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COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart has discovered a new fashion boutique on Ellis Street in downtown Kelowna, Justin Paul Fashions.
STUDENTS AT Mount Boucherie Secondary School were given the opportunity to express their views on a number of issues about their community this week.
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THURSDAY November 1, 2012 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
▼ KELOWNA
Food bank dealing with record demand
Wade Paterson
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Kelowna Community Food Bank operations manager Rob Weller wasn’t surprised when he read a recent report that suggested Canadian food banks are now assisting more people than ever. According to HungerCount 2012, a report on hunger and food bank use in Canada, the need for food assistance programs in Canada grew this year. In March 2012, 882,188 separate individuals received food—38 per cent of whom were children. That represents an increase of 2.4 per cent over 2011 and is 31 per cent higher than pre-recessionary levels. According to Weller, the Kelowna food bank started noticing a significant difference last summer. “Summer is usually a little slower here and this summer wasn’t,” said Weller. “Usually by the end of August, our shelves are the emptiest, so we knew with numbers being up in July and August that the warehouse was going to be severely depleted.” Community support poured in at the time; however, See Demand A7
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FRUIT PICKERS…A dedicated group of UBCO students are committing their free time this fall to salvage and deliver fresh, local produce to the Kelowna Community Food Bank that would otherwise be left to drop from trees and go to waste. This is the second year the UBCO Food Rescue Club will be gleaning selected orchards with the goal of helping to provide children, families and individuals who need assistance from the food bank with nutritious, locally-grown fruit. Last fall, the UBCO Food Rescue Club gleaned and donated 1,450 pounds of produce to the Kelowna Community Food Bank. The UBCO Food Rescue Club members in the photo above are (from left) Tim Krupa, Andrew Mortenson, Liam Fitzpatrick and Shaman McLean.
▼ ASHLEE HYATT TRIAL
Testimony from teen murder trial under fire from defence until defence lawyers brought focus to the situation by asking what she meant by the question: “Who stabbed her?” Considering there were just three other girls at the party that night, and the fatal interaction was only supposed to be between the accused and Hyatt, there should have been little confusion, lawyer Donna Turko contended. “At the time I was like, ‘Oh
my God I didn’t want it to be true,’” the witness explained, adding that she did know it was the accused who stabbed Hyatt. But she was her “best friend” then, she said, and the experience of holding her sweater to Hyatt’s neck, as she bled out seemed surreal. “I was not able to believe that my best friend was able to do something so horrific,” she said.
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Turko then turned her attention to the teenage feuds that turned violent that night, highlighting several intersecting teenage love triangles. Who liked whom, and when they “made out” last may have been an issue among the girls who gathered that night, but the two teenage witnesses called to testify to date have
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Hyatt’s accused killer, now 18, sat still as the audio file reviving the chaos of those moments was played, while family and friends of the slain teen broke down in tears. The teenage girl who could be heard shouting out questions on the tape was called as a witness, and she too was brought to tears as she relived the moment. It wasn’t long, however,
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Hysterical screams echoed through a quiet Peachland street the night Ashlee Hyatt was killed, a jury heard through a 911 recording played earlier this week. “Who did this…who f***g stabbed her?” a frantic young woman yelled June 2, 2010, while other unintelligible
shrieks rang out in the distance. The teenage boy reporting the stabbing never answered, instead explaining to the 911 operator that Hyatt, 16, was lying on the ground, silently taking in what had just happened to her. “She looks like she’s in shock…she is not talking to any of us,” he said, as the operator dispatched emergency crews.
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