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We love her and we miss her, and ... just to come home — father of Roxanne Louie

Joe Fries

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Nearly a week has passed since a 26-year-old woman disappeared in Penticton, and both police and her family are holding out hope that she’s just blowing off steam.

Roxanne Louie was in the South Okanagan for the holiday season and scheduled to fly home to Vancouver at 9:45 a.m. on Jan. 4, but never got on her flight at the Penticton airport.

Relatives told the Western News that Louie, a single mother, was last seen leaving her grandmother’s home in Penticton with her belongings early on Jan. 4 on her way to meet up with friends. Louie’s threeyear-old boy is still at her grandmother’s house.

“It’s not like her to just abandon her son,” said Louie’s father, Roger Hall.

Louie grew up in Oliver and later became a stay-at-home mom there, but moved to Vancouver in 2014 to attend interior design school. Hall said she struggled at first, but planned to stick with the program.

He described his daughter as outgoing and friendly, and “a really happy-go-lucky type of person.”

Hall said Louie struggled with alcohol and drugs in the past, but had recently been clean. However, he saw a photo on her Facebook page that showed her holding a can of beer on New Year’s Eve and suspects that may be tied to her disappearance.

“Hopefully she’s with some people just getting loose a little bit and partying a bit.

ROXANNE LOUIE, missing since Jan.4.

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Hopefully that’s the story,” said Hall.

Penticton RCMP spokesman Sgt. Rick Dellebuur confirmed that’s among the leads that members of the detachment’s General Investigation Section are following in their search for Louie, since the holiday season can trigger some people to relapse on drugs and alcohol.

“That’s what we’re hoping it is,” he said.

“As bad as that might sound, we prefer that to be the reason for her disappearance.”

Dellebuur also noted it’s not unusual for the GIS team to work a missing-person case. He said they are best suited for a priority situation like this. Dellebuur said police are interested in speaking to anyone who may have seen Louie since Sunday.

Her extended family is also trying to piece together a timeline of her movements, and Hall has a simple message for his daughter: “We love her and we miss her, and ... just to come home.”

Louie is five-foot-five, 117 pounds, with a slim build and long, brown hair and brown eyes, and is of First Nations descent.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Penticton RCMP at 250-492-4300.

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New jail’s cost to taxpayers deemed secret Joe Fries Western News Staff

Key information about the new Okanagan jail, including its long-term cost to taxpayers, remains locked away in government files.

A freedom of information request filed by the Western News to obtain copies of the construction timeline, details of contractor performance penalties and the 30-year schedule of payments was denied almost in full.

In its response letter, the Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services cited provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act that allow it to withhold information it believes could harm the financial interests of the government and its business partners.

Since the Okanagan Correctional Centre is one of a kind, the director of the B.C. branch of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation doesn’t buy that argument.

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Chief ClarenCe louie and Premier Christy Clark at the okanagan Correctional facility announcement in 2012.

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prison is competing with other prisons. We own them all, so let’s disclose how much it’s going to cost to run it,” said Jordan Bateman.

“By hiding the numbers, people begin to wonder if they’re getting good value for their money, when the easiest thing is to disclose it, let us all see it, and it would

probably be barely a ripple.”

Sarf Ahmed, the associate deputy minister of technology, innovation and citizens’ services, said in a statement that the redactions were made according to law to protect taxpayers in the long run.

“If detailed information from proponents

is released publicly, it would reduce government’s ability to attract successful proponents and could ultimately raise prices for government to conduct business. In other words, it would make it more difficult for government to conduct successful bids of major projects if detailed information

Electricity rates rising Steve Kidd

Western News Staff

Starting February 1, Penticton residents can expect their electric rates to jump by 4. 4 per cent, or about $4.50 a month for residential customers.

During a special council meeting Wednesday evening, Penticton city council voted 4-3 for the rate hike, which applies increases in the city’s costs to an average of the wholesale purchase price and the retail prices charged to customers.

That is the middle option of three presented by staff, ranging from 5.11 per cent if the increases were applied solely to the retail price down to 3.7 per cent if applied to the purchase price. For an average industrial customers, the difference is higher, about $930/ month.

Frank Conci, president of the Penticton Industrial Development Association, tried to show council how much an effect ongoing increases have had on industrial users. The industry in his example spent nearly $3.3 million on electricity between 2010 and 2014.

“If there hadn’t been any rate increases it would have been $2.8 million. So the cost impact of the increases over the four years is $400,000 plus,” said Conci, who suggested council stick to passing the actual increase on to customers as well as looking at setting rates that our more competitive with other power utilities.

Daryl Clarke, plant manager at Cut Technologies, which employs about 36 people, said this is not the time to burden industry with extra costs. Rising power rates, said Clarke, could be the difference of hiring an-

other person and also have an effect on where his head office chooses to invest money.

Coun. Helena Konanz advocated strongly for the lowest rate increase.

“The difference between our rates in Penticton and those throughout the rest of the province are quite astronomically higher than many other communities,” said Konanz.

Director of Operations Mitch Moroziuk showed graphs putting Penticton roughly in the middle of the pack, with B.C. Hydro, and other city utilities in Summerland and Nelson below Penticton’s rates. He said going with the lowest increase would result in the city making less money from the electrical utility.

“That would then have a carryover impact into your capital budget or other areas of your operating budget. But that is an option that is available to you,” said Moroziuk. “You would have to find $228,000 in your budget.”

Coun. Max Picton argued raising electric rates was better than alternative ways of dealing with the current budget shortfall.

“In essence we are looking at dumping it on everybody’s backs again with a tax increase rather than a electrical increase,” said Picton.

Mayor Andrew Jakubeit supported Picton’s argument.

“People have a choice, because it is billed on consumption. You can choose to try to be more energy efficient. But $228,000 on a tax bill, everyone pays for that,” said Jakubeit.

Couns. Tarik Sayeed and Judy Sentes voted with Jakubeit and Picton in favour of the 4.4 per cent increase, with Couns. Konanz, Campbell Watt and Andre Martin in opposition. A final vote on the rate increase will be held at the regular council meeting Jan. 12.

that is proprietary to businesses was released publicly,” Ahmed said.

“The release of proprietary business information would also harm third parties conducting business with government because it would reveal confidential business methodologies regarding the construction of major infrastructure, such as the Okanagan Correctional Centre.”

Boundary-Similkameen MLA Linda Larson, in whose riding the jail is being built, did not respond to a request for comment.

The B.C. government entered into a public-private partnership with Plenary Justice to design, build, finance and maintain the $193-million jail near Oliver for 30 years.

During construction, the province will make payments totalling $73 million, and Plenary Justice, a consortium of private companies, will fund the balance of the $120-million capital cost with money it raised through a private bond issue.

Over the next three

decades, B.C. taxpayers will then pay back to Plenary Justice that $120 million with interest, plus make regular life-cycle and maintenance payments, according to the documents obtained by the Western News. However, the actual payment amounts, spread over 360 months, were redacted.

Also deemed a secret in the documents is the construction schedule, which lists tasks ranging from pre-casting concrete cells to pour-

ing a foundation for an on-site greenhouse, and was altered to obscure the due dates.

The documents also include some details about how financial penalties will be assessed to Plenary Justice if certain parts of the jail are deemed out of service, but the actual monetary amounts were redacted. The Western News will ask the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. to review the ministry’s decision to withhold the info.

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regional and local transit service rolling out for okanagan falls Western News Staff

Regional and local transit services are coming to Okanagan Falls.

The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen and BC Transit announced that effective Jan. 19 the new Route #20 Okanagan Falls will offer five round trips per day to Penticton with stops in Skaha Estates and Heritage Hills. Another route will deliver five round trips a day around Okanagan Falls.

“Okanagan Falls residents wanted transit service, and the regional government and BC Transit responded,” said Linda Larson, Boundary-Similkameen MLA. “I’m pleased that the service is up and running so people have an environmentally-friendly and affordable option for travel in town, and beyond.”

From Jan. 19 to Feb. 6 all rides are free to encourage customers to get to know the transit system. The regional run ends at Penticton’s Cherry Lane Shopping Centre where trips are timed to link BC Transit passengers with Penticton Transit routes 3, 4 and 5. Service hours are Monday through Friday from 6:41 a.m. to 6:22 p.m. When the free rides end on Feb. 6 cash fares are $2.25 for adults and $1.75 for students. Customers are encouraged to purchase cost-saving, pre-paid fare products at the RDOS office at 101 Martin St., Penticton. Ticket bundles of 10 are $20.25 for adults and $15.75 for students. Monthly passes are $61 for adults

and $42 for students.

A new Route #21 Okanagan Falls local will cover popular community destinations including the Okanagan Falls Seniors Centre, Okanagan Falls Regional Library, Christie Park and the local grocery store.

