Peachland POST
The week of April 25, 2025
KIDS ARE ALRIGHT Youth soccer had stellar opening weekend P.8
CLIMATE CHANGE Action needed from all levels of government P.6 ABOUT TOWN Find out what’s going on and where it’s happening P.11
NATURAL DISASTER
FIRE FIGHT
Reporter John McDonald sat down with Peachland Fire & Rescue Fire Chief Ian Cummings and Deputy Fire Chief Wes Aigro to talk about wildfires in our community.
PP: Is Peachland more vulnerable than other communities to wildfire?
WA: I would say we are probably equally as vulnerable as other communities in the area simply because of being in the Okanagan Valley. Our topography is essentially the same as a lot of other communities. However, we have some unique weather patterns that materialize from the Trepannier area that creates a crosswind which can affect fire spread rates in the area. Also Peachland is bordering the interface for essentially the entire length of the community, which poses problems for us.
PP: Some people think that being downhill from a fire means they are safe. Is that true?
WA: In the evening wind conditions can change and the winds
will start blowing back down the hills which is a significant risk for us. Fire does tend to travel uphill more often and faster but because we are seeing longer times during the day where we have what we call crossover where we have those conditions for fires to be extremely aggressive, it does make it more challenging.
PP: The 2023 McDougall Creek fire in West Kelowna spotted over two kilometres across Okanagan Lake. Do fire breaks even mean anything anymore?
WA: Firebreaks will help give you an area where an intense fire will come up against it and usually drop down. You don’t have fuels there, you don’t have the fire intensity but the embers will start spotting across that fire break. With Peachland its challenging for us because most the land around it
SURVEY SAYS What are you willing to do as the planet heats up? P.3
is Crown land up against private land. It’s not within the district so it makes it more difficult to do any kind of mitigation work. A lot of the property above us is private and is forested quite heavily so even if we put a break in its just going to spot across it and get into residential areas and continue on from there.
PP: Do our winding, hilly roads make things more difficult?
IC: Part of the problem is that you get the spotting into the community, and we have a lot of dead end roads; it’s hard for us to turn our apparatus around so in a wildfire event, and I’ve seen this first hand, the fire spots behind you then burns up hill and cuts you off. One of the important factors is having a second egress. It’s also why its
John McDonald photo
An air tanker drops a load of retardant on a wildfire.
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City council defers changes to secondary dwelling policy
City council agreed to postpone amendments to the district’s Secondary Dwelling Policy to give staff time to incorporate councillor comments into changes to the policy, the District of Peachland said in a media release.
The amendments were introduced to consider adding socalled residential flex units and update decommissioning and enforcement standards, the release said.
Flex units, unlike secondary suites, are not permitted to be used as short-term rentals and are intended to provide flexible options to support family members or as a “mortgage helper.”
Kelowna Regional Transit Service Changes
Effective April 27, 2025
Regular spring/summer schedule adjustments to most routes throughout the transit system.
✔ Plan your next trip or track your bus in real-time using the Umo App, Google Maps or your favourite trip planning app.
15 Crawford OnDemand will remove fixedroute trips and transition to full OnDemand service. Learn more at bctransit.com/ OnDemand.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
District staff will bring forward the new draft at an upcoming meeting.
New robotic technology to benefit Interior Health patients
Patients across Interior Health will soon benefit from less invasive surgery as Kelowna General Hospital introduces leading-edge robotic-assisted surgery undertaken this year.
“Today’s announcement marks an exciting new chapter of innovation at Interior Health, and a bold step forward into the future for the communities we passionately serve across BC’s interior,” Interior Health president Susan Brown, in a media release.
“In a fiscally challenging envi-
ronment, these strategic investments in leading-edge surgical technology will provide patients with the highest quality and most effective care possible while supporting the recruitment and retention of skilled health-care professionals.”
“The RAS technology provides greater precision for certain surgeries, allowing us to complete more difficult surgeries, including cancer surgeries, while reducing complications, pain and blood loss,” said KGH thoracic surgeon Dr. Maurice Blitz.
The investment is projected to be up to $12 million with the KGH Foundation committing to fundraising $6M. The robot is expected to be live by late 2025 following procurement and training.
