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THE KELOWNA Raiders look to bounce back from not making the playoffs last year in the Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League 2013 season.
COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart says the Trout Waters Fly & Tackle shop has moved to a new location on Highway 97 in Kelowna.
KELOWNA electronic musician DJ Tyler Martens will pretty much be working every weekend at different locations all over the world this year.
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PREMIER Christy Clark checks out an airplane engine while on an election campaign stop Wednesday to tour the Kelowna Flightcraft facility. ALISTAIR WATERS/CAPITAL NEWS
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Premier fires up free enterprise message falo Search and Rescue plane normally stationed at Comox on Vancouver Island that is currently undergoing maintenance work at Flightcraft. The premier said Flightcraft was an example of a British Columbia business success story, having started here 42 years ago and now having 1,000 employees across the country, including 600 here at its main plant at the Kelowna airport. “This is an example of how we can help grow the econ-
omy,” said Clark. “We need to work with the private sector to create jobs.” LaPointe said he was proud to have Clark visit his company’s operations. He said the aerospace industry is important to British Columbia and Clark was the first premier to come and look at what his company is doing. Clark said jobs are top of mind for British Columbians in this election, but so too is government spending and debt.
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She said in the two years she has been premier, she has wrestled spending under control and despite the fact her government has added to the province’s debt, said the NDP would make it worse. “We are about a bigger economy. The NDP is about bigger government,” Clark said. “We want to lower taxes, the NDP want higher taxes.”
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Premier Christy Clark brought her election campaign to Kelowna Wednesday, an area she said has always been “the heart of free enterprise in B.C.” Clark toured local aerospace company Kelowna Flighcraft before addressing an election rally later in the evening at the Coast Capri Hotel with the three Central Okanagan Liberal candidates, incumbent MLAs
and cabinet ministers—Steve Thomson, Norm Letnick and Ben Stewart. While at Flightcraft, Clark was shepherded through the sprawling plant by owner Barry LaPointe and received a closeup look at the myriad of maintenance work the company does on aircraft, including work under contract on Canadian Search and Rescue Buffalo planes for the Department of Defence. Clark climbed aboard a Buf-
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A local optometrist has been identified as the 30-year-old man killed in a skiing accident near Rogers Pass on Monday. Josh Bernot was on the second day of a twoday back-country ski excursion with a friend in Glacier National Park near Young’s Peak shortly after noon, when witnesses saw him fall about 16 meters down a cliff, according to information from the B.C. Coroner’s Service released Tuesday. The friend he was skiing with, and other nearby skiers, got help as quickly as possible, but Bernot died at the scene. He was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Kelowna shortly after graduating from the Illinois College of Optometry four years ago where he joined Orchard Park Optometry as an associate. He volunteered as a Kelowna SPCA dog walker, and played in local soccer and ultimate frisbee leagues.
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