Service hours are Monday through Friday from 7:09 a.m. to 5:52 p.m. When the free rides end on Feb. 6; cash fares are $1.50 for adults and $1.25 for students. Ticket bundles of 10 are $13 for adults and $11.25 for students. Monthly passes are $41 for adults and $34 for students.

“The Regional District of OkanaganSimilkameen is committed to helping build sustainable communities which meet the needs of people and businesses throughout the region,” said RDOS chair Mark Pendergraft. “The implementation of this new transit service will contribute to the social, economic and environmental sustainability of the region by providing affordable transportation that connects people to work, school and regional services.”

BC Transit president and CEO Manuel Achadinha said along with their partners, the RDOS, they are proud to introduce this “new and vital service,” to Okanagan Falls residents.

“Our goal is to connect people and communities by providing an efficient and effective transit system.” said Achadinha.

For more information on routes and schedules please consult www.bctransit. com/penticton.

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Grants on city chopping block Steve Kidd

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Community groups and other organizations can expect less in the way of help from the City of Penticton this year and in coming years.

Council started out their deliberations over grant requests Wednesday determined to trim down the estimated $790,000 requested.

“If we were to pay everyone what they asked for, we would have to find another $120,000,” said Mayor Andrew Jakubeit, setting the minimum target for reductions.

Cuts started with the first item on the list, a new request from Okanagan Trestle Tours.

They received the $1,000 requested as an in-kind grant (for park rental) but not the $1,000 requested as a cash grant.

“I am always hesitant for any grant to a for-profit business. He is in this to make money, not a non-profit society,” said Coun.

Max Picton.

A larger request, for $47,180, from the The Pinnacles Football Club was also turned down unanimously.

Even longstanding groups found their grant requests under question. Okanagan Fest-of-Ale, who were requesting a new grant of $10,000 for marketing, found themselves turned down flat.

Picton pointed out that the group has returned about $500,000 in donations to the community.

“Essentially, if we are giv-

Clear catch basins Environment Canada is forecasting temperatures of 5 degrees C. This would cause a slow melt of the snow, which is beneficial for run-off into the storm sewers.

Crews are identifying catch basins as much as possible in the coming days, but residents are encouraged to check their neighbourhood catch basins to ensure they are clear.

Curbside collection Residents who were scheduled to have curbside collection of garbage and recycling Monday who did not receive service due to the snow storm are asked to bring their waste/recyclables in for the weekend. Pickup will resume on Monday, Jan. 12, and the 2

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For information about curbside collection service, call 250-490-3888.

Public hearing notice A public hearing will be held Monday, Jan. 19, 2015 at 6:00 pm in Council Chambers at City Hall, 171 Main Street, Penticton, BC to consider the following amendments to Zoning Bylaw 2011-23.

Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2014-49 - 2750 Cedar Road- Rezone Lot 1, DL 2710, SDYD, Plan 16865, located at 2750 Cedar Road, from A (Agriculture) to R1 (Large Lot Residential).

The applicant is proposing to subdivide the property to create single family lots.

The Pinnacles FooTball club was one of a few grant applications that were turned down by the city of Penticton this week.

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ing them money, it is just a flow through to whatever charity they see fit, so it is not suitable for a grant,” said Picton.

Councillors were also considering the grants in light of a new policy of weaning groups, outside of those on the standing grant list, off city funds, diminishing the amount given over three years to zero.

“There are many organizations that said they would only need this for one or two years and have now been with us for many years,” said Coun. Helena Konanz.

“As a city, we can’t just fund everything. We have to follow our policy and wean all these off, unless they make it through as a

Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2014-50 - 101 Brunswick Street - Rezone Lot 1, DL 4, Group 7, SDY(F -YL) D, Plan 368 from RD2 (Duplex Housing: Lane) to RM2 (Low Density Multiple Housing). The applicant is proposing to construct a three storey, 4-unit multiple family development.

Any person whose interest may be affected by the proposed amendments may appear in person, by petition or by attorney.

Delegations and Submissions will be received no later than 9:30 am, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015 Attention: Corporate Officer, City of Penticton, 171 Main Street, Penticton, BC V2A 5A9; Email: publichearings@penticton.ca.

No letter, report or representation from the public will be received by Council after the

standing grant. These organizations need to become self-sufficient,” said Picton.

At the end of the day, however, several councillors expressed concern over the grant process and the city’s need for these organizations to continue their operations.

“This is not a black and white process,” said Sentes. “We need these festivals, we need the influx of the dollars they bring.”

Jakubeit suggest the city needed better measures of what the grant will be used for and its success.

“Just have more accountability and make the organizers work a bit harder to achieve whatever our metric is measuring,” he said.

conclusion of the Public Hearing. Please note that all submissions are a matter of public record. Those persons with special hearing, language or access needs should contact City Hall at 250-490-2400 prior to the meeting.

The above mentioned bylaws and supporting information will be available for public inspection up to and including Monday, Jan. 19, 2015 at the following locations during hours of operation: Development Services (City Hall,171 Main Street), Penticton Public Library (785 Main Street) and the Penticton Community Centre (325 Power Street); or online at www.penticton.ca/publicnotices.

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Events get boost Steve Kidd

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Alleged doctor attacker still in jail for at least three weeks

psychiatric assessment.

Nield, 30, was charged with aggravated assault following an alleged Dec. 5 attack on Dr. Rajeev Sheoran during a closed-door interview in the psychiatric ward at PRH. Police said Sheoran suffered a broken jaw and facial injuries during the melee, while the B.C. Nurses’ Union said the doctor was lucky to have survived. Nield is back in court Jan. 28.

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Rob Appelman said the Penticton Hospitality Association is planning to expand the number of local events they help with marketing efforts.

Handing over a cheque to the Penticton Peach Festival, PHA president Appelman said a rise in the amount collected through the additional hotel room tax shows his group is doing a good job of tourism marketing.

Alongside external marketing campaigns, helping local organizations like Peachfest is a key factor for the PHA. The funding, said Peachfest president Don Kendall, will be used for marketing the iconic festival as well as helping with travel costs for the Peachfest float, which is expected to participate in 20 parades this year.

That includes places like Spokane, Leavenworth and Wenatchee, as well as larger events like the Calgary Stampede and the Seattle Seafair, where the Peachfest float was the only Canadian entry this year, earning it a special mention on television coverage for the event.

A similar donation last year helped expand the float’s travels to include the Hyack Festival in New Westminster, where it won the president’s award.

Many of these visits, Kendall pointed out, are reciprocal. A visit to Wenatchee brought a return visit from their float, along with an entourage of 40 visitors, helping expose more people to the area.

There are a number of organizations like Peachfest that received similar help last year including the dragon boat festival, the Wine Bloggers conference, TEDx Penticton, Young Stars and others.

The PHA has budgeted to spend $570,000 on marketing operations in 2015, $120,000 more than they spent last year. That’s due in part to the City of Penticton withholding transfers of the funds for nearly a year during a contract dispute that ended up in the B.C. Supreme Court.

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The man accused of attacking a doctor at Penticton Regional Hospital will stay behind bars for at least three more weeks.

Following an appearance Wednesday in provincial court in Penticton, Gregory Stanley Nield was ordered to remain in jail while his new lawyer reportedly awaits the results of a 30-day

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“It was an unfortunate turn more and more is being focused of events, but it did provide the to marketing the community.”

Hodgkinson said uniting the community with a bit of a windfall and we intend to make that PHA’s marketing efforts with work,” said Tim Hodgkinson, di- Tourism Penticton under a single rector of operations for the PHA. body isn’t likely in the short term, But Appelman said it’s also though they remain open to coldue to increased revenue from the laboration at all levels.

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EDITORIAL

Newspapers aren’t a weapon of war

In Western countries, freedom of the press is taken for granted.

But an attack Wednesday that left 10 journalists and two police dead in the offices of a Parisian satirical magazine highlights just how shaky a concept it is.

We’re not suggesting that such an attack is likely to occur at a media outlet in the Okanagan.

For one thing, it seems the Paris attack was the work of terrorists attacking the paper in retaliation for its caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, which have frequently drawn condemnation from Muslims — Islam forbids idolization of people, especially Mohammed, the prophet of the Muslim faith.

Attacks on the media come from all levels — it seems there is always someone who wants to prevent the media from speaking out.

One of the most important roles of the media in a free society is that of a watchdog, to keep an eye on the doings of those in positions of power or, as the saying goes, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

In general, that means that if you are doing your job well as a journalist, someone is always going to be ticked off with you. What we are talking about, though, goes farther than just the press speaking out. Taking away or limiting freedom of the media is just one step away from taking away freedom of speech, which, with variations, is considered a fundamental liberty throughout Western democracies.

