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Rutland residents turned out in droves last Sunday to protest Keowna’s latest supportive housing project. Chants of “keep Rutland safe” rang out from nearly 100 residents as cars drove by and honked in support as they passed the proposed side on McCurdy Road. Even passing police officers flicked on their patrol car sirens, tooted their horns and waved as they cruised by the fenced-off lot. “The reason we are gathered here today is because we are against a facility that does not have rules around drug and alcohol consumption within the proximity of the schools,” Chrissy Lwowski, a concerned resident said. Cannabis retail stores in Kelowna need to be 150 metres away from elementary schools and 500 metres from high schools and residents said
those same rules should apply for “wet” houses where drug and alcohol consuption is allowed on site. “This is not an appropriate site,” Lwowski said. “We have not run out of land in Kelowna. “The last we had all heard was this was a dry facility coming in, so we’re all pretty alarmed that it has come through the way that it has and we’re not OK with it.” A previous development proposed for the site was housing for graduates of the Freedom’s Door drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. But when funding from the province did not come through for that project, it was dropped and the site picked up by BC Housing for the current supportive housing project. City council approved the required rezoning for the property when Freedom’s Door made its proposal in 2017. On Monday, it voted to approve the form and character of BC Housing’s design and approved a
development permit for the project. Coun. Charlie Hodge was the only councillor who voted against the form and character and development permit. “This project is not the project it was,” he said. “So, it’s a tough decision.” Christopher Bocskei, a coach, community volunteer, someone who said he has experienced homelessness and protest organizer, said he knows these facilities are necessary for addicts, vulnerable and at-risk individuals. But he doesn’t want it to be this close to kids. “Drugs will go up, crime will go up, it’s a problem waiting to happen,” Bocskei said. “We’re trying to save our kids here, we’re trying to save our community.” He suggested a better location for a facility of the size and type proposed would be across the street from the RCMP detachment on Clement Avenue.
Bocskei said the 49-unit development would offer 49 opportunities to have students exposed to, or perhaps even addicted to, substances. “It is incumbent on the operator, BC Housing and the province to ensure this functions successfully,” said Coun. Brad Sieben. A petition was started and shared online June 21 and has garnered more than 2,600 names. Kelowna-Lake Country MLA Norm Letnick has called on B.C.’s housing minister to “pause” the project until issues at two other Kelowna supportive housing facilities are resolved. “The people of Rutland are very generous and caring and have done more than their fair share when it comes to housing the hardest to house,” Letnick said in his open letter. A public information meeting will be held on June 26 at Rutland Centennial Hall, 5:30 p.m.
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Guarded approval for housing plan Caitlin Clow Capital News Staff
A four-storey, 52-studio unit supportive housing development on Agassiz Road received the seal of approval by Kelowna city council Monday—but not without thoughtful consideration. Kelowna councillors voted “yes� to the form and character of the BC Housing Midtown Urban Centre project, citing its high quality finishes thorough landscaping detail that creates privacy and adds security, and overall design found to be cohesive with the surrounding neighbourhood. However, coming on the heels of ongoing protests in the Rutland community over a different BC Housing project to be run by the Canadian Mental Health Association of Kelowna (CMHA) on McCurdy Road, councillors were sensitive to community backlash. Coun. Charlie Hodge said the vote was a battle as he was originally opposed
A BC Housing project on Agassiz Road got the go-ahead from Kelowna city council on Monday, June 24. (Contributed) to the Agassiz Road site. choice in the building that and seeking recovery. “Asking our minister of “I could find an excuse is going there and why not to support it with a it’s there, but I do have a municipal affairs to stop protest vote,� he said, in ac- choice to say whether or funding housing would knowledgement of a pro- not I like the look. And I bring us backwards,� he test vote he made against like the look.� said. the McCurdy Road supCoun. Loyal Wooldridge Instead, Wooldridge portive housing project. said he recognizes the urged residents to pass “But, that’s all it would anger and concern some their concerns onto the be.� residents are feeling about ministry of health and “This is a really well-do- the lack of support services the ministry responsible ne, thought-out design,� he for those in the community for mental health and adadded. “I may not have a that are facing addiction dictions to seek additional
funding for recovery services. “The opioid crisis is a health crisis and there needs to be political will at a provincial, federal and municipal levels to put partisan politics aside and work together to implement long-term solutions,� he said. “We won’t solve anything with name calling or attack campaigns based on shame and social division. “We can be critical of policy, past and present, but signs that are calling people junkies and comments saying we should put bullets in homeless people’s heads will not achieve solutions for anyone on either side of this debate.� Coun. Brad Sieben echoed his remarks from only a week prior to when the McCurdy Road project was approved. “I think it’s absolutely incumbent on BC Housing and the operator to make sure that this does integrate well into the community,� Sieben said.
