Kelowna Capital News, October 11, 2012

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KELOWNA ROCKETS forward Henrik Nyberg is making the adjustment to Canada from his native Sweden at the age of 18.

MAXINE DEHART’S annual drive-thru breakfast last week in support of the United Way was another early morning success.

WEST KELOWNA council gives go-ahead for $1.45 million in improvements to the Jim Lind Arena next year.

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Film festival removed from public viewing Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER

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Developer proposes medical services campus STAFF REPORTER

Construction on a “state-ofthe-art medical services campus” in downtown Westbank could begin as early as next summer. Rick Reece, investor, developer and agent for Investicare Seniors Housing Corporation, said he sees the need to centralize various scattered medical services to one convenient location. “Our intention is to develop a state-of-the-art medical services

campus,” said Reece. “The need within the town centre is getting to the point where we think it can support it. We think that it can be a phasedin development.” Reece said Investicare Seniors Housing Corporation is currently looking at every medical service provider that could be centralized so West Kelowna residents can avoid travelling to Kelowna for their medical needs. “They can simply go to one place and get everything done at

once.” Investicare Seniors Housing Corporation also owns The Heritage: A $37 million, 145-unit assisted living facility, which is back under construction after a hiatus caused by unfavourable economic conditions. The Heritage is scheduled to open by the summer of 2013. Reece said the medical services campus would provide convenience to all West Kelowna residents, especially those living at The Heritage.

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He added there is significant public support for the project. “I think it fits in well with the redevelopment and it brings some very high-paying, stable jobs into the centre of Westbank, which contributes to the overall economy of the town centre.” West Kelowna council gave third reading to the zoning bylaw amendment related to the proposed medical facility Tuesday.

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MEASURING UP…Grant Stanley, winemaker for Quails’ Gate Estate Winery in West Kelowna, peers through a refractometer

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After a week of controversy over the film Donkey Love, Okanagan Film Festival organizers are still without a venue to screen films. Landmark Cinemas will not host the three-day festival planned for this weekend because the one documentary in the program, Donkey Love, examines how bestiality plays a role in Colombian culture. “I don’t have to buy her clothes. I don’t have to buy her shoes,” says one of the Colombians featured in the film’s teaser as he explains why he’s opted for donkey sex over the love of a fellow human being. This perspective has not been received well in Kelowna, or many other communities around the world. The references to bestiality have trumped the film’s underlying inquisitive, if humorous, tone and generated reams of media coverage. This week, a group of unnamed students at UBC Okanagan nevertheless fought to ensure the show would go on—though to no avail. On Tuesday, they toured festival organizer Jeremy Heynen around two possible theatre locations on campus with an eye to developing a by-invitation-only event before Friday. “It will make things more intimate,” said Heynen. “So it might be like the filmmakers, our guests and then by invitation to keep the censors off our backs.” But by Wednesday evening UBCO confirmed it had received a formal request for space and had declined the application as the institution did not have enough time to set up the backdrop to help. “Due to the short notice, the Okanagan Film Festival’s request to use the ADM 026 Theatre…has not been granted, as it does not allow sufficient time to arrange the campus support services including security, facilities, custodial and parking staff,” said a statement released at 5 p.m. Wednesday. As such, 30 other filmmakers are set to arrive to an event without a venue, unless Heynen can find a solution.

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