SUMMERLAND REVIEW THE VOICE OF OUR COMMUNITY SINCE 1908
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S U M M E R L A N D,
WWW.SUMMERLANDREVIEW.COM
B.C.
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T H U R S D AY,
AUGUST
8,
2013
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WHAT’S INSIDE:
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Students suspended
Students from Summerland Secondary School were issued major suspensions over the past school year.
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Golf tourney
An upcoming golf tournament will raise money for the treatment of children’s cancers.
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Recreation
Plenty of summer recreation programs and events are scheduled during the summer.
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Artwork
YOUR SMILE I just let my mind wander. It didn’t come back.
$1.15
INCLUDING
GST
Drunk drivers charged by John Arendt
Windows were broken, but there were no injuries following a single-vehicle accident at McDonald’s in Summerland on Thursday.
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Police receive numerous calls about erratic motorists
Accident damage
New exhibits will open at the Summerland Art Gallery next week.
PA G E S
Longboarding
John Arendt Summerland Review
Chad Lybrand negotiates one of the corners during the Giant’s Head Freeride longboarding event on the weekend. The event, held on Giant’s Head Mountain, drew around 200 participants from around the world. The paved path on the mountain is considered one of the best places for longboarding.
Despite some harsh penalties for impaired driving, some tipsy motorists continue to get behind the wheel, putting themselves and others on the road at risk. Cpl Bruce Haley of the Summerland RCMP detachment said police receive numerous reports each day of erratic driving in the community and on Highway 97. “We get them every day of every week and every month,” he said. Since the beginning of the year, those calls have included 38 reports of impaired drivers, as well as many other calls about speeding, bad lane changes or other unsafe behaviour. A total of 18 motorists have been changed, either under criminal charges or under the provincial immediate roadside prohibition legislation. Haley said the impaired drivers have been out at all hours of the day or night. One July morning at 6 a.m., police stopped a motorist on Highway 97, driving between 130 and 140 kilometres an hour on a road with a speed limit of 100 km/h. Other impaired drivers have been stopped and charged at 2:30 p.m., police say. On July 29, an impaired driver of a motorhome, who was refused service at a liquor store, was later stopped and did not provide a breath sample. He received a 90-day driving prohibition and his motorhome was impounded for 30 days. While some of the impaired drivers stopped by police are older motorists with ingrained habits, others are young drivers, in their teens and early 20s. The strong messages against drinking and driving and stiff penalties have been in place for many years. See IMPAIRED Page 6
Summerland tops in study Quality of life factors examined in provincial report by John Arendt A comparison of B.C. communities puts Summerland near the top in terms of several socioeconomic factors.
The study of 77 communities, prepared by B.C. Stats, places Summerland’s overall socioeconomic index ranking second in the province, just behind West Vancouver-Bowen Island. In several of the individual categories, Summerland was ahead of all
communities. The Regional SocioEconomic Index place Summerland in second place. The indicators in the study were the Index of Human Economic Hardship, the Index of Crime, the Index of Health Problems and the Index of
Education Concerns. Two other indicators, Children at Risk and Youth at Risk, were also included. The economic hardship category examined the number of those receiving economic assistance. The crime index examined property crimes, violent crimes and other
criminal activity. The health index looked at numerous physical and mental health factors including infant mortality, life expectancy at birth and teen pregnancy rates, as well as suicide and homicide statistics. See REPORT Page 2