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WOLANSKI PLEADS GUILTY TO CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER

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A Wildcat Helicopters tanker aircraft drops a load of water on a hot spot along a hillside in the White Lake area Monday after crews worked overnight to put out the fire which began Sunday afternoon. It was 100 per cent contained later in the day Monday. About 70 hectares of land were involved in the fire believed to have started near White Lake Road.

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The Penticton man accused of stabbing to death a teen at a grad bush party has pled guilty to manslaughter.

Jamie Paul Wolanski was charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 16-year-old Andrew McAdam at a bush party up Carmi Road and entered a guilty plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter on Monday at the Penticton courthouse.

“A couple of weeks ago [Crown counsel] called us into a meeting and said the offer was being presented. We weren’t in agreement,” said McAdam’s mother Linda Childs. “No one gave us the opportunity to JAMIE PAUL WOLANSKI pled guilty to say yes or no. I guess in Canada the law is manslaughter in the 2011 stabbing death of 16-year-old Andrew McAdam. what Crown says goes.”

File photo Childs wanted it to be presented before a jury as planned. The matter was scheduled to 100 local high school students had gathered get underway for a 10-day-long trial begin- for an annual graduation party known as ning Aug. 12 in Penticton.

Sunset, and is not sanctioned by the schools.

“They didn’t give us the opportunity to McAdam, who was in Grade 11 at the time, have a jury to hear evidence and decide if was at the party when he was stabbed. He it was second-degree or manslaughter,” said was pronounced dead shortly after arriving Childs. at the hospital.

The difference between the two charges “I am hoping (Wolanski) gets the maxiis second-degree murder is a deliberate kili- mum possible for manslaughter,” said ing carried out without planning. This charge Childs. “I don’t have my son and not 10, 20, carries a minimum sentence of life in prison 25 or even 50 years is going to bring my son with no parole for 10 years, but can be as back. I wish we had the kind of laws where long as life in prison without parole for 25 I could wish unto (Wolanski) everything years. Manslaughter is a homicide commit- that my son can never have. My son will ted without the intention to cause death and never fall in love for the first time, my son in some cases occurs in the heat of passion will never drive a car for the first time, he as a result of being provoked or if alcohol or won’t graduate, he won’t have his first job. other substances are found to have impaired I haven’t been able to sleep properly since the perpetrator. Sentences for manslaughter my son died and I certainly hope we will be vary and there is no minimum, except if the able to move on to the grieving process once act is committed with a firearm. this is done.”

In June of 2011 RCMP were called to the A sentencing hearing for Wolanski has rural Carmi Road around 2 a.m. where over been scheduled for Sept. 10.

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Challenge seen as community affair Steve Kidd

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It’s going to be a few years before Challenge Penticton builds to the same level of participants and spectators that the city enjoyed after 30 years of Ironman, but a delegation who just returned from the Challenge race in Roth, Germany say there is no lack of potential for the new race.

“There were around 200,000 visitors with 5,600 athletes at this race. If you think about the proportion of visitors that are coming, it’s pretty substantial,” said Tracy Reis of Tourism Penticton, noting that Roth actually only has two accommodators in town.

“The fact it is such a huge tourist draw to the area and people are willing to stay outside the community to experience this event tells you how fantastic it is and what the potential is for us to replicate that.”

Roth is not just about the race, according to Colleen Pennington, Penticton’s economic development officer, who was also part of the delegation, which also included representatives from city hall, Challenge Penticton and a variety of community sectors.

“It is about a good race experience for the athletes, but Roth is about community engagement in a tourism event,” said Pennington.

“That is why they get 200,000 people out.

“The race experience is fantastic, but the street experience is as fantastic.”

As an example, Pennington uses Hilpostein, a small town on the bike route containing one of the race’s major hills.

“It’s a tiny little place, but there are 30,000 people on the hill where the bikers come through, having a street party,” said Pennington.

“People want to go for the experience of

Organizers Of Challenge PentiCtOn are hoping local residents and businesses see value in volunteering and sponsorships.

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the race in the context of that celebration.”

As Pennington describes it, more than just the local tourism board is involved. That is the key differentiator between what Ironman was and what Challenge is in Europe.

Participation ranges from title sponsors all the way down to simple table talkers at a pizzeria, with a little story about a race athlete on one side and specials on the back.

“This is really the communities’ race. It’s really a race that people can take ownership of. So businesses in the community, residents can really take ownership of it,” said Reis.

“Because it is brand new here, we get the

opportunity to shape it however we like.”

“That is exactly analogous to what Oliver and Osoyoos could be doing,” said Pennington.

“And they do a little bit in the aid stations, that’s always been part of the heritage. It was that on steroids.

“There was a reason to go out just for the street party.”

While the first year of Challenge Penticton is unlikely to bring out the numbers of spectators they saw in Roth, Pennington said businesses and communities can start laying the groundwork for future growth.

“I think this year what we need to do is run a fantastic race for the athletes. That is the foundational layer. We want the inaugural year of challenge to be a great race for the athletes,” said Pennington.

From a business perspective, she recommends making sure the athletes and spectators know they are welcome.

“Whatever little things you can do to connect the fact that the business is aware these people are coming to our communities, riding through them and they are going to tell their stories,” said Pennington.

“You can go from as little as a simple promotional item to the maximum of title sponsor.

“What was important was to send out the message that you are welcome, we want you in our community, it’s important.”

“It’s a tremendous opportunity to show how the whole valley is engaged in creating a great experience for the athletes and the visitors, directly or indirectly,” said Pennington.

“As we look at that over time, we need to look at what Germany has done and figure out how we make it an iconic Okanagan experience with the same feel.”

Those subtle differences around the athlete experience combined with showing a welcoming attitude, making it a celebration and getting involved, Pennington said, were key.

“Those were the core things that I think we are doing some of, but we can build on and create a much more experiential race both for the athlete, but as important, for the spectator,” said Pennington.

“Those are the pieces I would like to see us leverage.

“People deal with people they have relationships with, and it is that relationship value you are building when you invest in something that has no direct monetary value.”

Agreement with province clears way for milfoil control Joe Fries

Western News Staff

With the associated regulatory mess squared away, work can begin to mow down an invasive species that’s made a home in local lakes.

Each summer, specially equipped boats set out on Okanagan lakes to trim back Eurasian watermilfoil plants growing along the shore of some of the region’s most popular beaches.

During the winter months, the boats rototill the milfoil beds.

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Board has run the program for decades at a cost of about $500,000 annually, but regulatory changes put this summer’s work in limbo, before the B.C. government agreed this month to issue a five-year work permit.

“The story of bureaucracy sorting themselves out may not be sexy, but it has important consequences,” said Anna Warwick Sears, the water board’s executive director.

Changes to federal environmental regulations meant authorization for the work suddenly fell to the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and

Natural Resource Operations.

Not only did the ministry have concerns about possible effects of milfoil control on fish spawning sites and some mussel species, it also had to figure out how to regulate a unique-in-B.C. system.

“The reason why it took a long time is because they had to work out a new program for us,” said Warwick Sears.

“I believe that we’re the only local government agency that’s doing a milfoil control program.”

Water board staff worked with the provincial government to draft

a new operations plan and map 53 kilometres of shoreline it routinely targets for milfoil control.

Warwick Sears said the five-year permit allows for ongoing government oversight of the work, but does not require a fresh application each year.

Grant Furness, the ministry’s ecosystems section head in Penticton, said in a statement that fiveyear agreements are “not the norm” for short-term work covered by the Water Act. “However, in this case, due to the nature of the project, the parties

agreed that a five-year deal would be the best option.”

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ELECTIONS PENTICTON LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORS

Until the close of voting for the Election on Saturday, September 7, 2013, a copy of the list of registered electors will, upon signature, be available for public inspection at Penticton City Hall, 171 Main Street, Penticton, B.C. between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays. An elector may request that their address or other information about them be omitted from or obscured on the list of electors.

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Andre Martin, a longtime volunteer on several committees and the former general manager of the Penticton Herald, said a number of people urged him to run for councillor.

“I just think we need to work on building more business in the community,” said Martin, who has set out a four-element platform: economic development; creating neighbourhood associations; amalgamating neighbouring areas now in the regional district and engaging youth.

“I want a way to get youth involved in their community and also take notice of what goes on in council and politics around it,” said Martin. “I think we need to do a better job of getting through to them.”

And neighbourhood associations, Martin explains, will help prevent issues like the recent controversy surrounding the Perseus winery.

“There are lots of different things associations can do and part of it is getting neighbours to talk to each other,” said Martin.

Martin is president of the Penticton and Wine Country Chamber of Commerce, as well as being a member of the Challenge Triathlon board, a past member of the Downtown Penticton Association and a member of Penticton’s Downtown Revitalization Committee.

His past experience, Martin said, will help him if elected to council.

“There is going to be a bit of a learning curve,” Martin admitted. But sitting around a board table or the council table involves a lot of the same work according to Martin. “Listen to all the opinions and then make a decision.”

Katie Robinson, who served three terms on council starting in 1990, said her biggest advantages is she is one of the few people who can hit the ground running if elected.

“There is a fairly substantial learning curve if you have not been on council before,” said Robinson. “Because there is only one year left in the term, most people would just be figuring out what is going on by the time the term would be over.”

Robinson also ran for mayor in 2011, placing third behind Dan Ashton and Julius Bloomfield. The city’s finances, she said, will always be the first and foremost issue.

“I would like to focus on a long-term strategy for where Penticton wants to head, because I don’t see that at the moment,” said Robinson. There are many issues facing the city, she said. The South Okanagan Events Centre is no longer the issue it was during the last municipal election, but Robinson thinks more needs to be done for the Trade and Convention Centre.

“That’s a pretty valuable asset to have, which is not being used to its full potential,” she said.

Robinson is also advocating for more openness at the council level with less in camera meetings and a return to the committee of the whole structure.

“Unless it’s land, labour or legal it should be discussed where the public can see what is going on.

There are very few things you need to have dealt with in camera,” she said. “From what I have observed

over the last few years, issues get too far down the road without the public being aware of it first.”

Lynn Kelsey ran for a council seat in 2011, and although she didn’t win, she promised she would be back in 2014.

“When this opportunity came up in the byelection, I felt it was really important for me to keep to the commitment to run again,” said Kelsey. “I come to as many council meetings as I can make and try to stay involved in what is going on in the city. I really feel I bring a fresh and intelligent look to council.”

Kelsey said her work as a community advocate gives her a unique view of what Penticton has to offer.

“I know the services the city offers and where there are gaps,” said Kelsey. “I spend most of my waking day advocating for others. I have incredibly good listening skills.”

Kelsey plans to campaign on a platform of truth, trust and transparency.

“I feel there’s a real need for transparency. I believe they (Penticton citizens) need to be informed of things before the fact and not just advised of them after the decision is all made,” said Kelsey, who would also like to see a return to committee of the whole meetings.

“When there are so many in camera meetings, decisions being made, I don’t feel the people of Penticton are really given the opportunity to really know what is going on,” said Kelsey. “I believe the committee of the whole gives a much more transparent view.”

Vic Powell is ready for another run at the Penticton mayoralty, even though he only garnered 472 votes in the 2011 municipal election.

“I didn’t expect to win as a first time runner,” said Powell, who didn’t put up any election signs in 2011.

“This time I am putting up my own money, I am going to put out election signs, at my expense, no one else’s,” said Powell, who doesn’t want to feel any obligations. “Nobody has ever paid me to go out and get a job. So why should I ask people for support financially?”

Powell contends city hall is neglecting Penticton’s infrastructure.

“The only reason they are doing work on the (Okanagan) lake shore is because it has been neglected for years,” said Powell. “Tax money is collected to support your infrastructure, and they haven’t been doing that.”

Powell points to McLaren and Memorial arenas as two more examples of failing infrastructure.

“Memorial Arena has needed a new roof for the last five to 10 years but we just keep patching it,” said Powell, concerned the roof is being allowed to deteriorate so badly it will not be economically feasible to restore.

“I want to start looking after the infrastructure of the city itself,” said Powell, who plans to run on a platform of honest and open leadership.

“What comes out of city hall is not the truth. You have situations like the Eckhardt properties — allowing somebody to go ahead prior to closure is totally ridiculous. Why was that allowed to happen?” asked Powell.

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RDOS redials tower for Hedley Public poll to decide fate of Telus tower plan Joe Fries Western News Staff

Telus hasn’t hung up yet on the possibility of providing wireless phone and data service to Hedley.

Support for the service, which requires a 20-metre tower in a residential area, will be gauged by an Aug. 10 poll set up by the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, from whom the company had been seeking support.

In March, however, the RDOS board delayed its decision to allow time to poll approximately 350 residents and allow the company to examine alternate sites.

Days later, the company told the RDOS it would not proceed with the installation.

“It wasn’t that I was protesting,” said Angelique Wood, the RDOS director for the area.

“I was just trying to get a read on the residents.

“There has been a huge amount of conflict and frustration and strife ever since in Hedley, both by people who want it and don’t want it.”

