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RESURGENT cross ski racer Kelsey Serwa winning a Gold Cup race after recovering from knee surgery was a sports highlight of 2012.
A PERSONAL trainer can help make the difference between succeeding or not to meet your physical fitness goals at any age.
BIG WHITE Ski Resort has a host of activities planned for today to help celebrate the arrival of the new year.
THE CAPITAL NEWS offers a light-hearted quiz to test your knowledge of the events that made news across B.C. in 2012.
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TUESDAY January 1, 2013 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
Newsmaker of the Year
These continue to be challenging times for fruit growers in the Okanagan. And what is for many the signature brand of our region, the tree fruit industry, which brings thousands of tourists to the Okanagan every year to buy fresh fruit to take home, it has been a controversial year. Whether that controversy—which included the resignation of B.C. Tree Fruit Growers Associatio president Kirpal Boparai, the dismissal of the top executive of the B.C. Tree Fruits Cooperative along with much backroom and public fingerpointing and heated debate—is a bumpy segment towards positive change of a struggling agriculture industry remains to be seen. For what has happened these past 12 months and the potential it creates for future change, the Capital News has chosen the tree fruit industry as the Newsmaker of the Year for 2012. See story on A3
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