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KELOWNA’S Liz Borret won her age group, the women’s 75 to 79 category, at Monday’s Boston Marathon.
COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart says a familiar shop in downtown Kelowna has moved to a new location on Lawrence Avenue
IT MAY NOT be the Kelowna Farmers’ and Crafters’ Market, but the Urban Square project proposed for north Kelowna will proceed with a Granville Island style market remaining a key component of the development.
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▼ TEACHERS’ JOB ACTION
Need to cancel recess challenged Kathy Michaels STAFF REPORTER
Starting next week, school will get out a bit earlier. In an attempt to effectively manage workloads at the school district, recess will be cancelled throughout the Central Okanagan School District for the duration of the teachers’ job action. “In our school district we have looked at all of the logistics and we have determined that having our exempt staff leave the school board office and go to a school to do a supervision three times a day instead of two, is just too much,” said Moyra Baxter, chair of the Central Okanagan school board. “These people have full-time jobs themselves. Last time when they were going before and after school, it amounted to two hours a day they had to cut out of their day, and that’s quite a big percentage to take from people.” BCTF president Jim Iker had a different take on the inconvenience the job action would cause families of school children and district staff. Calling the measure unnecessary and inappropriate, Iker said principals, vice-principals, and excluded staff are more than capable of supervising the playground for 15 minutes each day. He said supervision was one of the issues addressed at the Labour Relations Board between the BC Public School Employers’ Association and the BCTF. The subsequent Labour Relations Board order states: “With respect to any before/after school, recess or noon hour supervision normally provided by teachers, before/after school supervision related only to bus drop off and pick-up, and recess and noon hour supervision will continue to be provided by teachers subject to the Employer utilizing management and excluded staff to the best extent possible to replace teachers for these activities.” Iker contends the school districts that have cancelled recess have done so because, the union says, it is inconvenient for principals and management staff to pro-
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MIKE Watson, the chairperson of the B.C. Wine Grape Council, toasts a $2 million dedication of funds from the federal government at Grey Monk Estate Winery in Lake Country with a glass of pinot gris. Grey Monk was the first to grow the varietal in Canada, planting the vines in 1976.
▼ $2 MILLION INVESTMENT
Feds buoy wine research in the Okanagan An influx of federal tax dollars has come to the Okanagan for viticulture research already underway across the region. Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER
It takes two hands to count all the research projects the BC Wine and Grape Council will support thanks to an influx
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pet a $2 million dedication from the five-year Growing Forward 2 initiative, fostering innovation in agriculture. The wine industry contributes $2 billion to B.C.’s economy and generates $8 million in exports nationally—four times what it did six years ago—and Cannan congratulated the researchers
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