Post staff
PEACHLAND COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS
Special “THANK YOU” goes out to the following Peachland Community Supporters that contributed to the West Kelowna Minor Hockey U7 and U9 Jamboree that was held on March 14 to March 16, 2025, which numerous Peachland children participate in the Grand Sport of Hockey.
The generous items that were collected, and various baskets were created:
“Taste Of Peachland”
Jac’s on Beach
Hainle Vineyard
Estate Winery
Edgewater Bar & Grill
Blind Angler
Bliss Bakery
Porto Peach
“Silent Auction Items “ Gasthaus on the Lake
Deja Vu Gift Decor
Peachland Ace Hardware
Edgewater Bar & Grill
Ships A Hoy
“Explore Peachland”
Johnson Meiers Insurance
Fitzpatrick Winery
Okanagan Folk School – Shauna & Tegre
IGA
On Beach Boutique
Your Dollar Store With More
Annual Rubber Ducky –Darlene Hartford
District of Peachland
Survey tries to quantify climate change attitudes
A survey of Peachland residents conducted by the Climate Action Task Force shows a sizeable segment of the town’s population don’t believe climate change is human-caused.
By John McDonalD staff rePorter
If the results of a recent survey are accurate, Peachland’s Climate Action Task Force has its work cut out for it.
Almost 27 per cent of respondents to the survey, conducted last fall don’t believe climate change is caused by humans, despite that being the view of the majority of weather scientists.
Climate change was on the agenda this week as district councillors received the results of the survey conducted by the Climate Action Task Force.
The task force reported to council that 320 surveys were either fully or partially completed but 63 of those had to be discounted because the respondents were not from Peachland, leaving 257 surveys for consideration.
Because of the small sample group, the task force noted the survey “could not be considered
representative of the views of all residents of Peachland,” and therefore, no firm conclusions could be drawn from the results.
Despite that limitation, the survey did reveal a great deal of what locals are prepared to do in the face of climate change and the task force said there is “strong support for both personal and district actions to both help reduce our climate pollution and prepare for the impacts of climate change.”
More than half agree (135) that Peachland residents should take personal action to reduce climate pollution. A similar number think residents should personally prepare for the anticipated climate change impacts.
Most residents (170) are willing to recycle and compost, while just over half support local natural area rehabilition and would switch to energy efficient appliances and LED lighting.
Less than half (128) would shop locally and even fewer (117) would upgrade windows and insulation.
A slim majority (123) believe the district of Peachland should make changes to both operations and local bylaws to reduce climate pollution. However 105 residents disagree with that approach.
The top five actions, in the opinion of those in favour of local government action, think the district should also recycle, compost and use LED lighting, but should also expand green spaces and plant trees, encourage active transportation by making roads safe for multi-use and educate residents on federal and provincial climate change programs.
The top five actions proposed by residents in anticipation of increasing climate change impacts were fire-proofing their own properties, creating an emergency evacuation plan, employing water conservation technique, upping their insurance coverage and growing their own food.
The vast majority of respondents to the survey (180) were 55 and older while the biggest single group (70) had lived in Peachland for more than 20 years.
Close to 90 per cent of respondents owned their own homes.••
John McDonald file photo
Local residents say they would begin composting and recycling as part of their personal action against climate change.
FEDERAL ELECTION 2025
Badohal says NDP still in the game despite dismal poll numbers
By John McDonalD staff rePorter
The big polling story in the 2025 federal election has been the Lazarus-like resurrection of the Liberal Party under Mark Carney and the concomitant drop of the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre from a lead approaching 25 per cent to one that has pegs them as also-rans. However, the federal New Democrats have also suffered a less-reported but equally precipitous drop in voter support, a drop that if you believe the veracity of modern day polling, places them barely above the number of seats needed to achieve party status in the Canadian Parliament. It may just be a brave face but local NDP candidate Harpreet Badohal, running for the first
time federally in the recently redrawn and renamed riding of Okanagan Lake West-South Kelowna, says he’s one of the people who doubts what the polls are telling Canadians.
“A poll is just a snapshot in time, and it’s not an expression of how people are feeling on
NO HISTORY? KNOW HISTORY by
RICHARD SMITH
Stray cows and horses ended up here
Today we have a dog-catcher for wayward pups but in the early years the strays were horses and cows. Peachland had a place for them – the Pound.