The attack on Charlie Hebdo is more than an attack on a single media outlet. It is an attack on the barrier — paper-thin, inconsistent and wavering though it might be — that separates our societies from becoming dictatorships. One line from Gérard Biard, the editor-in-chief at Charlie PENTICTON WESTERN Hebdo, who was away from the office when the attack occurred, sums up our feeling.

“I don’t understand how people can attack a newspaper with heavy weapons. A newspaper is not a weapon of war.”

At its best, a newspaper is a weapon of freedom. And that scares some people more than any bullet.

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Picking the mind of Mercer

On Sunday I got the chance to have a brief chat with somebody I have been watching on TV since I was 10 years old.

CBC mainstay Rick Mercer came to Penticton to feature the Black Widow Rope Spinners on the Rick Mercer Report, featured in the article Rick Mercer skips into town in the last issue of the Western News and I was fortunate enough to have the chance to ask him a few questions.

The 10-year-old me curled up next to the static-covered TV screen watching This Hour Has 22 Minutes would have been blown away.

Mercer is a well-known, and self-described “political junkie,” and with an upcoming federal election that Prime Minister Stephen Harper could call at any moment, I couldn’t help but ask for his thoughts on the future of our country.

After he politely brushed aside my joke about how he and Rob Lowe haven’t aged in 10 years, we got down to business.

“I look forward to any election year. We were spoiled for awhile with minority governments falling left, right and centre so it’s been a long time since we’ve had one,” Mercer said.

I asked him how election time goes over for him and his production crew and whether it was busier than usual for the

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Ramble On show.

“All I can do is respond to events as they happen. So there’s no real prep for an election. If it happens when I’m not on the air, I’ll figure out some way to convince a news outlet to put me on a plane so I can get up close, I’ve done that for the last few elections,” Mercer said.

However, he thinks it’s unlikely the election will take place on the current tentative date of Oct. 19.

“Nobody knows when this election is going to be called.

Stephen Harper insists he’s not calling it early and based on his track record that is a good indication he probably will call it early,” Mercer said.

I asked him whether he felt there was going to be a cul-

tural shift in Canadian politics with this election, I was essentially getting at whether or not he thought the Conservatives could hold on to the majority.

“Everyone in this election is going to try and defy history.

Stephen Harper, if you look at the history books, it shouldn’t be in his favour, but yet he could certainly win. Justin Trudeau is going to try and form a government, and the third party leader has never formed a government, I don’t believe,” Mercer said.

As far as I can tell, he was right about the third party never forming a government, and it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the Liberals could grab that many seats, but everything seems possible in that preelection, anything-can-happen mentality. It may be more likely that the Liberals will possibly oust the opposition NDP. “Obviously Tom Mulcair is trying to form a government, that would defy history because the NDP has never done that.

It’s weird, all of them are long shots if you pay attention to the past,” Mercer said.

No matter which political affiliation you side with, if any, Mercer has one political issue in this election that for him rises above any other.

“The one shift I would like to see is for people to get in-

volved and just go out and bloody vote because the level of complacency in the country when it comes to these things is very unfortunate and it’s even more unfortunate when you realize that the parties in power, they like it that way,” Mercer said.

It’s a simple message that is hard to argue with. I often hear, especially from people my age, that they don’t know who they are voting for, and because of this it’s actually more dangerous to vote blind.

Long story short, they don’t vote.

Well, now’s the time to do some brushing up. Think about what issues are important to you and find out where the current leadership stands, it has literally never been easier with Google at our finger tips. You can find out where your representative stands, and how you’re being represented nationally while on your phone waiting for the bus.

Now’s the time to do some minimal homework that will help shape the future of the country.

“I don’t care who you vote for, just vote,” Mercer said.

It’s hard to disagree.

Dale Boyd is the arts and entertainment editor for the Penticton Western News arts@pentictonwesternnews.com

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Two-tier rates don’t work Regarding Joe Fries story FortisBC claims two-tiered electricity rates working as intended published in the Western News on Dec. 22, 2014: Wow. Reminds me of the navy policy that the beatings will continue until the morale improves.

What’s wrong with two-tier is the unfairness of the policy. Only those who have gas heat can consider this OK. Since the majority of the people heat with gas it should be obvious that they can conserve electricity.

Those of us with even high-efficiency heat pumps are punished for simply having some heat. We live with the semi-tropical daytime temperature of 18.5 C and a night time (6 p.m. to 7 a.m.) of 16.5 C. The BCUC office is snug and warm.

Guess what? They heat with gas, I know as I have been in their building on Howe Street in Vancouver.

They have listened to the complaints and we the people are still awaiting some relief. I have little faith at this point. Will they surprise me?

Snow day

Heavy snowfall got you down when you think of the nightmare you may face while driving to your place of work ?

Well here is a solution that does not apply to essential services but may benefit the working man and woman who need the money to stay at least even in this country’s high cost of living.

Surely for one day students and workers who stay home for the day because of heavy snowfall won’t make the world stop turning?

Can you imagine how much easier and quicker it would be for the snow clearing personnel to clear the roads while those students and workers at home could clear driveways, sidewalks etc. and help those in need? Think of all that extra shovel power. Just think.

Workers could make up for lost pay by adding lost hours off work gradually to their regular shift when travel is safer — usually within a day of heavy snowfall.

With today’s electronic communication that guides the world, one missed shift at work on account of heavy snow won’t be the straw that put the brakes on the economy. It would certainly make travel much safer as highways and all roads are cleared

All of this started with the Campbell Liberal government and the carbon reduction policy. Two-tier was implemented for electric consumption. Why no tiering of gas use, or gasoline and diesel consumption? At least then we would all fare equally and bear the pain collectively.

Picking on electric heat consumers is causing depravation not conservation. We all agree that conservation is a good thing.

However, it must be applied fairly. With two-tier we have made heating ones home a luxury. Come on guys this is Canada and we have winter even in Fortisland.

There are many solutions. Separate rates for electric heat customers or some other fair idea.

I would have natural gas at my home in a heartbeat. It is however, not available.

We are on a well, so every litre we use is pumped up by an electric pump. We are a complete electric household and our nonheat and non-air conditioned house uses approximately 1400 kW hours per billing period. Wow we have 200 kW hours to heat our home before the gouging second rate

faster with perhaps the only dog’s hind-leg to be pissed off may just be ICBC. Even newspaper staff could miss a day even if it broke some hearts!

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TransMountain pipeline

President and CEO Russ Girling stated “It’s just a pipeline.” Yes, just a pipeline, which is for the purpose of transporting oil from the Alberta tars sands, down through the USA, for export to other countries of the world. Who’s making the profit? The corporations of course.

Has anyone explained to the tax payers, any of the possible future repercussions?

It’s been said many times, and for many years: If you can imagine something it can, and will happen.

Now, can you really believe there is no future repercussions to Canada if it allows this pipeline go ahead. Has anyone asked what is the cost to us tax payers to rent/ lease the land down through the USA so Alberta can get that oil on the move to other countries? It’s been stated, “this oil is for export.”

Surely, the USA wants something in return, if it does allow the go ahead.

Another question, how is it that we are seeing so very little of the ac-

tual “dirty sand ponds” be created? Has anyone stated or shown what is being done to clean up the mess being created?

We are just shown these lovely grassy fields with nice clean looking pipelines running through.

Don’t pipes rust and get rather filthy looking from the weather over time? They don’t show us that.

Well, that’s what those people will get to see running through our land, for years ahead.

I’m hoping this never happens. There is, hopefully, a future generation of humans to carry on with humanity. What will the environment be like for them?

kicks in.

The B.C. Government and their servants the BCUC have thrown all electric heating customers under the bus. All of our energy star equipment in the world won’t make this policy fair. We conserve and can do no more except pay and pay and pay!

Seniors and those who are ill need a decently heated house. When we built our home 19 years ago it was cheaper to heat with electricity than with gas and we put in the necessary electric heat infrastructure.

Why just three or four years ago the various governments were giving out big dollar grants for folks to install electric heat pumps. I bet those folks are really happy now that they have gouge rates when they use their systems.

I do not agree that the tier system works fairly. Furthermore, no one in Fortis world is paying less. In 1996 we paid $5.121 cents per kW hour.

It will be $9.42 cents and $14.02 cents on Jan. 1 , 2015. This is progress?

the free speech we disagree with, then we cannot expect others to defend our free speech.

To my friends and former colleagues, I sa-

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lute you, and thank you for continuing to do your job, despite threats of physical harm or censorship.

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The year has started poorly for anyone who supports free speech with the murder of a dozen people at Charlie Hebdo.

To dismiss the action by characterizing it solely as an outlier, committed by radical religious elements that seek to undermine free speech through acts of terror, is to deny the attacks on free speech that occur in our own province and range from the murder of Tara Singh Hayer in 1998 to the threats of legal action against Penticton citizens.

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More people seem to aware of the dangers of drinking and driving, according to Penticton RCMP traffic officer Cpl. Ted Manchulenko.

