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THE SECOND story in a three-part series about locals living in the Okanagan and commuting 1,300 kilometres for work in northern Alberta and the impact it has on our community.

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▼ VALENTINE’S DAY

Local arts collective gets to the heART of the matter

Jennifer Smith

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If Valentines Day has your stomach in knots over finding the perfect gift, the heART school on Bernard Avenue has an event to solve the problem.

All week long the small business, an artist collective-style workspace on Bernard Avenue, is hosting a show celebrating our love of paper and offering totally unique gifts or Valentines for $2 to $200.

“We all have a relationship, or almost romance, with paper and it can carry a lot of meaning for us,” said heART school owner and show curator Carrie Harper, who has dreamed of doing the exhibition for 20 years.

The show is hung as a series of paper artworks pinned up on lines traversing the second-floor studio space. Once a bank, Harper and her crew renovated the heritage building to accommodate creative workshop and concert space last winter and opened the doors in April.

Whether one sees a clothesline of creative treasures in this show or Valentines strung like prayer flags, it’s certain “heART works on paper” will lift the spirits of lovers all over town, just as the school has opened up a caring community

for many of the artists it showcases.

“Valentines is the one holiday of the year that is pretty much all about paper love letters and little themed cards. It just has such nostalgia to it,” said Harper, who admits she was a solitary type before the school unfolded.

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WE ALL HAVE A RELATIONSHIP, OR ALMOST ROMANCE, WITH PAPER AND IT CAN CARRY A LOT OF MEANING FOR US. Carrie Harper

The business has given her a place to work with like-minded friends and its shows provide the community with an obvious way to get behind the many creative souls trying to earn a living from their art.

While Hallmark may make billions on Friday, the ten locals featured— Jessica Balfour, Katie Brennan, Christina Knittle, Trina Ganson, Jolene Mackie, Jackie Poirier, Liz Ranney, Dillion Ranney, Sean Larson and Harper—will each take home a payment, should their work sell.

“This shows people that art is affordable and

that you can find original artworks that are of quality, for a reasonable pocket price, right here in our own community,” said Ganson.

The printmaker sees paper as the tie that binds in everything she does.

“My small obsession with paper is the tactility of it, just the feel, the texture, the versatility of the product,” she said.

At times, it’s the paper that really makes a piece, like the lacy feel of a doily she incorporates, and at other times it’s simply the medium, as it is in the prints of her copper-plate etchings.

In both cases, it’s critical, just as it is key to the business Harper has put her whole heart into.

“There’s eight of us working in here and it’s just so amazing when everybody is in their studio and we come together,” she said.

Last month, when the Twisted Tomato burned down next door, Harper had a chance to reflect on how much this community means.

Hanging on the walls of the main studio was an absolutely irreplaceable show by an artist for whom the event was a bucket-list wish.

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The 1,300 km commute: The community

Last Friday, the Capital News published the first story of a three-part series called The 1,300 km commute. In Part 2: The community, reporter Wade Paterson looks at specific ways our region has been impacted by a growing commuter workforce settling in the Okanagan. To see all stories in the series, visit kelownacapnews.com.

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pproximately 5,000 people from the Okanagan currently commute to northern Alberta for work on a regular basis.

The motivation to work up north varies for each individual.

The first story in this series, Part 1: The people, introduced Neil Wells and Pamela Black, a young couple who went from renting an unfurnished Rutland apartment to owning a contemporary north Glenmore home in less than three years, thanks to Wells’s job with Syncrude.

Tony MacKenzie explained working in a camp north of Fort McMurray is a temporary solution for him and his family. He wants to be working closer to home.

Abra Playfair, a paramedic from Fraser Lake, said it hasn’t always been easy being the only woman on her crews in the northern Alberta and B.C. oil fields, but the paycheque keeps her coming back.

Each of the 5,000 local commuting workers have different stories—all of which led to Fort McMurray.

But regardless of what lured them, their lifestyles have impacted our entire region.

Perhaps the most obvious effect is the economic impact the Okanagan experiences from having well-paid workers spending most of their days off here.

“It’s not really any big secret in terms of the amount of income generated through a lot of those positions,” says District of

West Kelowna business development officer John Perrott.

Perrott will be one of several Okanagan representatives visiting Fort McMurray and Edmonton home shows this spring. The goal is to show potential future residents they can easily root themselves, and their families, in the Okanagan while they periodically fly out to work in northern Alberta.

WestJet Encore’s recent announcement of daily non-stop flights connecting Kelowna and Fort McMurray will likely help the home show sales pitch this spring.

“Certainly we’re targeting higher income individuals. So we hope the spin-off there, in very basic terms, is that they’re coming here to spend that money,” says Perrott.

According to Robert Fine, executive director of the Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission, the COEDC was represented at last year’s Fort McMurray home show, which he says brought out about 15,000 visitors in one weekend.

“It started as a conversation with a number of larger developers. If you look at the number of large scale proposed developments that are on the books in the region, it’s pretty significant,” says Fine. “(They) said, ‘Is there any way we could collectively look at selling our region to that part of the world?’

“We did a little foray into the Fort Mac marketplace (last year), just to see what it would be like…there’s a lot of interest.”

He adds that interest is likely to grow with WestJet Encore’s announcement of regular flights to and from the region, starting this May. According to COEDC’s 2013 economic profile of the Okanagan Valley, Alberta buyers accounted for 17 per cent of local real estate sales.

Although it’s unknown what percentage of those purchases were made by commuting workers, there were more real estate sales involving two-parent families with children (29 per cent) than sales involving empty nesters or retired individuals (20 per cent).

Fine says he isn’t surprised 5,000 Okanagan residents have already chosen to commute to northern

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THERE ARE about 5,000 Okanagan residents who currently work in the Fort McMurray area and spend their days off in our region.

Alberta for work, noting the local business base is “fairly diversified, but fairly small in terms of size of companies.”

He notes 97 per cent of local companies have less than 20 employees.

“You always have the lure of large, mega corporations that are spending significant money in the natural resource setting. So

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I think that’s a natural flow, where young people see an opportunity to make significant dollars and work very hard.”

While attending the Fort McMurray and Edmonton home shows, the Okanagan’s economic development leaders will also be selling the valley as a vacation destination to help bring in tourism dollars.

For Nancy Cameron, president and CEO of Tourism Kelowna, that’s good news.

“The tourism industry supports over 7,000 direct jobs—it’s a critical industry for this area,” says Cameron.

“Our marketing wheels have already begun to turn.”

Perrott sees the tourism draw as a great way to turn visitors into future residents.

“The first time somebody has a touch of the Okanagan lifestyle, it’s

going to probably be through tourism,” he says.

“Hopefully it’s welcoming…and people feel like: Hey, this is a place I’d want to live.”

But aside from economic benefits, there are other ways a commuting workforce impacts our region.

Students of Dr. Mary Ann Murphy’s third- and fourth-year Sociology of the Family undergraduate course at UBC Okanagan often discuss and debate the changing Canadian family.

Topics the classes discuss include: Why are women having fewer children? Why are people delaying the age in which they marry? Should young people be allowed on Facebook?

