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Growth plan decried

by John Arendt

Summerland’s proposed Urban Growth Strategy came under fire at a public hearing on

Tuesday evening as nearly all the speakers raised concerns and opposition to the plan.

The hearing was held

in the Summerland Secondary School gym and lasted for more than three hours.

The proposal calls

for the removal of 80.34 hectares of land within the Agricultural Land Reserve close to the core of the community. At the

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same time, 91.7 hectares in the Prairie Valley area would be added to the provincial land reserve.

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Medical marijuana

A Summerland family would like access to a special medical marijuana hybrid to treat a twoyear-old’s epilepsy.

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Bears destroyed

Three problem bears were killed in Lowertown last week.

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Earth Week

Many activities for all ages are planned for this year’s Earth Week celebrations in Summerland.

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New directors

Agur Lake Camp Society has a new board of directors in place for the coming year.

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Robin Hood

A well-loved story will be dramatized at Centre Stage Theatre this weekend.

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YOUR SMILE I slept like a log last night.

I woke up in the fireplace.

Finding Easter eggs

Carla McLeod Special to the Review

Seven-year-old Scout Parson, offers to share an Easter egg with four-year-old Cana Marsh, during the Easter Egg Hunt held at Summerland Spirit Square, Peach Orchard Park on Sunday. The event was sponsored by the Rotary Club.

Midway returns to Action Fest

by John Arendt For the first time since 2006, the Summerland Action Festival will include a midway this year.

Pat Bell, chair of the Action Festival board, said the board has made an agreement with West Coast Amusements.

“This gives the teens and pre-teens something

to do that’s a little more exciting for them,” he said.

With the loss of the midway, the festival saw changes in the people attending, especially in Memorial Park.

“We want to attract as many different age groups as possible,” he said.

The midway will be

similar in size and scope to a similar midway attraction in Penticton near the beginning of this month.

The previous midway attractions were from a company which was set up to provide more rides than Summerland could accommodate, Bell said.

As a result, when an opportunity became

available for the midway to provide its amusements at a larger venue, the Summerland service was discontinued.

“We’ve been looking ever since to get someone back,” Bell said. “We were finally able to get someone who can come up here.”

The Action Festival runs from June 6 to 8. It

includes a 72-team slopitch tournament, the Giant’s Head Run, the Man of Steel Triathlon, a parade and plenty of weekend entertainment.

The festival has been a Summerland tradition for the past 31 years.

In past years, attendance at the festival has been around 15,000 people.

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Anti-bullying artwork

Carla McLeod Special to the Review

The opening reception was held at the Summerland Art Gallery last Thursday evening, for Outlines: Artworks Inspired By Bullying. Numerous artists contributed to this exhibit, many local and several from the lower mainland. They courageously shared their stories, inviting viewers to share the feelings that inspired their works of art. Artist and organizer of the show, Traci-Jo Critchlow expressed her thanks to Summerland Bully Free, particularly its founder, Tina Martin, who provided support throughout the process of assembling the exhibit. From left are, Summerland Bully Free committee members Martin Van Alphen, Tina Martin, artist Traci-Jo Critchlow and committee member Linda Van Alphen.

Three bears destroyed in Lowertown

by John Arendt

Conservation officers destroyed a mother black bear and two juvenile bears in Lowertown last week after the bears were con-

sidered a danger to residents in the area.

The incident occurred on April 14 at 10:48 a.m. when the bears were seen getting garbage in the back of a truck on Lakeshore Drive.

Conservation officers were called and after observing the bears, made the decision to have them put down.

Barb Leslie, inspector in charge of operations for the

Conservation Officer Leslie said the deci- dents should put Service, Okanagan sion to put down the their garbage out on Region, said the bears bears was not made the morning of garhad become habitu- lightly. bage pickup days, not ated to garbage, “It’s unfortunate on the night before. had lost their fear of the officers had to Bird feeders should people and appeared destroy the bears,” not be used at this to be in poor health. she said. “We don’t time of year.

“They were walk- like doing that.”

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“The fact that the bears were getting into the back of a pickup is an exceedingly dire situation,” she said.

Education is needed to reduce the number of problem wildlife encounters, Kirk said.

“We would have to do some on-theground education here,” she said.

While WildSafe BC works to provide awareness and education in the region, Kirk said the time available for such training is limited.

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Public rejects land exchange in growth plan

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“It is important es this reading, the not just for Sum- bylaw will go to the merland but for our provincial Agriculentire province of tural Land CommisBritish Columbia.” sion for approval.

“Prime agriculIf the land comtural land needs to mission approves the be preserved,” said growth strategy, the Linda Beaven. plan will then come “We need to be back to council for accountable to future adoption. generations for their The report from a food supply.” lengthy consultation “The land is process came before the most precious council in December resource there is, and has generated everywhere in the much community world,” said Keith interest and concern Carlson. since that time.

Steve Brown, a An earlier pubhorticulturalist, said lic hearing had been the land slated for held in early March, removal and the but at that hearing, land to go into the in the Arena Banland reserve are not quet Room, some the same quality. “ T h e “I strongly urge you to l a n d s hold a referendum on the are not proposed Urban Growth comparable,” he Strategy.”

David Williams said. He added that he has taken numerous who wished to attend soil samples from the were locked out as properties in ques- the room was filled tion. to capacity.

Some of those who Comments made spoke asked coun- at the March 3 meetcil to let the public ing remain in the decide whether to public record. proceed with the All comments and growth strategy. written submissions “I strongly urge from the that meeting you to hold a referen- and from the hearing dum on on Tuesday are part the pro- of the record and will “Farm land is important. p o s e d be sent to the land U r b a n commission.

It is important not just Growth On April 7, counfor Summerland but for Stratcil held a town hall e g y, ” our entire province of information session s a i d British Columbia.”

D a v i d to answer questions David Finnis Williams. from the public about the plan.

E r i n At least 350 people that this process Carlson, organizer attended. was flawed from the of the Stop the Swap Two members of start,” said Barbara group, said a petition municipal council, opposing the growth Thorburn. strategy has grown to Coun. Bruce Hall“We have wast- more than 3,000 sig- quist and Coun. ed a whole bunch natures, 1,500 of them Lloyd Christopherof money getting from Summerland son, both own land a 91-page report residents. within the affected together that is comNow that the pub- area. pletely flawed,” lic hearing has conAs a result, they added Brian Adams. cluded, the bylaw have not participated Others said Sum- will come back to in any of the discusmerland’s agricul- municipal council sions or votes on the tural land must be at the next meeting proposed growth preserved. which will be held plan and have not “Farm land is on Monday, April been present at the hearings on the important,” said 28.

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David Finnis.

More than 200 people were present at the hearing.

Most of the 39 speakers at the hearing spoke about their opposition to the land exchange in the plan.

“Thank you for reminding us what a bad trade looks like,” said Don Gayton. He added that the proposal is the result of “a flawed and predetermined consultation process.”

George Lerchs said the growth strategy does not make sense based on the available information about the community.

“A reasonable person would not reach this conclusion,” he said.

Heather Ross also questioned the conclusions in the growth strategy.

“Future growth has to be based on rational thought, not fantasizing,” she said.

Others were also disappointed with the way in which the community consultation process was conducted.

“I am concerned

Cleaning up

Carla McLeod Special to the Review

Once a year, the members of the Bottleneck Drive get together to clean up a section of Highway 97 from Arkell Road south to Sunoka Provincial Park. This year it was prearranged with the Highways Department to do it on Earth Day, so despite the rain the work must go on. From left are Jayne Graydon from Saxon Winery, Kurt Freistadt from Sumac Ridge Winery, Mike West from Okanagan Crush Pad and Arjan Smits from Sonoran Winery.

April 2014 is Volunteer Month

POLICE REPORT Stolen vehicle recovered

On April 17 at 5:20 p.m., Summerland RCMP members patrolling at Sunoka Beach noticed a vehicle which appeared out of place.

