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Buddy Tavares says he is “punished every day” for Const. Geoff Mantler’s decision to kick him in the head and suffers panic attacks every time he sees a police officer. “I relive that regretful time in my life with every headache…very time I see a cop,” he told the court during Mantler’s sentencing hearing Tuesday. Tavares was recovering from a brain injury caused by a motorcycle accident when the police officer delivered a hard blow to his face during a poorly executed arrest in January 2011 that was caught on video. “I lost a great deal of recovery the moment I was assaulted by Geoff Mantler,” he said. “I still ask every day why he did this to me and my Geoff Mantler family.” “Mr. Tavares was a completely innocent individual here,” Crown counsel Will Burrows told the court. “It was very lucky that Mr. Tavares didn’t die considering his frail condition.” Mr. Tavares, he said, “had not the foggiest idea” why police stopped him that day. What police were told, however, was that they were dealing with a shots fired complaint involving an ex-employee of the Harvest Golf Club. Mantler believed he was dealing with a homicidal man, defence lawyer Neville McDougall said, and it was only later that he learned that Tavares did not pose a threat and was just shooting at geese at the golf course. With the limited information Mantler had at the time of the arrest, he “honestly believed that his life might be in danger,” McDougall said. So when Mantler saw Tavares start to rise slightly from his knees during the arrest, he was concerned Tavares would pull a gun from his waistband, a common place for people to hide weapons, the court heard. Mantler then chose to kick Tavares in an attempt to See Mantler A10
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Tourism Kelowna CEO Nancy Cameron noted that Kelowna’s food roots run deep, but she said it is time now to share what we have with tourists, particularly as there’s a growing demand for locally-produced food. She thanked the province’s Buy Local program and the Investment Agriculture Foundation for the $100,000 grant received this spring to expand the Farm to Table program, increase visitor awareness of the program and improve its interactive web-
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LOCAL FARMER Loretta Cross offered apple juice made in her orchard to those celebrating Farm to Table food Sunday in Kelowna. site. IAF executive director Peter Donkers explained that by building local value chains money is kept in the local economy to grow. “Tourists want to buy local; to experience the area they’re visiting,” he
said. That’s why businesses around farmers’ markets around the province are benefiting from market locations, as people visit the markets not only to shop, but for the experience of what’s grown locally, he added.
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That interest is expanding to restaurants and grocery stores as people demand locally-produced food for its freshness, its inspiration and to support local farmers, he said.
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Although we grow the best food right here, we’re shy about telling people, says a local chef who has eaten in top restaurants all over the world. Instead, it’s time we let the world know, says chef Mark Filatow, a gold medal plates award-winning local chef who focuses his energy on preparing food sourced from as close to his kitchen as possible. He was speaking at a reception Sunday to celebrate Tourism Kelowna’s Farm to Table program that connects farmers and chefs to create and serve local foods. Filatow’s Waterfront Restaurant and Wine Bar Tuesday picked up gold for the Best Okanagan restaurant in the 24th annual Vancouver Magazine restaurant awards, for the fourth year in a row. Bouchons, a French restaurant in the same Sunset Drive neighbourhood as Filatow’s won silver this year in the competition, while chef Rod Butters’ downtown RauDZ Regional Table won Bronze. In the Best Winery dining category, Miradora at Tinhorn Creek won Gold, while West Kelowna’s Old Vines Restaurant at Quails’ Gate won Silver and the Terrace Restaurant at Mission Hill won Bronze. All espouse the philosophy of creating dish-
es using fresh, local food seasonally, harvested close to the dining table— which fits right in with the Farm to Table program. “My job is to put it on a plate and to now wreck what you have produced,” Filatow commented to the farmers in attendance who enjoyed such bites as mushrooms with garlic aioli and a sliver of asparagus on a bite-sized piece of homemade bread and glasses of local VQA wines from The View Winery in East Kelowna and CedarCreek Estate Winery in the Mission.
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