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Picket lines could be up at schools throughout the region as early as Tuesday morning.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Thursday it had served 72-hour strike notice against the Okanagan Skaha, Okanagan Similkameen and North Okanagan school districts to protest an apparent breakdown in collective bargaining.

Rob Hewitt, a spokesman for the CUPE bargaining team, which represents support staff like custodians and secretaries, said the two sides are scheduled to meet for a final time on Monday.

If no deal is reached then, “we’re fully prepared to escalate up to and including a full withdrawal as soon as Tuesday morning,” Hewitt said.

Okanagan Skaha School District superintendent Wendy Hyer is optimistic the two sides will find a way to avoid job action, which will begin with an overtime ban on Sunday.

“Calling a strike notice is part of the process of bargaining and we still have a full day of negotiations on Monday, and we’re hopeful we’ll avert a strike,” Hyer said.

CUPE reached an overarching deal with the B.C. government in September that gave members a 3.5 per cent wage increase over the twoyear term of the agreement.

However, individual districts were left to come up with money for the pay hikes out of existing budgets and to negotiate collective agreements with their union locals.

Hewitt said support staff in the three Okanagan districts are all in the same local and fighting for improved

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He said the union has also proposed the money come from savings the districts realized since they switched providers of long-term disability insurance in April.

“We’re not asking for any extra money,” said Hewitt. “We’re looking for savings.”

But the districts, he continued, have told the union the money has gone into general revenue and is needed to keep classrooms open.

Hyer said she was unable to respond to the union’s assertion because she was not at the bargaining table and the district does not negotiate through the media.

Hewitt also suggested “it’s just a philosophical issue” that’s keeping the districts from agreeing to the union’s proposal since all three are running healthy surpluses.

The latest set of audited financial statements for the Okanagan Skaha School District show a $15.4 million accumulated surplus from operations at the end of the 2013 fiscal year.

Hyer said more information would be coming forward late Thursday to explain that figure, but “I don’t think it’s an accurate reflection of our budget situation.”

The agreement reached by CUPE and the B.C. government in September was negotiated under the collective gains mandate that stipulated any improvements to wages or benefits would need to be funded through savings found elsewhere in the system that do not impact service delivery.

Hyer estimated at the time the wage increases would cost her district $510,500 over two years and be funded by staff reductions through attrition and an “aggressive budget review.”

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The Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen got a big boost for one it’s special funds this month.

An anonymous donor dedicated $10,000 to the South Okanagan First Nations Education Fund, which was set up by long-time supporters of the foundation with the hopes it would inspire others in the community to donate to the fund and increase support for aboriginal youth in the region.

This is the second large dedication from anonymous donors this year, an uncommon event according to the foundation’s executive director, Aaron McRann. Usually it only happens once every year or two, he estimates.

This particular donation, he said, is a clear demonstration of how the community foundation concept is supposed to work.

The original donors had spent time working with First Nations in the northern region of Canada and saw the need to support aboriginal youth and felt the best way to do this was to create bursaries for local aboriginal students.

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“That’s the idea, to bring a big group together to support a common cause,” said McRann. “These two donors don’t know each other, but they have come together in a very powerful way to create meaningful change in the community.”

In 2013, the South Okanagan First Nations Education Fund supported a local single-parent aboriginal male who works while going to school to aid him in attending Okanagan College. The new donation, according to McRann, will allow the foundation to double the support they can give, not only for next year, but every year.

According to the 2013 Vital Signs Report, published by the Community Foundation, the six-year completion rate for aboriginal students has increased to 66 per cent in 2012 from 60 per cent (2011) in the Okanagan Skaha School District, which is above the B.C. average of 57 per cent.

McRann said he isn’t sure why some donors want to remain anonymous but he thinks most are quiet individuals who aren’t comfortable receiving accolades for doing what they see as the right thing to do.

“Their desire is to make a difference and that’s all, to make a difference in a quiet way,” said McRann.

Since 2011, the Foundation has allocated over $13,000 in bursaries to local students in the South Okanagan and Similkameen. For more information about the Community Foundation’s Bursary program please visit www.cfso.net/grants/apply-for-a-bursary.

Helena Konanz has withdrawn from the race just two weeks after announcing she would be seeking the Conservative nomination for the 2015 federal election.

Konanz’ announcement and withdrawal are both in advance of any dates being set for the Conservative nomination race for the new South Okanagan West Kootenay riding, which comes into being with the next election.

“At least I haven’t signed any papers or anything,” said Konanz,

who is currently a City of Penticton councillor.

“I really enjoy my job at council and want to continue.”

She explained that after taking time to consider, she decided holding the position of federal MP would not be in the best interests of her family.

“It became apparent what I was signing up for,” she said. “I reflected on what day to day life as an MP would be like and realized it was going to be really onerous on my family and myself.”

Konanz said the possibility of other

long-time Conservative hopefuls, like Marshall Neufeld, coming forward to run for the Conservative nomination didn’t figure into reversing her decision.

“I think there is going to be a lot of candidates coming forward.

It’s going to be an interesting nomination campaign,” she said, adding that she will definitely be supporting the Conservatives in 2015, but it will take a special person to handle the entire riding, which will stretch from Penticton to the U.S. border and east into the Slocan Valley.

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Kids coming knocking for food drive Penticton high schools rallying around Salvation Army, collecting non-perishables during 10,000 Tonight food drive on Wednesday Joe Fries

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Inside today’s edition of the Western News you should find a brown paper bag that local students are hoping you’ll fill with donations for the Salvation Army Food Bank.

Kids from both Penticton high schools will then hit the streets on Wednesday night to collect those bags, plus any others that contain non-perishables food items for the Sally Ann. The effort is part of the annual 10,000 Tonight food drive and is being spearheaded this year

by Princess Margaret Secondary School principal Terry Grady, who has plenty of assistance.

“It’s a large job. There are 500 kids involved and we have approximately 75 adult drivers,” said Grady.

“Now, lots of people make a big job relatively easy and I’m thankful we have so many people involved volunteering and helping out.”

GRADE 9 STUDENTS Jessica Barkhouse and Hannah Perrin with some of the donations that have already rolled in to Princess Margaret Secondary School for the 10,000 Tonight event that will see kids fan out across the city to collect items for the local food bank next Wednesday night.

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This marks the 12th year he’s been part of the event, and the principal said finding volunteers is usually the easy part.

“Because it’s been around for

so long, I think the words 10,000 Tonight are synonymous with Christmas time and activity around schools now. Kids mark it on their calendars. They get involved.”

Students will arrive at Maggie at 5 p.m. on Wednesday to select their routes, then head out to pick up donations.

Grady said you can make their

job easier by leaving items in a bag — paper or plastic — on your doorstep.

Once their routes are done, volunteers will assemble back at the school where they’ll work with helpers from the Salvation Army to sort donations, which will then be trucked over to the food bank.

Last year’s event collected 12,850 items, but Grady hasn’t set a hard target for 2013 because there are too many variables involved.

“Depending on the weather, it can be very, very cold or snowing and we don’t get to all the routes or all the houses on the routes,” he explained.

The food bank will be pleased with whatever it gets from the drive, which is its biggest, single source of non-perishable supplies.

“It’s a pretty big deal. It really helps carry us after the Christmas season, especially,” said Joey Cyr, the Salvation Army’s community services supervisor.

“During the Christmas season, lots of people are giving and it’s in the front of people’s minds and they want to help out.

“But after the Christmas season — January, February, March — we tend to hit a lull and 10,000 Tonight really helps carry us through that,” said Cyr. “We have a very generous community and they always come through for us. We definitely couldn’t do it without them.”

Big undertaking ahead for city council to prepare for budget Steve Kidd

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Mayor Garry Litke isn’t sure he’s ready for the budget process that begins today, joking that it is a very big binder to read through and a bigger undertaking.

He’s also not ready to answer the question of whether a property tax increase for 2014 is on the table, though he admits he is concerned about continuing to draw on the city’s reserves to make up budget shortfalls.

“I have taken that question to the Financial Review Advisory Committee,” said Litke. “There is some worry that continuing zero per cent (tax increase) is not sustainable.”

Decisions about the tax requirement, Litke said, will be made after council has a chance to review all the documents adding that if this were an ideal world, they would come out of the process with needs and the city’s income balanced. Otherwise, council

only has three ways to balance budgets. the budget: cutting services, Though it is a big drawing on the city’s reserve undertaking, Litke said the accounts and increasing taxes. formatting of the discussions “I can say that the grants has improved since he was requests are way in excess of elected eight years ago, what the city has to spend. making them easier to follow, So there will be some hard not only for council, but for decisions there,” said Litke. the public at large.

Litke is also looking “Approving the City of forward to getting to the road Penticton budget is a great deal improvement and repair budget, of work, with hours devoted which he said has not been to reviewing expenses line Mayor Garry Litke well funded. As a cost cutting by line to ensure appropriate measure, road work has been service levels and spending,” limited in recent years. said Litke. “We welcome all citizens to “Now we are getting neighbourhood be part of the process, as their input helps groups coming to us and asking what is council with the important decisions to happening to their road and taxes,” said come.”

Litke. “We have to pay attention to that.”

Time will be set aside each day at 8:45 The budget talks are planned for five a.m. to allow citizens and stakeholders to public sessions between Nov. 29 and Dec. ask questions, provide comments and give 18, covering a wide array of spending suggestions related to that day’s topics. decisions in both operating and capital All budget meetings will be streamed

live at www.penticton.ca/live-video, and city staff will also be monitoring Twitter on the @cityofpenticton account. Citizens can use the hashtag #penbudget14 to make comments, suggestions and questions.

Responses will be provided directly to the original poster as soon as they are available.

Budget presentations are available online as well.

All meetings are scheduled to take place in Council Chambers in City Hall. ● Friday, Nov. 29, 8:45 a.m. to 4:35 p.m.: financial overview, strategic priorities, capital budgets ● Tuesday, Dec. 3, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.: municipal grants ● Wednesday, Dec. 4, 8:45 a.m. to 4:10 p.m.: operating budgets ● Friday, Dec. 6, 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.: operating budgets ● Wednesday, Dec. 18, 10 a.m.: revenue, reserves and rates For more information, contact 250-4902400.

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Water crusader wants tougher laws Joe Fries

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High-volume groundwater users in B.C. could soon be better regulated, but one local crusader doesn’t think the new rules go far enough.

After four years of consultation, the provincial government is putting the finishing touches on the new Water Sustainability Act to replace its century-old predecessor.

An overview prepared by the B.C. government notes that despite the existence of an estimated 100,000 wells in the province today, “extraction and use of groundwater has not generally been regulated.”

Under the new act, groundwater would be treated much the same as surface water by requiring some users to obtain licences and pay fees, plus report how much they use.

Domestic users would be excluded from the permit process, however, and reporting would only be required by those who extract more than 250,000 litres a day.

By comparison, the average daily demand on the City of Penticton’s water utility is about 18 million litres, according to its annual report.

Coral Brown, who has long fought against plans for development in the Twin Lakes area she fears will deplete the groundwater there, said the 250,000-litre threshold is too high.

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“We need to know how much is going out and how much is going in, because small users add up, too.” said Brown, secretary of the Lower Nipit Improvement District at Twin Lakes.

Aside from that, she’s pleased to see the B.C. government take a more holistic approach to water policy.

“They’re considering groundwater and surface water as one.

That’s so true and it’s never been considered before,” she said.

In addition, the new act would maintain the so-called first in time, first in right rule that prioritizes users of a given water supply based on when they first tapped into it.

During periods of scarcity, however, that rule would be superseded by new policies that give priority to protection of fish habitat and provision of water for human and livestock consumption.

“What they’re suggesting in the new water act is nothing will ever trump residents being able to get drinking water,” said Nelson Patel, who has co-ordinated the Okanagan Basin Water Board’s response to the Water Sustainability Act. He detailed his group’s reaction to the proposed legislation at last week’s meeting of the board of the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen.

Patel said his organization is generally supportive of the plan, although it has a few concerns, such as whether the B.C. government will provide adequate resources to enforce its new rules.

“There’s significant concerns around downloading to local governments,” he said.

The water board is also worried about new policies for deep pools of saline groundwater, suitable for oil and gas production, that would regulate them separately from fresh water since the saltwater is unsuitable for drinking and believed to be disconnected from other supplies.

Patel said that’s one of several provisions in the act aimed at streamlining the regulatory process for the oil and gas sector, but noted it also mentions creation of a new Agricultural Water Reserve that would ensure water presently available for farmers is not lost to development.

The new act is expected to be introduced when the B.C. legislature resumes sitting early next year.

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LIBRARY BOARD TRUSTEE APPOINTMENTS PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Penticton Council will be accepting applications for trustee appointments to the Library Board. There are five available

positions to fill; 4 two-year terms ending December 31, 2015 and 1 one-year term ending December 31, 2014.

Interested individuals must be residents or resident electors of the City of Penticton. If you are interested in serving in a voluntary capacity to the Library Board, please fill out a “Committee Application Form” identifying your interest, related education, experience and background and send to the City of Penticton, 171 Main Street, Penticton, B.C. V2A 5A9 Attention: Dana Schmidt, Corporate Officer either by email Dana.Schmidt@ penticton.ca or drop off your submission at City Hall Reception, on or before noon, Wednesday, December 4, 2013.

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SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNCIL – GRANT APPLICATIONS A Special Meeting of Council will be held

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. at City Hall, 171 Main Street, to allow organizations that have submitted a grant application for 2014 funding an opportunity to address Council.

SPECIAL MEETINGS OF COUNCIL – BUDGET TALKS Special Meetings of Council will be held November 29, December 4 and 6, 2013 starting at 8:45 a.m. and December 18 at 10:00 a.m. at City Hall, 171 Main Street.

Public comments are welcome at the beginning of each day. A question and answer period will be held at the end of the day to address items on that day’s agenda.

For more information, visit www.penticton. ca or call City Hall at 250-490-2400.

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Two years after the B.C. government shut down discussions on a national park in the region, an environmental group and a federal politician are pressing for talks to resume.

For the past several months, the South Okanagan-Similka meen National Park Network has been lobbying local governments to pass motions calling on the provincial government to restart the process.

Network co-ordinator Doreen Olson said the provincial government withdrew from the process due ostensibly to a lack of public support for the park, so her group is trying to prove otherwise.

“We’re still continuing to inform people of what the situation is and hoping they can see the benefits,” she said.

Since September, the Central Okanagan and North Okanagan regional districts, plus the City of Vernon, have all adopted motions in favour of the park, while some local governments in the South Okanagan expressed support in previous years.

“All of them see the benefits of having the national park,” Olson said.

“It’s an economic benefit for us. It’s not just the park, it’s the spin-off from that as well.”

Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko has also rejoined the fight.

He sent a letter last week to B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak in which he urged her to re-engage in negotiations with the federal government and First Nations.

“I think it’s time to get on with it and get down to some serious discussions,” he said in an interview.

Atamanenko pointed out that feasibility studies prepared by both

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Parks Canada and the Okanagan Nation Alliance came down in favour of the park. He also suggested that concerns raised by groups like ranchers and a local helicopter company that use the proposed 284-square-kilometre park area could be addressed by negotiating with the federal government a guarantee of continued access for them.