The vehicle had B.C. plates and appeared to be registered out of Revelstoke, but the plates did not match the vehicle.

The truck had been stolen from Calgary earlier.

A 47-year-old East Coast man was arrested for possession of stolen property and was held in custody. He appeared in court in Penticton on Tuesday morning.

Theft attempted

On April 14 Summerland RCMP members were called to the gravel pit on Bathville Road following the attempted theft of copper.

Electrical wires were cut, but nothing was taken.

Police believe the thieves were scared off before they could remove the wire.

Driver prohibited

A Summerland motorist was issued a driving prohibition following a single vehicle accident on April 18.

The accident occurred at 2 p.m. on Dale Meadows Road. Alcohol and speed were both factors.

There were no injuries.

The driver received a 90-day driving prohibition and the vehicle was impounded for 30 days.

Vehicles damaged

Police were called following a two-vehicle accident on April 17 at 10:30 a.m.

The accident, at Prairie Valley Road and Barr Street, was caused when a motorist backed out of a driveway without looking.

There was minor damage to the vehicle, but there were no injuries, police say.

FOR THE RECORD A story in the April 17 Summerland Review had an incorrect attribution.

In the story about the drop-in x-ray service, Janice Perrino was speaking as the chair of the Regional Hospital District for Interior Health, not as the executive director of the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation.

While she serves in both capacities, the decision to add the drop-in service came from the Interior Health Authority.

The Review apologizes for the error.

OUR THANKS & APPRECIATION to all of the Volunteers who donate their time and skills to Health Services in Summerland

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Festival activities The return of the midway at the Summerland Action Festival this spring will help to enhance the weekend experience for all who attend.

The midway had been a popular feature until 2006, when the company supplying the midway rides chose to end its relationship with the festival.

While the Action Festival draws an estimated 15,000 people each year, the space was limited and a full-scale midway was not possible in Memorial Park.

The midway this year will be designed to work with the size of the festival and the space available.

While the three-day festival has plenty of events throughout the weekend, the loss of the midway took away some of the appeal for teens.

As a result, the atmosphere and ambiance in Memorial Park changed. This change was most noticeable in the first years without the midway.

Bringing back the rides will help to enhance the festival’s reputation as a weekend with something for everyone.

The Action Festival board should be commended for the persistent effort it took to find a suitable midway company.

This was no easy task and it required several years to achieve.

Now that the rides are returning, it is important that they are not lost again.

Over the years, the Action Festival has gone through various changes and it is inevitable that it will continue to evolve in the future. However, it is important that a festival of this magnitude can offer something for all who wish to attend.

The festival, held in early June each year, is a successful Summerland tradition which serves to benefit the entire community.

Decisions made at present will affect the festival for many years to come.

An exhibit at the Summerland Art Gallery features artwork which addresses issues surrounding bullying.

While the anti-bullying message has been made for many years, the artwork may help some gain a deeper understanding of this issue and the many effects it can have.

Bullying is an ongoing concern.

It is an issue which needs an ongoing dialogue.

Inconvenient truths for Earth Day VICTORIA – Earth Day 2014 will likely go down in B.C. history as less exciting than last year’s event.

That was the day when, in the heat of the election campaign, NDP leader Adrian Dix announced in Kamloops that he doesn’t support the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline to its Burnaby terminal, because Va n c o u v e r s h o u l d n ’ t Tom Fletcher become a “major oil port.”

As of this Earth Day, it has been an oil port for exactly a century, since Imperial Oil began work on B.C.’s first refinery in 1914, in what is now Port Moody.

There were no pipelines then, so crude was moved by rail or tanker.

For 60 years, Trans Mountain has supplied the Chevron refinery in Burnaby that is southern B.C.’s last source of fuel.

Some of the Alberta crude is piped south to be refined into fuels and some of that product is barged back up to B.C. to keep our traffic moving.

Today the proposal to expand and upgrade that pipeline, and to build new oil and natural gas pipelines across the north, dominate B.C.’s political scene.

In keeping with the educational aspect of Earth Day, here are some things you may not know about energy and the environment.

o A recent National Geographic report summarizes the main sources of oil in the oceans around North America.

Media coverage focuses on tanker and pipeline spills, but they only account for eight per cent of the total.

Fully 60 per cent of the oil load in North American waters is from natural seeps, where oil leaks from seafloor rock.

One of the world’s largest is off Santa Barbara, California, where 20 to 25 tons flows out each day.

It’s mostly consumed by oileating bacteria that have adapted and proliferated.

The next biggest source is leakage from cars and trucks, which collects on pavement and is flushed to sea when it rains. o Earth Day is now preceded by Earth Hour, during which we are encouraged to turn out our lights to join a world-wide gesture of conservation.

Many people use the occasion for a candlelight dinner.

Given that B.C.’s power is nearly all from renewable hydroelectric sources, and that the paraffin used to make candles is derived from petroleum or coal, this feel-good ritual produces an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

David Suzuki is now promoting the idea of Earth Month, an expansion of the symbolic effort designed to “raise awareness.”

This is a popular notion in

the climate change industry, which to date consists mostly of government officials and activists flying around the world to conferences in exotic locations to sign agreements that lead to, well, not much so far. o Unlike Earth Hour, B.C.’s carbon tax on fuels actually appears to be helping to reduce emissions.

An update to provincial data is due this year, but what we have shows a 5.7 per cent decrease in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases between 2007 and 2011.

Environment ministers have conceded that some of this is due to the recession that struck in 2008-2009.

But since the economy has recovered and begun to grow again, emissions have continued to decline. o There are simple things anyone can do, without gimmicks or government programs.

One would be to stop protesting increased housing density in your community.

By far the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in B.C., not to mention old-fashioned pollution, is transportation.

By living closer to where we work, shop and play, we can exercise our legs instead of just our gas pedal foot to get around.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @ tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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There are too many accounts of problem wildlife incidents in Summerland.

The latest occurred last week, when three bears were put down in Lowertown.

As long as food sources, including garbage, are readily available to bears and other wildlife, these incidents will continue, resulting in the destruction of more wildlife.

Efforts in other communities have reduced the number of wildlife conflicts. The same could happen here, if we are willing to change our habits.

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Land owners can continue to farm Dear Editor: Many objections have been expressed and directed at Summerland Municipal Council for its intention to ask the Agricultural Land Commission for removal of some farmland from the Agricultural Land Reserve, to allow its inclusion in the Urban Growth

Provisions needed for gravel extraction

Dear Editor: The Municipal Corporation is to be applauded for its expressed wish to further develop its available assets instead of perceiving the power of taxation as a solution to the problems which beset Summerland.

That said, it is to be hoped any new gravel extraction arrangement made will include new and extensive provisions for reclamation of terrain, which some may regard as frontier negotiation.

This reader would simply make the observation that land reclamation has been a statutory requirement for decades in many jurisdictions, especially in the United States, enacted to protect the environment and inhabitants from the pox marked surfaces of improvident resource practises.

Press on!

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proposal.

Re: Sheila Polito’s letter of April 10, there is no evidence that the majority of Summerland’s citizens oppose the proposal.

Summerland’s mayor and councillors have done what is expected of them.

Their staff has engaged in research

of the local situation, engaged consultants, sought opinions from Summerland citizens, and then given much study and careful thought to preparing the proposal.

Now members of the ALC have to make their decision, if the proposal, as written, is presented to them.

And, the most important item, and a real “upper” feature — the owners of these properties can continue to produce crops for themselves, for their descendants and their descendants’ descendants for as long as they wish.

Many of us think these properties will be producing food for

many years to come.

Coun. Peter Waterman, in his statement about satisfying enterprises to engage in, in Summerland, wrote about the chances of making a desirable and sustainable income from growing Ambrosia apples.

Why would anyone want to give up such an opportun-

ity and decide to use their land for, say, a housing development?

