building a lasting living situation. Foronda says she
has learned since filling a room with the messy snake owner. She never rents a room in a timesensitive panic anymore. In fact, she says, she and her housemates are in a “position of power” because people want to live with them in what she describes as a mansion in a nice neighborhood in the Oakland hills. That’s why, Foronda says, she and her housemates are willing to endure several rounds of interviews and several Craigslist posts to find the right fit. “It’s a delicate balance,” she says. “You can’t really totally know somebody—until you totally know someone.”
ROOMMATE CHOOSING TIPS
Detail what you are looking for: Make your ad as detailed as possible, without discriminating against someone based on age, sex, family, religion or race. If you want a nonsmoker, say so. If you prefer an ultra-tidy place, make sure you detail that. Indicate whether you allow overnight guests or full access to kitchen and laundry facilities. The more a potential housemate knows about your preferences and the space, the more filtering he or she can do before contacting you and wast-
ing your time. Try not to panic: Panicking about next month’s rent is a recipe for disaster as you often choose the first person who can pay —despite who he or she is and whether you will get along. Ask your landlord if you can have some financial leeway and explain that you are searching for a new roommate. If the landlord doesn’t agree, try to clear your schedule to interview as many people as you can. Even taking a financial hit can be better than accepting a potentially nightmare housemate. Go with your gut: If you feel like you won’t get along with someone, listen to that hesitation before inviting that person to move in. Likewise, if you enjoy a person in the first meeting, and feel you have a lot in common, take this as a good sign that the roommate situation might work. Research the person: Before sharing a house with a stranger, do a little research. Ask for phone numbers for references, such as previous roommates or landlords and check them out on social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace. The more you know about your potential roomie, the better decision you’ll make.
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Solar energy firm extends double incentives for this year Last month, SolarBC announced that incentives for solar hot water had increased from $1,000 to $2,000 for installs completed before the end of March. That deadline has now been extended as SolarBC will be eligible for the $2,000 benefit, which will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis until funding expires. “We’re really excited to be able to extend this offer, espe-
cially as we move into spring and summer,� said SolarBC project manager, Liz Kelly. “Already we’re seeing a significant increase in the number of people installing systems, so we’re hoping this will continue. “The average cost of a system is around $6,900, so through SolarBC and the ecoENERGY retrofit grant, incentives cover almost half the cost.
“The decision to install has never more economical.� The federal EcoENERGY grant provides an additional rebate of $1,250 for individuals that qualify, which means total incentives of $3,250 available for homeowners installing solar hot water. “I’m so happy! Definitely glad it was there,� said Michael Blazecka, from Victoria. “I was about to do it anyway but this sealed the deal.�
Elaine Burgess, from Powell River, agrees. “We were very happy to hear about the new incentive. It was a great motivator, especially after missing out on the Home Reno tax credit.� The double incentives from SolarBC will also help homeowners take advantage of a unique zero interest loan through partner TD Canada Trust, which makes solar hot water a really affordable op-
tion. As well having a system installed on her own home, Liz also took advantage of the SolarBC loan. “I wanted to see for myself just how it worked. It was really simple and quick. I applied online through the SolarBC website and it took less than 24 hours to get approval. With no up front cost and no interest to pay, our monthly payments are $110 a month for five years.� The momentum in Solar-
BC has been building over the past few months. With a 40 per cent increase in residential installations, there are now also nine Solar Communities, soon to be increasing to 15, along with installations planned for 19 local government buildings, 27 schools, social housing and First Nations communities. An interactive map on the SolarBC website shows all the installations taking place across the province.
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Drywall
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IRON MULE Excavating & Landscaping. Excavating, bobcat & trucking. 250-863-1418
NEED Installer? We install carpet, lino, hardwood, laminate. Andreas 250-863-3402.
Trees, shrubs and hedges etc. Stephen, 250-763-5462 CUSTOM Rototilling. Veggie & flower gardens. 250-862-0821 DIGGINOLES N SHIFTINSTUFF. Pickup & delivery service. Rubbish & recycling removed. Landscape, building supplies & Hay delivered, small equipment transferred. 1ton pickup, 14ft Dump trailer & 20ft Flat bed trailer. Yes we work weekends!! For quality work at reasonable rates, phone Ian 250-864-2339 ER Decking. Comp. Decks, Arbors, Picollas, Gazebo, Risedbeds, Planters 765-0879
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M&S LAWN & GARDEN Power Raking, Mowing, Pruning, Yard Clean-up, General Maintenance, Irrigation, Complete Landscaping, Retainer Walls, Water Features. Free Estimates Jim 250-861-3693
TAM’S Gardening. Spring clean-ups/Maint. Planting, weeding, pruning. 250-575-3750 YARDWORKS. Book you aerating and de-thatching needs now. Father & Son team entering their 13th yr. of business. Kelowna only. 250-764-5172
Gutters & Downspouts KELOWNA GUTTER Cleaning and repairs. fix leaks, re slope gutters, add downpipes etc, also fascia/soffit Call Richard 250-718-6718
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Home Improvements ADDITIONS, finished bsmts, kitchen & bth reno’’s, tile, hrwd & laminate flooring. Drywall, painting. Ext/int finishing. Call 250-870-3187 INTERIOR FINISHING/reno’s, hardwood floors, tiling. 2 carpenters over 40 years exp. Insured, WCB. Call Derek 250215-1087 KMS Home Energy Upgrades, Providing Energy Efficient Solutions & Upgrades for Your Home, Windows, Doors, Ductless Heating/AC, Hardi Plank, and more. 1-877-567-2799 or www.KMSupgrades.ca RESTYLING your living space? Freedom contracting makes your vision into reality. Remodelling - Interiors/Exteriors. Laminate flooring, painting, patios, pergolas etc. Call Doug, 250-575-7006 for estimates. ROSTKA ENT. Ltd. Complete int/ext. reno’s. Carpentry, drywall, painting, bsmt, decks & more. Lic’d & Insured. BBB Accred. Call: Rob 878-8049. office 764-5449. THE Old Pro’’s, Licence & Insured, Reno’’s, Remodeling etc. Barry @ 250-826-2599 WELLERMADE. Additions, Reno’s, Sun-decks, Bsmt. stes., etc.768-2202 878-6967
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Kitchen Cabinets BATHROOM RENO’S. Plumbing Repairs. Bathrooms By Gemini 862-6991, 764-0189 MARYANNE’S Kitchen Design. 25% off. See ad in Service Directory. 250-317-7523 QUALITY GRANITE, Let the Beauty of Nature Inspire Your Home, Update Your Kitchen with Quality Granite Countertops @ Affordable Prices. Free In-home Estimate Serv. 250878-7040 Call Joe.
Landscaping ASPEN LANDSCAPING. Spring clean up, aerating, pruning, etc. 250-317-7773. BARK Mulch, good quality top soil & landscape supplies, Sunoaka Valley Transport Ltd. 2696 Kyle Rd. Open Mon. Sat. 8-5pm, 250-769-9094 We Deliver.
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• Kitchen & Bathroom Upgrades • Yard Maintenance • Fences, Decks • Tile • Graffiti Removal
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DRYWALL
Katama Drywall Services
Your Kelowna Drywall Specialists. Boarding • Taping • Mudding • Texture Spraying. Full Renovations, Repairs, New or Existing Drywall Basement Suites, Garage Packages.
All Work Guaranteed and Free Estimates Licensed & Insured (WCB Coverage)
Call Mike @ 250-864-0033
DECKS, DECKS, DECKS POWER WASHING ER DECKING Complete Decks • Arbors • Picollas • Gazebos • Stairs • Planters
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OKANAGAN PRESSURE WASHING
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Kitchen, Bath, Entertainment/ Wall Units, Wallbeds, Home Office, Pantry, Closet Organizers. From Design, Build, Install to Full Reno’s. Call 250-860-2801
Local or Long Distance Polite & Professional
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REPAIR & RENOVATIONS
Since 1989
Window Coverings Quality Products • Alterations & Repairs Free Estimates
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ASPEN LANDSCAPING LTD
Book now for landscape projects, retaining walls, aerating, power raking, pruning, etc. Spring cleanup,
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The Friendly Handyman specializing in... stucco - drywall - paint repairs and renovations. 25 yrs. exp. Seniors Discount
Call 250-317-9876
TILING TILE SETTER
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Custom tile setting. Travertine, marble, granite & ceramic. Decks, kitchen, baths. Guaranteed work.
Call 250-870-1009
Excavating & Landscping
• Excavating • Bobcat • Dump Truck • Foundations • Retaining Walls • Soil • Etc. Delivery - Clean Up
250.863.1418
CONCRETE
HEATING & A/C
LAKE CONCRETE Driveways • Sidewalks • Patios • Stamped • Exposed Aggregate • Forms • Finishing Concrete Repair & Sealing Jason: 250-212-2630
Southern BC Heating & Air Conditioning
• Heat Pumps Over 30 Years • Fireplaces Experience • Furnaces Serving the • Repair Okanagan Valley • Install • Sales 250-681-3869
EXCAVATING
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ELECTRICAL RENOVATIONS
ANTHONY’S MOBILE WORKSHOP
BLINDS & DRAPES EXCAVATING Iron Mule Design & Window Fashion’s
LANDSCAPING
PAINTING
AFFORDABLE PAINTING
Senior’s Specials Experience & Quality New Homes & Repaints Ceilings Bondable. Insurance Work Call Terry 250-863-9830 or 250-768-1098
LANDSCAPES UNIQUE LANDSCAPES
Residential and Commercial New Construction & Renovations Small Jobs GARTH GRANDO Lic. No. 97059 cell: 215-1646 phone/fax 769-9049
ADDITIONS, finished bsmts., kitchen & bath reno’s, tile, hrdwd. & laminate flooring. Drywall, painting. Ext/int finishing. Call 250-870-3187
RENOVATIONS
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RENOVATIONS Deck & Rail Kelowna
Serving the Okanagan
Serving the Okanagan 13+ years. Vinyl Decking, Modular Flooring, Aluminum, Glass, Topless & Picket Railings. Starting at $30/ft. installed Call George at 250-878-2483. Showroom #9-3810 Appaloosa Rd. off Sexsmith Rd.
FLOORING Lew Cat Ent. Carpet, Lino, Tiles, Hardwood, Laminate. Free estimates. Great rates. Lewis @ 317-6889 Work Guaranteed.
TNTTRUCKING No load too small • BARK MULCH • SAND • GRAVEL • YARD CLEAN-UP • JUNK REMOVAL LIGHT FLAT-DECK Nick Nixon - Trish Nebot Cell 250-862-0821 Office 250-765-2778
CABINETS 25% OFF
• Design • Supply • Install
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• Free Consultation
• All Countertops Call 250-801-YARD (9273)
250-317-7523
Design Studio • 2810 Benvoulin Rd
WINDOW CLEANING Residential, commercial post construction, gutter cleaning. Serving the Okanagan for 8 years. WCB Contact Randy @ 250-317-1029
BROTHERS WINDOW CLEANING
• Soils/Mulches • Bubbling Rocks • Decorative Rocks • Landscape Design • Flagstone • Rock Walls • Bobcat/Operators • Planting Mon.-Fri. 8 am - 6 pm, Sat. 8 am - 4 pm, Sun 8 am-4 pm. Pick-up/ Delivery
Call 250-801-YARD (9273) Design Studio • 2810 Benvoulin Rd
C+C LANDSCAPING • Rock Walls • Irrigation • Bobcat •Water Features • Sod • Designs SPRING SPECIALS
250.212.2692
CONSTRUCTION & RENOVATIONS Karpinsky Brothers Construction Complete Reno’s, Additions, Garages, Decks, Framing, Finishing, Tenant Improvements. FOR FREE ESTIMATE CALL JOHN 250-870-7441 OR HARRY 250-317-3304
Spring Special on now. Call for details 250-763-7114
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Sunday, March 10, 2010
Landscaping UNIQUE Landscape Supply See us at 2810 Benvoulin Rd. or call 801-YARD (9273)
C & C LANDSCAPING. Rock walls, irrig, bobcat, design etc. Call 250-212-2692 DIGGINOLES N SHIFTINSTUFF. Pickup & delivery service. Rubbish & recycling removed. Landscape, building supplies & Hay delivered, small equipment transferred. 1ton pickup, 14ft Dump trailer & 20ft Flat bed trailer. Yes we work weekends!! For quality work at reasonable rates, phone Ian 250-864-2339
Machining & Metal Work GET BENT Metal Fab, fences, gates, railings, security bars, boat railings. 863-4418
Moving & Storage LOW COST MOVING AND DELIVERY, FULLY INSURED, RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL MOVES, KITCHEN CABINET DELIVERIES. #1 IN SERVICE & RELIABLILITY. PLEASE CALL TODAY 250-470-8284 www.cchdeliveries.com
Painting & Decorating
www.getbentmetalfab.ca
Masonry & Brickwork
EDGING Emerald Cedars Okanagan Grown SPECIAL!
