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to Rediscover Rutland, a new special section publication that the Kelowna Capital News will be publishing four times a year, beginning with today’s edition.

Rediscover Rutland aims to offer insight into the issues and the people who are making a difference in what is the largest populated community within the City of Kelowna.

Rutland’s historic roots go back many years.

Prior to 1972 it was its own community before being amalgamated within Kelowna’s borders, along with Glenmore and the Okanagan Mission, as mandated by the NDP provincial government at the time.

In the years since, especially over the last two decades, as the Central Okanagan’s population has spiked a lot of change has come to the entire city, and Rutland is no exception.

Rutland is comprised of a mix of people, those with family ties that date back a generation or more, and others who are newcomers to the Okanagan, having moved here from the Prairies or the Lower Mainland, or immigrated here from other countries in search of a new life and hope for their children’s future.

Together, that growth is bringing about change, as illustrated by the creation of the Uptown Rutland Business Association, and the new residential developments at Tower Ranch, Black Mountain and Kirschner Mountain.

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From May 20 to 22, Rutland will be celebrating May Days for the 57th consecutive year.

The annual festival will have a few location changes this year, as explained by Rutland Parks Society May Days chair Laurel D’Andrea.

“For this year, we’re having the midway at Roxby Square, as well as the food trucks will be at Roxby Square,” D’Andrea said. “At Rutland Centennial Hall we’re going to have up to 15 market vendors, who will be in the hall all weekend. The City of Kelowna is giving us their big tent, which will be outside of the Centennial Hall in the parking lot.”

This year, Rutland Centennial Hall and its parking lot will be used in place of Rutland Centennial Park, as the park is having work done to improve its fields and soccer pitch.

“We will revisit next year on how the whole May Days will look, ” D’Andrea said about returning to the park next year. “Next year is a big year as it’s Canada’s 150th anni-

versary, as well as Rutland Centennial Hall’s 50th anniversary.

So it’ll be a little different again, but we just don’t know what that looks like at this point.”

The new locations will result in some road closures, as Roxby Road will be closed throughout the weekend, with the exception of residents and people using the liquor mart.

In addition to the festival itself being hosted at new locations, the seventh annual Rutland May Days Parade will also be undergoing a route change.

“The parade will start at the YMCA and come up Rutland Road, and this year we’re going to be turning onto McIntosh Road rather than coming directly into the Centennial Hall,” D’Andrea said.“Then we’ll go up Asher Road and the transit exchange on Shepherd.”

New at May Days this year will be a show and shine car show on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Rutland Lions Park. There also won’t be a stage or live entertainment, but rather roaming entertainment that will travel around the festival. All day ride passes for the midway will be $40, and there will also be a $2 entry fee into the midway which goes to the Rutland Parks Society so they can keep holding events like May Days. 4

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GORDIE’S TRAIL BARRY GERDING bgerding@kelownacapnews.com A fatal car accident on Feb. 3, 1991, changed the life of Christina Jessome-Solloway forever, just four days short of her 16th birthday.

The accident occurred on a stretch of Highway 33 just past the Springfield Road turnoff heading towards Black Mountain, claiming the life of 18-year-old Gordon Ismond.

He was driving some friends home in his Camaro when the car flipped and sent him flying out of the vehicle, landing on the road.

At the time, Ismond was Jessome-Solloway’s boyfriend. The two had been dating for two years, Gordie having graduated from Rutland Senior Secondary the previous year.

“I had known him since I was 10. I spent my 16th birthday attending his funeral,”she recalled.“It’s another example of the frailty of life, and how it can end in a second.”

She says it had a huge impact on her, as

she says Ismond’s memory has remained a constant presence in her life.“You carry on but you never forget,”she said.

Jessome-Solloway went on in school to become a psychiatric nurse, got married and raised a family.

Her own son’s middle name is Alex, which was Ismond’s middle name. She said the 16th birthdays for her kids were always that much more special than the ones that came before or after.

“Kelowna was a small town back then and everyone knew everybody, so there was a huge turnout for his funeral. His loss affected me but it affected a lot of other family and friends of his as well,”she said.