If the Urban Growth proposal, as it is now written, is approved by the ALC, and if owners of some of the withdrawn properties decide to get out of food production, will people object to them, as they have to Sum-

merland’s council?

Will there be letters to editors? Will we have protest rallies outside these owners’ properties?

Whether or not to continue producing food crops will be owners’ decisions, not Summerland council’s.

D.L. McIntosh Summerland

THE EARLY YEARS

Fruitfully efficient

Photo courtesy of the Summerland Museum

Around 1910, while waiting for his young fruit trees to mature, Kenneth McKenzie decided a ground crop would make more efficient use of the space between the trees, so he planted strawberries. From the angle of this photo there seems to be a lot of strawberry plants and very few trees so it might be safe to say Ken had a hankerin’ for strawberry preserves. Be sure to take in some of the Earth Week activities and events in Summerland this week. You may be inspired to find space to grow whatever it is you have a hankerin’ for.

Committee did not support removal of ALR lands Dear Editor: Re Summerland ALR land Removal I have attended all the public hearings, replied to all surveys and read all the information I could about this issue. I also was a member of Summerland’s Climate Action Committee for both phases; deciding on Summerland’s climate action plan which was incorporated into the Official Community Plan and its implementation phase for the last two years.

As part of that group, we set out some goals to ensure Summerland’s environmental sustainability.

I disagree with how the council and staff are characterizing this removal of land as more sustainable.

There was never in either phase a suggestion by the SCAC that we trade off farmland for savings of greenhouse gas emissions by building on agricultural land close to town. In both phases there was a recogni-

tion that at the heart of sustainability is our ability to feed our population from local produce.

The cost of importing food from afar (from a greenhouse consumption point of view) is far higher than any gains achieved by building on the ALR land close to town.

In many meetings, members voiced that there is desirability in increasing the density of the downtown but by infill of existing

housing areas rather than removal of agricultural land.

Two members of our SCAC committee, Coun. Lloyd Christopherson and Don Hudgeon, should have openly declared their conflict of interest in 2009 with respect to this removal of ALR land and sitting on this committee (which made recommendations to council about sustainability and its affects on the OCP.) As a professional

accountant, I also find it erroneous that ALR land removal is characterized as bringing further revenue to the municipality’s coffers.

With the municipality’s costs of infrastructure, etc. for new housing higher by 20 per cent than the revenue it will generate, this removal of ALR land will not solve any of the fiscal difficulties that Summerland is in.

By far, it would have been better that Summerland reined

in its inflated capital expenditures over the last few years, such as the Wharton Street project with its $1,000,000 sunk cost, the $1,000,000 overage on street improvements and the additional premium paid to construct a deluxe police station which could have cost us significantly less.

We have a small population and these items saddled the community with significant debt.

Our council did not listen to the residents when they opposed these proposals either! I moved back to Summerland for the same reason as most of us: to enjoy the rural, natural environment.

Council has a fiduciary duty to act for its residents rather assuming they know what is best for the community or act in their own personal interest.

Margaret Holler Summerland

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Farm land not needed for housing Dear Editor: In a recent letter to mayor and council, the Committee for The Economic Survival of Summerland lends its support to the proposed Urban Growth Plan.

The Stop the Swap group would like to respond to several of the points in that letter.

The main point in the letter is that as elected officials, mayor and council should vote according to their personal convictions and election campaign philosophies.

We disagree.

We believe instead: (1) that democratic input does not end when a ballot is cast; (2) that citizens should expect that their voices be heard on issues which affect the future of their community and (3) that the evidence and concerns citizens raise should be taken into consideration and should influence the final decision.

As Mayor Janice Perrino has emphasized, community consultation is invaluable.

We ask that mayor and council vote in line with the best scientific, economic and social evidence available to them.

In their letter, the

Committee for the Economic Survival of Summerland refers to opponents of the proposed Urban Growth Plan as “a small pressure group.”

While the originators of the Stop the Swap group are few in number, the number of opponents to council’s proposal within the community is significant.

This network includes experts with scientific and technical expertise — agrologists, real estate agents, economists, soil scientists, developers — as well as Summerlanders spanning all demographics.

Evidence of widespread community opposition has surfaced in a steady stream of letters to the editor, in chamber rooms and community hearings filled to capacity, at a community rally in March with more than 300 participants, in an online petition containing more than 2,400 signatures (the majority of whom are from Summerland) and in an open letter currently signed by more than 30 Summerland businesses.

What we are seeing is a level of opposition that goes beyond the actions of one group and should be difficult to ignore.

We are concerned with the economic wellbeing of Summerland. We are not opposed to development, and we agree with the committee’s point that development creates jobs.

However, council’s proposal to eliminate farmland to acquire new land for development strikes us as unnecessary.

Summerland does not have a shortage of available development land.

In addition to land already slated for development in the hills, we have ample infill land available in the downtown, Lowertown and Trout Creek areas.

Why not develop this available land first?

One option would be to focus on the downtown infill — to provide more dense, affordable housing options in an area which is already serviceable, and immediately generate foot traffic to downtown businesses.

This would result in job creation, since the jobs generated by development will be there no matter where we choose to develop.

We see no economic advantage, and significant disadvantage, to choosing to develop the ALR lands north of Summerland over other

available lands.

The Committee for the Economic Survival of Summerland is right in saying that every successful endeavour requires a vision. This is why we are concerned that the Urban Growth

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It is time we ask what makes Summerland special and different from other Okanagan communities and consider how we can use the resources we have to generate jobs while continuing

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to grow in smart, sustainable ways.

What we need are creative solutions and a multi-faceted approach, so let’s get talking and see what we can come up with.

Erin Carlson Summerland

Carla McLeod Special to the Review

Two-year-old Emerson Mitchell gets a little help from mom, to take a swing at the piñata, while the crowd looks on at the Easter Egg Hunt at Summerland Spirit Square Peach Orchard Park on Sunday. The event was hosted by the Rotary Club.

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Plan places too much emphasis on developing houses, giving insufficient attention to other avenues of economic development.

People will not move here if we cannot provide good job

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Province has no mandate to destroy land reserve Editor’s note: A copy of this letter was sent to Premier Christy Clark.

Dear Ms. Clark.

I know how you politicians like to say you have a mandate to do this or that, but as you never mentioned your intentions during the election to destroy the Agricultur-

al Land Reserve or dismantle our ecological safeguards and parks, you have no mandate to do so.

If you think it’s so important and the best thing to do, you should have no problem taking these issues to referendum.

Claudia Evans Summerland Since 1969

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Examining a threat to the environment My name is David Black. I am the majority owner of Black Press, the company that owns this newspaper.

This is the first of two columns addressing what I see as the greatest threat to the B.C. environment in our lifetime.

I am a reasonably sensible and conservative businessman, not an alarmist. All of the information in this column can be confirmed from public sources.

The oil industry wants to export Alberta bitumen to Asia via tankers.

Under no circumstances should we allow that to happen.

A bitumen spill at sea could destroy our coastline, together with the fish and wildlife that depend on it, for hundreds of years.

Bitumen, even if it is diluted, does not

float in sea water if there is sediment present.

This has been proven many times, most recently in a thorough Environment Canada study published on Nov. 30, 2013. Page 51 of the study provides graphic evidence of sunken bitumen.

Given that there is an abundance of sediment along the B.C. coast, the bitumen will sink rapidly and there will be little chance of recovering any of it if there is a spill.

By Northern Gateway’s own admission the likelihood of a bitumen spill at sea is over 10 per cent over the next 50 years.

Others say that it is much higher.

We are in agreement with the position taken by the Coastal First Nations that even the slightest risk of a spill of bitumen at sea is

unacceptable.

The grounding of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989 is often held up as an example of how bad an oil spill at sea can be, however, a spill of bitumen at sea would be much worse.

The Exxon Valdez carried light crude and lost 250,000 barrels, one eighth of a tanker load.

The light oil floated and could be removed from the beaches.

Even so, after four years of work with up to 11,000 workers and 1,400 boats involved, less than 10 per cent of it was recovered.

