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Trail funds sought by John Arendt
Graduation
Summerland Secondary School’s Grade 12 students received their diplomas at the school leaving ceremonies on Friday afternoon.
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Medical research
A graduate of Summerland Secondary School is working on treatments for Parkinson’s Disease and Huntington’s Disease.
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Dry grad
Planning and organizing the dry grad party for this year’s high school graduates took a lot of work.
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Roller derby
The Penticton Pistoleras will face a Vancouver team in roller derby action at the Summerland Arena this weekend.
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YOUR SMILE The trouble with learning from experience is you never graduate.
Flag waving
John Arendt Summerland Review
Everett Miller, eight years old, waves flags in honour of Canada Day on Tuesday. The Summerland Legion organized events including a flag raising ceremony, barbecue and cake in Memorial Park in the morning and concerts at Spirit Square in the afternoon.
The municipality will commit up to $80,000 to enter into a partnership agreement for the construction of a lakeside trail. The resolution was approved at a special meeting of municipal council late Monday afternoon. The partnership agreement with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is for a proposed trail which will eventually link many Okanagan communities. In a message to municipal administrator Tom Day, ministry representatives said the ministry was prepared to jointly fund the project with the municipality, based on the preliminary design cost estimates of around $500,000 for the 1.1-kilometre section of the pathway between the community beach areas and Lakeshore Drive. Municipal staff will prepare the required budget amendment with the municipality’s portion of the funding to come from the Parks and Trail Systems reserve. The reserve has around $193,000, but $70,000 for trail repair and improvements earlier this year has not yet come out of the reserve funding. Coun. Martin Van Alphen said the money in the reserve fund is allocated for parks and trail upgrades. By entering a partnership agreement with the province, the municipality will encourage other communities to add to the trail work. “If we invest $100,000 in this trail system, it’s going to wake up the rest of the Okanagan,” he said. “It’s going to spur more interest in this project.” Others at the council table had concerns about the project. Coun. Robert Hacking said the money in the reserve fund is for projects such as the trail. “We don’t even know what the whole project is going to cost,” said Coun. Lloyd Christopherson. See CONCERNS Page 8
Athletes to compete at B.C. Games by John Arendt
Three Summerland athletes will compete at the B.C. Summer Games later this month. The games will be held in Nanaimo July 17 to 20
and will feature some of the best young athletes from around the province. The games are held every two years. Hunter Dufty, a track and field athlete, will
compete in shot put, javelin and discus. In order to compete, Dufty had to place first in a qualification meet. At that meet, she took the top spot in each of the
three events and the hammer throw. “I was really trying to get first in each one,” she said. Athletes may compete in no more than three events at the B.C. Sum-
mer Games, so after discussions with her coach, Dufty decided to drop the hammer throw and concentrate on the other three events. See TOP Page 3