Kelowna Capital News, February 27, 2014

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KELOWNA ROCKETS centre Rourke Chartier has been one of the team’s top offensive producers of late racking up 25 points in 22 games.

COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart says a pizzeria that was burned out by the Burtch Plaza fire in 2012 has moved to a new location with a new name.

LIAM NEESON is at the helm of a new film called Non-Stop, in which a cryptic text message demanding millions is sent to a U.S. marshall aboard a TransAtlantic flight.

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Westside overpass project unveiled Wade Paterson STAFF REPORTER

Local residents, and a few members of the general public, got a closer look at what the Sneena Road Overpass Project will involve over the next nine months at an open house Tuesday. Evelyn Lube, spokesperson for the Sneena Road project, said while the open house was intended for residents living in the area, a few members of the general public showed up with other questions related to the project. According to information presented at the open house, the project will include an extension of Sneena Road from Nancee Way to Tomat Avenue, an extension of Sneena Road from Westside Road to Highway 97 near Campbell Road, a new overpass at Highway 97, as well as infrastructure upgrades and urbanization of local roadways. Literature provided warned local residents they can expect construction-related noise, including blasting, which will occur from March until See Unveiled A5

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SENDING A MESSAGE…Several people took part in the inaugural Pink Shirt Day walk held Wednesday afternoon to demonstrate participants their unwillingness to tolerate bullying. The walk started at the Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs youth centre in downtown Kelowna and ended at The Sails.

▼ MUNICIPAL POLITICS

Council seats to be filled now for four years Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR

When municipal voters head to the polls in November, they will be electing mayors, municipal councillors, regional district directors and board of education trustees to four-year terms. Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Develop-

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ment Coralee Oakes said Tuesday she will introduce legislation shortly to extend local government terms to four years from the current three. The change would take effect in time for the next local government elections in B.C., scheduled for November. Oakes said the change comes after delegates at the Union of B.C. Municipalities

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convention voted to support it at their convention last September. The issue had been debated many times over the years and proved to be divisive, with some rural politicians arguing against extending the commitment for jobs with little pay. The same resolution that passed last year was defeated by UBCM delegates by a slim majority in 2010.

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But while support has grown for the change since then, not everyone likes the idea of longer terms for local government politicians. In Kelowna, city council’s two longest-serving members see the issue differently. While Coun. Robert Hobson, who has sat on council for nearly 26 years supports it, his colleague Coun. Andre Blanleil,

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who has sat with Hobson on council for 20 years, does not. “This is a good move,” said Hobson, who was on the UBCM executive and supported the change in 2010 when it was shot down. He said with planning, especially financial planning, at the municipal level now more com-

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