WILDSTONE MASONRY Stone Fireplaces and Exteriors -Call Greg for estimate. (250)826-6989. or email wildstone@shaw.ca
6 ft-10 for $280 5 ft-10 for $189 4ft-10 for $150 2 Gal.-10 for $135 1 Gal.-20 for $95 3 ft-Blue Spruce-10 for $250
Misc Services
Volume Discounts Free Delivery
ALL KINDS FENCES, Cedar panels starting @ $65. Gates & custom orders, Installs avail 250-491-4622 www.akf.ca
Budget Nurseries Toll free 1-866-498-2189 ENSIGN BROS. Call us for a quote on all your excavating & landscaping needs. Mon-Sat. 250-769-7298 GREENCO Landscaping. Yard maint, spring clean-up, pruning, weekly cuttings, sprinkler repair. For best service call 250-681-3200, 250-863-9393. HEDGEKEEPERS - Trimming, shaping, pruning - professional competitive service for all your trees & shrubs. Yard clean-up & refreshing or new installations call for consultation or free estimate 250-769-6041 QUALITY landscape maintenance, comm/res, yard maint. Spring clean-ups, hedge & shrub pruning, aerating, power raking, small tree removal, weekly mowing, sprinkler repair. Free est. 250-212-1024 SPECIAL Touch Landscaping Yrd. Maint. Spring clean-up, Pruning, Lawn cutting, Fert.& Sprinkler repair. 250-212-4972 TREMBLAY’S EXCAVATING retaining walls, full landscaping. Exc/Bobcat.250-979-8033
Moving & Storage
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AAA Best Rates Moving $59+. “Why Pay More” Short/Long Distance. Free Est. Res/Comm, 861-3400 DAN-MEL MOVING. 16’’ One ton 7x12 Trailer. Local/Long Haul. Bonded/Insured. Dan 215-0147/250-766-1282. FAMILY Movers. Moving? Anything, anywhere. Local and long distance throughout 2009. Packing service available, weekly trips to Vancouver, Alberta, full and partial loads. Cheapest rates in the valley. Free Estimates, 250493-2687 JOE’S MOVING.reasble rates, fully equip’d trucks, local-long dist, no job too small.470-8194 NORTH END Moving Services Local/Long Distance welcome, Vancouver Special? Free Estimates 250-470-9498
Plumbing
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XCEL PLUMBING, Irrigation, Gas Fitting and drain cleaning. Comm/res and reno’’s. Service & hot water tanks. 575-3839 KOSKI Plumbing-Heating Gas Fitting Reno’s Res. Bonded/Insured Troy @ 718-0209
Pressure Washing
100% AFFORDABLE Painting Exp, quality. Int Paint/ceilings. Winter Specials. Terry 8639830 or 768-1098 1ST. In customer service, Cando Painting, prof. reliable crew, 15yrs. in business, Int/Ext. Eddie 250-863-3449
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100% Prestige Painting, European Craftsmanship, Fine Detail work, Ext/Int. Guaranteed Results. 250-864-1041. ACCENT Painting & Decor. 30yrs exp, int/ext, ceiling paint, texture, repaint specialists, seniors disc. 250-717-6070 BLAIS Painting Int./ext. painting, Res./Comm, Repaint Specialist. Call 250-801-1439 BRIT-CAN Painting Services. 20yrs exp. Senior discount. Free estimates. 250-863-1389 CLEAN Professional Painters. Cadillac Painters at Ford prices. 30yrs exp. Seniors discount. Call Derek at P&D Painting. 250-769-0228 DALE’S PAINTING Service. Painting Kelowna a better place since 1982, 862-9333
Okanagan Contracting. Hot/ Cold power washing. Free estimates. 250-878-6092 OKANAGAN Pressure Washing. Comm/Res. Fully ins’d. Dave, 250-491-1336
Roofing & Skylights A TEAM MASTER ROOFER Experienced in all kinds of roofing. New, Reroof & Repair. European Quality 2 yrs. Warranty. Call Steffen C#: 8638224 W#:778-754-1015 Master & Visa cards welcome BERTRIM Contracting Co. New roofs, reroofs, roof conversion & repair & general home maint. Bonded & insured. 28yrs exp. Free est. Call 250-768-9675 DO IT RIGHT ROOFING AND SIDING. Free Est. Pat 250826-3807. EAGLE ROOFING. CEDAR CONVERSIONS, NEW CONSRUCTION, REROOF. FREE EST. CALL 250-826-3311
Rubbish Removal
GREG’S Painting, Comm/ Res., Int/Ext. Free est. Seniors Dis., European Experience, 100% Guaranteed. 212-9961 LOVE’S PAINTING. Spring Special. Call for details. 250215-1327
Rubbish Removal
Rubbish Removal
Tree Services
#1 AFFORDABLE! Full service we load & clean-up, or rent our easy to load garbage bins and U load -all sizes of bins available. Complete or partial Demolition also available by our experienced crew. Licensed, WorkSafeBc & Liability Insured. 250-8604041 / trash-all.com Kelowna Family Owned & Operated!
ERIK & His Truck Junk Removal, loads from $39.99 250-859-9053, 250-868-8454. MINIBINS.COM - DUMPSTER RENTAL Disposal bins of all sizes 5yards to 20yards. 250862-8310 www.minibins.com SAND, Gravel, Top Soil, Manure, Bark Mulch, Loads to the Dump, Sm. Loads 1-2yrds., Landscaping Clean-ups, 250448-0310 or 250-801-0211 SMALL Hauls. Truck for hire. Rubbish, Small Moves, Boat Hauling 250-864-0696 Reza
1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-11-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1All Exterior Hedge & Tree Service. Downsizing, trimming, bracing, pruning, sculpturing, etc. Insured. Free quotes. For quality service. Call Dave 250212-1716. STUMP BE GONE. Fully Insured, Stump Grinding & Exposed Root Removal, Exceptional Cleanup, Dependable Service, Free Estimates. Call 250-317-0747
‘#1 - BBB Kelowna Junk Removal Ltd. (1998) Scrap metal, wood, appls, etc. House, yard, building site, rental properties, renovations, etc. WCB Coverage. Lrg 3/2/1 & 1/2ton trucks 718-0992 or 861-7066 kelownajunkremoval.com
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LARRY’S LITTLE DUMPER We haul little loads of anything, landscaping materials, & Junk to the dump Call 250-718-1114 ��� THAT GUY & His Work Truck LTD. Junk Removal & Bin Rentals 10,15 & 20 yard Bins. We haul EVERYTHING
Home or Jobsite, Renovations Cheapest rates in the Valley www.thatguysworktruck.com
250-575-5383 A 49.99 1/2ton truck. Load junk & yard waste. Haul away special. Will haul just about anything. Cal Cal 250863-7539
Sand/Gravel/Topsoil
Trucking/ Bull Dozing
NEIGHBORHOOD Trucking & Delivery. Sand, Gravel, Soil, Ogo Grow Call 250-870-1138
TNT TRUCKING. No load too small. Junk removal, sand, gravel, etc. (250)862-0821 (250)765-2778.
Sundecks
Water Services
KELOWNA DECK & RAIL. Serving the Okanagan 13+ Yrs. Vinyl Decking, Modular Flooring, Aluminum, Glass, Topless & Picket Railings. Starting @ $30/ft. installed. Call George @ 250-878-2483. Showroom #9-3310 Appaloosa Rd. off Sexsmith Road.
ON Demand Potable Water Hauling, 2200gal., swimming pool, wellsCall 250-300-4426
Tiling TILE Setter. Artistic Ceramics. Custom tile setting. Call 250870-1009
Tree Services
BOB’S ONE TON. Clean-up, 25yrs satisfied customers. 765-2789, 861-0303 pgr
We’re on the net at www.bcclassified.com 250-808-0733 SKYHIGH DISPOSAL Full Service Junk Removal & Bin Rentals.
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DIGGINOLES N SHIFTINSTUFF. Pickup & delivery service. Rubbish & recycling removed. Landscape, building supplies & Hay delivered, small equipment transferred. 1ton pickup, 14ft Dump trailer & 20ft Flat bed trailer. Yes we work weekends!! For quality work at reasonable rates, phone Ian 250-864-2339
ROB’S Tree Care Ltd. For all your tree care needs...Insured & Cert. WCB. 250-212-8656 STANS CHIPPING. Tree Removal & Chipping. Free Est. 808-2447. Licensed & Insured.
Boarding Horse Boarding, Wildhorse Mountain Ranch, Summerland. Pasture, big paddocks, riding ring, bordered to crown land. Call 250-494-0506
Feed & Hay ALFALFA hay, no rain, barn stored, for info call 250-7650115 HAY for sale, alfalfa grass mix, 70lb bales. $6.00 bale. (250)545-2434 *HAY SALES GUARANTEED Quality Grass, Alfalfa, Mixed square bales, round bales & Silage bales. Delivery avail. (250)804-6081,(250)833-6763. Screen top soil. $24.00 a yard. 250-547-6600.
Livestock “Easterlambs and lambs ready for pasture, certified organic,grass-fed, 250 547 6253”
SALES & SERVICE DIRECTORY RENOVATIONS
ROSTKA
HOME RENOVATIONS
Enterprises Ltd.
The Okanagan’s Renovation Specialists Residential and Commercial, Additions, Garages, Basements, Windows, Doors, Decks, Fencing, Carpentry, Drywalling, Painting Top Quality Worksmanship & Service
Rob 250-878-8049 Off. 250-764-5449
DRYWALL
• Bath Remodels • Decks • Drywall
• Kitchen Remodels • Painting • Plumbing
•Electrical • Tile Work • To-Do Lists • Much More
A Division of Bayside Developments Ltd.
SERVICE YOU CAN TRUST
Qualified, Reliable. • Bonded •Installations • Repairs • Renovations • H. Water Tank • Washer, Dryer • Dishwasher Over 30 yrs. Experience
MEMBER
Independently Owned and Locally Operated
ELECTRICAL
PLUMBING
HEATING
A & S Electric
KOSKI PLUMBING, HEATING & GAS FITTING
Residential & Commercial Wiring, New Construction, Renovations & Service Changes. Complete telephone & data cabling services, Prompt quality service. Licensed & Bonded Call Steve 250-864-2099 (cont#90929)
•Renovations •New construction •Plumbing Service & Repairs •H/W tank replacement • Furnace Service & Installs • Gas f/p Service and Installs Bonded & Insured
Call Troy, 250-718-0209
HEATING & A/C
REMODELING
LITTLE REPAIRS
Southern BC Heating & Air Conditioning
THE OLD PRO’S
Small Household & Yard Repairs. A man that helps seniors get little jobs done. From lighting fixture upgrades, cleaning eaves troughs to re-keying locks and desktop computer upgrades & virus scans.
• Heat Pumps Over 30 Years • Fireplaces Experience • Furnaces Serving the • Repair Okanagan Valley • Install • Sales 250-681-3869
QUALITY WORKMANSHIP
Kelowna • 250-717-5500 kelowna.handymanconnection.com
Lic. & Insured - Ref’s available (WCB Coverage)
DRYWALL SERVICES & REPAIRS New work & renovation work. Over 30 yrs. experience. Framing, boarding, taping, texture t-bar ceilings & insulation. Call Ken 250-212-9588
EXPERIENCED CRAFTSMEN
Licensed & Insured
Call Barry
(250)
826-5627 (jobs)
PLUMBING
BAYSIDE PLUMBING & Gas Fitting
Licensed, Bonded & Insured
SOMMERFELD HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING
• New & Existing Heating Systems • Heat pumps, A/C • Gas fitting • Licensed & Insured. • Replacement Furnace.
Call Wayne (250) 215-6767
Call Walter 250-766-5580 Cell 250-317-2279
WELDING & FABRICATION METAL FABRICATION LTD. Fences • Gates • Railings • Security Bars • Cargo Racks • Rollcages • Boat Railings & more. Tube Bending Specialists www.getbentmetalfab.ca
250-863-4418
LAWN & GARDEN
Joe’s Moving Service
We Guarantee to keep Scheduled Appointments.
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Don’t call anyone about yard care until you speak to Ryan @ VANTAGE POINT. Book your clean-up & receive a FREE Aeration
250-826-2599 ESTIMATES ARE ALWAYS FREE! 250-469-1288 DRYWALL/PAINTING YARD MAINTENANCE CONSTRUCTION ROOFING
RYDER ROOFING LTD. Free estimates, senior discounts, member of B.B.B. Fully insured, WCB coverage. All types of shingle roofing & torch on roofing systems. ‘From a hole in your roof to a whole new roof.’
250-765-3191
PAINTING LOVE’S PAINTING SPRING SPECIAL: Call for details
250-215-1327
PRUNING CERTIFIED HORTICULTURIST Trees • Shrubs • Hedges • Clean-Ups Call Stephen
250-763-5462
IMPERIAL DRYWALL
Drywall, Taping, Painting, Texture Ceiling. We Do Houses, Basement & Commercial
CALL NOW FOR FREE ESTIMATE 250.801.5335
It’s Spring
• Yard & Property Maintenance • Residential & Commercial • Power Raking • Aeration • Fertilizing • Clean-up • Free Quotes Call Jason@250-808-0624
LANDSCAPESUPPLY PAINT & REPAIR BLAIS PAINTING
KRENNYS EXCAVATING
Excavator & Bobcat Service, Sewer Hookups, Underground Utilities, Footing, Backfilling, Basements, Driveways, Landscaping, Retaining Walls, Rubber Track Excavator w/ blade. Estimates, Fully Insured. Kory 250-451-9095 Cell: 250-869-9125 Serving Kelowna, Westside, Lk Country
PAINTING “ONE ROOM, OR YOUR WHOLE CASTLE”
MOVING “The Professionals” Local/long distance Storage Available No job too small Free Estimates Call Joe Anytime 250-470-8194
EXCAVATING
DCR CONTRACTING New Construction & Renos
• Garages • Flooring • Driveways • Concrete • Decks • Retaining • Finishing • Patios Walls
Free Estimates
250.862.1746
DALE’S
PAINTING SERVICE
ELECTRICAL
D. FRANCIS ELECTRIC LTD Residential/Commercial/Industrial. Small jobs, new construction & renovations, panel changes, quality workmanship. Contractor #91625.
250-768-9967 250-317-6843
DEMOLITION
ALL WEST DEMOLITION LTD.
862-9333
All types of demolition. Locally owned & operated. FREE ESTIMATES
REMODELING
ELECTRICAL & RENO’S
PAINTING KELOWNA A BETTER PLACE SINCE 1982
ellermade W Additions, Renovations Sun-decks, Bsmt. suites, etc. Call Dave @ 250-768-2202 or 250-878-6967
call 250-808-0895
Chipster’s
Electrical & Renovations Allan Hoce, General Contractor
(250)826-0091 aghoce@telus.net
Alan 250-808-6595 (lic. #102788)
DUMP TRUCK BOBCAT SERVICE HOME RENOVATIONS Neighborhood Trucking & Delivery Top Soil • Ogo Gro • Gravel • Sand • Bark Mulch We Remove: yard refuse, small trees, junk
CHUCK 250-870-1138 We accept “When The Big Guys Are Too Big We Deliver”
Providing Energy Efficient Solutions and Upgrades for Your Home Vernon: 250-558-0076 Toll Free: 877-567-2799
www.KMSupgrade.ca
Pierre Blais
250-801-YARD
Residential, Commercial, Interior, Exterior Painting& Custom Ceilings
Advertise your services here!
Mon.-Fri. 8 am-6 pm/Sat. & Sun. 8 am-4 pm
(250) 801-1439
Call 250-763-7114
UNIQUE LANDSCAPE SUPPLY • Soils/Mulches • Decorative Rocks • Flagstones • Bubbling Rocks • Bobcat/Operators • Landscape Design • Rock Walls • Plantings
Pick up and delivery 2810 Benvoulin Rd.
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Livestock 3 - 2 year old Bulls; 6 yearling bulls; 6 yearling Steer calves; 11 yearling Heifers; Cow Calf pairs - Call (250)992-2294 HORSE Disposal, Call Dave @ 250-309-0629
Pets Adorable Chocolate Lab pups, reg. parents, 1st shots, $500. 250-545-4173, 250-309-6695. Affordable MINPIN-YORKE pups, 8wks old, vet checked, 1st shots, dewormed, etc. Black & tan, $350. Phone 250545-3367, 250-550-4597 Beautiful Maremma/Kangal and Akbash/Kangal puppies, guardian,predator control 1.shot/deworming. $300.-400. 250 547 6253. BOSTON Terrier pups ready to go. Vet checked vaccinated & dewormed, 250-442-5372 Chi hua hua, 1 male, $450, new litter March 20, orders accepted, (250)492-7775 Family raised: Yorkie cross pups. & Schnauzer pups. 250-547-6698, 250-547-6937 Whoodles, (Soft coated, wheaton Terrier Cross small standard poodle), non-shedding, non-allergenic, family raised, intelligent & easy to train. Ready to go April 6th to good homes. Vet checked, 1st shots, $1000 (250)838-5500
Antiques / Vintage ANTIQUE 6 Burner wood cookstove, came w/areage bought, made by Dominion Co. called a Burbank circa 1945, very nice looking stove, bun warmer on top, water storage on side, asking $2800. probably worth a lot more! For more info. call Nadine 250801-3042 COUNTRY HOME ANTIQUES ARMSTRONG. New shipment from Sweden just arrived. Quality antiques. Open Sat & Sun, 10am-5pm or by appt. 4262 MacDonald Rd (off Otter Lake Rd.) 250-546-2529.
