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BACK ON THE ICE after not even throwing a rock for a year, Kelowna curler Kevin MacKenzie is enjoying the game again.
COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart has discovered a new restaurant in Kelowna called Sliderz Community House that specializes in gourmet burgers and much more.
PREMIER Christy Clark to attend the opening of Canadian Mental Health Association art show fundraiser on Friday at Kelowna branch office.
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THURSDAY October 24, 2013 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
Two food banks to share top executive job
Sex assault sentence upheld by Court of Appeal
Wade Paterson STAFF REPORTER
One executive director is now responsible for both Kelowna Community Food Bank and Westside Community Food Bank. The food banks recently announced plans to start working closer together. The first step toward that goal was the announcement that the food banks will share executive director Lenetta Parry. The food banks will continue to operate as separate legal entities, with their own board of directors, separate bank accounts and they will issue their own tax receipts. Food and funds raised in each community will stay in that community. “I know it’s going to be a challenge, but I think the two food banks working together will be beneficial to the clients, the THERE ARE LOTS communities and the donors,” said Parry. OF OPPORTUNITIES “There are lots of TO SHARE opportunities to share reRESOURCES, sources, leverage costs LEVERAGE and take advantage of purchasing power.” COSTS AND TAKE The decision comes ADVANTAGE OF on the eve of the food PURCHASING banks’ busiest time of POWER. year. “We’re just startLenetta Parry, ing our Christmas hamexecutive director per registration at both the Kelowna food bank and Westside food bank. “A lot of people struggle as they get into the colder months; both food banks are seeing an increase in need at both locations.” Parry said details are still being worked out regarding how she will divide her time between the two community food banks. The executive director has considerable experience at both Kelowna Community Food Bank and Westside Community Food Bank.
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A man named a dangerous offender after a bizarre sexual assault in Winfield eight years ago has had his bid to overturn his sentence denied. In a decision posted online Tuesday, the Court of Appeal ruled that the dangerous offender designation and indeterminate jail sentence given to Larry Wayne Jesse was “not unreasonable” and did not result in an unfit sentence. Jesse was 53 when, in February 2005, he inserted a cork into the body of a woman who had passed out at a house party in Winfield. He had previously been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman by inserting plastic shopping bags into her body in 1994, and has convictions for indecent assault and prowling at night that date back to the late 1960s and early 1970s. At his sentencing, he was found to be a high risk to re-offend as the sentencing judge said there was “no reasonable
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