Roughly 200,000 birds and many kinds of other wildlife were killed.

Approximately 1,300 miles of shoreline were affected and the fishery has yet to fully recover.

Bitumen is very dif-

ferent.

It would harden up on shore and much of it would sink to the bottom, making it unrecoverable and killing virtually everything with which it came in contact.

Imagine if we lost a full tanker load.

Some say that, with GPS-based navigation and double hulls, spills such as Exxon Valdez are not possible today.

They are wrong.

Double hulls do not prevent hull fracture if there is a collision at speed, only if there is a gentle scrape.

As for the GPS claim, most marine accidents are caused by human inattention, not by a lack of knowledge about position.

All ships carried systems to indicate their location before GPS came along.

tions, Summerland Mayor Janice Perrino displayed an incredible attitude of intransigence, refusing to consider the feedback and advice from specialists, the Advisory Planning Committee, experienced city staff and about 11,000 citizens of Summerland.

Perrino insisted we do not build on hillsides, that we must use the flat lands for development, while people around the world build on hillsides to be able to grow crops on level soil.

Perrino’s ambition to bring the people

to fill the stores also runs contrary to common sense.

The reason the stores are empty is because the people go elsewhere to shop, and newcomers will do the same.

Electronic billboards will not change that.

If you want people to shop local, all you have to do is give them a reason.

Perrino has become an incredible liability to the orderly development and growth of our city.

She should feel obliged to resign now, to allow mayoralty candidates some

The Exxon Valdez crew could have glanced at their instruments to determine their location but they didn’t, neither did the crew on the Queen of the North.

Marine disasters regularly occur and a quick search of the internet shows human error is most often the problem.

Undoubtedly there will be many more marine accidents in future.

Our grandchildren will not thank us if we willingly risk the destruction of the B.C. coast on our watch.

Fortunately there is a solution that is beneficial for all concerned: all we have to do is build a refinery at Kitimat.

The refinery will convert the bitumen to gasoline, diesel and jet fuel which float and evaporate if they are spilled.

David Black Often little or no spill remediation is required.

These refined fuels simply do not cause the habitat destruction of conventional or synthetic crude oil, or anywhere near the devastation caused by bitumen.

The second part of this OPED will run in the next issue.

It will discuss the enormous value-add benefits and environmental advantages of a modern green refinery.

The pipeline from

Alberta and the tanker fleet to export the refined fuels will also be considered.

Let me declare my biases. I am for creating thousands of good permanent jobs in B.C. I am for creating billions of new tax dollars for government coffers. I am for reducing the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. I am for building an oil pipeline that will never leak. I am for building a modern tanker fleet that carries only refined fuels that float and evaporate if spilled. I am against shipping bitumen in tankers.

If you agree that we should not put bitumen in tankers please contact your local MP and say so.

The Canadian government makes a decision on this next month.

David Black is the majority owner of Black Press.

Public does not trust Summerland council Dear Editor: The next municipal election is only a few months away and candidates and voters are beginning the process of sorting out whether or not to run, and who to vote for.

Reflecting on the performance of the local incumbents is disturbing to say the least, and the main reason for the uproar over the proposed Agricultural Land Reserve land swap in Summerland is very simple.

The people do not trust Summerland city council to do the right thing.

An Official Community Plan is no longer an OCP, and designer surveys have become a tool for politicians to pursue their personal and political agenda.

The democratic process has been displaced by arrogance.

Accountability and transparency have become political slurs, a disturbing trend we see at all levels of government.

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CANYON VIEW CEMETERY SPRING MAINTENANCE We wish to advise the public that the District of Summerland will commence Spring Maintenance at Canyon View Cemetery on May 1, 2014. Part of the maintenance work will be the removal of offerings that do not meet the requirements of the District of Summerland Cemetery Bylaw 2012-016 as outlined below. The public is asked to assist in this cleanup by removing any offerings that do not meet the following guidelines by April 30, 2014.

Offerings that we are asking you to remove include:

• Any offering that is not entirely on the concrete base and at least 50 mm (2 in.) away from the edge of the concrete base • Offerings that are unsightly, creating a safety hazard, or interfere with the maintenance of the cemetery • Small offerings, such as necklaces, small stones, or marbles, that may become entangled in the maintenance equipment • Anything that extends or grows into the landscaped area surrounding an interment site or anything that encroaches into a neighbouring interment site • Any offering that is made of, or contains, glass or any other easily breakable substance • Pointed or sharp offerings that may present a safety hazard if someone falls.

Offerings that the District removes will be photographed, tagged, and stored for sixty days at the Works and Utilities Department. Flowers or floral arrangements that have wilted or have become unsightly will be removed and discarded. Although care will be taken removing offerings, the District is unable to accept responsibility for lost, stolen, or damaged offerings.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call our Works and Utilities office at 250-494-0431.

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New businesses prepare to open

by Sophia Jackson Special to the Review Construction is moving along at the new Dairy Queen in the Summerfair Plaza.

This is a familiar venture for owner Eric Malmsten, who is also the owner of the Dairy Queen in West Kelowna’s Okanagan Lake Shopping Centre near the Landmark Cinema.

They haven’t announced a formal opening date but they are on track to open before May 20.

Coco’s Collection, a new retail shop specializing in bridal and formal wear, is set to open on Main Street in early May. Owner Karena Fredrickson recently moved to Summerland from Edmonton

and says she’s been overwhelmed by the warm welcome she has received.

With 12 years of retail experience under her belt, Karena is looking forward to starting her new venture.

The chamber also welcomes their new members: Alas Construction, Grant and Sons Mobile Milling, Green Solutions (gardening) HSH Ventures (marketing), Verity Electrical Contracting, and the Summerland Quest Society.

Under new management

Andrew and Petra Verge of Spud Brothers Food Services are selling the mobile side of their business and are taking over management of the Summerland Yacht

The 44th annual Summerland Blossom Pageant

is being held on Friday May 2nd 7:00 pm and Saturday May 3rd 6:30 pm at Center Stage Theater. There are 10 candidates vying for the titles of Miss Summerland and Summerland Princess’.

Tickets are $12.00 for Friday night and $15.00 for Saturday night. Tickets are available from the reigning royalty and candidates and at the door.

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Club Boathouse Bar and Grill.

Andrew says their signature poutine will most certainly be on the menu.

The Boathouse is open to the public and they will be serving lunch and dinner starting May 1.

Peter and Aline Borsboom are familiar to locals as the owners of the Beanery Café, but they also run a bed and breakfast in Summerland.

They have sold Vista Ranch Bed and Breakfast and have taken over At Morrow Suite on Morrow Avenue.

The new owners of Vista Ranch Bed and Breakfast are Katrina and Greg Magolan, who recently moved from the Lower Mainland and are

looking forward to operating their first business and raising their family in Summerland.

They are currently undertaking renovations and will be open for business this summer.

Expansions

A big kitchen is good but a bigger kitchen is better.

Zias Stonehouse Restaurant is expanding their kitchen by 186 square metres.

The groundwork will start this summer and the project will stretch over several months in order to limit disruption to the restaurant’s hours.

Summerland Sweets and Sleeping Giant Winery are renovating in preparation for the 2014 tourism season.

They have added

a controlled temperature storage area for their wine, and expanded their tasting room.

Renovations and refinishing at the ice cream bar will also mean more room and more ice cream flavours.

With a new trail in West Kelowna and an online shop nearly ready to launch, Bead Trails has now doubled their retail shop space in the Summerland Visitor Centre building.

The Bead Trails now covers over 127 businesses in the Okanagan, including 50 wineries.

Bottleneck Drive

Bottleneck Drive Winery Association is meeting with their Vancouver market on home turf, partnering with Van

Dusen Gardens to present a special Wine in the Garden event on May 29.

R e p re s e n t a t i v e s from Summerland’s 14 wineries will collectively present more than 75 wines and showcase Summerland’s winery experiences.

