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Arnold legacy earns honour Morning Star Staff
The Lake Country Museum and Archives recently honoured one of Lake Country’s pioneer families — the Arnolds. “The Arnolds are one of Lake Country’s earliest pioneer families and for more than 100 years have been instrumental in building our community,” said Duane Thomson, museum president. ‘The Lake Country Museum is delighted to recognize their contributions with a permanent plaque.” John Wesley Arnold was was born in Belleville, Ont. in 1871 and married Lucinda ‘Cindy’ Yott in New York, where they had met while working at a hospital. The young family moved west, farming in Saskatchewan before settling in Winfield. John arrived in 1910 or 1911 and obtained work building new irrigation flumes and he worked on building a house for his family during the evening. Cindy, with their two young sons, Nelson age seven and Arthur age three, arrived in 1913. The Arnolds worked hard, clearing their land along Okanagan Centre Road East and planting berries, melons, and mushrooms; later, these crops were replaced by orchards. Cindy opened one of Winfield’s early stores
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Unveiling the Arnold plaque at the Lake Country Museum are Rich Gibbons (left), museum past-president, Norman Arnold, Linda Arnold, Donald Arnold, Barbara (Arnold) Dapavo and Mayor James Baker. at the corner of Camp Road and Okanagan Centre Road East. Nelson founded Arnold & Sons Trucking, later G & N Arnold Ltd,. which operated in Lake Country for 57 years. Nelson married May and they had two sons, Gilbert and Don. Arthur and Ethel were childhood sweethearts and were married 71 years, until Ethel’s death in 2000. Art was a great baseball player, helping the Winfield team win three consecutive championships in 1925-27. A r t hu r and Ethel had five children: Shirley, Norm, Barbara, Frank, and Laurie.
Don Arnold grew up in Winfield, and in 1954, he joined the UBC rowing team. In 1955, he rowed for the UBC Eights crew, winning the Pacific Coast Championships. In 1956, Don rowed for one fours crew in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, winning gold. His friend Wayne Pretty, also of Winfield, rowed for the second Canadian crew, which won silver. In 1960, Don’s crew won silver in the Rome Olympics. He has been inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. Gilbert was born here in 1928 and he married Jane Weddell,
a teacher in Winfield, in 1950. Both were active in numerous community organizations throughout their lives, Gilbert was a member of the Winfield Fire Department, the Winfield Lion’s Club, the Winfield Memorial Hall Association and he assisted with the construction of Jack Seaton Park. Jane Arnold originally suggested Okanagan Centre school would make a good museum location. Visit the Lake Country Museum at 11255 Okanagan Centre Road West. The hours of operation are 10 am to 4 pm, seven days a week throughout the summer.
Funding boosts fruit variety research judie steeves Black Press
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To meet the changing needs of the marketplace and the challenges of new pests and diseases, the B.C. tree fruit industry has received $3.2 million in federal funding for research into new varieties of apples and cherries and handling and growing issues. PICO is wholly-owned by the B.C. Fruit Growers’ Association and will administer the new funding. PICO president Keith Carlson noted that 80 per cent of the new cherry varieties being grown around the world now are varieties like staccato, sweetheart, lapin, sentennial and sovereign, that were developed here in the Okanagan. Some new varieties handled by PICO are privately-owned, like the ambrosia apple, which was discovered by the Mennell family in Cawston. “In the world sense, we’re (the industry) relatively small, so we have to move quickly. If we’re first with new varieties we get the benefits from them,” said Carlson.
The funds were announced by government house leader Peter Van Loan and Kelowna-Lake Country MP Ron Cannan, who noted there have been many changes in the industry and in the world, and growers have to adapt to continue to be competitive. Van Loan agreed it’s important the industry innovate for long-term growth and profitability. Apples and cherries are responsible for more than 80 per cent of farm gate value in Canadian tree fruits. Projects to be funded include an ongoing apple and cherry new variety breeding program at the Pacific Agri-food Research Centre in Summerland as well as research into apple storage characteristics for new varieties, an evaluation of cherry handling techniques, work on replant issues, research into new pests and consumer research. The funding will carry on from Growing Forward funds which ran out at the end of March for some of this research, and will be used over the next five years.
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