Appliances COFFEE table, 2 end tables, $150. 3 kitchen counter stools, $25ea. Sofa, $75. 30” stove, black top, half grill, $69. 71” micro, Kenmore, $35. All in good working cond. Call 250769-0626 EXCELLENT cond., WD, extra capacity, top load, white, SxS. Call 250-778-478-2127, 250469-2127 $275/pr
Building Supplies EXTERIOR sidings: board & batten, channel, bevel, log cabin. Dry. T&G; fir, cedar & pine (1x4 1x6). Fencing; fir & cedar. Latice panels. Timbers & beams. Lumber for garden boxes, retaining walls, hobby wood. 1-800-838-6036 Armstrong. OVERHEAD garage doors, 2 matching wood 9W x 7H. Excl cond. $200ea. or $300/bth. Call 765-6064 & 469-1331
Farm Equipment 233-10’ Orchard fence posts, 4-5” & 5-6”. Used for 3 acres of Gala apples. Take all for $4.50 per post and the 49 top braces are free. Wire & irrigation piping avail 250-546-0181. TRACTORS, John Deere 1630, 50hp $6000. John Deere 1140 55hp $6000. Both have 5000hrs. 250-878-6173
Free Items FREE: 4 plate coil stove oven unit. Complete with rotiserie. 250-868-4873 FREE: ceiling fan, older type green stove in working cond., 3dr steel bathroom vanity w/mirror. 250-868-4873 FREE: Queen Hide-A-Bed, good shape, earth tones, 250491-4145. FREE: Twin Seal wooden windows. Glass panels. Pressure tank & pump. Other misc items. 250-765-8254 FREE well rotted horse manure. Dilworth area. Call 250762-4600 FREE: Well rotted horse manure. Mission Hill Winery area. 250-768-0743. You pick up. LOOKING for farm for Ferals. Must be able to provide warm dry safe year round shelter. Willing to provide fresh water & food daily. These Ferals will be spayed/neutered. For info call 250-768-8134
Fruit & Vegetables
Musical Instruments
$100 & Under
$100 & Under
$200 & Under
FRESH Farm Eggs, Red Delicious & Spartan Apples, Walnuts & Hazelnuts, 768-2269
PIANOS Warehouse Sale @ Moir Pianos. STEINWAY, HEINTZMAN, YAMAHA and more !! Priced to Sell !! Call Richard @ 764-8800
CALLAWAY Big Bertha Steel Head X14 Irons, reg. Flex, graphite shaft, 3 to SW, $350. Electronic Caddy fold-up model $350. Ed @ 250-764-4737 CONNELLY Professional pool table, 5x9’, solid oak, 1”3/8 slate, c/w access., ex. condition, $2600.obo. 768-2269 RUSSIAN SKS’s - Top choice, from $299. 1120 RDS Ammo, $195. Shotgun + ammo specials. Guns bought & sold, Glocks. Complete Gunsmiths Services. Bluing, Powdercoating. Weber & Markin Gunsmiths. 4-1691 Powick Rd. Kel. 250-762-7575 TRAMPOLINE 14ft. Top line, son competes at OGC, used 5yrs, $1100. 250-878-6173
14’ Trampoline, excellent condition, w/bumper pads. $100. Call 250-717-0544 50th & 25th anniversary plates. $20ea. (250)763-5023 6” Twin Foam mattress with cover, brand new, $100. 250766-1359 BONE china tea cups & saucers. Assrt patterns. $10ea 250-763-5023 BOOKSHELVES. Assorted sizes & styles. $10/sec. (250)763-5023 CARBOYS (10, 5, 3 gal.) all for $15. 250-763-4604 CHEST Of Drawers $30. (250)763-5023 COFFEE table w/2 end-tables $100.all or obo. 250-860-2112 CRYSTAL cut glasses, water, wine, liquer. $100. (250)7635023 DOUBLE garage elec door opener, $50. Call 250-8616830
ELECTRIC Typewriter, $10. 250-763-4604 EXTRA lrg upright freezer. $100 Call 250-766-1447 KING Size Waterbed, wood frame w/headboard $100. 250878-6173 NEW screen for 6’ patio door. $25. 250-766-1359 ROYAL ALBERT coffee mugs, 11. $10ea. 250-763-5023
2 Wooden Wine racks, 60-120 bottles. $75ea. Call 250-7685951 8HP Rototiller, Briggs & Stratten motor, $125. Call 250-7626509 BRAND new, never used single bed with frame & bed in a bag. $150. 250-766-1359 COMPUTER System, WIN XP, Internet ready, excellent condition, $200. 869-2363 Kel
DBL. Sink. SS, 33”x22”x8”h, new $650. 3yrs. old, good cond. $160. 250-764-1085 ELECTRIC Massage Chair, good condition $180. 250-7641085 KIRBY Vacuum Cleaner $200. (250)763-5023 NEW Wide Table: dark red 84”x36”x26”(h), beautiful $180. 250-764-1085 OFFICE Desk w/computer table and bookshelves. $125. (250)763-5023 POOL Table, miniature set. Almost new, size 55x31x32H, 4 sticks & balls $180. 764-1085 PRELUDE Excaliber Golf Righthand set. $195. Top line, 250-491-8177 SNOW Blower Craftman. Impeller turbine w/21” auto-drive, 3yrs. old $190. 250-764-1085 TV, Sanyo 27”. Excellent. 2004. $125. Remote. Call 250768-5951
Garage Sales
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Garage Sales
Furniture 6PC Cherry sleigh bdrm set. Queen bed, dresser, mirror, chest, 2 night stands. New!! Still boxed. Worth $5000, Sell $1295 Can deliver. Call 250550-6647 DBL bunk bed, metal tubing with powder coated finish, ladder attch’d. Excellent cond. Call 250-769-3093 DININGROOM table w/6 chairs & hutch $300. Light brown bdrm suite w/new Queen mattress $400. Plastic Deck Table & 6chairs $50., Single bed, steel bunk bed, white $35., Single Bed mattress & frame excellent quality $150. Solid wood desk & chair (white) $35. 250-212-4888 Large solid wood diningroom suite, 6-chairs, china cabinet, $900 obo. 250-542-7702. Moving - Must sell. Living, Dining, Bdrm, Kitchen, Den, & patio furniture. Modern & almost new. Call 250-868-2122 Reasonable offers accepted. NEW 3-pc Sectional Sofa w/ottoman, In orig. pkg. Worth $1499, Must Sell $899 250550-6647 can deliver
Heavy Duty Machinery 1988 Ford Louisville tandem axle dump truck, 240hp, certified $10,500. 250-558-8400 A-STEEL Shipping Containers Super Sale On NowNew/Used/Damaged. BEST PRICES. 20,’24,’40,’45,’48,’53’.Insulated Reefer Containers 20’40’53’. CHEAP 40’ Farmers Specials all under $2,000! Semi Trailers for hiway & storage. We are Overstocked, Delivery BC & AB 1-866-528-7108 Call 24 hours.
Sporting Goods
$200 & Under
$300 & Under 16’ fiberglass canoe, obo. Call 250-762-6509
$250
Classified Ads Work! 5PC. Dbl. bedroom ste., dark wood, mattress, boxsping & mirror, $250. 250-860-2112 BUREAU & Dresser: wood, 9 drawer, (71”x31”) w/wide Mirror, $250./both 250-764-1085 CENTRAL Vacuum w/attachments, $299. Will install. 250762-3468, 250-869-2947 COMPUTER LAPTOP, WIN XP, internet, excellent condition, $300. 250-869-2363 (Kel) HEALTH Rider Training Machine, 3yrs. old Value $1200. now $330. 250-764-1085 HIDE-A-BED, $225, excellent, full size, like new. Flower pattern. Call 250-768-5951 INDUSTRIAL Buffalo 1/2” Drill Press, $250.obo. 250-7682269
Garage Sales
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Jewels, Furs KELOWNA Gold Brokers.com turns your unwanted gold and platinum jewelery, silver coins and silverware into cash. With 25 years buying experience in Kelowna we look forward to your call for a no obligation quote. Call Jeremy @ 250575-4363.
Medical Supplies SHOPRIDER Elec. Handicap Scooter, in new cond., Sell @1/2 $900. 768-2414 lv. mes
Misc. for Sale BRAND new 5 stage reverse osmosis water filtration system. Retail price: $795. Now: $250. Call 250-863-1544 COMMERCIAL Embroidery machine. Amaya by Melco Sauer US, 16 needle/computerized, everything needed to start home based business. $14,900 or trade for small truck of same value. 250-5478819. DOLLAR Store in N. Glenmore, closing out sale. 50-70% off EVERYTHING. Kane Rd off Glenmore Rd. DO YOU NEED LARGE AMOUNTS OF FREE FILL? no trucking charge 250-307-3839 Dacron Enterprises LTD. MISC household items for sale. Call 250-862-2620 TREADMILL, $300. 2 elec motors, $20ea. Call 250-7653726 USED water softener, $800, hot water tank $200, reverse osmosis system. $300. Call 250-808-5354
Misc. Wanted CASH Paid for quality used books, Pandosy Books, 1889 Springfield Rd. 250-861-4995 PURCHASING DOWNSIZES & ESTATES. Cash paid for useful items. Please call me BEFORE you throw anything out! SAVE THIS AD! OKestates.ca CALS 250-860-1958 WANTED: 5 12’ aluminum orchard ladders in good shape. 1-250-866-5103
Musical Instruments FREE LOCAL DELIVERY on serviced, used pianos $495 up. Visit www.worldofmusic.ca click on “used inventory” or call 250-869-0819. Toll Free 1-800-663-5183
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$400 & Under SHUFFLE Board, 12’ long, $375.obo. 250-768-2269
$500 & Under 2 9’x7’ cedar garage doors w/1/2hp operators & all hardware.Both/$425.250-764-2355 CHINA Cabinet w/matching table & 6 chairs. $500. 1 (250)763-5023 DARK Wood Dinning Rm. ste. 9pcs., $450.obo. 250-8602112
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Houses For Sale
3245 MCIVER RD. Best Value. Immediate possession, 5 Bedroom, 3 bath home totally renovated inside. Includes an inground pool for family fun. Open House Sat. March 27 1 pm - 4 pm & Sun. March 28 11 am - 3 pm. Call 250-878-3529.
CLEAN, Bright, 4Bd. home. New windows, new furnace & 5appls., $349,900. MLS. Charlene Bertrand Coldwell Banker Horizon Realty 250-870-1870 MORTGAGES LOW RATES. 5YR. 3.69% VARIABLE 1.85% 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.
ADULT ORIENTED
Cariboo
Garage Sales ESTATE SALE: Fri/Sat/Sun. Mar 26-28, 9-3pm, 270 Pemberton Rd. 40yrs. of collectables, Loads of pwr. tools, etc., Antique radio collection w/repair kit. Hshld. items, furniture. Rare ‘58 Chevy Impala w/continental kit. 30M orignal miles, mint cond., 2001 1500cc Kawasaki, 2006 650cc Yamaha. RUTLAND, 1490 Renfrew Rd. Sat. Mar 27, 9-12noon, Fun Garage Sale!!!!!!
Golf course nearby, quiet area. No pad rent. Own your own land at Pinewoods Villa! This affordable condo alternative offers 2bd, 2fl bths+ bright open concept. One of the few units with full garage, woorkshop & extra prking. 45+ park w/low strata fees. $265,900. Call 250-769-6446 OPEN HOUSE Sunday 12-3pm
Acreage for Sale 10 acres and 2 residences allowed. Beautiful view of downtown Kelowna and lake. Newly created and only 5 miles to downtown. Has drilled well. $649,000 and trades considered. On Petterson Rd. Call Will Loudoun, 470-1144 Realty Executives Kelowna 13.9 tree’d acres. Mins from Arrow Lake. Offers over $99,000. 250-269-7492 FANTASTIC Opportunity to own nicely updated 4Bd. home with gorgeous valleyview on priv. 7acre property in Ellison. MLS. $775,000. Charlene Bertrand, Coldwell Banker Horizon Realty, 250-870-1870 READY to build on this 3 acres in Whitevale area, Lumby. Flat, few trees, drilled well. Gas/hydro to driveway. Price $245,000 GST. obo. 250-547-6932. SHUSWAP RIVER FRONT 11.3 acres w/shop $400,000. 1985 house on 22.5 acres $799,000. 15.9 acres $400,000. Water and services. 250-838-7660.
Apt/Condos for Sale 1 BDRM + den, close to all amenities. Rutland areaBarber Rd. Top floor, great view. $900/mo. 250-8682601. 2BD Condo in Rutland. $154,900. Jessica Levy, Prudential. Call 250-470-0264 CONDOS. 1bd: $110k-$149k. 2bd: $185k-$245k. Central. Nice. 250-718-8866, 860-9115 LIKE BRAND NEW! 1 bdrm with Laundry at 1860 Richter. Free maintenance and taxes for 1yr. Asking $134,900. Vacant, must see! Call Will Loudoun 470-1144 Realty Executives Kelowna. MLS. Lux condo, level entry, 2bdr,2 bath, 2u/g stalls, f/p, granite tops,Geo thermo,Aberdeen Heights, 3211-Centennial,Vernon. Save Realty Fees. $314,000. 250-307-4840. NEW MLS Listing. Hot Deal @ $238,800. Gorgeous 2Bd. 2Ba. top flr. condo, w/great view, quiet loc., cls. to shopping & lake, Call Larry Slemko Realty Executives 861-5122 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.