“There’s got to be some flexibility there,” Atamanenko said.

Penticton MLA Dan Ashton agreed.

“I’ve been clear all the way along: I’m personally in support of a national park in the South Okanagan, but I have conditions,” he said, echoing a list of

concerns also raised by Atamanenko that need to be addressed.

“If governments are going to take a look at a national park, they have to take a look at the rights of the people who will be affected by that,” Ashton added.

The MLA said the continued campaign to drum up support for the park can’t hurt its chances, although he was told last week by the environment minister that the B.C. government “is not considering a national park at this time.”

Environment Ministry spokesman Dave Crebo said in statement about 20 per cent of the South Okanagan is already covered by conservation designations

and the government “is always open to working with groups to protect environmentally important areas through these other mechanisms.”

Atamanenko, however, is unsure how such designations will hold up in the face of development pressure.

“I don’t trust any provincial government of any political stripe — and I emphasize any political stripe — to preserve that area, because I think all we need is some heavy lobbying from the mining or logging industry or other groups and I think governments can bend,” he said.

“I think the best way to protect that area is to enshrine it in a national park.”

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Carbon trust must go The first move in the provincial government’s core review, designed to reduce overall government costs, targets the Pacific Carbon Trust. But it doesn’t go nearly far enough.

The government is planning to move the trust into the Ministry of Environment, and reduce its staff and administrative costs. It would be far better to eliminate it.

Bill Bennett, the minister responsible for the review, says the move will save $5.6 million annually by 2015-16. The carbon trust’s staff will be reduced to five from 18. Unfortunately, the government is still spinning the half-truth that the Pacific Carbon Trust is actually reducing carbon emissions. All it really does is boost the cost of government projects and initiatives. New schools, for example, cost more because all government agencies are required to buy carbon offsets so that the province can claim that it is totally carbon neutral.

The offsets it buys, at $25 per tonne, are purchased from the private sector — usually from large carbon emitters to build projects that reduce the amount of carbon they emit. What is left unsaid is that most of these projects would likely be built anyway. NDP leader Adrian Dix, who fumbled on a number of occasions during the provincial election campaign, was strikingly clear on the Pacific Carbon Trust. He would eliminate it.

The current BC Liberal government continues to mouth platitudes about carbon reduction, even as it proposes a number of LNG plants that would certainly boost the amount of carbon emitWESTERN ted PENTICTON in B.C. However, if the plants are built and natural gas begins to replace coal as the source of electricity in countries like China, worldwide carbon emissions will decrease. That type of effort towards reducing carbon is far superior to the smoke and mirrors of the Pacific Carbon Trust.

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Iran and the U.S.: neither blind nor stupid “We are not blind, and I don’t think we are stupid,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in response to fierce Israeli criticism after the first round of talks about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this month failed to reach a deal.

Now the deal is done, and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is even harsher in his condemnation of Kerry’s handiwork.

“Israel has many friends and allies,” said Netanyahu, “but when they’re mistaken, it’s my duty to speak out ...

What was achieved last night in Geneva (Nov. 24) is not a historic agreement, it was a historic mistake.

“Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime in the world took a significant step towards obtaining the world’s most dangerous weapon.”

What he meant was that the interim agreement implicitly recognizes Iran’s right to enrich uranium for peaceful uses. But that right is already

enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Iran has signed, and nobody ever thought that Iran was really going to renounce it. What was at issue was whether it would enrich its uranium to “weapons grade” – 90 per cent pure – and make nuclear bombs. The “Plan of Action” signed by Iran, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany and the European Union ensures that it will not, at least for the next six months.

All uranium enrichment above 5 per cent is to be halted, and Iran’s entire stockpile of 20 per cent enriched material – the potential feedstock for a dash to weapons-grade material — is to be diluted or converted to a form not suitable for further enrichment.

Iran can therefore make no further progress towards nuclear weapons while the detailed negotiations continue, if that is actually what Tehran ever had in mind. Yet Israeli officials are talking as if the United States has been both blind and stupid.

On Sunday, Israeli

Gwynne Dyer

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Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said that “Israel cannot participate in the international celebration, which is based on Iranian deception and the world’s self-delusion.”

And Naftali Bennett, Israel’s minister of trade and industry, warned: “If in five years a nuclear suitcase explodes in New York or Madrid, it will be because of the agreement that was signed this morning.”

This is so far over the top that you wonder whether the speakers even believe it themselves. Israel has talked itself into this obsession with Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons project — Israeli sources have been warning that Iran is two years away from a bomb at regular

intervals for the past 20 years — but the constant talk about it has also served to draw attention away from Israel’s settlement policy in the Palestinian territories. Israel’s basic position is that the Iranian regime is entirely composed of evil terrorist fanatics who should never be allowed to have refined uranium of any sort.

The only recourse is therefore to tighten the sanctions more and more until Iran’s entire economy and government crumble and a completely different sort of people emerge from somewhere to take over the country. No deal can be a good deal.

Israel’s leaders are dismayed that they can no longer keep their allies and friends pinned in this extreme position, but endlessly quoting the ravings of former Iranian prime minister Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is not enough. They would have to demonstrate that Iran actually intends to attack Israel, and they cannot. So eventually their allies just moved without them.

As Israel’s Finance Minister Yair Lapid told “Time” magazine, “We’ve lost the world’s ear. We have six months, at the end of which we need to be in a situation in which the Americans listen to us the way they used to listen to us in the past.”

But the game is not over yet. Israel’s influence in the U.S. Congress is still immense, and its Congressional allies are already talking about heaping more sanctions on Iran (in order to kill the deal, though they don’t admit that).

President Obama could veto those new sanctions, of course, but he will find it a lot harder to get Congress to revoke the existing sanctions if the final deal is done six months from now.

That’s why Iran gets so little relief from sanctions now in return for its concessions: Obama needs more time to work on Congress.

But Israel may still win this tug-of-war.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Senate debacle a reminder something needs to be done The Senate question has been submitted to the Supreme Court for a decision centred around reform or possibly abolition, depending on the decision handed down. The decision will be made one way or the other.

If by chance these judges rule in favour of reformation, and vote against abolition, the big question is: “Who will present the reformation platform?” It can’t be the Supreme Court as it is an appointed legal interpretative body and not a law making one.

It certainly won’t be the Senate itself. Why would senators want to censure themselves? The answer: “They wouldn’t!”

That leaves the House of Commons members, some of whom selected and appointed these senators. How will a consensus be arrived at as to what to do? The answer is almost academic, I think. It won’t happen! Now what?

Given that there is approval for either reformation or abolition, who, without special interest or bias, would be setting

the infrastructure of reform or abolition?

True, there are models to pattern things after. Our neighbours to the south have a system that appears to be working, although not perfect. Their senators are elected and operate under a certain set of rules. They must perform their duties as promised or they face not being re-elected when their term is up.

Some terms are six years. Some face elections every two years with congressional representatives while others face an election every four years with the presidential elections. Although not perfect, it is certainly more workable than what we have at present. Accountability would seem to be the watchword in the U.S. Not so here!

Abolition of the Senate could be a possibility. However, after meeting Constitutional requirements and given the go ahead to abolish this organ of government, what are the possible outcomes?

I hope there are enough developers around to elect you back in next time as I will choose to not vote.

Council’s actions disappointing Another sad day in Penticton politics was evident in the council chambers.

Several long-time neighbourhood residents spoke in strong opposition to deaf ears of council and city staff regarding amending the OCP and rezoning of agricultural land to R2 housing developments.

I pity the fools who purchase these lots that are on decades of out of sight, out of mind, poor practice filling of clay ravines.

Lead pipes, sewer pipes, plastics, toilets, old furniture, concrete sidewalks, decomposing wood and rubber tires have all been hidden under back fill.

Council approved 11 lots to be built directly on top of this fill.

Unfortunately there will be no buyer beware signs and unaware residents will purchase this clay swamp land.

It appears that backdoor political decisions may be made prior to public hearings.

Residents are merely pawns of the process with decisions all but done before the words of the public taxpayers are heard in the hearings.

I now join the growing, long list of residents who have lost faith in council and the Penticton political process.

It will be a long time before I ever take the time to vote again.

The elected officials I voted for did not represent the many people who spoke but rather chose to pad the pocket of the developers.

So long Penticton council? You have lost the faith and support of this taxpaying resident.

John Buckley Penticton

Donors make special gifts to stamp club

This last week was quite special for the stamp club as we received one large box filled with stamp albums and stock books.

A gentleman and his wife came to the door and had brought a helper along to lift the large box out of their truck into my basement.

He also brought with him a copy of his dad’s will in which it stated that all of his stamp collection was to be given to the Penticton & District Stamp Club for them to sell and have the proceeds given to charity.

What a gift to the stamp club and what a gift for our charitable organizations.

Yesterday I received a call from a gentleman, diagnosed with cancer, who informed us his stamp collection is coming to the club for auctioning off and the proceeds go towards cancer and the Moog House.

A reminder to those who wish to come to our next stamp club meeting our meeting will be Dec. 8. We were happy to change our meeting date specifically since I personally sing in two of the choirs that will be performing at the church and things would have been too hectic having to run between two groups all at the same time.

As this will be the last meeting of the club for 2013 we wish everybody a merry Christmas and a happy new year and thanks specifically all our donors who make it so much

fun to be a stamp collector and be able to help our charities at the same time.

See you at our club meeting or maybe next year when our first meeting will be on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014.

Gus Boersma President, Penticton & District Stamp Club

Little more than three months ago (Aug. 16) B.C. Energy Minister Bennett informed rate payers that they would experience no rate increase as a result of his government agreeing to an out of court settlement to the tune of $750 million to the State of California.

This week’s announcement of a new double-digit multi-year hydro rate increase brings serious doubt to Energy Minister Bennett’s credibility.

Just a couple questions for Premier Christy Clark, Energy Minister Bennett: Is the province of B.C. still sending power to the not-so-great state of California (even though they sued us and didn’t pay their hydro bill)?

How does the BC government justify having previously taken $500 million each from BC Hydro and ICBC client receivables accounts on an annual basis?

Wasn’t the money in those accounts a result of BC Hydro and ICBC clients paying a little extra (of their after tax dollars) for that rainy day (like today) when those funds would be required for reinvestment in infrastructure?

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Would the house truly be the drivers of the country? Could a struggle for party control or economic philosophy be in the offing? Many possibilities for a change of political direction and infrastructure arise. One way or another, these issues must be dealt with in an expeditious manner otherwise what is will be the order of the day and we will be no further ahead and innuendoes or scandals will continue.

The answer is not a simple one. First, a decision to reform or abolish the Senate must be arrived at following Constitutional guidelines be they court driven, House of Commons driven or voter referendum driven. If none of these choices is exercised, we will preserve the old adage, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got!”

“And the beat goes on!”

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to assist B.C. seniors (and others on fixed incomes) of whom most assuredly will be unable to pay their hydro bill in the very near future?

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Hydro hikes use faulty math

It has been announced that BC Hydro rates will be increased by 25.5 per cent over the next five years, but they have not announced if these rates will be raised by 5.1 per cent per year. This would be an accountant’s dream as the increase would be adjusted to the previous year, so in fact the second, third, fourth and fifth year would be far more than a five per cent raise per year, and the end result would be much higher than the announced raise.

Five per cent of $100 is $5, so the second year raise would be five per cent of $105, etc, etc, etc. This is just an example of mathematical manipulation, so BC Hydro had better come clean on its proposed rate hike and how they expect to remain within the 25.5 per cent over the five years. The B.C. Utilities Commission had better understand the proposed rate hike as well, as the citizens are already questioning their antics regarding rate structures that have already been approved.

Even if the 25.5 per cent was over five years, and if your light bill was $100 per month, at the end of five years it would be $125.50 per month. To the elderly and those on fixed incomes the extra $25.50 has to come from somewhere and most likely the place to start would be food and a lot of the poorer citi-

zens are already scraping the barrel in order to survive. Going hungry means more trips to the doctor, and more trips to the doctor could mean more stays in the hospital, so in the end everybody pays for increased corporate profit, even those that are already crying that the poor and elderly are costing the healthcare system far too much.

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United Electrical Engineering in Okanagan Falls is already a steady, long-term part of the business scene, but two new contracts promise an even brighter future for the local manufacturer.

“We’ve secured two significant contracts for the company, that’s the extension to the Skytrain system in Vancouver, the Evergreen line, and we’re also doing an extension in Kuala Lumpur with Bombardier,” said Mark Burleigh, president and chief executive officer.

“There are not many businesses where you can have three years of secured business and that is what we have.”

Burleigh added they are the exclusive manufacturer of linear induction motors, in a relationship with Bombardier spanning more than 25 years.

“It’s very projectdriven,” said Burleigh.

UEE already has a diverse group of interests from mining to renewable energy, and

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the addition of the new contracts to their existing workload will mean an addtion of 10 staff over the next decade, as well as supporting a 35,000 square foot expansion to their Maple Road plant.

When international visitors come to the plant, Burleigh said they are often surprised at the small town location,

but for the local community, the reverse is also true. The company employs 115 people, and has contracts all over the world, but Burleigh said neighbours don’t always realize how far the OK Falls products are spread around the world.

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the local community because we have, I think, about 35 employees living in OK Falls itself,” he said.

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KISU makes victory stroke While competition was good, Wall said it didn’t have top-end KISU’s swim club achieved swimmers like larger events.

“There were still some fast kids,” something they rarely do — win a said Wall, adding that he tired from meet outside of Penticton. distance training the The club was in week before.

Kelowna last weekend Everton carried for the Fall Classic and confidence to reach a edged the host team new time standard into by 28 points, 2,536 to Kelowna since at the 2,508. last meet he missed “I’m really proud of his AAA time by half our swimmers being a second. able to beat the Kelow“I was ready and knew na team at their home I was going to get it,” he pool,” said KISU coach said. “I was excited to get Tina Hoeben. “It is a big the time finally. I have achievement. We likely been working towards it could not have done it if Daniel Everton one swimmer was missthe whole time.” ing.”

Nordlund said it was Helping the club a successful meet for him accomplish the feat in getting his first AA were several swimmers time standard. He credachieving new time ited his success to the standards. distance training.

Five swimmers who That training by the made significant strides swimmers pleased Hoewere Riley Wall, Daniel ben as she watched them Everton, Wynn Nordpush themselves through lund, Evan Peters and 10 workouts in five days Riley Thompson. for most academy swimWall made his first mers.

15 and under AAA time Several went right in the 200-metre fly in Riley Thompson into the meet without any two minutes, 31 secadditional rest. onds. Everton made his Thompson, who had trained hard first 13 and under AAA time in the all week, said he was surprised by 200-m back in 2:38, while Nordlund made his first 15 and under AA time his results.

“I’m not the fastest. I did really in the 200-m breast stroke finishing well,” he said. “I was happy it finally in 2:54.

Peters made two 11 and under AA paid off.”

As for KISU winning the meet, times in the 200-m and 800-m free, Everton said, “it was amazing.”

Thompson made his 13 and under A “We were all so happy,” he said. time in the 200-m breaststroke.

Top results for swimDuring the meet, Wall took a simmers can be found in the onple approach.