But last week, Murphy’s class found themselves talking about “commuter couples.”

“Although this is a family form that’s more

common these days, we can’t say that it’s brand new,” says Murphy.

“Instead of one of the (partners) sailing off to sea like they used to do hundreds of years ago, these days, one of them just flies up to Fort McMurray.”

And that relationship comes with positives and negatives “Research shows that they have the benefit of, every time they get together, it’s like a honeymoon, really,” she says.

“The problem comes when one of them finally comes home to roost. The problem seems to be in that re-adjustment phase, when they finally do live together.”

The associate professor in the School of Social Work and Department of Sociology says there are clear economic upsides from having locals work-

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ing in northern Alberta and spending their days off in the Okanagan.

But, she suggests, family relationships could be affected negatively.

“The impact at the family level could get interesting, because it would mean that the mother (or father) would be left all week with the kids. That won’t be easy for the person who stays behind.

“And then you’d have the person coming back after (their work shift) and imposing their own rules and discipline. That could lead to some conflict.”

Avril Paice, director of community investment with United Way of the Central and South Okanagan/Similkameen, says she often hears from some of the charities they work with about how the commuter lifestyle impacts families.

“In general, I would say that it causes stress on a family,” says Paice.

“Basically you’re taking a member of the family away from the family for a significant portion of the year.”

She says it’s difficult for the person who is working up north, because they typically work intense shifts for extended hours without seeing their families in person for weeks, or even months at a time.

“They’re living a very split life and they’re having a lot of time that

they’re away from their loved ones. charities for that reason.

“For that person—it’s most However, there are still many often dads who are away—it’s a who are in need of services for significant amount of stress.” non-income related reasons, acWhile that member of the cording to the United Way director family is away, those back home of community investment. also experience difficulties, Paice “What we hear from the charadds. ities who we work with…is they’re “Most often we hear about it in providing supports to the families in terms of a spouse and terms of the ongoing children at home, trytransition and the efing to cope with dad fects of family life. being away for sig“Childcare, supnificant periods of ports for seniors, time—often two or families having to IN GENERAL, I three weeks. work on communiWOULD SAY THAT “So there’s a parcation and those who IT CAUSES STRESS ent at home who is can no longer do that ON A FAMILY. being a single parent, work…and need to Avril Paice, often juggling a job retrain for other jobs. themselves and all So the charities are United Way of the things the kids serving all of those need.” needs.”

Paice notes even All of the individsome seniors, who are parents of uals interviewed in the first article workers in Fort McMurray, have of this series agreed there are benebeen impacted by their children fits and challenges associated with working in another province. “If working in northern Alberta. that’s a support system being separBut they, as well as the 5,000 ated, then that can be a problem.” others who periodically travel to the The United Way CSO has relaFort McMurray area for work, have tionships with about 100 charities in decided, for the time being, the pros the region. outweigh the cons.

Paice says a large percentage of people who rely on those charities have low income and are not able to The 1,300 commute series conmeet their basic needs. cludes Thursday with Part 3: GetThose who are able to bring ting there. large paycheques home to their wpaterson@kelownacapnews.com Twitter: @PatersonWade family are less likely to utilize the

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Kelowna to remain the site of Canadian Culinary Championships Kelowna will keep the Canadian Culinary Championships.

Although already in the fourth year of a fiveyear agreement to host the

competition—the final event in the Gold Medal Plates series, celebrating the best in Canadian cuisine, wine, the arts and athletic achievement—

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“We are confident that we will be able to announce the new sponsorship agreement in the next few weeks to keep this great event in our community.”

The competition to earn the 2014 crown was fierce, but chef Lorenzo Loseto, of George Restaurant in Toronto, took the title with his ahi tuna with carrot and pear, a deli-

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(rowing) and William Dean (rowing) were in attendance as the event raises money for Canadian athletes.

The championships started Friday evening with a mystery wine pairing where chefs prepared a dish they felt perfectly suited the mystery bottle of wine they received less than 24 hours earlier. It was Laughing Stock 2012 Blind Trust White from the Okanagan Valley.

They were given $550 to shop for ingredients to provide a small meal for 425 guests.

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Pierre, from Auguste in Montreal, took the bronze, Playing to a sold-out audience of 640 wine and food enthusiasts, Bare naked Ladies lead singer Ed Robertson and West Coast rocker Barney Bentall provided the entertainment.

Olympians Julia Murray (ski-cross), Gabriel Bergen (rowing), Christine Girard (weightlifting), Kristi Richards (freestyle skiing), Curtis Myden (swimming), Darcy Marquardt (rowing), Richard Hortness (swimming), Jeremiah Brown

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“I’m at a loss for words. It feels like all the years of hard work have been recognized tonight. Just to be with these amazing chefs, I couldn’t look at the other dishes because it made me nervous. It means so much in such great company,” said Loseto after the finale Saturday.

The silver was awarded to Chef Duncan Ly of Yellow Door Bistro in Calgary. Chef Danny St.

Lot 6, District Lot 139, ODYD, Plan 2536 LL12-0006 The applicant is requesting Council support for a Liquor Primary License for a new liquor primary establishment located on the subject property.

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believes would be affected by the proposal.

Correspondence and petitions received between February 4th, 2014 and 4pm on Monday, February 17, 2014 shall be copied and circulated to City Council for consideration at the public hearing. any submissions received after 4pm on Monday, February 17, 2014 will not be accepted.

The public may review copies of the proposed bylaws, Council reports and related materials online at kelowna.ca/council or at the Office of the City Clerk at City Hall from 8am-4pm, Monday to Friday, as of February 4th, 2014 and up to and including February 18, 2014. inFO: 250-469-8645

The applicant is proposing to amend the Official Community Plan Future Land Use Designation and rezone the subject property to construct an ultra-violet water disinfection facility. An amendment to the Official Community Plan (OCP) Future Land Use designation for a portion of the subject properties is required from part AGR – Resource Protection Area and PARK – Major Park and Open Space, to apart PSU – Public Services Utilities and PARK – Major Park and Open Space. A rezoning from A1 – Agriculture 1 to P4 – Utilities is also required.

Official community Plan amendment: From the REP - Resource Protection Area designation, PARK - Major Park and Open Space designation to the PSU - Public Service Utilities designation as shown on MAP A. requested zoning change: From the A1 – Agriculture 1 zone to the P4 – Utilities zone as shown on Map B. Owner/applicant: Black Mountain Irrigation District (BMID) / Aqua Consulting Inc. (Bob Hrasko) In compliance with Council Policy No. 359, the following liquor primary license amendment application is currently under consideration by Kelowna City Council:

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The flames came so close to the building there are now soot marks in the bathroom and on the stoop as one starts up the stairs to the school.

Thanks to the Kelowna Fire Department, she escaped with just a rough night’s sleep and heART school will go on hosting workshops with artists like Marijanel Knight, a potter from Peachland who takes home each participant’s piece and handfires it in her kiln.

Harper’s intention-setting classes each January will continue to collect groups of creatives who want to set their intentions for the year on canvass.

