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Relay scores home run Cancer survivors Jimmy Motter and Viola Rutherford walk the Victory Lap in Saturday’s Relay For Life that raised $150,090 for the Canadian Cancer Society, despite being down three teams and 74 participants over last year. “Considering that, we smashed it out of the park, we beat them all,” said thrilled co-ordinator Jen Dies. She offered grateful thanks to volunteer leadership co-ordinator Sheryl Anderson and her team, sponsors, entertainers, the Elks who accommodated the event and the community that topped Kelowna’s $86,000 and Vernon’s $88,000 totals. Dies is confident the Salmon Arm Relay for Life will meet its $160,000 goal. For more images of the event, see A12. Jessica KlymchuK/OBSeRveR
Smoking bylaw honours activist
Park ban: Council names legislation after longtime anti-tobacco crusader Dan MacQuarrie. By lachlan labere OBSeRveR STAFF
A Salmon Arm resident and longtime, outspoken anti-tobacco activist will be recognized in a new bylaw to ban smoking in city parks. On Monday evening, a public hearing was held in city council chambers for the proposed Parks Regulation Amendment Bylaw that would see smoking prohibited in all municipal parks and public areas including the Ross Street Plaza, Canoe Beach, the Turner Creek Trail and the Mt. Ida Cemetery. Dan MacQuarrie was one of the few to turn out for the hearing, though he kept quiet, despite having spent more than three decades working towards such a bylaw in
Salmon Arm and elsewhere in the province. With no one speaking for or against the bylaw, the hearing ended quickly. Mayor Nancy Cooper then suggested an amendment, that the bylaw be named after MacQuarrie. “This smoking bylaw has been the work of one Mr. Dan MacQuarrie, and he has actually been working on smoking bylaws for 38 years, or non-smoking bylaws, and so I am just asking council if they would add Dan’s name to this so it would be kind of like… Dan’s Bylaw,” said Cooper. Couns. Debbie Cannon and Marg Kentel expressed their respect and appreciation for all the work MacQuarrie has done, but were reluctant to see the city set a
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smoke-free: Dan MacQuarrie, 85, has been an advocate
for a smoke-free society and began his anti-smoking crusade when he was elected as a city councillor 46 years ago.
This week Changes to the definition of local food has some people scratching their heads. See A8. Despite the varied weather, the doubles action on the court was hot this weekend. See A21.
precedent by naming a bylaw after someone. “My mother-in-law said to me Dan MacQuarrie was working on that when he was on council. He was very visionary, because he wanted the no-smoking in public areas,” Cannon commented. “And I totally support your work that you’ve done, and that you’ve stuck with this for 38 years, Dan. But for me, I can’t support naming a bylaw, attaching someone’s name to it, just because I think that opens up a can of worms for other things.” With respect to Cannon’s position, Coun. Alan Harrison argued in favour of recognizing MacQuarSee Name makes on page A2
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