March called milestone for local transgender youth David Venn Capital News Staff
The Youth Trans March held last Thurday was a milestone for young people struggling with their gender identities and the LGBTQ2+ community overall, says an event organizer. Last year Davina Kula, director of education and LGBTQ2+ youth initiatives at Kelowna Pride, created a program called Etcetera, which was comprised of members between the ages of 11 and 17 who have had a lived experience with being transgender. In between the trenches of precarious non-profit funding, the group would meet in a peer-support setting with clinical supervi-
sion to talk about the social issues and stigma that comes with being trans, along with their individual struggles as a trans person. “Safe places for LGBTQ2+ kids are just not set up within our society, within our structure,� Kula said. “As long as kids are hearing those messages of hate and exclusion, (having a safe community) is that much more important.� Now, after Kula can “happily say� the program is sustainable, with funding from groups such as Kelowna Women in Business and Trans Care BC, the Etcetera team along with partners had the fiscal and physical ability to bring together an event for those who
are discriminated and neglected. “I think it’s important for the them to see who their village is,� Kula said. “Because everyone needs a village and these kids are leading the way.� One of those leaders is Thai August, a 19-year-old trans person and the lived experience peer youth facilitator at Etcetera. “Just having one day where trans people can get together and they can feel safe in a group, it honestly helps so much with getting through those day-to-day conflicts,� August said. “Just knowing that there are others and that you’re not the only one going through it.�
August said they have gone, and currently still go through bouts with transphobics, family, friends and greater society but has managed to enter a place in their personal journey that grants the ability to help others. Between 2016 and 2017, 75 per cent of surveyed Canadian transgender youth reported self-harming and at least about 33 per cent had attempted suicide, according to UBC’s Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre. Kula is quick to remind the public about how imperative it is to support and accept these young people for who they. “The kids are listening,� she said. “And words can kill.�
Emergency responders continue their efforts to pull the overturned plane from the lake on Monday evening. (Laryn Gilmour - Kelowna Capital News)
Float plane crashes in Okanagan Lake Capital News Staff
A plane crashed into Okanagan Lake in West Kelowna below Sunnyside Road Monday afternoon sending two men to hospital. The plane overturned around 5 p.m. Police said the crash landing happened because the aircraft, an amphibious float plane, had its wheels still down when landing on the water. The extra drag caused the plane to tip forward into the water. RCMP also said the pilot may not have followed proper landing protocol. Kelowna RCMP have identified the pilot as a 72-year-old Alberta man. He and his passenger, a 59-year-old man, were transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after overturning their float plane near Sunnyside Road in West Kelowna on Monday evening. “The crash is not being considered criminal in nature at this time,� RCMP spokesman Cpl. Jesse O’Donaghey said. “As such, RCMP have since notified, and continue to support the Transportation Safety Board of Canada who have launched an investigation into the aviation incident.� The small, private aircraft was recovered from Okanagan Lake and secured by officials. Any witnesses of the incident are urged to contact the West Kelowna RCMP at 250768-2880.