Each winter solstice Harper says a word seems to come to her that describes her intentions for the year. In 2012, her word was “commune” and she created a community of artists in the downtown core the likes and style of which Kelowna has not seen to date.

For 2013 her word is “better” and, while the year has yet to reveal what this means for her, she is certainly starting off on the right foot.

“For artists, paper is almost this place where

we work our ideas out leading up to the finished product,” she said.

It remains to be seen where the heART school will go this year, but one thing is for certain. There are many shows and con-

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While Canada’s top chef was crowned at the Canadian Culinary Championships here in Kelowna Saturday night, the big news for the community is that the deal to hold the championships here for five years has now been renewed for another five.

Each year the eyes of Canada’s culinary experts focus on the Central Okanagan as chefs from across the country battle to

be named the best of the best.

And according to organizers of the championships, when it comes to Kelowna, everyone likes what they see.

At a kick-off gathering last week—prior to Toronto chef Lorenzo Loseto winning the title at the Delta Grand Okanagan Hotel on Saturday night—speaker after speaker enthused about this city and a surprising number of the competitors revealed past and current associations with the area.

With the competition in

the fourth year of a five-year run here, speculation was high about the future of the event in Kelowna.

Local organizers said they wanted to see it stay and felt it has had an impact on the community in a number of different ways, including a strong focus on both the area’s wine and food products.

That is born out with the mystery wine competition (one of three in the championships), in which the 11 participating chefs are given a bottle of wine

with no information about it, a small sum of money and are told they have just 24 hours to prepare a meal for 400 people that pairs properly with the wine. The catch: They have to go out and buy local food.

That’s where local ingredients come in.

So, while Loseto will be happy taking his trophy back to Toronto, everyone here should be just as happy to see the event is staying put for another five years.

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n April 1, medical marijuana growing licences expire across the country, and only licensed commercial growers will be able to legally fill a prescription for pot.

Ottawa is moving to clean up the mess it created by issuing medical licences all over the country. Since then, municipalities have complained that small-scale medical licences have been greatly exceeded, with many used as fronts for a criminal drug trade that has made B.C. infamous around the world.

How big is the problem? There are about 38,000 Canadians licensed to carry marijuana for medical purposes,

and half of them live in B.C. Their permission to grow their own or buy it from designated small-scale growers is withdrawn in a couple of months.

Here’s a look at the community level. Police in the Fraser Valley suburb of Maple Ridge estimate that it alone has 500 properties licensed to grow pot. No, Maple Ridge is not a world hotspot for glaucoma or arthritis. It is historically known for its secluded properties and as a base for B.C.’s prison system and the province’s Hells Angels.

Police have only an estimate because Ottawa’s bungled medical pot scheme conceals the location of licensed growers from provincial and local Tom governments.

RCMP Insp. Dave Fletcher Fleugel told Maple Ridge council last week that his detachment will first target medical growers they know are linked to organized crime. But it’s difficult to determine which are legal and which are not.

“This has the potential to cripple the courts,” Fleugel said. “Something

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is going to have to take a back seat if we are going to go after all of them.”

The police and fire department have proposed an amnesty or grace period, allowing people to disclose their location and have it properly dismantled without penalty, to help deal with the volume.

This mess was created by Ottawa in response to a court ruling that forced them to make medical pot available. The Harper government remains trapped in a failed war-ondrugs mentality that prevents any innovation or even common sense.

Then there is the circus in Vancouver, where self-styled princes of pot exploit the confusion of the med-

ical marijuana law to run an Amsterdam-style retail trade.

Cannabis Culture, the pot and propaganda empire built by Marc Emery before he was jailed in the U.S., rants about the government’s “war on patients,” amid garish ads for “pot by post” and exotic weed varieties.

“By Health Canada’s own estimate, the cost will increase from $5 per gram to $8.80 per gram—going up by nearly 400 per cent,” its website warns. Apparently smoking lots of weed really is bad for your math skills.

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Kelowna’s downtown is a sorry mess To the editor: I decided to go for my first bike ride of the season recently. I fastened my helmet, and away I went.

I rode north on Richter Street to Highway 97 and proceeded west to City Park. While riding through the park, I came across the $800,000 outhouse.

I got off my bike while talking with several other tax-paying homeowners. They were, to say the least, astonished.

After a little discussion, we looked through the wall perforations. There was no privacy whatsoever. A person is able to see directly into the bathrooms from all angles.

I can’t for the life of me see where almost $1 million went for this building.

Our mayor and council need their heads read after spending our hard-earned tax dollars on this building with no discussion at all.

After I cooled down a bit, I continued along to the foot of Bernard Avenue. I stopped and looked east and just stood there and shook my head. I continued on to the foot of Queen-

sway, where I looked around for a few minutes. I imagined myself standing here after this big travel centre would be built.

What I saw in my mind was another attempt by Walter Gray and his puppets to block the average person’s enjoyment of lake views.

Here is a suggestion for you Walter: You have a nice big parking lot adjacent to your City Hall office on the north side. Build it there. It is away from the lake, it is downtown, it leaves parking downtown, which there is a shortage of already—and it won’t block the beautiful lake views.

Here is another thought: City staff can park in one of the two parkades that are close to City Hall.

Let’s put that to a vote.

As I left that location, I travelled back to Bernard and headed toward Gordon. Again, I looked at Bernard and thought to myself: What a bloody eyesore. The street is lined with sticks that look ridiculous as well as out of place. It is filled with crap hanging all over the place and is a dirty, pathetic, sorry-looking

street. I’ve seen better looking streets along East Hastings in Vancouver. What a great waste of our money.

And to top it all off, Gray actually thought he would win the nicest looking street in Canada contest? What a joke.

If the city had given any thought to downtown, they would have closed off a four or five block area, cobbledstoned it, put up decorative lighting that was in keeping with the age of the buildings downtown, as they did along Abbott Street, and made it into one big shopping area with no traffic, where people could walk around or sit out at tables and chairs to eat with no fumes, as they do in most European small cities, almost everyone would have voted yes for that.

The merchants, in all likelihood, would have doubled or tripled their business.

But, no, here we are stuck with this ugly, filthy mess.

Ian MacLean, Kelowna

Hotelier likes visitor centre on Queensway To the editor: I have been following the discussion of the Visitor Centre in Kelowna with great interest.

Our family has been involved in the accommodation business in Kelowna since the late 1960s, and have owned a hotel in the downtown, directly across from City Park, for the past 29 years.

The visitor centre in our community is critical to the tourism sector. It is obvious that tourism has and continues to be critical to the economy of our city. The recession of the past five years has created difficulty for those of us

in the hospitality industry, but through it all, the Visitor Centre has been critical in driving much needed business to our hotel. We own resorts and hotels in other communities in British Columbia, and in all cases, including Kelowna, the visitor centres are the face of the destination for visitors.

The other issue of note is that a new Visitor Centre in Kelowna must have a strategic location. Again, in other communities, highway visitor centres are seeing declining usage, even those new, attractive sites that have been established.

The research indicates that visitor centres should be situated in downtown locations where both visitors and residents tend to migrate. The proposed sit in the Queensway Jetty parking lot seems ideal—a location that will best benefit tourists, businesses and residents. I strongly urge support of the present proposal.

