LOOKING BACK | The annual Year in Review series begins with highlights from January to April 2012 [A21]
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Sunday paper offers up proposal LISA VANDERVELDE Morning Star Staff
She said “Yes!” Samantha Robinson accepted her boyfriend Rob Symons’ proposal of marriage with an enthusiastic yes after reading it on the front page of The Morning Star last Sunday morning, all before her first cup of coffee. “He had told me he was going to do something I would never forget and I’ll never forget this,” said Robinson. “He knows that every Sunday morning I sit down with my coffee and read the paper.” So Symons took out an ad that stretched along the bottom of the front page that read, “Samantha Robinson… Will you marry me? Forever yours, forever mine, together always, ‘till the end of time.” On the Sunday before Christmas, Symons let Robinson sleep in and with their children around them he prompted her to look at The Morning Star. “He told me he was in the paper so I looked towards the back first… and he said, ‘No look at the front!’ It took me a minute before I saw my name,” laughs Robinson, thinking back on the moment she saw the proposal on the page before looking up to see Symons on one knee with a ring in his hand. When asked if he was nervous about what her reaction would be he said, with a grin, “I was pretty sure what the answer would be.” The couple are excited about their future together and have already planned the wedding they hope to have at the Prestige Hotel in September. Robinson beams up at her fiancé saying, “He always does things a little differently and goes that extra mile.”
Samantha Robinson happily said yes to a Morning Star front page marriage proposal from her guy, Rob Symons.
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Directors taking final look at sports complex plan RICHARD ROLKE
Morning Star Staff
Politicians are poised for final hurdles before determining the scope of a running track. The Greater Vernon Advisory Committee is expected to decide Thursday whether there will be any cuts to the proposed $8.5 million sports complex at Okanagan College. “We have to balance out the best facility and what can be sustained by the community,” said director Rob Sawatzky. “What will be supported at referendum (in April)?”
Staff was asked to review the design could be replaced by natural grass at plans because of a concern that the public $525,000. may not vote for the current price tag. Developing a sand-based grass soccer The potential budget reducfield would cost $195,000 while it tions considered by directors are would be $50,000 for a soil-based off-site works, the turf field, socnatural grass field. cer field construction, the track The options for a rubberized surface and seating. track are a mondon surface at Off-site works could be $1.7 million or a polyurethane trimmed from $1 million to surface for $1.5 million. The life $392,700 if curb, gutter and sideexpectancy for the mondon is 25 walk are substituted by a multiyears while it is 12 years for the use path. polyurethane. Gyula Kiss The preferred synthetic turf Directors must also decide surface is $1.1 million but that whether there is covered space
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for 400 people at $400,000 or open air seating for the same crowd for $200,000. The land would be leased from Okanagan College and a facility based on minimum lease requirements is $5.4 million. Director Gyula Kiss is reluctant to reduce the scope of the proposal because that could undermine support from the user groups needed to promote the concept to voters leading up to the referendum. “I want to bring it in front of people and they can decide,” he said of the $8.5 million project.
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