The main corral was located at the corner of Turner and Princeton Avenue.
If your cow was impounded you paid a fine as well as the cost of feed to keep it.
School children got off the school bus for years at the ‘Pound bus stop.
In the 1950s the corral was still there.
the ground,” Badohal told the Peachland Post in an interview. “I think what the NDP has done is speaking louder than the results of those polls.”
Badohal claims over a million Canadians have seen a dentist for the first time in the wake of the NDP’s push under its supply and confidence agreement with the federal Liberals to introduce the Canadian Dental Care Plan.
As well, their push to bring forward pharmacare legislation represents the largest expansion of free Canadian health care in decades, Badohal adds.
“We have had a great response from seniors in places like Peachland,” he says. “They know that the NDP is focused on health care for them.”
The plunging poll numbers for the federal Conservatives
have largely been laid at the feet of U.S. President Donald Trump and his threats to Canada’s sovereignty and trade relationship.
But Badohal says Canadians should consider the NDP under Jagmeet Singh before the Liberals as best placed to counter that threat.
“He was the only leader to stand up in Parliament and say we need to take on Trump for being a bully, that we need equal standing and we can’t bow down to him,” Badohal says. “He was the first to suggest retaliatory measures, to halt export of essential minerals, to suggest retaliatory tariffs.”
Badohal said the NDP, unlike the Conservatives and Liberals, are focused on everyday Canadians and will stand strong with Canadian workers who suffer from Trump’s actions. ••
Seniors housing project was not given free land nor did it avoid development cost charges
To the editor:
In your article about the listing for sale of Steve Allison’s downtown properties he is quoted as saying that no one seems to be complaining that the district waived development cost charges and donated use of the land for the seniors housing Residences on 5th and 6th Street.
This statement is incorrect.
The land for both properties is leased not donated and despite previous councils having passed a resolution waiving development cost charges and planning fees for the phase two building the current
council overturned that commitment and made rezoning conditional on payment of $1.1 million in development cost charges and approximately $200,000 in planning fees. Fortunately, B.C. Housing stepped in and covered those payements or the project would not have gone ahead.
In addition, council has required payments ranging from $30 to $100 per month per stall for resident parking, treating it as if it was a commercial venture.
Eldon Kerbes, Peachland Seniors Support Society treasurer
Richard Smith archives
The Pound was where you might find a stray cow or horse.
NDP candidate Harpreet Badohal
LETTERS
Work must continue to ensure Peachland seniors can age in place
To the editor:
Recently the Peachland Wellness Centre hosted B.C.’s Provincial Seniors Advocate Dan Levitt. His office’s work on creating systemic change to combat agism, poverty, and to increase quality of life for those over 65, was extremely heartening.
Also present were local MLA Macklin McCall who shared what he’s trying to do on a provincial level to support these important initiatives, specifically around housing and the economy.
Nationally, Canadians over 65 years old make up 20 per cent of our population. That number is forecasted to grow to one in four within the next few years. Here in Peachland, seniors represent 37.5 per cent of our population, with an additional 21.4 per cent over 55.
Despite the fact that seniors make up such a massive proportion of our town, we still do not have a social policy or a seniors policy. This must change. To quote Dan Levitt, “seniors are not a homogenous group”. Our needs are as diverse as we are and account for more than just pickleball courts. For over 20 years, the Wellness Centre has led the charge in establishing meaningful programs to support Peachlanders who face age or disability related challenges.
We believe all people have the right to age in place, as they choose, where they choose. We will continue to work with the B.C. Seniors Advocate, MLA Macklin McCall, Interior Health, United Way and the Peachland Foodbank to make this dream a reality.
Barrie Hewer, Peachland
Time change rationale hits working people
For many of us the ‘spring forward’ and’fall back’ time change routine is, to put it mildly, annoying.
Our internal clocks get grumpy, we complain to anyone willing to listen, and we may even be stirred to write a letter to the editor, our MLA, our MP, or all three.
Inevitably though, there is always a good reason why this is not the right time to change. We forget about the issue for another six months and grudgingly get on with our lives unless of course something comes up to remind us just how discombobulating time changes can be.
