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ANGELIA OSTROM of the Kelowna U13 girls’ soccer squad helped lead her team to a silver medal at the Provincial B Cup finals last weekend.
THE KELOWNA Community Food Bank is the recipient of two fundraising initiatives announced last week by Valley First Credit Union and Trinity Baptist Church.
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MUSIC TOOK centre stage at City Park as performers such as Acres Of Lions (above) entertained at the inaugural Keloha Music Festival held last weekend. The festival drew large crowds while the Kelowna RCMP reported no serious concerns with regards to the behaviour of concert goers.
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Music from afar draws thousands to City Park Cold War Kids, The Joy Formidable, Awolnation, The Sheepdogs hit Keloha—Kelowna’s new (quasi) independent music festival Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER
Dressed to the nines and ready to rock a beach party with their signature blockbuster guitar riffs, The Joy Formidable proved foreboding enthusiasm for their art knows no bounds on the first full day of Keloha. Among bikini-clad bodies,
and even the odd fan stripped to the skivvies, the latest homegrown Okanagan festival’s impeccably timed heat proved no match for front-woman Ritzy Bryan who pulled on a pair of crystal-studded thick black stockings before hitting the stage. “It’s this or knee pads and a helmet,” she joked. “If I don’t
wear them, I’m all torn up by the time we’re through the set.” An hour later, she was smashing her way around the stage, breaking guitars—though on purpose. Feel-good performer Michael Bernard Fitzgerald hit a spot of bad luck the next day snapping string after string for a long pause in his lakeside performance, one of the few rough notes in an otherwise near flawless inaugural event. All in all, some 12,000 people came through the gates
for the three-day indie-themed festival featuring acts like Awolnation, Cold War Kids, Tokyo Police Club, The Sheepdogs and The Joy Formidable, originally from northern Wales. “When you grow up somewhere that’s isolated, you throw yourself into things, things that pass the time, hobbies,” said Bryan, explaining how music became a way of life for the group, though they come from a place that’s never produced an internationally touring band. Joking about the dam-
age they’ve done to their bodies along the way, the Formidable professed an absolute dedication to travel and admitted there’s seldom a time when they’re not writing new material, even on the road. “It’s not about finding inspiration when you’re off road. You find plenty of inspiration all the time. You should document it then and there,” said bass player Rhydian Dafydd.
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Infamous Kelowna cop Geoff Mantler was in court Monday to face one of the men who accused him of assault. Manjeet Singh Bhatti, 36, alleges he was the victim of a surprise attack from Const. Mantler Aug. 30, 2010, over the course of an arrest. An assault charge was officially laid the following March, but until this week few details of the conflict were made public. According to testimony offered in court, the Prince George resident, who was in Kelowna several times that summer to help a friend move to the city, had ridden a brokendown, borrowed bike downtown late that night to get the lay of the land. In short order, Bhatti said he was buying two crack rocks for a grand total of $40 and smoking them with a woman he’d met earlier. The last rock was smoked at about midnight, and within an hour the high had passed, and Bhatti was on the hunt for more. “Up near the TD bank there were three people