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FUGITIVE’S ASSUMED IDENTITY FOOLED MANY Joe Fries

Western News Staff

Two vastly different portraits of Edward Melvin Ellis have emerged since his arrest in Penticton on a Canada-wide warrant in connection with a 13-year-old sex crime thousands of kilometres away.

Ellis, 51, was nabbed Thursday at his home on Poplar Grove Road and faces three charges stemming from “a brutal sexual assault on a female he sought at a private party” in Toronto in 1999, according a bulletin on the RCMP’s website.

Following the arrest, police said Ellis had been living in the Penticton area for the past nine years under an assumed identity.

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community, he was known as James Ellis, the face of Knot Just Beads.

Ellis was “very pleasant, very wellmannered and very supportive of the work and anything we needed to do,” said Barb Haynes, executive director of the Downtown Penticton Association, of which the bead store was a member. Haynes was “shocked” to learn of Ellis’s alleged past, and said he was also well-liked among vendors at the farmers’ market, where he sold sunglasses.

“I found him to be very community-oriented,” Haynes said.

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“I did not get an explanation as to the closure, other than they were looking to do other activities,” said Haynes.

Ellis apparently had a soft spot for a pair of charities near his store.

Rhelda Pawulski, manager of the I.O.D.E Thrift Shop, said Ellis was always friendly and quick to lend a hand when needed.

“I don’t know how he made a living there, because he was always outside having a smoke,” Pawulski added.

At the nearby Wings Thrift Store, volunteers would call upon Ellis to help with heavy lifting.

“If somebody needed furniture loaded onto or off their vehicle, he would provide the strong arms,” said

Eleanor Summer, executive director of the South Okanagan Women in Need Society, which operates Wings.

Ellis was also well-liked on Poplar Grove Road.

“He’s been a very, very helpful neighbour,” said a resident who spoke on condition of anonymity, and was also surprised to learn of Ellis’s arrest. “He worked at a business in town, so it’s not like he was hiding away.”

In a news release issued Friday, Mounties said they were contacted in April by the Toronto Police Service fugitive squad, which had received a tip that Ellis may be in the area, and investigators here used both their ¿les and public records to ¿nd him.

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Moskaluk said the bust shows it’s never too late for people to come forward with information about an alleged crime, and that Ellis’s arrest will bring “a certain degree of solace” to the alleged victim in Toronto.

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Growing Okanagan film industry gets boost Kristi Patton

Western News Staff

When Penticton Vees captain Troy Stecher decided to spend the summer training in the city he had no idea he would land a role in a ¿lm.

The character is not a far departure for Stecher, who is playing a hockey player in the short-feature production Stanley Cup Odyssey.

The Network Entertainment 3-D movie is being captured at Memorial Arena and will be premiered at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto in November.

“It’s pretty cool. Growing up as a kid you always want to win the Stanley Cup and doing something that will be part of the Hockey Hall of Fame is pretty special and something I will remember for a long, long time,” said Stecher, who also got to spend some time with the Stanley Cup when it made an appearance at Memorial Arena on Monday for the shoot.

While there was a lot of hype around the Stanley Cup taking a break from the Los Angeles Kings’ schedule to make an appearance at Memorial Arena on Monday, the provincial government made their own splash.

British Columbia’s creative onscreen entertainment industry, in-

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MLA BILL BARISOFF and Ida Chong Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development were part of a special funding announcement Monday at the Penticton Memorial Arena where the 3-D movie Stanley Cup Odyssey was being shot.

cluding ¿lmmakers, TV producers and digital technology companies will bene¿t from more than $2.2 million of government funding. Ida Chong, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, said at the announcement $30,000 of the funding is for the Okanagan Film Commission.

As of late, the Okanagan has be-

come a hotspot for the ¿lm industry.

On the back of a Bollywood ¿lm in Oliver/Osoyoos, a ¿lm called A Mother’s Nightmare was on location in West Kelowna and Stanley Cup Odyssey in Penticton. Okanagan Film Commissioner Jon Summerland said more is to follow.

“There is a Christmas movie in Kelowna right after this crew is

done rolling then there is two more movies; a western and a modern day western. There is also a horror ¿lm to be shot top to bottom and I ¿nd out next Monday if we land a seventh ¿lm,” said Summerland. “If you look at all the ¿lms in the Okanagan, there hasn’t been seven. Up until last year we had three. We are continuing to grow.”

Summerland said the areas growing stack of resumes from ¿lm crew workers is helping sell the area as a place to go to make movies.

“We are becoming a ¿lm centre on our own, not to mention, animation is growing. We had Electronic Arts here last week looking for someone to farm out work to,” said Summerland. “We are selling incentive, infrastructure. We have built an industry here and now we can sell that as a tool rather than here is some photos of the Okanagan isn’t it is pretty? Want to shoot here?”

Summerland said for Stanley Cup Odyssey they had about 100 people working, rented Memorial arena for $25,000 and producers are leaving equipment stored in the Okanagan.

“For the most part they are just spending money and they are leaving the money behind. For Penticton we might want to look at getting animation here, it will bring money because income is usually higher, and they are bursting at the seams in Vancouver and need to expand to regions where they get better tax credit,” said Summerland, noting Okanagan College has an animation course. “We have lots of big name animation companies looking here, I can’t tell you the names, but they are the biggest.”

South Okanagan has deadly start to the summer season Western News Staff

The past week has been a deadly start to the summer season in the Okanagan.

The ¿rst tragic accident happened last Wednesday when avid Penticton cyclist Adam Larsson died as a result of injuries he suffered when struck by a vehicle while riding in Oliver.

Since then two people died in an airplane crash in Vernon, an Oliver woman drowned in a boating accident in Gallagher Lake Monday and at press time Tuesday a Kelowna motorcyclist was ¿ghting for his life after a collision with a car Monday afternoon.

In the most recent incident, Oliver RCMP report the unidenti¿ed 32-year-old woman is believed to have drowned after falling out of a paddleboat between 6-6:20 p.m. Witnesses to the accident at Gallagher Lake reportedly attempted CPR prior to her transport to South Okanagan General Hospital in Oliver where she was subsequently pronounced dead. A police spokesman said alcohol consumption and and prescription drugs may have been aggravating factors in the death.

Earlier that day the RCMP South Okanagan traf¿c services division was called to the scene

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RCMP MEMBERS check the scene of an accident Monday involving a car and motorcycle on Highway 97 near the entrance road to Sun Leisure mobile home park. The rider of the motorcycle, a male in his 30’s from Kelowna suffered life threatening injuries in the collision.

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da motorcycle operated by a Kelowna man in his 30s was westbound

on the highway when a small blue Pontiac pulled out from the entrance road to Sun Leisure mobile home park and the vehicles collided. Traf¿c remained backed up in several directions, including the highway and Channel Parkway, for several hours while police conducted their investigation. The two people in the car from Penticton received minor injuries. While RCMP say alcohol is not a factor, speed and driving behaviour may have played a part in the incident.

Of¿cers are asking for assistance from anyone who may have seen the collision or the driving patterns of the vehi-

cles beforehand. Traf¿c services can be reached at 250-499-2250.

Meanwhile Sgt. Ken Harrington said Tuesday there are no further details surrounding the accident involving the Penticton cyclist. He added it will likely be several months before traf¿c analysts have completed their work and conclusions, if any, are released.

Larsson was well know in the local cycling community and was riding along Tuc-el-Nuit Road when the accident occurred. A memorial service for the 37-yearold is planned for Thursday at Covert Farms in Oliver.

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Tense discussion around council table on policy leave room for the kind of Àexibility that Ashton and Antoniak were talking about.

“Every time I read through this it makes me more uncomfortable,” said Coun. Helen Konanz. “It basically says I am not allowed to speak to staff members.”

Ashton interrupted Konanz to say that councillors were more than welcome to talk to staff members under the policy, which he felt was mainly to prevent a council member from giving direction to staff, rather than through the city manager.

The two sections that most concerned Konanz, Vassilaki and Hopkin, came in both the summary and the body of the policy.

• “This model identi¿es the city manager as council’s only employee; all other city em-

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Western News Staff

A controversial policy is now part of Penticton’s operating manual, but not without a tense discussion about its exact meaning during last week’s council meeting.

Mayor Dan Ashton and city manager Annette Antoniak say the intent of the “One Employee of Council” policy was only to clarify the staff hierarchy and describe Antoniak’s status, not to prevent councillors from talking directly to staff.

However, Couns.

Helen Konanz, John Vassilaki and, initially, Wes Hopkin, disagreed strongly.

They felt the wording of the new policy seemed to disconnect them from city staff, instead funnelling everything through the city manager, and a strict reading of it didn’t

Every time I read through this it makes me more uncomfortable.

— Coun. Helen Konanz

ployees report (directly or indirectly) to the city manager rather than to council. The city manager is the link between policy makers (council) and policy implementers (staff).”

• “All council directives, correspondence, and requests for information on behalf of the city will be channeled through the city manager who will forward to the appropriate staff and ensure follow-up actions.”

“If it is plainly read

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it does seem to imply the Chief Administrative Of¿cer has a tremendous amount of authority to control information. At the same time, it is important that the CAO know all the requests for information that are going to city employees, so that no one is blindsided,” said Hopkin.