“I just raced as fast as I could,” line version of the story at www.pentictonwesternnews.com. he said.

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SMASH IT THROUGH — Pen High Lakers Georgia Hurry hammers the ball as Miranda Dinwoodie of the No. 2 ranked Riverside Rapids (Coquitlam) tries to block it during their opening game of the AAAA high school provincials at Okanagan College. After winning the opening game 25-23, the Lakers lost 25-20 and 15-9. The Lakers bounced back to defeat Moscrop in their second game 25-23, 23-25 and 15-7.

They finished round robin play against Handsworth. Playoff action begins Friday at Pen High Secondary and Okanagan College at 10 a.m. Check www.pentictonwesternnews.com for more coverage and Wednesday’s issue for the final story.

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Kids in Grades 2 to 7 learned basketball fundamentals through fun games during the Penticton Minor Basketball Camp.

The games such as dribble knockout, dribble bull dog and dribble tag are ones the students play during gym class.

“We simply add a basketball and teach them the key fundamentals,” said Hyde, who coaches the Grade 9 Lakers girls basketball team. “They love it.”

The month-long camp, which concluded on Nov. 24, reserved halfan-hour for structured full court games with coaches as referees to encourage the understanding of rules and skill development. Hyde, who coached the Lakers senior boys basketball team, said the camp was excellent.

“The kids are fantastic,” said Hyde. “They are eager and excited to learn, play and compete.”

The kids took a liking to their student coaches who assisted them. What stood out to Hyde was

INSTRUCTOR DOUG SCOTCHBURN has some fun helping daughter Allie with her ball-spinning skills as other basketball camp participants (left to right) Eloise Markovic, Sophia Toneatto and Sophia Manuel watch following the regular instruction program at Uplands Elementary School last weekend. The camp was the final one of the season for young players.

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the quick growth of the athletes.

“Week by week, we see drastic improvement both individually in terms of skill development and athleticism, but also in terms of team play and

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Ever since I can remember, I was skating on a pond behind my house.

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for me is that even though the game may seem so fast and physical, I can still in my mind slow it down and play like I would when I was a young boy on my pond back home.

My father has to be at work for 5:30 a.m. every day. When I was younger, he would wake up at 4:30 a.m. just to shovel the snow off our pond so my brothers and I could skate on it before and after school.

I can remember coming home from school every day and running down to the pond. I would strap on my skates and not return back to the house till dark or when my mom made me.

My passion for hockey came from my two older brothers and parents. My mom and dad drove to so many far away games and practices just so I could do what I love.

It’s important to always follow your dreams and have the support from your parents and loved ones.

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Need for speed Emanuel Sequeira Western News Staff

Speed is key.

It’s also the key attribute of the Penticton Vees that captain Brad McClure said they need to use to beat the Langley Rivermen, who they host Friday at the South Okanagan Events Centre at 7 p.m. The Mainland Division leaders possess size with 15 players at six-feet tall or more.

“They’re a good team, they’re a big team. They block a lot of shots,” said McClure, who scored the 3-2 winner against the West Kelowna Warriors Tuesday night. “They are well coached and I think we saw that in Langley.

It’s going to be a good tilt here on Friday night.”

McClure said the Vees need to have their forwards attack the Rivermen defence, which has former Vee Zach Urban, who helped them win the RBC Cup in 2011.

“I think just getting pucks behind their Dmen. Get the big guys moving,” said McClure, is among the keys to success.

The Rivermen leapfrogged the Prince George Spruce Kings Wednesday night for

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1-2 That improved their road selves down 2-0, not even record to 9-4-0-1. Vees seven minutes into the coach Fred Harbinson game, it would have been said to have success on kind of easy for us to fold the road, you have to have our tent,” said Harbinson, good depth, something he whose team improved to 7-5-1-1 away from the said they have.

“They are one of SOEC. “Instead, our guys the better teams in the kind of buckled down had league,” he said. “Fight- a massive five-on-three ing for their division. We penalty kill that kind of know that they are deep got us going. We kind of took over the game from up front.”

He said the Rivermen there.”

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Gary Ahuja/Black Press Langley on Oct. 19 end- news.com. ing 1-1. Harbinson described it as, “ a heck of a game.”

On Saturday, the Vees host the Chilliwack Chiefs at 6 p.m.

The Chiefs are last in the Mainland Division with a record of 7-16-1-2 and have four wins in 12 road games.

The Vees are coming off a win in West Kelowna in which they wiped away a 2-0 lead the Warriorsbuiltinthefirst seven minutes. The Vees have won five games when trailing or tied after the first period. Harbinson said the goals were a result of mental mistakes.

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Things didn’t go as hoped for Blaine Black’s Penticton rink during the Dominion Curling Club Championship.

Black’s team with Doug McCrae, Kim Dixon and Shaun Everest finished the championship with two wins in six games in Thunder Bay. Black said they could only afford to lose one in their pool that featured Alberta, which defeated Saskatchewan 5-2 for the championship, Yukon, New Brunswick, Northern Ontario and Manitoba.

Their final game was an 8-5 loss to Northern Ontario on Nov. 21.

Against the eventual champs, Black’s team was locked in a 4-4 tie in the seventh end. Black unsuccessfully tried to make a play to only give Alberta one point.

Instead, they collected three from an easy draw.

“There was just no coming back from three under with those guys,” said Black of their first loss. “Then it kind of slid down hill a bit.”

Their second loss came against the Yukon, 8-2 in seven ends. Black said the Dominion Curling Club Championship had top notch players, some who have competed in the Brier. Black also found the ice in the Fort William Curling Club to be fast, a few seconds quicker than the Penticton Curling Club.

“It was tough to put the broom in the right spot,” he added.

Members of Blacks team also faced adversity with family illnesses.

Despite Blaine Black not getting the results they hoped for, Black said it was an awesome experience in Thunder Bay. “They treat you like curling royalty, that’s for sure,” said Black.

“You just can’t say enough about the host committee.”

Black said he would like to try to return but will have to talk to his teammates about it. He’s unsure what the team will look like as it takes a lot of commitment.

Black’s team advanced to the Dominion Curling Club Championship when they won the Pacific International Cup last April in Richmond. The won by defeating a Washington team 6-4.

“It was pretty amazing for us to win B.C. and then to win the international side is a huge bonus,” said Black at the time. “The calibre of curling is very good. A lot of these guys have been to the Brier in the past.”

To advance to the PIC, Black’s rink won their club, then the region.

STEAMING MUSTANG — Principal Terry Grady of Princess Margaret Secondary School, dressed in the mascot uniform of Penticton Secondary School, was not a happy camper this week. Grady and other Maggie staff members had to dress up in Pen Hi Lakers colours after the Lakers won a grudge volleyball match against the Maggie Mustangs earlier to claim the Burger 55 City Championship last Friday.

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By The Numbers BCHL Interior Division (as of Nov.27) GP W L T Otl Penticton 26 16 6 1 3 Vernon 28 14 7 3 4 Merritt 28 16 10 1 1 W.Kelowna 27 14 10 1 2 Salmon Arm 28 13 10 1 4 Trail 27 7 17 2 1

Pts 36 35 34 31 31 17

Island Division GP Powell River 25 Victoria 28 Nanaimo 27 Cowichan V. 30 Alberni Valley 29

Pts 40 38 27 23 18

W 19 17 13 11 7

L 4 7 13 18 18

Mainland Division GP W Prince George 28 16 Langley 28 16 Coquitlam 25 12 Surrey 28 11 Chilliwack 26 7

T 1 3 0 0 2

L 8 9 11 16 16

Otl 1 1 1 1 2

T 2 1 0 1 1

Otl 2 2 2 0 2

Pts 36 35 26 23 17

League Leaders

GP G A PTS PIM Landon Smith, SA 28 20 22 42 14 Brad McClure, Pen 26 18 17 35

Evan Anderson, SA 28 M. McNicholas, Ver 28 Chad Staley, PG 28 M. Fitzgerald. Vic 28 A. Rockwood, Coq 24 Alex Gillies, SA 22 Ge. Fitzgerald, Vic 23 Mitch McLain, Lan 27

14 20 12 22 14 19 13 20 5 28 18 14 14 18 14 17

34 34 33 33 33 32 32 31

15. B. Beauvais. Pen 25 3 27 30

Goalie Leaders Jeff Smith, PR Hunter Miska, Pen B. Crossthwaite, Lan Jesse Jenks, PG Olivier Mantha, Pen Jonah Imoo, PR Alec Dillon , Vic Alex Murray, PG Devin Kero, Mer Nic Renyard, Vic

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Neil Murdoch Division GP W L Nelson 25 20 1 Beaver Valley 24 16 6 Castlegar 26 12 10 Grand Forks 24 10 11 Spokane 26 8 15

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Doug Birks Division GP W Kamloops 26 21 100 Mile H. 26 12 Chase 25 12 Sicamous 25 10 Revelstoke 24 7

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League Goalie Leaders GP W L T GAA SV% Mitch Profeit, NO 11 5 3 0 2.45 .922 Kris Joyce, Sic 14 8 5 0 2.45 .938 Brett Huber, Summ 19 9 8 1 2.53 .926 Nathan Alalouf, Oso 7 5 2 0 2.59 .922

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OMAHA Representative Standings, Nov. 27 Midget Tier 2 Male Team W L T GF West Kelowna 9 1 0 49 Kelowna 7 1 0 40 G. Vernon 1 1 0 5 Greater Trail 4 6 0 31 Salmon Arm 3 6 0 35 Kamloops 1 6 1 24 Penticton 0 4 1 19

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Recreation League Standings Atom Dev Koteles Conf/Berg/Fisher Div Team W L T GF GA Pts Kamloops 6 0 0 42 14 12 G. Vernon 3 2 0 33 18 6 Kamloops 4 3 0 26 31 8 Penticton 2 2 0 22 17 4 Kelowna 3 3 0 21 21 6 Kelowna 2 4 0 19 30 4 West Kelowna 1 7 0 29 61 2 Atom Dev Michie Conf/Adolphe Div Team W L T GF GA Summerland 5 0 0 27 8 Salmon Arm 4 1 0 23 16 South Okanagan 3 1 0 10 10 Merritt 3 1 2 26 13 North Okanagan 3 1 2 33 16 Penticton 2 2 0 18 8 West Kelowna 2 3 0 9 14 G. Vernon 0 3 1 11 23 Kam PW Fem 0 4 1 23 48 Kelowna 0 6 0 8 32

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South Central , Atom Rec Team W L T GF GA Summerland 1 5 0 0 44 15 Penticton 4 4 1 0 33 14 Penticton 1 4 1 1 36 22 Penticton 2 4 1 1 54 39 Penticton 3 4 1 2 41 14 Summerland 2 2 1 1 19 17 West Kelowna 1 3 3 1 31 30 West Kelowna 3 2 3 1 23 31 West Kelowna 2 2 4 0 17 21 Princeton 2 5 1 32 48 S. Okanagan 1 0 6 0 13 61 West Kelowna 4 0 6 0 14 45

Pts 10 8 9 9 10 5 7 5 4 5 0 0

South Central , Peewee Rec Team W L T Princeton 8 0 0 West Kelowna 2 8 2 0 Penticton 2 4 4 0 West Kelowna 3 4 4 0 West Kelowna 1 4 5 0 West Kelowna 4 4 5 0 Summerland 1 0 7 0 South Okanagan 1 0 10 0

GF 64 59 40 39 41 39 13 18

GA 8 18 47 9 44 29 48 128

Pts 16 16 8 8 8 8 0 0

South Central , Bantam Rec Team W L T Penticton 3 8 0 1 West Kelowna 1 7 1 0 Summerland 1 6 0 2 Penticton 1 5 1 3 West Kelowna 2 7 3 1 Kelowna 1 4 3 1 Kelowna 8 5 4 0 Penticton 2 3 3 2 Kelowna 2 3 4 2 Kelowna 5 3 5 1 Kelowna 4 2 4 2 Kelowna 3 1 4 3 Kelowna 6 1 4 3 Kelowna 7 2 6 1 West Kelowna 3 2 7 2 S. Okanagan 1 0 10 0

GF 39 45 50 34 65 30 38 41 45 35 47 25 29 25 34 15

GA 12 29 20 22 47 16 37 38 35 44 65 31 32 32 49 88

Pts 17 14 14 13 15 9 10 8 8 7 6 5 5 5 6 0

South Central , Midget Rec Team W L T Kelowna 2 6 0 1 Kelowna 6 6 1 1 Kelowna 3 7 2 0 Kelowna 8 6 1 2 Penticton 1 7 2 1 Kelowna 1 4 1 3 Kelowna 7 4 3 1 West Kelowna 3 4 4 1 Penticton 2 3 4 1 West Kelowna 1 2 3 2

GF 28 46 52 50 56 42 33 30 28 29

GA 14 26 32 32 30 24 25 27 38 25

Pts 13 13 14 14 15 11 9 9 7 6

sports Kelowna 5 West Kelowna 2 South Okanagan 1 Penticton 3 Kelowna 4 Summerland 1

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Female Midget Rec Team W Penticton 7 Kelowna 2 Chase 2 Kamloops 2

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T GF GA 0 37 11 0 11 11 0 12 19 0 17 36

Pts 14 4 4 4

Peewee Female Rec Team W Penticton 8 Merritt 6 Kelowna 1 5 Thompson Car. 2 Kamloops 2 Lillooet MHA 2 Kelowna 2 1 Chase 1

L 1 1 1 3 5 5 5 6

T GF GA 0 59 11 0 28 8 2 53 19 1 21 22 0 26 40 0 10 43 1 11 13 0 4 56

Pts 16 12 12 5 4 4 3 2

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Encaustic artist’s life celebrated Kristi Patton

Western News Staff

Words of condolence flooded in from around the world with the news that Penticton encaustic artist and teacher Thea Haubrich had died.

“She was personally inspirational to a lot of people,” said Haubrich’s good friend Carol Munro. “I developed a sisterhood with her while attending a encaustic conference years ago. She was the type of person that took you in, wrapped you up and would introduce you so proudly to senior members of the art world.”

Interested in finding out what encaustic art was about, also known as hot wax painting, Munro first met Haubrich during a workshop the artist was holding in Okanagan Falls.

“It was where I needed to be. It was a whole new medium I never worked in before.

I moved on from there to become a full-time artist, a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, I won awards for my paintings nationally and it is all because of meeting Thea,” said Munro.

“She had an amazing capacity to ignite people to do what they did not know they could do.”

Haubrich, who was known for her giving spirit, died on Sept. 25 at the age of 60 after a long, courageous battle following a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2011 and several strokes in 2012.

Haubrich is survived by her husband Peter, son Maarten and brother Theo in Holland. A celebration of life for Thea is being held at the Shatford Centre on Sunday.

Haubrich was born in Rotterdam, Holland, on Oct. 12, 1952, and left around 1980 for Vienna where her son was born.

ENCAUSTIC ARTIST THEA HAUBRICH will be remembered for her warm, giving spirit and for being instrumental in spreading the art form across the country. Haubrich died in September and a celebration of life is being held at the Shatford Centre on Sunday.

Photo submitted by the Haubrich family

From there the family moved to Germany, Japan and finally to British Columbia where they settled in Penticton.