“When I look at the stats I think perhaps with the numbers we got relating directly to impaireds, what the members are telling me and what I observed myself on these road checks is that people were getting it (message) this year,” said Manchulenko, who was not aware of any serious alcohol-related accidents during that period. “We had a lot of good comments from people we were stopping, saying ‘we’re aware, we know you’re out here.

We saw it in the paper, we heard it on the news and these three people (passengers) are loaded but I’m the guy drinking Pepsi all night’ and that was the case in a lot of the cars that we stopped.”

From the period of Dec. 5 to Jan. 2 police handed out 13 30day roadside suspensions for alcohol-related driving offences, three three-day and one sevenday suspension.

Statistics from the previous year including a Criminal Code impaired charge, and nearly a dozen 90-day suspensions, totalled 22.

As well, the recent program resulted in the recovery of an alleged stolen vehicle with the

Penticton RcMP members were out in force for the course of the recent counterAttack program in the city conducting a number of road checks for impaired drivers.

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driver arrested and charged with obstruction, reportedly giving a false identity to police.

There were also 20 tickets issued under the Motor Vehicle Act for various offences and 15 written warnings, two drug seizures, two persons with no insurance and two without driver’s licenses.

Another person was charged with undue care and attention in the operation of a vehicle, failing to stop for police and stunting.

“That’s things like burnouts, light up the tires, that’s stunting, car goes away for a week and as well a due care ticket, so 365 bucks and additionally this guy didn’t want to stop,” said Manchulenko about the particular incident.

Although the exact figures were not available, he estimated there were dozens of the roving checks over the course of the month-long program.

As well, this season there was increased use of unmarked police vehicles dedicated solely to watching for impaired drivers.

“It was a good mix of enforcement with that and the visible enforcement, it was a 50-50 split,” said Manchulenko.

While CounterAttack is officially over he advised police will continue to be vigilant in watching for those who are impaired and expects more enforcement procedures targeting distracted drivers will be coming in the new year.

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A man who admitted to killing his brother almost four years ago at a home near Oliver will be sentenced later this month.

Kyle Capone Patrick Louie, 26, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the February 2011 stabbing death of Reece Dillenger Louie at a home on Black Sage Road.

The younger brother, who was 20 at the time, later died in hospital.

During a teleconference Thursday in B.C. Supreme Court in Penticton, Crown counsellor John Swanson said the sentencing hearing on Jan. 21 will

likely take just a single day and the only evidence entered will be in the form of documents prepared by expert witnesses.

Swanson said he and defence counsel have come up with a joint sentencing submission, but did not elaborate on what, if any, jail sentence he would be seeking.

Manslaughter, defined as killing a person without intent to do so, does not carry a mandatory minimum sentence in Canada. Louie has been in custody since his arrest just hours after the stabbing.

Although he was scheduled to be tried for seconddegree murder in B.C. Supreme Court in Penticton in March 2014, the hearing was cancelled when Louie pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter.

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LEFT TO RIGHT, Shatford Centre director Milton Orris, executive director Jane Shaak and course instructors Kathleen Murphy and Dawn Renaud gather around a pottery wheel at the Shatford Centre on Jan. 7. Pottery is one of the many creative courses being offered at the Creative For Life open house on Jan. 14.

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Creative expression isn’t solely a young person’s game.

The Shatford Centre is hosting a second symposium/ open house entitled Creative For Life on Jan. 14 to help Penticton seniors explore the multitude of artful and expressive programs being offered in the area.

This is the second of what the executive director of the Shatford Centre, Jane Shaak, hopes will be many events of this kind.

“The plan is to have two to three a year and that way we really have an opportunity to bring all of the organizations together and share what’s available in the community,” Shaak said.

The symposium will feature presentations and speakers talking about their programs that will run throughout the year, including courses on activities like painting, pottery and photography with a chance for a question and answer session.

“It’s really bringing all the different services together and providing an opportunity for seniors to check out what’s happening because it’s quite amazing all the differ-

ent things that are happening here,” Shaak said.

The symposium will provide a cross section of all the artistic endeavours available in the area, so those who are curious can find the right fit for them.

“The idea is to get people testing out some stuff, checking some different mediums out. You never know, you might just fall in love with it.

A lot of people become artists later in life,” Shaak said.

Staying creative later in life is a topic Okanagan School of the Arts director and chair of the programming committee Milton Orris knows well, and has been exploring for years.

Formerly the dean of continuing education at Ryerson University in Toronto, Orris originally started a program there called Learning is Forever.

The program came together while trying to engage seniors to attend different sessions held at Ryerson. While exploring what would bring more seniors out to programs, he discovered expressive and artistic activities were sparking interest. What started as a group of 50 people writing their life stories quickly branched out and grew into

multiple programs.

“It just took off,” Orris said.

Some of the original group members decided they were interested in exploring drama through a script reading.

“Within three years they were doing three-act plays publicly. Then a couple years later they were writing oneact plays and performing those. It just exploded, there was so much creativity out there and once they had the opportunity to do it, it just really took off,” Orris said.

The program is still running, a legacy Orris left in Ontario and is trying to reinvigorate here.

When Orris moved to Penticton three years ago he found there was a population of seniors that could benefit from similar programs.

“When you get older you have more freedom and opportunity to do things, but most people don’t think of it that way,” Orris said. “It’s giving them (seniors) an opportunity to live a more creative life as they get older rather than sit and watch television all day.”

Orris will be running one of the courses entitled Plan Your Life, Live Your Plan:

Make 55-plus the best time of your life, which will include planning out the next phase in life and answering questions about the future focused on topics like family relationships, where you want to live, health and recreation.

Another course that will be offered is Writing Recollections with Dawn Renaud. The course helps seniors tell their life stories and explore their own history through a variety of mediums, especially through writing.

“We will be sparking memories and helping people feel comfortable telling their stories,” Renaud said.

Some sessions being offered include Pioneers and Places with Randy Manuel, Visual Arts (drawing and painting mediums) in the visual arts studio, We Love Documentary monthly films with Bob Nicholson and Cyber Seniors with the Okanagan School of the Arts, Photo Memories with Barb Lewis, and Healthy Cooking for Elders “Building a community of creative people in their older years is essentially what we’re doing,” Orris said.

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Calling all Penticton bands Dale Boyd

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Bands from Penticton and the surrounding area have a chance to steal the local spotlight during the first ever Off the Charts Penticton Battle of the Bands contest.

The Barking Parrot will begin hosting bands with the contest playing out over five weeks (with a one week break) starting Feb. 19 and wrapping up with the final night of competition on March 26.

David MacCoubrey started the event because he wants to promote not only music in the region, but business as well and he hopes it would bring visibility to Penticton’s music tourism industry.

“The music in the region slows down this time of year so I thought it would be a good time to do it, promote music in the region and keep it going all year round,” MacCoubrey.

The contest, which will host a total of 16 acts, isn’t just limited to Penticton bands.

“I’m doing a call for all over. I’ve been advertising a little bit all over B.C.,“ MacCoubrey said.

He has had a few bands who have expressed interest already, including one from Abbotsford.

So far, the two confirmed judges are MacCoubrey and Randy Farmer, 97.1 Sun FM DJ. Forgoing the onenight format will help

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“I’ve had electronic rock come through, straight-up rock and another band out of Abbostford that was a little bit more metal-ey,” MacCoubrey said.

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“I believe that the music in this tourism industry is going to be something that can promote overall tourism in Penticton,” MacCoubrey said. “The SOEC is doing an excellent job, we’re getting great shows coming through. I hope to see Boonstock come back, we have Desert Live down in Osoyoos.

It brings people into the region. I don’t believe we’re all head-banging druggies, I believe that we’re people that like music.”

MacCoubrey said the big acts that are coming through like the upcoming Def Leppard and Marilyn Manson shows are helping to bring in fans from as far as Vancouver. However, he feels there needs to be a balance of big acts and smaller shows to create a thriving musical hot spot.

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Downton Abbey, the BBC series about the inner workings of a grand English estate in the early 20th century is back on TV for its final season.

It’s been eagerly anticipated in our house — my kids watch past seasons and my

daughter hammers out the theme song on the piano.

For those who aren’t satisfied by the TV show, Longbourn by British author Jo Baker offers an equally interesting, but more critical view of British servant quarters. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Baker came up with the idea for her latest book while watching Downton Abbey.

As you may have guessed by the title, Longbourn is named after the Bennett family estate featured in the novel Pride and Prejudice. I thought it

might be impossible to come up with a fresh take on Jane Austen’s famous early 19th century novel, but I was happily proven wrong.

Pride and Prejudice centres on Mrs. Bennett’s attempts to marry her five daughters to wealthy landowners. At the time, the fate of the girls and of their family depended upon marrying well.

