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The week of August 7, 2026

SPORTS It’s time to improve elementary school playing fields P.6

WELLNESS Reminders to stay mindful and embrace the here and now P.8

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ENGAGE, INFORM, EMPOWER New Peachland group aims to increase participation in local politics

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By Jeff McDonald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

t’s a fact of life in Canadian municipal politics – engaging citizens in decision-making processes isn’t easy.

Now some 30 to 40 Peachlanders have come together to form the Peachland Citizens Engagement Group (PCEG) to try to increase participation in the District of Peachland’s decision-making after the October 17 vote is over.

“We have three words that we use: engage, inform, and empower.

So really, it’s about working with the community, encouraging them to get more actively involved in municipal politics,” said Kym Martin, who founded PCEG. “We want to give them the information and the tools, that make it easier for them to understand what’s going

on at city hall after they vote.”

Martin said there’s a need for people to understand and participate in municipal politics beyond the election voting day. “Our plan is to always be a place to help people understand what they can expect from their council and hold them to account,” she said.

The goal is to be positive and non-judgmental, and Martin said personal opinions about which candidates to support will not be part of PCEG’s role. “Our job is to stay neutral and to provide the information people need to make informed choices,” she said.

PCEG has a deep appreciation for municipal councils and those who serve on them. “It’s not easy. You’re accepting a position where you really never make anybody happy, and we’re deeply respectful of that,” said Martin.

Martin also said council mem-

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Kym Martin is the founder of the new Peachland Citizens Engagement Group.

bers displaying a lack of respect for transparency and accountability contribute to the malaise around participation in municipal processes and policy-making. She acknowledged that some council decisions must be made in closed meetings, but she said people become disengaged and stop paying

attention because they feel their voices aren’t heard. She pointed to the issue of Peachland’s water supply and future growth as an issue that townspeople are talking about and have concerns about, but don’t feel they’re getting information from council or the district.

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…is available to every home, every business, every week.

“The session offers potential candidates information on what is required when seeking a council seat and what is involved when a candidate is successfully elected and joins council,” said Karin Babin, the District of Peachland’s legislative administrator and the deputy chief electoral officer.

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hold such sessions and Peachland held one before the last municipal election in 2022, said Babin.

“Information open houses for candidates are now a common practice leading into an election for many municipalities,” she said.

The session will have a formal portion which will provide information on eligibility, the role of elected officials, time commitment, the nomination process, key dates and campaign rules.

“Current members of council will be available during the informal portion of the session to answer questions and share their experiences with prospective candidates,” said Babin.

The session will be held on Thursday, August 13 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers at the Peachland Community Centre, 4450 6th Street.

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PART SEVEN OF NINE

Peachland Climate Action Plan Focus: Local Economy The Peachland Climate Action Plan of June 2026 includes nine focus areas.

Seven of Nine is about the Local Economy. Peachland Post is covering one focus area each week.

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here are 800 registered businesses here, most employing one person in a home-based situation. We have storefront businesses as well, and most of these are found in Peachland Village Mall or downtown Peachland. Many of us go out of our way to support these locals.

Buy local from your neighbours.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PLAN: 1. To reduce climate pollution and build resilience, the district and the businesscommunity integrate climate change considerations into economic development planning and decisions.

2. To reduce climate pollution, Peachland’s tourism operators adopt sustainable transportation and lodging practices.

3. To reduce climate pollution and waste generation, Peachland’s hospitality sector transitions to low-carbon and zero-waste operations such as sustainable food sourcing, waste reduction, circular economy practices, and climate-conscious menu design.

RECOMMENDED DISTRICT ACTIONS D7.1 Promote and participate in the creation of sustainable local economic development initiatives or strategies. Communicate and implement outcomes to district employees, clients and partners.

Participate in rebates and other buy local programs.

D7.2 Prepare and incentivize businesses that prioritize low carbon practices, renewable energy and sustainable tourism. Utilize Thompson Okanagan Tourist Association (TOTA) Biodiversity re-

sources. Consider supporting ‘remote’ worker attraction through adding equipped workspaces in community and promoting use of the local library for resources. Participate in networking to identify business to-business and innovation advancement opportunities through regional hubs and networks such as Accelerate Okanagan.

D7.3 Collaborate with local tourism operators, EV vendors and BC Transit to allow visitors to Peachland to have accessible and available low-carbon transport options (bike rentals, shuttle links, EV perks) that enable visitors to get around without relying on cars. Collaborate with the bed and breakfast and short-term rental businesses to offer low-carbon, energy efficient lodging. (heat pumps, insulation) D7.4 Engage local restaurants to launch zero waste practices (e.g. composting, eliminate single-use plastics) and low-carbon, local/ seasonal menus. Provide toolkits and small incentives to participating partners on the why, how to implement and where they can get support to implement.