A member of the chamber staff will attend the event to promote Summerland as a tourism destination.

Ticket information can be found on Bottleneck Drive’s website.

Accolades

Congratulations to Tyler Harlton Wines, named by Culinaire Magazine as one of “5 Cool Okanagan Wineries for 2014.” They praised TH Wines’ “old school” wine press and hands-on

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Collaboration Leah Roney of Eneas Creek Handcrafted is collaborating with Dirty Laundry Vineyard to create a unique range of handmade soaps using Dirty Laundry wine.

The new wine soap will be available for sale in Dirty Laundry’s shop.

Anniversary

24 Karat Salon on Lakeshore Drive is celebrating 10 years in business.

Owner Theresa McPhillamey says she is now looking to bring another stylist on board.

Sophia Jackson is the membership services and events coordinator with the Summerland Chamber of Commerce.

Earth Week events scheduled It has been a busy week of earth-friendly events for Summerland residents with more to come during the weekend.

Summerland’s six-day celebration represents one of Canada’s largest Earth Week celebrations.

On Friday evening, Centre Stage Theatre will be the place to take your family to enjoy two feature films.

Epic, a funny and exhilarating animated adventure the whole family will enjoy, is at 6 p.m.

This film will be followed at 8 p.m. by Revolution, a full length feature film inspiring people to change the world and save our planet.

Revolution has won awards at international film festivals and shows us that we can make a differ-

ence.

On Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to noon, Grasslands Nursery will host a square foot gardening workshop.

Learn how to grow more food with less space, less water, less seed and less effort.

Registration is limited, so call the nursery to ensure space is available.

In the afternoon, Cameron Baughen of the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen will present the principles of composting at the Summerland Ornamental Gardens.

The day will finish with a hands top-dressing demonstration. Bring your gloves, rake and a bucket.

Saturday afternoon also provides continuing family fun.

Children will be delighted by the variety of events, including Imagination Station from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Summerland Art Gallery where kids of all ages can use recycled materials to make crafts.

From there, make your way over to the lower level of the Summerland Library where families can enjoy stories, songs and rhymes from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Children can plant a square inch salad garden to take home.

The week will culminate with the eighth annual Earth Day Celebration on Sunday at Dale Meadows Sports Complex from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Native trees and shrubs will be planted and invasive species will be removed along the jogging path by

Prairie Creek.

A display area will feature information on endangered wildlife and habitats, landscaping with native plants, bird boxes, invasive plants, wildlife trees and more.

Kids will be entertained with face painting, crafts and a scavenger hunt.

“The challenges facing our society require action and participating in Earth Week is a positive step towards our commitment of reducing community greenhouse gas emissions in Summerland,” said Lisa Scott, one of the Earth Week event organizers.

For further information on Earth Week, visit the website at summerlandearthweek.ca or Facebook page at facebook. com/SummerlandEarthweek2014.

The Rotary Club of Summerland is pleased to welcome the following new members.

New member information is available from Dave Cassidy at 250-494-8228

L to R: Cindee Melashenko, Shane Carlson, and Ellen Matthew-Walker

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Agur Lake elects new directors The Agur Lake Camp Society held its annual general meeting at the IOOF Hall on April 16. Supporters came out to hear reports, testimonials and to elect a new board of directors.

The new directors met following the AGM to elect the Board’s new officers from among their numbers. Those decisions have not yet been made.

Two guest speakers opened the evening’s proceedings.

Mirjana Komljenovic, the ALCS office manager in the society’s Summerland office described her experience of being born blind, but of regaining some use of her eyes through medicine and technology.

The most important experience, she said, was to get beyond the feeling of being different through meeting others at a camp who had disabilities similar to her own.

As a result she jumped at the opportunity to be involved with Agur Lake Camp.

Bonnar Dowler, founder of Agur Lake Camp, spoke with considerable emotion of the experiences in his life that led him to set in motion the creation of a wilderness camp for families with members who have special needs.

He described the anxiety and desolation he felt when his son was born with a deformed heart and was flown to Vancouver for surgery.

The doctors did their best to save the infant, but failed.

Dowler felt caught in a medical system that looked after patients well, but left parents feeling lost and unsupported.

He vowed to create a wilderness camp where a family in those circumstances could find a place to rest and be revitalized. It was many years before he set

about making the dream real. When he did he was amazed at the support from individuals, organizations and governments that appeared when it was needed.

Retiring president Carla Ohmenzetter reviewed the progress the camp has made in the last year. The first campers used the cabins last summer, and she said even more are registered for this summer.

She said she was surprised to discover that there are more applications from groups who work with people with disabilities than from families.

The third cabin, which is still unfinished, will be needed very soon to deal with the demand.

She explained the sponsorship program which will help families with financial restraints get to camp. Sponsors in the community provide funds for this purpose.

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He said the website, agurlakecamp. ca/, besides being an inter-face between ALCS and the public, now has a secure site where the officers and committee members can share agendas, reports and minutes.

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She also recognized the enormous amount of skill and time donated by volunteers, committee members and directors.

Four new directors were received on the board by acclamation. They were Ken Carlson, Gordon Hayman, Carol Blackmore and Karen Matheson.

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Family seeks access to hybrid marijuana

by Carla McLeod Special to the Review

experienced a reduction of her epileptic seizures after her first dose of this oil, at the Charlotte’s Web. age of five.

That is the strain of “We don’t have medical marijuana Charlotte’s Web in two-year-old Kyla Canada and ColoWilliams needs. Her family wants her to rado can’t export it. have access to it to In order to get the oil you have to be a resitreat her epilepsy. dent of Colorado,” Unfortunately it said Elaine. is only available in “The last time we Colorado. came home from Kyla’s parents, Children’s Hospital Jared and Courtney we had devastating Williams, and her news that it was the grandparents, Chris end of the line with and Elaine Nuessler, drugs for Kyla. We watched a CNN just know we have documentary called no other choice and Weed, about this spewe are looking for cial hybrid marijuana access. I call it my plant. three A’s, awareIt is high in can- ness, acceptance and nabidiol (CBD) con- access.” tent with very little Kyla had not tetrahydrocannabinol responded well to (THC). any of the traditional It does not induce medications for epithe psychoactive high lepsy. She also faced typically associated other medical comwith marijuana. plications due to the The plant is pro- side effects of these drugs.

As a stop “We saw some really gap measure for Kyla, the positive things for uesslers Kyla with the juicing. N explained She was looking right that they have been into our eyes. She juicing mariwas happy and playleaves ing. She was trying to juana in a low heat do things. It was like juicer.

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She realizes there must be more clinical trials, but added, “the side effects of marijuana are way less than the ones from the drugs Kyla has been on.”

Chris said, “This is not just something we have put out there. We have one heck of a team.”

Dr. Alan Shackelford, who is Charlotte Figi’s doctor and who works with hundreds of other children in Colorado, is consulting and working with Kyla’s doctors locally, as well as with the dispensary in Victoria.

“Everyone is working together. These people know more than we ever could imagine. Everyone is working towards a legal solution to our problem.”

As a retired member of the RCMP, Chris was concerned about public opinion.

“When we became public with this whole thing we said we have to be aware that there may be feedback from this; negative and positive. We haven’t heard anything… absolutely nothing negative,” he said.

The family has received much support.

“If this helps Kyla I

“We saw some really positive things for Kyla with the juicing. She was looking right into our eyes.

She was happy and “I want a lifeline for playing. She was trying Kyla. That’s what I’m to do things. interested in.”

It was like Chris Nuessler a miracle,” Elaine said.

The down side will be one of the bigwas that Kyla was gest advocates,” Chris still experiencing said. “This is the tip of seizures. The family the iceberg I think. It’s believes that the can- coming whether the nabidiol content in politicians want it or the marijuana leaves not. If any one of us they had been juicing gets sick with some is not high enough or sort of severe ailment, concentrated enough. one of the first things “We want the oil,” I’ll be looking at is Chris said. “I want medical marijuana,” a lifeline for Kyla. Chris said.