Servants are mentioned in passing in Pride and Prejudice.

In Longbourn, Baker retells Austen’s plot entirely from the servants’ point-of-view.

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Jan. 23 — Paul Pigat brings his many styles to the Dream Café for the birthday weekend of the venue owner Pierre.

Jan. 23 — The South Okanagan Concert Society presents the Offramp Jazz Sextet. The group will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the new Venables Theatre in Oliver.

Jan. 30 — Gary Comeau and the Voodoo Allstars bring a variety of instruments to the Dream Café.

Feb. 6 — Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne brings his Fats Domino tribute to the Dream Café.

Feb. 10 — So You Think You Can Dance heads to the SOEC for the Season 11 tour of the TV dance competition.

Feb. 13 — Lacarno, a mix of Mexican folk and Latin bring their diverse sound to the Dream Café.

Feb. 14 — Heather Blush and the Uppercuts return to the Dream Café.

March 7 — The Irish Rovers celebrate 50 years of music with a concert at the Cleland Community Theatre. Tickets are $51.50 at the community centre. Peformance is at 7 p.m.

March 13 — Celtic Thunder return to the SOEC with their brand new show The Very Best of Celtic Thunder Tour.

March 28 — Marilyn Manson brings his Hell Not Hallelujah tour to the SOEC.

events Jan. 10 — The Federation of Canadian Artists South Okanagan-Similkameen chapter will open its first juried exhibition for 2015. Colours in Winter will be at the Osoyoos Art Gallery through to Jan. 31. The Opening Reception is begins at 10 a.m.

Jan. 14 — Soundstage Productions presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Ellis Street.

Tickets are available at the Penticton Lakeside Resort or by phone at 250-493-8221.

Jan. 16 — The Summerland Singers and Players are holding auditions in Summerland and Penticton for their spring production until Jan. 18. Call director Bryan Laver at 250-493-6539 Jan. 22 —Kitchen Stove Film Series presents: The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

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Pigat plays birthday weekend Dale Boyd

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PAUL PIGAT heads to the Dream Café Jan. 23.

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Dream Café owner Pierre Couture is often lauded for carefully selecting the musicians that visit his stage, so when you’re the act booked on his birthday weekend, you must be doing something right.

Paul Pigat first met Couture five years ago, but had been in contact with him here and there for much longer, he estimates around 10 years.

“It’s going to be a blast,” Pigat said. “I always love hanging out there, the Dream (Café) is a really special place. There aren’t many gigs, at least in Western Canada that are like that. The quality of music that happens there and the enthusiasm of the people who run it, it’s truly unique for

the West Coast.”

Pigat will make this appearance a Cousin Harley show, his rockabilly, western-swing alter ego. However, as with most shows at the Dream Café it won’t be a note-for-note rendition of the stadium show, but a more charming and intimate performance.

“It would literally blow the windows out of the place,” Pigat said.

Cousin Harley began as a project Pigat put together in the early 90s.

“I had a swing band at the time and I’d grown up playing country music, so I thought it just made sense to put those two things together,” Pigat said.

The project, that began as a bit of fun for Pigat, started to take off in the early 2000s.

“It has been my mainstay since then,”

Pigat said.

Pigat is a bit of a jack of all trades who makes his way seamlessly through genres and styles working with artists from Jakob Dylan to Jim Byrnes.

Singer/songwriter Neko Case, who is in the midst of a successful solo career, was on the very first Cousin Harley album.

“I believe it might be the first time she ever sang into a microphone,” Pigat said.

“None of us knew that she could even sing. She was the drummer for a punk band.”

Pigat will be playing the Dream Café two nights back-to-back starting Jan. 23.

Tickets are $28.

“I’m looking forward to seeing Pierre and celebrating his birthday with him. It’s going to be a blast. I hope I can get there without any snowstorms,” Pigat laughed.

More to explore for fans of BBC’s Downton Abbey From ABBEY on PG. 10 Sarah is a housemaid who was selected from a nearby orphanage to work at the Bennett’s estate.

She is just coming of age as a peculiar footman is also hired and given a bed above the horse stable. Their lives intersect, and the mystery of the footman’s appearance and his past history is slowly revealed.

In addition to fleshing out a world of servants only briefly mentioned in the original novel, Baker adds depth to many of the characters in Pride and Prejudice.

The Bingley family made their great fortune with the sugar and slave trade in the West Indies. Mr. Bennett has a secret from before his marriage that he has kept hidden from his family but not from the servants, and Mr. Wickham,

already an unsavoury character in the original novel, takes a sinister interest in the young serving staff.

While I was sometimes surprised by Baker’s imagining, her descriptions don’t take away from or taint the original novel. She does well to weave the two stories together using real dialogue and incidents from Pride and Prejudice, telling them from a fresh point of view. The footman waits

in the cold during the ball at Meryton, only glimpsing at the warmth inside, and being harassed by the other drunken and gambling servants also waiting for their masters. At home, young girls wait up for the revellers, only to get up a few hours later to fetch water and wood to run the household.

Baker’s writing isn’t as sharp or as subtle as Jane Austen’s, and she has more of a taste for

melodrama. But this difference in voice actually helps separate the two stories. Much as in Downton Abbey, Baker highlights the unending work of the serving girls compared to the idle ladies, and how marrying for love was largely an unrealistic dream, whether living at the top or the bottom of the stairs.

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Youth hooked on ice fishing Steve Kidd

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Poking a hole through the ice and dropping a fishing line may not seem like the first thing you want to do in the winter, but for many, ice fishing is as every bit as enjoyable as angling in the summer.

On Jan. 24, the B.C. Wildlife Association and local clubs are looking to share the experience with a Youth Ice Fishing Day on Yellow Lake from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Tom Dellamater of the Penticton Fly Fishers Club attended the event last year, and said there were at least 100 kids registered to try out the sport, along with their parents. This year, the event was moved from February to January, which he said should make the fishing even better.

“When the ice first goes on, the fish are more active.”

The only thing you need to take part, he said, are warm clothes. Ice fishing gear and bait are supplied, as is a bar-

JosePh Trudel of the First oliver Boy scouts checks his line for any sign of a bite during the special ice fishing program organized by the Freshwater Fisheries society of B.C. and the Ministry of forests, lands and natural resource operation on Yellow lake last winter.

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becue hot dog lunch. The Penticton Fly Fishers will have volunteers out to help, as will other local groups like the Keremeos Cawston Sportsman Association and

the BCWF. “There will be people there to help. If someone has never done it before they go out, dig a hole and work with them and explain what they are do-

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ing,” said Dellamater, who said there should be some good fishing that day.

“I understand the fishing has been pretty good the last week to 10 days,” he said, adding that the lake is home to perch, trout and kokanee. And since Yellow Lake is next to Highway 3, near the Kaleden Junction, it’s an ideal place for this kind of event.

“It doesn’t matter what the weather is, you can get out there. And since you don’t need a boat, they can go fishing,” said Dellamater, who said there are many attractions to getting out ice fishing, starting with the community — he said he is likely to know a third of the people on the lake.

“It’s camaraderie. You are doing something rather than sitting around, plus the fish are in good shape; you take them home and they smoke well,” he said. “We could be Kaden Coolidge gets some help from mom Felicia watching Oprah and eating Cartier and Ken Baker of the Penticton Flyfishers during his first try at ice fishing on Yellow lake last year. bonbons.”

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Crime Stoppers stepping out into public eye Joe Fries

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Editors note: this is the first in a series of four weekly articles dedicated to Crime Stoppers month.

Most of its work is done by a dedicated group of volunteers who are devoted to anonymity, but even South Okanagan-Similkameen Crime Stoppers likes to step out occasionally.

The local group is joining others across Canada in January to celebrate Crime Stoppers month by explaining how it goes about running a service that helps get bad guys off the street by providing cash incentives to noname tipsters.

“It’s our month to sort of get up in the public eye,” said Bob Ogden, president of South Okanagan-Similkameen Crime Stoppers.

In its first two de-

cades in this region, the group received anonymous tips that helped police recover $1.8 million in stolen property, seize $11.5 million worth of drugs and make 803 arrests, according to its 2013 report.

Ogden leads a board composed of 11 other volunteer directors and one paid co-ordinator who works directly with local RCMP on community policing matters.

The longest-serving board member is treasurer Fred Gartrell, a retired banker and Summerland orchardist, who signed up in 1999 at the urging of friend and former co-ordinator Gord Fleebe.

“I really don’t like the amount of crime that goes on in our communities and the effect it has on so many people,” said Gartrell, “and so I feel I can do a small part to try to get some of those people off the

street and prevent some of those crimes from happening.”

Another long-time director is secretary Jane Przioda, who joined in 2004 and brought with her experience in bookkeeping and Citizens on Patrol.

“I want to keep busy.