Hopkin ended his opposition when the policy was reworded slightly, dropping — at his suggestion — the phrase “and requests for information.”

“It says to me that I am not to speak to staff members. This is what I am reading here,” said Konanz, who felt that it would bottleneck the

system if councillors were only able to speak to city manager.

“I understand that the intent is to smooth out the system or to possibly protect staff members. But I was elected in November to get the job done and if it means I need to speak to staff members to get jobs done, I will,” said Konanz. “What worries me about this is that it also says that staff is not allowed to speak to me. If there’s a concern or they want to talk to me, they should be able to. It’s not like a regular business or company.”

Antoniak, who’s position as city manager is at the heart of the disputed

policy, disagreed with Konanz’ reading.

“That’s not actually what it says. It says I am council’s one employee,” she said, arguing that this type of policy is used in a number of other communities as well as some of the crown corporations she has been CEO of. “That is what it says in my job description for which I was hired. This is the policy that con¿rms that. Never has this council not been able to talk to staff or vice versa.

I don’t believe you can cite one instance.”

Ashton backed Antoniak up, adding that it would never be the policy of council to forbid council from interacting with staff, but there had been problems during previous councils, and he felt a policy was needed.

“With all respect, I think this could be misinterpreted in the future and cause a lot of problem within council. If a different CAO is sitting there, he or she may not see it the same way,” said Vassilaki, who agreed there had been problems

during past councils, on both staff and councillor sides. But a restrictive policy, he continued, would eventually lead to bogging down the system.

“We are treated like a bunch of kids that we are not going to be able to talk to the staff and say the right thing. I like to take care of some things myself,” said Vassilaki.

Konanz also argued the policy was not needed.

“I just don’t think that this particular addition to our policy manual needs to happen. We all need to know that we need to be respectful to our staff, that we need to come to you (Antoniak), preferably,” she said. “We don’t need to be voting on something that tells us we can’t speak to staff.”

The policy was adopted by council after a four to two vote, with Hopkin joining Ashton and Couns. Andrew Jakubeit and Garry Litke in support of the policy. Couns.

Konanz and Vassilaki remained opposed, while Sentes was absent.

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EDITORIAL Tragic start to summer a stern reminder for those on the roadways

Summer has arrived. And just like every year, streets and highways throughout Penticton and the South Okanagan are getting busier.

That means more RVs, trucks and cars, but it also means more cyclists and runners. Given Penticton’s place as a hub for assorted runs, triathlons and Ironman Canada, we are talking abut a lot more. And the amount will be increasing over the next month as more of them get out on the roads, ¿nishing their training for the 2012 Ironman.

Now, the recent death of a Penticton man in an Oliver cycling accident highlights the need for awareness of these sometimes less visible fellow travellers.

Roads can be treacherous enough, even when surrounded by a couple of tons of steel.

Put yourself in the rider or the runner’s position, with nothing between you and the road except a bit of spandex and your skin.

Yes, we’ve all seen, all too often, cyclists blowing stop signs at intersections, zipping past stopped cars on a sliver of road shoulder and riding conversely between the road and the sidewalk. But generally, they’re in the minority -- the majority of riders recognize that they are vehicles, and responsible to act as such.

But car versus cyclist isn’t a fair ¿ght. The outcome of two tons of steel versus 10 kilos is a guaranteed win for the car. So it falls to drivers to be even more aware.

In addition to being less visible than a large vehicle, cyclists can also be moving deceptively quickly.

While slow heading up long inclines, cyclists can cruise pretty easily along Àat stretches of road at 30 to 40 kilometres per hour, and easily hit up to 65 km/h or more on downhill sections.

That doesn’t leave much space for reaction time when a car cuts a cyclist off.

So enjoy the summer, but we hope you stay aware that there you are sharing the road with more than other drivers.

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Nuggets from Barlee’s gold pan Shortly after word came of the death of B.C. historian and politician Bill Barlee, my wife searched through her seemingly endless trove of B.C. books and produced half a dozen of his original self-published quarterlies, known as Canada West magazine.

The earliest one is Winter 1970, where the publisher’s note advises that subscription rates were increasing 20 cents per year to $2.95.

Subscriptions were up to more than 1,600 and counter sales were increasing, but costs were also up and Barlee refused to accept either display advertising or U.S. subscriptions.

The only colour pages in the issue are high-quality prints of four majestic paintings commissioned for the magazine.

Irvine Adams’ scenes of sacred aboriginal sites in the Okanagan-Similkameen include The Gateway to Inkameep, where Barlee remarks: “Today that stream which once teemed with red¿sh no longer surrenders its once-valued harvest and the perimeter of the desert is gradually being eroded by man’s questionable progress.”

With the typography of Old West wanted posters, Barlee

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B.C. Views provided tightly sourced accounts of B.C.’s legends.

“Lost gold mine at Pitt Lake” analyzes and adds to earlier accounts that begin with an aboriginal miner known as Slumach, who would periodically arrive in New Westminster to squander a small fortune in gold, then disappear up the remote tidal lake. Slumach was hanged for murder in 1891 and in the next 70 years, 11 more men would die trying to ¿nd his secret.

A scientist as well as a storyteller, Barlee concluded that the area’s geology is wrong and the fabled gold-laden creek “probably does not exist.”

A passion for prospecting runs through the magazines,

and hints at Barlee’s aversion to treasure-seeking Americans.

They overran B.C. in historic waves to take gold, and according to Nelson Star reporter Greg Nesteroff, Barlee believed they continued to loot Canadian heritage sites.

Nesteroff was inspired by Barlee’s work, and traced his lonely mission to restore the ghost town of Sandon, “the mining capital of the Silvery Slocan.”

Barlee bought a surviving block of buildings in an effort to make Sandon another Barkerville, but heavy snow collapsed them.

As tourism minister, Barlee found money to build replicas, and construction began on three.

But Barlee lost his Penticton seat to Bill Barisoff in the 1996 election, and today only half-built shells remain.

“He was still selling Sandon’s restoration as an economic saviour for the region when he ran for federal of¿ce in 2000,” Nesteroff writes.

“But by then he was ridiculed for it, and ¿nished a distant second.”

Barlee’s 1972 Canada West pro¿le of the boomtown of Hedley would resonate in his

career as an NDP MLA and cabinet minister in the 1990s.

Hedley’s Nickel Plate and Mascot mines produced fortunes in gold, silver and copper before they played out, and Barlee led the ¿ght to preserve their history.

Today you can tour the Mascot mine, a proud historical site with a spectacular climb up the rock face that serves as the Grouse Grind of the B.C. desert.

I ¿rst discovered Barlee as a reporter at the Kelowna Capital News in the early 1980s, when he did a weekly history show on CHBC television called Gold Trails and Ghost Towns.

A bare-bones studio affair with tales and artifacts displayed for host Mike Roberts, the show lasted a decade.

Barlee didn’t lack courage, quitting a teaching career in Trail and Penticton in 1969 to start his magazine.

On subscription fees and a few classi¿ed ads, he built a life’s work that allowed him to walk the boardwalks of history and the halls of power.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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Lack of hydrants in Penticton cause for alarm

At 1 a.m. on Saturday at the start of the July long weekend, I was awoken by something I had never heard before since moving to Spiller Road in 1991. A siren.

Seeing a fire truck from my bedroom window, I got up thinking one of my neighbours was in need of help.

As I walked through my office to the front door I was surprised and, for a second, dumfounded by the sight of a wall of fire that filled my window.

It was my neighbour’s house two doors down and there was no sound. My son came to my side, and I told him to wake everyone in the house and prepare to leave.

The house had been lost by the time the first truck arrived and the professional crew of the Penticton Fire Department could do little. And everyone there knew that it could be much worse, for the firemen had no water.

Had this weekend

Rein in government spending

Re: Public spending. While the world economy has recovered somewhat, public spending has become a huge millstone that is on the verge of taking the financial markets into another power dive.

Public spending in many countries is still rampant and politicians are reluctant to cut back.

The nature of public spending varies between countries but there are also some common denominators: People working in the private sector have lost incomes and homes, while government employees continue to receive lavish salaries and benefits. The private sector is the main driver of the economies and contributor of tax revenues to governments, while the public sector is the net consumer of those hard-earned tax dollars. Reading daily about how governments continue to shovel more money at government employees is disturbing.

When government workers consistently receive 30 per cent more in salary and benefits than the workers in the private sector for similar work done, it becomes obvious the system is broke.

Paying a fireman $75,000 a year, let alone $110,000, when trades-qualified workers are challenged to make $55,000 is a clear signal that the (pay) scales are out of balance.

To resolve this inequity will require another process to determine how much people working in the public sector are paid.

Today, government employees represent a big enough percentage of the eligible voters that they can decide elections. That, unfortunately, is also why politicians willingly continue to overpay those employees, hoping to buy their loyalty and their vote.

The current rate of spending is not sustainable, and we cannot allow our politicians to bankrupt our country.

Balanced budgets by law and referendums are logical first steps

been the type of weather that we had all wished for, the situation could have been one of a catastrophe.

No one has forgotten the Garnet fire of ‘94, or the devastation for Kelowna in ‘03, and there but for God’s grace could have been something of equal magnitude.