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United Way bestows service honour on DeHart Alistair Waters Black Press Media
Maxine DeHart has been recognized for her tireless work helping raise money for the United Way. The architect of the very successful Maxine DeHart Ramada Hotel United Way Drive-Thru Breakfast, which ran for 20 years in Kelowna, was named the recipient of the 2019 United Way of South Interior BC Community Distinction Award on Monday night. The drive-thru breakfast raised a total of just over $850,000 during it run. The drive-thru breakfast became the largest single annual fundraising event for the local United Way. Earlier this year, the 20th, and final, breakfast raised a record $110,000. According to the United
Way, that event helped improve the lives of an estimated 20,000 people thanks to those funds. “I’m overwhelmed,” said DeHart after receiving the award. “I was not expecting this at all.” The well-known local hotelier, city councillor and long-time Capital News columnist is a past director of the United Way and served as its board chairwoman in 1998. It was in 1999 as chairwoman for the annual United Way fundraising campaign that DeHart organized the first drive-thru breakfast to help meet that year’s campaign goal. And for the next two decades, she did it again and again and again, and each year the event grew in size
and popularity. In accepting her award ception, DeHart thanked the it possible and the public for At one point, because at the United Way annual sponsors of the breakfast, the continuing to turn out and cars were causing traffic community appreciation re- volunteers who helped make support it year after year. jams waiting to get into the drive-thru—held in the parking lot of the Ramada Hotel where DeHart works—the RCMP volunteered to help out and direct traffic. Over the years, participants were more than happy to wait in line to make a donation to the United Way in return for breakfast and a “goody bag” filled with prizes and promotions from the many sponsors DeHart convinced to join the event. But DeHart’s contribution to the umbrella charity organization went beyond organizing the breakfast. She also served on the United Way’s board of directors for 10 years, as well as the board of the United Way’s annual golf tournament.
Maxine DeHart (left) received the United Way Southern Interior BC Community Distinction Award from Marianne Dahl, marketing and events manager of United Way Southern Interior BC on Monday night. (Alistair Waters Black Press Media)
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We’re still waiting Our HistOry in Pictures It’s been nearly six years since, speaking at a Kelowna rally, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would rather see cannabis legalized instead of just decriminalized. Back then he was just plain old Justin, on the campaign trail trying to garner votes and reinvigorate the federal Liberal party. Two years later, the Liberals cruised back to power on that promise and others. The Liberals defaulted on their promise to reform the electoral system, and you have to wonder if the promise of legal recreational cannabis is going to be substantially complete before the next federal election, this fall. It’s not entirely the Liberals’ fault that we’ve yet to see a thriving cannabis industry. Though it took three years—three months later than the July 1, 2018 date first promised—they did deliver on the legislation last October. But even though they had those three years, provincial and local governments didn’t really get started on their own legislation until, effectively, the last minute. So far, relatively few cannabis retailers have been able to open across Canada. Notably, the first to open in B.C. was a provincial government-operated store in Kamloops. But most of the many applications from hopeful private retailers in the Okanagan and around the province are still waiting for the dual approval they need from the province and their municipal government. It’s not that getting a licence to sell cannabis should be easy. It shouldn’t, and there are countless obstacles and social issues that need to be dealt with. But with three years warning, there is little excuse for provincial and local governments not to have been better prepared to resolve those problems and implement legalization, which was a popular idea long before the Liberals decided to run with it. After all, cannabis has been effectively legal for a long time. It’s just that all the money generated by the industry was going into the pockets of criminals instead of generating taxes. Governments should have had frameworks, laws and bylaws ready to go by the time legalization legislation dropped, only needing fine tuning to match the fed’s ideas. By now, most of the applications should have been either approved or denied, with private operators starting to add to local and provincial economies, and driving the black market farther underground. You would think governments didn’t want the tax money that cannabis retail stores are going to generate. —Black Press
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Heed our climate change concerns The effects of climate change have been called the “new normal.” But while their impact may be considered normal now, they are no longer new. And according to a study by university professors on both sides of the country, Canadian municipalities recognize that. The study, led by UBC Okanagan’s director of the Centre for Environmental Research Kevin Hanna and Mark Seasons, with the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning in Ontario, reveals how municipalities across the country recognize climate change is not only real and so are its effects. (See more about the report on page B7) It’s here now, and they doing what they can. But they cannot do it all alone. They not only need help from their respective provincial gov-