Duplex/4 Plex #31041 431 FLEMING RD. Open House Sat, Mar 27 1-4 pm 2 bed 1.5 bath end unit of fourplex. No strata fees, no restrictions. Fully renovated everything $246,500 250-8784196 Property Guys Open to offers. INVESTORS! FULL DUPLEX! $285,000, spacious, well-built sxs duplex, features 3bdrms, 2bath, garage each side, income at April 1 is $2100/mo. located on nice corner lot in busy Prince George, TURNKEY, time limited offering, view online at: www.buy-thishouse.ca, call 250-490-8888, Penticton
For Sale By Owner Fantastic view of City of Penticton & lakes, 4900sqft rancher, custom built in 2005 on 1.03 acre, large shop, $1,600,000, (250)493-0358, on line, comfree.com, #1272
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108 MILE RANCH: South Cariboo, .4 acre sunny building lot, quiet, paved road, close to lake, trails and golf course. Serviced with water and hydro. (250)791-6497
Lots
SPACIOUS 2240 SQ/FT. bi-level home on 1/3 acre with a very private setting, located on a quiet cul-de-sac, with Crown land behind. Incredible views of Black Mountain and the valley. Walking distance to school, bus stop and golf course. House features: new hardwood floors, steam room, games room, two fireplaces (one with wood stove insert), newer roof, huge deck with hot tub, storage shed, dog kennel and fenced back. Must see to appreciate! Phone: 250-8781460 or 250-491-1843
MOBILE Homes Sgl/Dbl Wide. Preowned & new. Merritt BC $45,900 & Up. Also lots avail. 1-800-361-8111 www.buyandsellmobilehomes.com
NEW Home, new warranty avail in Lake Country. #83 Belaire Estates. Family, small pet welcome. Open floor plan, 2bd, 2bth. Call Bob, 250-8084117 NEW MODULAR HOMES 1835 Westside Road South 250-317-5504 www. KelownaAffordableHomes.net
KIRSCHNER MOUNTAIN Large Building Lots from
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~ Spectacular Views. Bring Your Own Builder. Close to All Amenities. 250-862-0895 www.kirschnermountain.com
An Okanagan RENT TO OWN company seeking Investors and Tenants for secured investment. Homes available Now. Call NOW 1-888-4977008 for more info.
LUMBY: 3 view lots on new subdivision (Schunter Drive) Lot 2: $115,000 + GST. Lot 3: $120,000 + GST. Lot 4: $125,000 + GST. Call Mike 250-547-9402, 250-309-1042
Townhouses
Mobile Homes & Parks 20 Minutes from Orchard Park Drive by 64A
McCulloch Heights
Open Houses 55+ West Kel. Open House, 105-3858 Brown Rd. Linden Estates, Sun. Mar. 28rd. 1-3pm. Free RV Parking. Vantage West Realty 864-6433
$245,900. Rutland Townhome, 3bd, 2bth, gar., fnc’d yard, pet ok. AA cond. MLS Ken Dempsey, Remax. 250-717-5000 NEW MODULAR HOMES 1835 Westside Road South 250-317-5504 www. KelownaAffordableHomes.net
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Presentation Centre 1680 Ross Rd. West Kelowna. 2bdrm modular home in Armstrong, BC features large lease lot, privacy, exc. access, $129,500. Call Vern at Re/max Enderby 888-609-7764 or cell: 250-308-2110 55+ Park. Cozy dbl wide, 2bd+ den, large tree’d lot, new energy saver furnace, 6 new appl, wood fireplace, many features, must see. 250-491-5010 BLOWOUT! Vacant 3bdrm and new kitchen. NOW $59,000. Trade for down payment. Hurry! Call Will Loudoun, 470-1144 Realty Executives Kelowna
Bed & Breakfast BED AND Breakfasts, Attractions, tourism operators get incredible exposure for your business…Advertise in the 2010-2011 BC Alberta Bed & Breakfast directory. Call Annemarie at 1-800-661-6335 ext. 744
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 FOR LEASE 2400sq’, 690 McCurdy Rd, Kelowna, avail May 1. Rick 250-770-0903. HWY 97N for lease 1acre of Industrial compounded yard, 250-765-3295 - 250-860-5239
Shop for rent 1250 sq ft. Roll up door, gas heat Comes with or without paint booth. Lots of parking $900 per month, utilities Call 250 549-4500
1865 NOBLE CRT. Lam. Avail Apr 15, 2 Bdrm 870 sq/ft grnd floor condo. flrs, step dwn livgrm, dng room, hook up for in suite lndry, lrg mst bdrm, wall air, prkg close to unit, faces Apple Bowl 975/mth- n/s, n/p. Call Donna 250-864-6620
WAREHOUSE for rent on Cary Rd. 5000sq’, $7.50/sq’. + triple net charges. Avail April 1. Call 250-868-2625
1BD or 2bd, avail immed. Quiet, secured, updated building located in DT area. Walking dist to shopping. Cultural District, Waterfront Park, bus route. Incl FS, DW. Building amenities include beautiful landscaped courtyard, laundry room & covered secure prking. Price starts at $800. Ask about signing bonus avail for Mar/Apr. Contact Jagoda for more info at 250-762-0571
ACCENT HOMES CALL 250-7696614 CLICK:
THUNDERBIRD/EVERGREEN APTS. 435/395 Franklyn Road, Kelowna. 1 and 2 bedroom suites, 3-appliances, AC, drapes, walk-in storage, underground 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. Rental incentives offered to qualified applicants. Call 250-7625932 for appointment to view.
1&2BD. 1880 Pandosy, Adult building, NP, NS, all utils & WD incl. Move in incentives. Immed. $750-$950. Call 250712-2401
Modern & Urban “Sierras” neighborhood. Close to downtown West Kelowna
Brand new 3 bed, 2 bath, FUNctional floor plan. Sundeck. Concrete foundation. $189,900 plus GST. Phase 3 - over 50% sold out. So act fast.
THE WESTWYND POINT APARTMENTS Behind Orchard Park Mall, adult oriented, NS, NP. 1bd, 1bth from $770. Please call for appointment 868-3432 or 470-8026
Apt/Condo for Rent
1BD. BIG WHITE, fully furn’d, pu sofa, utils incl., deck, TV, dishes & linens. $425. Avail May-Oct. 491-5823, 717-6464
Houses For Sale
Apt/Condo for Rent
OFFICE Space, semi furn’d., 600sf, private entry, $800.mo. incl. light/heat/air, contact Dan or Bob @ All Kinds of Carpet 250-769-6790
Brand new. 3 bed. 2 bath. Over 1300sq.ft. Great room design. Concrete foundation. Sundeck. Quiet cul-de-sac space. $189,900 plus GST. Low down payment.
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.
******* 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 $398,000. Rutland, just listed, suite up/suite down, 5bd, 3bth, 2lndry’s. MLS Ken Dempsey, Remax. 250-717-5000 $448,000 Rutland, Just listed, 8yrs new, 4bd+den, no GST, fully finished. MLS Ken Dempsey, Remax. 250-717-5000 4BD. 2ba. Fixer Upper w/big yard, ONLY $269,900. For a Free List of Foreclosures & Fixer Uppers call Lloyd @ MacDonald Realty 215-5607 KelownaDistressSale.info 4 LEVEL Split. Shows A1. Huge yard, private, oversized garage. Tons of parking, detached shop, room for pool. Centrally located on .36 acres. $598,000. EXCLUSIVE. Jody Miller. REALTOR Royal Lepage 250-469-4639 Affordable 55+ Community in Enderby, BC features large late model homes, low taxes, close to shopping & recreation RV prkg. For info. call 250308-2110, 250-308-6703
Mobile D.wide, 2bdrm, large shop, many upgrades, on creek, Holiday Park. $145,000 obo. 250-542-7702.
1/2 acre lot with a view of Shuswap Lake. This is one of the last undeveloped lots in Shuswap Lake Estates, 16 km from Salmon Arm. Asking $99,900 or will make trade as downpayment on property in Kelowna. Contact Ron or Annette at 250-563-2356 or raparnell@shaw.ca for more information.
SPECTACULAR VIEWS
Spacious 2240 sq. ft. bi-level home on 1/3 acre with a very private setting, located on a quiet cul-de-sac, with Crown land behind. Incredible views of Black Mountain and the valley. Walking distance to school, bus stop and golf course. House features: new hardwood floors, steam room, games room, two fireplaces (one with wood stove insert), newer roof, huge deck, storage shed, dog kennel and fenced back yard. Must see to appreciate! 250 878-1460 or 491-1843
FSBO. Doublewide. Many updates. Pets ok. 2bd & computer rm. All appl. $55,000 obo. Call 250-707-3272, cell 250864-9622
Reno’d 2bdrm 12x62 mobile in downtown Lumby MHP, $53,900. (250)547-9659
$180,000.
Luxury Townhome in Glenmore, 2Bed., 2Bth., 1410sqft., one level, dble. garage, central air, bright & sunny, showhome condition. $389,900. 78-680 Valley Rd. 250-862-3149
Mobile Homes & Parks
1BD like new, furn’d, $685. NS, NP. By rec centre. May 1. Call 250-718-8866
2100 Boucherie Rd., 2bd. 2ba. NEW Adult bldg., 1230sf., blinds, 5appl., gas fp, u/g prkng, pool, hottub, gym, np, ns, nkids, $1100.mo. Myles @ 306-536-7955 2bd apart in Winfield lakeview priv deck & ent., AC, NS, NP. $850. April 1. 250-547-6624 2BD. apartment, Spacious, close to Capri Mall, NS, NP, 1yr lease, avail March 1. $895 incl heat. 250-763-6600 2 BDRM, $975 hydro, f/s, NO PETS, on Rutland Rd. South, Belgo Area, on bus route, Avail. now. 491-3345 or 869-9788 (Cell)
Cottages / Cabins BRAND new 2 Cabins. 2bd. 2355 McKenzie Rd. $850/mo + utils. Avail now. 250-7659573, 250-212-1357 RENT or Rent-to-Own% with $20,000.downpymnt. Westside Rd/LaCasa. 2bdrm+den cottage/home Av. now. F/P, lrg deck, garage, w/d, 30mins. to Kelowna, $1500. +utils. ns/np. 250-769-0980
Duplex / 4 Plex 1BD. Lg. fnc’d., yrd., insuite w/d, all appl., refs. req’d., $800+utils Avail. now765-0609 2BD. 2 lvg.rms., 1ba, WBank, $1000.mo+dd. & hydro, ns, np, Avail. immed, 250-864-4255 2BD. 505 Hein Rd. Kelowna, s/f, w/d, 1.5ba. nice deck, Apr. 1st, $1000. +util, 317-8844 2BD., Lg. fnc’d. yrd., insuite w/d, all appl., ref’s. req’d., $950.+utils Avail now765-0609 3BD, 1bth upper level near hospital and OK College, FS, DW, WD hookups, ref’s, $1000+utils. Call Joe, 250826-7824 Avail. April 1st. 3BD. 2ba. $1000. duplex + 2bd., den 4/plex $850. Rutland, Ref’s, ns, 250-765-5502 APRIL1. 2bd upper flr in 4plex near OUC (KLO) FS, WD, AC, NP, NS. Double driveway. $1100+utils. 250-717-3407
2BD. WESTBANK top flr, lakeview, vaulted ceilings, spacious, bright, upgraded, utils. incl’d., $1390. 250-859-1300
HOSPITAL & College area, 2bdrm, 1bath, 4 appl. np, $975.mo. Avail now. 250-8608583, 250-470-9295
3 BEDROOM main flr, centr locat, shrd lndry, carport, shed, sm pet OK, Ref req’d. $1400 incl util & yard care. PH: 250-862-6660.
RECENT reno, 3lrg bdrms, 2bths, quiet street close to Capri Mall & bus, NS, NP, incl hydro. WD hookups. $1275. 250763-9693
ATTN SENIORS: 1bd suites for lease in a secure quiet well maintained building. View of Mill Creek and beautiful backyard, close to bus, shopping, hospital & beaches. Call 250762-4160
RUTLAND 4 Bdrm, 2 bth, Freshly painted, New Flooring, Soaker Tub, NP, NS, Refs Reqd. $1400 + utils 250-7656544
In Madison Kelownas’ New West and best upscale downtown.1bd+den.1130sq’+500sq’ terrace. $1300. 250-869-1850
Housesitting RESPONSIBLE Housesitter avail., 5mo min. Exp’d, clean, ref’s. Kelowna 250-808-0830
Mobile Homes & Pads MOBILE Home for rent. Westside. $650 +utils. NP. 250717-1033.