Wood noted there have been petitions for and against the tower, but neither was definitive, so it’s hoped the RDOS-administered poll will provide a legitimate snapshot of public opinion.

If the poll shows the public is against it, she continued, the issue will be put to rest.

If the public is in favour of it, the RDOS will reopen talks with the company.

Spokesperson Shawn Hall said Telus would listen.

“If the regional district were interested in us coming back and putting a tower up at that site, we would certainly take a look at that and consider building it some time in the next few years,” he said.

Hall said the RDOS approached Telus back in 2011 about the prospect of providing cell service in Hedley, so the company began studying the issue and settled on the Scott Avenue site where it already has equipment and would save the “several hundred thousand dollars” needed to buy and service an alternate site.

“After we’d gone through that process and invested a significant number of man-hours and money in planning, suddenly the regional district came back and asked us to look at alternate sites,” Hall said.

“We’ve been very clear from the beginning that alternate sites are simply not possible.”

He added there is a public misperception that Telus is required to provide service to Hedley under a $10-billion rural infrastructure deal it has with the province, but Hall said that’s not the case because the tower in question isn’t intended to provide highway coverage.

Wood, who’s still undecided on the tower, said there’s also a misperception that she’s “taken an anticell stand, and it’s not true.

“My job is to represent the people of the area, and when I asked for an opportunity to conduct a poll in the first place, that was my intention.”

Suspended Mountie acquitted of perjury A suspended South Okanagan RCMP officer’s six-year run on the other side of the law came to an end Friday with an acquittal on a perjury charge.

The charge stemmed from a single line of testimony Cpl. Andre Turcotte gave in January 2010 while defending himself at trial on a separate assault charge.

Turcotte was found guilty of the assault and given a 60-day conditional sentence for beating Ian Scott Campbell unconscious on the side of Highway 97 near Summerland in 2007 while the Mountie was off-duty.

Crown counsel asserted Turcotte made up a story about being a watch commander during the trial to justify his police database searches on his victim, which they alleged he then turned around to use it in the assault trial to discredit Campbell.

The Crown also alleged Turcotte, who has been on suspension without pay, lied to save

his credibility during the trial.

While under investigation for the assault, Turcotte was transferred from Summerland to the Penticton detachment even though he had requested to go to Kelowna because he was concerned about potential interactions with Campbell.

While working in Penticton, Turcotte said the front desk person informed him there was a client with a promise to appear to have fingerprints taken.

Turcotte said he saw Campbell was the client and decided it was not appropriate for him to take the prints because of the assault investigation.

Turcotte said he was the watch commander and the only officer in the detachment so he “did some search” and “the work-up” on Campbell but left a file on his desk and informed two officers, who by this time returned to their desks, that he was not taking the prints.

He said he then left the detachment because he felt uncomfortable.

During the perjury trial last week, it was suggested the database searches were for inappropriate reasons.

Turcotte replied there was confusion over his answers in the line of questioning he was “bombarded” with at the assault trial.

Turcotte said he was actually answering a previous question about his run-ins with Campbell and that is where his answers came under fire for perjury originated.

Turcotte said his “search” and “work up” on Campbell the day he went in for fingerprints involved him going to where the physical files are stored, pulling it and leaving it on his desk, not a computer database.

Documents shown at the perjury trial confirmed Campbell had his fingerprints taken during the daytime on Feb. 18, 2007, and that Turcotte had not worked until later that evening.

Defence for Turcotte put forward a scenario that Campbell may have come in before his prescribed date, which was a common practice at the detachment.

Justice Peter Butler said he could not trust the evidence given by Campbell at the perjury trial because of his animosity towards RCMP and the courts, and even went as far as calling him “smug and defiant.”

He also found Turcotte’s testimony to be “a very convenient explanation,” thus Butler said he was left with a reasonable doubt and decided to acquit.

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Legalize pot, save health care

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here’s a reverse echo going on around the country.

Whenever Liberal leader Justin Trudeau says something, his comments are invariably followed by a response, usually snide, from the Prime Minister’s Office, in other words, Stephen Harper.

Last week, Trudeau was in B.C. and he spoke for the decriminalization of marijuana.

Not surprisingly, the PMO came out chastising Trudeau for his comments. Why not? Harper has nurtured a tough on crime reputation.

To the Conservative government’s credit crime across Canada appears to be on the decrease, according to Stats Canada data released last week.

Interestingly enough, statistics for marijuanarelated offences are on the rise and began rising at about the time Harper and the Conservatives won their first minority government.

Coincidence?

The point is, the Conservative government, previous governments and the U.S. federal and state governments have tried to put the lid on marijuana cultivation, distribution and use.

The end result has been a very expensive failure.

Estimates of the annual value of the marijuana economy vary, but let’s pick a conservative $10 billion.

If marijuana were legalized, the federal government could keep $9 billion and pass $1 billion offPENTICTON to health care, education or social housing.

WESTERN What about endangered species, the coast guard or infrastructure upgrades?

It’s time to rethink the approach to the war on drugs, legalizing marijuana would be a profitable and useful first step.

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NDP soul search going nowhere NDP president Moe Sihota says an external review of the party’s performance in the May election will “look very much at the DNA of the NDP.” Early signs are not encouraging. Start with the five-member panel announced to conduct the review.

The required labour representation is in the person of Cindy Oliver, president of the union representing college and university instructors, and Andy Ross, expresident of COPE 378, which represents BC Hydro employees among others.

Another appointee is NDP MP Jinny Sims, a former president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation.

If the party wants to further solidify its image as a lobby group for pension-subsidized government unions, it’s off to a great start.

The terms of reference defy parody. In addition to unions, the panel required “more than one woman.”

A sub-committee

may be struck, if it has representation from “youth, women, labour, visible minority, LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisesexual, transgendered, questioning).”

I presume the party’s lengthy anti-harassment policy will be read out to begin all meetings.

Once they finally get down to business, the list of election campaign details they must examine is long.

In addition to that, they must review “stakeholder relations including community leaders, business, social movement, ethnic communities, environmental movement, affiliated unions and the labour movement.”

One of the excuses offered by leader Adrian Dix for the party’s defeat was the loss of 40,000 jobs in the B.C. forest industry.

The suggestion is that those people left for Alberta, and if they were still here, they would have voted NDP. That presumed

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B.C. Views solidarity has never existed in the private sector, and in fact the highest-paid union workers have good reason to vote for lower taxes.

To confirm B.C. and Canada’s “progressive” tax system, all they have to do is look at their pay stubs.

The mandate for this review mentions not one actual public policy issue.

Here’s one the committee might kick around.

Having lost the 2009 election campaigning against the carbon tax, the NDP is now

calling for it to be increased and extended to greenhouse gases produced by industrial process emissions.

A simple example is a cement kiln, which burns fuel to reach the temperature at which the components are partially burned and cement is produced.

Cement manufacturers pay carbon tax on the fuel, whether it’s natural gas or shredded tires, but not on the process.

B.C. cement makers are already pleading for relief, because the fuel-intensive process puts them at a price disadvantage with U.S. and Chinese producers.

Further unilateral tax action by B.C. would only further increase imports, and potentially push B.C. firms out of business.

Goodbye unionized private sector jobs.

Dix’s last foray in question period before the summer legislature session adjourned was a demand for the government to order BC Ferries to build its next

three ships in B.C. Leave aside the NDP’s uncritical zeal for state control, and their ill-fated experiment with aluminum fast ferries.

The most likely bidder for this work is Seaspan, with shipyards in Esquimalt and North Vancouver.

Seaspan is hiring almost 2,000 people to build ships for the Royal Canadian Navy and Coast Guard.

It will be flat out to get that done, and the company president can’t yet say if it has the capacity and skilled labour to bid on BC Ferries ships too.

Seaspan has to operate in the real world of limited resources.

So does the NDP, but it’s not clear if they can find a way out of their thicket of special interests and stale economic notions.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews. comtfletcher@ blackpress.ca.

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Websites reveal the shocking truth about chemtrails

Recently, official-appearing notices were circulated in the City of Kelowna and City of Penticton alerting the population that jets are spraying chemicals which have been tested to be toxic to soil, water and humans.

Sadly the use of city logos were forged but the information on these notices is true and well documented. Whoever circulated these notices was well informed.

There is a tremendous amount of scientific data accessible via the internet at californiaskywatch.org, agriculture defense.org, thrive movement.com and environmentalvoices.org.

All are excellent sources of unfiltered information. Unfortunately there is a media blackout firmly in place and the scientists who are proponents of aerosol geoengineering are compartmentalized and do not appear to be overseen by anyone.

Throughout my life I’ve been aware, observant and appreciative of the environment

Cabbie complaints baseless

The cab companies’ dispute with the Penticton Indian Band over who gets to drive people back from the channel float seems quite unwarranted on the part of the companies and sounds very much like a group wanting to cash in on a success story achieved by somebody else.

Coyote Cruises has indeed been in operation for a long time.

It was here when I moved to the area 23 years ago though it wasn’t then owned by the PIB. As Chief Kruger points out too, the cab companies are operating on band lands so that the band is doing them a favour by letting them come to pick up customers without the latter having called for the cab, a rather different situation.

The suggestion that Coyote Cruises not charge for the bus ride until people are picked up could mean lost time and more work for drivers who would have to collect money from everyone.

As well, if the price for those floating down on their own devices is different from that charged for Coyote Cruises customers – a reasonable situation – it would be hard to differentiate the two groups.

It is standard practice in my experience for one to be charged for a whole activity on signing up, not in bits and pieces.

I very much doubt it would make any significant difference to the numbers of customers the cab companies get anyway as individual vehicles can’t compete with a large bus. That’s simple economies of scale.

If people object to waiting for the bus, they can certainly call or take a cab. Since the float is a recreational activity, few are likely to be in so much of a hurry as to pay four times the cost.

Regarding the division of the spoils the cab company alleges from the past, I don’t recall many people floating all the way to Skaha

near and far.

When I first heard about chemtrails (aerosol geoengineering) I was in denial, which is a normal human response to information that one doesn’t want to hear or believe.

When I saw these trails daily over my valley and observed beautiful clear blue mornings becoming murky, hazy, low overcast skies by mid day I began to search for information.

I learned that these persistent contrails, which is another name for aerosol geoengineering have been seen all over the world since the late 1990s.

In educating myself I’ve learned some most alarming facts. California skywatch.org and agriculturedefence.org scientists report that the snow of Mount Shasta is 60,000 parts per million of aluminum oxide. Indigenous trees and plants are dying, growing food is becoming difficult.

Soil samples have revealed high levels of

until quite recently.

If my memory serves me correctly then, there wouldn’t have been a great deal of business in that for the cabs until the last few years.

It sounds very much as though the cab companies would just like to cash in on the expanded largesse of more people going right to Skaha rather than what they intimate, that Coyote Cruises has somehow violated an unwritten agreement about who picks up whom and where.

I wouldn’t blame the PIB one bit if they simply said that the cab companies can only pick up people on band land who call for them, but they are much more likely to try for some reasonable compromise.

For starters, how about the cab companies getting off their high horse.

Eva Durance Penticton

Dog owners need to pick up

We know man’s best friend outside your good natured little sweetie is the dog.

But man is not always the dog’s best friend when walking it.

They have the poor embarrassed dog desecrating Mother Nature with its droppings and pee and leaving it there. How would you like to have that happen to your mother?

People who walk their dog without a pooper scooper, bag and peebottle should be fined $200 for a first offence and an additional $100 for every offence thereafter plus made to take a six-week course in compassionate dog diapering.

Should the offence continue the offender would be required to spend four weekends pooper scooping and beautifying the community and Mother Nature.

Can’t look after a dog with responsible love, don’t have one. Gift it to your mother-in-law.

Joe Schwarz Penticton

aluminum, barium salts, strontium and soil pH is rapidly becoming alkaline.

Alzheimers has risen 260 per cent in Riverside, CA, over 10 years and respiratory mortality has moved from No. 8 to No. 3 in a period of six years. Aerosol geoengineering of chemical particulates has been heavy over California for years.

The website geoengineeringwatch.org reports that the sun’s rays have decreased 22 per cent in 10 years. Weather modification seems to be the motive by the compartmentalized aerosol geoengineers. In an attempt to reflect the sun’s rays away from Earth by spraying tons of particulates the opposite effect is happening.

Published NASA studies show the reflective cocoon is holding the heat at night, not allowing Earth’s natural cooling and exacerbating global warming. Weather can and is being programed and modified with devastating results.

Chemtrail nonsense

For heavens sake you attention seeking contrail conspirators, get a life. Really!

Paul Crossley Penticton

The documentaries: What In the World Are They Spraying? and Why in the World Are They Spraying? by Truthmediaproductions. us are essential to learning the big picture.

Both are available online.

I urge everyone to inform themselves and ask who is responsible?

Who is profiting from the sales of chemicals? Who is paying for this assault on our environment, our health and wellbeing of generations to come? Who is controlling the media blackout? When one knows the answers, the whys become apparent.