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Climate action can save us money Climate action requires switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy. While switching has up-front capital costs, operating costs for renewable energy are lower. Electricity from coal requires coal mining or removing overburden, recovering, crushing, washing,
shipping, and burning coal. Then pollutants are scrubbed from the emissions. Not all pollutants can be scrubbed so coal remains a major source of air-pollution illness and death. Switching to geothermal energy requires drilling a hole four km
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Living free of fear from homophobia To the editor: Imagine this: The week is finally over and Friday is here. You are so relieved to leave work and get home, take off your business suit or steel toes, and jump in the shower to wash away the stress of the passed week. As you’re brushing your teeth, you receive a couple calls from from your buddies asking you to grab a few drinks, and hit up one of the clubs downtown. Leaving your condo, you’re feelin’ it. You trimmed and shaped your beard, and put on a smokin’ outfit. When you walk into the bar, you see your buddies waving at you from a table in the far corner. They have already ordered you your favourite drink and you laugh and joke as you sip it down. As the night goes on, the bar fills
up with more and more people. People playing pool, throwing darts, and dancing on the dance floor; a typical Friday night at this bar you frequently visit and love. All of a sudden, you hear a bang at the door. Your head shoots left to look over your shoulder as you see a pool of police officers barge in with guns drawn, yelling and screaming. They padlock the entrance doors, restricting you from leaving. The music shuts off and the main lights turn on. You freeze in your confusion while you see others run for doors and windows in the bathrooms to escape. You are all ordered to get in lines as the officers start to push and shove you into place. Handcuffs are smashed on to your wrists so tightly that the steel
slashes your wrists and bruises your bones. As everyone is being frisked and checked for unlikely weapons, you notice multiple officers sexually harassing the female patrons, by grabbing their breasts and asses. The officers start pushing and kicking you, and everyone else, out of the pub with intentions to bring you to jail. As you exit the building, you see a large crowd has gathered in the street. Standing there in fear of the unknown, you watch a woman behind you being dragged out the bar by her hair. The woman was crying, and begging for her handcuffs to be loosened. The officer reaches for his baton smashes her over the head, while heaving her into the back of the
police car. You get kicked from behind and shoved in to the back of a van. While you wait in complete fear and violation, you look out the window to a sign on the pub’s window. It reads: “We homosexuals plead with our people to please help maintain peaceful and quiet conduct on the streets of the village.” This was not the case in the early hours of June 1969, when men and women lived in fear of being abused and violated because of the way they dressed and who they loved. This weekend, I peacefully ask you all to take each step with these words as your intention—love, peace, no racism, no sexism, no violence, no homophobia. Lindsay Brown Kelowna
Rutland resident upset by NIMBY accusation To the editor: I would like, as a Rutland resident, to respond to Alistair Waters, a Westside resident, who wrote a recent column criticizing Rutland residents as NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) for their response to the homeless addict housing the city approved for 130 McCurdy Road last week. Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran actually said that people in Rutland needed to stop complaining, yet they pat themselves on the back for inviting community input. The City of Kelowna, under Basran’s leadership, isn’t interested at all in community involvement and input. At all. A good example of this is the drug housing that he snuck through last week. Last year, a great number of the Rutland community spoke out against a rehab facility in the same location. Basran still forced through
a zoning change, which went completely against the City of Kelowna’s own 20-year plan, in an effort to clean up the downtown by moving them out to Rutland. When that fell apart due to a lack of funding, he clearly had a hand in a quiet deal with BC Housing (that was kept very quiet) and forced through and even worse plan-‘Wet’ housing for 49 homeless addicts. This plan, which apparently breaks ground on Monday is less than a kilometer from more than 2,700 school children and in the middle of a family-oriented residential neighbourhood. He is sacrificing the safety, well-being, lives and futures of Rutland children, all so he can look good by having ‘cleaned up’ the downtown. Disgusting and shameful. What’s next for Rutland, which already has a highly disproportionate amount of similar housing than the rest of the city, homeless shel-
ters? Last year, he actually tried to shame residents for voicing their concerns. We have been called NIMBYs. For trying to protect our children and neighbourhoods from becoming something like what the downtown has been experiencing. Aren’t the mayor and his ilk the real NIMBY’s here? I certainly don’t see them lobbying to put such housing in their residential areas, where their children will have to live around needles, people shooting up, constant theft, people who are tweaked out of their mind, fights, human waste, breakins, vehicle damage, and all the other great things they bring to the areas in which they live. And yet they say the city is interested in input from the community. So I must ask, which communities are they interested in hearing the input from?
