Kelowna Capital News, April 17, 2014

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KELOWNA CHIEFS name Jason Tansem as the KIJHL team’s new head coach.

COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart says a new business in town, Corks & Hops, offers a new way to visit local wineries in the Central and South Okanagan.

MOVIE columnist Rick Davis says the new film Heaven is for Real could be the box office champion over the Easter long weekend.

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Parole hearing to revive painful memories Kathy Michaels STAFF REPORTER

It’s been two years since Tammy Arishenkoff had to face the man who killed her childhood friends and make a plea to keep him behind bars. Under better circumstances that would be just enough time to let the memory of David Ennis explaining how he molested and tortured Janet Johnson before killing her and her family, fade into memory. Instead, Arishenkoff will continue to dredge up that and other painful memories so she can muster the energy for the newest bid to keep him behind bars. The National Parole Board is set to once again review whether Ennis, who was known as David Shearing in 1982 when he killed six members of the Johnson Bentley families, is fit for release. The last time around the board said Ennis still had violent sexual fantasies, hadn’t completed sex offender treatment and was not ready for freedom. This August, if the hearing goes through, Arishenkoff doesn’t expect a See Painful A6

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PREMIER Christy Clark announces the completion of the McDougall Creek flood mitigation work Wednesday afternoon, while West Kelowna Mayor Doug Findlater holds an umbrella overhead. See story on A7.

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No funding for local wildlife conflict issues Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER

Neither West Kelowna nor Kelowna will benefit from the $50,000 increase in funding to reduce wildlife conflict announced by Minister of Forest, Lands and Natural Resources, Steve Thomson, at the B.C. Wildlife Federation’s annual general meeting this month. Altogether, $275,000 has been set aside by the province to run the

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WildSafeBC education program, which targets reducing conflict between human beings and wild animals. But neither municipality has signed on to secure a coordinator for the region—a measure which would cost local government as little as $2,500 annually. “I’m absolutely shocked that we do not (have a WildSafeBC coordinator) given the size of Kelowna and, generally, how in touch we are with our surroundings, the outdoor recreation that we have,

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the number of orchardists and people that run vineyards that are directly impacted,” said conservation officer Terry Myroniuk. WildSafeBC grew out of BearAware, an outstanding education program which brought the number of bears killed annually as a result of conflict with people down from 1,000 provincewide in 1999, to just 400 before expanding to become WildSafeBC in 2013. Some 33 animals have been killed

as a result of conflict with people in the Central Okanagan this past year and its thought the program could greatly reduce that number. Myroniuk says he knows it would save animal’s lives if more education on how to keep animals out in the wild could be done. “We had a program to the north of us in Vernon last year, and to the south and Kelowna was a great big black

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