Homes for Rent 1BD. 650sq’, 4.5acrs, NS, NDrink, incl water & cbl, dd & ref’s. $750. Reply to box 289 c/o Capital News. 1BD Cottage, f/s, w/d, Electric heat & woodstove, $800mo. 1-person. Goudie Rd., Avail. Mar.1. 250-808-5354 1BD log house, on the lake, peaceful, spectacular view, 15km on Westside Rd. N. Appl, wood stove, elec heat, $1150. Ref’s, Ndogs, NS. April 1st. Call 250-769-3672 2BDRM Rutland Townhouse 1000sqft, large yard, DW, WD, FS, $900+ 6mos free cbl & int. Call 250-450-9761 2-BEDROOM 6-Appliances, Central Air, Deck, $1200 OR 3-Bedroom, 6-Appliances, Garage, Fenced For Pet, $1300. 250-860-1961 - Register Online www.cdnhomefinders.ca 3/4BDRM, Winfield area, $1550+utils. NO PETS. Avail now. Overlooks Wood Lake on East side. Close to schools. Call 250-869-9788 or 250-491-3345 3BD. 1ba Main flr, dw, ac, pets? view, quiet area, util/int &sat incl. $1650 250-807-2269 3BD 2ba., main flr house, lg. sundeck, fruit trees, Rutland, close to bus, school. Avail. Now. ns, np, $1000. 250-5750940 3BDRM GLENROSA Area. $1575mo+utils. Available now. NO PETS. 250-8699788 or 250-491-3345 4BD House, 1bth, lrg cov’d deck, lrg fenc’d yard. NS, outdoor pet only. WD hookups, newly reno’d. Shop space also avail. 15mins from Cosco. $1500. 250-764-5498 4BD. Perfect for extended family or caregiver situation. 2 sep. spaces w/2 liv. rms., 2 din. rms., 4ba’s., only 5yrs old. Nice yrd., good prkng., cls. to Apply Bowl, $1850.+ utils, ndogs, Call Doug 470-8216 4 BEDROOM updated home in West Kelowna with all appliances, central air. Close to schools and shopping, large fenced yard with powered work shop. Non smoking, pets negotiable. $1500/month plus some utilities. Contact 250768-3173 or 250-863-8335. 5BD. 2Ba. Great location, nr. Hosp. & school, $1600.mo. 250-860-8106, 250-718-1621 5BD, 3bths, CA, cvac, lndry, dbl gar., NS, small pet, $2200. Avail from April 1. 250-8689013, 250-864-4573 MAIN part of house for rent. 3bd, 2bth, CA, cvac, shr’d lndry, dbl gar., NS, small pet, $1500. Avail April 1. 250-8689013, 250-864-4573 NEW MODULAR HOMES 1835 Westside Road South 250-317-5504 www. KelownaAffordableHomes.net RENT TO OWN Tired of renting? Get on the path to home ownership! If you have a small down payment, I have a nice home for you. Less than perfect credit OK. Call 1(866)927-7027 top flr Glenrosa, priv, close to schools, small pets ok, avail immed. $1400. 250-769-0291
Office/Retail 1175sq’ of grnd-flr OFFICE SPACE for lease at 2000 Enterprise Way. Avail May 1, 2010. All leaseholds complete with 6-offices, boardroom, lunchroom and reception area. Call 250-862-1210 eves 250763-3990 FOR Lease nr. Sexsmith Rd., 2nd. flr. office space, 800sf. w/5 separate offices, $1000. +tr/net per mo. 250-868-4808 HWY 97 North, 1800sq’ of retail, 2100sq’ of Office/Retail for lease. Rutland area 250-7653295, 250-860-5239
Recreation EXPLORE in style! 2010 towables & motorhomes for rent from just $582/wk! Call Kelowna Truck & RV today @ 250-769-1000. RV seasonal site rentals. Apr 15 to Oct 15. $3500 + tax. Blind Bay Resort (Shuswap) Sites also for sale. Book today 1-800-667-3993 or www.blindbayresort.com
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Room & Board N. RUT. Furn’d rm w/TV+PC access. NS, Ndrink. All provided. 250-491-7657 aft 12 noon
Rooms for Rent CLEAN, Furn’d rms/suites, DT core. FS/WD. Utils incl. $475+ /mo. Quiet Male 250-861-5757 FURN Bdrm, sep ent, ktn, bth, lndry, BBQ pool tbl, HTub util incl $150DD $525 765-0746 FURN’D. Rm. Downtown area, cbl. & w/d, quiet, mo. or wkly., avail. immed. 250-862-9223 FURN’D ROOM for clean, mature, N/S student, working person. Near KLO Campus. Refs & DD req. 250-762-5122. FURN’D. steps to KLO Campus, incl’s. all, $475-$500. & 2BD ste @ $900. 769-6482
Shared Accommodation 1BD. Avail. in New 2bd. condo, w/d, utils incl., pool/fitness ctr., nr. UBCO/airport/golf, ns, np, $575.mo. 250-765-7899 1BD furn’d, student/working female, NS, NP, utils incl, Rutland, $500. 250-765-6614 aft 5 1BD, livingrm, shared kitchen, $550 incl utils. Close to KLO & hospital. Avail immed. 250492-8681, 250-809-4868 aft 6 2BD apt to share, 1/2 rent & 1/2 utils. Current rent $795. Rental ref’s req’d. Call 250868-3144 MATURE Female to share home, furn’d. lg. rm. own bath, share kit/wd. new quiet house, need vehical, nr. Airport, $550. 250-491-8177 Private bdrm semi-pri bth, quiet person, $475-$500, everything incl1-888-492-2543 ROOMMATE to share house in north end. Cbl/int in lg. unfurn’d. rm. responsible ns, $500. utils incl. 860-5787
Storage Fenced and secured storage on Okanagan Avenue Vernon from $30/mth 250-549-4500
Suites, Lower 1BD. $750. NP, NS, nr. Mac’s store Rutland, cls. to school & bus, Avail. Apr. 1, 826-0808 1BD, $800 or 2bd, $900+ 1/3utils, sep lndry & ent., full bth, small pet neg., close to Springfield & Hwy 33. Call 250-763-3447 1BD. $850.mo. +utils, ns, Rutland, cls. to bus rte. & school. Quiet area. Call 250-899-2888 1BD. Avail now Lake Country ns, w/d, np, newly reno’d., cls. to bus. $800. utils. incl., refs. req’d., 250-766-4437 1BD. Bsmt. suite., Ldry, shed, patio, NS, NP, $750./mo., incl. utils. Ph: (250)769-3002 1BD bsmt suite, Lower Mission, NS, Nprty’s, NP. Wrking prof or retired person. Incl utils. $750. 250-317-2507 1BD bsmt suite, May 1, totally newly decorated, NS, NP. Good for sng or young cpl. $750+1/2 DD. All utils & Sat incl. Bus stop right out front. Call 250-491-8230 1BD. Ground lev. $700.mo. incl. utils., ns, np, sing. working person, Apr. 1, 765-5854 1BD. Lev. Entry, W/D, Clean & bright, ns, sing. person pref., $725. 250-212-1560 1BD located by Nesters Market DT. $725 incl utils. sep WD, NS, NP. 250-763-9693 1bd. new, bright, w/o. 5appl. 1person, np, ns $790. Avail now 250-768-6728, 718-7456 1BD. New Upper Miss., sat/ac, int/util/wd incl., priv. prkng/ent., ns, np, $850. Apr. 1, 764-6383 1BD., Off McCurdy, f/s, w/d, priv. ent., nr. bus, ns, np, pref 1 person, $800. util/cbl. incl. Avail. Now! (250)491-9006 1BD. Rutland, np, ns, $700. incl. utils. cls. sch/bus/shops, April 1, 250-765-1415 1BD. Rutland, nr. YMCA, lower ste. ns, np, wd, $750. Corinne @ 250-861-6708 1BD., Spacious, bright, Glenrosa, sep ent., patio, bus rte., f/s, dw, a/c, microwave, share wd, ns, np, $700. 707-3375 1BD suite in Rutland. Utils incl, NP, NS, like new, close to amens. $700. 250-766-1977 1-BEDROOM 4-Appliances, Deck, $750 Including Cable, Utilities, Internet OR 2-Bedroom, 4-Appliances, $850 Including Utilities - 92 Suites On File - 250-860-1961 Register Online www.cdnhomefinders.ca
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Suites, Lower 2BD, 1bth, spacious, priv ent, shr’d lndry, NS, small pet, nice area. $850. Avail April 1. 250868-9013, 250-864-4573 2BD., All appls., Pets & Horses ok. Priv. quiet, rural, Winfield $900.mo. 250-766-1265 2BD. & bth, own lndry, sep ent, 6appl, NS, NP, Nparties. Modern 1500sq’ unit, $1300. utils incl. 250-765-4495 2BD. fully furn’d., near bus stop, np, ns, pref working cpl., 250-808-3777. 2BD. Ground Lev. new Upper Mission, sep. ent, priv. w/d, prkng, ac, ns, np, $1250. + utils. 250-718-7455 2BD. incl. utils., ns, np, no lndy., $800.mo. avail. now, DD req’d., gr. lev. 763-5420 2BD Legal suite in new home, DT area. Avail. utils inc. $1100 250-878-9672, 250-868-3632 2BD, NP, NS, $950 incl utils & cbl. Call 250-763-1642 or 250859-4451 2BDRM bsmt on 729 Renshaw Rd. April 1. Call anytime, 250-765-9294 & 250-307-4486 but can only view bsmt every Sunday after lunch 2BDRM Utils incl. Cls. to bus. 2mins. to UBCO. Nice & clean. $800/mo. Call 250-766-1314, 250-718-1975 2BD suite, close to Max store Rutland, close to bus & school $800. Call 250-575-0940 2BD suite, kit., lvingrm, lndry, approx 900sq’, 4appl, carport. Rutland upper bench, NP, NS, quiet neighborhood. $825 incl utils. Phone 250-765-1589 2BD. Winfield bsmt, priv ent., FS, NS, NP, Apr. 1st, $790 incl utils, DD. 250-861-0656 2BD. Winfield, lkview, bright, ns, np, fp, 6appl, sing/prof. cpl, $980. May 1, 250-317-2279 2BD. W/O, f/s, $900. util. incl. ns, np, Glenmore, Valley Rd. Apr 1, 860-6213,870-1381 2BD W/O, Glenmore, 5appls. fnc’’d yrd., recent reno, patio, pets neg., $900. 250-868-0607 3BDM newly reno’d bsmt suite, large yard, small pets. April 1. $850. 250-808-7473 CAPRI/SPRINGFIELD Area Bright spacious central located 3 bedroom level entry basement suite. c/w Washer, dryer, fridge, stove and dishwasher. $950/mo + utils. 860-4012 or ynot_lnagy@hotmail.com for info. EXEC suite, 1 bdrm, level ent, all inclusive, view, spotless, Mount Royal. NS, NP. $875/mo. 250-717-1033. LEGAL Fully Furn’d. W/O bach. suite, suit 1, ns, nprtys, np, insuite w/d, off-street prkng., Upper Miss., Avail. April 1, $625. +utils. 212-9588 LRG 1bd. Sep ent, FS, WD, FP, bus to UBC, sngl occ only, NS, NP, Nprtys, ref’s, DD, $720 incl utils. 250-765-4384 WEBBER RD, Westbank, 2 bdrm large suite ground level, pet/kid ok, priv w/d, garage, fncd yard, hardwd flr, $950 incl. util. 250-862-1181 WESTSIDE: 2bd, 1100sq’ w/o bsmt suite, priv ent, 2 car prking, FP, lndry, working couple pref, NP, NS, Nchildren. $875. Avail April 1. Call 250-768-1441
Suites, Upper GREAT Bright 2bd. DT loc. All utils, WL int, lndry, NP, NS. $1150.Pets neg 250-317-6963 MODERN furn’d bachelor suite, small but cozy, suitable for student only, NS, Nparties, NP. Utils incl. $625. For more info call 250-860-2031 April 1. NEW MISSION exec 2 bdrm 1900sq’, fireplace, private, patio, media rm, suites quiet prof single or couple. NS no pets. $1300 unfurnished $1600 furnished. Util incl. Refs, Avail imm 250-764-4688
Want to Rent LOOKING For 2bd. house w/dbl. garage on acreage. Pref. Kelowa area. 763-0949
Antiques / Classics ‘71 CHEV pu, 1/2 ton stepside, LB, 350 auto, #’s match. Runs great, $2000. 250-763-5462
Auto Accessories/Parts (4) 235/70R16 All Season Tires. 75-80% tread, EXCELLENT condition. MUST sell. 778-478-7769, 250-869-7362 FOR quick sale. 4 almost brand new snow tires on wheels. P195/60R15. Asking only $75ea. Also complete hitch assembly to fit Ford Focus car, 2000-2007, $75. Be first to call John 250-766-3026 LYLE’’S TOWING Free removal of unwanted vehicles. Pay up to $1000 for good vehicles. Lots of used parts for sale. 765-8537 Mercedes used parts. Peter 250-542-0284. TRUCK Frame. 1988 S10 4x4, sandblasted, primed and automotive paint with newer tires and mag rims. Comes with transfer case and misc parts. $750 obo. Email pics avail. Call Dennis, 250-765-7811
Auto Financing
Beaters under $1000 ‘87 Ford Aerostar, $500. ‘73 Chev pu, 2wd, $700. ‘76 Chev pu 4x4, $900. 250-763-5462
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Sales & Service
Townhouses 2BD. Recently reno’d., nr. Plaza 33, kid & pet friendly, $1090.mo., 250-870-7172 2BD Townhouse. Conveniently located in Cent. Westbank. 1 unit, completely reno’d, $975+utils. Min. 6mo. lease. NP. Call 250-763-2300 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.
Suites, Upper 1BD suite avail soon, NS, NP. 250-765-9471, 718-6505 2BD. $1000mo. incl. utils/cbl. shared w/d, f/s, mic, strge, view, cls. to shops. Winfield, 1 pet ok, Apr. 15, 250-766-2249 2BD. for rent in Westbank, $975. Avail May 1 or sooner. For more info 250-768-2269 2BD. Main flr., Ldry, shed, carport, patio, sm. pet ok, NS, NP, $1100.mo. (250)769-3002 2BD nicely reno’d, by Capri creek, NS, NP. Ref’s. Adults, vac. $950.718-8866, 860-9115 2BD suite, avail soon, NS, NP. 2775 Dunster Rd. 250-7659471, 718-6505 3BD, 1bth, Rutland, recent reno, NS, NP, not suitable fir younger children. $1025. Lndry hook-ups. 250-763-9693 3BD. 2 full ba., gas fp, lg. sundeck, $1300. 1353 Friesen Rd. Kelowna, 778-753-3556 950+SF. 2bd. 1ba., open flrplan, w/attch’d. deck, nwer appl, +shr’d. w/d, hw/tile flrs., 2-prkng $1000. utils/int. incl., 808-3197msg. Avail. immed. miles_78@hotmail.com BRIGHT, Cozy, Upper 1bd Furnished Suite Near Lake, College & Shops. Responsible NS Adult, NP. $750 Incl. 250762-0317 lve mgs at 6rings.