A video called That’s what I’m interGrandma’s Quest for ested in.”

Kyla’s mother Kyla can be viewed Courtney said she on YouTube.

If you know a has watched many positive story about documentaries and done much research. someone in our comShe is concerned munity, contact Carla about trying to treat McLeod at carlamcher daughter within leod@shaw.ca or conthe confines of the tact the Summerland law and with medical Review newsroom at 250-494-5406. supervision.

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What’s up SUMMERLAND and region

Thursday

Al-Anon offers help to families and friends of alcoholics. Summerland Serenity Group meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. in the United Church hall. Call 250-490-9272 for more information.

Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Venturers meet at the Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre on Thursday evenings.

Beavers meet from 6 to 7 p.m. Cubs meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Scouts meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Venturers meet from 7:30 to 9 p.m. For details call Trent at 250494-1990.

Come try your hand at an old art made new.

The traditional Rug Hookers of the South Okanagan meet every Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Summerland Art Gallery on Main Street. Visitors always welcome. Lots of supplies available. Try your hand at this timeless art. For more information phone Marilyn at 250-494-6434 or Juliet at 250-494-1278.

Euchre is played every second and fourth Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Seniors Drop-in Centre, 9710 Brown St. Lyme Disease support group meets on the second Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. at the A&W in Summerland.

Everyone welcome.

Pe a c h City Toastmasters meets Thursdays noon to 1 p.m. in Penticton at the United Church on Main and Eckhardt, Room 202. Call 250-486-5313.

Seniors’ volleyball at the Youth Centre beginning at 10 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday.

For additional information call Jane or Frank at 250-494-4666.

Summerland Material Girls Quilt Guild meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month from September to May at 9 a.m. at the Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre, 9111 Peach Orchard Rd. For more information call Doris Flynn at 250-494-7262 or Annie Smirmaul at 250-4942286.

Summerland Sportsmen’s Association

meets every third Thursday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Summerland Legion. The SSA focuses on fishing, shooting, hunting, archery and conservation and is affiliated with the B.C. Wildlife Federation.

New members welcome.

The Rug Hooking Circle meets every second and fourth Thursday of the month from noon to 3 p.m. at Leir House Arts and Cultural Centre, 220 Manor Park Ave., Penticton. Practice a traditional Canadian art form in a group setting. Host is certified teacher, fibre artist and published contributor Angela Possak. 250767-0206 or online rughookingteacher.ca.

The Summerland Multiple Sclerosis Group meets on the first Thursday of every month at 10:30 a.m. at the MS office, 3373 Skaha Rd., Penticton.

Everyone welcome. For more information call Sherry at 250-493-6564.

TOPS BC #725 Summerland meets every Thursday in the lower level of the Seniors’ Drop-in Centre, 9710 Brown St. Weigh-in is from 5:30 to 6 p.m. and is followed by a meeting. For more information call Marlene Vancha at 250494-9565.

Friday

Bridge is played every Friday at 1 p.m. at the Seniors’ Drop-In Centre, 9710 Brown St. Phone 250-494-8164.

Cribbage is played every Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Seniors’ Drop-in Centre, 9710 Brown St. Pleasure Painters meet every Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre, 9111 Peach Orchard Rd. Come and enjoy or check it out. Drop-ins welcome.

The 890 Wing of the South Okanagan Air Force Association of Canada have a gettogether every Friday night from 4 p.m. at the clubhouse at 126 Dakota Ave. in Penticton. New members are welcome.

For more information, phone Fred Monteith at 250-497-8490.

Birthright, serving the South Okanagan, has Friday drop in from 10 a.m. to noon at 200 Bennett St. in Penticton.

This weekly program provides light snacks and an opportunity to build friendships, share life skills and participate in baby item swaps.

Please contact Sandy Mikkelsen at 250-4924901 for more information.

Sunday

DivorceCare is for all who are suffering from the difficulties resulting from separation or divorce. Meeting at Summerland Baptist Church just inside the Victoria St. entrance on Sundays 5 to 7 p.m. A free course is offered.

Please call 250-4943313 or just walk in.

Jazz Vespers Sunday, April 27 at 4:30 p.m. at St. Saviour’s Anglican Church, 150 Orchard Ave., Penticton. The music features Allan Crossley on piano, Debi Johnson on vocals, Mike Treadway on drums, Stefan Bienz on bass and Stan Sabourin on saxophone. A jazz-filled hour of relaxation, rejuvenation, rejoicing, meditation and inspiration. Everyone welcome.

Vintage Car Club, South Okanagan Chapter, meets the last Sunday of every month at 2 p.m. in the Youth Centre on Peach Orchard Road. Anyone interested in vintage cars (those 25 years or older) is invited to attend. For more information on the club phone 250-494-5473.

Monday

Beginner Tai Chi on Mondays at 2 p.m. at the Summerland Legion.

Continuing classes at 2:30 p.m. All proceeds go to the Legion.

Dabber Bingo is played at the Senior Drop-in Centre, 9710 Brown St., every Monday at 1:30 p.m. 16 regular games, Lucky 7, Odd/Even, Bonanza.

Everyone is welcome.

License #832873.

Men — Love to Sing?

Okanagan Christian Men’s Choir. This nondenominational choir invites you to join us, have fun, sing unto the Lord and enjoy the fellowship of other singers. Mondays 7 to 9 p.m. at Summerland Baptist Church, Fireside Room. For more information contact Hans at 250-494-7127.

The South Okanagan Orchid Society meets the third Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Shatford Centre

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The Summerland Crokinole Club meets Monday nights at 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Summerland Seniors Centre.

Contact Darlene at 250-4949310.

Tuesday

Bridge games at St. Stephen’s Church Hall on Tuesdays beginning at 1 p.m. New players are always welcome.

Refreshments served.

Call 250-494-6116 or 250-494-5363.

Dementia Caregiver Support Group — Are you providing care or support for someone dealing with Alzheimer’s or another dementia?

Please join us at our Summerland meeting to explore how we can assist you. The meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Summerland IOOF Hall, 9536 Main St. Call Laurie Myres at 250-493-8182 or email lmyres@alzheimerbc.org.

South Okanagan Genealogical Society is open on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Penticton Library Museum building. Contact Nola Reid at 250-492-0751.

Summerland Caregiver Group meets on the first and third Tuesday of every month from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. at the Summerland Health Centre. Call Julie Steele at 250-404-8072 for further information.

Quest Society of Summerland meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. in the meeting room at 9700 Brown St. (Parkdale Place). For more information phone Marilyn Topham at 250-4946434 or Joan Lansdell at 778-476-0596. Email questsociety@shaw.ca Summerland Farmers’ Market in Memorial Park, Wharton Street, every Tuesday April through October, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For information call Paul at 250-494-0540.

Summerland Kiwanis Club meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Kiwanis Lodge on Quinpool at 6 p.m. New members are welcome.

Contact Tom Jacques at 250-494-4339.

Summerland VIP (Visually Impaired Persons) members and friends meet the second Tuesday of the month at Parkdale Lounge.

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Centre, Summerland Branch, will be open the first, third and fourth Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to noon at the Summerland United Church. Inquiries welcome.

The Summerland Multiple Sclerosis Group joins the Penticton MS Group every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. for a coffee social at the Cherry Lane Mall Food Court.

Whist is played on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 7 p.m. at the Seniors Drop-In Centre, 9710 Brown St.

Wednesday

Be.Free, a 12-step Christ-centred recovery program that is not addiction specific, meets every Wednesday at Summerland Alliance Church at 7 p.m. For more information contact the SAC office at 250-494-9975 and ask to speak to Pastor Rick.

Did you know Summerland has a Garden Club? Meetings are casual. Gardening experience varies. All gardeners are welcome.

They meet the third Wednesday of the month.

Contact Jan Carlson at 250-494-5112 for more information.