The truth is unpleasant but only an informed population can act effectively. A good place to start is by looking up at our sky and being curious about what you see.

Suzie Anderson Penticton

Editor’s note: The above are opinions and not necessarily fact.

Had this been a gay, lesbian, bullying or race issue, the people would have dammed this government.

Let not one person die this winter.

Ron Robertson.

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Fortis rates flaunt Charter

Funny when it comes to the real fundamental values in Canada, a fog comes to them in power.

Take the Canadian Charter of Rights, no not many know their rights.

Fortis and the government in the way it decided to penalize the poor who have to use baseboard heaters to keep body and soul warm, now have to pay a hell of a lot more because of the amount of power they have to use.

Does this mean people driving gas burning vehicles will at some point have to pay a king’s ransom for the privilege of driving them?

Going back to the Canadian Charter of Rights, yes the Charter says that Canadians are treated equal, yet I say not, the premier of this province and her government certainly does not put this into practice.

We need to bring this fundamental fact to the forefront in this province, before we have people dying through the winter months in one of the coldest countries, trying to keep warm by other means, which will cause untold fires, loss of life through hypothermia.

All this will do is cause misery to thousands of people, Christy Clark, do a U-turn for the good of the people of B.C., find other ways of trimming the fat.

B.C. was built on cheap power.

Double dip from the rich, not people living in mobile homes and trailer parks that do not have propane to heat them.

I suggest that every one in this province come out and protest on a set date and time, outside all the Fortis office buildings.

B.C. could be next Detroit

Imagine no city welfare, pension or paycheques. A social time bomb waiting to explode.

A pretty sobering reminder you cannot continue to spend more money than you collect in taxes.

While some insist Canadians are somewhat sheltered from such nasty things, the facts are the Canadian household debt is somewhere around $128,000 for a family of four, compared to $140,000 for a Greek family, and Greece is considered to be living on the proverbial edge of fiscal collapse.

Despite those glaring warning signs, spending is spiraling out of control, while our politicians continue to waste literally billions of dollars on programs, that do not pass the basic needs test.

Why are we arbitrarily committing to replace billions of dollars worth of military hardware, without first trying to determine what our military objectives are, and what tools we need to serve those objectives?

Why are we pouring billions of dollars into the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development that continues to produce no results and with no end in sight?

Why are we wasting more billions on security to protect politicians when we could have held the G-8 and G-20 Summits on one of our many military installations where security would have been far superior and already in place, no inconvenience to the public, and at no extra costs?

And why are municipalities and

the provincial government wasting millions of dollars buying silly carbon credit certificates, insisting those worthless pieces of paper reduce a governments carbon footprint? Why are we awarding contracts without the benefits of a competitive public tendering system?

Why are politicians shamelessly filling the pockets of government employees to buy their loyalty, their silence, and their vote? The time to get spending under control is today, and with existing revenues.

Forget about those pie-in-thesky LNG revenues until that natural gas is flowing through those illusive pipelines and loading facilities.

If politicians do not get spending under control promptly we will have no alternative but to follow the footsteps of American municipal and state governments, and take public spending to referendum.

Andy Thomsen Summerland

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Charr farm survives upstream battle Joe Fries

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Taking shape inside a cluster of buildings on a rural property near Oliver is a fish farm its owner insists poses no threat to the environment, yet has generated considerable concern among some scientists.

With several thousand Arctic charr fry already on site, Gary Klassen expects construction to finish this fall, at which point production will ramp up to an estimated 50,000 kilograms of fish each year to sell through a wholesaler to restaurants.

“I guess we like the idea of some sustainable protein. We think it’s a good way to grow fish,” said Klassen, who sold his metal fabrication business in northern Alberta several years ago and moved his family to the Okanagan.

While casting about for new business opportunities, Klassen settled on the idea of non-traditional farming to capitalize on a consumer trend towards local food.

He chose Arctic charr partly because his well water is 12 C and considered “optimum” for the species.

“The other thing about charr is it’s sought after by chefs,” Klassen said. “It’s a high-end fish and we think it’ll be profitable.”

But the facility’s location, about a hundred metres from the Okanagan River, into which it will discharge treated wastewater, means it’s also controversial.

The project created a range of worries for B.C. government scientist Tara White, who reviewed the application documents Klassen submitted to obtain an aquaculture licence from Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

In a May 2012 email to colleagues, White, a senior fisheries biologist for the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, drafted a 12-point list of issues she felt the application didn’t adequately address.

Her email was among hundreds of pages of documents obtained by the Western News under freedom of information legislation.

Chief among White’s concerns was the potential risk to native species if Arctic charr escape into the Okanagan River, although she noted the facility is a contained environment and the risk of escape through the triple-screened wastewater treatment system is “likely low,” as are the fishes’ chances of survival during hot summer months.

“If fish were to escape during the winter months, however, the risk to native stocks and ecosystem health increases significantly,” she wrote.

“Potential risks to native species include disease transfer, competition for food and habitat and hybridization.”

White was also worried about the temperature of, and potential contaminants in, the wastewater.

“Discharge of effluent into the (Okanagan) River may further aggravate water quality issues,” she wrote, adding it is also unclear if the wastewater treatment system would be “sufficient to filter nitrates and pharmaceutical… and prevent

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pathogen transfer to the Okanagan River system.”

Klassen insists it is.

Each of the facility’s 13 main tanks, the largest of which has a capacity of 50,000 litres, incorporate swirl separators to siphon off solids that fall to the bottom of the vessels.

Water bearing those solids will be piped to a separate building, where it will pass through a series of settling tanks before flowing through a 50-micron drum filter on its way to the environment.

Klassen expects to reuse up to 70 per cent of the water that flows into the facility with the help of specialized equipment to remove carbon dioxide from the water and add fresh oxygen.

Effluent discharge is approved under a separate licence from the B.C. government that sets limits for non-filterable residue and phosphorous concentrations in the wastewater.

The fish farm boasts an ozone machine that Klassen expects will neutralize any pathogens that develop, thereby eliminating the need for pharmaceuticals.

Also, because of the design of the wastewater system, Klassen is confident no fish will escape into the river.

He acknowledged a person could purposefully remove fish from the facility without his knowledge and introduce them into another body of water, but pointed out that all of the eggs he imports go through a sterilization process that’s up to 99 per cent effective. In her email, White estimated a 95 per cent success rate.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada, which solicited feedback from B.C. government officials, is satisfied with Klassen’s plans and issued his licence in September 2012, 16 months after his initial application.

In an application summary that recommended the licence approval, Michelle Manning, an aquaculture management co-ordinator for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, wrote that all biological impacts of the facility were found to be manageable.

The review “determined that potential environmental impacts are low and can be mitigated by well established and understood standard mitigation practices,” she wrote, such as triple-screening of wastewater to prevent escapes and other conditions imposed by provincial regulations.

If a fish did escape, Klassen’s licence would require him to promptly report the breach.

Accidents do happen.

During a review of Klassen’s separate application to import eggs from the Icy Waters hatchery near Whitehorse, Ian Keith, a field operations veterinarian for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, pointed out there had previously been a tank collapse at that very facility.

“Assumedly Icy Waters is run by experts and yet they had this disaster,” Keith wrote in a June 2012 email.

Yukon Environment spokesperson Nancy Campbell confirmed that in May 2003, Icy Waters reported a tank liner

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While numbers of returning sockeye salmon aren’t as high as in the last few years, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has decided to go ahead with a recreational fishery on Osoyoos Lake for the fourth year in a row.

Starting Aug. 1, fishers working the north basin of Osoyoos Lake (north of the bridge at

had been breached and up to 23,000 juvenile fish spilled onto a road where most died.

Some, however, made into a ditch connected to a nearby lake system.

“Incidentally, the charr that made it to the Hidden Lakes grew up to be popular with anglers,” Campbell said via email.

“There are no recent reports of charr caught from the lakes, although some may remain there.”

Osoyoos Mayor Stu Wells had long been a vocal opponent of Klassen’s fish farm due partly to his concerns about the possibility of a similar incident in the South Okanagan, but his stance changed after a site visit earlier this month.

“I was very, very impressed with the operation and the knowledge that the operator has, the back-up he has,” said Wells.

The mayor, also chairman of the Okanagan Basin Water Board, was reassured by Klassen’s impromptu offer to appoint a qualified inspector to keep tabs on the operation and report back to the community.

But Wells was disappointed that Fisheries and Oceans Canada did not hold public consultations before issuing Klassen’s licence, and he’s also worried staff reductions at the agency will reduce its ability to police the new facility.

“They’ve cut it back so far they’ve got no employees….

If something goes awry, there’s nobody there,” Wells said.

“We’ve got a very, very delicate salmon fishery going on (downstream in Osoyoos Lake), and it’s just so important and so crucial for so many different reasons that it continues to be strong and healthy.”

Fisheries and Oceans Canada spokesperson Melanie McNabb said in an statement the agency has a 50-person staff devoted to B.C. aquaculture, for which it assumed responsibility in 2010.

In the 14 months ended March 31, 2013, that team conducted inspections at 18 freshwater facilities in B.C., representing just a fraction of the 114 licensees in the province, according to the agency’s most recent online list.

McNabb said officers conduct site inspections and technical audits to ensure fish farms are complying with licence conditions, and can lay charges under the Fisheries Act. She also noted the department “does not conduct public consultation on individual aquaculture applications,” but is working on a new planning process to allow for public input on management of freshwater aquaculture.

Klassen knows he’s facing an uphill battle to fight the industry’s image problem.

“I think there’s public perception that fish farms are bad, and I’m hoping to prove that’s not so by doing it responsibly,” he said.

He’s optimistic the offer of a community inspector will prove to people he’s serious about accountability.

“It would give some of the people that have legitimate concerns… a degree of comfort they don’t have now,” Klassen said, “because they don’t know how responsible I am.”

Highway 3) may keep two sockeye per day. The DFO hasn’t set a closing date yet, but a review of sockeye numbers and environmental conditions in the lake will be conducted by Aug. 12 to determine the duration of the fishery.

While numbers appear to be down from the nearly 400,000 that made it over Wells Dam and into the Okanagan basin in 2012, the run is still far ahead of where it was in the early ‘90s, before the Okanagan Nation Alliance began

their restoration program, when only 3,000 to 5,000 sockeye made the return journey.

As of July 30, 184,751 sockeye passed Bonneville dam, with 74,451 continuing to pass Wells Dam. In the past couple of years, Sockeye have made it as far as Skaha Lake, and are expected to do so again. However, the opening contains a notice that no salmon fishing is allowed in Skaha.

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Peachfest returns even bigger Kristi Patton

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Bill Kolter has seen many changes over his 17 years volunteering with the Penticton Peach Festival and most in his area of expertise, entertainment.

Among them are a budget that has increased 10-fold while still keeping the spirit of the five-day festival, which runs Aug. 7 to 11.

“It is all free and that is very important,” said Kolter. “There is nobody in western Canada that does what we do and at that, for free to the public.”

Kolter was in the entertainment business most of his life as a musician and booking agent before settling down in Penticton in 1996 and said along with the team of volunteers who keep Peachfest alive, much of the praise has to go to Peters Bros.

“We have had some pretty high profile bands in here and that is thanks to Peters Bros. Without them we couldn’t do it,” he said. “When I started out with Peachfest in 1996 there wasn’t much money. Thanks to Peters Bros. and the other sponsors there is a huge difference in the type of entertainment we can bring to the city.”

That includes a high profile lineup for this year’s festival with Honeymoon Suite, One More Girl, The Steadies, Killarney, The Snowbirds, Dr. Strangelove, Luisa Marshall with her Tina Turner and Donna Summer tribute, the Peach Trio performers, who are members of Vancouver Circus School’s Inner Ring Circus, and over 40 other bands, dancers and entertainers.

With that many acts to organize, Kolter

said the board began planning the 2013 festival the moment the 2012 festival ended.

With the amount of hours it takes to put together the event, which is expected to attract 70,000 people next week, many of the behind-the-scenes workers don’t even get to relax over the five days it actually takes place.

“There is a lot of work put into it and people are on the go all the time putting it all together. For me personally, there is hundreds of hours a year put into this. Doing something like this, you have to enjoy it and all of our people enjoy it. When it is really done well and Sunday night comes along and it is over and we hear from people who attend that it was a success, that is our fulfilment,” said Kolter. “There is this atmosphere that you just can’t beat at Peachfest and that keeps us going.”

Peach Festival president Don Kendall said Kolter and his connections in the entertainment business are two of the reasons they are able to pull off the five-day party every year.

“During Peach Festival, I have dozens of people come up to me and ask how we can put this all on for free and are amazed at the level of entertainment we have. We are committed to keeping it a free festival so everyone can afford to go. No matter who you are, you can afford to have a good time at Peach Festival. If we didn’t have Bill, Peters Bros. and the volunteers that we do, there wouldn’t be this level of entertainment.