D7.5 Collaborate with third parties to install multiple level 3 EV charging stations. This can help attract visitors to the area.

RECOMMENDED RESIDENT ACTIONS R7.1 Support local businesses and buy local; be a local tourist.

• Plan a staycation.

• Visit a local tourism business. Take advantage of local or off-season rates at local tourism destinations.

• Visit local restaurants more frequently vs. driving to other locations.

• Support sustainable local tourism and look for those businesses and offerings that endorse Sustainable Tourism, like Biosphere Certified through TOTA.

LOCAL BUSINESSES Wildfire smoke and travel advisories reduce tourism. Restaurants see fewer diners, accommodation and tour bookings get cancelled, and local businesses experience supply chain disruptions and revenue losses. This can be devastating to businesses who rely on summer sales to prop them up for the year.

Some ideas presented in the plan: • Reduce energy use and operating costs • Support low-carbon tourism experiences • Develop emergency

preparedness plans • Diversify services beyond peak summer tourism • Reduce waste and strengthen local supply networks Communities that plan and make proactive investments are better positioned to protect jobs, support local businesses, and maintain economic stability during future disruptions.

Judy Wyper is with the Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance and the South Okanagan Chapter of the Council of Canadians.

Farewell Teresa, Welcome Rebecca

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e are sad to report that due to family circumstances our highly valued columnist, Teresa Triggiano, is having to relocate from Peachland and that next week’s column will be her last.

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Thank you, Teresa, for all that you have done to help enliven Peachland Post with your contributions and story telling -- you will be missed.

But, speaking of storytelling, we are pleased to welcome a new columnist who is a regular participant in the Our Space Story Slam event, Rebecca Garland.

Rebecca moved to Peachland from Ontario with her partner, Garth, and their three cats, in 2024. She often jokes that she already knows more people by name in Peachland than she ever

did outside of work in Ontario -- a reflection of how quickly the community has become home.

After a 35-year career in the corporate world, Rebecca was grateful for the opportunity to travel throughout Asia, South America, Europe, and North America. But despite those rich experiences, she found herself craving something different: more time to think, reflect, and write. Rebecca explained that writing has always been part of her life, but now it carries a greater sense of purpose -- less a pastime more a way of making sense of the world.

Well, Rebecca, if your writing also helps the rest of us make sense of the world. it will no doubt be highly valued!

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Dear Editor, I’m writing In response to the letter to the Editor entitled “Candidates should post CVs for informed voting.”

Requiring formal resumes from municipal candidates is definitely a good start, but it isn’t the whole story when it comes to local leadership. While professional experience certainly matters, using a resume as the ultimate yardstick builds unfair barriers. At the end of the day, we shouldn’t exclude passionate community members who bring fresh, non-traditional perspectives to Peachland.

A good council needs a careful balance. Professional backgrounds prove a candidate can manage tight budgets, plan strategically, and handle complex operations.

Those skills are essential. But success in the business and/or work world is still only half the equation, and it doesn’t automatically guarantee empathetic, community-first decisions.

Our council should truly look like Peachland. That means we need technical expertise paired with a lot of grassroots heart.

True qualifications are a mix of career capability and active local service. Voters should value professional performance and community engagement equally.

We need leaders who can run a town, but who also show up to local meetings and understand Peachland’s daily struggles.

Let’s judge candidates by both their career track records and their dedication to our town.

Balancing professional skills with real community dedication gives us a highly capable and truly representative local democracy.

Madeleine Nixon, Peachland

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To the Editor, I love walking around and discovering Peachland. On my walks I frequently pass by a family of bears. The bears are very friendly and allow even children to interact with them.

It is an amazing art installation; however I have noticed a grave error.

There is no signage that gives the artist credit. I do believe that this needs a correction.

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August 7, 2026 • Page 5

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ENGAGEMENT

Congratulations to Kym Martin and her Peachland Community Engagement Group

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CEG is to be congratulated for taking on the challenge of encouraging residents to get more actively engaged in municipal governance processes: it will be no easy task.

Ensuring that people have accurate, timely information and the opportunity to attend events where they can learn about issues and participate in discussion and debate is one thing -- and very important as an element in achieving active engagement. However, two other conditions must be in the mix for this cultural shift to work: a welcoming environment, and a willingness among community members to take advantage of municipal engagement opportunities.