That moment came March 8 when council decided to spring forward the start time of its meetings from 6 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Perhaps this break with tradition will not have the same disturbing effect as does losing or
POLICY MATTERS
Keith Fielding
gaining an hour of sleep but it is not an insignificant change and deserves a closer look at the rationale.
The policy of evening council meetings was based on the idea that it would be easier for people with a day job to attend meetings.
But as the mayor explained, an earlier start time will save the district money because staff won’t need to be paid overtime, and it will be helpful to councillors travelling in Europe who
will be able to attend meetings remotely without having to do so in the middle of the night.
Coun. Keith Thom pointed out that not many people attend council meetings any more. However, that argument did not convince Coun. Terry Condon. “Seems to me we are just making it even more difficult for people who work to attend our meetings.”
The motion passed six to one with Coun. Condon opposed. However, thanks to a suggestion by Coun. Dave Collins the change will be considered a pilot project and a final decision made at year’s end. Perhaps by then we will also have a final decision on when our clocks will no longer be pushed forward and back. We can only hope.
Keith Fielding is a former Peachland mayor.
COUNCIL MEETINGS
All levels of government must join fight against climate change
Climate change is costly. Soaring levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere causes wide swings in temperatures and weather patterns. Our most recent winter was exceptionally warm.
during a drought. It spread rapidly and embers flew across Okanagan Lake to damage areas of Kelowna. Recently there was a landslide along Westside Road. Spring rains soaked the wildfire-destroyed land. Without enough stable vegetation and with added snow melt from the slopes above, land flowed downhill to overwhelm the road.
Insurance companies deal with risk and pay attention to disasters. They are limiting certain areas from coverage because the risk is too great. Floodplains are a huge risk. Those one in a hundred weather events are becoming one in ten.
But in December 2022 we had a stretch of unusually cold weather. Peach trees suffered and produced limited crops the next spring, grapes lost blossoms and entire crops were decimated.
During a smoky wildfire summer season, tourists cancel their Okanagan trips and B&Bs and restaurants suffer. Heatwaves and smoke cause hospital emergency rooms to fill up with people suffering from air pollution related conditions. Heatwaves are associated with a rise in violence.
Infrastructure is being affected. The West Kelowna wildfire started during extremely hot weather
Emissions of carbon dioxide and other fossil fuel greenhouse gases are among the factors that lead to climate change. According to Business Intelligence for B.C., “The Canadian government provided $29.6 billion in direct subsidies to the oil and gas industry in 2024. The dollar amount, calculated in an annual tally by the group Environmental Defence, includes $21 billion in financing for the Trans Mountain pipeline.”
Eliminating those subsidies and raising taxes on the oil and gas industry to incentivize cleaner methods could be one approach to lowering overall emissions. Those funds could be allocated to develop alternate energy projects. Can-
ada has the technology to develop a cross country electricity grid of renewable sustainable energy.
Environment and Climate Change Canada just released the 2025 National Inventory Report. B.C. reduced emissions on a per capita basis by 27.6 per cent from 2005-2023.
Sounds good, but as the population grew by 32 per cent over
that period, the total emissions decline was only 4.5 per cent. EVs, heat pumps, and alternate energy sources helped the reductions.
In April a B.C. government press release announced “plans to make electric heat pumps more affordable for low- and moderate-income households, including renters and those who live in multi-unit residential buildings.”
Every level of government can see that it is in their own best interests to account for climate variability in their operations and to proactively take measures. Here, we have the Peachland Climate Action Task Force, made up of citizens working to advise our mayor and councillors.
Judy Wyper is involved with the Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance, Seniors For Climate, First Things First, and the South Okanagan Chapter of the Council of Canadians.
Judy Wyper photo
Wind turbines close to Pennask Summit seen from the edge of a huge clearcut. Brenda Lake can be seen in the centre.
NATURAL DISASTERS
Fire-fighting training and equipment has evolved to meet new realities
WILDFIRES FROM PAGE 1
important for individual homeowners to firesmart their properties so that when spotting does happen the intensity of the fire is less. Green grass doesn’t burn or at least not to the same intensity as a cedar hedge or tall dry grass.
The upper part of Peachland has a limited number of entrance and exit points? Does that make it more difficult to fight an interface fire?