Along with 11-hour days packed with entertainment, Okanagan Lake Park will have about 50 vendors selling everything

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from food to clothing. Besides the action at the park, there is also the Aboriginal Cultural Village in Gyro Park which will feature authentic arts, crafts and jewelry, traditional foods, entertainment and children’s activities. Featured performers at the village are Gary Abbott and his sons, who are internationally known hoop dancers. The Peters Bros. Grand Parade takes place on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Main Street and Eckhardt down to Lakeshore Drive and the S.S. Sicamous. It will feature floats from across B.C. and Washington State, marching bands, dancers, gymnasts, musicians and much more. There is also the RONA Sandcastle Competition at Skaha Beach on Aug. 8, Sheila Bishop Memorial Wood Bat slo-pitch tournament, Shooting Star Amusements with rides and games opens on Aug. 5 in Rotary Park, Penticton Square Dance Jamboree, Kiddies Day on Sunday and new for this year the Peachpit Pentown Throwdown skateboard and BMX competition. That event runs Aug. 9 to 11 at the Penticton Youth Park on West Riverside Drive.

Having already moved out of their previous digs at Gyro Park to expand into Okanagan Lake Park across the street, Kolter said he sees it continuing to evolve in the future.

“Every year we turn around and say, now what the heck are we going to do next year? You just wonder how you can top it.

We have a great crew with Peachfest and I think that helps a lot and every year we come back with something to bring it up a notch,” said Kolter.

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Blues piano man digs the Dream Café Kristi Patton Western News Staff

Boogie boogie piano man Michael Kaeshammer divides his time equally, in that every stop he makes is usually a one-night stand except when it comes to Penticton.

His relationship with the city and the Dream Café is more than just a casual pop-tinged jazz affair.

“I think the first time I came to Penticton was in 1997 and it might have been the first year the Jazz Festival was on.

I like coming back to places where I feel like I have friends,” said Kaeshammer. “I got along with everyone at the Jazz Festival and I kept coming back. Then I met Pierre and Debra, owners of the Dream Café, and now I am calling them every year asking when I can come back.”

While his busy tour schedule can take him from Fort Lauderdale, Fl., Augusta, Ga, to Ire-

it literally is one of the highlights of my summer.

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land, it is in Penticton he doesn’t mind setting down some roots even if it is just for a week.

“It literally is one of the highlights of my summer. The audience is always into it here. We don’t do places as small as the Dream Café with that many people hardly ever and the whole energy that gets created in a room that size with those people you can’t get that anywhere else.

It is totally special,” said Kaeshammer. “I know for a lot of touring musicians that come through here to play, the Dream Café is a saving grace.”

Kaeshammer kicked off his Penticton residency on Tuesday with shows every evening

up to and including Saturday. The Juno-award nominated pianist said every night should have a slightly different twist on it.

“We play so much together we don’t have a setlist and there are a lot of things we do here that is different from a theatre. We like to try a song that maybe we wouldn’t play anywhere else and if it works it becomes part of the show.

Last year in every intermission we would go upstairs into the apartment and listen to a song we don’t know and play it in the next set. We would let the audience in on it and it was super fun. Everyone had a good time,” said Kae-

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An evening with Kaeshammer and his band isn’t the kind of show where you just sit, watch and applaud politely every now and then. His mission is to draw the audience in and take them on a wild ride.

His showmanship was something he developed at a young age by just being himself on stage, having earned his first gig when he was just 16 years old. His passion for music was developed sitting on a piano bench beside his father and listening to his records.

“He is a jazz fanatic and that is where everything came from really.

He would play it everyday and show me things he recorded off black and white videos of old jazz movies. I was his little buddy he was sharing all that stuff with,” said Kaeshammer.

Even now when Kaeshammer gets back to Europe where he grew up to visit his parents, he is still treated like that little boy sitting on the piano bench listening to Fats Waller and Nina Simone.

“Absolutely, it is like nothing has changed.

If I have a new CD or something it is never ‘that is fantastic,’ it is always ‘well.’ My dad is very opinionated when it comes to musical things,” said Kaeshammer with a chuckle.

But, you can’t bite the hand that feeds you and for Kaeshammer his ears feasted on a bevy of jazz tunes thanks to his dad. In May, Kaesham-

Boogie woogie Blues piano man Michael Kaeshammer is performing in Penticton all this week at the Dream Café.

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mer released a tribute recording to New Orleans’ Allen Toussaint called With You In Mind.

“He was always a big part of the music I loved, just anything coming from New Orleans. He made that New Orleans sound of the 60s and 70s, so when I ran into him at a piano festival in Detroit I was like a little kid again,” said Kaeshammer.

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The pair ran into each other again at other gigs and Kaeshammer fell in love with his music all over again as he was going through some personal things.

“It was kind of like the soundtrack for what I was going through and afterwards I thought it would be nice to pay tribute and show how I interpret the music because I had never ac-

tually done that with anyone’s music. I heard from him that he likes it,” he said.

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Sand and water are the two main ingredients teams will have plenty of for the 30th annual sandcastle competition which runs in conjunction with the Penticton Peach Festival.

Whether you are an intricate architect or stick-to-the-basics builder, organizers are inviting you to Skaha Beach on Aug. 8 to show off your skills.

“It is just great fun, you get in there and dig away,” said organizer Matt Kenyon. “People sometimes get worried about what they are going to build thinking it is some big contest, but it is really not. It is more about just getting out there and having a good time with a group of friends, family or your co-workers. Some people that don’t think they are a sculptor at all turn out to be actually pretty good at it once they get in there and start shaping and doing it.”

Proceeds from the event will go to a variety of local and international projects. The winning teams in each category receive prize money (family/friends $50, youth $200, kids $100 and corporate challenge $500) that is donated to their charity of choice. The competition gets underway at 5:30 p.m. with kids’ teams (12 and under) allocated one hour, while all other categories are allowed two hours to complete their sandcastle before judging begins. A people’s choice award will also be handed out for bragging rights.

“The rest of the proceeds will go the Penticton Skaha Community Projects Society and they will disperse the funds throughout the community through bursaries or donations,” said Kenyon.

A corporate team can enter for $50 and have a maximum of eight adults and an unlimited number of kids under 12 on their team. Family teams can consist of a maximum of six adults with an unlimited number of kids under 12 and their entry fee is $25. A youth team can be entered for $20 with a maximum of eight team members between the ages of 13 and 16.

A kids’ team entry fee is $10 and can have unlimited number of participants that are 12 and under. The kids category will get a 10 foot by 10 foot square plot. If parents want to direct children’s activities it is advised they should enter the family team category. All materials included in the final sculpture must be environmentally friendly and forms and plastic materials used for making the sculpture must be removed prior to final judging. Sculptures will be judged on best use of plot (five points), artistic content (20 points), intricacy (20 points) and discretionary (five points).

“There is some strategy to building,” said Kenyon. “You might want to get a plot close to the water and the other thing is to make sure you have a full team because if you can get everyone to dig for the first half hour or 20 minutes with a lot of people, you can get a good mound of sand going and spend the rest of the time carving.”

Live music from Kyle Anderson and The World’s Largest Trio will be playing during the sandcastle building hours. To register for the RONA Sandcastle Competition visit www. peachfest.com or pick up a form at RONA, Greyback Construction or Dragon’s Den. Registration will also take place at the Skaha Beach Sun Dial before the competition gets underway on Aug. 8 at 4 p.m.

Rick Mielke, laurie Brown (middle) of Rona, the event sponsors, and Matt kenyon (right), organizer of the sandcastle event during Peachfest test out their digging skills for the 30th Sandcastle competition, which runs in conjunction with the Penticton Peach Festival on Aug. 8.

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65- Plus s ingles coFFee cluB meets at 10 a.m. at the Penticton Golf and Country Club.

For info call 250-4920459 or 250-770-1018.

Kiwanis cluB Has a lunch meeting every Wednesday at noon at 390 Brunswick St. Bingo e v e ry wednesday in the Legion hall for the Ladies Auxiliary, 502 Martin St. at 1 p.m.

Lunches are available. anavets Has HumP Day with dinner by Stu at 5:30 p.m. and music

by Buzz Byer at 6:30 p.m. t He P enticton P uBlic Library has story time on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 to 10:30 a.m. until Aug. 21. tHe Bereavement resource Centre at 626 Martin St. is hosting weekly drop-in grief support sessions at 6:30 p.m. al-anon For Friends and family of alcoholics at 7:30 p.m. at United Church, 696 Main St. Call 250-4909272 for info. iode tHriFt store

on 464 Main St. has weekly specials and is open Monday to Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m. seniors’ recreation and Wellness Centre at 439 Winnipeg St. hosts euchre every Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Call Betty at 250-490-0468 for more information.

Newcomers are is welcome. o Kanagan F alls s eniors ’ Activity Centre has exercise classes at 8 a.m., music and coffee hour at 9 a.m. followed by carpet bowling at 1 p.m. s ummerland a rt cluB meets every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the library’s lower floor on Wharton Street.

Painters of all levels welcome. Workshops available. For info call Barb at 250-494-3002.

Foster care inFo sessions every Wednesday at 10 a.m. at MCFD Resource Office. For info call Moe at 250770-7524 or visit www. fosterbc.ca or www. mcf.gov.bc.ca/foster. t He P enticton PuBlic Library invites all kids aged 5-12 to join us for crafts, games, stories, puppet shows, prizes and more at Summer Reading Club from 2 to 3:30 p.m. until Aug. 14. oliver douBle o Quilters have dropin activities every Wednesday. a l c o H o l i c s a nonymous Has Nooners meetings Monday to Friday noon at 361 Wade Ave. Call service 24 hours is 250490-9216. Night group

meets in the Baptist Church at 7:30 p.m. at 1498 Government St. The Summerland group meets at 8 p.m. at 13204 Henry Ave. in the basement. soutH main droP-in Centre has beginner line dance at 9 a.m., a coffee social and medical Qi Gong at 10 a.m., and easy to intermediate line dance and cribbage at 1 p.m. Call 250-493-2111 to confirm line dance activities.

Penticton united cHurcH has a liturgical dance session at 696 Main St. the last Wednesday of each month from 2 to 3 p.m.

Phone 250-492-2684 to register, there is no fee. Everyone is welcome.

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Franco 50-Plus cluB meets from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Drop-in program for French speakers wanting to socialize in French, including activities such as games, outings, discussions, hobbies and projects. Call Lina at 250-492-2549 for info. desert sage sPinners and Weavers Guild meets at 10 a.m. at the Oliver Community Centre. Members create beautiful handworks.

Visitors are always welcome. If you are interested in becoming a member stop by or contact Gail Erickson at rgerickson@telus. net or 250-498-4959.

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legion branch 40 has crib at 7 p.m. in the Legion hall at 502 Martin St. and PeacH city toastmasters meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Penticton United Church. Toastmasters improves speaking abilities and leadership skills. Call 250-4922362 for info. toPs (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Church of the Nazarene, 523 Jermyn Ave. Call Merle at 250-770-8093. toPs B.c. 1640 meets from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the Bethel Church basement at 945 Main St. Phone Beverley at 250-493-5968 or Liz at 250-493-7997 for more info. tHe oliver BrancH of the Okanagan Regional Library has a free program at 7 p.m. for kids aged five to 12. On this day, they will have Pardon Me, you are standing on My Cape.

Up, Up and Away with a super hero. tHe summerland BrancH of the Okanagan Regional Library has a free program for kids aged five to 12 at 7 p.m. This day will be on Silent Hunters. o Kanagan F alls s eniors ’ Activity Centre has computer classes at 9 a.m., bridge at 1 p.m. and cribbage at 7:30 p.m. oKanagan soutH i mmigrant and Community Services is offering free English classes. For more info, stop by the office at 508 Main St. or call 250492-6299.

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calendar A l c o h o l i c s night A nonymous group meets at 8 p.m. at 150 Orchard Ave. in the Outreach Centre.

The Okanagan Falls group meets at 8 p.m. at 5328 Hawthorne St., and the men’s book study group runs at 7:30 p.m. at 102 1825 Main St. Vineyard Church.

F rAternAl o rder oF the Eagles have Joseph’s famous pizza from 4 to 7 p.m. All members and guests welcome to the hall at 1197 Main St. AnAvets have drop-in pool 7:30 p.m. elks club on Ellis Street has darts at 7 p.m. All skill levels welcome.

P enticton F ly Fishers meet the first Thursday each month at 216 Hastings St. at 7 p.m. They welcome new individuals and family memberships.

For more info, visit www.pentictonflyfishers.ca.

Al-Anon For Friends and family of alcoholics meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Summerland United Church. Call 250-4909272.

south mAin droPin Centre has Spanish conversation and carpet bowl at 10 a.m., bingo, improver line dance and crafters meet at 1 p.m. Call 250-493-2111 to confirm line dance activities.

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August 2 t he P enticton Public Library has baby songs and rhymes for infant to 15 months from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. until Aug. 16. night mArket At the SS Sicamous, from 4 to 8 p.m, on the grass in front of the ship with live music, foods and homemade crafts. s eniors s ingles lunch Club welcomes 65-plus each Friday.

