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KELOWNA ROCKETS forward Cole Linaker has overcome a serious hearing condition to make it through minor hockey to the junior ranks.
COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart says there are still some grand prizes from last week’s drivethru breakfast United Way fundraiser yet to be claimed.
HORRORFEST offers an early jump on the Halloween party festivities in this annual event at Kelowna’s Habitat venue put on by Okanagan independent filmmakers.
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Some hunters ignoring the rules Judie Steeves STAFF REPORTER
Conservation Officers have been kept busy this week dealing with hunting violations in the Kelowna area. So they advise hunters to check their regulations before heading out, and remember what they learned in their firearms course. In fact, CO Sgt. Josh Lockwood says two instructors of the Conservation Outdoor Recreation Education program, which hunters are required to take, were charged this week with violations of the rules they teach. Neither were local instructors, he said. In the past few days they’ve suspended the driver’s licences of three hunters for alcohol use
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HUTCH BLENKIN (right) helps his family pick out chestnuts at
Gellatly Nut Farm Regional Park Sunday while several people take advantage of the warm weather to stroll through the farm.
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Action group tackles issues faced by homeless Westside youth Wade Paterson STAFF REPORTER
Several West Kelowna residents aren’t letting the issue of youth homelessness get moved to the back burner. Rev. Louise Cummings of Westbank
United Church was part of the group that organized the West Kelowna Youth Homelessness Forum at Westbank Lions Community Centre last May. Since then, good things have been happening, according to Cummings.
Prior to the forum, three meals per month were being provided to the Westside Youth Centre by churches in the area. More churches jumped on board after the forum and now eight meals per month are being provided. In early September
The Okanagan Boys’ and Girls’ Club Westside Youth Centre was closed after a suspected arsonist set fire to Westbank Lions Community Centre. According to Cummings, the youth centre has been temporarily relocated to a rented
space within Westbank United Church. She said the space is currently being utilized every day by about eight to 20 kids. “Part of the challenge for them here is that they don’t have the pool tables—things to do are pretty limited here,” said
Cummings. “But the main thing is that they have a safe place to be with each other where they can access the staff and get in touch with the services they need. “What we hear is that the kids who need it most are the ones who are com-
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ing.” Although positive steps are being made to help youth in the community, Cummings said there is still a housing need for West Kelowna youth who may bene-
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