IC: Yes, it makes it more difficult but that’s the way it is and we can’t reconstruct everything to make it safer. So in the event of an evacuation, it’s really important that people actually leave in a timely fashion. Once crews start coming in, those roads are often blocked with large equipment and hose lays. We need to be concentrating on putting the fire out or mitigating the risk and not have to get pulled away from those jobs to go evacuate people who thought it wasn’t as big a deal as it has become. We get called to come and evacuate them but that’s pulling us away from critical activities. It’s really important that people listen to those warnings and pay attention to what the district is putting out in way of evacuation alerts and orders and complying with them.
PP: Does the terrain and location of a community like Peachland mean evacuation alert areas are made larger and evacuation orders made sooner?
IC: Absolutely, everything plays into those decisions; the weather at the time, what’s coming up in the next few hours, the distance of the fire right now to the community, time of year. Do people
have farms, do they have animals they need to get out? We are doing some evacuation planning right now, breaking the community into a grid and sections so we can more easily address those situations. But a lot of those recommendations are unified command decisions with input from incident command, from the district, the fire department, B.C. Wildfire. We probably have support coming in from neighbouring communities and they look at the situation and the scope of the evacuation.
PP: At what point does B.C. Wildfire become involved if a wildfire breaks out within the District of Peachland?
IC: Ultimately our role is going to be more protecting life and property within the district however on small starts outside our area, we’re here, we have the members and we have the equipment and we can often be on scene quicker and keep it to a minimum and extinguish it before B.C. Wildfire shows up.
PP: So the fire department plans ahead for evacuations?
IC: We preplan for evacuations and we also have our officers meetings and talk about strategy and tactics within the community; if we have a fire in this area what would we do, what’s our access and egress to that area, and what’s our challenges, topography, density. It could be a couple of farm houses in the area or it could be a bunch of townhouse and single-family houses. Theres a lot that goes into it.
PP: Firefighters use to be more focused on first response and structure fires but now we are seeing more interface fires. Have training and equipment changed to reflect that?
IC: Absolutely. I’ve been in the fire service for 31 years and back when I started we would get a bad season every five to seven years. Now its annually. In the last 10 years, we’ve all started incorporating wildfire fighting into our repertoire. It’s key component of
training. And now you are seeing more specialized apparatus being purchased or current apparatus being fitted for wildfires.
PP: FireSmart protocols seem like they have also changed as we have become more experienced with wild fires. Is that true?
WA: The focus now is roof-down, walls out approach. Focus on areas shown to be most vulnerable to spotting or embers. Most structures that burn, 90 per cent of the time it’s from embers coming in and starting a spot fire around the house. Look at your roof materials and work your way down, make sure gutters are cleaned out, siding is made from non-combustable material. If it is, then work around the base of the structure to make sure there’s no combustibles, your usual suspects, like cedars, junipers bark mulch. Then it’s working your way out from there. Data shows having trees on your property is generally not what’s burning down structures. It’s the small flammable vegetation, your furniture on decks, that’s where we are having issues, that’s what’s burning down structures.
PP: What is your worse case scenario? What keeps you up at night?
IC: Dry lighting coming through the valley. Usually when you get dry lighting you get winds at the same time as the weather front comes through and that always worrisome and so unpredictable. We could have a really bad wildfire season within the province and Peachland may not have anything happen. We could have a good season within the province and Peachland may still end up having a big fire. ••
John McDonald photo Deputy Fire Chief Wes Aigro (left( and Fire Chief Ian Cummings.
The kids enjoyed a great start to footie season
April 12 was opening day for the 62 boys and girls ages 6-10 playing youth soccer on four Peachland teams.
The teams play their games in Penticton at a huge five soccer field complex at Kings Park.
Under the umbrella of the Penticton Pinnacles Youth soccer club, teams from Osoyoos, Keremeos, Oliver, Penticton, Naramata, Summerland and Peachland play interlocking games there.
Starting their third season, all Peachland teams won on Saturday.The Peachland mini boys team (ages 7-8) coached by Ali Bani-Sadr, Ryan Onyschuk and John Jones won most of the four fifteen-minute games they had against other Okanagan teams as did the Peachland mini girls team, coached by Mark Wilson.