Rather that the infamous 30-30-30s (30 Celsius, 30 per cent humidity and 30 kilometre wind) we had cool, high humidity and calm.

As citizens of Pen-

in the process of tempering public spending.

Many U.S. municipal and state governments are already doing that.

Andy Thomsen Summerland

A one-sided war

Please allow me to reply to Len Averbuch’s letter criticizing my previous comments concerning the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

As he suggested, he and I should both seek the truth. The truth is that over the last 100 years, certain Jewish leaders have made comments that have called for the elimination of Palestine. This is a reality. Both sides have attempted to instigate clandestine operations in each other’s country. It is also true that Palestinians have fired homemade rockets, with questionable accuracy, into former Palestine villages now occupied

by Israelites. These actions were the pretext for the Israeli action, “Operation Case Lead” which killed 1,300 Palestinians, with the very latest weapons supplied by the U.S., while only eight Israelis died.

To suggest that Israel has never made the first move is clearly false. Any cursory “investigation” of even Israeli sources will reveal the truth — try B’Tselem. Mr. Averbuch said that “Israel does not want land.” For nearly 1,000 years, the territory known then as Palestine was largely populated by agrarian Muslims. Even as late as 1847, 97 per cent of the people were non-Jewish (426,908 vs.

13,942). By 1946, as Jews began to move into Palestine after the Second World War, their population was still only less than half that of the Palestinians (1,339,763 vs. 602,586 Jews).

In 1947, at the urging of British and American Zionists, the UN partitioned Palestine, giving 55 per cent of the land to the Jews and 45 per cent to the Palestinians, even though they had more than double the Jewish population. The indigenous Palestinians rejected the division of the land on which they had lived and

ticton the families on Spiller Road feel that we can have the same level of fire protection that the rest of Penticton enjoys and sleeps with every night.

Fire hydrants that are needed now here on Spiller Road are in the best interest of the 14 families who live here, and almost everyone else from Macmillan Road to the residence of Naramata. This is not new information as it has been discussed before. Please, let’s not

farmed for centuries, but to no avail. After a two-year Founding War of Independence, from 1947 to 1949, Israel occupied 78 per cent of Palestine. Continued confrontation has resulted in 726,000 Palestinian refugees and the conversion of 400 of their villages to Jewish control.

So now Israel now occupies over 85 per cent of the area that was once Palestine. I would ask readers to put themselves into the place of the Palestinians. Would you stand idly by, watch your villages and farms destroyed, your access to homes blockaded, family members imprisoned, without reacting? But it has been a very one-sided fight with Israeli/U.S. missiles and fighter jets versus Palestinian weapons consisting of homemade rockets and self-immolation. Please check this website to see what these two countries look like today and what is left of Palestine: www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ mapstellstory.html.

Frank Martens Summerland

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SAHAJ MARG MEDITATION every Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. Call 250-4924458 for info.

BINGO EVERY WEDNESDAY in the Legion hall for the Ladies Auxiliary, 502 Martin St. at 1 p.m.

Regular bingo to resume in September.

SENIORS’ RECREATION and Wellness Centre at 439 Winnipeg St. hosts euchre every Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Call Joy at 250-770-1174 for more information.

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OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS meets from 2 to 3 p.m. in Room 103 of the Penticton United Church, enter through north door.

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HAND AND FOOT CANASTA at 1 p.m. in the Penticton Leisure Centre, 439 Winnipeg St. Lessons available for those who have never played before.

Call June evenings at 250-492-7630 for info.

PENTICTON DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB holds weekly games Wednesdays at 7 p.m., Thursdays at 1

SENIORS’ Activity Centre has exercise classes at 8 a.m., music and coffee hour at 9 a.m. followed by carpet bowling at 1 p.m.

MARTIN HOUSE holds a recovery program for those between 16 and 30 suffering from a mood or anxiety disorder and/or psychosis daily between 1 and 4 p.m. at 205 Martin St. Call 250-4937338 for info.

IODE THRIFT STORE on 464 Main St. has weekly specials and is open Monday to Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m.

SUMMERLAND ART CLUB meets every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Painters of all levels welcome. Workshops available. For info call Barb at 250-494-3002.

FOSTER CARE INFO sessions every Wednesday at 10 a.m. at MCFD Resource Office. For info call Moe at 250770-7524 or visit www. fosterbc.ca or www.mcf. gov.bc.ca/foster.

OLIVERDOUBLE O Quilters have drop-in activities every Wednesday.

PENTICTON QUILTERS MEET on the second Wednesday of the month at the Salvation Army hall at 9 a.m. Check their website at www.pentic-

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KIWANIS CLUB HAS a lunch meeting everyWednesday at noon at 390 Brunswick St., Penticton PENTICTON SQUARES will be holding square dances at Gyro Park 7 to 9 p.m. for all of July.

LEGION BRANCH 40 has daily lunches Monday to Thursday, with fish and chips on Friday.

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THURSDAY July 12

PEACH CITY TOASTMASTERS meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Penticton United Church, Toastmasters improves speaking abilities and leadership skills. Call 250-492-2362 for info.

O KANAGAN F ALLS SENIORS’ Activity Centre has computer classes at 9 a.m., bridge at 1 p.m. and cribbage at 7:30 p.m.

Everyone welcome.

AL-ANON FOR FRIENDS and family of alcoholics meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Summerland United Church. Call 250-490-9272.

PENTICTON SENIORS Drop-in Centre has spanish conversation at 10 a.m., bingo at 1 p.m., with doors open at 12 p.m., improver line dance at 1 p.m. and crafters meet at 1 p.m. Call 493-2111 to confirm line dance activities.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS NIGHT group meets at 8 p.m. on 150 Orchard Ave. in the Outreach Centre.

ANAVETS have drop in pool and 269 dart club at 7 p.m.

FRATERNAL ORDER of the Eagles has Joseph’s Famous Pizza from 5 to 7 p.m., and music trivia with Affordable Entertainment starting at 7 p.m.

OK FALLS has drop-in youth activities in front of the Kenyon Park beach house. Today’s activity is a movie night from 2 to 10 p.m.

PENTICTON WRITERS AND Publishers meets every third Thursday at the Leir House at 7 p.m.

If you love or want to write, come join us. For more info, contact Penny Smith at 250-494-2299.

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AL-ANON MEETS AT the Oasis United Church at 2964 Skaha Lake Rd. from 6 to 7 p.m. For info call 250-490-9272.

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Daycare hit by vandals

RDOS union gets new contract Joe Fries

Western News Staff

Joe Fries

Western News Staff

Vandals didn’t play nice when they went to work on a local child-care facility.

Staff members at the Penticton Early Childhood Education Society (PEACHES) Daycare arrived at work Tuesday morning to ¿nd two mangled gates that had enclosed its outdoor play area, and toys thrown down an embankment about 20 metres away.

“Even our composter was put over the fence,” said Danica Kennedy, who manages the Carmi Road facility, which has room for up to 30 kids.

One gate on the outdoor play area was ripped off its hinges, while another was bent out of shape and would no longer latch, forcing staff to declare an in-day.

“Our yards are no longer usable because we can’t contain the kids. So who knows what we’re going to do to keep them entertained inside today?” Kennedy said.

Some of the toys tossed by the vandals were also ruined.

“We’re a non-pro¿t organization,” Kennedy said. “We don’t make a lot of money, so it’s going to hurt.”

The manager said it’s not the ¿rst time intruders have been on site, but this group was particularly nasty.

“Every summer we have kids come in and throw some toys, but this is the ¿rst time it’s been vandalized to the point it’s not usable.”

Unionized employees of the Regional District of OkanaganSimilkameen have a new contract, despite the objections of some board members.

The three-year deal, approved last week by a majority of the board, includes wage increases through the RDOS job evaluation program, averaging three per cent for 23 workers in 2012, then one per cent annually for everyone in the ¿nal two years.

RDOS chief administrative of¿cer Bill Newell said the bump for some in the ¿rst year will smooth out inequalities within the 10-level pay grid.

“There were some positions that were overpaid compared to market, so they’re the ones who don’t get any increase until it catches up,” he told the board.

Penticton Mayor Dan Ashton and Councillors Andrew Jakubeit, John Vassilaki and Garry Litke, who also sit on the RDOS board, all voted against the deal, because it’s slightly richer than one signed by city workers in 2011. That four-year agreement included a $300 signing bonus in the ¿rst year, then one per cent annual pay

increases after.

Ashton said it was too “dif¿cult” to support different deals for local government workers with comparable job descriptions.

Keremeos Mayor Manfred Bauer was the only other director to vote against the deal, which he described afterwards as “too steep.”

The 55 unionized RDOS staff members are represented by the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union and had been without a contract since Jan. 1.

The workers took a strike vote in May and the two sides entered mediation in June. The RDOS then employed a rarely used section of the labour code to compel workers to vote on its last offer, which they accepted.

“We thought that there may be some difference between the BCGEU (negotiators) ... and what our employees thought of our offer,” Newell explained of the so-called last offer vote.

A BCGEU spokesperson could not be reached for comment despite multiple requests.

All told, the agreement is expected to cost the RDOS an additional $141,262 in wages and bene¿ts over the three years.

Joe Fries/Western News

PEACHES Daycare manager Danica Kennedy with one of the toy cars and gates that were damaged when vandals set upon the nonprofit’s outdoor play area.

