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THE INAUGURAL fastball tournament named in honour of Andre Blanleil Sr. will take place this weekend at Kings Stadium.
KELOWNA BUILDER Kevin Edgecombe is honoured for his philanthropic efforts to help the SPCA animal shelter in Kelowna.
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Standing directly across from Winn Automotive on Enterprise Way Monday morning, one could watch the ducks leisurely basking in the heat as Mill Creek gurgled toward the road. On any other day, this would be a grassy boulevard, but after a deluge of wind and rain rocked the Okanagan over the weekend, the creek crested the bank, threatening the line of sandbags stationed between the water and the road. “We’re concerned,” said Bruce Winn, Winn Automotive owner. “Even with the warmer weather. This kind of heat isn’t always a good thing.” Whether the snap from 10 C Saturday to 26 C Monday would melt the snowpack even faster, causing more flooding, was uncertain Monday afternoon, but a good deal of damage had already been done. Totom Storage and two other manufacturing businesses on Totom Court flooded and crews were working hard to clear the lakeshore at places like Rotary Beach and Gyro Beach of debris—though not everyone was worried. “This is actually really great for me,” said Carlos Barbosa, an ocean shell modelling artist walking the water’s edge at Gyro Beach.
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ONE MAN’S debris is another man’s art. Carlos Barbosa inspects some of the bark washed down stream during the weekend floods. The ocean shell modelling artist intends to turn the pieces of wood he finds along the beach this week into sculptures. Below are two views of an overflowing Mill Creek in Kelowna as seen from Dilworth Mountain (left) and along a portion of a sandbag protected Enterprise Way.
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When Kelowna’s Adam Scorgie set out to produce and co-create The Union: The Business Behind Getting High, he didn’t imagine that Canadian MPs would be inviting him to Parliament Hill for screenings of the film. But five years after the documentary’s release, that’s exactly what has happened. Last week, Scorgie and director Brett Harvey were in Ottawa after Vancouver-Quadra MP Joyce Murray’s office invited the duo to screen the film. Four MPs—two of them from the Conservative Party—attended the screening along with Liberal Justice and Human Rights critic Irwin Cotler. “It doesn’t even seem real that MPs are taking (the documentary) so seriously—it’s weird, I don’t know how else to explain it,” said Scorgie “We knew once we finished the film that it could actually change things and
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