I well recall after first being elected as mayor, talking to other mayors at the Regional District

POLICY MATTERS Keith Fielding

about my plans to have regular “Town Hall” meetings where people could learn about an issue, ask questions, express their opinions and mingle with their elected representatives. The response I got was pretty much unanimous: That’s great, but no one will come!

Well, that turned out to be something of an exaggeration, a handful of people did show up to my first attempts to implement

the plan, but it soon became apparent that it was of little interest to the vast majority -- despite the welcoming environment.

And why? Several reasons: • The initiative was driven by “them” not “us” and as such inherently suspect.

• People have busy lives and many other priorities to attend to.

• We’ve elected you to do a job -- get on and do it. We’ll let you know if you have failed.

• Whatever I have to say won’t make a difference • I don’t need all the gory details and technicalities -- it’s your job to fix it.

• Council decision making processes are complex and boring and too slow to be of interest.

None of which is to say that PCEG is wasting its time. It is an

“us” initiative not one coming from “them.” Already that is an empowering element making engagement feel worthwhile.

There is, however, another learning to share: people engage in droves, physically or through commentary, when they are mad about something. Remember the mayor’s plan to move district offices into what is now Our SPACE? Indignation about expropriating the Baptist Church?

Too many closed door meetings?

Vagueness about water infrastructure while growth continues?

Such issues are the stuff of engagement.

Keith Fielding is President of the Peachland Community Newspaper Society and editor of Peachland Post. He is also a former Peachland mayor and councillor.

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INCREASED USAGE

Time to improve the playing field at Peachland Elementary School

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n 89-family unit rental facility along with a new provincially funded childcare facility will be opening in the Spring Summer of 2027. Both are beside Peachland Elementary School.

The increase in families and in the time school children will be in the area after school, will in turn increase usage of the fields at Peachland Elementary.

The existing school field is large, but not level. Our slo-pitch team had one practice at the old diamond there three years ago and had to abandon it due to the dips in the field causing injury.

I’m at the school twice a week, coordinating lunchtime soccer games and have seen firsthand that the field in its current condition could not support youth soccer games or baseball/softball.

Peachland’s topography, mostly hillside, means there are few flat field spaces available for outdoor field sports. Cousins Park

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and Turner Park are the only two sites in town available for either softball, soccer, or Little League.

Research done by a user group in Summerland, asking for more facilities there, found that communities in B.C. of Peachland’s size have on average four to five fields capable of playing softball and soccer on. Peachland has two.

Because of this, there will be a Notice of Motion before Council at the upcoming August 25 council meeting: “That staff be requested to ask the School Board (SD23) to level

the playing field at Peachland Elementary and create soccer and baseball fields for community use.

Further, that arrangements be made to use the school gym in the evenings for indoor events.”

Regarding the latter item, using the school gym after hours, Principal Lisa Wilson and I obtained permission from School District 23 to use the school gym for after hours youth soccer practices last year, for a proposed youth soccer program that never materialized. There should be no problem in getting the gym.

Local community sports need local community facilities.

So who will pay for this?

The school district is responsible for upgrading facilities. Partial funding may come from business or personal sources wanting to name the project. In neighbouring communities the school district pays the major cost of development and the town contributes.

To the best of my knowledge none of the three major Peachland recreational developments over the last four years have cost taxpayers a dime.

Turner Park and the two new outdoor pickleball courts were funded by some of the provincial government’s Growing Communities Fund allocation of $2.7 M.

John Moore Robinson, the founder of Peachland and the man who gave the new community its name, was many things – a newspaperman, businessman, prospector, developer, and an entrepreneur extraordinaire.

Born in Ontario in 1855, he was, by the 1880’s, already the publisher of the Brandon Times.

In 1886 he was elected to the Manitoba Legislature.

Robinson first came to this area in 1887 as a gold prospector. However, finding little or no gold and seeing that peaches and other soft fruits grew astonishingly well here, he laid out a new townsite in 1898 and named it Peachland.

He sub-divided the land into 10-acre lots, selling

The sound suppression panels were paid for by a $20K contribution by the Peachland Pickleball society.

Resident Jay Heidelback highlighted the Toronto Blue Jays Field of Dreams national contest to me after the last election. We got our entry in and won an additional $50K to help develop Turner Park in a nationally televised award.

Introducing Peachland Youth Soccer cost taxpayers nothing except for the $13K allocated to four new outdoor eight aside portable goalposts this year. Peachland businesses and organizations like the Peachland Lions paid for the kids’ Peachland soccer jerseys.

42% of the children in Peachland Elementary School play soccer on Peachland teams with no cost to taxpayers.

Improving the field at Peachland Elementary School is a way to improve Peachland’s recreational facilities through necessary school district improvements. Let’s do it.