Though a generation apart, Penticton artist Bethany Handfield felt an instant connection with Thea. They also first met in 2006 when Handfield attended a class Thea was holding in Kaleden and was “hooked right away.”

The pair held an exhibition at the Leir House in 2011 called Untangled and featured a selection of their encaustic works highlighting their shared love of colour and texture. Handfield said Thea was instrumental in spreading the word about encaustic art across Canada, and well respected internationally.

“She was a mentor and friend. She has a warm generosity of spirit. Thea was more about building up others than about herself,”

said Handfield, who now runs the business that Thea started of supplies for encaustic art. “I often think to myself what would Thea do? Whether that be in business or in certain situations and wanting to follow in her footsteps and share the good spirit community sense and dream she was trying to build.”

Thea held a degree in biochemistry and did not follow a very artistic path until her late 40s. She recognized a huge potential in sharing the ancient art form and the opportunity to interact with new people.

“Encaustic is the medium of my choice because its endless versatility allows me to layer, carve, burrow and excavate the beeswax. I love the luscious translucent surface of an encaustic painting and the exciting feel of its texture, which invites touching,” Thea wrote on her website.

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A 2014 calendar has been created showing highlights of Thea’s artwork. These will be available to purchase ($25) on Sunday with proceeds going to support the Thea Haubrich Legacy Fund. Also, sets of art cards are available.

The fund is set up under the umbrella of the Community Foundation of the South Okanagan and will be used for scholarships to students of encaustic art who are not able to pay for education.

“Since she was so instrumental to bringing encaustic to the Okanagan, B.C. and all over Canada it is something that came up during the last days of her life,” said Peter, of the decision to set up the fund.

Thea was a member of several art councils, a past board member of the International Encaustic Artists based in the U.S. and a proud member of the South Okana-

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gan group, the Rip Off Artists. In 2008 she was awarded active status with the Federation of Canadian Artists. Along with art, Thea loved to read, volunteer, hike and travel. Peter said they quite often found themselves out on adventures, including the one that brought them to Penticton. Peter said he saw a classified ad in a German newspaper for a piece of land in Penticton.

“From curiosity, we were on holiday here and came to find the land. We didn’t end up finding the plot but we were so attracted to this place that we said the next holiday let’s look for some houses and we ended up buying a cottage in Twin Lakes. We both thought it was so beautiful here and the people are so nice. It was our holiday house and we would come once a year, sometimes twice.

We fell in love with Canada and found out what a beautiful country it is,” said Peter.

Although the pair moved to Canada without anything concrete, Thea had her art and Peter had a wealth of experience in high-tech and began working with startups.

“She died much too young. She had so much she wanted to do ... We had so many plans. She will live on through the legacy fund and Bethany and her artist friends have been so great continuing what Thea started.”

A Celebration of life for Thea is taking place at the Shatford Centre this Sunday from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Those attending are asked to RSVP at theahaubrich.eventbrite. com. Calendars and art cards will be available for sale after the event and they will be available online at www.Haubrich. com.

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t.g.i.f. concerts Nov. 30 — Stephen Fearing, accomplished folk and roots musician, at the Dream Café.

Nov. 30 — Honest Woods performs at the Barley Mill Brew Pub. Starts at 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 30 — Black Earth, rock and roll band from Calgary, are playing at The Elite at 8 p.m. Cover by donation.

Dec. 1 — Voices in Song Christmas Benefit Concert at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church. Tracy Fehr with Dennis Nordlund on piano and Elizabeth Lupton on violin to support North African Women. Tickets $12 in advance at Penticton and District Community Arts Council, or $15 at door.

Dec. 1 — Musical extravaganza at the Penticton United Church at 2 p.m. The church choir, Naramata choir, Tuneagers, Oliver Sage Valley Voices and Pen High Secondary choir performing a variety of music including Christmas tunes. Proceeds go to elementary school breakfast programs and to church outreach programs.

Dec. 5 – Strings and Swing performs at the Osoyoos Secondary School Mini Theatre. Jesse Peters and Lizzy Hoyt perform a variety of music with an emphasis on Christmas. Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 at the door.

Dec. 6 — A Gift of Song Christmas Concert at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church to benefit ChitoRyu Society. Tickets at Peach City Runners.

Dec. 6 — Barney Bentall at the Dream Café.

Dec. 7 and 8 — Local jazz group Offramp at the Dream Café. Tickets are $22.

Dec. 11 — Penticton Tuneagers Choir and orchestra Christmas concert at the Shatford Centre.

Tickets are $12.

events Nov. 29 —Grandmothers for Africa are celebrating with a gala opening for an art exhibit at the Shatford Centre from 7 to 9 p.m. Juried art pieces reflecting life in Africa will be in Penticton to be exhibited for the month of December.

Dec. 6 — Animated Objects Circus Cabaret is performing at the Omak, Wash. PAC at 7 p.m.

Aerialists, jugglers, circus arts, belly dancing and more. Tickets (brownpapertickets.com) are $15 for adults and $10 for students and children Until Dec. 7 — Many Hats Theatre Company presents Jessie’s Landing, a play by John Spurway at the Cannery Theatre. Shows are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $22/$19 at the wine info centre or reserve by phone at 250-276-2170.

Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 — Pen Hi Arts Media Entertainent presents Jack and the Beanstalk at the Cleland Theatre. Tickets are $10 and available at the Pen High office. Showtimes are 7 p.m. with a matinee on Nov. 30 at 2 p.m.

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According to Dan Harden, making a hit song is a bit like winning the lottery.

The frontman for Malibu Knights is feeling lucky these days.

“You could think it is the best song in the world and no one wants to hear it, or you could actually think the song sucks and someone else thinks it is great and all of a sudden it is a huge hit and sells,” said Harden. “We put all this time and effort into our music and I think if we keep working, it will pay off.”

On the cusp of releasing a new full length record, Sweet Rock and Roll, Harden says it is the best thing they have ever done. The album, he said, is everything they wanted it to be, with a 70s rock vibe.

“It is the sound we were after. The way I have written music is the way I grew up listening to music. My dad was always telling me to listen to his albums, so The Who and that kind of stuff. A lot of producers want to take our sound and make it more modern and I would rather not do that,” said Harden. “People on the business side of music, for the first time, have started calling about our music and wanting to know how they can get involved.”

Keeping their artistic integrity has meant holding off on putting out tunes.

The band, which includes Dean Irving and Okanagan Falls native Rod Anderson, has backed themselves financially and made sure they made enough over the summer months to cut no corners on Sweet Rock and Roll and keep it independent.

“The hard part is over. Now we get to get on the road and show everyone what we have done,” said Harden.

“Sweet Rock and Roll is a very fitting name for what we are doing with this album.”

The band plans on releasing a single from Sweet Rock and Roll in the upcoming months and the album shortly after. Malibu Knights teamed up with music producer Jeff Dawson, who developed and produced Daniel Powter, State of Shock’s hit single Money Honey and others. They also enlisted the services of Mike Fraser, mix engineer, who has worked on songs by AC/DC, Metallica, Marianas Trench and a long list of well known bands.

Harden said they will be playing lots of tracks off the new album on Saturday in Penticton at the Barking Parrot.

The Penticton venue is important to the trio, who have added an organ player to their outfit, though he is not going to be there this Saturday. The Parrot is where Malibu Knights rocked their way to first at the Rock The Peach Battle of the Bands competition in 2012. Their prize was a prime spot on the schedule of the Rock The Peach music festival with one of Harden’s favourite bands headlining that evening in Collective Soul.

“We had a really good spot on that Friday afternoon and I think playing there gave us a little more credibility.

You can’t ever go wrong winning a contest,” said Harden.

Malibu Knights are playing at the Barking Parrot, located inside the Penticton Lakeside Resort, on Saturday as part of the fourth annual Movember Underwear Affair-Stache Bash which is a fundraiser for the Penticton Regional Hospital. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Entry is by donation and there will be a silent auction. Malibu Knights will take the stage at 9:30 p.m.

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Juno award-winning Blackie & the Rodeo Kings member Stephen Fearing aptly named his first solo album in seven years, Between Hurricanes.

“I moved to Halifax, I got divorced, remarried. I have been getting a life,” said Fearing. “For sure it is a pretty broad metaphor and actually when I was writing the record I was also painting the exterior of my house and there were a lot of hurricanes coming up the coast and it seemed kind of appro-

priate.”

The album, a follow up to 2006’s acclaimed Yellowjacket, is a document and result of many significant changes for the musician.

Not only was he in the middle of changing his domestic situation, his home label, True North Records, for over a decade changed hands.

His close friend and manager, who Fearing said he had been through thick and thin with for over 16 years, decided it was time to cut back his workload.

It was time to move on in almost all capaci-

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The City of Penticton isCity holding a public input session to receive Alternatives for consideration LOCATION: Penticton Hall, Council Chambers, 2nd Floor, 171 Main Street feedback on alternatives for the proposed 2014 electric rate increases.

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Alternative 1 – Increase electric rates by 3.28% for all customer classes Alternative 2 – Increase electric rates by 4.78% for all customer classes Alternative 3 – Increase electric rates by 4.03% for all customer classes

The City of Penticton is holding a public input session to receive Alternatives for consideration increases feedback on alternatives for the proposed 2014 electric rate Rate • Alternative – Increase bythe3.28% for all(after customer classes The electric rate increase will1 consist of threeelectric separate rates Impact on average customer 10% discount) components. First is the FortisBC increase on the price of power Estimated Estimated classes increases.

• Alternative 2 – Increase electric rates by 4.78% for all customer Current purchased by the City of Penticton, 3.3%. average monthly average monthly Customer Type average fee Alternativeclasses 1 fee Alternative 2 3 – FortisBC Increase for allfeecustomer Second • is the Alternative increase on the price pays electric for power rates by 4.03% monthly Rate increases (3.28%)

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Residential customer $ 101.73 $ 105.07 $ 106.59 The electric rate increase will consist of three separate willImpact take effect not known at this customer time, but to set(after rates in10% discount) onis the average Commercial customer $ 618.62 $ 638.91 $ 648.19 implementation has been assumed to be April of 2014. Industrial customer $19,729.59 $20,376.72 $20,672.66 components. First is the FortisBC increase on the price of power Penticton, Estimated Estimated Estimated This yields an increase of 1.2%.

Current Schedule purchased by the City of Penticton, 3.3%. average monthly average monthly average monthly Third is the difference between the actual and modeled revenue.

Nov. 18, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.: Introduction of the proposed rates

Second is the increase on the price FortisBC pays for power purchased from BC Hydro, 1.6%. When the BC Hydro rate increase will take effect is not known at this time, but to set rates in Penticton, implementation has been assumed to be April of 2014.

This yields an increase of 1.2%.

Customer Typeapplied to theaverage This is calculated to be -0.2%, price of power that fee Dec. Alternative 1 p.m.:feePublic Alternative fee Alternative 3 2, 2013 at 6:00 input session2 the City sells to its customers. monthly fee Dec. 16, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.: First 3 readings of Fees and Charges Bylaw amendments (3.28%) (4.78%) (4.03%) Jan. 6, 2014 at 6:00 p.m.: Adoption of Fees and Charges Bylaw amendments Application of increases 1, 2014 electrical rates take effect The Residential increases listed above can be applied customer $ in different 101.73ways, and $ Feb. 105.07 $ New 106.59 $ 105.83 this creates three alternatives to be considered. Alternative 1 * All meetings will be held at City Hall, Council Chambers, 171 Main St., Penticton Commercial customer 618.62 $ 638.91 $ 648.19 $ 643.55 applies the increases to the rate the City$purchases power at; this Questions and more information affects customers the least. Alternative $19,729.59 2 applies the increase $20,376.72 to Industrial customer $20,672.66 $20,524.69 For additional information, please visit www.penticton.ca or contact Mitch Moroziuk, the existing rate the City sells power; this has the largest impact on Director of Operations, 250-490-2515 or mitch.moroziuk@penticton.ca customers. Alternative 3 applies an average of the two.

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It wasn’t, however time to slow down. He moved to Halifax, N.S. and completed work on Blackie & the Rodeo Kings Polaris Prizenominated Kings and Queens which featured duets with 14 iconic singers including Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris and finished his album with Belfast’s Andy White. He got remarried, became a father and toured relentlessly.

During this time 11 tracks were shaped by Fearing for Between Hurricanes. The album opens with Cold Dawn and Fearing says it is a thesis statement for the record. The idea of writing first person came to him as he listened to the news on the radio that came in on the hour of the Cougar Helicopter crash in Newfoundland as he embarked on a road trip to Ottawa.

“This whole story I was following over the course of the day as it was developing. It was quite a poignant story for me. The story really leapt out because I just had moved to the east coast and I hear of this helicopter crash and they don’t know if anyone survived,” said Fearing.

“It was the first time I really tried to follow a story and climb inside it. I figured the most interesting way to write it was from the prospect of someone who was in the helicopter and you don’t really know if they are going to be singing posthumously at the end. I’m making it sound quite dramatic, but it was.”

Fearing said by the time he pulled up to his hotel in Ottawa he heard on the radio that rescuers found a life raft with no one in it. Fearing said he then heard one person survived and that is when he wrapped up the song. Not all the tunes on his latest album are as dark. Keep Your Mouth Shut came out of a conversation with Tom Wilson of Blackie & the Rodeo Kings and is a tongue-in-cheek look at getting out of sticky situation. Fearing also gives a nod to Gordon Lightfoot with his cover of Early Morning Rain.

“I love Lightfoot.

When I was a kid living in Ireland, my mom had Lightfoot’s greatest hits.

He has an amazing body

Juno award-winning musican Stephen Fearing, from Blackie and the rodeo Kings, tours on his eighth solo album at the dream Café on Saturday.

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of work and we had the live version of the album which was great,” said Fearing. “When I started playing guitar I played a lot of Lightfoot stuff. His songs have nice changes in it so it just seemed like a perfect song to put on this record.”

Also influential on his style is Neil Young, who Fearing has covered in previous albums.

“You can’t really be a Canadian songwriter without Neil Young,” said Fearing.

While the solo work has kept him busy, Fearing also found time to cut new tunes with Andy White that will be released soon on an album called Tea and Confidences. Fearing also has been working on a new Blackie & The Rodeo Kings album which they hope to make a push into the U.S. with.

Fearing said he is excited to slow it down a bit and play at the Dream Café after hearing only good things from friends and fellow artists who have played there. He said it is also a chance to catch up with old friends.

“I actually lived in Penticton for a winter or so, it felt longer. Cou-

ple of winters I spent in Penticton one winter,” he joked. “I know Debra (Rice, co-owner of Dream Café) from a long time ago. She and I are old pals from another life. I use to play with a guy who lives in Kelowna named Keith Hunter in a band and Debra was one of the people I got to know through that whole band experience.”

The musician seemed almost caught off guard when asked how it feels to now be influencing a whole new breed of folk/roots artists. Those who have known him for a long time know he has done just that and continues to grow in new ways.

“I have had the pleasure of knowing Stephen since his early days (1984) when he began performing in Vancouver. His career has blossomed both as a solo artist and with many other fabulous musicians.