The Peachland youth girls team (ages 9-10), coached by
Tristin Ahern won their hour long game against another Okanagan team as did the Peachland youth boys team coached by Martin Deslauriers and myself.
Going into the season, we made the decision to allow our six-year-old players to play up a year in the 7-8-year-old mini soccer category. This was to allow them to play interlocking games with other Okanagan communities, something they wanted, but is normally not allowed at the six-year-old tyke soccer level.
We had some concerns about doing this, because we wanted our six year olds to have a good enjoyable soccer experience without potentially being overwhelmed by older players.
Playing up however is the reality in smaller communities to have enough children to fill a team – Peachland only has 170 children in our elementary school.
But adding some six year old children to our predominantly 7-8 year old mini soccer teams didn’t pose a problem at all. Particularly for our girls’ mini team:
Peachland’s Sawyer Christianson, age six, playing in her first competitive soccer game, against predominantly older and bigger 7 to 8-year-olds, scored a total of 14 goals in the four fifteen-minute mini games
played. This is the most goals ever scored in a single day by any Peachland player, boy or girl.
This follows a similar performance last year by Peachland’s Lucy Quinn who scored seven goals in one game, Peachland’s Auston Bowers who also scored seven in one game last year and Peachland’s Grayson Unrau who scored six goals on Saturday in the Peachland boys youth team win.
Soccer though is a team game and the forwards scored because of the team play on the rest of the field.
Peachland’s youth boys’ team had Carter Cheng and Owen Lange defending extremely well, goalies Carsen Charlesworth and Ethan Creamer making a number of great saves, and a buzzsaw midfield of Sheldon and Tristan Simpson, Easton Christianson, Chase Braun, Sawyer Hahn-Cox, Dominic Boden and Ben Sawyer, consistently hustling, winning balls and setting up scoring plays.
One one occasion, Peachland’s Ben Sawyer won the ball off an opposing player and, with Easton Christianson, between the two of them dribbled through
the entire opposing team before setting up the always dangerous scoring tandem of Grayson Unrau and Auston Bowers.
A great start to this our third year of Peachland youth soccer. We have 62 children registered this year, up from 31 last year and 22 in our initial year. We also have an additional 20 three- to five-year-old children registered in the community centres mini kicker program.
A total of 82 Peachland children are playing/learning organized soccer this spring. We have the same number of girls and boys playing, and the 82 kids playing soccer for Peachland are equivalent to 48 per cent of the enrolment in Peachland Elementary school.
Please give these hardworking kids a honk and a wave when you are driving by Cousins Park when they are practicing on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. And please support them when they host their first Peachland youth soccer tournament at newly opening Turner Park, in early June.
Randey Brophy has coached youth soccer and baseball for 32 years.
Contributed photo Left to Right: Griff, Coach Ali Bani-Sadr, Carson Sawyer, Mack Cheng, Matei Neamtu, Walker Lind.
GARDENER/GENERAL HELP REQUIRED
We are interested in hiring a person to help with some part time gardening work this summer. We have an acreage with a small vineyard and could use someone who has a good handle on garden maintenance. We would like a person to put their mark on it and work their own hours in setting up an ongoing plan. You come over when you want, it’s on your schedule. We also are busy in the summer with a popular Airbnb and the vineyard which could use some assistance. We just need a little help to get through it all. Please reply by text/phone 403-820-3518 and we can have you come over to see for yourself.
Lake Avenue at 13th Street 250-767-9237
Sunday Morning Service: 10:30 am Pastor: Lyle Wahl peachlandbaptistcanada.com
There is a sermon audio available on our website each week.
John McDonald photo
The Edgewater Inn and a lone customer are seen from the end of the dock on Beach Ave.
John McDonald photo
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John McDonald photo
A pair of friends take in the lake view beside the cenotaph.
Reservations or registration may be required for some activities or events.