Randey Brophy has coached youth soccer and baseball for 32 years. He spearheaded the drive for Turner Park to be redeveloped as a multiuse field in 2022 and formed the Peachland Youth Soccer club in 2023. He also manages and plays on a Peachland seniors slo-pitch team.

many of them to families from Manitoba who happily uprooted themselves from the Prairies and moved to the kinder climate of the Okanagan to start their new lives as orchardists.

Robinson named the first roads in Peachland mostly after individuals prominent in the community or in the outside world, but did not name one after himself.

Decades later, in the 1980’s, when Peachland had continued the fine tradition of naming roads in this way, it became clear that this was an omission that should be rectified.

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August 7, 2026 • Page 7

PEACHLAND CITIZENS ENGAGEMENT GROUP

Involvement beyond election day PCEG FROM PAGE 1

“We have a very, very active mayor and council, who are very keen to get development happening, downtown revitalization, build, build, build. But citizens aren’t feeling there’s been the same effort, perhaps, put into water, and maybe there is. But they don’t know what that is.

What we hear is the development.

We don’t hear that, okay, so this development is coming in and here’s how the present taxpayers aren’t going to have to pay the burden of a new water treatment plant, for example,” she said.

How PCEG will go about reaching its engagement goals is to be determined, Martin said, but one possibility is to hold non-curated town hall meetings where people could come and ask questions, with council members invited to meet with people, not before the October 17 election, but afterward.

Another way to help inform and empower people and to hold councillors accountable might be doing quarterly report cards on councillors and how their election platforms line up with what they’re saying and doing after winning a council seat.

Martin said it doesn’t help participation that Peachland holds council meetings in the afternoon, when most people are working. She also said the district should proactively distribute the council agenda to its email list of citizens beforehand, rather than the current need to drill down into the district’s website to find it.

What would success look like for this new citizens’ engagement group?Martin said it’s a town where council and citizens are working together to make the town the best it can be.

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hursday, July 21, 2026 marked the day the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association Visitor Centre on Hwy 97C, just west of Peachland,held a Grand Reopening to showcase Okanagan tourist attractions.

The extensive renovations feature a tourist information

(Right) Visitors check out the tourist information area, and the solar panneled roofed patio (below).

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The refurbished Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) Visitor Centre on Hwy 97C opened on July 21, 2026.

desk, indigenous art and merchandise sales area, and a WFN interpretive centre beside a large solar panel roofed patio with plenty of picnic tables.

The opening included a drumming ceremony by WFN members in front of a very large crowd of well wishers.

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FINDING PEACE

Slow down and savor the moment

WELLNESS Dawn Boys

had on the wall in our little bungalow, when I was a child.

It said, “This is the first day of the rest of your life.” As an eight year old, I was confused by this and wondered what it meant.

It makes so much sense now.

It reminds me of other sayings like “the best is yet to come.” Or “these are the better days,” and “those were the good old days.”

What we’re really saying is that we’re not living in the moment.

We’ve all heard that we can’t live in the past or the future, because all that we know is right now in the present. What we do know is that, for our wellbeing and mental health, we truly need to stay mindful and embrace the here and now. We can use interoception, or the inner awareness as well as proprioception, to know where we are in our surroundings. However, the media and news take us into exteroception far too often and overloads our nervous system with stimuli from the world around us.

Whether it’s the fires and weather or what’s happening overseas, we are inundated by traumas, dramas and the unknown.

Just be still. Close your eyes and notice the smells around you.

Identify them with colour or scent.

Notice the feeling on your skin. Is there wind, sun, fabric? What does the texture feel like? Listen for sounds. Are they harsh, soft, from nature? Move your tongue around in your mouth and notice taste.

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n this world that we live in, it’s so hard to find stillness and peace. We may be keeping up with the normal routine and paradigm that we’re so used to but lose ourselves in the habits.

I am a witness to so many people having a variety of challenging experiences in their lives.

Many are in fear of the future, while others are ruminating about the past, or not paying attention to the here and now.

The reality is that everything changes and nothing stays the same.

I remember a DecoPodge wooden sign that my mom

get yourself into natural bodies of water or garden soil. Consider these as anchors in a turbulent ocean. When your ship is adrift, launching an anchor can bring stability and stop the flow.

We don’t know what time we will have on the planet. If you feel overwhelmed or off kilter, check in with your thoughts. What are your fears or worries and what can or can’t you control? The serenity prayer comes to mind. “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Turn to nature. Embrace the grace that this offers you and separate yourself from the unnatural world of AI, media and the news for a time to reset your nervous system.