Stephen’s voice and lyrics get stronger all the time, his rich, deep voice soothes my soul,” said Rice.

Fearing plays at the Dream Café on Saturday. Tickets are $25.

Call to reserve a table at 250-490-9012.

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Canadian author sure to become household name

Heather Allen Armchair Book Club

Canada has triumphed in the literary world this year.

Famed short story writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first Canadian to do so. Eleanor Catton, another Canadian by birth, received this year’s prestigious Man Booker

Prize.

Munro and Catton are at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to name recognition. Munro is practically the face of Canadian literature. Before accolades came pouring in for The Luminaries, it’s safe to say that most Canadians did not know Catton.

To be fair, Catton left Canada at the age of six.

And this rising star is only 28 years old, making her the youngest writer ever to win the Man Booker Prize.

Having also just won the Governor General’s award for fiction, I suspect Catton is on her way to becoming a Canadian household name.

Nonetheless, The

Luminaries, her second book, is firmly set in the country she calls home, taking place during an 1860s gold rush in the hastily-built town of Hokitika, New Zealand.

At first the book seems

to offer nothing fresh: It’s set in Victorian times, features greedy gold diggers, and is essentially a whodunit murder mystery.

But don’t be fooled. This book is nothing short of luminescent.

The story begins with a bedraggled Walter Moody, fresh from Scotland, who escapes the driving rain and a traumatizing scene aboard his ship, to check in at a dockside hotel. He begins to tell his story to a stranger at the bar, and suddenly realizes that something doesn’t feel quite right. Glancing about surreptitiously, he deduces that the 12 other men gathered in the bar are only

pretending to play pool, read the newspaper or swill drinks.

Beginning to sweat, Moody senses that the men — so very different in stature and class — share a dark secret. And so begins Catton’s unravelling of a tension-filled drama, which circles around opium dens, missing treasure, an abused prostitute, a young man who has vanished, and a murdered gold miner.

The slow divulging of the men’s secrets will keep you hooked. But just as tantalizing are Catton’s precise writing, incredible vocabulary and uncanny ability to pinpoint and describe quirks of human

nature.

At an age when most of us are still just trying to figure out who we are, Catton seems to have figured out and mastered a complex universe of characters. Referencing fortune-seeking both in the sense of acquiring wealth and divining one’s future through the stars, Catton’s new novel is a big and sweeping epic. At 832 pages, The Luminaries has my vote for the perfect Christmas book — something a reader can savour over the entire holiday.

Heather Allen is a writer and reader living in Penticton.

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able about getting these right up to speed so when we go into the campaign for the new tower, this will be at least where it needs to be.”

And when the X-ray equipment is replaced, the hospital’s entire suite of imaging equipment will have been upgraded.

“MRI, CT scanner, mammography, yes, we have done it all. Isn’t that something?” said Perrino. “When I came in 2005, my very first project was the MRI machine, and then the mammography and then the CT, and now these three rooms, so I am feeling good about it.”

This is also the eighth year for the Tree of Dreams campaign. Perrino said it’s a great way to keep the public involved, not just informed about what is going on at the hospital, but with the campaign as they watch the tree on top of the hospital lighting up, string by string of lights as more funds are raised.

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With a little luck and a lot of goodwill, the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation is hoping the 2013 Tree of Dreams campaign will reach its fundraising goal early this year.

“We are on the right track and hopefully we will get the campaign done by maybe the end of December if we are really lucky. If not, then end of January,” said executive director Janice Perrino.

This fundraising campaign, to upgrade the X-ray equipment at Penticton Regional Hospital, got underway in June with a goal of $1.5 million. Perrino said just over $1 million has been raised and she is hoping people will come together in the Christmas campaign to raise the balance of $410,000 and have the equipment in PRH by the summer of 2014.

“We’re on a good path. Lots of people have come forward, now we just have to finish it up,” she said.

The plan is to change the hospital’s three X-ray labs as well as the portable unit used in the emergency department and intensive care unit over to digital radiography, where digital X-ray sensors are used instead of the traditional cassettes.

“That way the entire imaging department will be digital,” said Perrino. Switching to digital X-ray equipment brings several benefits. For the doctors the images are clearer and easier to read, and for patients, they are exposed to less radiation and it takes less time.

“The reason these machines are so important is because they actually do the bulk of the diagnostic work for us. These machines are used around the clock,” said Perrino. “Everything from a chest infection to cancer to a broken leg to any kind of trauma injury, everything.”

Even though the hospital will be expanding with a new tower in the next few years, Perrino said it is important to get this equipment up to date.

“When the new tower comes on, this department will stay where they are. We are feeling very comfort-

Three years ago, retired school superintendent Gary Doi began an experiment in creating an online community.

The goal was to create a space where people could share stories and ideas about leadership, learning, challenge, and especially hope.

Doi closed A Hopeful Sign earlier this year, but the inspiration has continued on in the shape of a new book, Inspiring Hope, One Story at a Time.

“When I went to close down the site in June, I got this very positive backlash form contributors,” said Doi. “They said you can’t just let it die, let’s do something.”

Though he hadn’t planned it, Doi was soon on to his next project, publishing books.

“So many of them offered their help and their support, I said let’s do it,” said Doi. From the more than 500 stories that had been published on the site, he chose 75 of the best to create the book.

Doi calls them bite-size stories, representing 42 of the contributors to the site. The contributors come from all walks of life, Doi explained.

People whose principal occupation is not necessarily being a writer.

“Teachers, parents, students, lawyers, journalists, coaches, there is quite a range,” he said. “But the

focus is the same, they are writing about in most cases a personal or professional experience about hope.

So if you want to be uplifted, this might be a book to look at and be able to say, “I feel good about what I have read.”

“A wonderful gift for the season,” is what artist Roy Henry Vickers has already called the book.

But there is more than just the stories in the book to make you feel good. Money raised form the sales of the book to support a school in Guatemala that is trying to build a library to serve both their students and the community.

Doi discovered the school through his daughter, who volunteers for Librarians without Borders.

“I thought that would be something that would appeal to the contributors. Given the levels of poverty that exist in that society, you can imagine what a few thousand dollars is going to do for a school library, ” said Doi. “Given the poverty levels and the low literacy levels, the fact that reading is not really part of the culture, with a very large population, the school itself is trying to rise up from that and trying to create that habit of reading. So I thought it was a good fit in terms of a charity.”

Hope has been a major theme of Doi’s career, from teaching through being an administrator.

“I’ve always felt that teaching for me was about trying to inspire hope.

My work, whether it be with teachers or students was trying to build that kind of atmosphere,” said Doi, adding after retiring from the Okanagan Skaha School District, he looked for a way to continue fulfilling that desire.

“I thought about continuing to extend and spread that kind of message about hope well beyond these borders,” said Doi. “And because I have a background in technology, why not through an online community? That is where the inspiration came from. It’s really a bridge from my past into something that could be new for the future.”

It won’t come as a surprise, then, that Doi is already planning a second book in the Inspiring Hope series, this time with the subtitle One Image at a Time, focussing on the work of artists, professional photographers, and writers who create images with their words. In the Okanagan, Doi has gathered a couple of local contributors and will be holding a meet the authors event from 2 to 6 p.m. at Coles Books on Nov. 30, and again on Dec. 16 at Hooked on Books in downtown Penticton, again from 2 to 6 p.m. He will also be at the Penticton Library on Dec. 3 to do a reading, starting at 4:30 p.m. Inspiring Hope, One Story at a Time is available at both Hooked on Books and Coles in Penticton, as well as online at Amazon.com. For more information, email garydoi@telus.net.

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Helping people is not unusual, but the way Brian Brown lends a hand is definitely out of the ordinary — he gives away vehicles.

Just over two months ago, the 48-year-old began a program called Rides from Angels, which has already made life a lot easier for some very appreciative recipients of his caring generosity.

One of those people is Kimberley Higgins.

She has two children, daughter Serenity, 10, and son Johnathan, 22, who requires special care for the challenges he faces.

For years, the single mom’s only means of transportation was public transit, a bicycle which she used to ride back and forth to the grocery store 12 months a year and her two feet.

“I have always tried to help other people and have a hard time asking for what I need but at that point it was the last straw,” said Higgins, who was working full time.

That was when she learned about Brown and Rides from Angels and reached out to him.

“The reply I got was that he would help me right away. I was very skeptical at first, somebody willing to give you a car for free? Doesn’t happen very often, right?” said Higgins. “But in one day I was able to take my girl to school on time, go

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to the doctor’s and get my son. For me this opens up my whole world.”

Brown, who works at the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Unity House, recalled his commitment to helping after learning of her desperate situation.

“I just felt inside of me, they’re not walking in winter again this season.

Rides from Angels will not permit this,” he said.

Brown had earlier sold his truck and used some of the cash to purchase a van but still had a little money left over.

“I bought a 1988 Oldsmobile four-door

Ciera sedan and gave it to Kimberley,” he said.

“People’s reaction when I give them a car? I guess the first thing is they’re in shock and then they cry but they’re tears of joy because they can’t believe someone would do this but it’s happening.”

The first vehicle he gave away was the van which went to another single mother who had moved to the Penticton area after escaping a 15year abusive relationship.

Along with the vehicles Brown also helps people needing car repairs or batteries and winter tires.

The money from the truck has long since run out and he has a waiting list of 15 people in need of help so right now he does whatever he can to raise money.

The organization itself has nearly 700 members on its Facebook page.

He has applied for charity status, which will allow him to give tax receipts for vehicles and cash he receives, but right now he relies solely on people’s generosity.

“Unfortunately I don’t have the money but I wish I could donate a car a day, there are just so many people who need help,” said Brown.

What he is especially pleased with is the ripple effect of his work where those who get help, like Higgins, turn around and give back in any way they can.

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A trip to the typhoon-stricken Philippines is a matter of family and community service for Clifford Martin of Penticton.

Martin, who works as a mechanic and at the Penticton Golf and Country Club, leaves Dec. 2 for a rural coastal area north of the town of Coron on Busuanga Island.

Although he intends to stay for two months, Martin admitted his heart may lead him to stay longer.

In addition to toys for the children, Martin is also lugging supplies for the relief workers, including a chainsaw donated by Diana Covert of Covert Farms.

The chainsaw, said Martin, will come in handy in areas without electricity to cut fallen trees into lumber for the construction or repair of homes.

Martin has been in contact with his wife Milyn whose family is from the northern end of the island.

Milyn said the region was hit hard by the typhoon, with very few structures left standing, and those that did withstand the storm are severely damaged.

“Their houses are destroyed, their boats are destroyed,” said Martin.

Getting help to the area is not easy, said Martin, as most of the relief efforts are centred around the major centres.

In the first nine days, the only relief to reach the north end of the island was three kilograms of rice per family.

“That’s all they got,” said Martin.

Unfortunately, native construction materials such as grass have also been wiped clean, leaving the locals without materials to rebuild their homes.

Consequently, residents of the village in the northern region of the island must now use corrugated steel roofs.

“These people only make $200 a year, so they can’t afford to rebuild,” explained Martin.

Compounding matters, many in the community relied on the grasses to make baskets and other wares to earn a living.

“So now that’s all gone. It’s pretty dire, not just the typhoon itself, but the impacts after the typhoon as well,” said Martin.

Looking beyond the immediate consequences of the typhoon, Martin also noted the increased risk of mudslides because the trees on the neighbouring slopes were uprooted, leaving the hillsides bare and unable to absorb much water.

“There are swaths on the mountains that are totally devastated, there are no trees. In a couple of years the root systems are going to rot out and then there are going to be mudslides unless there is reforestation.

“I am going to try to get the local government involved in buying tree seeds to start a planting program where they can start growing seedlings and then plant them in the hillsides during the rainy season.

“I don’t think anyone has even thought of that, they’re too busy with everything else.

“You have to look ahead.”

Martin encourages employees of Penticton businesses to hold their own workplace fundraisers. The money, he said, would be used to purchase construction materials.

“It would make a huge difference,” Martin said.

Monies for the relief effort can be brought to Auto Trim, 375 Warren Ave. in Penticton, or mailed to the Arrow Lakes Alliance Church, 339 Alexander Rd, Nakusp, BC, V0G 1R1, Attention: Busuanga Relief Effort. For more information e-mail Martin at philippine.typhoon.relief@hotmail.com.

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November 29 Celebrating afriCan grandmothers juried art exhibition, to raise awareness of the lives of African grandmothers, their resourcefulness. The opening reception from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Shatford Centre celebrates the local Grandmother to Grandmother group reaching a fundraising goal of $100,000. Show runs through to Dec. 21. summerland Pleasure Painters have an art show and sale at 10122 Main St. during the Festival of Lights. Open Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be a variety of painting techniques and one can browse for unique Christmas gifts. the iode thrift Shop is stocked with fall and winter clothing for all members of the family, including jackets, lingerie and accessories. Why not start your Christmas shopping now?

We have toys and many gift items. Open Monday to Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m., 464 Main St. the PentiCton hosPital Auxiliary is holding a raffle in support of new X-ray equipment at Penticton Regional Hospital. Tickets are $20 and available at the PRH gift shop. Grand prize of eight $100 gift certificates to eight local restaurants, plus an early bird draw for a $250 gift basket to be drawn on Nov. 30. Call June at 250-490-9786 or email junerq@shaw.ca for more information.

WelCome to friday social dances at South Main Drop-In Centre, 2965 South Main St., Join us for music by Buzz Byer starting at 7:30 p.m. $6 per person. All welcome. elks Club on Ellis Street has drop-in fun darts and pool at 7 p.m.

t he f untimers ballroom Dance Club holds a dance most Fridays upstairs at the Elks Club on Ellis Street. Ballroom and Latin American dancing is featured from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Non-members welcome. For more information visit www.pentictonfuntimers.org or call Brian 250-492-7036. interior health and the Penticton Hospice Society are sponsoring a five-week video series on grief covering a variety of topics from 10 a.m. to noon Fridays at the Penticton Art Gallery, Nov. 15 to Dec 13. Call Andrea at 250-4929071 ext. 2203 for more information. summerland Pleasure Painters meet every Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre. New members and drop-ins are welcome.

Contact Ruth at 494-7627 for info. seniors singles lunCh Club welcomes 65-plus each Friday. For location call 250-496-5980 or 250770-8622. the bereavement resourCe Centre at 626 Martin St. hosts weekly drop-in grief support sessions Fridays at 10:30 a.m.

For more information on other available programs or support in the loss of a pet, please call 250-4901107. eagles have dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. and Karaoke at 7 p.m. royal Canadian legion branch 40 has daily lunches from Monday to Thursday, with fish and chips on Friday at 11:30 a.m. and dinner at 5:30 p.m. Entertainment by Shindigger at 7 p.m. alCoholiCs anonymous has a group meet in Naramata at 8 p.m. at 3740 3rd St. in Community Church hall.

In Summerland, the step study meeting is at 7:30 p.m. at 13204 Henry Ave. Friends Friday night at 6:30 p.m. at 2964 Skaha

Lake Rd. at Oasis United Church. al-anon meets at the Oasis United Church at 2964 Skaha Lake Rd. from 6 to 7 p.m. For info call 250-490-9272.

