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KELOWNA ROCKETS d-men Madison Bowey (left) and Damon Severson will play for Team WHL against the Russians in the Subway Super Series.
LOCAL FARMERS receptive to new agri-tourism business planning program initiated by the Central Okanagan Development Commission.
COLUMNIST Marjorie Horne says the combination of stress and health care crisis can create strain and emotional meltdowns within a family, but there are proactive ways to help avoid the situation.
TOM FLETCHER says B.C.’s carbon neutral scheme has proven to be a disaster in government trying to set a ‘green‘ standard.
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TUESDAY November 26, 2013 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
Drunk drivers put on alert
Kathy Michaels
STAFF REPORTER
A pair of high speed crashes and another more idle, but equally serious, offence blamed on heavy weekend boozing prompted Mounties to issue a familiar warning. “We are doing some counterattack projects to get impaired drivers off the road,” Const. Kris Clark said Monday. “The unfortunate fact is that people are still driving while impaired and chances of being involved in a crash increase (when that’s the case).” The first drinking related crash happened in Peachland late Saturday, sending three people to hospital and shutting highway traffic down for a significant duration. Mounties attended a multi-vehicle collision in the 6800 block of Highway 97 South just after 11 p.m., where witnesses reportedly saw a Chevy Uplander speeding down the highway and weaving through traffic before smashing into the front of a southbound Toyota Corolla. “The Chevy struck a telephone pole, dislodging it at the base, and See Alert A5
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SINGING FOR A CAUSE…Country musician Melissa Livingstone performs at a fundraiser held Saturday at the Rotary Centre for the Arts to raise money for the Canadian Red Cross Typhoon Haiyan relief effort. See story on A6.
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Family Y undergoes change room renovations Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR
Families using the Kelowna Family Y in Rutland are about to lose their changing room—but the loss will only be temporary. Between now and next June, parents will have to use either the women’s or the men’s change rooms if they want to change with their children. That’s because, as part of the renovation work the
city is about to embark on at the recreation centre, the existing family change room will have to double first as a temporary women’s change room and then as a temporary men’s change room while the work takes place. The city is installing a new concrete floor in the existing women’s change room and once that is installed, the men’s change room will be made smaller to allow for a larger family change room.
Colin Basran “As someone who brings kids for swimming lessons there, I can tell
you more space is definitely needed in the family change room,” said Kelowna city councillor Colin Basran. City officials say while space in the family change room is becoming an issue, a smaller men’s change room will not be a problem. Like the rest of council, Basran welcomed news that the original plan for the Y—to replace the floor of the women’s change room because of
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its deteriorating condition and to add a heat pump to reduce the humidity in the boiler room under it that has led to the deteriorating condition of the floor above, will now include revamping all the changing rooms at the Y. City utility and building projects manager Kevin Van Vliet said in addition to the $600,000 that the city is putting into the project and a $250,000 grant from the federal government, the
YMCA has now added another $715,000 for the additional changes to the men’s and family change rooms. The work, which will be done while the Y remains open, is slated to be complete by next June. The city-owned facility, which is run under contract by the YM-YWCA, houses one of the city’s most popular public pools, as well as a fitness centre. awaters@kelownacapnews.com
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