Approaching the 25th anniversary of his death, Jessome-Solloway wanted to do something to honour his memory, to acknowledge his untimely death and to show that his life mattered to so many people.

She applied to the city to adopt the stretch of Highway 33 between Springfield and the Toovey Heights turnoff, with the idea of renaming it Gordie’s Trail with appropriate signs.

And she wanted the sign to be located along with a bench as a memorial to him, something that the property owners of the crash scene, the orchardist Skuka family were happy to oblige.

She said the Skukas were incredibly supportive of the idea when they were approached about it by her husband.

“We’ll look after the site and do all the weed-whacking and whatever is necessary to maintain it,”she said.“My hope would be the bench will help serve as a place for people to reflect, and I guess for me it also gives me a bit of closure.

“I’ve wanted to do something like this for years because I never had the chance to say good-bye on my terms.”

Jessome-Solloway says she hopes the memorial sign and bench will be in place before the end of May. 4

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BARRY GERDING bgerding@kelownacapnews.com The Rutland Park Society faces some tough questions regarding the future fate of Rutland Centennial Hall.

So the society wants to engage in a public process to get feedback from the Rutland community for answers surrounding how it should proceed, a process that was highlighted last week by a public forum to gather that input.

While the society has $800,000 from the transfer of park land and a road rightof-way at Centennial Park to the City of Kelowna in 2014, plus a $273,000 Canada 150 federal grant to spend on hall, society president Todd Sanderson says that won’t even cover the cost to just bring Centennial Hall up to modern building code specifications.

The city carried out an assessment of the hall, located at 180 Rutland Road North, when the land deal was being negotiated and found the building systems

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The society is hoping that along with “Since the hall was built and opened in 1967 by a dedicated group of Rutland citi- Rutland residents, people who grew up in zens, the building has fallen into disrepair Rutland and have moved to other parts of the Central Okanagan will also participate and nothing has been done to upgrade in the process. the hall…the building is in distress,” said “We want to do this and do it right,” Sanderson. said Ed Grifone, with CTQ.“We may end Sanderson said the society is bringing up getting other options suggested by three options forward to local residents people that haven’t been thought of at to consider—renovate the hall to the best this point.” of the society’s abilities with the existWhile one of those other options may ing funding; replace the hall with a new structure sufficient to maintain its existing be to do nothing and leave the hall in its current state, Bazran reuses; replace the iterated that Centennial hall with some Alf Roshinski, general Hall remains an iconic new uses, commanager of the part of Rutland’s future plemented by Rutland Centennial Hall development. commercial space “Centennial Park is that could be our lake,” said Basran, used to support referring to the impact ongoing building that Okanagan Lake operation costs. has on downtown In announcing Kelowna and how the the public consulhall can be a major tation process to catalyst for future growth of the Rutland the local media last month, both SanderTown Centre. son and George Basran, vice-president of “But we can’t stress enough that we the society, said this public input process can do nothing going forward without is being initiated by the society board with the support of the community. We want no preconceived idea on which of the to see public engagement in this process three options is preferable. because what happens going forward is The society has hired CTQ, a Kelowna important to Rutland’s overall developurban design, planning and engineering ment.” consulting firm, to explain the hall’s curWith the feedback from the open rent financial renovation status. Input was collected at a public open house held May house and online responses, >>

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Centennial Hall will remain an iconic piece of Rutland CTQ and the society board will review the data and come up with some specific ideas at a followup open house planned for late September or early October, with some of the most popular options further defined by architectural concept ideas, definitive cost outlines and potential source capital funding ideas.

From the outset of the park society striking the park land deal with the city, the idea of the revenue from that sale was to renovate the hall. That prospect was further enhanced by the society obtaining the grant from the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program, created to assist in rehabilitating community facilities across the country to mark Canada’s 150th birthday.

But Sanderson said the option of building a new hall has arisen due to the extent of the renovation costs. Even completing the necessary building upgrades,

Sanderson said, will extend the life of Centennial Hall only another 10 to 15 years.

To build a new hall, he said, would mean engaging the community in a $4-million to $5-million fundraising campaign, similar to what Okanagan College has done to raise money for its new trades centre building.