890 Wing of South Okanagan Air Force Association meets at 4 p.m. in the clubhouse at 126 Dakota Ave. anavets has karaoke with Jack Ramsay, pool and potluck at 7 p.m. seniors PentiCton ComPuter Club dropin sessions Monday and Friday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. People may sign up for memberships, classes or have computer problems solved. Lectures on Saturdays at 10 a.m. on a variety of computingrelated topics. okanagan falls seniors’ Centre has music and coffee from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and crib at 1 p.m.

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Christmas Craft and bake sale from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 205 Martin St. To rent a table call Cyndi at 250770-2284. suPer saturday sale with quality furniture, collectibles, pictures, paintings, etc. at St. Saviour’s Parish Hall, 150 Orchard Ave. from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Charity bottle drive with all money going to the Penticton Regional Hospital pediatric ward, SPCA and Critteraid.

Drop off from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Marketplace IGA on Government Street. a l C o h o l i C s anonymous has its 12 bells group at noon at the Oasis United Church at 2964 Skaha Lake Rd. The Saturday night group meets at 8 p.m. at 150 Orchard Ave. and in Summerland, the Grapevine meeting is at 8 p.m. at 13204 Henry Ave. Call service 24 hours is 250-490-9216.

elks Club on Ellis Street has crib at 10 a.m., drop-in darts at 4 p.m. and a meat draw at 4:30 p.m. Dinner at 5:30 p.m. anavets has fun pool at noon, dinner by Stu at 5:30 p.m. and entertainment by Buzz Byer at 6:30 p.m. fraternal order of Eagles have hamburgers and fries from noon to 4 p.m. Beaver races at 4 p.m. r oyal C anadian legion branch 40 has crib at 10 a.m., a meat draw at 2 p.m. and sing-along at 4 p.m.

Christmas bazzar in the hall starting at 8 a.m.

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December 1 the PentiCton aCademy of Music presents its Christmas gala concert at 1:30 p.m. in St. Saviour’s church, 150 Orchard Ave. featuring the Academy String Orchestra, musical theatre classes and outstanding student solo performances. Admission is by donation. Proceeds go to support the student bursary fund. A reception will follow the concert.

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Our goal is to hand out blankets, coats and all other items to our Soupateria clientele and others in need at our local Soup Kitchen/ Soupateria and “Free Store” located at St. Saviours Church adjacent to the Soup Kitchen, on December 16th, 17th and 18th from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. An early warm Christmas gift to the people we serve daily and to all those in need.

We expect to feed about 150 people or so at our local Soup Kitchen/ Soupateria on Christmas Day. If you can help, please drop off blankets and other items at my office @ 699 Main Street, or you can arrange to have them picked up from your home or office. We will arrange to have them cleaned if need be and delivered to the Parish Hall Free Store.

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Come dAnCe to the greatest dance music ever made with D.J. Emil from 7 to 9 p.m., $3 per person. South Main Drop-In Centre, 2965 South Main St. All welcome. elks Club on Ellis Street has dog races at 2:30 p.m. with an M&M food draw, door prizes, darts and pool. frAternAl order of Eagles pool league, starts at noon sharp. royAl CAnAdiAn legion has Sports Sunday,

Joseph’s perogies and sausages and a meat draw at 2 p.m.

AnAvets hAve horse races and meat draws at 2 p.m.

Hamburgers and hot dogs available 1 to 3 p.m. lAkelAnds ChurCh holds Sunday services on the second floor of the Penticton Community Centre from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

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AlCoholiCs Anonymous meets in OK Falls at 10:30 a.m. at 5328 Hawthorne St., then in Penticton at 11 a.m. for the women’s group at the Lawn Bowling Club, 260 Brunswick St. The Sunday 123 group meets at 8 p.m. in the Education Room in the basement of

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December 2 PentiCton And distriCt Community Resources Society is hosting their second annual Open Hearts Open House fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., along the Naramata Bench. Sixteen local wineries will be opening their tasting rooms and generously donating 10 per cent of any sales to help families in need especially over the Christmas season. floor Curling At 12:45 p.m. every Monday except

holidays in the Leisure Centre, 439 Winnipeg St. okAnAgAn fAlls seniors’ Centre has carpet bowling at 1 p.m. frAternAl order of Eagles has pub dart league every Monday. elks Club on Ellis Street has Monday night pub league at 7:30 p.m. Nonmembers welcome to join. fitness friends meet in the Royal Canadian Legion, 502 Martin St. at 10 a.m. Get in shape. For info call Dot at 250-4925400. royAl CAnAdiAn legion branch 40 has dart dolls at 11 a.m. and bridge at 1 p.m. Wings night and horse races start at 4 p.m.

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CAre Closet thrift Store at 574 Main St. has weekly specials and silent auctions. Open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Donations are appreciated and new volunteers are always welcome. All proceeds to the local hospital and hospice.

AlCoholiCs Anonymous nux group meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Heritage Centre at Green Mountain Road and Penticton I.R. Road. Summerland 12 and 12 group at 8 p.m. at 13204 Henry Ave. in the United Church basement. do you hAve an hour a week to volunteer your time with a senior in need?

If so, the Friendly Visitor Program might just be for you. For more info, call Nicole at 250-487-7455.

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December 3 free seminAr sPonsored by the Penticton Whole Foods Market on nutritional supplementation for mental well-being with David Stephan from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

P entiCton t he mAdrigAl Society meets at 8 p.m. for an hour of singing and exploring music of the 16th century This is a self-directed, drop in group of people who share an interest in early music. All are welcome, music is provided!

Drop in fee of $2. Meet in the lounge of the Leir House, 220 Manor Park Ave. yogA meditAtion/vegetAriAn suPPer is upstairs in the Elks Lodge at 344 Ellis St. in Penticton Tuesdays at 6 p.m.

Donations accepted. toPs b.C. 4454 has weekly meetings from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at 445 Ellis St. Use back lane entrance. Meetings are downstairs. Phone Susan at 250-496-5931 or Sally at 250-492-6556.

AlCoholiCs Anonymous young person’s group at 7:30 p.m. at 150 Orchard Ave. in the Outreach Centre. Call/text Guy at 250-460-2466 or Niki at 250-460-0798. As well, the beginners’ meeting runs at 8 p.m. at St. Andrews Presbyterian

Church at 157 Wade Ave. okAnAgAn fAlls seniors’ Centre has pool at 6:30 p.m. and music from 7 to 9 p.m. visPAssAnA (insight) meditAtion for beginners or mature practitioners every Tuesday evening from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m.

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All welcome, no charge. r oyAl C AnAdiAn legion has a service officer at 1 p.m. frAternAl order of Eagles has drop-in euchre at 7 p.m. Guests welcome. elks on ellis Street has crib wars at 1 p.m., fun darts and 10-card crib at 7 p.m.

Al-Anon for friends and family of alcoholics meets at 10:30 a.m. at 2800 South Main St. and 6:45 p.m. at 157 Wade Ave. at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian. Call 250490-9272 for info.

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Intermediate to advanced musicians. All band instruments. The band is available for performances. Phone 250-8092087 for info.

890 Wing of South Okanagan Air Force Association gets together for a gab and coffee every Tuesday at 9 a.m. at 126 Dakota Ave. Wellness mentAl Centre has individual support for family members in Summerland from 10 a.m. to noon at 13211 Henry St. o kAnAgAn s outh toAstmAsters meet every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the community services building at 5876 Airport St. in Oliver.

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P e n t i C t o n toAstmAsters meets every Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Shatford Centre at 760 Main St. Toastmasters is an excellent way to enhance confidence, speaking, and leadership skills in a fun, supportive setting.

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LA-LA Land auto extravaganza LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Auto Show is full of eye-popping sights and some even include cars!

It’s not difficult to have your head turned but it is a challenge to pick one’s top picks but I’m for the challenge.

Nissan GT-R Nismo Nissan stole the show with not only one of the fastest cars in the world but the fastest man in the world. Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Usain Bolt was on hand as Nissan’s Director of Excitement. Usain was clearly taken with the new GT-R Nismo, there were also promises to get him one to replace his gold coloured GT-R. Power has been pumped up to 600hp taking this new Nismo version to 100 km/h in just two seconds.

Look for the new GT-R in the spring of 2014. I suspect Usain will get his a bit earlier.

Chevrolet Colorado The mid-size pickup truck market has been all but abandoned by the domestic automakers over the last few years leaving this category entirely to Toyota and Nissan with the Tacoma and Frontier trucks. Wait until next year and the choice will include the all-new Colorado from Chevrolet.

Building off the success of the all-new full-size Silverado, the engineers have taken the same approach to this new truck. On the economy front, eventually there will be three engines to choose from. Out of gate, there is the base 2.5L 4-cylinder engine or a 3.6L V6.

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The metallic, almost chrome looking paint, certainly helps to make the car pop but the bold front grille and macho stance could very well be included in the final version.

Lincoln MKC Lincoln has a long and distinguished history as an American premium brand but over the last few decades, it has been an extension of existing Ford products using different badging and trim. There is now a long-term plan to resurrect the Lincoln brand with all-new vehicle that use some Ford components but are developed separately from the main Ford line of products. The compact crossover MKC shares a platform with the Ford Escape but has been designed and engineered to be a very different car.

The design, other than the trademark Lincoln grille is very European and the back wrap-around hatch is maybe Audi-inspired. Standard in Canada will be all-wheel-drive and adaptive suspension, matched to a 6-speed automatic transmission.

BMW 4 Series Cabriolet BMW has changed its naming: the 3 Series is now the sedan only while the coupe and convertible version are now called 4 Series.

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Interior refinements include a new neck warmer to that blows a steady stream of warm air on the front passengers neck and shoulders, helping to elongate the convertible season.

Porsche Macan This small SUV is based on the same platform as the Audi Q5. This lower, sleeker and much more aggressive Macan will attract a lot of attention based purely on looks. Porsche made it very clear that this is not juts a Porsche in name but also in performance. Look for the Macan coming next year.

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Viper GTS was on display, but it wasn’t just any old venom-producing reptile.

It came with the Anodized Carbon Special Edition Package.

Aside from 640 horsepower and 600 lb.-ft. of torque being produced from its handcrafted, all-aluminum 8.4-litre, mid-front V10, it comes with the first-ever use for the Chrysler Group’s unique metallic matte exterior colour.

And exclusivity is the name of its game. Only 50 will be made and they’ll be available as of January 2014.

Speaking of fast things, you don’t get any faster on feet than Usain Bolt does.

And if you’re paired next to Nissan’s fastest production GT-R to date, that’s an even more potent combination.

Godzilla takes on the NISMO (aka NISsan MOtorsport) badge with a healthy helping of 600-horsepower and some defining exterior features.

In regard to its body, it’s more rigid than before and you’ll also find it has a “factory tuned” enhanced suspension.

The aero package, which not only looks good, also improves road holding, minimizes the negative impact of drag, while giving the car a menacing and muscular appearance.

If you’re a luxury German vehicle and you have a worldwide debut in LA, chances are you’ll draw quite the A-List crowd.

The all-new Porsche Macan did such a thing, with visitors such as Jerry Seinfeld and professional tennis player Maria Sharapova.

The Indonesian word for tiger, it’s the first Porsche in the compact SUV segment.

Or you could say it’s the baby brother to the popular Cayenne.

Either way, they’re both have some spice to them!

Two renditions of Macan will be available: the Macan S and Macan Turbo.

Standard features include active all-wheel drive and the Porsche double-clutch transmission (PDK).

The Macan S is powered by a new Porsche-designed 3.0-litre V6 bi-turbo engine that puts out 340 horsepower.

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Practical and eye catching?

You might not expect that from a cargo van, but when you team up with Hot Wheels, you’ll get exactly that: hot wheels!

Ford paired up with Hot Wheels and had its Transit Connect XLT Cargo Van LWB beaming a custom bright blue exterior with orange accents and custom 20-inch wheels.

But the fun doesn’t stop on the outside.

Sure there’s a new front fascia and grille, and even “shark-fin” roof-mounted antennas supporting GPS and satellite radio along with custom gullwing doors (which replace the standard sliding doors), but there’s a party waiting on the inside.

Alongside the custom ST seats, there’s a sleeping area and a 55-inch TV. Maybe I will try my hand at camping again, but only with this van!

It wouldn’t be a California auto show without a special edition Jeep Wrangler.

Complete with bronze satin gloss-accentuated 18-inch wheels, a matching grille, and other dark parts, the Wrangler Dragon Edition is sure to heat things up.

If the bronze bits weren’t enough of a giveaway, the large dragon graphic on the hood will surely let you know that this mythical creature means business whether on or off road. alexandra.straub@drivewaybc.ca

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LOS ANGELES: While most driving enthusiasts do not recognize the advent of a self-driving car as a good thing, drivers who have to endure crowded urban parking lots and the drudgery of stop-n-go highway commutes, on a daily basis, probably have a very different view.

The fully autonomous car may never become a reality for non-technical reasons.

We are, however, seeing layer upon layer of new technologies that certainly move things along in that general direction and could make it technically feasible, and perhaps production feasible on a restricted basis.

The new Ford Edge Concept revealed at Los Angeles Auto Show included two interesting automated driving technology advances that

are currently under development by Ford: self-parking and obstacle avoidance systems.

What’s different about this advanced self-park technology is that it allows an owner to do it from outside the vehicle with a push-button remote.

The vehicle can be automatically positioned in or be removed from a tight parking stall situation.

That certainly beats crawling in or out of the rear hatch when there’s not enough room to get in from a side door.

This new system builds on Ford’s current Active Park Assist feature, which is restricted to parallel parking situations and uses ultrasonic sensors.

Using similar sensor and automated vehicle control technology, Ford engineers are also working on an advanced obstacle avoidance system.

The concept vehicle detects slow-moving or stationary obstacles in the same lane ahead and warns the driver.

If the driver fails to steer or brake, the system automatically brakes and steers the Edge around the object.

“Democratized technology” is an expression used frequently by Ford engineers.

It’s about making leading-edge technologies, which traditionally took a long time to trickle-down from expensive luxury vehicles, available on popular, affordable vehicles much sooner, or even ahead of luxury class competition.

Ford’s current Active Park Assist system is already available on 12 models.

This system automatically guides the vehicle into a parallel parking spot, while the driver controls the gas and brake pedals.

A lane-keeping system is available on 11 Ford models today. This uses a forward-facing camera to scan the road surface for lane markings. The system evaluates if the vehicle is drifting out of its lane and alerts the driver by vibrating the steering wheel. If the driver does not respond, the system provides steering torque to nudge the vehicle back toward the centre of the lane.

Adaptive cruise control and collision warning with brake support is available on 10 Ford models. The system uses radar to detect moving vehicles immediately ahead and modifies cruising speed if necessary.

Blind Spot Information System is available on 13 Ford models. Radar sensors in the rear corners monitor the spaces next to and just behind the vehicle. On the road, these sensors trigger a warning light in the mirror when there is another vehicle in the driver’s blind spot.

All of these sensor-based technologies make driving safer today and they could also be considered as building blocks for a more comprehensive automated driving system. bob.mchugh@drivewaybc.ca

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The coolest cars ever Whether that was a reference to the car itself, or a reference made to Dean by studio head Jack Warner isn’t clear.