Because actions speak louder than lip service, and they certainly haven’t listened to the Rutland community. Shame on them all. As a non-resident, who is not facing having this addition forced upon his neighbourhood, for his children to be directly impacted by, Alistair Waters should be the one to stop complaining, about Rutland residents.
Please, until that is the case, sit down Mr. Waters, and let the families who are directly impacted have the floor. Audra Boudreau Kelowna (Editor’s note: The previous proposal for the Rutland site, made by Freedom’s Door, was for housing for graduates of its treatment program, not a rehab centre.)
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Mellalieu ready to run for Greens again Alistair Waters Black Press Media
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. After running unsuccessfully for the Green Party of Canada in Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola in the 2015 federal election—and for the B.C. Green Party in Kelowna West in the 2017 provincial election—Robert Mellalieu is trying again. The federal Green Party announced on the weekend Mellalieu will once again carry its banner in Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola in the fall federal election. In the race, he will try once again to unseat veteran Conservative incumbent MP Dan Albas, who beat him four years ago. He said while cli-
Robert Mellalieu will run for the Green Party in the upcoming federal election in Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola. (Contributed) mate change is the several local issues transportation con- such as the quagga posal in the Merritt large national issue he wants to see ad- gestion, the fight to mussel out of B.C. area and the homefor him, there are dressed, including keep invasive species lakes, biosolids dis- less issue. “The overall issue is that we don’t have leadership,” said Mellalieu, a 59-yearold West Kelowna resident who runs his own computer business in the city. “Too many people are influenced by
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Regular curbside garbage collection will continue on the holiday Monday and the Westside Residential Waste Disposal and Recycling Centre on Asquith Road in West Kelowna will also be open its normal hours Friday through Monday. The North Westside Transfer Station will be open its regular hours Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The Trader’s Cove Transfer Station will be open its summer hours on Sunday. The Environmental Education Centre for the Okanagan (EECO) in Mission Creek Regional Park will be closed on Monday, July 1st.
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Kelowna gears up to celebrate Canada Day David Venn Capital News Staff
For the 22nd consecutive year, the City of Kelowna will host it’s annual Canada Day celebration downtown on July 1, featuring all the the usual array of events throughout the day. The celebration will kick off at 10 a.m. at the Kelowna Art Galley with drop-in crafts and 11 a.m. in Waterfront Park with free activities for the entire family. This year celebration is expected attract in excess of 55,000 people, making it one of the biggest Canada Day events in the B.C. Interior. “Canada Day in Kelowna is a special day for so many reasons,” said Mayor Colin Basran. “It’s a celebration of our great nation, it’s a day to celebrate the growing diversity that makes our city more welcoming to people of all cultures and lifestyles
and it’s an action-packed day of fun, music and spectacle.” The main activities will be centred in Waterfront Park between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m., with highlights of the day including Kelowna Dog Agility Club demonstrations, music on several stages, kids activities, the Made in Canada Marketplace and the Canada Day birthday cake cutting in Prospera Place across the street from the park at 12:30 p.m. The 46th annual Kelowna Folk Fest and the Taste of Canada Food Fair will also take place inside Prospera Place throughout the day starting at 10 a.m. That will be followed by the annual Canada Day concert featuring the Kelowna City Band from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The day will close with the popular fireworks show over the lake, in front of Waterfront Park starting at 10:30 p.m.
