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THE KELOWNA old boys defeated the young guys 24-14 in the 32nd edition of the Ensign Cup benefit rugby game played last weekend.
ORGANIZERS of national student conference taking place in Kelowna this month are still in need of some 300 billets to house the visiting students from across Canada.
COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart reports on a new store opening for Jordans Floor Covering and Interiors and the Qoola Organic Frozen Yogurt Bar in Kelowna.
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THURSDAY Sept. 11, 2014 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
▼ CIVIC ELECTION
New Kelowna slate advocates tax freeze Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR
Party politics at the municipal level has arrived in Kelowna. Three candidates planning to run in November’s civic election say they will do so as members of Taxpayers First, described by the candidates—former city councillors Carol Gran and Graeme James and newcomer Dale Olson—as the city’s first civic political party and
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a non-partisan group of three like-minded people. It is the first time a group of candidates has announced they are all politically aligned and are seeking election representing a single identifiable group. In 2011, four candidates, including Gran, were publicly endorsed by a single group—Four Change—which was trying to oust four incumbent councillors. But Four Change was not a party, just a group of disgruntled businesspeople upset at the council of the day, seeking to endorse candidates in the hope they would replace the four it wanted off council. The four endorsees— Gran, Gail Given, Colin Basran and Gerry Zim-
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NEW PARK UNVEILED…Robert Hobson, chairman of the Regional District of the Central Okanagan board, took to the
waters of Okanagan Lake on Wednesday for the formal announcement of the creation of a new 52-hectare regional park in West Kelowna. Called Goat’s Peak Regional Park, the land acquired to form the park and retain the area environment in its natural state was purchased for $5 million through the Reginal Parks Legacy and Park Land Fund. See story on A13.
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Lesson learned despite school closures Kathy Michaels STAFF REPORTER
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School may be out, but Tera Pemberton’s two children just had the lesson of a lifetime. “Over the past week my kids have seen what the power of one
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can do, if you really believe in something,” the Kelowna woman said. “That’s something they wouldn’t have learned in the first week of school.” The eye opening lesson came courtesy of Pemberton’s online petition, which closed Wednes-
day, after being in circulation for seven days. In it, she suggested that all negotiations between the government and B.C. Teachers’ Federation be aired on TV for the sake of transparency. It was a message that caught the attention of media outlets
across B.C. As Pemberton opened her home to TV cameras and got on the phone with radio and newspaper reporters, more than 7,000 people signed her petition at
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