Basran noted the society is not at the stage of launching such a campaign because the idea would first need a positive response from local residents, followed by development of a specific proposal in place to capture the interest of potential donors.

Both Basran and Sanderson added no consideration has been given to getting Kelowna city hall further involved in some financial or administrative way with the project.

Sanderson added that the ongoing public consolation process this year isn’t expected to put the Canada 150 grant at

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“With the time frame we are moving forward with, we don’t think that will be a problem,” Sanderson said, noting the society hopes to have a Centennial Hall strategy in place by the end of this year.

He added that strategy will be voted on for approval by the society membership, which currently numbers 45 people.

The society had more than 300 members when it was voting to sign off on the land sale to the city, but Sanderson said society membership requires annual renewal and many of those past members have not done that. 4

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Over the last several years, Rutland has seen some notable growth in its ethnic food scene.

Featuring Thai, Japanese, Filipino, East Indian, Cantonese, Mexican and Greek restaurants, the heart of Rutland along Highway 33 is working towards becoming a hub for international cuisine.

Although Rutland now features many ethnic food choices, that wasn't always the case. For 43 years Olympia Greek Taverna has been open in Rutland, however for many of those years it was largely the only cultural restaurant in the area.

Mike Koustantonis is the owner of Olympia and the president of the Uptown Rutland Business Association. He explained the past 20 to 30 years saw very little in terms of ethnic food growth in the area. That has changed in the past five to six years, however, as he noted the perception of Rutland is changing.

"The past perception of Rutland was that Rutland wasn't the place to come to, whereas now I think we're changing that perception, so you're starting to see things happening in Rutland,"

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Koustantonis said. "The upgrades to Centennial Park, a lot of the upgrades in the area, the Olympia Greek Taverna owner growth going Mike Koustantonis believes the on in Black Mountain, just growth of ethnic foods in Rutland is the general great for the neighbourhood. area of Rutland itself is starting to look a lot better. With that you'll see a lot more development, and a lot more restaurants."

While the owner of any restaurant, even one as well established as Olympia, would have every reason to be against competition opening in the area in the form of another restaurant, Koustantonis would love to see even more ethnic options open in Rutland.

"When you get good restaurants that are congregated in an area, it attracts people," he said. "It's not like, 'Let's come up to Rutland and go to Olympia,' it's 'Let's go up to Rutland and we'll decide where we're going to go eat.' It brings people to the area, and now Rutland becomes a hub of restaurants."

With approximately 40,000 people living in Rutland, seeing the area turn into a hub and draw more potential customers in is a benefit to everyone in the neighbourhood.

"I think the growth is going to continue," Koustanonis said. "I think that people like that they don't have to leave the country to experience those ethnic flavours. Whether it be Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Italian or Greek, you just drive down the street and experience those without having to purchase a plane ticket and fly off to another country. “That's what the beauty of this is, we've got it all right here in our backyard." 4

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Gibbs said the soccer field will continue to be fenced off until next spring to allow the planting of grass seed to take root.

“The seed is not as expensive as sod and the seeded grass is better for dealing with the use and abuse that a sports field has to deal with,” Gibbs said.

The orchard-themed playground, which received a $50,000 federal government grant to help develop, will feature a rubber play surface with various pieces of equipment that are accessible to kids of all abilities.

Since the city acquired the 2.5 hectare park last year from the Rutland Park Society, this marks the first set of improvements to the facility, the largest park capital investment in the city this year, with planned future park improvement phases to be determined by city council in the years ahead.

He described the project using the analogy of not simply adding more paint to the walls, but tearing down the walls and building new ones.

“It’s more of a makeover than a facelift,” he said.

Gibbs said the city surveyed public input on what else can be done with Centennial Park looking to the future, and he said the result of that feedback is to create open passive park space, plant more grass and trees, and create a garden flower display area.

The lacrosse box currently in place isn’t expected to be moved or closed anytime soon.

He added the park makeover will impact May Days in that the midway rides will not be set up in the park as in the pas. The rides have already been relocated to Roxby Square by May Days organizers.

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Two significant improvement projects for Rutland Centennial Park are expected to be completed by the end of June. The city is spending $400,000 to upgrade the soccer pitch and installation of a new irrigation system, and the addition of a new playground similar to what presently exists outside the Parkinson Recreation Centre.