Water Street through concession plaza. Water Street will be closed from Cawston Avenue to Sunset Drive on July 1 from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. The road up Knox Mountain will be closed from 8 p.m. on July 1 and the boat locks between Waterfront Park and the Grand Okanagan Resort Hotel will be closed from 6 a.m. July 1 to 9 a.m. July 2. Public parking will be available at the Library Plaza Parkade, located at 1360 Ellis Street, the Memorial Parkade at 1420 Ellis Street and at the Chapman Parkade at 345 Lawrence Avenue. Transit service July 1 will follow the usual Saturday schedule, with two additional charter buses added to routes MP Stephen Fuhr, Festivals Kelowna president Richard Groves and Mayor Colin Basran don the traditional 8 and 10 starting at 4 p.m. and pre-Canada Day silly hats during the announcement of this year’s event plans. (David Venn - Capital News) a further seven bus added later The Lakefront Prome- north end of Tugboat Beach 30 from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. in the evening. For full list of activities go nade at the north end of the through Rotary Marsh and Park access will be available park will be closed from the Sunset Drive on Sunday, June from Rhapsody Plaza on to festivalskelowna.com.
UBCO campus broadens eat-out options Michael Rodriguez Capital News Staff
Some fresh new food options will be hot and ready at UBC Okanagan starting next month. A contractor has operated food services since the campus opened in 2005, but services will now be taken in-house and run by Student Housing and Hospitality Services starting July 1. “This is great for our students, faculty and staff, and the wider community,” said Rob Einarson, UBCO associate vice-president of finance and operations. “UBC operates one of the largest and most complex food service programs in Canada on the Vancouver campus. UBC Okanagan is
in a unique position to replicate the Vancouver model and use its strengths and resources to deliver a unique, world-class, UBC Okanagan food service program.” UBCO Food Services’ portfolio will consist of 11 campus locations—a mix of in-house brands representing a variety of culturally diverse foods, and franchises including Starbucks, Tim Hortons and Subway.
While franchises will remain the same, all in-house food outlets will offer new and enhanced menu items, new or refreshed brands and improved customer service. The schools continued growth prompted the change. Since opening 14 years ago, UBC Okanagan’s enrolment has grown from 3,500 to 10,000 students. The school is planning on building a new 500-seat dining
hall as part of the Nechako student residence project by fall 2021. “Our campus population is now large enough to make a self-operated food service business model viable as a part of the UBC food service system,” said Einarson. “The aim of UBCO Food Services is to continuously improve the campus experience. “At the same time,
we will support UBC’s academic mission by nourishing thousands of people with a wide variety of high-quality foods every day in a socially and ecologically conscious manner in alignment with UBC’s food vision and values.”
The new culinary program is being pioneered by worldclass executive chef Shelley Robinson and David Speight, executive chef and culinary director with Student Housing and Hospitality Services. “My culinary team is excited and com-
mitted to creating healthy choices for all meals, as we recognize the contribution eating well makes to academic and professional success,” said Robinson. “In addition to UBCO serving 100 per cent Ocean Wise fish and seafood,
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Four Rockets get the call from NHL teams Lassi Thomson was selected 19th overall by the Ottawa Senators and Nolan Foote was picked 27th overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning, both joining a select group of 10 former Rockets first round picks. “It’s pretty cool,” said Thomson. “(Ottawa’s) an old team and a big hockey town, I think there is a lot of fans, and everyone is watching hockey games.”
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Kelowna Rockets had the most players selected out of all Canadian Hockey League teams at last weekend’s NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver. Four Rockets were picked in the first two rounds of the draft, and Kelowna was the only CHL team to have two of those players chosen in the first round.
Foote was ranked the 37th top prospect going into the draft, but was selected by a familiar team near the end of the first round. The Lightning had taken Foote’s brother and former Rockets’ teammate Cal Foote in the first round of the 2017 draft. The reigning Rockets’ MVP was ecstatic to join his brother. “I couldn’t believe it,” said Foote. “Cal and I shar-
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Kelowna Rockets defenceman Lassi Thomson was drafted 19th overall by the Ottawa Senators in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft. (Photo - Marissa Baecker/Kelowna Rockets Images) Lee will attend their over the summer and to be returned to junior and hosting the Memorespective NHL teams’ training camp in the as the Rockets prepare rial Cup tournament development camps fall, with all expected for the 2019-20 season next May.