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said police checked out the damage, but didn’t have any surveillance footage or leads to go on.

“Police would appreciate any witnesses,” Moskaluk said.

“It’s a senseless act of vandalism that’s certainly going to affect this business and this day care,” he said. “It’s a shame for these children, because their activities have to be curtailed for the day until the repairs are made.”

Retirement resort to occupy RV park Steve Kidd

Western News Staff

A new retirement resort is on the way for Penticton, but it didn’t get through the city’s approval process without controversy.

Southwood, a new retirement resort from the same people that created the Sandbridge gated community almost two decades ago, will be sited on the corner of Wilson and Yorkton, occupying what is currently the Waterworld RV park.

“Eighteen years ago, our company, Canadian Adult Communities, came and talked to you about building Sandbridge Retirement community, which is in the immediate vicinity,” said Ed Hall, of what is now Regency Retirement Resorts. “That was our last time down in Penticton and we have been excited to return.”

The controversy arises from Hall’s request to have the retirement resort included under the economic investment zone bylaw, under the tourism, sport and cultural zones. That would qualify the project for about a $500,000 tax break and a 50 per cent discount on building permit fees, to the tune of $150,000. Nine previous projects in the city have quali¿ed for similar incentives under the bylaw.

Most of council supported extending the tax break to Regency, feeling that if the resort wasn’t built, there would be no new taxes at all. But the oldest councillor, John Vassilaki, and the youngest, Wes Hopkin, argued instead that this was tantamount to a taxpayer subsidy for the Southwood project.

Hall justi¿ed the request, which was supported by city planning staff, by stating his view that the project is a resort like any other, sharing many of the

same components in the way of staf¿ng, amenities and activities.

“Why do you go to a golf resort? You go to a golf resort to enjoy golf. Why do you go to a retirement resort? You go to a retirement resort to enjoy retirement,” said Hall, whose company has completed four similar projects. “We’re very committed to creating an environment where you can get people engaged, enriched and involved in their retirement.”

Regency plans to build a 159-unit condo style resort, with a range of amenities for the residents, like a theatre, ¿ne dining, rooftop garden, ¿reside lounges, billiard rooms, etc., with the common area making up about 30 per cent of the structure.

Hall’s estimates put the cost to build Southwood at about $25 million, and once up and running it will have about 50 full time employees, with a payroll of about $1.25 million. Another $1.25 million is expected to be spent purchasing goods and services annually.

“It’s not a large amount of money in terms of this project, but it is a large amount in terms of the city,” said Hopkin, who felt the $650,000 in taxes and fees was too small an incentive to make or break a $25million project. He felt the project was likely to go ahead even without the incentive.

“That is what is at debate, do we think this project would go ahead if we didn’t give this incentive? If we think it would have gone ahead anyways, then we are out $500,000,” said Hopkin.

Hopkin and Vassilaki were outvoted by the rest of city council, which voted in favour of both approving the development permit for Regency and amending the Economic Investment Zones Bylaw to include retirement resorts.

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Painting a resistance Steve Waldner Western News Staff

The opposition to Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline has been quite varied, seeing methods such as protests, petitions and even poetry. Painting is the latest act of resistance to join this list, thanks to the efforts of two South Okanagan artists.

Landscape artists Peter Corbett and Glenn Clark are the minds behind this work. After Clark pitched the idea, he received a B.C Arts Council project grant, turning his vision into a possibility. When ¿nished, the exhibition, entitled Abandoning Paradise, will be a series of paintings depicting the land the controversial Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is set to pass through, should the

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pipeline be given the OK from the government.

“I feel a great sense of urgency to visit the sensitive sites in B.C.’s northern region and to document their state,” said Clark. “Our work will illustrate the grandeur of this geographic area and, as a worst case scenario, act as both a record and a reminder of a pre-pipeline landscape.”

Corbett is a ¿sh biologist, an occupation he said gives him a deeper insight into the damage the pipeline could cause the environment. While he could speak scienti¿cally on the impacts the pipeline could have, he said the dwindling ability of scientists to be heard in Canada forced him to come at the issue from another viewpoint; that of the artist’s.

“Scientists just don’t have a voice anymore,” he said. “The money that used to be available for independent scienti¿c research was the kind of thing that could get an independent body out there has kind of dried up in these economic times.

“When somebody says you gotta help and

your a musician, you say, ‘I’ll grab my guitar, I’ll grab the band, we’ll do a fundraiser,’ and you think about all music has done for starvation in Africa,” he continued.

“It’s like, these are the tools we have, and these are the tools that people already know we have.”

The duo the ¿nished their ¿rst of four trips along the pipeline route, one for each season, capturing the diversity of the landscapes. They will be travelling to and painting the different ecosystems the pipeline would be passing through, such as the Rocky Mountains and the Great Bear Rainforest.

During this last trip, the artists said they met a number of groups that would be impacted by the pipeline — and not just the most obvious ones. For instance, Corbett mentioned a mountain bike club which invested over $300,000 in trails that would be disrupted by the pipeline.

In the end, their hope is to have a body of work of 150 paintings, which would then be shown in galleries across B.C., along with supplemental

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texts detailing what the effects of an oil spill in the area would be. Citing the role that artists played in the establishment of a number of national and provincial parks in the province, Corbett said that artists play a huge role in inspiring people to action.

“Artists have played a role in activism in this province for a long time, across the country it happens everywhere, we are the kind of group of people who are looked upon to rally the masses,” said Corbett.

However, while the artists want people to walk away from their work opposed to the pipeline, they don’t want to force this stance on the viewers, said Corbett.

“We’re trying to invoke an emotion that might get them think a little bit closer to us, but at the same time, ramming things down people’s throat, this is exactly what Enbridge is trying to do,” said Corbett. “And I don’t think being over-the-top self righteous in your beliefs gets anyone anywhere.

I think you have to be open minded.”

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Celebrating sockeye returns Jennifer Schell

For the Western News

Did you know that once upon a time we had salmon living in Okanagan Lake?

With the annual sockeye salmon run now en route to Osoyoos, I sat down with Jon Crofts from Codfathers Seafood Market in Kelowna for a history lesson on this incredible fish and the efforts being made to stabilize and rebuild the declining wild Okanagan sockeye population and to revitalize the Okanagan Nation salmon fishery.

The salmon would currently be mid-way through their 1,200 kilometre journey up the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean to their spawning grounds in the Okanagan River.

So what happened to the sockeye salmon in Okanagan Lake?

In the mid-1800’s, the sockeye fishery began to change dramatically with the arrival of European traders and ranchers.

Settlement along the river, the building of dams, channelization, commercial fishing, irrigation and domestic water use damaged salmon habitat, interrupted migration routes, reduced stocks entering the rivers to spawn, increased competition for the resource and destroyed traditional fishing sites.

The Okanagan River is the largest of three remaining Columbia River sockeye runs. Of the total sockeye return to the Columbia Basin, over 80% are Okanagan stock. Since the 1990’s, the Okanagan sockeye

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FRESH SOCKEYE in this week at Codfathers Seafood in Kelowna.

escapement has fluctuated between 5,000 and 210,000. Years when only a few thousand sockeye returned to the spawning grounds had conservationists fearing for its extinction.

Now for the good news.

Through the restoration work of the Okanagan Nations Alliance and favourable environmental conditions — a record sockeye salmon run of up to 500,000 fish is expected to return this year.

The ONA has been working with many agencies in Canada and the U.S. to restore the Okanagan River to its natural state and reopen the historical migration route for salmon and other native fish species.

The Okanagan sockeye Reintroduction Program, initiated under the guidance of Okanagan elders, is currently in Year eight of 12 of stocking marked sockeye fry into

Skaha Lake to determine the feasibility of reintroduction. The goal is to continue this work allowing the salmon population back in to Skaha Lake and then hopefully Okanagan Lake.

Can you imagine?

One day we may be able to enjoy sockeye salmon in Okanagan Lake.

Jon and Anne-Marie Crofts have become involved with this conservation work and have signed an agreement with the ONA allowing Jon to process and distribute the salmon in the valley. They are working on setting up a direct sales site in Osoyoos and Jon has trained a new staff of fishmongers to work there.

They will also have a special processing room at the back of the Codfathers’ current shop operation set up to exclusively handle these local fish. Jon is thrilled to be a part of this excit-

ing project.

“This is a really good thing for the Valley,” he said. “It’s not very often that you get to see such a dramatic effect following conservation efforts.”

Jon wants “to make sure that the fish are respected, taken care of and managed locally,” and commented thatthis initiative will also “secure local this food source for the Valley for years to come.”

Interesting fact: did you know that Kokanee found in the Okanagan are related to sockeye salmon? Once upon a time, perhaps blocked by ice, some of the salmon became landlocked in Okanagan Lake and could not leave for the run. These fish then evolved into Kokanee.

How can you get involved? The Pacific Salmon Foundation and the ONA have joined

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Tech talk a networking event the whole range of tech sector workers.

“Not just information and communications tech, but also clean or green tech, agricultural tech, and medical tech,” said Greer. “If you produce and sell technology or technology services, or have thought about doing so, you should come.”

That includes, he continued, those running a business as well as employees, people working on ideas in their basement or just interested people.