Andrew Gibbs, senior project manager for the City of Kelowna, said both projects are proceeding on schedule and on budget.

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The tastes and ambiance of Southern-style barbecue has recently been introduced to the Rutland dining scene with the recent opening of Memphis Blues Barbecue House at the corner of Highway 33 and Rutland Road.

Memphis Blues franchisee Andre Thomas opened his first restaurant on Bernard Avenue in downtown Kelowna in 2007, and in recent years had been looking for a possible site to open a second restaurant in the Rutland area.

“A lot of our regular customers were coming from Rutland and I was being asked that question all the time,” Thomas said.

“I always thought it would be great to offer residents of that area more food option choices than what was there, and I wanted us to be one of those choices.”

Thomas said inquiries about the Highway 33-Rutland Road spot were initially rebuffed by the developer, but Thomas persisted, eventually clinching the lease deal by arriving at a meeting armed with some of his restaurant’s tasty food options.

“The food helped win the developer over,”Thomas laughed.“But we just felt the site offered a lot of potential for us, being at a high visibility traffic area. There is a great sense of spirit and community in Rutland and people want to be able to stay and do things like eat out in their own neighbourhood.

“We had turned down other lease spaces that had come up in Rutland prior to this one, but we just felt it was too good to pass up this time.”

While being called a ‘barbecue house’ may have people think about food cooked on a backyard barbecue, Thomas said Southern-style barbecuing is a different animal.

“When you think of backyard barbecuing as we know it here, you are grilling meat on a grill. With southern style barbecuing, it is basically using indirect heat to cook meat, whether it be chicken, steak, pork or ribs, at low temperatures over a longer period of time within a wood-burning chamber which adds to the flavour of the meat,”Thomas said.

He said steak brisquet will be cooked 10 and a half to 13

hours prior to being served, while chicken and ribs will cook for one and a half to three hours.

Thomas says the barbecuing philosophy is to cook food slowly and serve it up quickly.

Thomas has a lengthy experience working in high-class restaurants, but the attraction besides the food for him with Memphis Blues was the no stress dining environment.

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The public process has one further hurdle to overcome before approval is granted for the transformation of a historic Rutland church into a Buddhist cultural centre.

St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, located at the corner of Rutland Road North and Mugford Road, has been closed for more than two decades. Now, the Okanagan Buddhist Cultural Society has presented a redevelopment for the church site, which occupies three separate lots.

Earlier this month, council gave its approval to the required rezoning of one of those lots, from residential to institutional use. The rezoning was to go to public hearing for input on Tuesday, after the society has been working with the Uptown Rutland Business Association and Rutland Residents Association for the past year on its proposal.>>

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Peter Chataway, a Kelowna building designer working with the society on the project said the 82-year-old building will be given a new lease on life, renovated inside to fit the needs of the Buddhist society members while protecting the historic look of the exterior. An addition will be built on the church, which will be moved to a more central location on the site, to provide washrooms and meeting space available for rental to community groups. And there will be an Oriental-style outdoor garden created on the site.

“It is being handed down from one spiritual community to another,“ Chataway said.

It is important, he said, for a community to protect its heritage structures, as they provide a connection between generations in a community.

“When you can find new uses for these buildings…I’m sure St. Aidan’s has a lot of Rutland stories that are important to preserve among us…kids and grandkids can look at these structures and say that’s where my parents were married or where we attended a relative’s funeral…it’s important to keep those connections alive.”

The Buddhist society has bought the site and two other municipally owned lots from the city for $100,000. The society members, which number about 20, will be responsible for all the renovations costs.

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If the public hearing approval is adopted as expected, Chataway said work on the church site will begin very quickly with the work hopefully completed by this fall.

“The Buddhist society is a small community unto itself so its needs are modest. They are not a large group and they don’t need a large building expansion. They will keep it quaint and modest and renovate the interior to fit their needs.” 4

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Highway widening at Reid’s Corner Work is well underway at Reid’s Corner in Kelowna as FortisBC workers move a transmission line to make way for the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s Highway 97 widening project.