Joe Huber, CEO, Prestige Hotels and Resorts, Kelowna

Dog bylaw hustled by in dead of winter To the editor: Thanks to the proposed dog bylaw, I now know how to be a responsible dog guardian in the Regional District of Central Okanagan.

I can begin by dumping my dog’s Flexileash, and use an authorized 6-foot leash.

I should not ask animal control officers for a warrant if they decide to check whether I have properly cleaned up our back yard of dog feces.

And I better not waste

my time disputing a dog bylaw ticket. Just getting a ticket is proof of guilt.

To be fair to RDCO, animal control officers desperately need license and ticket fees revenue to enforce City of Kelowna’s park restrictions. The vast majority of Kelowna’s urban parks do not even permit dogs on leash.

That’s a lot of parks for animal control officers to troll in search of irresponsible dog guardians in forbidden parks.

The City of Cal-

gary, reputed to be very dog-friendly—perhaps because it allows dog guardians entry to nearly all parks—was used by the RDCO as a model for the new bylaw. Until Kelowna allows dog guardians the freedom which Calgary grants to its dog guardians, the bylaw model makes no sense.

The new bylaw received two readings before a press release was issued on Jan. 16. It was authored by Mr. Bruce Smith, the communica-

tions and intergovernmental officer, Regional District of Central Okanagan (no restrictions on length of title, unfortunately). An open house was held on Jan. 29, and the public had until Feb. 2 to comment in an online questionnaire.

The RDCO spent most of 2013 drafting the new bylaw, but decided to inform the public in the dead of winter when dog guardians are less likely to meet outdoors and share the news. Just 18 days is

all the time the public had to read, digest, and find the online questionnaire.

Before it is too late, I would like Mr. Bruce Smith to tell the Capital News when and where the next reading of the draft bylaw will take place. I, for one, would like to be a silent witness when this bylaw becomes law.

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You and your dog can get pot Express yourself Fletcher from A8

Dana Larsen, who spearheaded the ill-conceived and failed decriminalization petition last year, heads up the serious-looking “Medical Cannabis Dispensary.” It has done so well at its location in the drug bazaar of East Hastings Street that it’s got a branch office on Vancouver’s west side.

Its official-looking forms have a long list of

conditions where only a confirmation of diagnosis is required. In addition to genuine conditions such as side effects of chemotherapy, it includes anxiety, psoriasis, spinal cord injury and even “substance addictions/withdrawal.”

And did you know you can get a vet’s note to buy medical pot for your pet?

Larsen has boasted about the exotic offerings of his stores, including

“watermelon hash oil” at $150 for 2.5 grams. Wow man, that’s like 400 million per cent higher!

Fittingly, this farce goes back underground on April Fool’s Day. Medical users can only order shipments from an approved commercial producer.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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ART 365, Arts Building, UBC Zach Walsh, Assist. Prof. Psychology, and research assistants Kim Crosby and Kelsey Lozenski discuss findings that compare the perceived effectiveness and risks of cannabis to other prominent treatments for arthritis. The trio will present these results, their research on the therapeutic use of cannabis, and discuss access barriers that patients encounter.

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ALTERNATIVE URBAN FUTURES

Thursday, February 13 | 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Mary Irwin Theatre, RCA, 421 Cawston Ave. This urban sustainability forum investigates alternative urban futures in the Okanagan.

Members of the Okanagan Nation Alliance and four distinguished Nordic scholars exchange ideas with UBC experts, the City of Kelowna, Food Not Bombs, Kelowna Cycling Coalition, Ki-Low-Na Friendship Centre, and RAMA Migrant Workers Justice Network.

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AGAINST GRAVITY BY MIND OF A SNAIL

Friday & Saturday, February 14 & 15 | 7 p.m.

University Theatre (ADM 026), Administration Building, UBC Part shadow puppetry, part live musical, duo Chloé Ziner and Jessica Gabriel (Vancouver) deliver a mind-bending journey through a world filled with surprises. Meet anti-gravity protesters, an advice-giving snail, and witness several near-death experiences. This is a production of UBC’s Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies 2013-14 season.

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Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Ave. Share your thoughts at this public consultation evening. Help create a shared vision for UBC’s Okanagan campus for the next 20 years and beyond. Learn more: aspire.ok.ubc.ca

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NEWS

BCFGA presidency race heating up as Steele enters Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR

Fred Steele is taking another run at the presidency of the B.C. Fruit Growers Association.

Steele, a 67-year-old Glenmore area orchardist who has twice served as a vice-president of the BCFGA and who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 2012, made the announcement Friday morning.

He will challenge incumbent Jeet Dukhia at next week’s 125th annual general meeting of the association in Kelowna.

Steele lost his last bid to Kirpal Boparai in 2012. Boparai’s term was cut short in the December 2012 when he quit after he was expelled by the Okanagan Tree Fruit Co-operative for failing to live up to the terms of his contract and shipping his apples to an independent packer instead of the co-op in which he was a member.

Boparai was replaced

by Dukhia who was subsequently elected president last year.

Steele said he is running for the BCFGA’s top

Fred Steele job because he feels the organization is not being heard by government, in part because it does not have a plan and appears to him to have “lost its way.”

He said he has not seen a strategic plan for the organization in the last two years.

“Without a plan or a vision, if you go to government and say we want to partner with you but we don’t have a plan, that creates problems,” said Steele.

“We need a new approach and we need a plan beyond simply wanting something.”

According to Steele, membership in the BCFGA has dropped from more than 800 growers a few years ago to around 500 now. So he feels a bet-

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ter job has to be done to reach out to disaffected growers to try to lure them back into the fold.

Some local growers have responded to increased efforts of late from independent and out of province packing houses looking for fruit from this area.

Stressing he is not attacking Dukhia for his leadership over the last 18 months, Steele said he does feel changes are needed in the direction the association is moving.

“We need to be heard and seen—not necessarily louder but smarter.”

Citing problems with crop insurance programs and replant programs, Steele offered himself up as an experienced hand that can help redirect the growers’ association.

But he added it will take the combined effort of all BCFGA members to make that happen.

The BCFGA’s best role is when it advocates for others like the packing houses, as well as for growers, he said.

The election of the next BCFGA president will take place during the 125th AGM on Feb. 15.

Ottawa and Victoria called on for help in fighting mussels The Okanagan Basin Water Board is calling on the provincial and federal governments to step in and act before an invasive form of mussel spreads to the Okanagan and damages the local water supply.

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provincial and federal response since 2011. Research conducted for the OBWB notes the arrival of the mussels, originally from Europe, could cost the Okanagan more than $43 million a year to manage. They are known to create toxic algae blooms, ruin beaches with sharp shells, destroy boat motors, foul water intakes and outfalls, put the ecology of the water at risk— including its fishery and more. And, there is no proven method to eradicate the mussels once they arrive.

“It only takes one boat infested with the mussels, launching in our waters, to cause serious harm to our lakes,” said the OBWB’s executive director Anna Warwick Sears.

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BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL

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Valley First Credit Union plans to offer $27,000 in education awards to secondary and post-secondary students throughout B.C. this year.

