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KELOWNA’S James Turner (left) wins a bronze in the men’s decathlon at the Canadian Track and Field Championships.
COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart highlights two new business relocations, KPMG moving its headquarters to the Mission and Grouse River opening its new store on Kelowna’s Enterprise Way.
THE INDIE pop alternative dance group Capital Cities is among the groups performing at the Keloha music festival July 5 to 8 at Waterfront Park.
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THURSDAY June 27, 2013 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
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If only this historic old oak tree could talk…
City hall staff given a ‘tweak’
Judie Steeves STAFF REPORTER
If only that oak tree could talk, what stories it could tell. One of its earliest memories would be of being planted near Okanagan Lake at what is now the Cove Resort in West Kelowna in 1901 by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, who went on to become King George V and Queen Mary of England. The planting was during a cross-country tour of Canada by the royal couple in October, in an attempt to help them “break free of the Euro-centric view of the world and see their British subjects in a global perspective,” according to the Royal B.C. Museum. Speculation is that the couple were waiting for the arrival of a sternwheeler to take them across the lake at the time, likely on the S.S. Aberdeen. It would have made regular stops at Gellatly. The Cove Resort is immediately adjacent to the historic Gellatly Nut Farm Regional Park. It’s possible the royalty were headed to the Coldstream Ranch to visit with Lord and Lady Aberdeen. Decades later, the ancient oak gained the respect of current owner and builder of the new Cove Resort, Derek Trethewey, who now wants to dedicate the tree to the memory of his father, Edgar Alan Trethewey. He began his business career in a logging camp on Harrison Lake and went on to develop a business empire in forestry, construction, oil, mining and ranching in B.C. as well as becoming a philanthropist. He died in 2007. During construction of the resort, an arborist was hired to help ensure the historic tree was not damaged, even though it is quite close to the building and construction activity surrounded it. On Canada Day, at 10:30 a.m. Derek Trethewey will officially dedicate the historic oak tree to the memory of his father, and erect a plaque commemorating him. Another memory for the oak tree.
Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR
Five years after a major shake up at Kelowna City Hall that saw a total re-organization of how the civic bureaucracy operates, another major change has been made. City manager Ron Mattiussi has dropped the general manager system he put in place in 2008, where there existed a small executive team and a larger leadership team one level below that. “Over the last five years it became apparent the leadership team was too big and the executive team (general managers) was too small,” said Mattiussi. Now seven departments—some made up of a combination of what were, until last week, separate departments—will report directly to him, while a new group, called strategic services, will be formed and report to the city’s new deputy city manager Paul Macklem. Macklem, a former city finance department head and most recently Kelowna’s general manager of corporate services, returned to the city after
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SHANNON DEMONTREUIL, groundskeeper at The Cove Resort in West Kelowna, is dwarfed under the boughs a 112-year-old oak tree, which was planted by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall in 1901, who were soon to become King George V and Queen Mary of England.
Jacobsen will close its doors
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