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Winter conditions lead to tragic accident on Hwy 97
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AN AMBULANCE travels southbound on Highway 97 beside Wood Lake on Wednesday afternoon, departing from the scene of an accident that saw a single vehicle veer off the road and crash into Wood Lake, killing the driver.
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Hockeyville highway sign ‘hardly a done deal’ Findlater said residents seem to take issue with two key points. “People don’t want a big bold sign, or people think the Hockeyville money should be directed to something more directly related to hockey,” said Findlater. “To me, it seems like a lot of money for a sign, over and above the Hockeyville money. I’m certainly willing to take a hard look at it.” That hard look will take place when council sits down for its annual budget deliberations in January. “What we have to keep in context: That motion was not to go out and buy
the sign and put it up…(it was) to consider it as part of overall budget deliberations. So it’s hardly a done deal.” The mayor noted there is still a need for a highway sign directing drivers to Mount Boucherie Community Complex. “That’s a very common complaint— people who aren’t familiar with the area can’t find the school, can’t find the arena, can’t find City Hall. “I do think there has to be something done about that. I doubt that a $125,000 sign is the answer to that; there may very well be more modest solutions.” wpaterson@kelownacapnews.com
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It seems as though West Kelowna’s mayor may be having second thoughts about how the district’s $25,000 Hockeyville prize money is spent. All councillors present at the Nov. 27 district meeting voted to put the $25,000 toward the consideration of the installation of an electronic highway sign in the 2013 capital budget deliberations. At the time, Mayor Doug Findlater said the sign could be a “community billboard that brings people together.”
But after hearing some public feedback, his view on the sign proposal may be changing. “I sense it hasn’t been a popular position,” said Findlater. “I’m aware of the letters and I’ve had some people I know…say, ‘I think you should do something different.’” So far, the district has received 12 letters regarding the Hockeyville billboard. The feedback is far less than the 70 letters it received last April regarding its contentious Mobile Vending Policy, which didn’t allow ice cream trucks to play music while in West Kelowna.
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Kelowna Mounties have confirmed one woman is dead after her Jeep TJ veered off Highway 97 into the frigid waters of Wood Lake early on Wednesday afternoon. Police say the 58-yearold woman from Salmon Arm was headed north when her vehicle began to fishtail, left the road and plunged into Wood Lake. An unconfirmed report described the vehicle as being 90 per cent submerged about 15 feet off the Wood Lake shoreline, opposite Ponderosa Road. Passing motorists attempted to pull the vehicle from the water using ropes and chains attached to a commercial truck but the rope snapped and the Jeep rolled back into the water. When a Lake Coungry emergency marine rescue crew arrived they stabilized the car and entered the water. Several attempts to extricate her were not successful, but with assistance from bystanders they eventually removed the driver from the vehicle and transferred her to a waiting ambulance but she could not be revived. At least two others were reported to be getting treatment at the scene for hypothermia; however, police confirmed the driver was the only person in the vehicle. Police say the coroner was called to the scene as was a traffic accident reconstructionist. Capital News staff.
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