There is no cost to attend Tech Talk, which will be held on July 12, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Penticton Innovation Centre in room 256 on the second Àoor of the Centre for Excellence at Okanagan College’s Penticton campus. Signs will be posted inside the building. Light refreshments and snacks will be served To register for the event visit techtalkpic.eventbrite.com or contact Greer via email at andrew@ accelerateokanagan.com.

Western News Staff

The Penticton Innovation Centre is playing host to its ¿rst networking event.

Tech Talk is a casual networking opportunity to come and speak with like-minded tech sector people: employees, owners and interested people.

Andrew Greer, Accelerate Okanagan’s community manager for the Penticton Innovation Centre, said about 25 people are already registered for the event.

There won’t be any big speeches, Greer said, just business people talking to business people, making connections, ¿nding out who else is out there in Penticton and South Okanagan.

“It is meant to be a grassroots networking opportunity (likely to be held monthly) for entrepreneurs, employees, and people interested in the tech sector,” said Greer, adding that they are welcoming

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The town of Oliver is planning to double down on the power of the sun, hoping this weekend’s sunny forecast and the town’s Sunshine Festival will have Community Park packed with people in a celebration of summer.

The Sunshine Festival started last year as an effort by Oliver parks and recreation to offer an

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event following Oliver’s yearly parade.

“Everybody was coming out for this awesome parade, and then going home like half-anhour later, and I was like, ‘Maybe we should keep people around,’” said Carol Sheridan, festival director.

The festival will feature beverage gardens, live entertainment, vendors, kids’ games and activities, and carnival rides from West Coast Amusements.

However, according to Sheridan, the real heart of the show are the live acts. Lobo Blanco will be delivering up their reggae world beats and Vancouver-based classic rock band Worms Hate Rain will also be making the trip to play Community Park’s band shell.

Lastly, Nankama, a westAfrican drum group will be performing their interactive drum and dance show on Saturday.

“As far as our international component goes, this is what people should come down to see,” said Sheridan.

As well, Penticton musician Mat Duffus will be performing mid-afternoon on Saturday. It will be Duffus’ second time at the festival, and he said he plans on bringing a fun, spontaneous performance that both kids and adults will enjoy.

“I really like to get

people out of their shell, and let them discover that they can entertain people and entertain themselves,” he said, adding that he hopes to get as many people as he can on the stage to help him out.

The goal of this year’s festival, Sheridan said, is twofold: for Oliver residents to celebrate the summer and to provide a draw for tourists.

“We’re trying to build the Sunshine Festival in July as a way (for tourists) to come into Oliver and spend a few days here in the summer,” she said.

Building on last year’s success as a local, family-based event, Sheridan said organizers were working to expand this year’s focus and working to turn the festival into a draw for local adults and tourists.

“This year we’ve added a Friday night where we’re still a great time for families, but we’ve kind of tried to say, ‘This is a great way to start your weekend,’ to adults, like come on down, hit the beer garden, we’ve got some great bands on Friday night,” said Sheridan.

On Friday, the festival in Community Park will be open from 5 to 10 p.m., and on the Saturday it will be open following the 10:30 a.m. parade until 5 p.m.

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VALLEY FIRST GRANFONDO AXEL MERCKX OKANAGAN LEAD RIDERS (Clockwise from the top) including winner Trevor Gunderson (1572) grimace as they reach the finish line in just over four hours. Nathan Zaseybida is a blur of motion as he begins the course, Paul Stoliker is chased by the rider mural on a downtown building, Jennifer (left) and Stan Andrews frame rider Geoff Sutherland with hands raised at the finish line and Jeff Symonds relaxes at the end of the course.

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Pinnacles FC net a gold and three bronze medals Emanuel Sequeira Western News Staff

Two months ago before a game, Penticton Pinnacles Football Club under-16 girls coach Derrick Webb wasn’t getting his players’ attention.

Webb took notice and asked, “Is anybody listening?” Then a couple girls said, “Oh, Oh” (referencing a Genesis song). Often before games Webb would give his pre-game talk, and again ask if anybody was listening and he’d get that same chorus.

There was little said

by Webb prior to their provincial B cup championship match against North Coquitlam United Xtreme. However, South Okanagan Youth Soccer Association executive director/head coach Ezra Cremers did speak.

Cremers told them his under-21 boys lost 2-0 the day before and the difference was their desire to win. Cremers said if the girls play with desire they would win.

The girls clearly listened as they cruised to a 5-1championship win against the Xtreme on Sunday. It was the Pinnacles FC’s lone gold medal victory, as the under-13, -14 and -17 boys all returned with bronze medals.

“It was a great experience for the girls,” said Webb. “Once we got that second goal, everyone was just relaxed. Not a lot of coaching going on.”

The Pinnacles opened the scoring on a play

by Emily Jones, who went around the Xtreme goalkeeper and took a shot. The defender went down to make a play and stopped it with her hands.

That resulted in a red card, being ejected and the Pinnacles scoring on the pen-

alty kick. Two minutes later, the Pinnacles tallied their second goal. Webb said the Xtreme “kind of put their heads down and being down a player and being down two goals so early, it was very difficult for them.”

“It was unfortunate,” said Webb. “I think the game would have been tighter, a lot tougher had they been able to have 11 players.”

Webb added that the final result was fantastic as it was their goal all year to reach provincials. Once they did, their sights were set on a medal and they had golden ambition.

“For some of the girls it was awesome,” said Webb. “Most of these kids have been together since the gold program in u-11.”

“We were ecstatic, jumping around in the air, all over each other,” said Pinnacles FC captain McKenzie Ricard. “I was really proud of everyone.

I haven’t seen us want to win a game so bad. First time in provincials and we won it, this is crazy.”

Playing the game the Pinnacles way earned the team an email from Cre-

mers. Below is part of what Cremers wrote.

“Congratulations girls.

You have worked so hard to raise your game and the feeling you received when the whistle blew to end the game is just one of many important feelings of accomplishments you will have for the rest of your life. You are the heartbeat of the club. Everything I personally wanted to see PFC become you have shown. Good footy, smiles, sportsmanship and success. Oh boy, the goose bumps are back.”

Each player will now get to enjoy a day with the championship trophy.

On the boys side, Joe Afonso, coach of the under-13 squad, said his players performed “awesome.”

“The boys played exceptionally well,” said Afonso. “They all played with heart. I think they were amazed. Just to get to provincials. It was exciting for them. To come out with a medal, I had a lot of kids say this is the best season they ever had.”

The team went 2-1-0 during the round robin, then defeated the Saanich

Fusion 4-1. The Surrey FC Ravens defeated the Sunshine Coast Scorpions 4-0 for gold. Afonso added that this will build confidence and character in the players to go through that. While Surrey FC defeated Langley United 5-0 to win gold at the U-14 level, the Pinnacles defeated the Kootenay South Big Horns 3-1 for bronze.

“They played spectacularly,” said coach Tony Trovao. “They moved the ball around and dominated possession. They put everything together. It was a great game.”

Trovao added they were a goal away from being in the final as they lost to Surrey FC 2-1.

Still, Trovao watched his players be “beyond happy” with what they did.

“Just puts the cap to our season,” said Trovao, adding that they placed third in their league, then took down the top two teams during playoffs.

“Just to be in the top three is quite amazing.”

The U-17 boys also earned a bronze medal.

They defeated the Prince George Kodiaks 2-0.

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PENTICTON PINNACLES FC under-16 girls team defeated the North Coquitlam United Xtreme 5-1 in Kelowna to become provincial champions during the BC B cup championship. On the right, Stefan Obradovic faces a sliding challenge by Gareth Doyle of Smithers during BC B cup provincial action in Aldergrove July 5 in the under-17 age group. The Pinnacles won the game 3-1 and earned a bronze medal after defeating the Prince George Kodiaks 2-0. Below, Todd Corrie is being chased by a defender in U-13 play. The Pinnacles defeated the Saanich Fusion 4-1 to earn the bronze medal. The U-14 Pinnacles also earned a bronze medal.

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Winner gives praise to granfondo Emanuel Sequeira Western News Staff

Trevor Gunderson learned a valuable lesson during the inaugural Valley First Granfondo Axel Merckx Okanagan last year.

Stay hydrated.

“I did this last year and totally bonked,” said the Calgary resident, who placed 21st overall then and clocking in at 4:12:21.

“With the heat today it’s all about drinking.

Like about every five or 10 minutes I would have a sip just to make sure I was always hydrated because if you get to a point where you just sort of cramp, I mean you can’t go back. Eating all the time is important too.”

Gunderson was the first to cross the finish line in the granfondo format (160-kilometres), clocking in at 4:12:30 as he reached Penticton’s Gyro Park on Sunday. His result earned him a spot in

the UCI World Cycling Tour qualifier in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The top 25 per cent in each age group qualify. Only riders in the granfondo category can.

Nearing the finish line, it’s always a sprint said Gunderson.

“That’s where you have to use your years of experience of which wheel (competitor) to ride and how much power you’ve got and when you can go,” said Gunderson, who has won two master’s championships and has competed with Canada’s national team. “It’s all about knowing yourself and knowing your competition.”

Gunderson, competing in the 40 to 44 age group, said that riders didn’t start hitting the wall until they came into downtown.

