SUMMERLAND REVIEW THE VOICE OF OUR COMMUNITY SINCE 1908
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Land plan to curb sprawl
WHAT’S INSIDE:
Festival fun The 30th annual Summerland Action Festival featured something for all ages.
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Proposed strategy would put growth area near core of town
Tree nursery Summerland has a forestry nursery in place once again.
by John Arendt
Page 3 Recalling stories Summerland Middle School students have worked with seniors to publish a book of Summerland stories.
Page 6 Legion history The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Summerland Legion is marking its 85th anniversary this weekend.
Page 7 Race results Participants took part in the Man of Steel triathlon and the Giant’s Head Run on Saturday.
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YOUR SMILE Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars but check when you say the paint is wet?
PA G E S
Singing out
Carla McLeod Special to the Review
Danny Deane of Aerosmith Rocks, an Aerosmith tribute band, performs some of the band’s greatest hits during a concert in Memorial Park on Sunday afternoon.The concert was part of the 30th annual Summerland Action Festival, which was held on the weekend.
The municipality will consider a plan to develop land close to the core of the community in an attempt to control sprawl. At the May 28 municipal council meeting, council voted to examine an urban growth strategy. The strategy calls for development within a 10-minute walk of the downtown core at Main Street and Victoria Road. At present, development in Summerland has included some residential pockets in agricultural areas, with some clusters of housing surrounded on most or all sides by farms. “This leapfrogging sprawl tends to be very expensive,” said Mayor Janice Perrino. To accommodate such residential growth, the municipality has had to extend its services great distances. In 2008, when the latest Official Community Plan was adopted, the only area set aside for future growth was the site of the proposed Summerland Hills golf resort at the western edge of the community. The proposed development was later abandoned, but no other areas are specified for new residential growth. While she was on council at the time, she did not vote in favour of the Official Community Plan, which passed on a 4-3 vote. “I thought the urban growth plan was appalling,” she said, “but at the time, it looked like the Summerland Hills project was the direction we were going.” See PROPERTIES Page 2
Census shows aging population Median age in Summerland now past 50 by Barbara Manning Grimm Seniors 65 and older now make up more than 27 per cent of Summer-
land’s population, according to 2011 census figures released last week by Statistics Canada. For all of British Columbia seniors account for 15.7 of the population and for all of Canada 14.8 per cent, up from 13.7 in 2006. The median age in
Summerland is 52, compared to a province-wide median age of 41.9 years. The total population of Summerland is 11,280 according to the 2011 census, up 4.2 per cent from 10,828 in 2006. In Summerland children up to age 14 totalled
1,445, the working population 15 to 64 totalled 6,740 and seniors 65 and older totalled 3,100. There are 1,150 seniors 80 and older in Summerland. Summerland has six per cent fewer children than it did during the last census in 2006. Nation-
wide, the share of children 14 and under fell from 17.7 per cent in 2006 to 16.7 per cent in 2011. In Summerland 13 per cent of the population is aged 15 to 29; 33 per cent is 45 to 64; and 27 per cent is 65 and over. See AGING Page 2