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Kineshanko earns honour CARA BRADY Morning Star Staff
Joanne Kineshanko smiled through her tears as she accepted the 2014 Woman of the Year Award presented by Vernon Women in Business Thursday evening. She was honoured for her commitment to the family business, Kineshanko Logging, which she built up with her late husband, Terry, her service in municipal government, community organizations, including the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation board and Whitevalley Community Resource Centre and many others. “I want to thank my mother for the example she set for me, and my family and my husband, Terry, who always supported me,” said Kineshanko. “This dress I’m wearing was one of Terry’s favourites and I feel like I’m wrapped up in his love tonight. I
know he would be so proud of me.” She took over the company, started in Lumby in 1972, after Terry’s sudden death in 2006. As part of the forest industry, she has been involved with the Interior Logging Association, Canadian Women In Timber and Forest Renewal BC. Two of their four children, Jeff and Jon, continue to work in the family business. Kineshanko has 10 grandchildren. “I was truly amazed when I read your stories and the amount you’ve done to contribute to the community,” the former Lumby mayor told the other four nominees. “Thank you, to Sue Beaudry, who was my main nominator, and the other people who nominated me. I feel tremendously honoured by everything here tonight. It makes you feel special when you’re able to make your community better. This
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Woman of the Year committee member Debbie Tolpinrud presents Joanne Kineshanko with the 2014 Woman of the Year award at the 27th annual event sponsored by Vernon Women in Business Thursday at the Prestige Inn. is just over the top. I can’t believe it. I call Lumby home but really all of the area, the whole North
Okanagan is home. “Thank you to Women in Business for doing this. There are so
many women here and in the area who make the community special.”
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Interior Health water plan makes waves Bruce, UDI Okanagan chairperson, in a letter to IHA. UDI suggests potential home purchasers and financial institutions being asked to lend money for developments could be scared off by the perceived risk because water filtration is not available. “Residents of the Okanagan have been drinking this water for a century or more and the number of boil water advisories or registered counts of water-borne illnesses is very small, less than many jurisdictions,” said Bruce. “Some evidence also suggests that some unfiltered water systems have roughly the same number of boil water advisories as those with full filtration systems.” Bruce also points out that communities can only proceed with costly filtration when provincial and federal grants are available. “The delays in building all of these systems is a question less of local government and
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Developers and politicians are uniting against an Interior Health Authority policy they believe could hurt the economy. The Urban Development Institute and the Greater Vernon Advisory Committee are expressing concern over the prospect of IHA notifying the public that water utilities don’t meet standards. Andrew Bruce “Because IHA intends to declare publicly on their website that many water systems in the Okanagan Valley are simply inadequate, regardless of the fact that the water is safe to drink, the message that will be sent to the public and investors will be unnecessarily negative,” said Andrew
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