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Near-head-on hardly phases Lake Country councillor KEVIN PARNELL
Tiny winery A new angle on marketing local wines to buyers. ...............................
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Cross roads The intersection of Pelmewash Parkway and Oyama Road is being called a “recipe for disaster,” after the provincial government unilaterally changed it from a four-way stop to two-way. Efforts are underway by the District of Lake Country to get the four-way stop re-established. ...........................
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HOBBLING on crutches, Owen Dickie has been maintaining a steady pace carry-
ing on with Lake Country district business since he broke some bones in his foot in a fall from his motorcycle on his way to Union of B.C. Municipalities meetings.
When Lake Country councillor Owen Dickie decided to head to the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler late last month, he thought he had the perfect way to get to the event. He opted to ride his motorbike, taking the scenic Duffy Lake Road through Lillooet, down to Pemberton and finally to Whistler. What he didn’t count on was ending up in a ditch after a harrowing experience and near head-on collision. “I’m lucky to be alive,” said Dickie last week, as he hobbled along on crutches in an interview with the Lake Country Calendar. “It could have been much worse.” As Dickie was starting his journey on the Duffy Lake Road, near Lillooet, along a windy stretch of highway, a large truck appeared around a bend and start-
ed to enter his lane. “I had decided to take my bike because it’s such a nice drive,” he ex-
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I CAN’T TELL YOU WHAT KIND OF TRUCK IT WAS, ONLY THAT IT WAS BIG. Owen Dickie
plained. “I can’t tell you what kind of truck it was, only that it was big. He came into my lane, so I moved over a bit, but it looked like he was coming even further into my lane, so I moved over even more.” Unfortunately for Dickie, a first-term councillor representing the ward of Oyama, crews had been working in the ditch and there was some gravel on the shoulder. The tires of his
bike gave way on the loose gravel, and Dickie and his bike careened into the ditch, throwing the councillor right over the handlebars. “I remember laying on the ground and people coming up to me,” said Dickie. “A couple of first responders helped me up and we managed to get my bike up and out of the way, so we wouldn’t stop traffic.” Dazed, but walking, Dickie got a tow for his bike back into Lillooet, where he went to work trying to get it started again. After three hours of tinkering, without other mechanical help, the bike fired up and, unfazed, Dickie set off again on the Duffy Lake Road heading for Whistler. “I knew my foot was hurt badly,” he said. “I definitely didn’t want to take my boot off or I wouldn’t get it back on.
SEE DICKIE A2
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▼ RAIL TRAIL UPDATE
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Deadline for CN Rail line to trail path deal extended
■ Jysk ■ Rona ■ Save On Foods ■ Shoppers Drug Mart
AL WATERS A group of four Okanagan municipalities and two regional districts have decided to move
forward with the potential acquisition of the decommissioned CN Rail line between Kelowna and Coldstream using the Canadian Transpor-
tation Agency (CTA) discontinuance process. The move extends the timeline that the group has to negotiate with CN Rail and came just
before a 30-day window to negotiate with CN passed on Monday. “Significant progress has been made in negotiations over the past
several months, however there are still a few outstanding issues,” said Doug Gilchrist, divisional director for community planning and real es-
tate for the City of Kelowna, who has led the negotiations on behalf of Kelowna, Lake Country,
SEE RAIL TRAIL A3
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