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THURSDAY November 22, 2012 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
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Okanagan East Local food industry big winner with chef residents voice opposition to incorporation STAFF REPORTER
Okanagan East director Patty Hanson’s announcement about progress being made toward incorporation has several residents infuriated. Last week, Hanson announced Minister of Community, Sports and Cultural Development Bill Bennett had responded positively to her request to begin a referendum process for her constituents. She said the move would allow residents to be better represented and said the current governing body— Regional District of the Central Okanagan—does “not represent the voice of the citizens.” But according to some residents of Okanagan East, it is Hanson who is not representing their voice. “Your continuing derogatory comments and accusations regarding the regional district governing and its board members to the residents and the media is unprofessional and an embarrassment to every resident within the RDCO East,” Okanagan East resident Edna Thiessen wrote to Hanson in an open letter last week. Thiessen became aware of the issue after attending a community meeting in Ellison Sept. 12. She said the sign outside Ellison Hall that read: “Discussion—Kelowna, to be or not to be” was a misleading representation of what the meeting was actually about. “People out here have always felt a little threatened that the city might just take us over…it’s been a real tender spot for a lot of residents out here,” said Thiessen. “Most people that live out here choose to live out here because they don’t want to live within the city limits.” Thiessen said she was frustrated after realizing the meeting was not what she expected. “Patty stood up and spent about the first 20 minutes bashing the regional district on how they govern, how her motions are dealt with. We all kind of looked at each other and thought: What the heck is going on here? We didn’t come out to listen to this.” See Opposition A6
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LOCAL CHEF Mark Filatow was the gold medal winner at the Gold Medal Plates competition held last weekend in Vancouver. morphed into RauDZ Regional Table. Filatow’s elation at the win is now tempered by a pinch of nervousness at thoughts of the upcoming competition, but he says it’s fun to compete too. “If you stop being
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Local food producers have a champion in Kelowna’s champion chef Mark Filatow who brought home gold from the Gold Medal Plates in Vancouver over the weekend, and will now compete in February’s Canadian Culinary Championships—right here in Kelowna. The past two years the event has been held here, there weren’t any local chefs in the running, but this year, local fans can cheer for a Kelowna chef—one who is fanatical in his quest for local ingredients to fill the menu with at his Waterfront Restaurant on Sunset Drive. Filatow prepared a trio of Bar M Ranch lamb dishes, including one that involved purchasing a Weber barbecue which he had to set up on the loading dock at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver in order to cook it for the judges—and 500 guests. That was the lamb loin, but he also braised the neck, ground it and spiced it up like sausages in tubes, and braised the belly with Moroccan flavours so it was very tender. The trio were served with a potato doughnut which was crisp outside and tender inside; thumbelina carrots, cut in half and served with harissa, a hot chili sauce; and fennel relish.
Both the guests and the seven judges were impressed, and he received the gold medal over two other Okanagan chefs as well as chefs from Vancouver’s top restaurants. A certified sommelier as well as a chef, he paired it with the Orofino 2010 Scout Vineyard Syrah from the Similkameen. In February he will be up against top chefs from across Canada in three competitions. The first involves pairing a dish with a mystery wine that’s revealed the night before; the second is a black box competition at the Okanagan College Culinary Arts facility; and the third involves feeding hundreds of people at the Delta Grand at the finale to the competition, where the winner is announced. Filatow and his restaurant chef Wayne Morris will be practising black box competitions in the coming months, beginning with pen and paper, and then working on a framework for dishes that they can complete in the required amount of time, which may work with the mystery ingredients. Such competitions are not new to Filatow, who says he participated in them as an apprentice. That apprenticeship included time working with Kelowna Chef Rod Butters when he was at the Wickanninish Inn on Vancouver Island, and the move to the Okanagan with Butters when he first opened Fresco. It has now
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