Cars - Domestic
Helmets Accessories Parts
OUR CARS LAST! 1996 Chev Cavelier, $1600 obo, 200K, great on gas, ABS, AC, CDZ playing. New brakes. Call Judy 878-7124 1998 Audi A4 quattro, V6, 5spd, $4700 obo. 250-3071215. 1998 Mercury Mystique, loaded, 8 gd tires, well maintained $3000.obo. 250-767-6216. 1998 Pontiac Firebird Conv. only 69,000K, closest offer to $11,900. Call (250)549-6897 2002 CHEVY Cavalier Z22. White. 5 Speed Manual, driver and passenger air bags, am/fm cd player, only 80kms! Regularly Serviced, brand new battery, runs great, very gas efficient. Call Roman at 250762-9424 or 250-575-1107. 2003 MITSUBISHI Gallant SE, 1-owner car, excl shape, $6200 obo. 250-768-8110 2004 Toyota CE, grey, 4cyl, auto, pwr. cruise, keyless ent., anti-theft, 130ks, dealer serv’d. $9,500. 250-762-9524 2005 Nissan Centra, 4cyl auto, AC, PW, PL, only 125k, priced to sell, $7795. 250-863-3100 2006 CHEVY Caprice, mind cond, 47,000kms., 5spd. sport, asking $7900. 250-469-4056 2007 Toyota Camry, only 11,550kms, cleared from all recalls, still has warrenty, 2.4L fuel inj., 158hp, 4dr, 5spd auto, loaded. Paid $34,000, asking $23,000 obo. Call 250769-7849 2008 Pontiac Torrent: Full load, automatic, Podium Edition, 31631km. To arrange for viewing please call Asscoiated bailiffs at 250-860-3132 2008 VW Golf 36,000 kms, standard, clean, extra set winter tires, one owner, $15,500 obo. 250-838-6760 WHITE 1992 Lincoln Towncar, 4dr Sedan. $1999. Exec driven. Call 250-764-8669
Cars - Sports & Imports 1981 Mercedes 380SL convertible, softop & hardtop, exc.cond. $14,500 Peter 250542-0284 1985 Mercedes diesel camperized Van, 5spd, high roof, exc.cond $14,500. Peter 250542-0284. 1987 Mercedes 300 SDL, 332,000kms, diesel, auto, a/c, leather, cruise, summer & winter tires, injectors rebuilt. $3000 +GST. 250-308-1616. 1998 Saturn, 210,000kms, 4d, a/c, standard, $2000 OBO (250)307-8070 1999 Mercedes, Sport convt.,230SLK, excellent, shape, silver. Priced to sell $15,900. obo.250-307-4840. 2003 As new, Senior driven Subaru, 5,230 gently driven kms, $12,900. (250)558-7975 2004 Acura TL, full load, leather, roof, dealer serviced. $17,750 OBO (250)545-6396 2005 Acura EL, silver, 4dr, sunroof, heated leather seats, climate control, 53,000kms, incl.winter tires on rims, manual, all serviced at Acura. $14,000. 250-309-4920. 2006 MAZDA 6 Sport GT 5door. 215hp V6, Triptonic 6 spd auto w/od. Air, cruise, keyless entry, power everything incl sunroof, heated mirrors, cd player. Only 58,000km. $15,900 obo. 250-763-1595 2006 SUBARU Legacy Wagon w/touring pkg. Automatic symmetrical all wheel drive . Blk 123,000 km well maintained asking $10700 Call Randy 250-212-4317 email rpstuart@shaw.ca 2007 VW Beetle Convertible, 38,000kms, 2.5L, auto, a/c, heated seats, CD, full load, $17,500. Chris 250-938-0347 MERCEDES 230SLK sport convertible, 140K, excellent cond., only $16,500. Best Offer 250-469-4056
144A Old Vernon Rd 491-8570 1984 Suzuki GV1200 Madura V4, all original, new tires $4200 OBO (250)275-4968 2003 Kawi Z 1000, met blk, 22,000kms, , great cond. lots of extras, travel bags & 2 sets of gear $5999. 250-308-6124. 2005 HD Night Train, 20,000km. 2yr. extended warranty, saddle bags, detachable backrest, elect. sec. sys., windshield, Screaming Eagle pipes, 1yr old battery, newer tires $9,900. 250-860-7785 86 750cc Shadow, fine cond. bags, windshield, collectable or starter $2700. 861-8687 LEARN to ride from the most experienced instructors in the BC interior. Small class size; courses start every two weeks. Use our bike for the road test at no extra charge. www.vtwinokanagan.ca or 250-764-7075
Off Road Vehicles 1998 Yamaha Grizzly 600, 4x4 quad w/accessories, very good shape. $4250. Call 250454-6756 $AVE E-SCOOTER $ALE *Brand New* E-Scooter $779 Kids Dirtbike/ATV Start@$249 Adult@ $1499 Buggie, UTV, etc. www.KDMSports.com 1-866-203-0906/250-863-1123
Recreational/Sale
Recreational/Sale 1995 9’6 Bigfoot Camper, N/S bed, fully self contained, exc cond. $8750 obo. Call 250764-0976 1998 22’ Chevy, fully equip’d., 8cyl 350 engine, upper/lower. beds, 113,500kms. Asking $19,000. 250-491-3882 1998 Topaz 5th wheel, 29.5’, large slide, excl cond., micro, furnace, queen size bed. $13,500. 778-478-1890 2000 22’ Travelaire Rustler lite, fully equipped, very clean, front bdrm, many extras, asking $9,000. 250-768-6640 2006 9’ Okanagan truck camper, solar panel, fantastic fan, M/W, rear awning, skylight w/blind $13,000. 250-5420672. 2007 Montana 3400 RL 5th wheel, fully loaded, incl lrg kit., FP, onboard 3600 wa Onan gen. Unit is in exc cond. 2008 Ford F350 crew cab, King Ranch, 1 ton dually, diesel, fully loaded and then some, only 44,000kms. Will sell 5th wheel sep. To view pls call 250-8696594 23’ 5th Wheel 1997 Coachman Catalina, ex. shape, very low miles $9000.250-878-6173 Newmar Class A RV, 35ft, 2003 Mountain Aire with 2 slides, many extras, only 45,000kms, GM 8.1lt V8, exc. cond., $79,900, 250-493-0358 SACRIFICE -Medical Reasons. Save 1000’s now-HST coming! 2005 Corsair Excella 10’8” Camper, bought new 2006 used 2 days. Generator “Happi-Jak”, electric jacks, full n/s queenbed, sep. shower, o/s shower, heated tanks, bsmnt storage, new batteries regulator, canopy, many more features. Beautiful unit. FORD F350 Dually, crew cab everything rebuilt or replaced, gas 460, runs great. Unit replacement value over $48,000. Reasonable offers to $29,450. May consider Camper sale separately call 250-769-6010
Scrap Car Removal SCRAP BATTERIES WANTED We buy scrap batteries from cars & trucks & heavy equipment. $2 and up/each. Free pick-up anywhere in BC, Minimum 10. Call Toll Free 1.877.334.2288
1985 Class C Empress MH, exc.cond. lots of extras, sleeps 6, Asking $12,700 obo. 250545-2015, 250-307-4899. 1988 - 21.5 FIFTH WHEEL. GOOD condition. Tows easily by half-ton truck. Awning, Fridge/Freezer, Stove, Microwave, 3 piece Bathroom. $4,300 OBO. 250-768-4050 or l_simpson@shaw.ca 1988 Citation Supreme, Class C, DUAL FUEL, all options, vg cond, Gen.set, (250)546-9691 1988 Vangaurd MH. 350 Ford chassis. Only 46,000kms. New fridge, starter & tires, canopy, dual air, power plant. Very clean, sleeps 6. 14mpg on hwy. 250-860-4102. $14,000 1990 Skipper 5th Wheel 19’, tandem axle trailer, 3pc. bath, c/w hitch, ex. cond. $4000obo. 250-765-2238 aft. 6:30pm.
1988 Ford XLT F150 ext cab, 302 auto, canopy, runs perfect, great worker or starter pu. $1600 obo. 778-478-1770 1991 Chev 350 4x4, 286ks., runs excell., all pwr. opt’s, $2000.obo, 765-2238 aft.6:30 1993 F250 460 propane/gas, 4x4, winch, canopy. $4100 obo. 250-308-6766. 1997 International 4900-DT 466E flat deck Eaton 6 spd Tranny, air brakes 33000 km on new engine CV Inspection, steel deck good rubber Fassi F145 Knuckle Boom with forks & straps. $24900 Ray 250 308-0157 1998 Ford F150 4x4, ext/cab, 4.6 auto, canopy, very good cond $4,900 (250)306-3787
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Glenmore-Ellison Improvement District
INFORMATION for District Water Users 445 Glenmore Rd., Kelowna, BC V1V 1Z6 Phone (250)763-6506 Fax (250)763-5688 www.glenmoreellison.com
NOTICE to the residents of the Ellison, Glenmore & Quail Ridge areas The District will commence its spring water main flushing March 22nd - April 21st, 2010 as follows:
• Glenmore Rd West Side . - March 22-26 • Glenmore Rd East Side - March 29 - April 2 • Ellison & Glenmore Bench (east side of Valley Rd to Hwy 97) - April 6-9 • Wilden - April 12-14 • Quail Ridge & Dry Valley Rd - April 14-16 • UBCO Zone - UBCO Campus and Kelowna Int’l Airport areas - April 19-21 Flushing occurs between the hours of 8:00 am and 3:30 pm. Avoid doing laundry during these times. During this period you may experience variations in the water pressure and some discoloration in the water. If you experience discoloration, run the cold-water tap until the water runs clear. To avoid any inconvenience, check your water for clarity prior to using. You can visit the GEID website: www.glenmoreellison.com to view any changes to the scheduled dates and when GEID crews will be in your particular area. Residents wishing direct notification about spring flushing in their specific area can email hbauer.geid@shaw.ca. Please include your street address in your email request.
Trucks & Vans
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2000 Chevy, 1500 4x4, reg. cab, L/B, 4.8, auto, 160K, very good cond. $5500 306-5362 2000 Ford F350 crew cab, short box, 4x4, 7.3 diesel, auto, lariate, loaded w/leather, $17,500 obo. 250-546-0994 2006 Dodge Ram, 2500, 4x4, hemi, auto, cr/cab, L/B, great cond, $13,900 (250)503-0320 2006 GMC 3500 4x4, diesel, auto, Crewcab longbox $26,400. 250-545-5394 D10160 www.teskovernon.com 2006 TOYOTA van, 7-pass, excellent cond., $13,500. 250764-7665 2007 Chevy Silverado, 4x4, 2500HD, 4dr, 117,000kms, full load, $21,500. 778-475-0521.
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1992 FORD F250 SUPERCAB. 215,000KMS. CLEAN. NEW TIRES, RUNS GOOD. $2500 OBO. 250-317-4003 Need Cash? Cash Factory Loans offers Payday, CTB, EI, & Pension Loans up to $800, collateral Loans up to $10,000, now offering Cheque Cashing & Tax Returns! Money in Minutes! 1756 Springfield across from Rona or 250-869-1499 OLDER reliable ‘81 GMC 1/2 ton PU c/w canopy, mechanically A1. $900 obo. 250-7687721
Utility Trailers SNOWBEAR util trailer, 2007, ATV or bike. $1000 obo. 1983 Honda 185 S, 4stroke, good shape, $1200 obo. Call 250861-4925
Boats 24’ Pontoon Boat w/trailer, 90hp Nissan 2stroke, upholstery needs TLC $11,000 OBO, 18’ Mirage Bowrider, 4.3L engine, 160hrs, black & white, $9400 OBO, 2005 Johnson 9.9 2stroke, brand new, never used. $2400 OBO (250)558-0618 Project boat, 1948 wood Sailboat, trailer, some restoration done. Great project for someone, Offers. (250)558-3777
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CUISINE from Jude’s kitchen Easter eggs Ham has always graced our table at Easter. It’s a tradition, like the annual Easter egg hunt. But, what I love most about ham is all the wonderful ways it inspires meals after it’s first served. Leftovers, in other words! It makes wonderful leftovers. But, I wonder if you’ve ever taken the leftover scalloped potatoes, which are frequently served with ham, to the next level as well? A quick and easy breakfast after the ham dinner, is a frypan full of ham bits and the leftover scalloped potatoes. Freshen it up with a few green onions and the crowd that’s hanging around for the long weekend, will love it. Easter morning, however, is another matter. Usually, I rely on scrambled eggs to serve breakfast to a bunch of people, with all sorts of additions, depending on the occasion. But for something quite special, put them into a pie shell or two and pop them into the oven for breakfast, brunch or lunch. It’s an Italian tradition; one that apparently varies, depending on what part of the country you’re from. Try it. It could become a new tradition in your family. If you’ve enjoyed some of the 600-plus food columns I’ve written for the Kelowna Capital News over the years, perhaps you’d like a copy of the book called Jude’s Kitchen in which I’m gathering together some of my favourite recipes from over the years. It’s being published by the Okanagan Institute this fall, and you can reserve a copy by going to my website at: www.judiesteeves.com
JUDIE STEEVES / CAPITAL NEWS
Ham Hash Browned with Scalloped Potatoes Once you've made the scalloped potatoes and the ham dinner, this is just a piece of cake. They're so good together, it just makes sense to put any leftovers in a pan for a brunch or lunch the next day, doesn't it? If your dinner guests didn't leave you any scalloped potatoes, just grate fresh, raw potatoes into a buttered pan and press down on them with the spatula. Then add the minced ham and green onions to the top. Cut it into wedges to flip and brown the other side—unless you're making only a small amount in a small pan and you can flip the whole thing. 2 c. (500 ml) ham cubes
4 c. (1 l) leftover scalloped potatoes 2 tbsp. (30 ml) butter 4 green onions salt and pepper, to taste Cube ham and slice green onions. Melt butter in a large frypan over medium-high heat and add ham cubes and potatoes. Cook and turn in the pan until nearly heated through and brown. Add green onions, white parts first. Garnish the top with the green tops of the onions. Serves 6.
Easter Pie with Cheese This is my adaptation of an Italian Easter pie,traditionally served for breakfast or presented to family members to take home with them at Easter. Yes, it’s a bit like a hearty quiche, and it’s supposed to have a top crust as well, but I didn’t give mine one. We did try a glass of the Mission Hill 2007 Select Lot Collection Chardonnay with this, and its buttery-smooth fruit flavours and citrus notes paired well with the silky richness of the pie, and its spicy cheese and meat. 1 9-inch pie shell 1 small onion 4.5 oz. (128 g) fresh spinach 1.5 oz. (43 g) pepperoni 1.5 oz. (43 g) cheddar cheese 1 oz. (29 g) mozzarella cheese .3 oz. (9 g) fresh parmesan 2 eggs 1/2 c. (125 ml) milk
salt and pepper, to taste Pre-heat oven to 350 F. Finely chop onion and spinach. Slice pepperoni and grate cheeses. Drizzle a little olive oil in a deep frypan and soften onion over medium heat. Add spinach and wilt briefly. Push to the side to add the sliced pepperoni to the middle of the pan and turn off the heat. Toss it all with the grated mozzarella cheese. Beat eggs and milk. Arrange the spinach mix over the bottom of the pie shell and top with the cheddar cheese. Pour milk mixture evenly over the pie, season it all with salt and freshly-ground black pepper, and top with grated fresh parmesan cheese. Bake for about 40 or 45 minutes, or until the cheese on top is melted and browning. Serves 4-6.
Contact Jude’s Kitchen at The Kelowna Capital News, 2495 Enterprise Way, Kelowna, B.C. , V1X 7K2; jsteeves@kelownacapnews.com
Some simple guidelines for readers of Jude's Kitchen There are some basics about my cooking that you should know about in using the recipes created for Jude’s Kitchen. *I mean a large egg when a recipe calls for an egg *usually, butter and margarine are interchangeable *usually, salt and pepper is added to your taste *I generally use sea salt
*fresh ingredients top frozen or canned *organic products are my first choice *wherever possible, I use whole grains, not processed *include a variety of them, when possible *wherever possible, I use fresh herbs *fewer quantities of dried herbs are needed than fresh
*I use extra virgin olive oil *I use grapeseed or olive oil to cook with *I don’t deep fry *feel free to substitute. I do *have fun in the kitchen *encourage others to as well
C SECTION • SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2010 • CAPITAL NEWS
WESTSIDE W CLAIM
WFN keeps interest in Mt. Boucherie alive Jason Luciw STAFF REPORTER
The Westbank First Nation is making it clear it still has an active claim to the prominent and symbolic landmark that is Mount Boucherie. WFN Chief Robert Louie has raised the issue as the District of West Kelowna prepares to take possession of Mount Boucherie Regional Park from the Central Okanagan Regional District. The regional district will still operate the open space as a regional park with the District of West Kelowna’s permission. Meanwhile, Louie says he has no problem with the change in the park’s ownership, but he wants to make it clear to everyone that his band is opposed to any expansion of the park. The band is also opposed to further private ownership of the remaining Crown lands on Mount Boucherie because it is WFN traditional territory. “Certainly we have no intentions of just letting that go,” said Louie. “In fact, if the regional district and the District of West Kelowna expand any of their boundaries, they must always be mindful of the WFN’s traditional claims in this region, including Mount Boucherie.” Mount Boucherie is of significance to both West Kelowna and the WFN for several reasons. Not only does the mountain sit in almost the geographical centre of the District of West Kelowna, the young municipality made the landmark part of its logo and has two parks, roads and other infrastructure on the mountain. As for the native band,
Robert Louie the mountain has deep meaning for the Westbank people, according to elder Delphine Derickson. The syilx or Okanagan word for Mount Boucherie is kilawna lh’kut (phonetic spelling; syilx words are not capitalized), which means grizzly bear lying down, she explained. From the proper vantage point in Rose Valley, the shape of the grizzly bear lying down is clearly seen, with its head to the north. “I once knew the story connected to it, but I don’t know it any more. I was only told it once, but that elder who told me is no longer with us. I wish I wrote it down,” she commented. Derickson said kilawna lh’kut is significant to the syilx because of its Saskatoon, sunflower and bitterroot crops, which the mountain’s south slope was once covered with. “I used to walk up there long before there were houses there and gather them. Unfortunately the subdivision destroyed many Saskatoon, sunflower and bitterroot crops,” Derickson concluded. Louie said the untouched portions of the mountain remain importSee WFN C4
$ “Your Space Place” 2575 Ross Rd.