I’m retired now, I’ve got a little bit more time and I’ve always had an interest in giving back to the community,” she said, “and I find this is a good way to do it.”

Ogden described Gartrell and Przioda as “very dedicated and very hardworking,” and said continuity and transfer of knowledge at the board level is vital to any such group’s survival.

“They’ve been at it a long time, and you’ll notice with volunteer organizations that unless you sort of have an idea of succession planning, you run the risk of dry-

ing up and dying,” he said.

Ogden, who has been with the Crime Stoppers for four years, said his career as a Mountie made volunteering with the group an easy deci-

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“I benefited from Crime Stoppers tips,” he said. Plus, “I’ve got the time and I know a little bit about how the RCMP works.”

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1. Which minor hockey coach made the biggest impact on you and why?

My dad, always knew how to push me my hardest.

2. What is your favourite hockey memory?

Winning the Clark Cup (with the Indiana Ice) the trophy of the United States Hockey League.

3. Do you have a pre-game routine? If so, what is it?

I don’t have a pre-game routine.

4. Who is your favorite hockey player(s) and why?

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Joe Pavelski because he is similar in stature and is extremely skilled and works hard.

5. What’s the best advice your parents gave you about playing hockey?

It’s just a game and to enjoy it for as long as I can.

6. If you could have dinner with any hockey players, alive or dead, who would they be? Why? Pavel Bure, Sidney Crosby and Pavel Datsyuk. Just to listen to them and hear their stories.

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The Penticton Vees are alone in the BCHL’s 30-win club.

They are the first team to hit that total after a 5-2 victory over the Coquitlam Express in front of 2,000 fans at the South Okanagan Events Centre Wednesday night.

Thirty-six seconds into the second period, Patrick Newell hammered home the game-winner past Express goalie Chris Tai with a one-timer after Mike Lee found him with a long pass.

Despite what the Vees deemed as a sluggish start, with coach Fred Harbinson adding, “the game was in quick sand a bit”, in the opening frame, they took a 2-0 lead into the dressing room on goals by Tyson Jost and Steen Cooper. The Vees were outshot 14-9.

“You have to find ways to win those kinds of games and we did,” said Harbinson, adding that his players’ ability to block shots was probably the best part of their game.

The Vees also managed to contain the Express’ top line of Corey Mackin, Brett Supinski and Brendan Lamont, limiting Mackin to one assist as Brendan Barry was strong making 24 saves for his 10th win.

Harbinson also was happy to see his power play work as it went two-for-four on goals by Cooper and Lee, who picked up his first career BCHL goal.

“It was great to see Mike Lee get his first goal of the year,” said Harbinson.

Lee, sporting a stylish black-and-white plaid bow tie, said Jack Ramsey made a nice behind-the-back pass while he streaked into the zone to bury a slapshot five-hole.

“I was trying to go upstairs with it,” said Lee, who has 21 assists. “It was pretty exciting. I really didn’t know it went in. Everyone just threw up their hands.”

As his teammates did that, Lee raised his arms in the air a few times, claiming to remove the proverbial gorilla from his back. The Hamden, Conn., product admitted not having scored in 37 games weighed on him.

“The guys were kind of chirping me in the locker room about it,” he said smiling.

Also scoring for the Vees was Ramsey, while Riley Alferd collected three helpers.

Before the game, Harbinson did like he said on Monday and got his roster down to 22 players prior to the Jan. 10 trade deadline. He dealt 18-year-old defenceman Connor Russell to the Cowichan Valley Capitals for future considerations.

“It was tough. Rusty is a great kid. An awesome teammate,” said Harbinson. “I know the guys were probably pretty bummed out from it because he was an awesome teammate. It’s an opportunity for him to play more and be in a bigger role. It’s tough to make those decisions.”

“It’s pretty tough to see him go. Unbelievable kid in the room, strongly liked by everyone on the team,” said Cooper, adding that Russell may live with his family in Cowichan Valley.

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GOAL HUNTING —Jordan McFadden lines up a shot against Chilliwack goaltender Kurtis Russell on Jan. 4 during the game between Penticton and Chilliwack at Memorial Arena. The Vees won the game 6-2 and finished second in the tournament after losing the final 4-1 to Kelowna 7. Penticton 2 went 2-1-1, while Penticton 3 went 1-3-0.

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DAYLAN ROBERTSON has been welcomed back to the Summerland Steam after not playing the first half of the season while studying at UBC-Okanagan. The former captain should inject more offence into the lineup.

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“He’s not someone that is a big vocal person or anything like that,” added DePourcq. “Playoff hockey is all about being strong on the defensive side of the puck. He’s a real sharp guy when it comes to that.”

There was some concern from DePourcq with Robertson re-entering the mix only because of his conditioning. However, after watching this week, it isn’t a problem. Robertson, DePourcq said, has skated a few times a weekly with a group of guys, and has always been known for staying in great shape.

“Last night (Tuesday), same thing as when he was on the team the last couple years, his work ethic is unbelievable,” said DePourcq.

DePourcq plans to use Robertson with Lautard and Tyson Klingspohn, acquired from the Kimberley Dynamiters in November after losing Lautard to the Smoke Eaters. DePourcq said that trio should give them the best top line in the KIJHL. “They should have a lot of success together,” said DePourcq.

“I think it will be fun,”

added Robertson.

Despite the Steam managing just one point in its last five games, DePourcq said they are doing lot of great things.

“I love how we’re playing right now,” he said. “We’re starting to figure out how we need to play to have success.”

Both returning captains will be in the lineup this weekend when the team travels to Chase, then Saturday at home when they host the North Okanagan Knights at 5:30 p.m. at the Summerland Arena.

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Daylan Robertson is going to be able to pull himself away from management books and eat up ice time with the Summerland Steam.

A busy schedule at UBC-Okanagan’s management program didn’t allow Robertson to start his final junior hockey season. Things are different as he will now be able to play while attending school.

“It’s exciting,” said Robertson. “I missed playing hockey.”

The former captain and leading scorer for the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League club returned last weekend and is set to make his season debut Saturday in Chase against the Heat.

Robertson said he was lucky enough that Steam coaches John DePourcq and Gregg Wilson welcomed him back.

“It should really help us down the stretch,” said DePourcq. “He’s a great leader. Very strong on all ends of the puck. I never have to worry about that.”

The Steam also got this season’s captain, Paulsen Lautard, back following a 15-game stint with the BCHL’s Trail Smoke Eaters, where he produced two goals and six points.

It’s good news for the Steam who are mired in a five-game skid that includes an overtime loss.

With Robertson, the Steam also get a lead-byexample type player.

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“We’re not a hard-core racing group,” said junior racing team coach Jerome Jang. “More about making sure they get their technique and fitness level, and if they want to race they are ready for it.”

Until the white stuff began falling, Jang was forced to primarily focus on dry-land training with his skiers.

While Jang said dry-land is needed, the kids also need to start skiing. This season he will be working with kids entering their first year so he will be learning about them on the fly.

“I want to see where the development of the new kids are. See where they need to go,” said Jang. “Others are at the point of doing serious training.”

A focus will be placed on technique. With the experienced skiers, he feels they will perform better than previous years.

“I think it’s exciting that we have as many skiers this year as we do,” he said, adding they had 12 last year and have added four. “They are beginning to gel as a team.

With all the training, it’s going to be interesting to see what happens this year.”

Jang also said they are always open to welcoming kids interested in joining.

In their skill development program, there are 70 kids signed up for the eight-week program that started Jan. 3.

Murray Farbridge, the instructor of the program and new club general manager, said they will take more kids.

The program is intended for kids ages four to 12.

“It’s exciting seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces,” said Farbridge. “Watching them develop, they learn through play. We have a ski playground behind the lodge. They set up hoops they go through, and jumps and obstacle courses around poles to slalom through.

“It’s just play,” he continued. “We all have fun. It’s family-oriented.”

Farbridge returns after originally starting the junior racing program in 2003 with six kids, and watching it grow and then get smaller. From its first year, the program developed David Palmer, a three-time Canadian champ who has represented Canada at the world junior championships.

“You just never know,” said Farbridge. “It’s just a healthy pursuit, but there might be one or two like that that take it all the way.”

Anyone interested in joining the club can do so by contacting Farbridge at mfarbridge@hotmail.com.

The ski club has grown to approximately 600 members. This season the club is focused on more groomed trails for skiers and they are offering an extensive network of snowshoe trails. Ski and snowshoe rentals are available at the ticket office at Nickel Plate.

The club has a few high-profile races coming up with the Teck Okanagan Cup No. 6 and 7 on Jan 31-Feb 1 and the Nickel Plate Loppet Feb. 7.

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IN BRIEF OHA netminder joins Warriors

Okanagan Hockey Academy goaltender Brody Willms will play for the Moose Jaw Warriors of the Western Hockey League for the remainder of the season.