For location call 250496-5980 or 250-7708622. t he P enticton P ublic Library has story time on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 to 10:30 a.m. until Aug. 21.

FrAternAl order oF Eagles has dinner from 5 to 7 p.m.

Entertainment by Almost Alan from 7 to 11 p.m.

890 Wing oF South Okanagan Air Force Association meets at 4 p.m. in the clubhouse at 126 Dakota Ave. s enior c omPuter d roP -i n sessions are held Monday and Friday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. for members to help solve problems other members may be experiencing with their computers.

Al-Anon meets At the Oasis United Church at 2964 Skaha Lake Rd. from 6 to 7 p.m.

For info call 250-4909272. r oyAl c AnAdiAn legion branch 40 has daily lunches from Monday to Thursday, with fish and chips on Friday at 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Jerry’s Jam Session at 5 p.m. elks club on Ellis Street has drop-in darts/pool starting at 7 p.m.

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at 3740 3rd St. in Community Church hall. In Summerland, the step study meeting is at 7:30 p.m. at 13204 Henry Ave. Friends Friday night at 6:30 p.m. at 2964 Skaha Lake Rd. at Oasis United Church. o v e r e At e r s Anonymous meets from noon to 1 p.m. at the United Church at 696 Main St.

coming events michAel burgess will be performing in the Oliver Community Bandshell at 6359 Park Dr. on Aug. 3.

Ticket are $25 in advance and $35 at the gate. Tickets can be purchased in Oliver at Beyond Bliss, BuyLow Foods, Oliver Parks and Recreation, or in Osoyoos at Polka Dot Door, Osoyoos BuyLow and in Penticton at Winemaster, S.O. Country Radio (Adidas Sportsplex), Berg’s Showroom, Front Street Gallery (Saturday Farmers Market) Plus: Jardin Antiques (OK Falls), Paw Prints Studio (Willowbrook). Credit card orders can be done

by calling 250-498-4732 or emailing OliverCAC@ gmail.com. music in the Park has Nankama Drum & Dance (African djembe drumming and dancing) on Aug. 8 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Oliver Visitor Centre (CPR Station) at 6431 Station St. Bring a lawn chair.

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Research shows Chinese migrants key part of Okanagan history Piecing story together a difficult task Mark Brett

Western News Staff

By way of the California gold rush in the mid 1800’s, thousands of migrant Chinese migrant workers came to the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys.

Many, the vast majority of them men, came to North America to escape political persecution in their homeland or to earn money to provide a better life for their families.

But despite toiling tirelessly in the mines and fields and working to stitch the country’s first railway together, their pages in our history books are few.

As a way to fill in some of those missing chapters, three regional historians are currently engaged in an ongoing project to shed light on what really took place.

Kim English of the Hedley Heritage Museum Society, Sarah Stanley of the South Similkameen Museum Society and Matteo Carboni of the Grist Mill and Gardens recently held a special public seminar at the Grist Mill to outline some of their findings and invite people to provide additional material.

“In part we don’t have that information because the history we have today is told through the lens of the different biases of the time,” said English.

“Those (biases) might be reflected through their political stances and we are trying to bring light to those times that tend to be missed throughout many parts of Canada.”

For a lot of the Chinese who came to Canada to work in the Southern Interior, they were treated as second-class citizens.

In Keremeos, Princeton and Hedley, they lived in some of the worst areas, in homes built on stilts by the river and other unfriendly locations.

“Much of the material we have came through local newspapers and Keremeos police ledgers,” said English.

“With that, they are often small fragments and pieces of stories of events that had happened but they’re summarized through a few short sentences and aren’t identified through named persons and are often derogatory in nature.”

After the gold rush ended and other employment dried up, many Chinese decided to stay on in their new country and worked in laundries, restaurants, farms, and other mines like mercury and borax.

It is relatives of those people who the local historians are hoping to reach to fill in a few more of the blanks in their research.

“We would very much like to hear from anyone who has any first-hand information about what their ancestors went through and how they came to be where they are,” said English.

“The reason for the presentation was to reconstruct as best as we could, with as little evidence as we have, our historic records on the Chinese communities.”

As well, she noted often in any sort of dispute the immigrants were typically assumed to be the guilty parties and without interpreters, were unable to mount any defence.

English remembered one story about an Asian man who apparently killed two of his co-workers and wound up in an Okanagan sanitarium.

“This was a very dark part of Keremeos history,” she said. “But there are a lot different threads to the story we don’t know about.”

She feels it is critical to set the record straight, not only for the Chinese, but for everyone living in the area today.

“For all of us, whether we’re from this valley or wherever we come from, the museums and the historic keeping and the story sharing is a really important part of what makes us who we are,” said English.

In thIs 1948 photograph Chinese immigrants are playing Mah Jong in sam Kee’s building in shanghai Alley in downtown Penticton. some local historians are trying to fill in some of the missing pages relating to the Chinese people who came to live in the Okanagan and similkameen valleys.

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Penticton’s under-21 Pinnacles rule the Pacific Coast Soccer League’s Reserve division.

It’s a first in the Penticton Soccer Club’s history that the men’s and women’s teams won the championship in the same year.

Playing side by side at Town Centre West and East in Coquitlam on Sunday, both clubs could hear the cheers from their respective fields.

“This year is special,” said Pinnacles Greenscape Landscaping women’s coach Ray Hintz, whose team edged the Mid Isle Highlanders 2-1 to bring home the Bill Gillespie Challenge Cup. “We have been there before. For some it’s their third championship. This one is special because of all the stuff we had to go through.”

The main challenge was working different players into the lineup the entire year. Frustration was felt by the players and Hintz, who said it was one of his toughest seasons coaching at that level.

Despite the offensive numbers, 31 goals in 16 games, not being where Hintz preferred, the players got the job done.

“To see the girls work so hard, they had determination this week,” he said.

“We played with a lot of heart and determination.

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The girls really wanted it this year. To prove everybody wrong.”

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Along with winning the championship, Pinnacles defender Mila Miller was named tournament MVP. Parker said Miller’s performance was “amazing,” but added she always does.

“Very strong, reliable player,” said Parker.

“Even when she thinks she plays bad, she’s probably one of the best players out on that pitch.”

Miller said her MVP recognition is a reflection of the season.

“We could have easily given that to our goalkeeper Emily (Edmundson) because she is amazing. One of the best goalies I’ve played with.”

Miller, who played four years with the Warner Pacific College Knights in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, added that Edmundson and Parker helped her become a better player.

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Cup, the first time in their seven seasons. After defeating Chilliwack 4-1, the Pinnacles doubled up Abbotsford MagnusonFord Mariners 4-2, who they lost both regular season games against. Austin Jones, Mackenzie Rigg, Randy Hubber and Enzo Paul scored.

Hubber buried the winner.

“I don’t think words can describe it really,” said Hubber of his winner. “After I scored I didn’t know what to do.”

Hubber, who finished second in league scoring with nine goals and was named Challenge Cup MVP, said they played well.

“We came into the game with the arrogance that we weren’t going to lose and that helped us a lot,” he said.

Giving the Pinnacles that swagger was the large margin by which they won their last few games by a combined score of 13-0.

“We knew we were good and we just proved it,” he said.

Pinnacles coach Paulo Araujo said his group performed very well. Araujo said his group played their best “football of the year.”

“They kept growing stronger as the season went,” said Araujo, who also coached the under-18 boys team to a provincial championship this season. “This weekend we really came together as a team.”

When asked what winning the championship meant, Araujo said it’s a “good feeling for a little town from the Okanagan to go down to the coast and put on a good show.”

“It shows that there is really good footballers here in the Okanagan,” said Araujo.

With a laugh, Araujo added it would be good for teams like the Vancouver Whitecaps to start looking at players here.

Araujo said that he feels

the win puts Penticton on the map.

What impressed him about their win is how the players prepared.

They acted like professionals. The Pinnacles had a 2-0 lead against the Mariners, who fought back. It’s at that moment Araujo said teams tend to lose momentum. The players kept their composure and Araujo kept his leaders on the field and everything came together. Then Hubber became the hero.

“It was fantastic how they were able to handle themselves in the change of momentum like that,” he said. “It was exciting.

All the players that were on the bench ran onto the field. They were very ecstatic.”

Hubber said the atmosphere was good thanks to a strong contingent of fans. As for earning MVP honors, Hubber said “it’s pretty huge.”

“It was just a dream, really,” he said.

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Cricketts bat for the love of the game Kristi Patton Western News Staff

Haley Beggs stands under the hot Penticton sun on a Wednesday afternoon waiting for her turn at bat.

Just like hundreds of adults who play slopitch in the city, her reasons for falling in love with the game are simple.

But unlike most who play, Beggs only has the use of one arm when she bats. She doesn’t let that stop her from hitting short drives up the line to third base, while her teammates whoop and cheer her on.

“It keeps me active and I like being outside with friends, it’s fun. I look forward to this every week,” she said.

As does the rest of the team, which consists of players with physical or mental challenges.

The ringleader of the squad is Scott Stephenson, who asked a few of his special needs friends to join and word quickly spread.

In ode to their coach Greg Crickett, they entered Actionfest in June against able-bodied players and now look forward to the Sheila Bishop Memorial Wooden Bat Tournament, held during the Penticton Peach Festival.

Crickett said Actionfest was a hit for not only his players, but the teams they faced.

“Most of the teams we faced thought it was awesome and were saying how great it is to just play good old baseball. They would change their star play-

HALEY BEGGS takes a big swing during a Crickett’s team practice. The Crickett’s will be playing in the 10th annual Sheila Bishop Memorial Wooden Bat tournament on Aug. 9.

ers to different positions and were serving up melons to our batters because they wanted to see them hit and let them play,” said Crickett.

“I never even knew I was going to have this much fun, as stressful as it was making sure everyone was at the

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field for the games and then trying to fit everyone into the lineup to play.”

The Cricketts, came up against an undefeated A division squad from Chilliwack called Revolution while at Actionfest and prepared themselves for a team of competitive

players.

“I was wrong. The Revolution really had fun and were great sports. We actually ended up in a tie. My guys were jumping up and down on the field and thought it was great,” said Crickett, who added Revolution shared the most sports-

manlike team of the tournament honours with them.

Getting help at a few key positions from able-bodied players has also been a big assistance to the team to get them used to the rules and give out pointers.

As word about the team keeps spreading, Crickett keeps finding more and more players.

“I had one guy that I didn’t even know, who I found out is a powerlifter at the Special Olympics, just walk right up to me at the field,” said Crickett.

“It was literally minutes before the game started and he said he wanted to play.

“The team has such a love for the game.”

Some of these guys are fanatics about it and I am just glad we can give them the opportunity to play real games instead of just practice.”

Besides a few setbacks, walking off before they had three outs and some interesting plays, Crickett said the players are keen to learn.

“Most of the umps have been great and let a lot of the things go,” said Crickett.

“We have seen some great plays too, balls that we thought there is no way the fielders will get that and then just fall right into their gloves.”

The enthusiasm and good sportsmanship the Cricketts have shown are exactly what the Wooden Bat Tournament, is looking for.

“We want everyone to have a good time and keep in the proper spirit of it which is a great thing with Greg Crickett’s team because it

The KISU swim club is cashing in. They will be receiving $25,000 from the Community Gaming Grants from the Ministy of Community, Sport, and Cultural development.

KISU club president Nancy Telford said the money will be used to offset costs for pool rental and equipment use. “It helps us keep our fees to families affordable,” said Telford. “It’s

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11 teams signed up and Borba said he would love to see that number grow to 16.

“Everyone who comes has a lot of fun and it is nice to play with the wood bats, because many players have never used them and it makes the game a lot more fun with lower scoring and a lot more defence.

Hitting home runs with those bats is hard to do,” said Borba, who added he appreciates the volunteers who donate their time to run the tournament, including the umpires.

The tournament runs from Aug. 9 to 11.

To enter a team contact Borba by email at paulborba@hotmail.com.

More details on the tournament can also be found at www.peachfest.com.

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The decade-old tournament was created in honour of the Penticton woman it is named after, who lost her long battle with cancer.

All proceeds from the tournament are donated to charity, with over $30,000 given out to various groups such as the Canadian Cancer Society, children’s charities and the DragonFly Pond Society over the last 10 years.

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Kariya loved being a Panther Emanuel Sequeira Western News Staff

Paul Kariya just smiled as he reflected on his two seasons as a Penticton Panther.

“They were amazing,” said Kariya, prior to the start of the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony held July 26.

Under coach Gary Davidson, the North Vancouver product scored 91 goals and 244 points in 94 games.

Kariya said it was a great experience to be coached by Davidson and play with several great players. It gave him the chance to play for Canada’s under-18 team and the world junior squad. Davidson also helped Kariya earn a scholarship with the University of Maine Black Bears.

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we were a really good team,” said Kariya, as they won 38 games.

