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OKANAGAN SUN sent out a message to the BCFC with a 38-0 trouncing of league rival Vancouver Island Raiders at the Apple Bowl.
COLUMNIST Marjorie Horne says just doing a good deed for someone sends a positive message both to yourself and to the recipient of your generosity.
KELOWNA’S mayor sees the city’s North End undergoing a significant change in the near future thanks to its potential for new development p rojects.
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PHOTOS ABOVE show West Kelowna firefighters battling the Paynter Road house fire Monday morning (left) and the burned out aftermath of the blaze (right).
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Neighbours save woman, dog from Paynter Rd. house fire Wade Paterson STAFF REPORTER
Nicole Hamelin is offering her thanks to a few men responsible for saving her mother from a house fire on Paynter Road Monday morning. Hamelin’s mother was sleeping in her bedroom when
three men began knocking on her window. “A (few) guys actually knocked on her window, saying, ‘Your house is on fire, you need to get out of the house,’” said Hamelin. The men proceeded to help her and her dog escape through the bedroom window at the
back of the house. “She’s OK—no injuries, which is good,” said Hamelin. “My dad was at work at the time…so it’s kind of better now that he’s here, but they’re both definitely in shock.” Hamelin said her parents also have a pet cat that managed to escape on its own.
Lionel Bateman, captain with West Kelowna Fire Rescue, said the two-storey wood frame constructed home was fully involved when firefighters arrived just before 9 a.m. “Crews hit it pretty fast and pretty hard. We were able to knock it down quick,” said Bateman, who added every-
one was out of the house by the time crews arrived. “The roof and attic space is damaged pretty good. The inside is mostly smoke and water (damaged).” The total West Kelowna Fire Rescue response included two engines and six firefighters.
Bateman said the cause of the fire is still under investigation. From the photos Hamelin has seen, she said it appears as though flames may have been coming from the kitchen area at the northeast side of the house. wpaterson@kelownacapnews.com Twitter: @PatersonWade
Ongoing forest fire danger reflected by closure of local parks Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER
About every metre along Knox Mountain Drive, and often even closer, there is a cigarette butt laying in the tin-
der-dry grass. It’s worse at the first lookout, where fresh butts surround the 2003 firestorm commemorative sign, which sits against the dusty, golden backdrop of the hill, screaming
fire season to anyone from the area. With a clean sightline to Peachland—where a carelessly discarded smoke is believed to have caused the 2012 Trepanier Creek Fire, levelling 1
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four houses and several outbuildings—the butts would be galling to any of the concerned neighbours who keenly watch over this park; although, for the most part, the power-hikers, walkers, moun-
tain bikers and trail runners still frequenting the trail never slow their pace enough to notice. Closing the park to vehicular traffic doesn’t target the regular user, but rather the tourists and
sight-seeing looky-loos keen to take a gander at this fair city from the comfort of a temperature-controlled environment. “It’s the volume of traffic,” said Blair Stewart, City of Kelowna urban
forestry supervisor. “…There are a number of fires started in our province by people every year.”
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