Eleven education awards of $2,000 each will be presented to qualifying secondary and post-secondary students throughout the province who demonstrate outstanding school and community involvement.

The competition is open to students who are members of Valley First, or the dependent of a Valley First member, in good standing prior to July 1, 2013.

In recognition of Valley First’s innovative community program, Feed the Valley, two additional education awards of $2,500 each will be offered to secondary and post-secondary students who actively volunteer with their local food bank.

Applicants for this award do not need to be a member of Valley First to qualify.

These award applications and full qualifying criteria can be picked up at any Valley First branch or downloaded online.

All submissions are due by 5 p.m. on Monday, March 31, 2014 and award recipients will be notified in early May. Over the last 14 years, Valley First has provided more than $300,000 to students going on to post-secondary education.

HOUSE SALES

The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board (OMREB) says it was a “smooth” start to 2014 with January sales activity of all MLS property types up 30 per cent compared to the first month of 2013.

While total active listings continue to trend downward and inventories have declined more than 10 per cent year-over-year for five consecutive months, the market is slowly moving toward a more balanced state, says OMREB, adding it remains in buyer’s territory which can prove challenging for sellers and buyers alike.

“Proper pricing is still critical in our market and is the key to successful home sales,” says OMREB. Savvy home sellers who are competitive and market conscious are sharpening their pencils when setting a list prices.

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nine-restaurant franchise group and visiting members of the Orange Country Sheriff’s Department from southern California got together at Kelowna airport to celebrate raising $108,610 for the Sunshine Foudation to send kids with life-threatening illness to Disneyland.

Accelerate Okanagan, metabridge join Accelerate Okanagan (AO) says metabridge, one of Canada’s leading technology events, is the newest addition to the AO brand.

Metabridge provides top Canadian startup companies with direct access to key partners from the Silicon Valley and other technology centres across North America.

Through its unique executive retreat format, metabridge provides incredible networking, connecting and relationship building opportunities with global technology leaders through pitch competitions, VIP networking events and some of the Okanagan’s finest leisure activities.

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and are excited to add their firepower to metabridge,” said Steve Wandler, founder of metabridge. “This is an exciting opportunity for metabridge and AO to join forces and maximize the impact of their efforts in support of Canadian entrepreneurs.”

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▼ ENTREPRENEURS

Networking is an avenue you can use to boost your success

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thought I would broaden the perspective this week about entrepreneurship with an element that relates to one of the important features of behaving in an entrepreneurial fashion—networking.

There appears a revolution of sorts occurring in Europe, Canada and the U.S. That revolution is the formation of “ business networks.”

Is this something that is intellectually original, a new phenomena? No, it is not. Networking has been a conventional business practice in a variety of fashion for many years.

What are business networks? Essentially, they are informal groupings of successful or about to become successful small and medium sized enterprises which come together to form a critical mass in order to compete in a more diversified fashion in the market place.

The management text on our wall tells us that it is similar to a “virtual corporation.”

This critical mass allows enterprises to achieve the ever popular and critical competitive advantage that we love to talk and read about while contemplating our next entrepreneurial milestone.

Such competitive advantages may relate to the following examples: • Scale—to share complementarities and resources, reduce costs • Scope—to identify and capitalize on the new market opportunities that may occur and; • Speed—recognizing that time is an essential factor in being competitive at any level of market entry.

Interestingly, small and medium enterprises can form any type of business network that would assist them to become more competitive and enhance their opportunity for market growth.

In practice, and I do believe strongly, that all of us, regardless of size, can learn and acquire new

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ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT

Joel Young skills from this description, there are three general categories of networks: • Horizontal. They are usually in the same industry sector e.g. agri-food, forestry and at the same stage of development within a relatively same geographic proximity • Vertical. That is where the small- and mediumsized enterprises are suppliers to larger, final-product manufacturers i.e. where the larger source from the smaller enterprises • Cross-sectoral. That is where un-related small and medium enterprises

work as partners with other firms from different sectors often highly productive in innovation and new product development.

These business network configurations enable member firms to co-operate and collabor-

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These business network configurations enable member firms to co-operate and collaborate.

ate in order to leverage the marketplace to better advantage, to grow, to export, to reinvest, to diversify, thus, becoming engines of growth and

contributing substantially to building a new economic base for a region such as the Okanagan.

The process, quite frankly, dear readers, of forming business networks is quite simple in conceptual design.

The first stage involves getting prospective membership together to explore the feasibility of doing a singular project together, such as joint marketing, joint or group procurement, or even forming an export market consortium which would be an interesting venue for many of our smaller wineries in the Okanagan.

The second stage requires the preparation of a business plan putting it all together with the third stage being the actual implementation of the plan itself.

Business networks constantly go through

this cycle, refocusing and re-combining with new partnerships to leverage the marketplace.

Several years ago, I had the opportunity to lead the formation of training for 20 business network brokers in Saskatchewan that provided

a forum for prompting the creation of many business networks in several sectoral areas.

I think, through the Okanagan Valley Entrepreneurs Society, we could establish that assistance to industry sectors here, as well, and I will

plan to present my recommendation to the board of the society later this week.

Joel Young is an entrepreneurial leadership coach, educator and consultant and founder, Okanagan Valley Entrepreneurs Society. eagleyoung@shaw.ca

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SENIORS

The four steps you can take to achieve conscious ‘eldering’

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rowing older is contemplative and opens a door to a lot of discovery if we let it. It is a vulnerable process and takes courage to face the fact that everything changes, everything ages. There are many external adjustments that are often happening, but it is the internal journey that holds great promise for discovery.

Aging is beyond our control, but how we age is up to us. I have often heard the phrase: “It’s all downhill from here,” in

SENIORS’ CONCERNS

Marjorie Horne reference to life after 60.

The question that really poses a dilemma for each of us is: Are you going to slide down the hill or are you going to steer?

Richard Lewis states in his book, Aging As A Spiritual Practice, that our

life consists of “the things that happened to happen.”

He describes his experience of aging in four distinct steps.

The first step of steering the aging process is an “aha” moment when we truly wake up to the fact that we are aging.

It is as though a veil lifts and we actually see ourselves in the mirror.

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pecting it.

Watching her frailty and her internal struggles of facing her own mortality forced me to stop and assess my own.

At this stage of awareness, the significance of all of the ups and the downs we have experienced over our lifetime are more apparent. We stop seeing things as we wished they were and in the present moment can see them as they actually are.

Making a choice to accept that everything has happened perfectly is there for the taking.

I am not saying this is easy. Having a goal to get to wisdom and the gratitude that goes with it requires us to do the work of being honest with ourselves and dealing with emotions and beliefs that can be difficult.

The rewards when we do, however, are incredibly maturing in an unbelievably good way.

Coming to terms with our age is the second step. As we wander through this passage, it is a time of compar-

ing ourselves with how we were when we were younger.

Our view of ourselves may be positive or it may be negative.

We hold a picture of how we once were and measure it against the “new me” that is looking back at us in the mirror.

We may feel happiness or we may feel regret.

