Lake Country Calendar, December 23, 2015

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COUNTRIFIED CHRISTMAS…

Superintendent to be precise, Kevin Kaardal likes what he has seen so far at the Central Okanagan School District. ...............................

Christmas is a more laid back experience for many in Lake Country. The hustle and bustle of hectic shopping centres and frantic mall parking lots are replaced by the calming sight of snow-clad fence posts topped off with Santa hats.

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The premier takes a look at all British Columbia has to look forward to in 2016. ...........................

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Flyers ■ Coopers ■ Home Depot ■ Jysk ■ Safeway ■ Shoppers Drug Mart ■ Staples

Phyllis MacPherson irrepressible force KEVIN PARNELL Just days before she was going to be presented with the new Lake Country Food Bank building as a surprise Christmas gift, food bank manager and co-founder Phyllis MacPherson passed away peacefully at Kelowna General Hospital on the weekend. MacPherson, 76, was with family when she passed away after a lifetime of service to the

community of Lake Country as the driving spirit behind the food bank’s operations. “She never called it the food bank, she called it her home,” recalled Joy Haxton, the vice-president of the Lake Country Food Assistance Society. “When you talked to Phyllis and she said ‘I’ll meet you at the house’ she never meant her residence. You knew exactly where to meet her.” Home for MacPher-

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son was the Lake Country Food Bank, whether in its original location near Lake Country municipal hall or one of its other postings up to its current location in the old Winfield Elementary School. She started the venture with a handful of others and for more than 30 years dedicated herself to helping those who needed food—up to 600 families in a month. She was honoured SEE PHYLLIS A3

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SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE might be how Phyllis MacPherson would like best to be remembered, here with members of the George Elliot We Club.

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