“There was three of those TNA (cycling team) guys and I knew they were going to try

I did this last year and totally bonked. With the heat today, it was all about drinking.

— Trevor Gunderson

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TREVOR GUNDERSON of Calgary was excited to win the granfondo category of the Valley First Grandondo Axel Merckx Okanagan on Sunday.

and lead out one of them, but I don’t know them,” he explained.

“I had an idea so I just sort of marked his wheel and I can see the finish line so that’s when I just decided to go and I just sort of nailed it. I think they just sort of petered out

and I just surged.”

While his goal was to win, Gunderson likes that “anybody can jump on a bike and do the 92-km ride (mediofondo) or the 160-km.

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Vancouver’s Ann Yew, placing 60th, clocking in at 4:27:30. Yew couldn’t be reached for comment.

Cyclist Dan MacDonald, who placed sixth, was the first from Penticton to finish the granfondo format. MacDonald enjoyed the day especially because it’s in his hometown.

“The Merckx ride is a blast, it’s nice to have,” said MacDonald, who is a member of the rideokanagan. com team. “There are 2,600 people so maybe next year it will be 3,000.”

While some riders brought a competitive approach to the event, other chose to be competitive among themselves but focus on fun.

Victoria’s Debra Evans-Hayes was one.

Last year she participated as the bike ferry, but this year, she only used the hat from that outfit. Evans-Hayes completed the granfondo category that year and this time chose to ride the new cortofondo format.

She placed 13th, finishing in at 2:17:46.

“It was beautiful.

Just enough,” she said of the cortofondo. “I hadn’t been doing a lot of bike riding this year.”

Returning from Summerland during the ride she loved the look of the vineyards.

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With competition freaking her out, Evans-Hayes decided to wear the costume to help keep her calm.

“It really helped,” she said. “This year, I’m gonna see how fast I can go. I think I did good.”

Merckx, who placed 126th and finishing in 4:39:32, said to one of the race announcers that it was a long day in which he was “dying near the end.”

However, he was more pleased with the success of his event and hearing the positive things people said. Because they are coming back, he joked that he said he has to now.

“We have a great sport, we have a great title sponsor with Valley First. We have great support from the city of Penticton,” said Merckx, adding that he doesn’t see a reason why the race wouldn’t return.

A notable change to the event was shifting the start/finish location to Gyro Park. Last year the start was at the peach and the finish was located at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre.

“I think it really showcases the city and I think it makes it nicer compared to last year,” said Merckx.

“It’s an event that is growing and everybody seems to enjoy.

It’s a good event for the region.”

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Piccolofondo rolls to big numbers Emanuel Sequeira Western News Staff

While Valley First Granfondo Axel Merckx Okanagan enjoyed an increase in participants, so did the Piccolofondo.

The free event, geared for kids from five to 12, grew from 172 last year, to 250 kids this year.

Piccolofondo captain Pam MacDonald said the two-kilometre circuit had “an awesome turnout.”

The event started at Gyro Park, turned onto Lakeshore Drive, then onto Martin Street and Westminster Avenue before getting back onto Main Street.

“We were hoping for just over 200,” said MacDonald of the event, which had six heats of kids. “We had to shut down registration on Friday night because we were full.

When people walked up the day of, we let them jump in so it kind of balanced out a little bit. Hopefully we will do even more next year.”

MacDonald, who is involved with the Penticton BMX Club, said she received an email from a parent saying their nine-year-old felt it was the best event he’s ever done.

“I think they enjoyed the downtown venue and the longer distances,” she said.

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“One bright spot at the conclusion of the game Friday evening, Chris Pond was asked by the Kamloops Venom to join their team at the end of the season to attend the National Founder’s Cup to be held in Six Nations Aug. 14-19th,” said coach Tony Ramsay.

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Obituaries

CHARLTON Joan Beverley

Our beloved mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother transitioned gracefully into Spirit on July 2, 2012 at 80 yrs of age. Born in Vernon, she then married Douglas James McQuillan, also of Vernon, who pre-deceased her in 1970. She will long be remembered for her quirky sense of humour, quick wit, wry view of the world, and of course, her wise and loving heart. She will ever remain firmly in the smiles of those who knew her best including daughter Patricia (Trish) Zierler of Penticton, granddaughters Danielle & Nicole Zierler of Vernon & Victoria respectively, grandson-in-law Hernan Vera Valencia, great-grandchildren Raco and Violetta Vera-Zierler, former son-in-law, Gunther Zierler all, of Vernon, and niece Ruth Bode of Richmond.

Per Joan’s request, there will not be a formal public Celebration of Life. If you choose, please do take a moment to say or do something meaningful for you to wish this beautiful soul a rousing “Job well done!” and a safe journey home.

Obituaries

UNDERDOWN CATHERINE ESTHER (nee Cross) Passed away peacefully in the Penticton Hospital on Saturday July 7, 2012 with her daughter Susan Lamarsh at her side. She would have been 96 on August 3rd. Catherine also known as Kay or Auntie Kate was born in the farming community of Saltcoats, Sask.

She met her husband, Leslie in 1947, they owned several orchards in the Penticton area.

After Leslie’s passing in 1976 Kay continued to sell fruits on South Main for many years.

She was devoted to her church, never afraid to speak her mind, a hard working loving mother, gramma and great-gramma. She will be missed by her son Barry (wife Cecile), daughter Susan Lamarsh (predeceased by husband John); granddaughters; Lisa and Michelle (husband Chris) and her beloved great-granddaughter, Bethany, surviving sisters-in-law Florence and Nina Cross, Doreen Edgar and Rosa Underdown; and many nieces and nephews.

Our heartfelt thanks to the Staff of Mariposa Gardens in Osoyoos for giving Kate the dignity and power of choice in her final years.

Our thanks to the NightHawk Companion Services for providing the wonderful Scrabble Players. Our thanks also to the doctors and staff of the Oliver and Penticton Hospitals.

Cremation provided by Providence Funeral Home. A Celebration of Life will be held on Friday July 13th, 2012 at 2pm at the Salvation Army Church at 2469 South Main St. in Penticton, BC. No flowers by request, donation may be made to the Salvation Army or PBS TV. Condolences may be sent to the family through providencefuneralhomes.com.

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Sporting Goods

Western Star Auctions, the Okanagan’s Premier Auction Houses 161 Ellis Street, weekly auctions every Tuesday @ 6pm Always accepting consignments. 250-492-3203

Fiberglass Racing Scull w/seat, blades, 2 stands $1500.; Rowing machine (top of line) $1000.; both in good cond. call in am 250-542-1897

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2 purebred Flemish giant rabbits & 4 babies to go to good homes, (250)488-7619 HOT TUB for Free. You take away. Runs. Nearly new cover.

Contact lloyd@prequip.com for pics and more info

Trainor’s Family Hauling, serving Penticton, dump service, junk & yard waste, odd jobs, service with a smile, 250486-4867

Tiling KALEDEN Tile - Replace your tub for a walk-in shower! Need new floors! Tile installation of floors, decks, backsplashes, fireplaces, showers, & pans.

Free estimates, Insured, references & pictures available. No Job too big or small. Glen 250488-1985

Pets & Livestock

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Merchandise for Sale

Electric hot water tanks installed for $149, incl. dump charge for disposal. Licensed and insured, seniors discounts, Summerland-Osoyoos. 250-276-4310

Home Improvements

Here Come the Painters, local & in 11th year, interior/exterior, free estimate, 250-486-2331

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Feed & Hay HAY FOR SALE; Grass or Grass Alfalfa mix, Round bales $70 each, approx.

800lbs. Large square bales, 3x3x8, $160/ton.

Delivery avail. on larger orders. 250838-6630

Livestock Shavings Friendly service from Summerland since 1972 Les Porter 250-490-1132

Pets Australian Shepherd black-tri male & female puppies, ready July 9, 1st shots, vet checked, $450 each, (250)499-5397, email: 3winds@telus.net Black & Chocolate Lab puppies, vet-checked, ready to go, (250)493-4934

Merchandise for Sale

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Auctions RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT AUCTION (New & Used) Wed, July 18th @ 6:00pm, preview same day 9-6, 3953 Hwy 97 N, Kelowna, 1-800-556-5945 www.KwikAuctions.com

Sporting Goods

FOR SALE - ROAD BICYCLES 2012 Norco CRR-SL Med SRAM Red, Mavic wheels, 16.5 lbs, full carbon, $2400 2013 Felt AR2 54cm, SRAM Red (Black), SRAM Wheels, 16 lbs, aero profile, great road/TT combo or Tri-bike conversion, $4200 Contact 250-462-4441 or mwalker@blackpress.ca

Stereo / DVD / TV Older top of the line JVC home stereo, digital receiver, cd player, 5 speakers (3 Pioneer surround - 2 JVC stereo speakers) $100 obo, 250-4938925

Real Estate

Fruit & Vegetables

Acreage for Sale

FOR SALE New 20lb Fruit Boxes. 80 boxes @ $65.00 for the lot,or $.80 each. Ph 250496-4106 or 250-486-4106 Pink Royal cherries, $5/kilo, u-pick or we pick, (250)4934106 U-Pick cherries, $1.10/lb, 7:30am-dusk, low trees, 250492-5653, 1099 West Bench

$97,500 10.4 acres Lot H Arrow Lakes area 250-269-7328 Pic’s email selkirk8@telus.net

Furniture ALL NEW Queen MATTRESS SET Still in Original Plastic!