For me, this step involved making the decision one Saturday morning as I left for an appointment at the hairdressers, to not get my usual monthly dye job to maintain the rich brown colour of my hair.

I had been dyeing my hair for about 25 years, as we have a gene in our family that turns our hair white in our 30s.

My older sister had been proudly wearing hers white for years, while I stubbornly kept mine dark brown.

Today was the day.

The decision came unexpectedly, as I accepted the losing battle I had fought to hide the increasingly obvious whiteness

of the new hair growing in.

“Yes, bleach it all white,” I said to my hairdresser. And so she did.

I faced the shocked looks of my husband and my work colleagues in the days that followed and the many questions of why, why.

“It was time,” was all I needed to say, as I knew within myself that I had come to terms with my age and my white hair.

In three months the pure whiteness was there, as I expected, and I felt a great sense of freedom and joy as I moved on with life, letting my white hair shine.

Step three is adaptation.

This is when we no longer compare ourselves to the past and rest in the age we are now.

The wisdom of adaptation begins when we are willing to let go of who we used to be and begin to embrace who we are now.

It feels good and you begin to feel your wings forming to take flight.

There is a lot of challenge

in this stage that involves adapting to change and remaining flexible as increasing signs of wear and tear are evident in the aging process.

Resistance may get the better of us at times, because change does not always bring good things and our nature is to fight it.

And finally, step four is about appreciation.

It is a coming to full acceptance that we each have our own life, full of its own unique experiences.

Maturity is the reward of taking the journey and new doors open to live as a conscious elder, truly comfortable with being exactly who you are right now.

Come join in more discovery of conscious eldering at the workshop, A Path to Elderhood.

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Dealing with loss of a life partner

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oping with this loss of a life partner is one of life’s biggest and often unplanned for challenges.

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Don’t feel you have to face this loss on your own. During this time, choose a friend or family member to talk to and share your thoughts. You may choose to talk to a grief counsellor or therapist, who has the training and experience to help you navigate through your grief.

Some decisions will have to be made quickly and other decisions can be made over the following weeks, months or years.

As you move past the initial loss of a loved one, you will need to identify the important next steps to take.

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Doreen Smith Life continues for the living and decisions need to be made.

Review your will and ensure it is up to date. If you do not have a will, make sure you receive professional advice and get a new will in place.

If you have minor children, ensure a guardian is named in your will.

This is a time to review the beneficiary details on your investments and life insurance. If you have life insurance or group investments through your employer, contact your workplace administrator to complete

the forms on the updated beneficiary information.

Review your individual existing coverage’s to ensure you have sufficient insurance in force.

You may now have the responsibility of being the sole provider for children or additional family responsibility.

A review of your insurance helps ensure your insurance protection aligns with your family needs and your financial objectives. After the loss of a key family member, your financial situation may have changed with your need to increase your key insurance coverage.

With the passing of a spouse, your financial goals, needs and risk tolerance may change and cash flow may need immediate adjusting. Identify current income vs debt. Review all debt in-

cluding credit card debt and pay off the highest interest debt in order of preference. Review your cash flow and consolidate debt if necessary.

Losing a loved one changes your entire life, especially when your loved one was also your best friend. A number of unexpected life events can impact progress towards life goals and financial objectives.

In bereavement, we spend different lengths of time working through our grief and expressing the stages at different times and at different intensities.

After life changing events, it is important to review and identify any concerns you have.

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SPORTS

Ringette takes over

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RECRUITMENT

More than 1,200 ringette players ranging from five-year-olds to elite, over-18 players filled Central Okanagan ice rinks from Winfield to West Kelowna on the weekend as the 24th annual Kelowna Sweetheart Ringette Tournament took place all weekend long.

Twelve teams from Kelowna, several more from West Kelowna and Winfield, 67 from all over B.C. and 11 from Alberta took part in the annual event which featured everything from beginner players to an exhibition game between the National Ringette League alumni and the 2015 Canada Winter Games prospects in what was another resounding success for the Kelowna Ringette Association.

“I think this was the best tournament we have had from an organizational standpoint,” said Melissa Elsom, tournament director. “We had quite a few comments from people to our volunteers that this is the best-run tournament that they attend all season.”

With a theme centred around the spirit of sweetheart, arenas were decorated with hearts and vendors sold heart shaped products like necklaces.

The highlight came Saturday night when 1,000 people poured into Royal LePage Place in West Kelowna for the opening ceremonies, a dazzling display that saw athletes march in to the rink in their jerseys.

Hundreds of volunteers helped make the event a success on the weekend and organizers were resting Monday after another great weekend of ringette.

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Coyotes start down south The Okanagan College Coyotes officially opened their 2014 spring season on Saturday in Phoenix, Arizona.

The club left on Thursday to make the trip south and play 15 exhibition games in Phoenix and Las Vegas before returning home to open the regular season schedule.

“We will have our hands full for the entire trip,” said head coach Geoff White. “Regardless of the scoreboard, it’s an experience our players will never forget, great weather, great fields, the best competition south of the border and 12 days on a bus.”

On Monday the ‘Yotes battled Arizona Christian University, perhaps the nicest facility on the trip. The ACU Firestorm Field celebrates just its second birthday the same day the Coyotes pay their

visit. Arizona Christian is a NAIA, four year program that has produced some terrific talent.

One of the many highlights for the Coyotes will be a doubleheader against Central Arizona College (CAC) on Feb. 12.

The Vaqueros are typically ranked as one of the top five programs in the country. The last two years the Coyotes have faced CAC they were ranked #1 in the country and lost 2-1 and 3-1.

Valentine’s Day the Coyotes will play their first game in Las Vegas when they take on Colorado Northwestern of the Scenic West Athletic Conference.

Assistant coach Jared Johnson says the Coyotes are looking forward to the warm weather.

“Having the opportunity for our guys to travel down to the states es-

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pecially Arizona and Las Vegas where it’s nice and warm, it’s a lot better than here with zero degree weather and snow still on the ground,” he said.

The Coyotes conclude their trip on Feb. 16 against the College of Southern Nevada, a program that has produced players such as Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals.

The trip south is completely funded by the team.

Following their trip the Coyotes will continue to practise and play a handful of exhibition games including two different series against the UBC Thunderbirds in Vancouver.

The Coyotes will play their first league game on March 28 at Elks Stadium against the University of Calgary Dinos.

UBCO athletes honoured Saturday evening marked the final games in the careers of five standout athletes from UBC Okanagan, as the women’s volleyball team graduated Jillian Festival, Lenai Schmidt, and Kendra Wayling, and the men graduated Nate Speijer and Davis Proch.

Here’s a look at the careers of the volleyball players who were honoured by the Heat following their final games on the weekend.: Jillian Festival - Team captain Jillian Festival joined the Heat for the 2009/10 season and was crucial in the Heat’s BCCAA provincial gold medal victory, as well as their CCAA National Championship victory that same year. She was named BCCAA Rookie of the Year that season, and her strong play would continue thereafter. Festival was named CIS Academic All-Canadian in the

Jillian Festival

Davis Proch

Heat’s inaugural CIS season.

“Coming in, I wasn’t expecting this journey,” said Festival following her final game Saturday night. “It has been such an amazing time these past five years. My teammates

became my family, and I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything.”