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MOVIE GUYS…Capitol Theatre manager Rick Davis and employee Brady Sawatsky ham it up for the camera, donning 3-D glasses, which movie goers will need April 1, when the Westside movie house presents its first digital 3-D movie, a modern adaptation of Clash of the Titans.
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Capitol Theatre catches 3-D digital wave Jason Luciw STAFF REPORTER
Movie buffs, hold onto your seats! Capitol Theatre manager Rick Davis says the latest craze in cinema, digital 3-D, comes to the Westside on April 1. The first movie to show in digital 3-D at the Capitol will be the modern adaptation of the 1981 film Clash of the Titans, starring Sam Worthington, of Avatar fame, as Perseus and academy award-nominated actors Liam Neeson as Zeus and Ralph Fiennes as Hades. Davis, a columnist for the Capital News and a movie aficionado, calls
digital 3-D “the biggest evolution in movies since the invention of the motion picture.” “It’s a whole new projector,” he explained. Film has been the format for movies since Thomas Edison and William Dickson created the first 35-millimetre projector, called the kinetoscope, in the 1890s, said Davis. “While some of the major (film) advances have been to go from the silent film to the talkie, black and white to colour, mono sound to stereo and a few different formats in the picture, what has happened now is that we’ve gone from film to all digit-
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Once theatres can afford to switch all their projectors to digital, film will become obsolete, Davis said. “The average film is five to seven metres long.” In contrast, a digital hard drive holds more than 200 gigabytes of information, said Davis. To put that in perspective, a typical DVD holds 4.7 gigabytes and a Blu-ray has about a 50-gigabyte capacity. It’s taken nearly two decades to perfect digital 3-D to the point it could be projected on the big screen, according to Davis. “It’s taken a long time
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is finished at the theatre, the content is deleted from the projector. Unfortunately, because the projectors are so expensive, Davis couldn’t hazard a guess at how long it would take for the Capitol’s four remaining film projectors to be replaced. He also noted that each digital 3-D cinema must have a new screen, one that is painted silver to enhance the projection’s reflection out to the moviegoer. “Now when we say ‘the silver screen,’ we’ll really mean the silver screen.” jluciw@kelownacapnews.com
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Improved accessibility in West Kelowna Jason Luciw STAFF REPORTER
To the able bodied the improvements may seem minor, but to those who require a little more effort to get around accessibility upgrades at the District of West Kelowna are a big deal. Mayor Doug Findlater and Jacinthe Gomes with the Westside Special Needs Advisory Committee cut the ribbon Thursday afternoon on a new ramp at municipal hall, which will enable the disabled to reach council chambers more easily and inconspicuously. Until now, the physically challenged, particularly those in wheelchairs had to enter council chambers through a door at the front of the room.
If the disabled were late for any reason, the access door had to be opened, disrupting the council meeting and putting a potentially discomforting focus on the person in the wheelchair as they maneuvered to a place in the audience while the meeting carried on. “They can now come into a council meeting or do business in this part of the building basically with dignity,” said Findlater. “We’re a democratic institution…and people should have equal access.” Gomes thanked West Kelowna for the improvement, saying municipal hall is now one of the most accessible buildings in the municipality and serves as an example for other buildings. “We’re all one step
away from disability and so it’s important that as we’re growing as a community to (make) it as accessible as possible,” said Gomes. An accident can happen tomorrow and one never knows when they too might find themselves with a disability, added onlooker Stacey Hawes. Businesses looking to follow the municipality’s lead and improve accessibility at their premises are welcome to call for their own audit, said Gomes. “We are ready to (help) with any business. We just want them to invite us. It’s free of charge.” Call 250-768-4834. Gomes commented that businesses should realize more than the disabled require accessibility
improvements. “You see people with baby buggies, they use (ramps) too,” she continued. “In the long run, we all benefit.” The special needs organization did a surprise audit of municipal hall two months ago and found the building was actually quite accessible, according to Findlater. Fortunately at the time of the audit the ramp was under construction because otherwise the building might not have scored as well, he noted. “Despite it being an old building it is a pretty good building for access.” Findlater noted that other minor improvements have also been made to Royal LePage Place arena, where a railing was recently lowered
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Hawes, Coun. Carol Zanon, Cesar Gomes, Coun. David Knowles walk down the new ramp the West Kelowna has built to improve access to council chambers. and new shatterproof glass was installed on the upper concourse to improve an observation deck for people in wheelchairs. Findlater said as the municipality grows and
takes on new services and buildings, staff will be asked to work to ensure they too are accessible. “When the irrigation district transition is complete, we know there are
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he Westbank First Nation band council’s closed-door policy and members-only attitude are baffling and archaic. The WFN claims to be a progressive band, yet it shies away from modern principals of equal access, openness and transparency in government by denying media and the general public attendance at council meetings. This gives the impression the band is intolerant of outsiders and has things to hide, whether that’s true or not. These matters of openness and transparency are being raised incidentally because this week the band council debated and subsequently rejected a media request to attend meetings. WFN director of operations James Montain vaguely explained council’s decision.
“You may be aware that non-members of WFN can only attend a council meeting at the pleasure of the council. After due consideration of your Jason request, council has Luciw declined,” wrote Montain in an e-mail to the Capital News. “I hope you understand (their) decision.” In fact, the decision is difficult to understand for several reasons. For starters, based on Montain’s explanation, approximately 8,000 non-members who pay taxes to the band are also wrongly excluded from attending the same meetings. If people are paying taxes to a government, those taxpayers should be permitted to at least attend the meetings where decisions impacting their wallets are being made. And since it’s impossible for all 8,000 non-member reserve residents to attend the meetings, the media
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should be permitted and report on behalf of taxpayers. Similarly, even the WFN’s 700 members could not feasibly attend council meetings all at once, even though the meetings are open to them. Therefore, it can be argued that media should be permitted to attend and report on band business on their behalf as well. Next, it should be noted that the WFN is managing the $41 million Westside Road interchange project, which B.C. taxpayers are funding. When the WFN council makes decisions concerning the management of that project, the media should be there to report back to the general public on how the council is handling their money. Another reason for open council meetings is the band’s symbiotic relationship with the District of West Kelowna, Peachland and the rural area surrounding those municipalities. West Kelowna’s parks, recreation and fire departments and the Central Okanagan Regional District’s landfill
and sewer plant serve the Westbank First Nation. Decisions the WFN council makes on supporting or refusing these services impacts its partners and the media should be there to report on those matters too. Neighbours living in West Kelowna also deserve to know the band’s plans for development on its reserves next door, so they can weigh in on how these developments would impact them. Media plays a role in informing residents of these plans and educating them on how to provide input to the band, so council can in turn consider how these developments impact their neighbours. But if for no other reason, the Westbank First Nation should allow media into its meetings as a point of living up to its word. When the WFN negotiated the right to self-government five years ago, it was understood that council would allow media and the general public to attend their meetings, much
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like any other government would. Instead, by closing itself off, the chief and councillors are sending the message that the WFN plays by a different set of rules than other governments and is content to exclude outsiders on a whim. Closed doors and exclusive behaviour reflect poorly on a first nation that is otherwise so very progressive. It’s also a poor image for the WFN to be projecting when it’s attempting to give businesses and residents good reasons to build, set up shop and buy homes on its land. If West Kelowna, Peachland or the regional district have no trouble being transparent, then clearly Westbank First Nation’s council shouldn’t have any problem doing so as well. Jason Luciw is the Capital News’ Westside reporter. He can be heard on AM 1150s Open Line with Phil Johnson and West Kelowna Mayor Doug Findlater from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. every second Wednesday of the month. jluciw@kelownacapnews.com
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eing different has never been easy. But lately it seems Canada is going through another one of its phases of, let’s just say, “challenges”. This week, the Fraser Health Authority released an official apology for cutting off the beard of an elderly Sikh patient. Meanwhile, a 17-year-old Sikh claims five white men jumped him, ripped off his turban and cut off his hair. Both are examples of what happens when people let fear and ignorance rule their lives. Fear of differences prompts people to some-
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Karin Wilson times take horrible actions, as certainly would be the case in any attack like the one the 17-yearold described. As for the nurse, I’m sure she didn’t viciously shave the beard – she probably just didn’t think about it. But with Sikhs living in B.C. for nearly 100 years, ignorance really
isn’t much of an excuse. But all this pales in comparison to what is happening in Quebec where the fear of difference is now being played out deep in the corridors of power. This week, Quebec tabled legislation that prohibits Muslim women from wearing face coverings if they want to work in the public sector or even need to get some kind of government service. It’s a move that makes a clear “us versus them” statement and aligns the province closely with some of the practices being carried out
in France, which smack more of xenophobia than any kind of equality. The Quebec government claims it is protecting the rights of women by making this choice. I would argue that any Muslim woman who has the qualifications to take on a government job is probably well integrated into Canadian society already and has a pretty strong sense of who she is as a person. As for getting government service, that’s ridiculous. Is the government going to bar someone with piercings now? Or offensive tattoos? A woman’s desire to cover herself for religious purposes is her own. And yes, I’m saying that as a feminist. As for whether wear-
ing a head covering sends a signal to others? Sure it does. We, the majority, might not feel comfortable with it but that’s our problem. This all seemed to get started when a Muslim woman was banished from wearing her head covering while taking an ESL class in Montreal. The argument was her face couldn’t be seen so it was impossible for her to engage in real conversation or for the instructor to see her mouth to assist her with pronunciation. The classroom issue was quickly politicized and government authorities removed her from the class. It all sounds bizarre to me. If a Muslim woman doesn’t learn how to pro-
nounce words in English, the natural consequence is going to be that she will have problems communicating with others. So be it. People fail to grasp our quirky language for all kinds of reasons, let alone a bit of cloth. Baring her from getting an education isn’t a logical response on any level. So what does all this have to do with any kind of spiritual principle? Simple. At our highest level, we are all one. We are here to help each other, respect each other’s differences and make our world a better place. That’s it. Preventing others from being who they are —whether that means expressing their religious beliefs, be they gay, lesbian or bisexual, or
whether they are Asian, African or South American—and then making them somehow wrong because of it, flies in the face of honouring the best of who we are. We are an evolving people. With time we all change, we grow, we take on new ideas and leave old ones behind. How we choose to evolve is for each of us to decide for ourselves. Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once said the government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. I don’t think it has any business in our closets either. Karin Wilson is a journalist and staff minister at the Centre for Spiritual Living in Kelowna. karinwilson@telus.net.)
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ourselves in less of a bargaining position. To maintain the purity of our negotiations we could never let go any more of Mount Boucherie.” Louie said the band is currently in the process of preparing litigation to settle all of its rights and title claims in the Central Okanagan with the federal and provincial governments. The band suspended its involvement in the B.C. treaty process in November because talks weren’t
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as they seem. I don’t know all the facts of this case, but I can tell you that I include innocent motorists in car crash lawsuits on a regular basis. My motivation for doing so is not dishonest, though. Rather, it is to prevent an insurance company from squirming out of paying what I consider fair compensation to my injured client. It shouldn’t be necessary. Because of the motor vehicle liability insurance monopoly in British Columbia, the insurance company paying the claims is the same, re-
gardless of who causes the crash. It shouldn’t matter who is named in the lawsuit. The way our laws work, however, it does matter. If you fail to name a responsible party in a car crash lawsuit, you risk saying goodbye to some, or all, of the compensation that you would otherwise be entitled to. You may be really, really sure which motorist caused a crash. You saw it with your own eyes. You clearly remember which motorist was facing a red light and which was facing a green. You tell your lawyer that the one facing the red is the one who was at fault. A lawsuit is started. Four years later, there is a trial. You are still really clear about what happened.
The other witnesses, however, are less so. The insurance company puts everything they’ve got into proving that the driver facing the green light was really the one who caused the crash. The court is swayed. The case is dismissed against the driver you sued. Why would the insurance company do that? Isn’t it going to have to pay regardless of who is found to be at fault? Actually, no. Most people think that a claim for compensation for crash injuries is made against the insurance company. It’s not. The claim is made against the driver who caused the crash. The insurance company steps in to defend the claim. If the driver is ordered to pay compensation, the insurance company steps in and makes that pay-
ment. If you bring your lawsuit against the wrong driver, the lawsuit will be dismissed, and no one will be ordered to pay compensation. The insurance company adds to its hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. It is standard practice for personal injury lawyers to name all drivers as defendants in a car crash lawsuit This avoids the unfairness that can arise if the driver we name, who we think is at fault, is found at trial to not be at fault. The fact that all drivers are protected by insurance means that none of them face any personal financial jeopardy. It’s a shell game. The dollars required to provide compensation for the injured victim come out of the same very
deep insurance company pocket regardless. The collateral damage arising from this standard practice is that some completely innocent motorists are sued. I deeply regret the distress this may cause and hope those innocent motorists are reassured that the insurance company will take care of everything, just like they do for the guilty ones. The unacceptable alternative is the risk that another innocent motorist is deprived of compensation for his or her injuries. 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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However, the costs of accommodating the Jays in the long term could cost as much as $623,000 for lighting, bleachers to seat up to 500 people and concessions upgrades. Therefore, staff will continue to explore with the Jays the possibility of their moving to West Kelowna and how future upgrades would be paid for, including possible fundraising in cooperation with the Jays and West Kelowna Minor Baseball and potential grant opportunities.
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round the world at any given time there are up to a couple of thousand Canadians in foreign jails. The majority are in U.S. prisons and not for political reasons. Some have been convicted of non-violent crimes, some are there because of very serious and violent offenses. We have an international prisoner transfer agreement with countries like the US. In certain cases a prisoner in one country may request to be transferred back to the nation of their citizenship. If both countries agree on a particular request then the transfer takes place. When the crime is a
Stockwell Day very serious one, the government of the country in which the crime took place may not want to send the perpetrator home. In other cases, the home country of the criminal may not want to bring a serious, repeat violent offender back home right away.
The year before I was public safety minister, the former Liberal government granted home-coming to 98 per cent of convicted Canadian criminals who asked for it. And the year before that, one the federal Liberals granted repatriation to all requests from criminals. The Conservative government stopped that automatic revolving door process and went to a system of considering each case on its merit. It didn’t take long until we began to be challenged on our policy of not automatically opening our arms (and neighbourhoods) to every criminal’s request. So, to protect our
policy position (and our law-biding citizens) we introduced this week, legislation that will help our position stand up in court. This new legislation will help us to continue to protect our communities from the most serious repeat and violent offenders. This week we also introduced legislation to make the sex offender registry more effective and protective. Previous to this, many cases of perpetrators of crimes against children were not required by judges to be on the registry. That will change with the new law. Also, any Canadian
convicted of sex crimes in another country will be required to have their name added to the Canadian registry. And convicted sex offenders will also be required to register their DNA in a national data bank. We want to make sure our citizens, especially our children, are being properly protected. ••• On a more local issue, the Penticton Indian Band has been in court negotiations with the CPR (not the government) regarding parts of the KVR trail. The band has claimed for many years that the CPR acquired that land wrongly from them.