“Got some good play-

ers. I was able to play with a lot of friends that I played minor hockey with. Guys like Brian Barnes and Jeff Tory. A good group of guys.”

Helping make Kariya’s time as a Panther memorable were the fans.

“It’s a great hockey town,” said Kariya, who was inducted alongside retired NHLer Mark Recchi, former Vancou-

ver Canucks coach Marc Crawford, Colin Patterson and Nancy Wilson, the first female inductee, and the 1993-94 and 94-95 Kamloops Blazers Memorial Cup winning teams. “Obviously in the summer it’s amazing here. Kids going to the hockey school.

It’s a great place to be, a great place to play. I certainly miss the people here.”

Kariya also enjoyed

a 15-year NHL career that began with nine seasons in Anaheim.

He then spent a season with the Colorado Avalanche, followed by two with the Nashville Predators and three seasons with the St.Louis Blues, where he played his final game in 200910. Kariya was forced to retire due to concussion problems.

“I had 15 great years and that’s a lot longer than the average per-

son,” said Kariya, who resides in California.

“I’m very thankful.”

Four BCHHF awards were also given out during the evening, one going to Vees forward Cody DePourcq.

He was given the Patricia Carter Award, which honors the BCHHF Society’s first member. Past winners of the Patricia Carter Award have combined success in hockey with their educational goals.

PAUL KARIYA talks to the crowd about his time as a Penticton Panther during the 2013 B.C Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

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Matt Darmody, organizer of the Summerland Pro Bullriding Stampede, is expecting a strong continent of riders to compete for a purse of $6,500. The top six will go into the chute out. There will be bull fights, bull boxing, bull poker and mounted shooting. Riders will be coming from B.C., Alberta and Australia as part of the Bull Riders Canada circuit.

“There is plenty of entertainment,” said Darmody. “Thrills and spills. Bull riding is a pretty popular thing in North America. Bull riding has become a popular sport. The quality of bulls just keeps getting better and better. Riders have to keep strong.”

Tickets for the event, supported with sponsorship from Prairie Coast Equipment, Okanagan Dodge and Nesters Market, can be purchased for the presale price of $15 at the 24/7 in Penticton, the Visitor Info Centre in Summerland and Lammle’s Western Wear and Tack in West Kelowna in the Westbank Shopping Centre.

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Penticton rolls into the holiday weekend in fine style Saturday with the 18th annual Rotary Wheels Car Show.

Automotive care givers from the Pacific Northwest and beyond will be bringing their four-wheel beauties of all makes and models to Rotary Park on Okanagan Lake (by the Peach) for people to enjoy.

According to Sandy Henderson, one of the co-organizers of this year’s event, the annual Rotary Club of Penticton-Okanagan show has become a must see for people who live in the area.

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Beverley Gay, 96, passed away peacefully Saturday, July 27, 2013, in Penticton, B.C. She was born in Wolfe, SK, on September 21, 1916, and grew up among five brothers in Southern Alberta. The family later moved to Fort St John, BC, where Bev graduated high school before attending Normal School in Victoria. Her first teaching job brought her back to the Peace River district in northern BC, where she met her late husband, George Gay, a fellow teacher; after marrying in 1939, Bev and George remained in the area until after their son Errol was born in 1941, at which time they returned to the lower mainland, living in Mission City and then in Vancouver. In 1947 the family moved to Penticton, where Bev taught school in the public system and later established a private school in their home. She was Executive Secretary of Penticton United Church for several years; and was later General Manager of the Okanagan Symphony Society, which she and her husband had helped found. During this period she took up the cello and remained a dedicated member of the orchestra for many years. She and George later joined the Penticton Tuneagers. Bev remained an avid writer, painter, and volunteer in many local community organizations.

Bev is survived by her son Errol, and daughterin-law, Ann, of Toronto; granddaughters Heather Hoffman (Gene) of Emerald Hills, CA, and Erin Cooper Gay of Toronto; her younger brother Len Weaver (Ida) of Victoria, as well as her two greatgranddaughters, Ella and Anna Hoffman, and many nieces and nephews. She was pre-deceased by her husband, George, and four of her brothers: Vern, Pat, Bud and Rex Weaver. The family wishes to thank the Garrett and Cleland families, as well as Dr. Derek Barkhuizen and the staff at Village-by-the-Station for their unflagging love and care for Bev. Donations are welcomed to the Community Foundation of the South Okanagan or to the Okanagan Symphony. A memorial service celebrating Bev’s life will be held at a later date.

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Employment Drivers/Courier/ Trucking

DRIVERS WANTED

AZ, DZ, 5, 3 or 1 w/ Airbrake • Guaranteed 40hr. Work Week & Overtime • Paid Travel & Lodging • Meal Allowance • 4 Weeks Vacation • Excellent Benefits Package

Must be able to have extended stays away from home. Up to 6 months. Must have valid AZ, DZ, 5, 3 or 1 with airbrake license and have previous commercial driving experience.

Apply at:www.sperryrail.com/ careers and then choose the FastTRACK Application.

Education/Trade Schools TRAIN TO Be an Apartment/ Condominium Manager at home! We have jobs across Canada. Thousands of graduates working. 32 years of success! Government certified. www.RMTI.ca or 1-800-6658339, 604-681-5456.

Help Wanted An Alberta Oilfield Company is hiring dozer and excavator operators. Lodging and meals provided. Drug testing required. Call (780)723-5051 Edson, Alta.

EXPERIENCED ONLY PT drivers over 19yrs w/valid DL & clean abstract, trustworthy & reliable. Make extra cash for Summer 250-490-3663 Fast Lane Deliveries Janitor required; Mon-Sat, 11 am-3:30pm, starts immediately, drop off resume to: South Beach Gardens Campground

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GUARANTEED JOB Placement: General Laborers and Tradesmen For Oil & Gas Industry.

Call 24hr Free Recorded Message. For Information 1-800-972-0209.

LAYOUT Artist - Bongarde Media is seeking part-time layout artist for Penticton office.

Must have experience with the Adobe Creative Suite. Must be organized, able to manage time well and be able to interpret customer job requests.

Submit resume to: vickyp@bongarde.com by Aug 10/13 LICENSED AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIAN Nelson Ford, in Nelson BC, is looking for the right technician to service our customers. We offer factory Ford training, competitive wages, and great benefits. Salary dependent on experience $28 - $35/hr based on Ford training. Will consider 3rd/4th year apprentice. Send resume to rmcmahon@nelsonfordsales.com or fax 250-352-7282 Peter’s Bros. Paving is accepting applications for entry level sales estimators. Salary between $50,000 and $80,000 per year depending on experience and education. Applications can be picked up at 716 Okanagan Ave. E., Penticton, BC between 9:30 and 3:00, no resumes.

Peters Bros. Paving is accepting applications for employment for the 2013 construction season as well as mechanics and apprentices. Applications can be picked up at 716 Okanagan Ave. E, Penticton, BC between 9:30am and 3pm.

No resumes.

TRIM ‘n Fit Personal Training Studio seeking Experienced Personal Trainer for small evening group class. Experience in sales needed. Email resume at info@trimnfit.ca

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2 Days a Week - Early Mornings The Penticton Western News has Routes available in these areas for Wednesday and Friday in Penticton and Oliver:

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250-492-0444, Ext: 219 or 205

PHOTOGRAPHER REQ’D for school photography.

Contract position, Aug. 18 to Nov. 15.

Must have reliable car, computer skills.

Some overnight travel req’d.

Training & equip. provided. email resume to: peter@mountainwest.ca TRUCK DRIVER WANTED Working for a large winery in the south Okanagan. Must have Class 1 and clean driving record, experienced with super B trailers, long hours, weekends and night shifts, $25 per hour, Fax: 250-4984992 ATTN: Jordan Westminster Party Rentals is now hiring a full-time/part-time laundry/presser, self motivated individual, please apply in person ASAP, 357 Okanagan Ave., East, Penticton

Hotel, Restaurant, Food Services EXP’D SERVERS neededmust have min 5 yrs exp. in a full srvce envrnmnt. Organization, reliability, speed and a great personality a must. Must be avail to start immed. Resumes to 988 Lakeshore Dr. Penticton.

Housekeeper req. for resort motel, FT position, exp. preferred or will train, $14/hr (exp.), bring resume to: Crown Motel, Lakeshore Dr., 250492-4092

Income Opportunity NOW HIRING! Earn extra cash, demand for simple work.

P/T-F/T. Can be done from home. Acceptance guaranteed, no experience required, all welcome! www.BCJobLinks.com

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Medical/Dental

Financial Services

Legal Services

Cleaning Services

EXPERIENCED MOA with knowledge of OSLER, good computer skills, ability to work independently. Meticulous attention to detail. Excellent inter-personal skills essential.

Apply in confidence to: PO BOX 22065, Penticton, BC, V2A 8L1 Interviews will be held Mid-August

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed?

Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877987-1420. www.pioneerwest.com

CRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certification, adoption property rental opportunities. For peace of mind and a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

MISS MOP N’ TASKER. Licensed, bonded & insured professional house cleaning service. Contact 250-809-7522

Carpet Cleaning

DAVE’S Garden Maintence Experienced Hedge Trimmer, Pruner, & Small Garden Renovations Call 250-493-1083, cavs@shaw.ca

Work Wanted C CLASS DRIVER available, clean record. Local & long distance. F/T or P/T. John 250498-4732

Services

IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: it’s that simple.

Your credit/age/income is not an issue. 1-800-587-2161.

M O N E Y P R OV I D E R . C O M . $500 Loan and +. No Credit Refused. Fast, Easy, 100% Secure. 1-877-776-1660.

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Help Wanted

Handypersons Yard work & painting, fences, deck repair or new, garbage hauling, plumbing, roofing, licensed, ins., 250-462-2146

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

RPR Heating is looking for...

HVAC Refrigeration Mechanic

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Part-time Pharmacy Assistant Fast paced, fun environment. Experience preferred but not necessary. Apply by: • email to asdm241@shoppersdrugmart.ca • Phone: 250-494-3155 • In person to Basil Cogill in the Pharmacy section

10108 Jubilee Road

Do you need your lawn cut and/or cared for? For friendly, dependable service, call Del, reasonable rates, (250)4888079, DIH Enterprises

or visit:

Borrow Up To $25,000 Cash same day, local office.

Garden & Lawn

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Gas ticket Residential & lite commercial Furnace, A/C, H/P, Rooftops, MUA’s, Walk-in Coolers & Freezers experience Must have strong work ethic & customer service Diagnostic & electrical skills

Please send resume to: rprheating@shawcable.com or Fax: 250-490-0916

HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING

154 Ellis Street, Penticton, B.C. V2A 4L5

250-494-3155

Open Mon. - Fri.: 8:30 am - 9 pm, Sat: 9 am - 6 pm & Sun: 10 am - 6 pm

250-492-3677

• RELIABLE • PROFESSIONAL • RESPONSIBLE

Editor The Grand Forks Gazette is currently seeking an editor to manage its weekly community newspaper in the beautiful City of Grand Forks. The successful editor will work out of our Grand Forks office and will manage a team of one reporter. The successful candidate will have a keen interest in community and become an active member of the community.

The successful candidate will be responsible for setting the vision for this community newspaper and for helping our reporter excel with their reporting skills. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who works well as a member of a diverse and unique team.

Qualifications: Proficiency with InDesign and Photoshop are required as is a background in the community newspaper industry.

Duties include: Page layout, writing stories, managing a full-time reporter and some freelancers, proofreading and editing stories, photography, community relations in your role as editor and the daily management of our website.

This position would suit a reporter who is looking to grow their career by moving into an editor’s position. We are looking for someone who is innovative, computer and digital savy and can help lead our community-focused newspaper into the future.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

Please email resume, with cover letter, to Chuck Bennett, Group Publisher at chuckbennett@blackpress.ca.

CONVEYANCER VERNON, B.C.

Located in the beautiful Okanagan Valley, Nixon Wenger is one of the largest, fastest, growing law firms outside of Greater Vancouver. Currently with 21 lawyers and a newly constructed office building, our Vernon, B.C. office has an opening for a Conveyancer.

Our successful candidate will have 3-4 years of conveyancing experience and must be able to complete residential and commercial deals from start to finish. The applicant will have strong communication skills, will be very detail-oriented and must be highly organized. In addition, the applicant must be knowledgeable with E-Filing through BC Online and experience with econveyance would be an asset.

Responsibilities will also involve interacting with clients by phone and email.

Our firm offers a positive working environment with competitive salaries, a group benefits package, an RRSP program and a moving allowance.

Nixon Wenger welcomes your interest in this position within our Conveyancing Department.

Please submit your resumes to humanresources@nixonwenger.com by Thursday, August 15th, 2013 at 4:00pm.

We thank all applicants for their interest and advise that only those under consideration will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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Psychiatric Nursing (online): This 23 month program is accredited by the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of BC (CRPNBC).

Entry-level earnings start at $30.79/hour to $40.42/hour.

