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ONTARIO’S Glenn Howard was teh winning skip for the inaugural Grand Slam curling event hosted by Prospera Place.
FITNESS EXPERT Bobbi Kittle provides some tips on how to minimize the bad side-effects of over indulging during the Christmas holidays
MEMORIES are often created in the kitchen during the Christmas season, as Jude’s Kitchen offers a few ideas for traditional Canadian recipes.
ALISTAIR WATERS takes issue with B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s desire to meet exclusively with women behind closed doors.
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Kelowna General Hospital patient Mackenzie Lake received a visit Monday afternoon from the Caring Clowns. Different from party clowns, the Caring Clowns receive special training to help them bring a little cheer to people in need of compassion and understanding. Throughout the year, Caring Clows visit KGH, Central Okanagan Hospice House and the B.C. Cancer Agency Sindi Ahluwalia Hawkins Centre for the Southern Interior.
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Drunken night sends gondola jumper to hospital Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER
A drunken skier jumped from the Big White Ski Resort gondola lift on Saturday evening after smashing out a window to make the brazen leap. The man, in his early 20s, was said to be very intoxicated and causing problems on the hill when he decided to make a 15-metre jump out of Lara’s
Gondola, a free service ferrying guests from the Happy Valley Day Lodge at the base of the resort to the ski village centre. “He collapsed due to his injuries and was taken (to the hospital) by ambulance,” said Kelowna RCMP Cpl. Tania Carroll, who confirmed the information police had compiled Monday morning. The police report stated ski patrol had been chasing the
man, who was trying to give them the slip when he made the fateful jump; but a source at Big White, who was not authorized to comment publicly, said the patrollers were never involved. Information from this source indicates the patrol was only contacted an hour after the fact, at about 8:30 p.m., when the man’s friends and family reported him missing. Big White fire department
responded to the first calls for assistance and administered first aid on scene. “He had injuries to his pelvis,” said fire chief Jamie Svendsen, who noted it was ski patrollers who helped keep the man warm until an ambulance could reach the resort. Some of the on-call firefighters are also ski patrol members, so the fire department, via its dual members, contacted the
ski patrol to help transport the individual on a backboard with a neck brace to the mountain infirmary where they waited 40 to 50 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. An RCMP officer, who was said to be at the ski hill when the incident occurred, was also contacted for assistance.
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The man who set fire to another passed out at a house party Dec. 7 in Kelowna, pleaded guilty to both charges against him Monday afternoon. Mathew Sweet-Grant, 20, was charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon for his part in the bizarre incident, which seemed to follow a pattern of similar behaviour among the group involved. “The investigation revealed that the man fell asleep on the kitchen floor during the early morning hours. One man then allegedly poured a liquid on the victim’s back and lit him on fire while the other filmed the incident,” Kelowna RCMP spokesman Const. Kris Clark told reporters last Thursday, the morning of their first court appearance and bail hearing. Both Sweet-Grant and his friend Joshua McWhirter, 18, were charged with aggravated assault, McWhirter for allegedly doing the filming.