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Ultima t e Inspir ation From arts writer...
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Glenna Turnbull knows all about artistry. She’s written and shot photographs of everyone from ballerinas to circus clowns, thespians to painters. Then one day, a glistening opportunity to become the featured artist herself landed on her doorstep. Watch as the arts columnist trades pen and lens for a colourful new career. SEE PAGE A3
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She’s back… Former Kelowna mayor Sharon Shepherd decides to make a comeback in the city’s civic politics by running as a mayoralty candidate. Alistair Waters awaters@kelownacapnews.com
It was likely the worst kept political secret in recent Kelowna memory. Former mayor Sharon Shepherd, who lost the job by just 421 votes in 2011, is making another run for the mayor’s chair. After months of speculation and questions about her political future, with most local pundits and others considering it a certainty she would run again, Shepherd announced Thursday, in City Park, she will seek a return to the mayor’s office in the Nov. 15 civic election. Shepherd served two terms as mayor from 2005 to 2011 and three terms as a city councillor before that. She was defeated in 2011 by the man she beat out for the job six years earlier, Walter Gray, who is retiring from civic politics at the end of his current term. As her two young grandchildren played behind her, Shepherd made it clear she wants to improve the city for future generations and is willing to use her experience to make Kelowna, in her words, “the best mid-size city in the country.” She sprinkled her remarks with references to her political experience—from getting things done locally to working with higher levels of government. “I don’t have to start from scratch, I know the players at the table,” she said. The experience issue is a direct contrast to her strongest challenger in the race, first-term city councillor Colin Basran. While asked about Basran, Shepherd said she did not know him so she could not comment. But, Shepherd noted that she served three terms as a councillor (nine years) before she ran for mayor, and if Basran had asked her advice, she would have told him to do the same. Shepherd said there are a number of issues she would like to see addressed by the next city council, including development of the Rutland, Pandosy and Glenmore town centres, as well as improved transit and recreation, social housing and development. On the issue of no tax increase for the
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