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Council has fast-tracked secondary suite approval
MARY’S WEDDING director Aaron Caleb (left) joined by cast members Mack Gordon and Jackie Faulkner during a rehearsal of the theatre in the round production of a Canadian play set during the Second World War era. The play opens at The Laurel Packinghouse on June 20 and will run until July1.
Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER
It now costs half as much money and months less time to establish a legal mortgage helper or in-law suite in a Kelowna home. Monday afternoon, Kelowna city council decided to adopt a new system to reduce wait-times on applications to two to four weeks from two to four months, and knock administrative costs down to $520 from over $900 in processing fees. “I’m just really pleased this has finally come forward,” said Coun. Luke Stack. “It’s reducing red tape, it’s reducing the timeline…it’s reducing the cost.” As one of the original proponents of addressing the secondary suite issue in the city, Coun. Robert Hobson said he too was thrilled with the day’s Luke Stack progress, particularly because it opens up housing options in the area. In years gone by, when Kelowna had one of the lowest vacancy rates in the country, the preponderance of illegal secondary suites posed a unique conundrum for the council as the illegal units offered desperately needed housing, but without checks and balances, like adherence to the building code, to ensure the public’s safety. City bylaw officers were not instructed to pursue illegal suite investigations unless a particular unit became the subject of complaint. Under the new system, however, those who are caught with an illegal suite will be penalized and the barriers to obtaining legal status greatly reduced to open See Suites A7
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Museum to stage play related to exhibit Judie Steeves STAFF REPORTER
It was fate that resulted in the Kelowna Museums embarking on its first production of a play that opens this week in the historic Laurel Packinghouse, staged by a professional theatre company but including a number of local people in key roles. In fact, there have been all sorts of connections as this project got underway and as it continues, notes Patti Kilback, associate director, exhibitions and public programming for the Kelowna Museums. It began when Jackie Faulkner dropped into the Kelowna Museum, having returned home to the
Okanagan after nearly a decade in Vancouver dancing and acting professionally. Faulkner met with Kilback about doing some volunteer work with the museum. Meanwhile, Kilback had been looking for a way to reach new audiences for the Okanagan Heritage Museum’s current exhibit on weddings called: Something Borrowed, Something Blue. So when Faulkner mentioned a play called Mary’s Wedding, by Canadian playwright Stephen Massicotte set during World War II, to Kilback, it just all clicked. “It was something new that we’d never done
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IT WAS SOMETHING NEW THAT WE’D NEVER DONE BEFORE; PAYING ACTORS AND SUPPORTING ARTISTS RIGHT HERE IN KELOWNA’S CULTURAL DISTRICT. Patti Kilback Kelowna Museums
before; paying actors and supporting artists right here in Kelowna’s cultural district,” Kilback ex-
plained. She applied to the City of Kelowna for seed money to help mount the production, and received the $8,000 to help with costs. Now she hopes residents will turn out to enjoy it. “The lead (Mack Gordon) and Faulkner are from Kelowna so we’re supporting local talent. It was a gut thing with me. I didn’t know Jackie or anyone else,” commented Kilback. Even the set designer, Nicole Bach’s family, is from Peachland. Kilback says putting on this play is an expansion on local history; it brings history to life, which is a mantra of
the museum; and it ties in beautifully with the Military Museum because it’s set in wartime and tells of the experiences of real people falling in love against a backdrop of war. “It’s not just any old play. There are all sorts of connections,” she said. Even the research done by the playwright, who used actual letters written by soldiers and then based the play and its characters on some of what he learned, involved letters from a B.C. orchardist who went off to war. And The Laurel is home to the B.C. Orchard Industry Museum. The play will be done
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