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A CORNER STORE cornerstone of a Pandosy neighbourhood in Kelowna celebrates its 25th anniversary, reports columnist Maxine DeHart.
INSTALLATION of smart meters by BC Hydro to homes of residents who don’t want them violates previous commitment by the public utility, says the mayor of Peachland.
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About 80 people marched Tuesday along Highway 33—from Kelowna-Lake Country MLA Norm Letnick’s office to Crossroads Treatment Centre—to show their opposition to the closure of Crossroads. Earlier this month the non-profit society that deals with addiction services announced it would be forced to shut its doors partly due to a failure to reach a funding agreement with Interior Health for the publicly-funded treatment beds and detox beds it provides. The current funding contract between Crossroads and Interior Health was renewed last year for a three-year term. Less than a year in, Crossroads asked for an 85 per cent increase in funding. Interior Health offered a 30 per cent increase, but that was not enough. Sonia Nicholson is a Hospital Employees’ Union member and has been a detox nurse with Crossroads for six years.
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Dreamlift Day at the restaurant’s Harvey Avenue location on Wednesday afternoon. Yesterday was the 19th year that Wendy’s has held the fundraising event to benefit the Sunshine Foundation of Canada at nine Wendy’s locations throughout the Southern Interior. The money raised, which wasn’t yet finalized at the Capital News deadline, enables a plane full of children to fly to Disneyland for a day and put aside, for a while at least, being confronted by severe physical disabilities or life-threatening illnesses. The flights leave Kelowna for Disneyland every two years, with the next flight slated for later this year.
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The face of Kelowna’s downtown lakeshore is about to change. The company building the new public pier and marina off Kelowna’s downtown lakeshore says it plans to start demolishing the exiting small building and commercial dock just off Kerry Park within the next few weeks. The demolition will make way for the new $5 million pier and day-use marina. The 60-slip marina will also include seven commercial slips. “We are pleased and excited to finally be moving into the construction phase of this project,” said Gail Temple, director of development for Westcorp Properties Inc, the Edmonton-based company behind the development. As part of its agreement with the city, Westcorp will design, build and maintain the pier in return for the revenues generated from renting the slips and the sale of fuel at the facility’s new fuel bar. “Given the high visibility of the marina’s location, and the fact that this amenity will function as a water ‘gateway’ to the downtown core, Westcorp felt strongly that aesthetics and quality were extremely important,” said Temple of the stylized wooden structures that will grace the pier and marina. “We have created what we hope people will feel are beautiful little buildings. Their architecture will be interesting during the day, and during the evening, the buildings will not fade into the darkness, but rather, they will become elegant ‘lanterns’ on the waterfront. The company, which also owns land at the corner of Abbott Street and Queenway close to the site of the new pier, wants to build a boutique on the site and plans to have the pier and marina complete by May. It is building the barges that will support each building at the facility off-site and plans to float them into place after they are assembled on the west side of the lake. The new marina will have 68 slips, 27 for hourly use by boaters, 11 for rental boats and 30 for daily and nightly temporary moorage.
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