What is clear is that Dean tragically perished in the car on his way to a race in Salinas, Calif., at the age of 24, remaining forever young and sparing fans from a Brando-esque decline.

Dean and the 550 were the originators of the cool ethos “live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse.”

By Rob Sass

Some cars just ooze cool, especially those with a high price tag, sexy good looks and the “right” people driving them.

Here are four of the coolest classics of all time along with the film and music legends who drove them and pushed their cool factor over the top: 1. 1964 Aston Martin DB5 James Bond’s long-standing association with this iconic British GT began in 1964, in Gold Finger: 007. You’ll be using this Aston Martin DB5, with modifications.

Whether you love the gadgets like the machine guns and ejector seat or you’re just a fan of its classic Italian styling by Touring Superleggera and chrome wire wheels, the DB5 has more cool in the air of its tires than the entire first season of Mad Men.

3. 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390 Combine a Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT 390 Fastback, Steve “The King of Cool” McQueen and “Bullitt,” which contains perhaps the greatest chase scene ever committed to celluloid — it just doesn’t get any cooler than this.

4. 1957 Continental Mark II The Continental MK II of 1956-57 wasn’t branded a Lincoln.

Continental was a division unto itself for those years, and to this day it remains America’s best attempt at building a car of Rolls-Royce or Bentley calibre.

At $10,000, it was double the cost of the average Cadillac and so much hand labor went into the car that Ford estimates they lost $1,000 on each one.

2. 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder James Dean was a budding race car driver of some talent. He ordered what was then Porsche’s fastest dual-purpose (race/street) car available, and after wrapping “Giant,” had famed customizer Dean Jeffries paint in script on the car “Little Bastard.”

Aston Martin DB5: The 1964 Aston Martin DB5 is considered one of the coolest cars of all time.

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LOS ANGELES – Four-time Formula One champion driver Sebastian Vettel has his fingerprints all over the Infiniti Q30 Concept on display at this city’s international auto show.

If that were literally the case, the detailing crew constantly cruising the show floor would soon remove his dabs.

However, the hands-on impressions of the InfinitiRed Bull racer are more than skin deep, extending deep into the performance of the sporty compact.

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The Q30 Concept is the first model that the 26-yearold German driver has influenced from start-tofinish in his role as Infiniti’s director of performance.

And a few words on that before we take a look at the sleek auto’s design.

My cynical colleagues have suggested publicly that Vettel’s title is no more than a marketing ploy, with Vettel filling no more than a celebrity spokesman role.

It is most certainly not the case, based on my private conversations with some Infiniti engineers.

Just prior to my arrival for a drive with the young phenom on a French track this past spring, he had secretly put a number of Infiniti products and competitors through their paces and given immediate trackside input on suggested adjustments.

In fact, one engineer told

me Vettel is remarkable in the way he can do one lap and return with a complete commentary on how a car performed on every part of the track.

If the F1 gig doesn’t work out there’s maybe a new career opp for him in the near future!

The Q30 Concept is a fusion of coupe, hatchback, and crossover body styles and, like Vettel’s racecar, there’s liberal use of carbon fibre throughout.

That makes it a very light, aerodynamic and thus a potentially high-performing and economical car.

Interestingly, I’m told the designers combined Italian coachwork with the Japanese art of calligraphy to create the lightweight design.

Inside, cream and bronze leather features with violet bespoke tailoring, along with contrasting matte and gloss finished metalwork.

Sculpted ceramics are integrated into the upper front seatbacks housing speakers for a “symphonic audio experience.” It offers a level of technologies and features not typically found in compact cars, such as the Infiniti InTouch infotainment system, which

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Infiniti claims it expects significant growth in the compact premium segment among young-minded affluent customers. Note the reference to young minded.

“The Infiniti Q30 Concept is highly predictive of a new head-turning premium compact that we will launch in early 2015,” said Michael Bartsch, vicepresident, Infiniti Americas.

“Research among the new generation of buyers - with Gen X and Gen Y soon to represent 80 percent of the market - shows an increasing rejection of traditional notions toward premium cars.

These buyers are less willing to connect size, presence and high-output power as key ingredients of the premium product.

Rather, they’re looking more for balance, great design and outstanding execution.”

The Q30 will likely count the Mercedes-Benz B-Class and the Lexus CT200h hybrid hatchback among its competitors. This car could be a game changer in its class. keith.morgan@ drivewaybc.ca

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Pic of the Week If you have $1.1 million burning a hole in your jeans pocket then this could be the car for you, the Youabian Puma. The four-seat convertible is a massive 6.15 metres long, 2.24 metres wide and stands 1.8 m tall, sitting atop a 4.15-m wheelbase. It rides on 20-inch chrome wheels, huge 44-inch (111 cm) tires. Power comes from a 7.0-litre V8, generating 505 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque, mated to a six-speed automatic transmission. bob mchugh

Volvo XC60 has arrived here in Canadanavia Ian Harwood

The new Volvo XC60 has a sleek profile with sweptback headlights and raised hood give the sport ute a smart look, and you don’t have to be Swedish to enjoy it.

The wheels are a standard 19-inch with an option to go with 20s, which I prefer.

They really fill the wheel wells in quite nicely.

Volvo has a history of having some of the safest automobiles out there but who knew they were this comfortable? My tester, XC60 T6 AWD Platinum, came equipped with fully adjustable heated leather bucket seats, leather clad three-spoke steering wheel, center armrest with cup holders, and a leather-clad shifter knob. The back seats are 40/20/40 split folding.

A high performance audio system by Volvo comes with aux and IPod jack, and is Bluetooth capable plus its Sirius XM ready. The touch screen allows you to browse the internet, stream your playlist and get travel directions.

The power under the hood is a 3.0 litre, inline six cylinder with dual overhead cam, 24 valve, turbo charged and a six-speed, geartronic auto transmission. The T-6 model features paddle shifters. An impressive 325 horsepower with 354 pound feet of torque is squeezed out of this straight six.

The available technology package includes collision warning with full auto brake, cyclist detection, pedestrian detection, land departure warning, and distance alert. . ian.harwood@drivewaybc.ca

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The eyes have it Cyril (Cy) It was a year ago today, our hearts breaking, you slipped away. We stood by your bedside, for a miracle, we prayed, it was not to be, nor be delayed. God gently wrapped you in his love and took you to his heaven above.

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Forever loved and always remembered, your wife Jo, children and grandchildren.

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HIGHWAY OWNER OPERATORS $3500 SIGNING BONUS Van Kam’s Group of Companies requires Highway linehaul Owner Operators based in our Kelowna terminal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain, driving experience/ training.

We offer above average rates and an excellent employee benefits package.

To join our team of professional drivers, email a detailed resume, current driver’s abstract & details of your truck to: careers@vankam.com Call 604-968-5488 Fax: 604-587-9889 Only those of interest will be contacted.

Van-Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.

Farm Workers

LIVE IN CAREGIVER Our family requires an energetic, caring, full-time, live-in Nanny to help care for 2 children (4 year old active boy and 13 year old girl) in a private home. Duties include: supervised care for children, transport when req., prepare meals & general housekeeping. You should have min. of 6 months care-giver training course or exp. in a similar role & a high school or equivalent education plus a valid Driver’s License. $10.25/hr, 5 days/week, 8 hrs/day, send resume to: m1980godfrey@hotmail.com

FARM LABOURER’S work in vineyard. Duties include and are not limited to planting, cultivating, irrigating & harvesting crops. Seasonal, Full Time, Day. Must be able to do repetitive tasks, work closely with others, work is physically demanding.

Must be able to distinguish between colors. Stand for extended periods, kneeling, crouching and bending. Wage is $10.25 per hour for 40 hrs per week.

5 Vacancies are available.

Please email your resume to sakinder@dirtylaundry.ca or mail to Dirty Laundry Vineyard Attn: Sakinder 7311 Fiske St, Summerland, BC V0H 1Z2 or fax to 250-494-8850

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Sub-Contractor Driver

Busy Press & Newspaper distribution centre in Penticton has an opening for a Collating person. You must be able to work a morning shift, one day per week. There is an evening shift, hours may vary. You must be able to stand for long hours, be in good health, reliable & eager to learn. Competitive salary & benefits.

Must have 1 ton Van 2 days a week - Wednesday & Friday Early morning deliveries

Please submit resume to: Penticton Western News-Black Press 2250 Camrose Street, Penticton, BC V2A 8R1

For more info please call 250-492-0444 Ext: 219 or 205 or email: circulation@pentictonwesternnews.com

(No phone inquiries please)

Be Part of Our Team.

Monarch Transport (1975) Ltd. requires Owner Operators to run our Northwest USA/CDN Operation. (ID, WA, OR, BC, AB, SK) For more information please call Dana Gawne or Jim Pepper at 1-800-665-1232

Childcare

BLACK PRESS

Relief is only a call away!

Call 250-979-4357 to set up your FREE consultation in Penticton.

Donna Mihalcheon CA, CIRP 33 years experience.

BDO Canada Limited.

Trustee in Bankruptcy.

200-1628 Dickson Avenue, Kelowna , BC V1Y 9X1

Cleaners required immediately in Osoyoos, Oliver, Penticton, Summerland, West Kelowna, call (250)490-1713

Employment

Seasonal Laborer positions at Coral Beach Farms Ltd., Lake Country. No experience necessary. Must have own transportation. Applicant must be capable of physically demanding work in all weather conditions. 6-7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day beginning approximately February 18th, 2014. Work includes, but is not limited to, tree planting, pruning and irrigation.

Pay $10.25/hour. Apply by fax at 250-766-0813 or jobs@coralbeach.ca.

Mature Couple needed immediately to caretaker lodge and maintain fires for the winter. Free accommodation plus remuneration, phone 250-493-3535 for particulars North Enderby Timber is looking to hire for various sawmill positions including Heavy Duty Mechanic (Journeyman or Apprentice).

Millwright and Fabricator. We offer competitive wages along with a comprehensive benefit package. Please fax resume to 250-838-9637.

Help Wanted

Be Part of Our Team.

Carriers Needed

2 Days a Week - Early Mornings

The Penticton Western News has Routes available in these areas for Wednesday & Friday:

• Penticton - Wiltse Area - Westview - Ridgedale Area • Osoyoos • Summerland • Oliver • Trout Creek For more info please call 250-492-0444 Ext: 219 or 205 or email:

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LPN & RCA Permanent Positions Available CAREER OPPORTUNITY

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Education/Trade Schools

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Education/Trade Schools

Education/Trade Schools

HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT Our HCA program is for students with

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Career Opportunities: Community Health Worker O Care Aide Home Support O Acute & Complex Care

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Employment

Services

Friday, November 29, 2013 Penticton Western News

Services

Services

Merchandise for Sale

Home Improvements

Building Supplies

Garage Sales

Sporting Goods

Natural Wood Products Log Homes & Sidings, Cedar & Pine T&G, Decorative Shingles, Wood Flooring, Timbers & Beams. RBS Lumby, BC. www.rouckbros.com 1-800960-3388

Garage Sale, Sat., Nov. 30, 9am-noon, clothes, house wares, furniture, much more!

2564 McGraw St.

York 2001 - 160lb weights, 2 benches, 4 bars, 6 dumbells, 60 assorted weights; 2.5lbs to 25 lbs (555lbs), $400, obo, (250)493-4715

Trades, Technical

Financial Services

Cleaning Services

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIAN Looking for an experienced technician with diagnostic and light duty diesel skills. Wages based on skill level. Email resumes to tsinger@shaw.ca

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed?

Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

Cleaning, house sitting, animal sitting avail. immed., ref’s avail., call 250-492-5907

Class 4 Engineer is required for Colonial Farms. Competitive Wages with Full Benefits.

Drop Resume between 8am & 2pm. 3830 Okanagan Street, Armstrong. (250)546-3008 HEAVY EQUIPMENT Technicians required for work in Fort McMurray. If you are interested in a balanced schedule, competitive wages and benefits please send your resume to: hr@gladiatorequipment.com or fax to 1-780-986-7051.

MISS MOP N’ TASKER. Licensed, bonded & insured professional house cleaning service. Contact 250-809-7522

Handypersons Carpet Cleaning Owner - Operator

G & S Hauling & Junk Removal, painting & small repairs, carpentry, fence repairs, house & garage cleaning, call Gary for a free estimate, cell 250-462-1165, Home 778476-4721

Services

Plumbing, taps, toilets, dishwashers, electrical, light fixtures, switches, plugs & many other services, call Gord, (250)328-2710

Mind Body Spirit

Home Improvements

For Men: Massage $95., also waxing, grooming and skin care. Winfield 9-9 Daily.

Alan 250-766-2048

Counselling T R A N S F O R M AT I O N A L SPIRITUAL Life Coach. Beliefs, behaviours, relationships, results! Morningstar, (250)6892297 by appt.

GREEN VALLEY CARPET CARE

Green - Clean - Thorough Environmentally Safe Dry in 2 hours only!

Honest & Reliable Service.

CALL 250-809-4965 or visit:

www.greenvalleycarpetcare.ca

ARE YOU WANTING TO RENOVATE? Framing, gyproc, painting, ooring, bathrooms, decks, windows and doors 35 years experience home/business References Available Licensed, Insured, WCB Ted Lund (250)490-7991

BELCAN

Painting & Reno’s

licensed, insured, WCB

painting, tiling, ooring, kitchen/bath reno’s, carpentry nishing,

Len (250)486-8800 www.belcan.ca lenmass@gmail.com

CK&S Home Improvements.

Finished carpentry, concrete, framing , windows, doors, full kitchen/bath, basements, garages, tile, hardwood & laminate. No job too small, licensed & insured. Chris 250488-4147

Misc Services Massage for Men 9-9 daily Winfield - by Al. 250-766-2048

Moving & Storage FAMILY Movers. Moving?

Anything, anywhere. Local and long distance trips. Packing service available, weekly trips to Vancouver, Alberta, full and partial loads. Cheapest rates in the valley. Free Estimates, 250-493-2687

Painting & Decorating HERE COME THE PAINTERS, 13 years experience, Interior/Exterior, 250-486-2331 WWW.PAINTSPECIAL.COM

(1) 250-899-3163

3 Rooms For $299, 2 Coats Any Colour

(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls. Cloverdale Premium Quality Paint. NO PAYMENT, until job is completed!

Rubbish Removal PENTICTON Junk Removal!

Anything goes!

Household waste, furniture and appliances to the dump 250-770-0827

Tiling KALEDEN Tile - Professional installation of all types of tile and stone. Glass back splashes, tile floors, fireplaces, showers and pans. Free estimates, insured, references and pictures available. No Job to big or small. Glen 250-488-1985

Livestock Premium Wood Shavings New supplier of Animal bedding, starting at $250 for 54 cubic yards delivered, (250)770-0214

Camera Equipment Fujifim x 10 Camera w/leather case, 2 batteries, paid over $700 6 months ago, $300, phone (250)493-5042

Firearms OPEN Pre-Christmas Mondays! Better deals on new & used rifles, shotguns, handguns, ammo, accessories, repairs with friendly service from knowledgeable owners all at Weber & Markin Gunsmiths, The Best Little Gunshop Around 4-1691 Powick Rd Kel 250-762-7575 Mon-Sat 10-6 facebook.com/WeberMarkin

Free Items Free to good home, year and 1/2 old neutered male and 5 month old male, (250)4878736 Oreo needs a home. Loving cat, indoor & outdoor. Must not have any other animals in or around. He is neutered & healthy but must be top cat.

