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THE NEW inductees to the Central Okanagan Sports Hall of Fame include a football team, two athletes, a founding member of the Okanagan Sun and a tireless local sports volunteer.
WEST KELOWNA’S community portable, used by about 15 local groups, will be space now taken up by an expanding municipal hall.
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Free wine trade up to each province Contrary to what some people believe, the new federal wine bill, C-311, will not allow wine to be shipped freely across provincial borders within Canada. It also won’t allow online sales of B.C. wines to those in other provinces. “All it does is “clarifies that a province can set limits. It didn’t open provincial borders to all imports from other provinces,� explained Kelowna-Lake Country MLA Norm Letnick. In fact, negotiations are currently underway between the jurisdictions that control liquor legislation in all the provinces in Canada on what the limits will be in each on bringing wine, beer and spirits across the border from another province. It’s highly unlikely that those talks and the decisions that will be made in each province’s legislature, will occur before tourist season gets underway in the Okanagan this weekend, much less by the end of summer. “We want to encourage the ministry and the government to open trade across the country to do-
mestic wines, but we can’t impose our view on the rest of the country,� said Letnick. “We’re working closely with other provinces to encourage them to open their borders.� However, he admitted it’s possible that some provinces are concerned that if Canadian borders are opened inter-provincially, our U.S. partners would also lobby to have our border opened to them. It’s possible, he said, that there could be a challenge from our international trading partners. And then there’s the question of a loss of revenue to the receiving province if other provinces accepted B.C. wines without payment of provincial taxes on it. “The liquor industry is a substantial item in the provincial budget,� noted Letnick. However, he said, because B.C. is a large producer of wines, “I believe our sales of wine to other provinces would offset any of our losses (from permitting imports from other provinces)� he said. On the other hand, it is now legal under federal law for a resident of See Trade A20
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JOHN HEBERT, head saw filer at Gorman Bros. lumber mill in West Kelowna, demonstrates how the world’s smallest operating sawmill works. The miniature mill is now on display at the Westbank Museum.
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The world’s smallest known operating sawmill is now on display at the Westbank Museum. Members of the BC Saw Filers Association were on hand for the unveiling of the artifact Wednesday at its new home. The entire mill was designed and built in the early 1960s by head saw filer Phil Quelch. It represents over 10,000 hours of work over a span of 11 years. Bruce Doroshuk, president
of the BC Saw Filers Association, said that the Westbank Museum is a great temporary home for such a historic artifact. “This is a great part of our heritage. The logging industry and the forestry industry have been the backbone of our economy, especially in the Okanagan Valley,� said Doroshuk. “To have this on display at the Westbank Museum, we take great pride. I’m sure Phil would be proud that we’re showing it to the general public so they can be educated, not only about the hist-
ory, but how mills actually run.� The artifact is modeled on the jack-ladder type mill that once lined the coast of Vancouver Island, the Fraser River and the interior waterways of B.C. Despite being a miniature model, the mill is 16 feet long; it is scaled at about one inch to one foot of an actual mill. “This mini mill shows the inventiveness of Phil Quelch,� said Doroshuk. “He has a mix master motor, a can opener motor, sewing machine motors and a barbecue ro-
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tisserie motor that’s used to activate and run some of the pieces of equipment.� John Hebert, head saw filer at Gorman Bros. Lumber Ltd., said that the sawmill has been stored at Gorman’s mill for the last four years; however, before that it was used at BCIT for training purposes. “We used it for educational reasons like showing our trades (students) how to line up some
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