According to FortisBC, as part of the project, crews will reposition 11 transmission poles between Reid’s Corner to Edwards Road. The work has been concentrated around Reid’s Corner, including Sexsmith Road, Old Vernon Road and Rutland Road.

In some instances, wooden poles will be replaced with stronger, self-supporting steel poles.

This work is expected to be complete by mid-May. The ministry recently awarded a $36-million contract for the highway widening in the area, the second phase of work after last year’s realignment of Finns Road.

The entire project will cost nearly $60 million, 20 per cent more than the original estimate announced when plans for the highway widening project were unveiled in 2014.

The project is being funded by the province, which is providing $41.5 million of the total cost, and the federal government, which is putting in $18 million.

To maintain electrical service in the area during construction, FortisBC said it will complete as much work as possible on energized lines, using specialized safety equipment.

It said any required disruptions to service will be announced in advance.

The company also said it will work closely with the ministry and the contractor to minimize lane closures in order to keep traffic moving on the busy commercial route. 4

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The social life of water A local team of designers, artists and researchers wants to know what water means to you. The team, which consists of representatives from the Kelowna Museums Society, the Okanagan Nation Alliance, Scnewips Heritage Museum, and the University of British Columbia, is organizing an exhibition called The Social Life of Water in the Okanagan Valley.

They are inviting the public to tell them about their relationship with Okanagan waters using a short, online survey available at http://bit. ly/1q0dRYq. The exhibition will use a variety of media to explore the diverse meanings that water holds for the many communities, cultures and interest groups that have lived in the Okanagan Valley throughout time.

“Water is the lifeblood that allows our communities to live and thrive,” said Christine Mettler, the project’s coordinator.

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majestic waterfalls in the uplands, or swimming in the lakes. Water is where life happens, and where memories are made.”

However, despite our connection to and reliance on water, it’s easy to take it for granted.

“Although many don’t realize it, we have changed our Okanagan watershed quite a bit over time,” said Kathy Holland, library/research coordinator with the Okanagan Nation Alliance.

“Syilx elders have said ‘Understanding the living land and teaching how to be part of that is the only way we can survive.’”

With the help of traditional, scientific, and other local knowledge, the exhibition will invite visitors to reflect on how land and waters in the Okanagan have changed, but also how our community celebrates our relationship with water— our most precious resource.

The Social Life of Water in the Okanagan Valley will be held at the Okanagan Heritage Museum and will open to the public in the fall of 2016.

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A Rutland Senior AND Secondary grad is one of two senior members of the Kelowna U18 Heat girls team recruited to pursue their educations and softball careers south of the border in North Dakota.

Shortstop Shayla Tyerman has signed with the University of Jamestown, while her teammate, pitcher Gina Selfe, who is graduating from Eagle River Secondary school in Sicamous, plans to attend Lake Region State College next fall.

Tyerman, who is graduating this spring from RSS, has played for Heat rep teams for the last six years, with nine seasons in the Kelowna Minor Fastball Society.

Defensively, Tyerman has a big range and strong arm, and is an offensive threat having batted close to .400 last season.

Tyerman, who was discovered by the Jamestown coaching staff at a scouting tournament last November in Las Vegas, is excited about the next phase of her education and career.

“I really like their coach and there are lots of Canadians on the team,”Tyerman said of her decision to join the Jamestown program.

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Services are provided free of charge to the referred clients and Dafoe says how someone looks or feels about themselves can they receive typically between one and three treatments depending be a significant contributor on how they feel and behave and can on their individual circumstances. enhance their confidence.“Especially if a person is coming out of The “hard costs” and the take home post care skin care travel kit a fight with a life-threatening that the client receives is covered by donations, which can be made illness, domestic partner abuse, or How someone looks or to imagesbycarolina.weebly.com or if the donor wishes a receipt a recovery program for example,” feels about themselves for their donation then they can make the donation directly to the she said. non-profit organization that is on-board with the Onward & UpSo how does the program can be a significant ward program. work? A person is referred to the contributor on how they “I know first hand how generosity can change a life,” said Dafoe. program through the non-profit feel and behave “When I returned to Kelowna two and a half years ago with my adorganization that has been accepted into the program.

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