Can you help? Summerland, 778-516-0914.

Fruit & Vegetables 40lbs + Ambrosia apples $30/box delivered. 5Lt Ambrosia pasteurized juice $20/carton. 250-492-4717

Firewood/Fuel A-1 Firewood, Full cords Fir, $275, mixed, $250, Pine, $200, split & delivered, 1/2 cords and 1/4 cords avail., free delivery, 250-770-0827, 250-809-0127 eves.

Furniture

NOW OPEN Shelley’s Vintage Inspirations

Browse our fine collection of Shabby Chic Home Decor and Antiques Open Wed to Sun 10-5:30pm

94 Ellis Street

778-476-3200 XMAS COMPANY COMING BRAND NEW QUEEN SET $200.

Still in plastic, mfg. warranty.

250.870.2562

Garage Sales CHRISTMAS MARKET Baking, crafts, decorations Vendors welcome Nov. 30 - 9am - 2pm Royal Canadian Legion 501 Martin St. for tables call (778)476-1823

Professional/ Management

www.soics.ca

Professional/ Management

South Okanagan Immigrant & Community Services (Penticton & District Multicultural Society) is dedicated to building a community based upon mutual respect and the full participation of all people of all backgrounds through education, advocacy and community programs.

We are accepting resumés for the following position in Penticton:

Accountant for non-profit organization Duties will include: • Perform general accounting and book-keeping • Prepare financial statements in accordance with accounting standards for non-profit organizations • Develop operational budgets, prepare monthly analyses by program • Preparation of payroll and deductions through ADP payroll system • Maintenance of Accounts Payable and Receivable, including coding of expenses, cheque preparation and payments to vendors.

• Preparation of reports to funders, as required • Preparation of financial information for year-end external audit • Reporting to Executive Director • Monthly reporting to Board Finance Committee Qualifications: • Minimum 3 years accounting experience • Qualification or part qualification in CA/CMA/CGA or international equivalent • Experience and familiarity with Simply Accounting and Excel • Good communication skills • Experience with non-profit organizations is desirable • Mature and responsible individual accustomed to meeting deadlines • Good references are essential 15-20 hrs/week (may increase according to need).

Submit resumés to jobs@soics.ca. Open until filled.

Merchandise for Sale

Oliver Indoor Flea Market Saturday, 8am-4pm Sunday, 9am-3pm 12,000 sqft of treasures Concession on site Turn downhill at Chevron New vendors welcome call Cory 250-408-4222 SUPER SATURDAY SALE. NOVEMBER 30TH ONLY ST SAVIOUR’S ANGLICAN CHURCH HALL ON ORCHARD AVE. HOURS 9 AM TO 3PM, QUALITY FURNITURE, JEWELLERY, STEMWARE, KITCHEN ITEMS, CDS, VHS, LPS, DVD’S, CASSETTES, PAINTINGS, PICTURES/FRAMES. Tool Sale, Sat. Nov. 30, 207 Conklin Ave., access off alley, 9am-2pm, no early birds or advance calls please

Heavy Duty Machinery SCRAP PAPPY Will pay cash for oversized scrap steel, cats, yarders, saw mill equipment, farm equipment, etc., All insurance in place to work on your property. www.scrappappy.ca 250-260-0217.

Merchandise for Sale

Real Estate For Sale By Owner

Older 2 level family home 4bdrms, 2.5 baths on large view lot with room for accessory buildings. 5 min. drive to schools, sports facilities & shopping & 15 min. drive to 5 golf courses.

Asking price: $465,000.

Phone: 250-765-6909, Email:amtery@shaw.ca

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent 1150SQFT 2bd 2ba 55+ condo 1yr lease 2prk bus stop NS sml pet on aprvl $1100/mth AC W/D dish util not incl Prtly furn or unfurn 7 7 8 8 9 9 5 5 2 2 cutc0pypaste@yahoo.ca

Quality Firearms Buy & Sell.

Weber & Markin Gunsmiths The Best Little Gunshop Around 4-1691 Powick Rd Kel 250-762-7575 Tue-Sat 10-6 facebook.com/WeberMarkin

1 & 2 bdrm, newly reno’d suites. Secured access, util incl, near hospital, bus route and close to all amenities, n/p, n/s 250-938-3626 1BDRM Apt., totally reno’d, 3 new appl., A/C, in-suite storage, N/P, N/S, clean, quiet, secure, on bus route, near Walmart. Call 250-493-8500 1bdrm unit, parking avail. great location, $700 heat/cable incl. n/s, cat ok w/deposit, 250-488-7902 2bdrm, $750, 1bdrm $650, adult/senior oriented, clean, quiet, cat ok, 250-492-7328 2bdrm + den at Lakeshore towers, facing lake, pool, hottub, sauna, gym, $1600 Dennis 250-493-4372 2bdrm, great location, private parking, quiet, secure building, large storage room, laminate floors, $800, heat/cable incl., cat ok with dep., ns, 250-4887902 2bdrm in 45+ building, quiet, n/p, n/s, a/c, f/s/dw, area for w/d, elevator, close to shopping & transit, $750/mo., call 250-487-2244 Bach room, downtown, shared bathroom, mature person, util. included, $350/mo., 250-8095989, 250-496-5989 BRIGHT 1 bed apartment, Penticton - Haynes Street.

Fresh paint, new fridge/stove, in-suite laundry, secure u/g parking. No pets, non-smoking, no elevator. $700 + utilities. 250-487-8839 Condo in S’land. Close to town, 1000 sq ft plus bsmt.

Mstr bdrm w/ensuite. Carport & patio. NS. Adult. Avail now. $860/mo. Refs req’d. Phone 250-494-9055 / 250-494-4136 Large 2 Bedroom, 3rd floor, $850/ month plus utilities, 40+ Building, 250-487-1136

Trades, Technical

Trades, Technical

Misc. for Sale 2 recliner chairs, good cond., $325/each, counter top for island 5’ longx2’9.5” wide $100, ceiling light fixture 5-bulbs $15, best offer 250-492-5825 evenings.

Dining rm table & leaf & 6 chairs (forest green), $300 obo 2 dressers, matching desk, light wood, $25 ea, green rocker, $25, wood cabinet for sewing machine, $25, bdrm suite; twin bed w/bookcase/headboard, night stand & 5 drawer dresser, $250, treadmill, $250, brown queen hidea-bed, $100, 250-493-4715 HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available.

1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/ newspaper?

Misc. Wanted Local Coin Collector Buying Collections, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins etc 250-499-0251

Sporting Goods OPEN Pre-Christmas Mondays! Better deals on new & used rifles, shotguns, handguns, ammo, accessories, repairs with friendly service from knowledgeable owners all at Weber & Markin Gunsmiths, The Best Little Gunshop Around 4-1691 Powick Rd Kel 250-762-7575 Mon-Sat 10-6 facebook.com/WeberMarkin

Get Trained for a Profitable, Long-Term Career in Various Trades

CONSTRUCTION

Applications are now being accepted for our 19-week Penticton Training Program.

Program in Penticton call:

250-486-7330

Proudly sponsored by the Southern Interior Construction Association.

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Rentals

Rentals

Rentals

Rentals

Rentals

Transportation

Transportation

Apt/Condo for Rent

Commercial/ Industrial

Duplex / 4 Plex

Rooms for Rent

Townhouses

Cars - Domestic

3bdrm, all appl., between the malls, close to everything, ns, np, $1200, (250)460-0302

$375/mo.+ dep, util. incl., Skaha Lake w/front, large yard, (250)486-5216, avail. immed.

3bdrm, nice & clean, close to school & shopping, $800, (250)492-4878

Auto Accessories/Parts

Mobile Homes & Pads

Shared Accommodation

Double wide trailer 24’ x 60’ country/farm setting. $750/mo + heat. Ideal for couple. NP, NS. Call 250-494-9393 evenings only.References required.

Dorm style living at my ranch in Ok Falls, bedrooms to rent, must be clean, quiet, responsible & friendly, $400/mo., (250)460-1760

Homes for Rent

Suites, Lower

Make sure your advertising message reaches maximum readership!

large clean 1bd character apt., oak floors, high ceilings, on bus route, np, ns, quiet resp.

(S) person, 250-770-0536

Commercial/ Industrial 1000sqft of Industrial/Commercial/Retail Space for lease compounded yard & overhead door.

Warren Ave. 250-765-3295

DT office, avail. Oct., 252 sqft, windows (both sides), new flooring, $300/mo., 190sqft, $235/mo., 416sqft, $320/mo., 250-492-8324, 778-931-0096 High visible high traffic location dense population area, very affordable rent, many upgrades to the building 3413 30th Ave. Ken 250-851-6240

Duplex / 4 Plex

APPLE PLAZA, Prime Central location, 2300sqft. in busy plaza, ample parking, also 5821100 sqft. shared office space avail., call Barb 250-492-6319

2bdrm 2bath unit, laminate floors, central location, private parking, cat ok with deposit, $900/mo., 250-488-7902 3bdrm, 1.5 bath, f/s, w/d, close to schools, available now, 250493-9357

Apt/Condo for Rent

Apt/Condo for Rent

REALTY EXECUTIVES VANTAGE APARTMENTS: $635

Ground flr apartment, f,s, coin op laundry, includes heat and hot water. Avail. Dec. 1 (APA2) $675 Grd flr 1 bdrm unit, with washer and dryer, quiet building, near library. Avail. NOW (ot593) $850 2 bdrm 3rd flr walk up fresh paint, some new flooring, Utilities included. Avail. NOW (WGA302) $1000 2 bdrm, 2 bath condo, sec’d parking, 5 appl, gas fp, Adult building, 1 year lease. Avail. NOW (A455) $1000 Alysen Place, 1 bdrm + den, 6 appl, 6th floor, elevator, sec’d parking, north facing. Avail. Dec. 1 (OT601) $1400 Lakeshore 3, 6th flr, 2 bdrm, 2 bath, 6appl, fitness room, sec’d parking, pool, hot tub. Avail. NOW (OT592)

UNFURNISHED AND FURNISHED TERM RENTALS:

1bd daylight basement, close to Wiltse Elem. Sch., N/S, N/P, prefer mature resp. person, ref’s req., $650 incl. util., avail. immed., 250-493-5630

1 bdrm suite in Olalla, ground level, granny suite, heat & hydro incl., newly remodelled, $650/month, available immediately, Call 250-460-1895

1bdrm basement suite, ns, np, $650 (incl. util), no laundry, avail. Nov. 1, 250-492-0556

Motels,Hotels

HIGHLAND motel suites avail now, no pets. 1140 Burnaby Ave., 250-809-1253, 250-4882206

Motel monthly rentals in Penticton & Oliver, Avail. until June 2014, LARGE 1bdrm suites & bachelor suites, Fully furnished, utilities/cable incl., quiet location, near Mall & bus route. Call Valley Star Motel 250-492-7205. Ext. 0 or Maple Leaf Motel Inn Towne, 250498-3497

Cars - Domestic

Cars - Domestic

Cars - Domestic

CAR - TRUCK & R.V. SALES

HOUSES:

$

$950

3 bdrm in four-plex, new kitchen and flooring, fresh paint.

Avail. Jan. 15 (H691-3) $1100 4 bdrm 1 bath, f,s, hook up for washer and dryer, family room, ½ duplex. Avail. NOW (H615-4) $1300 3 + 1 bdrm, across the street from Cherry Lane, 2 bath, some new floors, carport. Avail. NOW (H774) $1400 3 + 2 bdrm house, laminate floors, finished bsmt, f,s, w.d. fenced yard, 1 car garage, covered patio. Avail. Jan. 1 (H753) Prospective tenants must complete an application form at:

Camper Extra

1,500

Scrap car removal, We are licensed & insured, more weight = more money, 250328-8697, Penticton Need A Vehicle! Guaranteed Auto Loan. Apply Now, 1.877.680.1231 www.UapplyUdrive.ca

Financing

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Adult Escorts

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Cars - Domestic

2004 Chrysler Intrepid

2005 Cadillac SRX-V. All wheel drive wagon.

V8 Auto, ultra view sunroof, heated leather, full loaded.

New brakes, tires (real dub wheels & factory wheels w/ snow tire ), bearings.

Only 101kms! $58,000 replacement cost, only $14,500 Firm!!! No GST! 250-551-3336

4,590

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Available 7 days a week! 2 5 0 49 8 -5 443 JUST CALL

Trucks & Vans 2006 GMC 3500 CC dually, 4x4 auto, 6L, flat deck with hidden 5th wheel 137K. $12,500. obo. 250-307-3170

Licensed Dealer 31298

$

1998 Pontiac Grand Prix

$

AAA Scrap Removal,Will meet or beat all competitors pricing, 250-801-4199

1998 Dodge 2500 4x4 Long Box

Ext. Cab

2,300

Scrap Car Removal

Auto

H I L L CR ES T 1994 GMC Sierra 2500

www.mountainmotors.ca

Transportation

(4) 215-70-R14 Winter Force on Ford Aerostar wheels, $350, (250)493-1397

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. If you have been divorced, bankrupt, had collections or write off’s give us a call. We can help!

997 Westminster Avenue 250-493-1966

2250 Camrose St. 250-492-3636

Auto Accessories/Parts

BAD CREDIT?

Auto Financing

The Western is your best bet...

Summerland Large 2 bdrm bsmt suite. Recent reno, lg windows, W/D, new F/S, walk to downtown.

NP, NS. $700/mo + util. Call (new number) 403-235-5507.

$1900 Lakeview, furnished, top floor of house in Kaleden, Executive house, 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, garage 2500 sq ft. Avail. NOW to June 2014 (OT591)

Used Tires, Huge Selection of used tires and wheels in stock.

We might have what you need. Prices vary according to size and quality. Starting at $25.00. Call us or drop in to Larsens Excel 555 Okanagan Ave East 250-492-5630 Penticton

BEACH BUNNIES Upscale Men’s Spa #32-2789 Hwy 97 www.beachbunnies.ca 250-448-8854 MALE 4 Male Erotic Massage $95, waxing, intimate grooming and skin care. Winfield, 9-9 Daily 250-766-2048 SOOO SEXY SANDY The Original K-Town Girl. 38D, 29, 34. Let’s Play! 878-1514 Vernon’s Best! New Grand Location! Discrete, Upscale, Beautiful Attendants. In/out Spoil yourself! 250-307-8174.

Hiring!

classifieds work!

280 MAIN STREET, PENTICTON, B.C. V2A 5B2 PHONE: 250-493-4372 - www.rentalspenticton.com Only qualified applicants will be contacted.

429 Hillcrest Avenue - Oliver, BC (corner of Hillcrest ave. and

Hwy. 97)

2005 Mercedes C240, 48,000 kms, exc. cond., $16,000, call (250)494-7829

XXX’s and O’s by Donna, Independant (out calls) 250-4880930, South Okanagan

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