Calendar Lake Country
Notaries Public Your reliable alternative to a lawyer
Proudly Serving
www.lakecountrycalendar.com
250.766.4444
Winfield, Oyama, Okanagan Centre and Carrs Landing since 1951
aubinandassociates.com next to Tim Hortons
September 10, 2014
Inside
Highway 97 Lake Country’s fire chief wants to see lane dividers along Hwy 97 from Winfield to Kelowna. ...............................
3
Car show Getting so big Chamber of Commerce asked to take it over. ...............................
3
Flyers ■ Home Depot ■ Hometown
CAROLINE BLEACKLEY/CONTRIBUTED
A MAN was airlifted out of the Beaver Lake campground on the Labour Day long weekend after a quad accident, according to witnesses at the campground. An air ambulance landed at the campground on Aug. 31 transporting one
Lake Country to ask for lane dividers to Kelowna
■ Jysk
KEVIN PARNELL
■ Rona
The District of Lake Country is going to ask the Ministry of Highways to investigate whether they can install barriers to separate the north- and south-bound
■ Save On Foods ■ Shoppers Drug Mart ■ Staples
man out of the area. Witness reports say the man was driving 4x4 machines with friends and family when he lost control of his vehicle and was injured. His status is unknown.
lanes of Highway 97 between Lake Country and Kelowna. The move came after Lake Country fire chief Steve Windsor’s bi-annual report to Lake Country council on Sept. 2. Windsor reported that
there was a substantial increase in serious accidents his department has responded to on the highway between Lake Country and Kelowna, pointing to a continued increase in traffic volume as one likely cause.
And Windsor says the installation of no-post cement barriers to separate the north/south lanes could do a lot to reduce serious accidents such as head-on crashes. “(No post barriers) have definitely alleviat-
ed a lot of the calls for the new stretch of Highway 97,” said Windsor. “We’d like the ministry to look at installing them from Beaver Lake Road south to Kelowna. I have experience with the Island High-
way and the accident call volume on that—especially for head-on collisions—decreased hugely when they installed the no-post barriers.” Windsor point-
SEE HIGHWAY A3
Active Adult Living
Homes From $394,400 - $549,900 Maintenance Free, Fully Landscaped Lot
NEW show home open daily 11am-4pm or by appointment 13075 Lake Hill Drive, Lake Country (Just turn west at Tim Horton’s, on Oceola in Winfield)
250.766.9077 cadencekelowna.com
adult community