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Home Improvements

Firewood/Fuel

BELCAN

Painting & Reno’s

licensed, insured, WCB

painting, tiling, ooring, kitchen/bath reno’s, carpentry nishing,

Len (250)486-8800 www.belcan.ca lenmass@gmail.com

MR ALMOST ANYTHING at your service; Home Repairs, Renos, yard work. Exc. Refs. call Paul at 250-488-0182

Our classified ads are on the net! Check it out at www.bcclassified.com Moving & Storage FAMILY Movers. Moving?

Anything, anywhere. Local and long distance trips. Packing service available, weekly trips to Vancouver, Alberta, full and partial loads. Cheapest rates in the valley. Free Estimates, 250-493-2687

Painting & Decorating HERE COME THE PAINTERS, 12 years experience, Interior/Exterior, 250-486-2331 WWW.PAINTSPECIAL.COM

(1) 250-899-3163

BUY MANUFACTURER DIRECT & SAVE MONEY! ~Okanagan Pellet company is having a Pre-season Pricing Blitz until the end of August!~ • Super sale pricing on fuel pellets at $145./ton (with purchase of 10 or more tons) or $160./ton (with purchase of less than 10 tons).

Okanagan Pellets Company is an industry leader and a local manufacturer of Premium Fuel Pellets.

We invite all of our existing and new customers to take advantage of these significant savings.

For inquiries please call: 250-769-1427 Okanagan Pellet Company; “The Natural Choice” Our plant is located at 2677 Kyle Road West Kelowna, BC.

Furniture BRAND NEW Queen Mattress & Box Set. Company coming? Tired of your old mattress? Still in plastic Mfg. warranty 250.870.2562

3 Rooms For $299, 2 Coats Any Colour

(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls. Cloverdale Premium Quality Paint. NO PAYMENT, until job is completed!

Do you have company visiting you during the summer? Why not buy a futon for $80 o.b.o. for you to sleep on so they can enjoy your bed? 250-462-5874

Rubbish Removal

Garage Sales

Garbage hauling, metal hauling, batteries, furniture/appliances hauled to dump, dirty jobs too! (250)462-2146 PENTICTON Junk Removal!

Anything goes!

Household waste, furniture and appliances to the dump 250-770-0827 HAULING RUBBISH TO THE DUMP, serving Penticton, dump service, junk & yard waste, odd jobs, service with a smile, Pat 250-486-4867

Back Alley between Tennis and Hansen Street. July 27...

7:30 am till 11:30 am. Early birds pay double.

Sun & Mon, Aug. 4 & 5, 9am2pm, 1151 Johnson Rd. Preschool/daycare/out of school care closure! Quality toys, games, furniture, and MORE!

Window Cleaning

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS Used 20’40’45’53 in stock.

SPECIAL 44’ x 40’ Container Shop w/steel trusses $13,800!

Sets up in one day!

40’ Containers under $2500!

Call Toll Free Also JD 544 & 644 wheel loaders JD 892D LC Excavator Ph. 1-866-528-7108 Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com ForkLifts for Sale. Various brands and sizes.18 to choose from. Call (250)-861-9171, or (250)-762-4883 SCRAP PAPPY Will pay cash for oversized scrap steel, cats, yarders, saw mill equipment, farm equipment, etc. All insurance in place to work on your property. 250-260-0217

$59 single storey, cleaned inside & out, seniors discount, (250)488-1956

Windows POWERWISE REBATES Replace your windows with new vinyl thermal windows. All rebates available.No obligation estimate. Call toll free 1-(866)764-2027

Merchandise for Sale

Appliances Maytag Bravos XL washer & dryer w/steam, 1yr old, $1400, (250)493-6150 Portable AC, 3 in 1 AC, heater & fan, hardly used, like new, $250, Gary (778)476-2665

Free Items Due to unfortunate circumstances free to a good home, two spayed adult female cats, one black with white markings, one all black (250)493-1287

Fruit & Vegetables Cherries, $1.50/lbs, More than 10 pounds, 316 Middlebench Rd. North (250)493-0461 In need of canning jars? 55 Kerr wide mouth mason jars are for sale. Asking $6 for a dozen. Call 250-462-5874

CNIB

Heavy Duty Machinery

Medical Supplies Brand new electric “Carroll” Invacare Home care hospital bad, includes head, foot & hi/lo adjustments, side assist rails & head/foot boards, incl., Solace Prevention 3080 Mattress with Visco elastic foam heel section & rigid sides, also includes crank bar, $2000 obo, call Carol at (250)490-9504 Shoprider Scooters & power chairs, new & used. Stair lifts, vertical platform lifts.

Kamloops: 250-377-3705 Kelowna: 250-764-7757 Vernon: 250-542-3745 or call TF 1-888-542-3745 www.okmobility.ca

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Real Estate

Rentals

Transportation

Transportation

Misc. for Sale

Mobile Homes & Parks

Shared Accommodation

Cars - Sports & Imports

Boats

FACTORY DIRECT Wholesale CSA certified modular homes, manufactured/mobile homes and park model homes, we ship throughout Western Canada. Visit us online at www.hbmodular.com or call 1-877-976-3737.

Single female to share home, works out of town, only home 7 days per month, need someone to look after cats/house, very reas. rent, ref’s req., 250488-6451 leave message

2002 Audi A4 1.8T Quattro AWD. 173000km. Automatic.

Climate control. Pwr sunroof.

Heated leather seats. Bose sound. $7000. Contact Fenton at 250-486-7196.

Suites, Lower

Motorcycles

Lower, daylight, furnished suite in private home in Heritage Hills. Separate ground level entrance, approx. 1700 sq.ft. The suite has 2 bedrooms, (with master ensuite), 2 bathrooms, large eat in kitchen incl. 4 appliances, dining area and spacious living room c/w gas fireplace, separate laundry facilities. Walk out from kitchen to covered, furnished, patio area with lake view. We are looking for a quiet, clean, responsible, mature couple who are nonsmokers, non-drinkers and appreciate nature and deer.

No pets, please. We require references, a damage deposit along with first and last month’s rent. Ready for occupancy Sept. 1. $1200/mo. includes utilities and satellite TV. Please call 250-4978252 between 9 am and 4 pm or leave a message.

1973 Honda CB500, 12,000 original mile, $2100 obo, (250)492-4143 2003 Honda XR 70R excellent shape. Great starter bike. 250490-0852 2009 Honda CRF230F. Owned from new. Ridden twice. $3500. 250-486-7196 2009 Honda CRF450X. Owned from new. Ridden twice. Only 21km. $6500. 250486-7196

Assortment of crystal wine glasses 7 liqueurs, cups/saucers, lunch/dinner sets, culinary set, 60 pce English silver in 2 drawer walnut case + misc. pieces, (250)493-8030 For Sale: Lg dog crate. Approx 36x24x26. Largest size allowed on West Jet. Used one, $150 new, asking $90. 250859-0740 Freezer beef, grain fed, no hormones, no antibiotics, by the side, $3.25 lb. CWF. 250307-3430 or 250-546-6494 KILL BED Bugs & Their Eggs!

Buy a Harris Bed Bug Kit, Complete Room Treatment Solution. Odorless, Non-Staining. Available online homedepot.com (NOT IN STORES).

STEEL BUILDING. Sizzling summer savings event! 20x22 $4,188. 25x24 $4,598. 30x36 $6,876. 32x44$8,700. 40x52 $12,990. 47x70 $17,100. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca STEEL BUILDINGS/ Metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-4572206. www.crownsteelbuildings.ca Universal roof rack, $75, call (250)492-7516 Vintage claw foot tub with caps, shower & curtain rod, $350, Hunter’s low camper w/boat rack, $350, s/s sink, $15, porcelain sink, $20, windows, doors & bi-folds, $15$50, aluminum deck railing , 100 ft for $100, other misc items, (250)462-4821

Misc. Wanted Local Coin Collector Buying Collections, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins etc 250-499-0251

Sporting Goods ***2009 Electric Golf Carts*** $2100 each, Club Cars (250)493-6791

Tools Delta 18” variable speed scroll saw, c/w stand & blades, like new cond $300, 250-492-8326

Real Estate Acreage for Sale For Sale or trade on investment/income property in Penticton area; N.Ok. 40 acres, agric./rec./res., horse/timber prop. 3 existing homes w/2 creeks, beautiful prop., photos avail., $829,000, (250)4881425, msgs. at 250-766-4342

Apt/Condos for Sale Condo for sale in Oliver, close to all ammen. 2bdrm, 1.5 bath, $145,000 as is. 250-498-3354

For Sale By Owner 3 bdrm home w/full basement on 1/3 acre, quiet area, great Location, tool shed, carport + garage,wood shed & work shop. 1288 Lyon St., Penticton, (250)493-9320 call for appointment to view & discuss FOR SALE BY OWNER. One bedroom Condo in an 8 unit complex.

233 Haynes Street. $130,000., 250-462-6275.

PRIME LAKEVIEW LOTS from $140,000. www.orlandoprojects.com Also: 1 precious 3 acre parcel, owner financing. 250-558-7888 S/Land, 1930 sqft., 2bdrm, 3bath, bi-level, a/c, f/p, garage, extra park, 55+, $410,000, (250)404-0172

Recreational For lease: 4 fully serviced quiet recreational Lakeshore lots, North end OK Lake. 250549-1618

RV Sites REDUCED SUMMER pricing.

Beachfront Avorado RV Resort. New sites for sale $44,500. Co-op Resort w/Lifetime Ownership!

Call (250)228-3586 or online at: www.avorado.com

Other Areas 20 ACRES FREE! Own 60 acres for 40 acre price/payment $0 Down, $198/mo.

Money Back Guarantee, No Credit Checks.

Beautiful Views, West Texas. Call 1800-843-7537. www.texaslandbuys.com

3bdrm, 2bath, upstairs, ns, np, Penticton South, $1100/mo., (250)809-6896 after 4pm

Rentals

Want to Rent

Apt/Condo for Rent

Rural Home Wanted Long-time South Okanagan family of 5 is looking for a perfect long-term rental situation. Seeking a quiet, out-of-town location, possibly with some land or in a rural setting. We work in the Oliver area, and our kids attend Oliver schools, but we are willing to take on a bit a of a drive. We have two wellbehaved dogs, a 6-yr-old indoor cat, an excellent track record when it comes to renting, and can provide solid references. 250-498-1713.

1 & 2 bdrm, newly reno’d suites. Secured access, util incl, near hospital, bus route and close to all amenities, n/p, n/s 250-938-3626 1-A Condo Winfield area, 2bdrm, 1.5 bath, 1025 sq/ft all furnishings & extras, 5appl, exercise room, pool, hottub, dry sauna, next to lake, heated U/G prkg, avail Sept 5 - May 30. $1400/mo + $750 DD. Immediate viewings. NS, NP. 403-803-2577 2bdrm, $800, adult/senior oriented, clean, quiet, cat ok, 250-492-7328 2bdrm, adult oriented, quiet, N/S, N/P, 285 Edmonton Ave., $800, Dennis 250-488-5678 Large 2bdrm, Penticton Ave., close to schools/transit, $750, call Dennis at Realty Exec’s (250)493-4372 Bright, spacious, 2bdrm for 55+, close to shopping, garden/lawn care & snow removal incl., $860, 250-404-0327 or 250-490-1739.

Commercial/ Industrial

Suites, Upper

Transportation

Auto Accessories/Parts Used Tires, Huge Selection of used tires and wheels in stock.

We might have what you need. Prices vary according to size and quality. Starting at $25.00. Call us or drop in to Larsens Excel 555 Okanagan Ave East 250-492-5630 Penticton

Auto Financing

3 bedroom townhouse near Skaha Lake close to schools and shopping. 5 appliances, 1 1/2 baths. Enclosed private backyard, pet friendly. $1200 monthly. 250-488-6950. bpanchyshyn@hotmail.com Summerland, 4bdrm, 2ba, newly reno’d, acreage, ns, $1350/mo., (778)989-9219

The Kelowna Princess

62ft. x 18ft.

Ideal live-aboard.

Asking $69,000 or best offer

Must Be Sold!

Phone: (250)769-6888

Adult Escorts BEACH BUNNIES Upscale Men’s Spa #32-2789 Hwy 97 www.beachbunnies.ca 250-448-8854 MALE 4 Male Erotic Massage $95, waxing, intimate grooming & skin care. Winfield, 9-9 Daily 250-766-2048 SOOO SEXY SANDY The Original K-Town Girl. 38D, 29, 34.

Let’s Play! 878-1514

Scrap car removal, We are licensed & insured, more weight = more money, 250328-8697, Penticton

Vernon’s Best! Jayde 24, Stacy 40, Dallas 22,Savanna 21.

Short notice appointments. For your safety & comfort, in/out 250-307-8174. DTWN. Hiring!

Apt/Condo for Rent

Apt/Condo for Rent MONDAY - FRIDAY

Front Street Realty Property Management #2 Front St., Penticton, B.C.