Summerland Air Cadets parade Wednesday nights, 18:15 to 21:30 hours at Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre, 9111 Peach Orchard Rd. All youth aged 12 to 18 welcome. Call the Air Cadet office at 250494-7988.

Summerland Art Club meets every Wednesday, September to June, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the lower level of the Summerland Library on Wharton Street. Painters of all levels are welcome.

Workshops available.

For information call Mary at 250-494-5851.

Summerland ATV Club meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Summerland Library lower level. The club promotes responsible ridership including registration, insurance, safety certification and scheduled pleasure rides.

Membership includes orchardists, farmers, ranchers and fun seekers of all ages including those with disabilities.

The Summerland Badminton Club plays every Wednesday at 7 p.m. all year. Shaun at 250-494-1513.

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Battle of the Atlantic, 1939 to 1945, Penticton Naval Veterans’ Association memorial service Sunday, May 4 at 10:30 a.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion Br. 40, 502 Martin St., Penticton.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week, Recope Society of Summerland offers medically supervised water therapy and land exercise programs helpful to clients with various medical conditions, such as joint replacements, stroke, back problems, arthritis, to name just a few. A medical referral is required. Call Maureen at 250-4949006.

Parenting the Love and Logic Way. This six-session parenting program will be presented by independent facilitator, Sharon Otke,

on Thursdays, April 3 to May 8, 6 to 8 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church.

Contact 250-494-9309 for more information or to register.

The Kinette Club’s fourth annual rubber ducky race will be on Saturday, May 10, 11 a.m. at the Penticton river channel. Children’s event at the finish line.

For more info, call Jan at 250-328-2042.

The South Okanagan Rehabilitation Centre for Owls, 8965 Hwy. 97, Oliver will hold its annual open house and the grand opening of the new clinic on Sunday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Ribbon cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. by Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon. This is the only day Socro is open to the public. Entry by donation. Visit www. sorco.org for more information.

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Ministerial Association

Church Page anglican church of st. stephen 9311 Prairie Valley Rd. (Stone Church in Summerland)

Sunday Services - 8:30 am & 10 am Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday - 9 am - 1 pm

250-494-3466 The Reverend Rick Paulin

www.summeranglican.ca modern clean banquet facility available

summerland baptist 10318 Elliott Street Two Services each Sunday 9:00am & 11:00am SBC Kids In Both Services Lead Pastor: Larry Schram Associate Pastor: Del Riemer For info or help call 250-494-3881 www.summerlandbaptist.ca

summerland pentecostal

9918 Julia Street Worship with us, Sunday at 10:30 am Loving God, Loving People Transitional Pastor: Rev. Dave Laity

250-494-8248 summerland united church

Come Join The Circle

13204 Henry Street Minister: Rev. Armand Houle 10:00 am Sunday Gathering with Children's Program We take the bible seriously, Not literally! www.summerlandunited.bc.ca

summerland alliance

Real Life... Right Now! Morning Worship: 10:00am Children's Church & Nursery Be.Free Christ-centered 12-Step: Wed. @ 7 pm Pastor: Rev. Rick Gay Church Office: 250-494-9975

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Trail information meeting planned A session on Saturday afternoon will provide information about the proposed Trail of the Okanagans hiking and cycling pathway.

The trail concept started as the dream of a walking and cycling path between Lowertown and Trout Creek, but it has since grown into a much longer trail which would extend from Sicamous to Osoyoos.

The information session is to be held on Saturday, April 26 at the Days Inn Conference Centre, 152 Riverside Dr., Penticton. It will run from 1 to 3 p.m. with a formal presentation at 1:30 p.m.

Ian Lobb, a cycle touring director who

helped to develop the Waterfront Trail in Ontario, will speak at the session.

The Waterfront Trail is more than 700 kilometres long and links 68 communities around Lake Ontario.

Andrew Jakubeit, a Penticton councillor and cycling Advocate, and Mark Woods, community services manager with the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen will also speak.

“Bike tourism represents a huge economic opportunity for the South Okanagan,” said Colleen Pennington, Penticton’s economic development officer.

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However, this is only the tip of the iceberg given the potential growth from showcasing the unparalleled terrain of the region.”

Connie Denesiuk, chair of the Trail of the Okanagans steering committee, said the proposed trail has been gaining support.

While a Summerland trail or a Summerland to Penticton route would bring benefits, the longer trail will have a significant effect on the region.

“It has the potential to provide a significant boost to the economies of all our communities,” she said.

In appreciation of our Mothers, we will be featuring a special section in the Summerland Review to be published on Thursday, May 1, 2014.

Ad sales deadline is Thursday, April 24, 2014 Call Jo Freed or Pat Lindsay, your sales team

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Board of directors

The Kettle Valley Steam Railway is gearing up for the May long weekend start of another season.

The 2014 board members were elected at the railway society’s annual general meeting. From left are directors Dave Kuzik and Ted Morrison, treasurer Ken Sewell and president Doug Clayton.

Missing is vice-president Terry Zimmerman.

Activities scheduled for NeighbourLink Week To celebrate 11 years of volunteer service in Summerland, NeighbourLink will hold a number of events May 3 to 9.

The week of celebrations begins Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 a.m. with a recognition kick-off breakfast at Summerland Seniors’ Village.

On Monday, May 5 at 5:30 p.m., a silent auction dinner will be held at Santorini’s Restaurant. Reservations are required. To reserve a space, call

250-494-7811.

On Wednesday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., an advanced care planning session will be held. The event is free but space is limited. To register, cal 250-404-4673.

Mirjana Komljenovic of NeighbourLink said the planning session will include a discussion about medical decisions a person should make and advice on how to make those decisions.

She said health care decisions are

uncomfortable and stressful if a family member is required to make those decisions. For this reason, it is useful to consider care options in advance, especially for those who have underlying medical conditions. “It’s a difficult topic,” she said, “but once the decisions are made the way you choose to make them, the doctors have something to follow as well.”

The final event in the week is a dessert

and entertainment fundraising evening on Friday, May 9 at 7 p.m. at Summerland Alliance Church. Admission is by donation.

NeighbourLink is a community service organization made up of volunteers from Summerland’s various churches.

Services include community lunch socials, transportation, home and yard work, visitation and relief care, community workshops and more.

Several Summerland students received awards and accolades at the Central Okanagan Regional Science Fair earlier this month.

The fair was held April 12 at KLO Middle School in Kelowna.

It featured a total of 70 science projects from 97 students in Grades 6 to 12.

Students were able to present their research to judges from the scientific community throughout the Okanagan Valley.

The top projects

will go on to represent the Central Okanagan Region at the Canada Wide Science Fair in Windsor, Ont. in May. Grant Mansiere received the Al Appleton WorkSafe Award and the Dr. Ed Butz Mathematics Award for his project, Does Light Cause Crime? His project also earned him a Junior gold medal.

Emma Redding and Katarina Stohler received the B.C. Institute of Agrologists Award for Pea Plant Growth. They also received a Junior

silver medal for their entry.

Simon Carter received the B.C. Science teachers’ Award for Don’t Curdle your Herbal. He also received the silver backdrop award for Grade 7 and 8 students and a Junior silver medal.

Chloe Knowles received the Health and Wellness Award for One Stressful Situation. She also received a Junior bronze medal for the project.

Natalie Benoit received the Heart and Stroke Founda-

tion award for The Body Brain Connection. In addition, she received a Junior bronze medal for her entry.

Kaleb Schramm and Simon Groot received the Renewable Resource Award for Solar Pop Can Heater. They received a Junior silver medal for their work.

Hannah Mistal received the Junior bronze award for Skin Cancer Kills.

Mansiere will go on to the Canada Wide Science Fair in Windsor, Ont., May 10 to 17.

Students win awards at regional science fair

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Flying club will offer free flights

by Mark Brett Black Press

Carpet bowling support

Joyce Wood, in front at right, first vice president and sports coordinator for the B.C. Seniors Games, presents a $1,200 cheque to Cecilia Erstelle of the Penticton Seniors’ Drop-in Centre. The B.C. Seniors Games executive presented the funding for a carpet rug for the Zone 5 carpet bowlers. The money comes from a grant received recently.