Now it appears that an agreement in principle has been reached between the band and the CPR. When they finally come to an official agreement, all parties have declared they will seek input from the public who may feel affected by any transfer of title. I recently discussed this matter with Chief Jonathan Kruger. He is personally committed to working with the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen on a process of public input once the negotiations between the band and the CPR are complete. ••• And, on a final note, the Paralympics have
ended in Vancouver in a mood of public jubilation and pride at what our athletes accomplished on the world stage. I attended sledge hockey and wheel chair curling. Simply put, these events, along with the other winter contests, were as thrilling and exciting as you can imagine. It made me feel prouder than ever of what we Canadians can do when we aim for golden excellence.
Stockwell Day is the Conservative MP for Okanagan-Coquihalla and Canada’s president of the Treasury Board.
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Highway markers expected by June Mileage markers indicating the distance to West Kelowna are to be changed before summer. District of West Kelowna operations manager Gordon Brown said fhe has spoken with the local Ministry of Transporttation signage technician rand the ministry plans tto start on changes the second week in April after the start of the province’s new fiscal year.
“The province has allocated $30,000 for this particular project,” said Brown. “The area manager is going to come down from Kamloops to do an assessment of all the (highway) signs that need to be changed out.” After the inventory is completed, the ministry will send the manufacturing order to its sign fabricators in May, with instal-
lation expected on area highways in June. On another signage note, council has agreed to spend up to $7,500 on solar-powered lighting for its new Welcome to West Kelowna entrance signage to be placed north of the Glenrosa Interchange and south of Friends’ Pub on Boucherie Road. The money will come from council’s contingency fund.
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Locals take five medals at national Karate championships Mike Ditson CONTRIBUTED
Four athletes from the Taneda Karate Dojo represented British Columbia at the 2010 Karate Canada national championships in Toronto from March 19 to 21. Coulson Boothe,17, Danielle Kumalae, 15, Claire Boothe, 15, and Sukhresh Kaloty, also 15, brought back five medals— two silvers and three bronze. Coulson Boothe was competing in his third national championships and had to compete in the largest Kata (forms) division of the tournament. There were 16 athletes from across the country in this 16/17-year-old division. It was a very tough division that was stacked with competitors with a lot of international experience including medalists at the Pan-American level. Coulson performed to the best of his ability on the day of competition and was able to win the bronze medal. Coulson was also part of the boy’s 16/17-year
old Team Kumite team that captured the silver medal. It was luck that got Coulson on this team in the first place. At the B.C. team selection tournament, Coulson did not qualify for his own individual Kumite division but the coaches felt confident with Coulson’s previous nationals experience and selected him to be part of the Team Kumite. During the Team Kumite competition Coulson won his first two fights 7-0 and 5-1. In his third fight, in the gold medal match, Coulson was matched up against one of the best fighters from Quebec and the coaches asked Coulson to get a tie in this match if possible. Coulson fought the best he could and was able to keep the match 0-0. Unfortunately the remainder of the matches did not go B.C.’s way and the team had to settle with the silver medal. Danielle Kumalae was competing in her second nationals and had an amazing tournament. Danielle, competing in the
girls 14/15-54 kg Kumite division, managed to fight her way all the way to the gold medal match. Kumalae fought a very strategic match in the final that ended up going into overtime. Although she did not win the gold, the match was very close and was decided by only one point. By finishing second in her division, she was selected to the Canadian national team and may represent Canada in the future. She was also part of the Girls 14/15 Team Kumite team that captured the bronze medal. Kaloty was fighting in his first nationals and had two very good fights. He lost his first fight to the eventual gold medalist but was able to come back in the repechage and win a bronze medal. He made it onto the B.C. team by beating his opponents at the team selection tournament by a combined score of 19-2. Claire Booth competed in one of the toughest 14/15-year-old Kumite divisions at the nationals this year. She lost her first fight against the even-
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NATIONAL BLACK BELT championship competitors (from left): Suhkesh Kaloty, Coulson Boothe, Mike Ditson, Danielle Kumalae and Claire Boothe.
tual gold medalist but the fight was exciting and she fought her heart out. It was a great accom-
plishment for Claire to even qualify for the nationals as she has battled many injuries in the last
few months. The Okanagan was also represented by Lauren Currie from the Ke-
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re you a weekend warrior? Do you only work out or play sports on your days off? Many of us have difficulty finding the time to exercise during the week. Family commitments, long work hours, and household chores can definitely keep us from the leisure sports and activities that we enjoy. For some it is just a matter of being too fatigued from work to even consider adding exercise to the mix. The problem is that if you only exercise for one or two days a week after a full five or six day absence you are setting yourself up for injury. The body never gets used to the challenges of the exercises or sports and therefore doesn’t respond to train-
ing the way it does with regular workouts. More often than not we don’t work out more gently in response to this absence —we work out hardNina er to make up for lost Heyes time. Instead of starting back at running with a short jog and walk, we take on a hilly 10-kilometre course and do it at breakneck speed. Then we can’t walk for four days. Aside from injuries in the gym from doing too much after too long away, the most common weekend warrior damages occur after participation in recreational sports such as running, touch football, tennis, soccer, skiing/boarding, wakeboarding and waterskiing. I’ve seen some really brutal injur-
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ies from ultimate Frisbee. As we get older our bodies simSo what to do? We love to play ply are not as forgiving and we need sports and work out when we have to pay attention to proper training time, and for many of us the only time principles such as warming up, coolwe can seem to find is ing down and stretchon the weekends. We ing. anxiously await our The body needs moment to let loose to be challenged in orand give our sport of der for it to respond choice 110 percent. by way of increased Then we get hurt strength. I’VE SEEN SOME and have to go for Train as you REALLY BRUTAL rehab or rest for weeks play. It’s simple but it INJURIES FROM and weeks. works. Surely there must If you ‘play’ at ULTIMATE FRISBEE. be a better way! running on the weekWhile we may end you need to train not have an excessive the muscles you use amount of time during our for running during the work week to fit in our activity we can week. all schedule small blocks to stay in You need to keep your muscles reasonable shape so that when we go strong and also flexible. If you water to hit a backhand we don’t injure our ski you may not be able to get out on rotator cuff or tear our calf muscle. the water during the work week but
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you can probably fit in a 45-minute workout that is focused on the muscles utilized for water skiing. Increases in intensity and duration should be done progressively. One of the most commonly injured parts of the weekend warrior’s body is the low back. A strong and balanced core can help prevent this. It can be trained at the gym or at home and no special equipment is required. See a trainer so that you can have a program designed that will address the specific areas that are pertinent to your sport or activity. Even with a limited amount of time to work out you can ensure that you are lessening the likelihood of injury. Weekend warriors are much fiercer when they’re not injured. Nina Heyes is a fitness director and certified personal trainer at BodyFit Fitness in West Kelowna.
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n 1962, Rachel Carson galvanized a global environmental movement with her book Silent Spring. Before she wrote about the unexpected consequences of pesticides – including bioaccumulation of toxic molecules up the food chain – scientific innovations such as DDT dazzled us with their promise of greater control over the forces impinging on our lives. We often look to technological fixes without acknowledging our ignorance about how the world works, and then we end up trying to correct the unexpected problems that result. When we began to use CFCs in large amounts, scientists had no idea they might affect the ozone layer. Salmon farms seemed like a good idea, but no one anticipated parasitic sealice outbreaks that would harm wild salmon. Scientists find clever ways to tease out information about our world.
And everywhere we look, we discover new challenges because our knowledge is so primitive. Accumulating toxic pollutants in air, David water, soil, and our Suzuki bodies, vanishing species, loss of nutrients in topsoil; ocean degradation—all these provide warnings that human numbers, consumption, and activity are undermining the very things that keep us alive. Climatologists have accumulated a powerful set of observations and models pointing to fossil-fuel use as the cause of global warming. Obviously, the solution is to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we create so the biosphere can sop up the rest. Some imaginative suggestions would allow us to continue to burn fossil fuels without reduction—giant umbrellas in space to shield the Earth from the sun, aerosols of sulphide to mimic volcanic emissions that reflect sunlight, and so on.
Two that have attracted attention are carbon seeding in oceans and carbon capture and sequestration on land. The first involves putting iron into the oceans to fertilize waters where the lack of carbon limits algae growth. In the lab, it has been shown that adding this carbon to Antarctic Ocean water, for example, leads to massive increases in the algal populations. Companies have been formed on the promise that putting carbon into oceans to induce algal blooms will help absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Now, in a paper in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, scientists report that this process can cause the blooming of plants that produce deadly neurotoxins. Oops. The second suggestion is carbon capture and sequestration. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has avoided discussion about the serious impacts of climate change on Canada and the economic implications of failing to reduce emissions. Instead, government policy is based
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on the fear that reducing emissions will be economically destructive, so we will wait instead for the development of methods to pump carbon dioxide into the ground. This technique is based on an observation that when carbon dioxide is pumped into depleted wells so that more oil can be recovered, the CO2 doesn’t come back out. This has led to a hope that we can capture much of the CO2 from smokestacks, coal plants, and the tar sands and simply inject it into the ground—out of sight, out of mind. But wait. While we once thought that life petered out at bedrock, we now know that life exists up to three kilometres underground. Bacteria from deep underground are so different from anything we know aboveground that we need entire new categories to describe them. Scientists estimate that the weight of all the organisms underground is greater than the weight of all life above it, including whales, trees, and people. Scientists know very little about the role these organisms play in trans-
fer of heat from magma or the flow of nutrients and water in the subterranean world, yet we are contemplating pumping millions of tonnes of CO2 into that mysterious world. I once asked Tullis Onstott of Princeton University, one of the world’s top experts on underground life, what effect CCS might have on them. His reply? “I don’t know, but the methanogens will love it.” “What are methanogens?” I asked. He said they take up carbon dioxide and produce methane, a greenhouse gas 22 times more potent than carbon dioxide! We have so many ways to reduce our emissions and to save money and resources by becoming more efficient. Yet we avoid doing them on the hope of a totally untried technological promise that could have enormous negative consequences. Does this make sense? with Faisal Moola David Suzuki is a scientist and broadcaster based in Vancouver. www.davidsuzuki.org.
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Ware also confirmed that the existing Extra Foods, which is located in the adjacent Westbank Shopping Centre, would be closing once the new Real Canadian Superstore opens. “We anticipate this will happen by the end of 2010. Colleagues at the Extra Foods have been offered the opportunity to transfer their positions over to the new Superstore.” Loblaw’s has talked of several opening dates for its Westbank store over the past three years, at one time hoping it would open the doors in early 2009. Loblaw’s has never officially mentioned what caused the delay in construction, although the company did undergo a restructuring a couple of years ago and then the downturn in the economy followed. “While a number of factors contributed to the construction delay, we are thrilled that we are moving ahead with the new
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GROUNDWORK has started on the new Real Canadian Superstore to be built in Westbank. (Westside) Superstore and can’t wait to open the doors to continue to serve the surrounding community,” Ware commented. Despite the 9,750-square-metre footprint of the new Superstore, the nearby Wal-Mart will retain its crown as the
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fter Spring Break with the kids, many of you are enjoying the extended hours of light that now exist at the end of the day. It is staying light until 7:30 p.m. and will be getting darker later and later each day. This will not only lead to people finding sleep more difficult but will mean earlier rising times if your bedroom happens to face east. So, with all the styles of window treatments available, what are the best? Prices vary according to the weight, composition, liners, cord operation, and string allocation. For a more contemporary look, consider Roman shades, roller shades and panel tracks. If you want a Roman shade on a kitchen window and a panel track on ta sliding glass patio door, you could order both products with different applications but in identi-
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home. The textiles for this treatment are sheer, flowing and semi-opaque. Seamless sheers have a double four-inch hem with uniquely designed wrap-around corners and training tread to provide a long-lasting uniform custom finish. These applications are three times the fullness in fabric. They are ideal for bay windows and bedrooms. Chain control can easily help you in operating your blind to give the right amount of light or total privacy. The glider door vertical blinds are a masterpiece of design and function and offer total light control. Easily maintained, and with more than 300 choices, they are a favorite among homeowners for an auxiliary deck entrance, or basement door to garden. In more of a country styling, is the shutter. Some of its features
and benefits exist in the composition of the application. They are available in wood, poly-satin, wood and aluminum. Each has its own specialty—polysatin are built to last with UV resistant, high-grade outdoor-grade vinyl. Available in as many as five colours, depending on make, there are two louver sizes. Shutters are ideal for areas of high humidity such as bathrooms, kitchens or sunrooms. Wood shutters are made of premium quality North American hardwood, which will resist scratching, have UV inhibitors and colour-fade resistors. With a great number of colours to choose from and two varieties of louver size, there are plenty of styles to choose. Aluminelle shutters are of the highest quality and manufactured from the extruded aluminum. Aluminum strength allows for longer length
Council asked to speed up Westbank revitalization Jason Luciw STAFF REPORTER
Businessman Randall Kovacs has convinced council to find ways to speed up efforts to revitalize Westbank. Frustrated about the old, rundown-looking sections of Westbank, which he referred to as “downtown West Kelowna,” the owner of Natural Harvest on Hoskins Road, went to council earlier this week seeking solutions and wanting answers to why improvement is taking so long. “The decline of downtown West Kelowna has been going on for sometime and it’s become even more apparent with the increase of commercial space on (adjacent) Westbank First Nation’s land,” he said. West Kelowna council must approve improvements to Westbank sooner not later, he added. “I look at (Westbank) as a classic car. She runs, but not on all cylinders and she’s in serious need of restoration. (It) looks much as it did in 1986. This is not acceptable.” After hearing the presentation, Coun. Bryden Winsby empathized with Kovacs but noted there’s only so much council can do for businesses in West-
bank without grassroots efforts to assist the municipality. “It’s going to take champions, perhaps like yourself, who are actually going to get things done because we can only do so much. We can’t get out there and move people quite the same way their colleagues can,” said Winsby. Coun. Duane Ophus, who owns a business in Westbank, said a lot of studying has been done on
how to improve the area over the years without any action. “This process has been very frustrating for a lot of people for a lot of years.” But unlike attempts in the past, West Kelowna council is now proceeding with a study that will have clear, attainable goals. “That’s what this plan is about is coming up with specific, implementable initiatives to transform the area.”
The Westbank Centre Plan is expected to take at least a year to complete, said planning manager Nancy Henderson. Ophus added he expects by this time next year, West Kelowna willbe making improvements in Westbank. Administrator Jason Johnson said West Kelowna could award higher points to consultants during the tender process to those who commit to completing the study sooner.
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