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Inside Safety groups funded Central Okanagan Search and Rescue, Canadian Ski Patrol Ogopogo Zone, Kelowna and District Safety Council Society, Kelowna Snowmobile Club, Orchard City Amateur Radio Club and the Pacific Division of the Canadian Ski Patrol System have each received Community Gaming Grants. ...............................
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Best in the nation While Tyson Baillie was named Player of the month in the WHL, his Kelowna Rockets team climbed the national rankings to No. 1 spot in the CHL. ......................
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LAKE COUNTRY MUSEUM
THIS PHOTO, taken by George Goulding in 1907, shows the location of the creek seen at the upper (west) side of the isthmus. At that time Wood Lake was about four
feet higher than Long (later renamed Kalamalka) Lake before a navigation canal was dug. Notice also the scant settlement along the Vernon to Mission Road.
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Creek dangerous to cross before channel built In some years the water gushed down the creek making passage across the isthmus exceedingly dangerous. Before a navigation canal was built in 1908, a free-flowing creek drained Wood Lake into Long (later renamed Kalamalka) Lake. Wood Lake was naturally about four feet higher than Kalamalka, perhaps five or six feet higher during the
spring freshet. In some years the water gushed down the creek making passage across the isthmus exceedingly dangerous. Two items in the Vernon News from the time, illustrate: “There came near a drowning accident last week at the
creek between Wood’s Lake and Long Lake, at the place known as the “railway.” J. Shore attempted to ford the creek, which is much swollen, and his horses were swept off their feet, and he was carried down for some distance by the stream, getting out with much
difficulty. A road and bridge is badly needed by the settlers of that vicinity, and we trust that it will be among the first work of its kind after this year.” (circa 1902) Two weeks later the newspaper reported another incident: “A. Cary had a narrow
escape last week from losing a valuable horse in the creek at the “railroad,” between Long Lake and Wood’s Lake…” (circa 1902). Since 1985, the Lake Country Museum has been collecting, preserving and presenting the area’s history.