Soccer teams begin season

by Emanuel Sequeira Black Press Pinnacles FC under-12 girls district team bowed to Kelowna 2-0 and to Kamloops White 4-1 last Sunday.

The lone goal for Pinnacles FC was scored by Shanelle McIvor, while Taylor Reeder was strong in her netminding debut.

Coach Ray Hintz said he received a strong effort from his team in its opening weekend.

“I like the way they competed,” said Hintz. “We were good defensively.

Goalscoring can be worked on, but Kelowna is a stronger team.”

U13 boys PFC under-13 boys team settled for a 0-0 draw in its second week of action against a tough Kelowna United squad.

Coach Manuel Borba said his team played well, coming off a 6-1 win over Revelstoke in the opening week.

Borba said his players are learning the team system preached by the association.

“Kelowna United is a good with high pressure and they run you all over the place,” said Borba.

“We dominated the second half when Kelowna got tired of chasing.”

Ryan Peters played goal for the Pinnacles.

PFC under-17 boys opened its season with a 4-1 loss to Kamloops, then earned a 2-0 win over Revelstoke Sunday.

PFC coach Paulo Araujo said his players are getting used to the system implemented by PFC so it will take some time to get to where they need to be. On Wednesday, the team defeated Kelowna United 3-0 on goals

by Jarrod Mendonca, Moises Mumjuia and Kale Allison.

“The players are working hard and are committed to learning so it will be interesting to see where we are going to be towards the end of the season,” said Araujo, in his first year coaching the U17 boys.

Araujo has watched his group bond and they attend every training session wanting to learn more. The team also

played in a tournament before the season where they won once, tied once and lost twice.

The PFC under-12 boys team lost 4-0 to a tough Kelowna squad.

“There were some good chances as Eli Grant hit a cross bar with a left foot shot from 18 yards out, and Matt Umsworth put a shot just wide after beating the keeper,” said coach Steve Grant.

The squad started slow against Kamloops in their second game, then the offence got rolling with four goals, three from Perrier and a single from Umsworth before losing 6-4.

Grant also coaches the under-11 boys team, which opened its season with a 4-0 loss to Kelowna after a scoreless opening half. In their second game against Vernon, Grant said the group dominated play, but couldn’t get a good enough shot on net and lost 2-1. Anders Say played brilliantly in net.

Bjorn Borren scored twice to lead the under-15 boys

team to a 4-2 win over Kamloops.

Coach Joe Afonso said his group played as a team and is a competitive unit.

“They never forced the ball, made tight passes,” he said.

The team also waited for counter attacks, which isn’t something they normally do, but they started playing the possession game they were taught.

Afonso, who has coached the group the last five years, said they are strong.

Allan Edwards, a rookie, also scored as did Rylan van der Meulan. Afonso said that Edwards had a strong game. Jacob Stocker earned the win in goal.

Two-goal efforts from Emily Jones and Alix Varchol helped the PFC under-18 team crush Vernon United 7-0.

Adding to the offence was Marisa Mendonca, Shayla Hearnes and Line Campagnaro.

Pinnacles coach Carlos Mendonca said his squad controlled the play from the start and held possession of the ball for long periods.

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erated several scoring chances in the opening half from a new formation, but only managed two goals.

In the final half, PFC switched back to their normal formation and increased the pressure, which Mendonca said created more turnovers.

Within 10 minutes, PFC made it 4-0.

“A very quiet game for Caitlyn Spooner in goal as she was called to make only a couple of stops,” said Mendonca.

The squad played in the Western Canadian showcase in Vancouver on the Easter weekend, with many college and university coaches on hand.

In other PFC action on the girls side, the under-13 team lost to Vernon 3-0 and the under-14 team lost to Vernon 12-0, while the under-15 team battled Vernon to a 1-1 draw.

District teams took a break from league action during the Easter weekend but will resume play the following weekend.

PFC is hosting Calgary Blizzard teams for exhibition matches.

There will be plenty of wide eyes in the skies over Penticton later this month.

On Sunday, April 27, members of the Penticton Flying Club (Canadian Owners and Pilots Association Flight #50) will again be hosting the COPA for Kids program.

Registrants between the ages of eight and 17 will have an opportunity, at no cost, to learn a little bit about the world of aviation and experience the joy of flight in a small aircraft.

“It’s just so much fun being a part of someone’s first opportunity to fly, to see the look on their faces, the thrill that they get,” said COPA member Will Visscher of Penticton, one of the organizers.

“It’s a great opportunity to get kids involved with aviation. We know how much we love it and we want to see more youth get involved.”

Because there could be as many as 70 or more kids taking part, to ensure there are adequate numbers of aircraft, prior registration is required.

Visscher still recalls his first time in a small aircraft.

“I think I was about eight and I got hooked right away,” he said.

“I got the bug then and I was doomed from there.”

Many kids are obviously nervous before they take off, but according to the

private pilot, by the time they land it’s a different story.

The program gets underway about 9 a.m. at the Penticton Flying Club room on Les Abbey Road on the airport grounds.

Parents and guardians are asked to be on time and expect to be at the centre for about two or three hours.

The morning begins with a brief ground school where kids will learn some of the basics and a pre-flight walk around of an aircraft with the pilot.

Following that it will be up, up and away for a 20- to 30-minute flight within the Valley control area.

“It’s amazing,” said Visscher about this region. “We have some of the best flying in the world right here in the Okanagan.

He expects anywhere from six to eight aircraft to be involved.

Visscher credited the many pilots, ground crew members and families for making this opportunity available for kids.

Registration forms have been distributed in many local schools and should be completed a week prior to the event.

If the weather is not favourable on that date, it will be rescheduled for May 4.

For more information contact Visscher at 250-488-4847 or Don Hudgeon in Summerland at 250494-9042.

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Actors will present Robin Hood The longest running children’s entertainment series in B.C. concludes their 30th year with a presentation of Robin Hood this Sunday at Centre Stage Theatre.

The Children’s Showcase Society is a non-profit organization, founded in 1983, which has been dedicated to making quality live performances accessible to Okanagan families for more than 30 years. The goal of the Children’s Showcase is to enrich the lives of children and their families by exposing them to a wide variety of performances including dance, music, storytelling, theatre, juggling, mime, comedy and magic.

For the fourth show of their 2013-

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David Finnis 14 season they are bringing the “Nearly World-Famous” Dufflebag Theatre to Centre Stage this Sunday to entertain kids three and up with the classic tale of Robin Hood.

DuffleBag actors like to retell original adaptations of select fairy tales and classics and just when the audience becomes

enthralled a twist is created. This small, but highly energetic cast of improvisational actors work with minimal props and sets quickly pulling the audience into the adventure.

In fact some lucky volunteers get to join the action onstage, but there are plenty of opportunities for the whole audience to become part of the show.

Based in Toronto, the troupe has been performing since 1992, and now puts on more than 600 shows per year in Canada, the U.S. and beyond.

Classics and fairy tales are served up with a few twists and the audience interaction makes every performance unique and unpredictable.

This is a great introduction to the thrill of live theatre and promises enormous fun for all ages.

Suitable for ages three and up, the performance is Sunday, April 27 at 2 p.m. at Centre Stage Theatre in Summerland. Tickets are available at the door. For more information about this program — or Children’s Showcase — please call Jacinta Ferrari at 250-493-0475.

If you know of an event you feel should be included in the Arts Palette or on the Arts Council’s online calendar, please email artspalette@ summerlandarts.com or call 250-404-3225.

The Arts Palette column is written by David Finnis, publicity chair and presi-

dent of the Summerland Community

Adrienne Foggo

Arts Council, P.O. Box 1217, 9533 Main

St., Summerland, B.C. V0H 1Z0.

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