Willms, 16, has spent parts of three seasons with OHA. The Coquitlam product has appeared in 12 games with Prep White, posting an 8-4-0 record with four shutouts.

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presented to Brody with the Moose Jaw Warriors and very proud of his accomplishments with our academy,” said Prep White head coach Malcolm Cameron in a release.

Willms, a 2013 eighth round WHL bantam draft pick, spent the 2013-14 season with the OHA prep team where he posted a perfect 12-0-0 record in Canadian Sport School Hockey League play, including a 29-save victory in the CSSHL Prep Division championship game. Willms has appeared in three career games with the Warriors so far.

“We are very proud to have been a part of his development and Brody can serve as a role model for our other academy players,” said Cameron.

Running/walking clinic offered

Have you ever dreamed of running or walking a 10-kilometre distance? Now is the time to take on that challenge. The Penticton Community Centre Sun Run InTraining Clinic begins Jan. 17. to prepare those interested in participating in the 2015 Vancouver Sun Run event. The clinics will take place each week over 13 weeks leading up to the Vancouver Sun Run on April 19.

This is a great way to prepare for the event and clinics will cater to walkers and runners of all abilities.

Registration for the clinics is $142 plus GST. The clinics are Saturdays at 9 a.m. For more information call 250-490-2426.

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January 26, 1922 to January 3, 2015 Olive passed away unexpectedly with her daughters by her side in the Moog & Friends Hospice House in Penticton. Born in Indonesia to Salvation Army missionary parents, Olive and family moved to England when she was 10. An excellent swimmer, at 14, she was awarded a Certificate of Merit for Lifesaving. She attended Pitman College for secretarial training, working afterwards in legal and insurance offices. To assist in the War effort, at age 18, Olive joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force serving for 5 years in London and Birmingham England. Olive met the love of her life, Lou, who was serving in the Canadian Army overseas. He attended her 21st birthday party, they married on D-Day and Olive came to Penticton as a war bride in 1946. She worked for many years for School District 15. Radiant and loving, her positive attitude, ethics and spirit of adventure guided her family. She was a surrogate mother to many. All will remember her great cooking skills and the Christmas light display that she and Lou had on their Naramata Road property. Predeceased

by Lou in 2007, brothers Ron and Douglas, and sister Kathleen. Olive is survived by her sister Dorothy (John) in England, daughters Luann Rezvani (Vahid) and Glenis Shanks (Andrew); grandchildren Siavash Rezvani (Melanie), Ramin Rezvani (fiancé Taylor), Matthew Shanks (Robin) and Heather Roberts (Brynn). Greatgreat-grandchildren include Xander, Keely and Max Rezvani; Katelyn and Gabriel Shanks and Marshall Roberts. An informal reception will be held on Saturday, January 10 at the Shatford Centre, 760 Main Street, Penticton from 1 to 3 pm.

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Predeceased Lynn and Marvin. To be remembered for her strength and courage, her unique spirit and her positive outlook on life. Her Celebration of Life will be on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 1:30pm at the Eagles Club 1197 Main Street, Penticton, BC.

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The family of Anastassios Portalakis is The family of Anastassios Portalakis is celebrating celebrating of was his life.

He was a 78 years of 78 his years life. He a hardworking, dedicated mandedicated who tookman pride in took everything hardworking, who pride he did. He loved family and treasured his in everything hehis did.

He loved his family friends and wanted best for those he loved. and treasured his the friends and wanted the He resilient whoHe held hisahead high bestwas fora those heman loved. was resilient and worked hard for his family. He will be man who held his head high and worked missed by his wife Zacharenia Portalaki; his three hard for his family.

He(Vickie), will be missed his children Kosta, Minas Eftalia by (Jeff ); wife Zacharenia Portalaki; his three children his three grandchildren Anastassios, Pellagia, Kosta, Minas (Vickie), Eftalia (Jeff); three and Matthias; his brothers Mixalis andhis Giannis grandchildren Anastassios, Portalakis; his sisters Eluetheria Pellagia, Peribolari and and Katerina and many close Matthias;Pneumatikaki; his brothers Mixalis andvery Giannis friends.

Anastassios wasEluetheria predeceased by his Portalakis; his sisters Peribolari mother Eftalia, and his brothers Minas and Kosta. and Katerina Pneumatikaki; and many very A service will be held on Tuesday January 13, close friends.

Anastassios was predeceased 2015 at 10:00 am at the Saint Saviour’s Anglican by his mother Eftalia, andFather his brothers Minas Church in Penticton with Kosta Kaltsidis and Kosta. A service will be held on Tuesday officiating.

January 13, 2015 at 10:00 am at the Saint Interment at Penticton Lakeview Cemetery Saviour’s Anglican Church in Penticton with followed by a reception at Father Kosta Kaltsidis officiating.

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Interment at Penticton Lakeview Cemetery Providence followed by a reception at “Every Life Tells at A Story” Theo’s Restaurant 1:00 pm.

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Homes for Rent 346 Penticton Ave., 3bd, 2ba, laminate fl, rec. room in bsmnt, yard w/deck, $1350+util./mo., text or call VJ 250-490-1530 3bdrm house, with carport, near Superstore/Cherry Lane, avail. immed., (250)492-4878 Cawston, 2bdrm mobile $750 & 1 bdrm cottage, $700 country setting, (beside orchard), (incl util)., 250-499-0558 New 2bdrm house, $1300/mo., avail. Feb. 1, Heritage Hills, Penticton, np/ns, adults only, (778)515-1616 Olalla; newly renovated, spacious, bright house, 2bdrm, 1.5ba, laundry rm, family rm, sky lights, w/d/f/s/dw, workshop, park-like area, NO SMOKING, small pet ok, avail. now, $950/mo., 250-499-5700 PENTICTON 3 BEDROOM HOUSE FOR RENT, 5 min walk to Skaha Lake!! 2 bath, 2 car garage, sunroom, Low Maint. landscaping LOOKING FOR LONG TERM RENTER WANTED FEB 1st, 1 year lease. 55+ gated community in ‘The Springs’. 3400 Wilson St. Very clean and partially furnished. Available for rent Feb 1st. Call for more info. 250782-4082 e-mail redccole@gmail.com $1,450. monthly.

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Penticton Secondary dry Grad committee is holding their annual bottle drive on Jan. 10 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Pen High parking lot. alcoholicS anonymouS haS daily meetings in Penticton and area.

Call 250-490-9216 (24 hours) for more information. charity bottle drive with all money going to the Penticton Regional Hospital paediatric ward, SPCA, Critteraid and the Summerland food bank. Drop off from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays at Penticton and Summerland IGA stores. eagleS club haS member appreciation day, burgers and fries at noon and beaver races at 4 p.m. Hockey night starts at 7 p.m. anavetS haS Stu’S Kitchen from 9 a.m. to noon, dinner by Stu at 5:30 p.m. and entertainment by Shindigger at 6:30 p.m. elkS club on Ellis Street has drop-in darts at 4 p.m., a meat draw at 4:30 p.m. and dinner

at 5:30 p.m. followed by karaoke with Anita. r oyal c anadian legion branch 40 has crib at 10 a.m., meat draw at 2 p.m.

Sunday

January 11 everyone iS welcome to the Penticton Legion Ladies Auxiliary pancake breakfast in the hall, 502 Martin St. from 8:30 a.m. till noon. For $4 you get pancakes, ham, sausage, orange juice and coffee and 50 cents more will get you strawberries and cream.

Sunday blueS Jam with hosts TR2 band, every Sunday from 7 to 10 p.m. at Penticton Legion, 502 Martin St. Calling all musicians and lovers of the blues to attend with your guitars and instruments, some amps and drums supplied. No cover charge and no membership required. elkS club on Ellis Street has a dart shoot at 11 a.m., dog races at 2 p.m., M&M meat draw, Last Man Standing, pool and darts. come dance to the greatest dance music ever made with D.J.

Make Your Home Safe for Independent Living Are you a low-income senior or a person with a disability who wants to live safely and independently in the comfort of your home?

Do you have difficulty performing day-to-day activities?

Does your home need to be adapted to meet your changing needs? If so, you may be eligible for financial assistance under the Home Adaptations for Independence (HAFI) program.

Find out today if you are eligible and if you meet all of the requirements as a low-income homeowner or as a landlord applying on behalf of an eligible tenant.

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Emil, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the South Main DropIn Centre, 2965 South Main St. $3 per person, all welcome. anavetS haS horSe races and meat draws at 2 p.m. r oyal c anadian legion branch 40 has meat and 50-50 draws at 2 p.m. in the hall, 502 Martin St. eagleS club haS pool league at noon, wings at 1 p.m. and meat draw at 4 p.m.