Kendra Wayling - Kendra joined the program for the 2010 season from North Idaho College and had an immediate impact, helping the Heat win

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their second BCCAA Provincial gold in as many years. She was also the recipient of the CCAA National Scholar award that season. The following season, Wayling was crucial in helping UBC Okanagan bridge the gap into the CIS, and her academic accolades continued to grow as she was named CIS Academic All-Canadian.

“I didn’t think my time here would be this intense and exciting,” said Wayling. “I didn’t think I’d get the opportunity to actually play CIS volleyball and it has been such a

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Chris Harrington (right) chases down SOBC– Coquitlam athlete Kyle McLaughlin in snowshoe racing Saturday at West Kelowna’s Telemark during the B.C. Special Olympics Snow Sports Festival held on the weekend.

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so surreal standing here now.”

great and amazing time to be a part of this team and to see how far we’ve come in only three seasons.”

Lenai Schmidt - Hailing from Vernon, Schmidt joined the Heat in 2009 fresh off of a AAA Provincial Championship with her Kalamalka team. The winning would continue for Schmidt as the rookie took the starting libero role and ran with it, helping the Heat win BCCAA Provincial Gold and the CCAA National Championship crown in her first season.

When asked to describe how she was feeling following the last home game of her career, she said, “I just remember being in my first year and thinking that five years was so far in the future, and here we are. It’s

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to come back to Kelowna and play for my hometown team.”

Nate Speijer - Where to even begin? One of the most decorated UBCO players of all time, Speijer joined the Heat in 2008, and during his three-year stint at the collegiate level, he would lead the Heat to BCCAA Provincial Bronze, CCAA National Championship Bronze, BCCAA Provincial Gold, and CCAA National Championship Silver.

In 2009/10, Speijer was named BCCAA Player of the Year, in addition to being named CCAA All-Canadian and winning the UBC Okanagan Heat Male Athlete of the Year. In 2011/12, the Heat made the move to the CIS, and Nate would continue his dominating play, finishing the season 5th in the CIS in kills

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Davis Proch - Proch joined the Heat in 2012 after playing three seasons in the BCCAA with the Camosun Chargers. The Kelowna-native jumped at the opportunity to join his home-town team and in his first season with the Heat he played in 13 of 22 Canada West matches, logging 110 assists.

Proch will finish his UBC Okanagan career third in school history with 207 total assists, and second with 3.29 assists per set ratio.

“I grew up watching UBC Okanagan, and I figured that one day I would play here,” said Proch.

“When the opportunity came to join the Heat and play in the CIS came, I was stoked. It means a lot

and 11th in service aces.

He was named to the Canada West All-Star team (Second) and was named UBC Okanagan Heat Male Athlete of the Year for the second time. An injury saw him on the sidelines in 2012 but he returned to dominate again this year.

“I’m just trying to take it all in, it’s surreal to be honest,” said Speijer. “I can still remember stepping on this court for the first time and lacing up the shoes. Just the amount of guys that have come and go through this program and to play with the new wave of Heat players makes me feel really good. I’m excited to see where this team goes, and I hope I taught them something along the way.

It’s a promising young group of guys I’m leaving behind.”

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Despite wins, Warriors drop rank The West Kelowna Warriors climbed out of a hole and salvaged a point in Prince George on Saturday night, earning three out of a possible four points on the weekend but losing ground in the race for first place in the BCHL Interior Division.

After a 6-2 win in Merritt on Friday the Warriors traveled to Prince George but got off to a

sluggish start and trailed 2-0 at the end of the first period.

But the Warriors surged in the second half of the game, fighting back to tie the game before Prince George won it in overtime.

“It was just a slow start for us” West Kelowna defenceman Adam Plant said of his team’s sleepy first period. “Call it travel

or a massive meal before – we don’t want to get into excuses – we just need to come to the game ready to go every time.”

The Warriors picked up five of a possible six points in their last three games, all of them on the road.

The Vees however had three wins in the same time and West Kelowna now trails Penticton for

three points in the race for first place in the BCHL Interior.

With just eight games left in the regular season, the Warriors can clinch a playoff spot in the tight Interior Division with a pair of wins.

They are back in action on Tuesday when they host Merritt before playing Victoria and Vernon this weekend.

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KELOWNA native and UBC captain Christi Capozzi (middle) was one

of three seniors honoured for their last season as Thunderbirds in a pre-game ceremony recently in Vancouver. Capozzi, 22, who plays defence, is in her fifth and final season with the Thunderbirds’ program. UBC is the defending Canada West champion and leads the conference this season with a 20-5-1 record.

The other players are Nadine Burgess (left) and Kelsey Halvorson.

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▼ MP’S REPORT

The public helped craft today’s federal budget, says MP W hen my colleague KerryLynne Findlay, Minister of National Revenue, paid us a visit in January, we had the opportunity to visit Kelowna International Airport to showcase how $1.25 million in federal gas tax funding has been invested locally.

Because of the funding, the airport and other city owned buildings are now more energy-efficient. The work at YLW and other city buildings was done by sourcing local suppliers and workers.

It’s a great example of taxpayers’ dollars reinvested into the community.

I know from my nine years of working as a Kelowna city councillor that it is difficult for local governments to plan for, and raise, the money for longterm capital projects. But,

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Ron Cannan since 2011, the federal government has made the gas money permanent funding that provides predictable, long-term help for Kelowna, Lake Country and communities across Canada to meet their local infrastructure needs.

Important initiatives like this are the direct result of consultations with the public. It was municipalities, for instance, that encouraged the government to make the gas tax permanent. Consultations with Canadians are at the core of how the federal government determines

what will be included in any federal budget.

Every year, constituents are given the opportunity to contribute to the discussion by attending hearings by the Standing Committee on Finance or participating locally in roundtable meetings hosted by elected officials and local business associations: Minister Findlay, for instance, joined constituents, community organizations, and those from the education and business sectors in a prebudget roundtable hosted by the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce.

And while the finance minister met with private sector economists, academics and business representatives in Ottawa, Canadians were also contributing ideas through an online portal at Finance Canada or by sending them to their local MPs.

This allowed the government to get a full picture of what everyone was saying about the economy and provided direction for Budget 2014, which will be presented today.

Budget day always generates a great deal of interest and excitement in Ottawa. The Centre Block crawls with cameras, pundits and experts waiting to be the first to discuss the budget’s contents and rate the government’s performance. Local reporters contact my office so I can comment on how the budget will benefit our communities.

I don’t know everything that will be in the budget but you can be certain it will focus on the drivers of growth and job creation—innovation, trade and investment, education, skills and communities—and also on helping families with the

cost of living and raising a family. It will also reiterate the government’s ongoing commitment to lower taxes and a return to balanced budgets by 2015.

Although one cannot predict what will happen globally, sound fiscal

management has put us in a good position: We’re expecting a surplus of just under $4 billion in 2015– 16.

We have managed to accomplish this while providing record levels of funding to the provinces and territories for health

care and social programs and reducing the tax burden of the average Canadian family of four by nearly $3,400 since 2006.