250-492-2233 ASK FOR DEBBIE

CONDO’S

202 EDMONTON AVENUE

2 bed, 2 bath, 2nd floor corner, 5 appliances, 1 parking stall. (55+ Adult Building)

$1100 AVAIL NOW

$1200 AVAIL NOW

REALTY EXECUTIVES VANTAGE APARTMENTS:

$635/$800 1 OR 2 BDRM NEAR LIBRARY AND SAFEWAY, F,S, BALCONY, COIN OP LAUNDRY, CAT OK AVAIL AUG 15 AND 2 BDRM NOW ( EFR 309/115) $800 RECENTLY RENO’D LARGE 1 BDRM + DEN, 5 APPL., TILE FLR THOUGH OUT, PRIVATE PATIO, AVAIL NOW (H656-1)

FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED TERM PROPERTIES $1000 DreamTeam Auto Financing “0” Down, Bankruptcy OK Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals

1-800-961-7022

www.iDreamAuto.com DL# 7557

Cars - Domestic Saturn Tow Vehicle 2002, 4dr, beige, good running cond., tow bar put on July 2011 $4000, (250)497-5956

After 75 years of continuous service the Canadian National Institute for the Blind is still here today because we’re needed... but we’ll be here tomorrow ONLY if you care. Please give when our canvasser calls.

The Canadian Institute for the Blind B.C. - Yukon Division

This is really a great boat!! $15,000 obo.

(250)354-7471 Nelson

2 bed, 2 bath, ground level, large deck, 5 appliances, gas f/p, 1 secured parking stall.

Cottages / Cabins

Homes for Rent

Scrap Car Removal ARMOUR TOWING Scrap Removal,Will meet or beat all competitors pricing, 250-801-4199

fully serviced 4.3L VOLVO PENTA engine, removable side windows for more fishing room, tilt steering, removable seats with interchanging seat posts, rear entry ladder, front control for rear leg trim, full cover with anti pooling poles, electric motor off bow for fishing, custom matched trailer, Bimini top.

329 RIGSBY STREET

485 Warren Ave E, 2345 sq.ft., high profile corner building, shop, new lighting, new offices, 3-phase power, 10x10 o/h door, shop w/1 tonne center pole jib crane, etc., Penticton, (250)490-9016, for info email: dana@trucktransformer.com PRIME Commercial Space: 2300sqft. in busy Apple Plaza, ample parking. Call Barb 250492-6319

OK Lakeshore Cottage, private beach, wharf, avail Aug 17-19 & Aug 24 to Sept on.

Weekly rate. 250-938-1101.

Recreational/Sale 1978 Okanagan Camper, 8 ft (lightweight), comes with Ice box, 3 burner stove & aluminum folding steps, asking $650 OBO, 250-488-9899 1997 Dodge Dually Diesel 3500 SLT leather $20,000 in receipts. C/W 2002 Jayco Designer 35 ft’ 3 slides Fifth Wheel Custom Kit., Oak cab Exc cond. $38,500 O.B.O. Call 1-403-703-4777 1999 Damon Challenger Class A Motorhome, Ford V10, 33’, one slide, 92,000 km, new tires, brakes & batteries, $27,500 obo. (250)365-7152 Castlegar WANTED, Chev. Camperized Van, 2000-2005? low kms, cash, 250-493-0185 Westland RV Manufacturing, from custom building to major repairs, insurance claims and renovations, free estimates, reasonable rates, seniors discounts available, for all your RV needs, call 250-493-7445

2003 Four Winns Fish & Ski Freedom 180 F/S,

$1200 $1200 $1400

2 BDRM UNFURNISHED HOUSE, 1 BATH, LARGE YARD, FRIDGE, STOVE, WASHER AND DRYER, PET ON APPROVAL AVAIL SEPT – JUNE 2014 (H 679).

2 BDRM FURNISHED, 2 BATH, GRD FLR CONDO, 6 APPL, GARAGE, NEAR SKAHA LAKE, H.W FLRS PET ON APPROVAL AVAIL SEPT OR OCT – JUNE 2014 (A441).

FURNISHED OR UNFURNISHED, 2 BDRM, 1 BATH, LAKEFRONT HOME, AVAIL SEPT 1-JUNE 30/14 (OT424).

ALYSEN PLACE, 2 BDRM FURNISHED 2 BATH CONDO, 2 PARKING SPOTS, 6TH FLOOR, NO PETS AVAIL SEPT 1 – JUNE 2014 (A420).

HOUSES:

$1800

3 + 1 BDRM LOG HOME IN NARAMATA, GOOD FAMILY HOME, WITH SPECTACULAR VIEW, 2.5 BATH, F,S, D/W, W.D, AVAIL SEPT 1(OT588).

TOWNHOUSES: $1000 $1100

2 BDRM + DEN, NEAR SCHOOLS AND WAL-MART, F,S,W.D, D/W, A/C, LEASE REQ’D, NO PETS, NO SMOKING, AVAIL AUG 15 (TH467).

NEAR PEN HI AND DOWNTOWN, END UNIT IN 3 PLEX, 3 BDRM, 2 BATH, WOOD FP, F,S, D/W LAUNDRY H/U AVAIL NOW (OT581).

Prospective tenants must complete an application form at:

280 MAIN STREET, PENTICTON, B.C. V2A 5B2 PHONE: 250-493-4372 - www.rentalspenticton.com Only qualified applicants will be contacted.

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Spend $250 and receive a

FREE $25 Card u

Gift

Spend $250 or more before applicable taxes at any Real Canadian Superstore location (excludes purchase of tobacco, alcohol products, prescriptions, gift cards, phone cards, lottery tickets, all third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners, etc.) and any other products which are provincially regulated) and we will give you a $25 President’s Choice® gift card. Limit one coupon per family and/or customer account. No cash value. No copies. Coupon must be presented to the cashier at time of purchase. $25 President’s Choice® gift card will be cancelled if product is returned at a later date and the total value of product(s) returned reduces the purchase amount below the $250 threshold (before applicable taxes). Valid from Friday, July 26th until closing Thursday, August 1st, 2013. Cannot be combined with Valid until any other coupons or promotional offers.

Thur. Aug. 1 307451

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OR

UP TO

Starting Fri. Aug. 2

BUY THIS SAVE THIS AMOUNT AMOUNT AT IN GROCERIES OUR GAS BAR

250* $ 150* $ 100*

25¢/L 15¢/L 10¢/L

$

35¢ ON GAS

PER LITRE

OR USE PC® MASTERCARD® AND SAVE

35¢/L 25¢/L 20¢/L

WITH THIS COUPON AND A VALID IN-STORE PURCHASE UP TO 100 L AT OUR GAS BAR. With this coupon and a minimum one time store purchase of $100, save up to 35 cents per litre as detailed above, up to a maximum of 100 litres. Single fill-up only. STEPS TO REDEEM THIS OFFER: 1. Make an in-store purchase of $100 or more (excluding taxes, prescriptions, tobacco, alcohol, gift cards, phone cards, gas bar, post office, dry cleaning, lottery tickets, and other provincially regulated products) at Real Canadian Superstore from Friday, August 2, through Thursday, August 8, 2013. 2. Present this coupon along with the valid Superstore receipt to the gas bar cashier at time of gas purchase by Wednesday, August 14, 2013 and save cents per litre, as detailed above, off fuel (not valid on pay-at-pump transactions). Save an additional 10 cents per litre of fuel when paying with a President’s Choice Financial® MasterCard®. One coupon per family purchase and/or customer account. No cash value. No copies. Cannot be combined with any other coupon or promotional offer. ®PC, President’s Choice, and President’s Choice Financial are registered trademarks of Loblaws Inc. ®/TM MasterCard and the MasterCard Brand Mark are registered trademarks and PayPass is a trademark of MasterCard International Incorporated. President’s Choice Bank a licensee of the marks. President’s Choice Financial MasterCard is provided by President’s Choice Bank. Redeem at participating stores only.

SUMMER CLEARANCE WHILE QUANTITIES LAST SELECTION VARIES BY STORE

25 - 55 OFF %

%

all BBQ grills

Butcher’s Choice burgers frozen, 1.13 kg 383030 / 760033 20349649 / 20350513

40% - 55% OFF all patio sets patio accessories & BBQ accessories

35% OFF

The Laughing Cow original or light, 32’s, 535 g

select summer toys

no name® plastic beer cups red or white, 50 ct.

879184 / 380334 5870301955 / 6038312294

3

57

5

no name® paper plates 100 ct.

559184 6038336795

328167 4175701141

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LIMIT 4

224440 6038303666

ea

LIMIT 4

Pampers club size plus diapers size 1-6, 104-210’s

AFTER LIMIT

6.99

481862 3700081890

7

Fuel up at our earn gas bar and

PC® potato chips selected varieties, 235 g

AFTER LIMIT

3.99

97

works out to .27 per piece

¢ per

6

98

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

8.99

8

ea

1

ea

48

shank portion

AFTER LIMIT

2.19

58

no name club pack® freeze pops 50 X 150 mL 187690 63417

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

44.99

in Superbucks® value litre** when you pay with your

Huggies Little Swimmers 17-20’s 268499 3600016184

3.26 /kg LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

/lb 5.03 kg

7

27

mini Babybel 522971 307378089735

LIMIT 6

1

48

2.28

312923 20147128

original or light, 12’s, 240 g

68

35

Cook’s ham portions

/lb

ea

LIMIT 4

8

AFTER LIMIT

7.98

98

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

9.98

20

OR

13.97

†

fresh strawberries

product of USA, no. 1 grade 725773 36983

no name® English muffins selected varieties, pkg. of 6 302974 6038300824

00

2/

2 lb clamshell

EACH

PC® Power Quenchers

2 1

96

ea

00

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

2.62

10

regular or diet, 24 X 591 mL 127117 / 1458832 6038385678 / 6038302290

Nestle Good Start infant formula powder with Omega 640-730 g 397252 6500068941

24

98

ea

LIMIT 6 AFTER LIMIT

12.99

63

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

28.97

in Superbucks value using Or, get 3.5¢per litre** any other purchase method ®

®

Redeem Superbucks towards purchases made in-store.**

**Redeem your earned Superbucks® value towards the purchase of Merchandise at participating stores (excluding tobacco, alcohol, lottery tickets, gas and prescriptions). With each fuel purchase when you use your President’s Choice Financial® MasterCard® or President’s Choice Financial® debit card as payment, you will receive 7 cents per litre in Superbucks® value. When you use any other method of payment, you will receive 3.5 cents per litre in Superbucks® value. Superbucks® value expires 60 days after date of issue. Superbucks® value are not redeemable at third party businesses within participating stores, the gas bar, or on the purchase of tobacco, alcohol, lottery tickets and prescriptions. Superbucks® value has no cash value and no cash will be returned for any unused portion. Identification may be required at the time of redemption. See Superbucks® receipt for more details. ® Trademarks of Loblaws Inc. and others. ©2013. † MasterCard is a registered trademark of MasterCard International Incorporated. President’s Choice Bank a licensee of the mark. President’s Choice Financial MasterCard is provided by President’s Choice Bank. President’s Choice Financial personal banking products are provided by the direct banking division of CIBC.

Prices are in effect until Monday, August 5, 2013 or while stock lasts.

superstore.ca

*Price Matched Look for the symbol in store. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES (note that our major supermarket competitors may not). Due to the fact that product is ordered prior to the time of our Ad Match checks, quantities may be limited. We match select items in our major supermarket competitors’ flyers throughout the week. Major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us based on a number of factors which can vary by store location. We match identical items (defined as same brand, size, and attributes, and carried at this store location) and for fresh produce, meat and bakery, we match a comparable item (as determined solely by us). Guaranteed Lowest Prices applies only to our major supermarket competitors’ print advertisements (i.e. flyer, newspaper). We will match the competitor’s advertised price only during the effective date of the competitor’s print advertisement. We will not match competitors’ “multi-buys” (eg. 2 for $4), “spend x get x”, “Free”, “clearance”, discounts obtained through loyalty programs, or offers related to our third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners etc.). We reserve the right to cancel or change the terms of this promise at any time.

Quantities and/or selection of items may be limited and may not be available in all stores. NO RAINCHECKS OR SUBSTITUTIONS on clearance items or where quantities are advertised as limited. Advertised pricing and product selection (flavour, colour, pattern, style) may vary by store location. We reserve the right to limit quantities to reasonable family requirements. We are not obligated to sell items based on errors or misprints in typography or photography. Applicable taxes, deposits, or environmental surcharges are extra. No sales to retail outlets. Some items may have “plus deposit and environmental charge” where applicable. ®/TM The trademarks, service marks and logos displayed in this newspaper ad are trademarks of Loblaws Inc. and others. All rights reserved. © 2013 Loblaws Inc. Customer Relations: 1-866-999-9890.

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$479.99

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LOVESEAT RECLINER

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$599.99 $699.99

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JOE KANDOLA Owner / Operator

WE DELIVER TO OLIVER, OSOYOOS, KEREMEOS, WESTBANK, PEACHLAND, GRAND FORKS AND PRINCETON