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SCREEN ADAPTATION

All The Light Hollywood Cannot See

By Keith Fielding

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aving just finished reading Anthony Doerr’s masterpiece, ‘All The Light We Cannot See’, I was intrigued to discover that Netflix had produced a four-part video series based on the book. My first reaction was disbelief. How could anyone (actor, producer or screenwriter) dare try to replicate on screen Doerr’s magical prose, his compassionate voice, and his extraordinary ability to reveal through his characters how love, resilience, and relentless pursuit of the truth are essential for the survival of humanity.

Well, they did try, and they failed miserably - much as they might had they tried to reproduce a painting by Monet using children’s crayons.

It is during the final days of the war, as France is about to be liberated from German occupation, that Doerr’s story winds to its expected and inevitable climax the coming together of two teenage protaganists each unknown to the other: one a blind French girl, Marie-Laure, the other the dispirited Nazi, Private, Werner Pfennig.

Their meeting evolves from Werner’s search for the source of a young French woman’s

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Pincushion Mountain

Pincushion Mountain got its name from its shape, seen here, and its appearance when an early forest fire burnt the branches off its trees, leaving its surface covered in only blackened spikes.

In 1958, for B.C.’ s Centennial, the local Boy Scouts carried car tires to the top, made a pile around a tree and created a bonfire at midnight, as was done in nearby towns. A great view from downtown. One year, the chefs from the Gasthaus Restaurant carried parts for a steel picnic table to the top and reassembled it. Many past hang gliders used it and landed in Cousins Park.

Crashes have almost ended those flights. Climbers are thrilled to reach a Canadian flag at the top and may even apply for their conquest award at the Municipal office.

illegal radio transmissions - not to shut them down, but from curiosity about their creator whose boldness of spirit evokes reminders of the banned broadcasts which as a young child he and his sister listened to on the secret crystal radio he had built in their German orphanage.

Before he knows her to be the source of the transmissions, Werner sees Marie-Laurie, a thin, freckled-face girl with eyes covered by skin, a long neck, and shabby ill fitting clothes, tapping her white-caned way along the road where he is standing.

Werner is struck by her vulnerability and by her extraordinary dignity. He is in awe of her courage and is reminded of a phrase: beautiful ugliness. It is not until she enters the house that Werner knows to be the source of the radio transmissions, that he sees the connection.

Later, when he is able to do so, Werner investigates and arrives to find the exhausted and starving Marie-Laure concealed behind a false wardrobe compartment hiding from the threat to her life posed by a Nazi jewel hunter who has correctly identified her as the custodian of a priceless diamond.

In the hands of Doerr, this story line unfolds crisply and plausibly - in part at least because the souls of the protagonists have been revealed to us, page by page, as we follow their growth and development and experience their hopes, fears, struggles, and triumphs. In contrast, the movie completely fails to convey the complexity of either character other than in simple, two dimensional form.

Marie-Laure and Werner Pfennig are played by actors of model-like stature, and the plot is distorted to provide a Hollywood ending whereby Werner, in the role of Prince Charming, races

through bombed buildings and across burning bridges to rescue Marie Laure from certain death.

He arrives just in time, kills the enemy, and declares his love for her, as does Marie for him. They vow to reconnect after the war and while fighting back tears Marie advises him to surrender to the liberating army where he will be safe from the vengeance of angry French resistance fighters. He does so and they wave a teary adieu.

SPOILER ALERT: Doerr’s readers will be surprised by this happy ending because in the book, they part with no expectation of reuniting, and shortly after Werner is blown up by a land mine.

And so, to my question of the week: Are you offended when the storyline and ending in the movie version of a beautiful novel is changed so as to be more commercially appealing and financially viable?

In case you hadn’t guessed, I am!

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• Black teardrop markings on back of abdomen *most reliable defining characteristic • Yellow, black and red bands and • Was larger than a yellowjacket, about 1 to 1.5”

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Unscramble the letters in the shaded squares to reveal a themed word: Phew! It’s probably a European hornet.

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WAS IT: • Large, from 1.5 to 2” (3.5 to 5cm) • NO teardrop markings • Had yellow, black and red/brown bands Uh oh! It may be a northern giant hornet.

Report any suspected sightings to EDDMapS.org.

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13 valleys Shots(7) that start tennis points (8) Small Carry on with your day!

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August is the height of wasp season. The Northern Giant Hornet is invasive to North America and is classified as a pest of concern in BC. If 1 Money in notes or coins (4) Money in notes or coins (4) spotted, it should be reported on the “Report Invasive Species App” or 2 Quibble (7) Quibble (7) 3 Inadequately manned (12) by calling 1-877-952-7277.

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