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Inside Water meters are being installed in various Lake Country locations to ensure the future supply of water throughout the district. ...............................
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CANADA DAY
It was a year ago today that this group gathered for Canada Day festivities in Lake Country. For more on today’s Canada Day festivities and this summer’s Open Air Concerts and Movie-in-the-Park nights, see page A10.
Cement barriers have been placed along part of Highway 97 between Kelowna and Lake Country to separate opposing lanes of traffic. ...............................
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Building a new food bank a community effort KEVIN PARNELL
Warning Rail corridor is not a public trail just yet. ...............................
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Flyers ■ Home Depot ■ Jysk ■ Rona ■ Safeway ■ Save On Foods ■ Shoppers Drug Mart ■ Summit Tools
Growing up as a hockey player in Winfield, Mark MacDougall has driven into the parking lot of the Winfield Arena many times over the years. And while the arena will always conjure memories for the 21-year-old George Elliot graduate, they may now be joined by something new. For the past 15 weeks MacDougall has been part of a 10-student strong crew from the Okanagan College construction program that has now completed its portion of building a new food bank for Lake Country. “I’ve always enjoyed living in Winfield,” said
MacDougall on Friday afternoon at the completion of the OC construction job, building the new Lake Country Food Bank from the ground up. “I love the community. It’s pretty remarkable to think that every time I drive by here I will always have the memory of building this structure. It’s pretty cool to think you have had a helping hand in building something as magnificent as this. It’s been a great project and I have thoroughly enjoyed it.” Building the new Lake Country Food Bank was a larger project than the Okanagan College residential construction program normally tackles. As the name implies, students normally construct a house
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CONSTRUCTION is progressing well on the Lake Country Food Bank building. as part of their program. But this year the Vernon-based residential construction program took on the food bank building, a 5,200 (two
floors) square foot structure with a unique and modern design that presented its challenges to the students. “This was a big pro-
ject and far more complex than anything that we normally do,” said Okanagan College construction instructor Rob Barton. “These stu-
dents really stepped up. There was a lot done and it was done safely so we
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