Must Sell. $150 - CALL: 604484-0379 Western Star Auctions the Okanagans Premier Auction Houses 161 Ellis street Always buying estates, tools, furniture.

If looking to buy furniture check out our store front.

Please call 250-492-3203

Garage Sales Multi-Family Yard Sale Friday, July 13, 1 - 7 pm Sat., July 14, 7 am - 1 pm 213 Conklin Ave. books, furniture, hardware, tools, misc. galore, 14’ travel trailer

Apt/Condos for Sale 1brm Exec. 2 ba, Downtown Front St. 1 block from lake and park, secure parking, $1000.

Call Dennis @ Realty Exec. 1 (250)493-4372

For Sale By Owner $97,900, 653sqft 2nd floor Condo, 1bdrm, ac, balcony, f/s, private parking & storage, transit out front, school near by, $5900 below assessment, renter in place, (250)493-2199 MOBILE Home Why pay rising costs of pad rent when for the same monthly amt you can buy a home on your own land?

Assumable mortgage. Asking $149,000. For more info call 250-496-4106.

PRIME LAKEVIEW LOTS from $140,000.

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Houses For Sale

Heavy Duty Machinery FORK LIFTS For sale, 18 to choose from, Toyota, Cat., & Hyster, 250-861-9171 Will pay cash for oversized scrap steel, cats, yarders, saw mill equipment, farm equipment, etc. All insurance in place to work on your property. 250-260-0217

Misc. for Sale FOR RESTLESS or Cramping Legs. A fast acting remedy since 1981, sleep at night, proven for 31 years. Mon-Fri 8-4 EST 1-800-765-8660. www.allcalm.com High end Peg Perego stroller, paid over $300, asking $30, 250-493-8925 High end Safety 1st Jogging Stroller with rain shield, paid over $250, asking $25, (250)492-0444 STEEL BUILDING, Huge clearance sale! 20x24 $4,658.

25x28 $5,295. 30x40 $7,790.

32x54 $10,600.

40x58 $14,895. 47x78 $19,838. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca.

Misc. Wanted I Buy Old Coins & Collections Olympic, Gold Silver Coins etc Call Chad 250-499-0251 Local

Lake view home, close to elem./mid./sec. schools, shopping, and 10 min walk to Skaha Lk. 4 level split with newly built 10x20 deck, plus 3 more decks!! 4 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, office, hardwood floor, vaulted ceilings, new furnace, updated kitchen, new appliances, F/A fireplace, garage, massive driveway, central air, and irrigation system. Pictures on Kijiji. Need to sell Make an offer! 250-493-1657 or 250-486-0576 ******* OKHomeseller.com Where smart sellers meet smart buyers! View Thompson Okanagan properties for sale.// Selling? No Commission. (250) 545-2383 or 1-877-291-7576

Mobile Homes & Parks 1800sqft 2001 Moduline premanufactured home, 3bdrm, 2ba, large den, with new heat pump, to be moved off property, $95,000, (250)488-2353

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Sporting Goods

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Celebrate Diversity: Buy a different Gun as often as you can! Quality firearms Buy & Sell. Weber & Markin Gunsmiths, The best little gunshop around. 4-1691 Powick Rd. Kel. 250-762-7575, T-Sat 10-6

Owner is motivated to sell 3 brm, 1.5bath townhouse. Bargain priced at $174,900. Located at #123-3004 South Main. Avail Aug 1st. Call (250)493-9229 or 250-4625775

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Real Estate

Real Estate

Apt/Condo for Rent

Apt/Condo for Rent MONDAY - FRIDAY

Front Street Realty

Property Management #2 Front St., Penticton, B.C.

250-492-2233 ASK FOR DEBBIE

APARTMENTS

132 POWER STREET • Studio ground floor, fr/st, includes utilities. Avail. NOW ..... $600.00 • 2 bed, completely reno., fr/st, incl. utilities. Avail. JULY ..... $900.00 202 EDMONTON AVENUE ............................$1,000.00 2 bed, 2 bath, all appliances. Avail. NOW 196 WADE AVENUE WEST ...........................$1,100.00 2 bed, 2 bath, all appliances. Avail. NOW HOUSE / DUPLEX / TOWNHOUSE

296 KINNEY AVENUE (NEW) ....................$1,350.00 3 bed, 3 bath townhouse, 5 appl., c/a, fenced yard, dbl grg. Avail. NOW CHURCHILL AVENUE .....................................$1,250.00 3 bed duplex with 5 appliances. Avail. NOW

REALTY EXECUTIVES PENTICTON APARTMENTS: $550

Near library, 1 bdrm suite in 4-plex, newer flrs, recently painted, new kitchen. Avail. NOW (H542-3) $550 Bach and one bdrm apartment, children welcome, f, s, a/c, /$625 elevator, cov’d parking. Cat ok. Avail. NOW / AUG. 1 (EFR) $695 1 bdrm grd flr incl utilities, f,s, patio, some reno’s close to library and bus route. Avail. Aug. 15 (PC6)

HOUSES: $900

Grd level 2 bdrm + den in 4 plex, f,s, w.d, d/w, basement near Elem. school. Avail. July 1 (H691-4) $950 Upper duplex 2 bdrm + den, 1 bath, f,s, d;/w, w.d, 1 yr lse req’d, no pets, no smoking. Avail. Aug. 1 (H710-2) $1200 2 bdrm +den ranch style house, 5 appl. Fenced yard, near schools, quiet neighbourhood. Avail. July 15 (H742) $1350 3 bdrm + den, 2.5 bath, unfinished bsmt, 5 appl, close to dwntwn. Avail. Aug. 1 (H727) Prospective tenants must complete an application form at:

280 MAIN STREET, PENTICTON, B.C. V2A 5B2 PHONE: 250-493-4372 - www.rentalspenticton.com Only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Cars - Domestic

Cars - Domestic

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Other Areas

Apt/Condo for Rent

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New 2nd Floor Studio Suite, private entrance, lots of parking, central location in Keremeos. F/S/W/D $590/month (includes heat & electricity), security deposit and references, non-smoker & no pets, 250-499-9035.

Apt/Condo for Rent 1 & 2 bdrm, newly reno’d suites. Secured access, util incl, near hospital, bus route and close to all amenities, n/p, n/s 250-938-7146 1bdrm Apt. in clean, quiet, ns bldg near Cherry Lane, adults 50+, bal., elev, 4appl., insuite storage, coin laundry, np, $650+util., (250)492-4265 1BDRM apt, totally reno’d, 3 new appl, a/c, in-suite storage, NP, NS, clean, quiet, secure, on bus route, near Walmart 250-493-8500 Caretaker on site wanted, 28 unit apartment, retired person preferred, (250)493-8500 FURNISHED or un-furnished apt for rent in Princeton, Avail. now, need excellent ref’s & DD. No pets., rent starts at $525/mo., Call 250-295-1006 leave a message.

LARGE 2bdrm apt. for rent. +40 bldg, $850 +util, ref’s req.

250-487-1136

1000-1500sq’ of Industrial/ Commercial Space for lease compounded yard w/security cameras, overhead doors.

Warren Ave. 250-765-3295 3659sqft., suitable for warehouse, gym, contractor, 16ft o/h door, office, 2 washrooms, access to fenced yard, also, 1156sqft, suitable for offices, dance studio, etc., M1 Zoning, allows for multiple industrial uses, plus fitness/recreational, $7.50/sqft, triple net, Syd 250-493-5909 COMMERCIAL lease 1000 sq ft plus 400 sq ft mezzanine.

Zoned CMA in strata at 2201 Dartmouth Drive. Overhead door and window at entrance. $1000 plus triple net. 250-4878734 PRIME Commercial Spaces: 2300sqft. in busy Plaza, ample parking, also 770sqft., in OK Market for food-related retail business, Barb 250-492-6319 Shop rental, Industrial area, 800 & 1200 sqft, priced to rent, $6.50 square foot, triple net, (250)492-8324, 250-809-0728

RENTALS

(250) 770-1948 101-3547 SKAHA LAKE RD. Naramata: Lrg. 1 Bdrm above OK Falls: 1 bdrm house, w/ ground bsmt suite, f/s, d/w, detached guest room, F/S, W/D, w/d, f/p, garage. Deck with 1 bath, garage & lrg fenced yard extraordinary view. $900 incl. util w/deck $775 +util Property Management

Van Horne: 2 bdrm hse, F/S, W/D, garage. Deck, fenced yard, pkg.

No pets. Avail. now $875 +util

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2bdrm house, f/d, apartment sized w/d, deck, shed, $1000+util., (250)493-3932

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Seasonal Acommodation Furnished room in farmhouse on acreage in Cawston area, (250)499-2303

Suites, Lower 1BDRM on Wiltse, utilities incl, n/s, n/p, ref’s req., $650/mo, avail now 250-492-2908 or 250-490-1025

$

$

22,880

TOTAL LUXURY

2010 FORD EXPLORER EDDIE BAUER 4X4

3rd row seats, 4.0L V6 engine, traction control, leather heated seats with memory, satellite radio, 6 disc CD, microsoft SYNC, alloy wheels. WHITE/TAN P186A. WAS 31,998

$

24,880

26,840

4X4

LUXURY

Many vehicles to choose from!

