MONDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2013
COINCIDENCE?
STOLEN VEHICLE
Did an internet ad lead to a theft? See LOCAL NEWS page 3
FALL GARDENS
NEWS FROM THE GARDEN CLUB
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New Kelowna flight offers opportunity
Plenty of positives in the new connection to the Okanagan, Mayor says C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
Mayor Ron McRae spoke briefly in Council last week on what he believes will be a huge benefit to Kimberley — the new flight connection between Canadian Rockies International Airport and Kelowna. The service is scheduled to begin this month,
and McRae says it is hugely important in terms of creating more of an economic connection between the Kootenays and the Okanagan. “With the development of the high tech sector in the Okanagan this is a huge opportunity to forge better business connections with the Okanagan,” McRae said. McRae says he spoke with Pacific Coastal’s Director of Sales and Marketing, Kevin Boothroyd last week, when he was stuck on the ground because of fog. He says that a launch of the new service will include mayors
from the Kootenays on the inaugural flight. The mayors will be met in Kelowna by Okanagan mayors. “Pacific Coastal is putting a lot of emphasis on this,” McRae said. “We encourage everyone in the community to buy in. I understand the tickets will be reasonable, roughly $260 return.” The flights will also be an assistance to those who must travel to Kelowna for medical care, as Interior Health appears to be directing patients to Kelowna rather than Calgary.
CASTING CALL
Calling all home handymen, and women TV show seeks the jerry-rigged, outside the box home repairs C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
Have you ever come up with an ingenious solution for a common home problem? For instance, have you ever repaired a shower head by poking holes in a beer can? Or used duct tape instead of caulking. If genius ideas such as these have occurred to you, you may be just who Mountain Road
Productions are looking for. Mountain Road is producing a HGTV Canada Special to be hosted by Steve Patterson of CBC Radio’s The Debaters. Stephanie Beaune says it’s a a celebration of completely unique and utterly outside the box approaches to home repair. Beaune says they are really hoping to find the perfect handymen and women in small towns like Kimberley. “Our goal is to uncover great characters with a bizarre sense of home ‘improvement’. See CASTING, page 3
NICOLE KORAN PHOTO
It was a beautiful night last Thursday and Kimberley kids took the opportunity to show off their finest costumes. Above, Emery portrays Lady Liberty. See more page 4.
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