Ron Cannan is the Conservative MP for Kelowna-Lake Country. ron@cannan.ca

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BROLUND, LUETTA (neeTHIESSEN) August 9, 1941 ~ January 28, 2014

Went to be with the Lord and her husband Ed Brolund, with her daughter Veronica by her side. Born to parents Elizabeth and George Thiessen.

Luetta will be remembered by her children; Susan, Sheldon and Veronica. Her grandchildren: Micah, Dexter, Tristen Natalie; Sister, Audrey Pihulyk , brother Ed Thiessen as well as her step-children; Jason and Jolene Brolund their children Emily, Mason and Cole. Special and warm thanks to her friends and caregivers at the Village at Mill Creek for their dedication and kind care until her final days.

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EDGEWORTH, CHARLENE BARBARA (nee FERRIS) Passed away on February 4, 2014 after a lengthy battle with cancer at the age of 74.

Survived by her loving family, son Charles (Vania) and their daughter Isabel and her sister Elspeth Bird. Predeceased by her husband Ken in 2008 and her son Neil in 1997.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, February 15th at 1:00 pm at the Rutland United Church, 1370 Rutland Road North, Kelowna, BC. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Kelowna General Hospital Foundation, Cottonwoods Extended Care, 2268 Pandosy Street, Kelowna, BC, V1Y 1T2.

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Deadline to participate in charrette

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Kelowna will hold an urban design workshop, known as a charrette, Feb. 25 and 26 as part of the process to craft a new plan for South Pandosy area waterfront.

But if you want to “The engagement process is underway to develop design guidelines for the neighbourhood, much like we did for the Downtown Plan, along with a site design for the seven city-owned lakefront properties on Abbott Street, just north of Cedar Avenue,” said Graham Hood, strategic land development manager for

the city. “Our online engagement tool continues to be very active and the next step is the charrette.”

About 25 to 30 volunteers will participate, representing diverse interests of the neighbourhood and Kelowna as a whole.

The goal, said Hood, is to have a balanced group, looking at a variety of perspectives to come up with the best solution for the site—residents, businesses and community organizations will all be involved.

To sign up as a neighbourhood resident or as a Kelowna resident-at-large

for the charrette, e-mail aearle@kelowna.ca by end of today (Feb. 11) with your name and contact information.

Stakeholder groups have been contacted directly. If there are several volunteers representing any one interest group, names will be drawn in lottery style.

Even if you can’t participate, the city says you can follow the charrette progress, check out the work of the participants and share your thoughts about the outcomes.

The public charrette review sessions go Feb. 25

and Feb. 26 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, 3131 Lakeshore Rd. An open house will be held Feb. 27 from 5 to 8 p.m. St. Paul’s United Church as well.

If you can’t make it in person, you’ll still be able to see and comment on the information at getinvolved.kelowna.ca.

Feedback will be collected after these sessions until March 7.

For more information, visit kelowna.ca/ cityprojects or share your thoughts at getinvolved. kelowna.ca.

IHA named one of B.C.’s top employers For the second year in a row, Interior Health has been named one of B.C.’s top employers, a designation recognizing B.C. employers that lead their industries in providing exceptional workplaces.

“As I tour facilities throughout the region I am impressed by the professional and collabora-

tive attitudes of employees I meet,” said Minister of Health Terry Lake.

“It is clear that the health authority’s efforts to build an engaged workforce, along with the satisfaction gained from helping people, make Interior Health a great place to work.”

The competition con-

siders various criteria, such as recruitment and retention, high employment standards, physical workplace, work and social atmosphere, benefits, time off, employee communications, performance management, training and skills development, and community involvement.

Interior Health em-

ploys more than 18,000 people across a region that spans about 215,000 kilometres and includes the Central Okanagan.

“I have worked for Interior Health for 22 years.

Interior Health is innovative and progressive,” said Cathy Hanson, a pharmacy technician at Kelowna General Hospital.

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Lianka, Karma and Kelsey are senior Malteses and have been “pampered pooches” all their lives. They are all spayed and looking for a new home where they can continue that love. They are all a little shy at first meeting but will warm up to you with tolerance and patience. They would best be suited in a home with NO CHILDREN as they have never been exposed to that level of activity.

They are good with other dogs, have been trained to go outside using a ‘doggie door’ so when you adopt, you will need to work on their leash skills. All three are going to be great friends and companions to a new guardian. If you would like to meet either or all three of these little cuties, please ask the staff to set up a meet and greet. They can hardly wait to find their new ‘forever homes’.

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NEXT 2014 EVENT (always held on Saturday) MARCH 8 Lunch Soup, Sandwiches, Sweets with tea or coffee $5.00 For Sale Book, linens, jewellery, home baking, clothing, toys

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Refreshments Provided To Elect members of the Community Council for the branch, as well to conduct any other business of the Branch.

Anyone can attend. Members are eligible to vote.

2014 WISH LIST

Chewy & Wally are a handsome, young bonded pair who will need to be adopted together. They are really looking forward to finding a loving home where they can receive all the attention they deserve. If these two “wild’ n’ crazy’ guys have caught your eye and you have the perfect environment for them, please speak to our staff about meeting them.

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Rocko is a mature well mannered dog, and a true fav of our Vol Dog Walkers. He would prefer a home where there is lots of room to roam. If you have children we advise to bring them with you, as we aren’t sure of his compatibility. He seems to be just a ‘good ole boy’ who would fit into an active lifestyle...as he loves playing soccer. He is a wonderful, happy dog just waiting for a new family to call his own.

ADULT GUINEA PIG MALE

The Shelter is in immediate need of

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING KELOWNA BRANCH OF THE BC SPCA

ADULT LAB RETRIEVER/ GERMAN SHEPHERD X NEUTERED MALE

CHEWY ID#321503

Annual Membership: $30 (ages 18-65) For further information on the meeting, Branch Membership, or to obtain a copy of the draft agenda, please contact Kelowna Community Council at cckelowna@spca. bc.ca or call the Shelter at 250 861-7722.

A copy of the Constitution and Bylaws of the Society is available at: http://www.spca.bc.ca/about/governance-accountability/ governance-docs/

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Picaso is a great little girl. She is loving and so like to have a family of her very own and maybe a special spot by the window. A warm comfortable lap to lay in would be a real bonus, making her feel safe and loved. If you are looking for a sweet little companion and friend, she is right here waiting for you. Picaso is good with other cats, is tattoo’d and microchiped.

Lacey is a big girl and a real snuggle buddy. She can hardly wait to find her forever friend, even though she gets along great with the Shelter Volunteers, she would be a lot happier in her own environment , perhaps with another cat...that would suit her just fine. Please ask the staff to set up a meet and greet with this amazing feline. She will not disappoint you.

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Rico is a quiet & sweet natured guy... but also a little anxious. He may take some time to settle into a new home so his new guardians need to have lots of patience and understanding. Once he know you, he is very affectionate and smoochy. Rico came to the shelter with his bro Ruxy...it would be truly awesome if they could find a home together, as they are not compatible with other felines. We understand 2 cats can be a bit much, we are just hoping to find them the best homes... period.

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