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Torched car similar to recent car bombings
Jennifer Smith
STAFF REPORTER
Police are investigating after the same white Nissan Rogue caught fire in the middle of the night, two nights in a row over the weekend. Parked in the 3000-block of de Montreuil Court, directly across from Okanagan College, the car was said to be on fire Saturday at 1:46 a.m. and Sunday at 2:35 a.m., the second time with the car fully engulfed in flames. Whether or not this is connected to two car bombing incidents this year—one in the 1300-block of Rutland Road in late August, the other downtown near Christopher’s Restaurant in January—police could not say Monday afternoon. “It’s just in the preliminary stages (of investigation),” said Kelowna RCMP Sgt. Wade Seversen. The bombing in Rutland was a targeted explosion and the 22-year-old owner of the Chevy Silverado truck involved is not cooperating with police, RCMP Const. Kris Clark told media after a statement on that incident was released last week. “A considerable amount of planning and forethought seems to have been used as the device was placed inside the cab of the truck while it was locked and parked in front of the owner’s residence,” said Clark. The first car bomb went off in downtown Kelowna in January destroying a Ford Explorer reportedly owned by Dave Habib whose brother, Dale, is linked to the defunct Hells Angels Chapter, the Kingpin Crew. The investigation into the de Montreuil Court fires is ongoing. Anyone with information or tips is asked to call Kelowna RCMP at 250-762-3300.
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SCARECROW FESTIVAL…David Perfitt, store manager of Cooper’s in Rutland, enjoys the spirit of the annual Halloween scarecrow contest organized by the Uptown Rutland Business Association at Lions Park on Sunday.
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City on cutting edge of social media communication links
Alistair Waters
ASSISTANT EDITOR
When you are in the business of providing services for 120,000 people, and using their money to
do so, you want to make it as easy for the them as possible to contact you with concerns. So, in recent years, the City of Kelowna has increasingly turned to social
media, the Internet and other types of non-traditional public engagement to not only get its message out but also hear from residents. And, according to
deputy city manager Paul Macklem, the public is not only aware of the new ways of contacting the city, they seem to be embracing them. In his quarterly report
to city council Monday, Macklem said between July and September of this year, the numbers of Twitter followers the city has collected jumped nine per cent to 8,079, while
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