Monday

January 12 Fraternal order oF the Eagles has league darts at 7 p.m. Members and guests welcome to the hall at 1197 Main St. the bereavement reSource Centre hosts a grief support group Mondays for parents who are grieving the loss of a child. Call 250-490-1107 for more information.

Floor curling at 12:45 p.m. every Monday except holidays in the Leisure Centre, 439 Winnipeg St. r oyal c anadian legion branch 40 has dart dolls at 11 a.m., bridge at 1 p.m., darts at

7 p.m. General meeting at 7 p.m.

FitneSS FriendS meetS every Monday and Thursday in the Legion hall, 502 Martin St. at 10 a.m. Come and lose those extra pounds. Call Dot at 250-492-5400 for more information.

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January 13 the Penticton muSeum continues its popular Brown Bag Lecture series in the auditorium from 12-1 p.m. Merle Kindred and friends present on Dogwood Initiative, a network helping citizens reclaim decision-making power over issues relating to the province’s land, air, and water. Presentations are in the museum auditorium (785 Main St) and include coffee, tea and confections. Admission is by donation. viSPaSSana (inSight) meditation for beginners or mature practitioners every Tuesday evening from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m.

Please call Debora for details at 250-462-7340.

All welcome, no charge.

Penticton whole FoodS Market presents a free seminar at 7 p.m.

with Lila Elliott on A New Year Cleanse: why you need it, how to do it. elkS on elliS Street has yoga, league darts and 10-card crib at 7 p.m. wellneSS mental centre has individual support for family members in Summerland from 10 a.m. to noon at 13211 Henry St. anavetS haS Stu’S kitchen open from 9 a.m. to noon. royal canadian legion has an executive meeting at 10 a.m. and a service officer at 1 p.m.

South main droP-in Centre has novice bridge at 9:15 a.m., lunch at 11:30 a.m., partner bridge at 12:45 p.m., knitting and crocheting at 1 p.m. yoga meditation/vegetarian SuPPer is upstairs in the Elks Lodge at 344 Ellis St. in Penticton Tuesdays at 6 p.m.

Donations accepted. the South okanagan and Similkameen MS Society has an informal coffee group that meets at 10 a.m. Tuesdays at Cherry Lane Shopping Centre. For more info, call Sherry at 250-4936564 or email sherry.wezner@mssociety.ca.

HAFI Funds Home Modifications for Disabled Man When Lorie and Walter bought their home in Port Alberni 13 years ago they slowly began renovating the unfinished basement to accommodate Walter’s changing needs as his muscular dystrophy advanced.

“The basement was a black hole when we moved in,” recalled Walter. “After 12 years of skimping and saving, we made the downstairs completely wheelchair accessible, except for the bathroom. It was way too small.

I could only stand for about a minute and a half without collapsing in the shower stall and I could no longer pull myself out of the tub in the upstairs’ bathroom, even with Lorie’s help.”

Through funding from BC Housing’s Home Adaptations for Independence (HAFI) program, Walter and Lorie were able to work with a contractor to transform the space. A wall was removed to make room for a wheelin shower with benches, grab bars were installed, and the vanity and fixtures were relocated.

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“ I just slide into the shower now,” said Walter. “I feel safer and no longer dread trying to wash myself. What was previously a dangerous chore for me is now a welcome treat.”

Walter and Lorie hope to spend the rest of their lives in their home.

The HAFI program provides financial assistance to help eligible low-income seniors and people with disabilities adapt their homes so they can continue to live independently.

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Hip with hip-hop stars and seniors too Inside When Chrysler resurrected the 300 It is amazing to see how much has nameplate (originally sold from the mid changed inside a modern sedan in the 50s until the late 70s) back in 2005, it was past 10 years. When the 2005 Chrysler met with the kind of enthusiasm of which 300 was introduced, the company was automakers can only dream. still addicted to hard, cheap looking plasHip-hop stars all the way to seniors chose tic. Today, the 300 is fitted with upscale the car with aggressive exterior styling materials and the latest infotainment. and full-size dimensions. In fact, the 2005 The changes for 2015 include a new inChrysler 300 wasn’t just a sales hit — it Much has strument cluster display that is bold and won more awards than any other vehicle bright. My preference would be to have to date. When Chrysler updated the car for changed in 10 years the ability to dial down the brightness 2011, the intention was to make the car for the 300, but the of the glowing instrument rings during less “brutal” looking, making it more ele- same goodness that the day, something that can be adjusted gant and sophisticated. This was achieved was in the 2005 at night when the headlamps are on. by opening up the glass area for better The award winning 8.4-inch uConnect outward visibility and minimizing the model is still here; infotainment screen is standard on all bold front grille. Now, for 2015, Chrysler is it is the refinement trim levels and it is a snap to learn. Also retracing its choices and going back to a that makes this a included now, on all models, is the rotary blunt look again. modern sedan. transmission controller, something that Looks becomes second nature after a few days The people who drove the 2005 model Zack Spencer of use. The rest of the interior is tailored welcomed some of the changes made in depending on the trim. The sportier S 2011. The glass area was improved by 15 model is covered in black with bold white stitching. It is per cent and the top of the front window was raised, the top Platinum models that get the opulent diamond making it easier to see traffic lights. This has not been stitching in the seats, a two-tone leather steering wheel adjusted for 2015; the revisions are kept to the front and open grain wood accents. and rear of the 300. The most noticeable update is the Drive return of a big, bold grille, which is 30 per cent bigger The reason for the standard transmission controller is than the aggressive grille found on the 2005 model. the standard 8-speed automatic transmission for both The way it is integrated is more polished, thanks to V6 and V8 equipped cars. The base engine is the same three distinct grille inserts depending on the trim level.

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Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2013, 2014, 2015 model year Chevrolet car, SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between January 3, 2015 and January 11, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $750 credit available on all eligible Chevrolet vehicles. Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any Pontiac/Saturn/SAAB/Hummer/Oldsmobile model year 1999 or newer vehicle or Chevrolet Cobalt or HHR that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2013, 2014, 2015 model year Chevrolet car, SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between January 3, 2015 and January 11, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $1,500 credit available on all eligible Chevrolet vehicles. Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer pick-up truck that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive): $1,000 credit available towards the retail purchase, cash purchase or lease of one eligible 2013, 2014 or 2015 model year Chevrolet light or heavy duty pickup(except Colorado); delivered in Canada between January 3, 2015 and January 11, 2015. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited by law. See your GMCL dealer for details. GMCL reserves the right to amend or terminate offers for any reason in whole or in part at any time without prior notice. †$2,750 is a combined total credit consisting of a $750 Holiday Cash (tax inclusive) and a $2,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Trax which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $2,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ‡$8,000 is a combined total credit consisting of a $4,000 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Silverado Light Duty Double Cab, $1,000 Holiday Cash for Truck Owners (tax inclusive) and a $3,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Chevrolet Silverado Light Duty (1500) Double Cab, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $3,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. *†$5,000 is a combined total credit consisting of a $1,000 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) on 2014 Chevrolet Cruze LTZ, a $750 Holiday Cash (tax inclusive) and a $3,250 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Cruze LTZ which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $3,250 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ~Visit onstar.ca for coverage map, details and system limitations. Services vary by model and conditions. OnStar acts as a link to existing emergency service providers. After complimentary trial period, an active OnStar service plan is required. ††Based on Wardsauto.com 2013 Large Pickup segment and last available information at the time of posting. Excludes other GM vehicles. Maximum trailer weight ratings are calculated assuming base vehicle, except for any option(s) necessary to achieve the rating, plus driver. The weight of other optional equipment, passengers and cargo will reduce the maximum trailer weight your vehicle can tow. See your dealer for additional details. ‡‡2014 Silverado 1500 with the available 5.3L EcoTec3 V8 engine equipped with a 6-speed automatic transmission has a fuel-consumption rating of 13.0L/100 km city and 8.7L/100 km hwy 2WD and 13.3L/100 km city and 9.0L/100 km hwy 4WD. Ford F-150 with the 3.5L EcoBoost V6 engine has a fuel consumption rating of 12.9L/100 km city and 9.0L/100 km hwy 2WD and 14.1L/100 km city and 9.6L/100 km hwy 4WD. Fuel consumption based on GM testing in accordance with approved Transport Canada test methods. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. ++Whichever comes first. See dealer/manufacturer for details. Based on Wardsauto.com 2013 Large Pickup segment and last available information at the time of posting. +Based on WardsAuto.com 2012 Upper Small segment, excluding Hybrid and Diesel powertrains. Standard 10 airbags, ABS, traction control and StabiliTrak. WBased on GM Testing in accordance with approved Transport Canada test methods. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. *^Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). ^Whichever comes first. Limit of four ACDelco Lube-Oil-Filter services in total. Fluid top-offs, inspections, tire rotations, wheel alignments and balancing, etc., are not covered. Additional conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ^^Whichever comes first. See dealer for details.

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