Saturday
Peachland Museum & Visitor Centre
250-767-3441
Open 10-4 PM
Train exhibit operating
Closed Mondays
Peachland Community Centre
250-767-2133
Closed Our Space
250-767-7422
Dirt Road in concert 7PM
Peachland Art Gallery
250-767-7422
Fragments Narrow Works
50 Plus Centre
250-767-9133
Carpet Bowling 9:30-12 PM
Bluegrass 2-5 PM
Peachland Legion
250-767-9404
Meat Draw & 50-50 Draw 3-5 PM
Everyone Welcome
Peachland Library
250-767-9111
Registration required
Soil health and composting
Sunday
Peachland Lions
778-363-2263
Charity Golf Tournament
50 Plus Centre
Wellness Centre
Easter Community Lunch 12-2 PM
250-767-0141
Peachland Art Gallery
Fragments Narrow Works
Peachland Community Centre
Pickleball 2.5-3.5 12-2-PM
Pickleball 3.75+ 2-4 PM
Monday
Peachland Community Centre
Voting Council Chamber 7 AM-7 PM
Indoor walking 8-9 AM
Pickleball 1.0-2.5 11 AM-1 PM
Pickleball 1.02.5 1-3 PM
Zumba 6:30-7:30 PM
Volleyball 7-8:15 PM ($5.25 drop in)
50 Plus Centre
250-767-9133
50 plus fitness 9-10 AM
We Art Here 12 PM
Bridge 1-3:30 PM
Tae Kwon Doe 5:30 8:30 PM
Peachland Wellness Centre
250-767-0141
Loss and Grief support group 1:30-3 PM
Adult day service 9 AM
Tuesday
Peachland Community Centre
Flow Yoga 9-10 AM
Remedy yoga (Level 2)
10:30-11:45 AM
Pickleball 3.75+ 1-3 PM
50 Plus Centre
Yoga 8:30-9:30 AM
Carpet Bowling 9:30-12 PM
Fellowship (AA) 12-1 PM
Mahjong 1-4 PM
Passion 4 Art 1-4 PM
Line Dancing 4:30-5:30 PM
Cloggers 6-6:45 PM
Peachland Wellness Centre
Ladies Coffee & Cards 10:30-12 PM
Mens Coffee & Crib 1-3 PM
Peachland Legion
Euchre 2 PM
Drop in Darts 7 PM
Wednesday
Peachland Art Gallery
Fragments Narrow Works
Peachland Community Centre
Indoor walking 8-9 AM
Quilters 8 AM-4 PM
Pickleball 3.0 11 AM-1 PM
($5.25 drop in)
Yoga & beyond 5:15-6:15 PM
6:30-7:30 PM
50 Plus Centre
50+ fitness 9-10 AM
Chair Yoga 10:30-11:30 AM
Bridge 1:00-3:30 PM
Tae Kwon Do 5:30-8:30 PM
Peachland Wellness Centre
Tai Chi 10-11 AM
Sunshine Singers 1-2 PM
Thursday
Peachland Art Gallery
Fragments
Narrow Works
Peachland Library
250-767-9111
Story time 11 AM
Stay and play 11:30 AM
Peachland Community Centre
Art group 8-4 PM
Pickleball 3.5 10:30-12:30 PM
Volleyball 5-6:15 PM ($5.25 drop in)
Pickleball all play 6:30-8:15 PM
($5.25 drop in)
50 Plus Centre
Yoga 8:30-9:30 AM
Iron & Silk 11 AM
Ukulele 1-2:30 PM
Peachland Legion
Meat draw & 50-50 3-5 PM
Everyone Welcome
Peachland Wellness Centre
Adult day service 9 AM
Friday
Peachland Museum & Visitor Centre
250-767-3441
Open 10-4 PM
Model train exhibit open
Peachland Art Gallery
Fragments Narrow Works
Peachland Community Centre
Indoor walking 89 AM
Flow yoga 9-10 AM
Remedy yoga (Level 1)
10:30-11:45 AM
Creative playtime (FREE kids 0 to 6) 10-12 PM
Pottery - bubble glaze (Ages 6-13}
1:30-3:30 PM
Pickleball all Play 3-4:45 PM
($5.25 drop in)
Peachland Volunteer Recognition and Civic Awards night 615 PM
Peachland Library
Baby time 10:30 AM
LEGO 3:00 PM
50 Plus Centre
50+ Fitness 9-10 AM
Coffee Bean 10:15-12 PM
Chair yoga 10:30-11:30 AM
Canasta 1-4 PM
