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THE OKANAGAN College Coyotes will open the Canadian College Baseball Conference regular season schedule this weekend with games against the University of Calgary and Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs in Kamloops.
COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart says the popular Wok Inn Chinese food restaurant is opening a new takeout service at the Mission Creek Golf Course.
MOVIE PREVIEWER Rick Davis said a new film opening this week, Divergent, hopes to follow on the serial success enjoyed by Twilight and The Hunger Games.
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Balcony sprinkler concept adopted Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER
All the suites in The Legacy, a Rutland condominium building devastated by a balcony fire, will soon have sprinklers covering their decks. Last summer, Kelowna’s fire chief, Jeff Carlisle, made a public plea to the owners of the stratified property, and all existing strata properties considering rebuilds or renovations, to retrofit the building with sprinklers over each balcony on the outside of the structure, particularly if home barbecues are permitted under the strata corporation’s bylaws. “It makes sense when you see the devastation caused by these kind of fires,” said Carlisle in an interview this week. In liaising with the condominium’s strata board members, the fire department has learned they took the chief up on his suggestion. New national regulations ensure all new wood-frame construction must include sprinklers on balconies. But in his report to council on the issue last September, Carlisle noted See Concept A13
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PLAYOFF DRIVE…Tyrell Goulbourne, of the Kelowna Rockets, attempts to score on goaltender Evan Sarthou, of the Tri City Americans, during third period
play on March 8 at Prospera Place. The two teams begin a WHL best-of-seven playoff series on Saturday at Prospera Place. See story on A22.
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Mayor is ready to retire from civic politics Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR
Kelowna’s mayor has made it official—he will not seek re-election in this November’s civic election. Gray made the announcement late Tuesday, ending months of speculation about his political future. “As a courtesy to any others who may wish to seek the position, it is important that I make my intentions known at this time,” he said.
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“However, we still have a lot of work to do in the next eight months and I expect our council team to remain focused on following through on our plans.” Gray was first elected as a councillor in 1986, serving two two-year terms before stepping away from politics to concentrate on his radio business. He ran for mayor in
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1996 and won and was re-elected in 1999 and 2002 before losing the 2005 election to Sharon Shepherd. He did not run in the 2008 mayoral election that Shepherd easily won but ran against her in 2011and won in a close vote. Speaking Wednesday, Gray said while he
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won’t take sides in the upcoming race to replace him, he did offer advice to two of his councillors, Gail Given and Colin Basran, who have publicly indicated they are considering a run for the mayor’s chair. Gray said when he met with the two councillors to tell them of his decision late Tuesday, he told them to not be in any hurry to finalize their decisions.
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