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2008 BUICK LUCERNE SXL 4 DR. LUXURY SEDAN

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2008 LINCOLN MKZ 4 DR. LUXURY SEDAN

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$

19,880

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$

22,998

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2008 TOYOTA RAV 4 5 PASSENGER 4 WD SUV

2008 MAZDA B3000 2 WD CAB PLUS PICKUP

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$

2008 TOYOTA TUNDRA DBLE CAB SR5 SHORTBOX 4X4

5.7L V8 engine, automatic transmission, 93,000 kms, alloy wheels, power seat, power windows/locks, 6 disc CD, satellite radio. GREEN. P1143A

$

12,880

LOCAL TRADE

TWO - 2bdrm basement suite, 4appl., np, ns, (250)770-1381, 250-462-2472

Transportation

2007 TOYOTA RAV 4 LIMITED 4 WHEEL DRIVE

2.4L 4 cylinder engine, automatic transmission, alloy wheels, 6 disc CD player, power sunroof, and more.

SILVER. P1139A

$

28,998

NEW ARRIVAL

21,998

LOW KMS

2004 CHEVROLET MALIBU MAXX

ONLY 79,200 KMS! 3.5L V6 engine, automatic transmission, alloy wheels, & much more on this every clean local vehicle, plenty of leg room in this car!

TAN. P1166A $

8,880

2004 BMW X5 AWD SUV

4.4L V8 engine, 5 speed automatic transmission, leather heated seats, with memory, park sensors, alloy wheels, fog lights, 6 disc CD player, hands free phone and lots more. Only 94,000 kms.

PEWTER. P1142A

$

22,880

Auto Accessories/Parts Used Tires, Huge Selection of used tires and wheels in stock.

We might have what you need. Prices vary according to size and quality. Starting at $25.00. Call us or drop in to Larsens Excel 555 Okanagan Ave East 250-492-5630 Penticton

Winner

1994 DODGE RAM 2500 SLT 2 WHEEL DRIVE

ST BE of the

outh S Okanagan

5.9L Cummins Diesel, 5 speed manual transmission, 5th wheel hitch, tow skirt, running boards, chrome wheels, air, tilt, cruise & Only 85,000 kms! Driftwood.

P1155A $

12,680

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Antiques / Classics

1999 CHEVROLET 1500 EXTENDED LONGBOX 4X4 LS

$16,980

Brand new 2bdrm suite, private entrance, np, ns, fe Wiltse area, avail. July 1st, (250)486-7974 after 4pm

1951 Ford Pickup for parts, hot rod or restore. Running flat head V8 no papers $1800 obo 250-545-8229

SPECIAL

ONLY 7,300 KMS!!!!!! 5.3L V8, automatic, alloy wheels, 40/20/40 dual power seats, AM/FM/CASS. Fog lights, deep tinted glass. This local seniors vehicle is mint, mint, mint!!

BEIGE. P1171A

Avail. Aug 1, 3brm, grnd. level suite, prvt. yd., clse to Walmart + Skaha beach, $1000/mo +util.

(250)490-7941 days, 250-492-6079 after 6pm.

19,980

NEW ARRIVAL

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2011 DODGE CHARGER 4 DR. SEDAN

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1BDRM suite, f/s, wd, internet, $700 incl util, n/s, small pets ok, Avail now 250-492-7606

3.0L V6 engine, 6 speed automatic transmission, alloy wheels, leather heated power seats, sunroof, fog lights, reverse sensing, microsoft SYNC. Only 16,825 kms on this near new vehicle. BLUE. P1168A

Scrap Car Removal 1AA SCRAP CAR REMOVAL Min $60 cash for full size vehicles, any cond. 250-899-0460 Scrap car removal, will pay up to $120.We are licensed & insured, more weight, more money,250-328-8697, Pent.

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Call today 250-809-5004 Charlie Brooks

Recreational/Sale

1999 Sierra GM, 3/4 ton pick up, very good condition, automatic, with 9.9 camper with full bathroom, excellent shape, fully loaded, $14,000 obo (250)487-1136 2007 Springdale 28ft. travel trailer, 14ft. slide room, front queen bed, TV & DVD, all factory auctions, $15,900, phone (250)487-1225 Westland RV Manufacturing, from custom building to major repairs, insurance claims and renovations, free estimates, reasonable rates, seniors discounts available, for all your RV needs, call 250-493-7445

SUMMERLAND. seniors 55+, retire with us! Bright spacious 2-bdrm townhome wonderfully updated in quiet area of town, walking distance to everything you need. Huge balcony, private yard. $860/mo includes garden/ lawn care and lots of parking. On-site owner, N/S, N/P, references, credit check.

250-404-0327 or 490-1739.

3bdrm, 485 Bennett Ave., $1200/mo., 3bdrm, 667 Birch Ave., huge yard, $1250/mo., call Vijay (250)490-1530

Transportation 1999 23’ Frontier travel trailer, sleeps 6, a/c, heat, new tires, new toilet, yearly check up, well kept, $7500 obo, (250)493-8776, 250-488-1978

Duplex / 4 Plex

(250) 770-1948

Cars - Domestic

Auto Financing

Vernon (Harwood) Newly reno’d 3bdrm, 1.5bath, f/s, w/d h-up fenced yard n/s n/p Avail Now. $1000. 250-766-1428

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For Lease, The Gun Barrel Saloon & Restaurant at Apex Mountain Resort, The Gun Barrel is voted #1 Apres Ski Bar in Canada, The Long Shot Cafeteria & Bar are also available under the same lease, for info contact James Shalman at Apex Mountain Reesort, (250)490-6172

Commercial/ Industrial

Rentals

Transportation

Commercial/ Industrial

Rentals

Real Estate

All Makes, All Models.

New & Used Inventory.

1-888-229-0744 or apply at: www.greatcanadianautocredit.com Must be employed w/ $1800/mo. income w/ drivers license. DL #30526

Auto Services LOOKING for that ride you’ve always dreamed of? Eurodreams specializes in importing European automobiles and JDM for thousands cheaper.

Visit us on the web at www.euro-dreams.net

Trucks & Vans ‘06 350 Ford diesel, 73,000 kms, single cab, manual trans, full size box, rear wheel drive.

Good work truck. $12,000 (250)809-5029 1994 GMC blue Safari van, good condition, $1100.

(250)493-0566 1996 GMC Sierra 1500 Ext cab, V8 with Vortek, 2wdr, fully loaded, new a/c & tires, good condition, tow pkg, 285K, well cared for, pw, pb, ps, $5500, (250)493-3884 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 quad cab, Hemi, 218 highway K, custom chrome rims, leveling kit & leather interier . $9950 obo 1-250-260-0329 98 FORD F150 Lariat, power, a/c, leather, 4x4 short box step side, 229k, good condition, must

sell $4750 250-493-3031 aft 6 or lloyd@prequip.com for pics

Cars - Domestic

Boats

1988 Hyundai Excel, 2dr, hatch back, only 129k’s, $650 obo, (250)462-3505 1997 Cadillac STS (Old Man’s Toy), open to offers. 250-5490914 or (250)545-9891 2003 Cavalier, 4dr, 5spd, immaculate, only 105,000kms, $3,950. 250-938-2241.

2004 Mustang Convertible, 40th Anniversary Edition, white with white roof, 30,000 miles, $10,500, 250-492-8010 2004 Sebring, 4 dr, auto, loaded, exc cond, 120k $4400.

250-540-7307 2008 Smart Car, low mileage, asking $10,000 obo. Great cond. (250)542-6099

2005 19’ Campion, 5L, 178 hours, $18,900 obo. Mint.

(250)549-3344 For sale 12 ft Mirrocraft aluminum fishing boat, comes with oars, seats, electric trolling motor. Also included is a belly boat and assorted fishing tackle. Asking $1000.00 OBO Phone 250-490-4717

The PHOEBE ANN on Shuswap Lake is for sale 39 Passenger Vessel

Off Road Vehicles 215K on second engine, auto V-6, sunroof, CD. Runs well, good tires, some scratches. margaretholm@shaw.ca Yamaha Kodiak 2007, like new, only 450kms, trailer, winch, snow blade, loading ramp, $7100, (778)514-4407 or 250-809-7676

Recreational/Sale 1989 Vanguard 28’ motor home, excellent condition (250)492-0347 1994 32” Motor Home “Triple E Edition” Perfect Cond. Low Mileage, price for quick sale $12,000. 250-358-7296 1995 23ft Travel Mate Trailer, $6500 firm, excellent cond. in/out, sleeps 6, rear bunks, couch hide-a-bed, oak cabinets, tub/shower combo, fully equipped, (250)493-6875 1999 Topaz Trailer by Triple E, 30ft, lg slide, excellent condition, $12,500, 250-487-1136

LEISURELAND RV CENTRE • Licensed RV Technicians • Appliance Warranty Depot • ICBC & Private Insurance Claims • Check out our In-Store Saturday Parts Specials"

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126 INDUSTRIAL PLACE • PENTICTON • 250-487-2288

$2 million replacement value, will sell for $1 million Contact Narrows Village @

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