SUMMERLAND REVIEW THE VOICE OF OUR COMMUNITY SINCE 1908
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S U M M E R L A N D,
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T H U R S D AY,
MARCH
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WHAT’S INSIDE:
The Summerland Community Arts Centre has a limited number of banners available for their art project.
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Trail vision grows Special to the Review
New website
Visitors to Summerland will see separate website from Chamber of Commerce beginning in April.
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Student initiative
Summerland students create anti bullying video that is gaining some attention.
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Almost Maine
The Summerland Singers and Players bring romantic comedy to stage.
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Steaming ahead
Summerland Steam hockey club hand out year end awards.
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.
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by Carla McLeod
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YOUR SMILE
PA G E S
Plan would link numerous communities in Okanagan
Colourful banners
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Harp performance
Mark Brett Black Press
Lise Fisher of Summerland plucks her harp strings during the warmup for her performance at the Penticton Kiwanis Music Festival at the Penticton United Church Thursday morning. The festival begin in 1926 and features a wide range of artistic disciplines including voice, dance and instrumental music. It runs until the first week of May.
What started out as a proposed walking and cycling path between Lowertown and Trout Creek, called the Lakeside Trail, has now grown into a much grander vision. There is now talk of The Trail of the Okanagans, potentially stretching from Sicamous to Osoyoos. Paul Barber, representing the Summerland Rotary Club explained that initially the club was looking for a significant project to become involved with. A fellow Rotarian, Don Gemmell sold them on the idea of the Lakeside Trail. Before too long word got out and other groups and individuals started showing interest in the plan. “All of a sudden this vision started to develop. Let’s not think small. Let’s think of the possibility of making a real impact… something that will support economic activity in our community,” said Barber. Gemmell said this is not just a vision shared by this group alone. “We had the City of Kelowna visit us and say that they too have the same vision. They brought a map of a pathway that runs from the Shuswap all the way to Osoyoos. Their viewpoint is that it’s very rare that all the communities in the Okanagan region actually get together to do something constructive like this. It is very exciting.” He went on to say that the local steering group is focussing on Summerland, south, with the city of Penticton also becoming an active part of the committee. See TRAIL Page 2
Information session planned by John Arendt
It will be a time for questions and answers about Summerland’s proposed growth plan as the municipality will hold a town hall meeting early in April. The meeting will take place on Monday, April 7 from 6 to 9 p.m.
in the high school gym. The town hall meeting will begin with a 15-minute presentation about the plan by municipal planner Ian McIntosh. Following the presentation, members of council will each have five minutes to share their thoughts about
the Urban Growth Plan. Coun. Bruce Hallquist and Coun. Lloyd Christopherson, who both own land in the affected area, will not be present. The two councillors have been absent from all other discussions and meetings about the plan.
Municipal administrator Tom Day said the statements from council members will help to address a concern which has been raised by the public. “People are saying they haven’t really heard from council,” Day said. The proposed
growth plan calls for the removal of 80.34 hectares of land from the Agricultural Land Reserve near the core of the community, while 91.7 hectares in the Prairie Valley area would be added to the land reserve. See PROPOSED Page 3