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OKANAGAN SUN manhandled the home team Kamloops Broncos 30-0 to remain in a tie for top spot in BCFC standings.
THE WESTBANK and District Chamber of Commerce members gathered last week for the group’s annual awards banquet.
JUDE’S KITCHEN offers some suggestions this week on interesting appetizer options after a fall wedding ceremony in the Okanagan.
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The Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission is telling local business leaders to take a walk—again. Hundreds of Central Okanagan businesses will be visited Oct. 1 in another Central Okanagan Business walk. The walk, which sends out teams of volunteer business and municipal leaders, as well a provincial ministry officials, to briefly talk to operators of local businesses and gauge how they are doing, what their concerns are and find out what they need from the local economic development commission, the municipality, the province and the federal government. The walk will help launch Small Business Month in Kelowna. The award-winning Business Walk program was launched by the Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission in 2012 and two walks have taken place so far, a general one in October 2012 and one specifically aimed at manufacturing in the spring of this year. The upcoming walk will take place in Peachland, West Kelowna, Westbank First Nation, See Business A6
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COLOUR COORDINATED…(from left) Rachael Yoo, Jenny Huang and Sophia Kim put some colour in the air last Saturday at the Grant Thornton 5 km Run in Colour fundraiser. See more photos on page A3.
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Council endorses development for ALR land Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR
Kelowna city council has thrown its support behind a bid by Kelowna’s Bennett family to have land it owns on Springfield and Cooper Roads taken out of the provin-
cial Agricultural Land Reserve so a multi-million dollar residential and commercial development can be built on it. The Bennett’s McIntosh Properties say it is willing to put 21.4 hectares of land in Oyama into the ALR, spend $1.75
million on agricultural improvements to land throughout the Okanagan and relocate 15,000 cubic metres of top soil from the Springfield Road property to a former gravel pit in southeast Kelowna at a cost of $335,000 in return for Agricultural Land
Commission allowing 9.5 hectares on Springfield and Cooper Roads out of the ALR. The two properties are located across the road from the new Target store in Orchard Plaza Shopping Centre and the InVue residential highrise tower.
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All but Coun. Mohini Singh supported the removal bid at Monday’s council meeting, with several councillors praising the plan. Coun. Gerry Zimmermann described the lengths McIntosh Properties is willing to go to get
the land out of the ALR as “textbook,” in terms of agricultural impact mitigation efforts. The development the company wants to build would include 500 rent-
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