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Restauranteur opens second business in Kelowna Krafty Kitchen & Bar owner Chris Shaften has opened his second restaurant in downtown Kelowna at 269 Lawrence Ave., three doors down from Krafty. The 30-seat Orchard Room is focused on primarily veg forward cuisine, craft ciders, craft cocktails and brunch on weekends. The space itself is a very new look for Kelowna and aims to evoke a sense of 1940’s Miami/Havana scene, with floral and geometric inspired wallpapers, a white marble quartz-top bar and a contrast of light to dark semi-secluded dining space. Chef Mike Wilkins will implement Shaften’s vision for the food menu while Mia Papodopoulos will be leading the beverage program with the help of Jared Schmidt. Open seven days a week. Murray Bye is the new chief operating officer at FH&P Lawyers LLP, 400-275 Lawrence Ave. Murray will assume the daily operations and strategic direction of the firm in conjunction with managing partner Dylan Switzer. Murray has over 30 years leadership experience in financial reporting, business advisory, accounting and consulting. He is currently the CEO of Piscine Energetics Inc., a company specializ- Straight From ing in the producDeHart tion of sustainable premium fish feed. MAXINE Previously, Mur- DEHART ray was the CEO of Crowe MacKay LLP. Wink i Wear Optical Boutique has expanded and taken on a new name, Wink i Wear Optometry. Owner Laura Draycott, who opened the boutique in 2013, has partnered with Dr. Tim Degelman and relocated to a bigger and brighter location at 106-3200 Richter St., beside Save-On-Foods in the Pandosy Village. Relocating from Saskatchewan, Dr. Degelman has over 26 years of optometric experience. Wink i Wear now offers full service eye care and comprehensive eye exams with modern optometric
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Bike stolen after falling off vehicle Jen Zielinski Black Press Media
Kelowna RCMP are on the hunt for the person who picked up a rather expensive item off of Highway 97, last Thursday. Police were contacted by a woman who said she was driving on the highway about 7:45 p.m. on June 13, when her bike
fell off the back of her moving vehicle at the intersection of Harvey Avenue and Pandosy Street. According to a witness at the scene, another motorist stopped their vehicle, scooped the $4,000 bike and drove away. RCMP continue to inves-
tigate, as they continue their search for the woman’s white and turquoise 21 speed Cannondale bike, bearing Serial Number GM73935. Anyone with any additional information is asked to contact Cst. Robyn Boffy of the Kelowna RCMP at 250-7623300.
Woman shaken in collision David Venn Capital News Staff
A woman was shaken up after a minor collision at the corner of Highway 97 and Leckie Road Sunday. A white van collided with a white truck in the northbound lane on Highway 97 around noon. The minor accident resulted in minimal damage to the vehicles and the woman, a passenger in the truck, was tended to by para- A collision on Highway 97 at Leckie Road Sunday resulted in a woman treated at the scene for minor injuries. (David Venn - Capital News) medics at the scene.
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Westbank First Nation and the City of Kelowna representatives gathered Friday to unveil a monument of the historic syilx Chief Charlie swkn’cut in Kelowna. The monument was initially commissioned by WFN in 2012. It is located outside the Kelonwa Tourist Centre on the downtown lakeshore. Crystal Przybille, the artist who created the monument, also created the monument of Father Pandosy. Swkn’cut’s chieftainship
correlates with the arrival of Pandosy, who came to the Okanagan in poor health, fleeing American mercenaries, and was nursed back to health by the syilx people. WFN Chief Roxanne Lindley spoke of the resiliency of syilx people and said she was was proud to share the pre-contact history of the Okanagan with everyone in attendance. “Syilx people were a self-sufficient and self-governing people prior to contact with settlers,” she said. “We are very proud of our
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KF Aerospace has unveiled plans to build a $25-million exhibition hall and conference centre scheduled to break ground on the company’s 50th anniversary. The 50,000 squarefoot KF Aerospace Centre for Excellencewill be built across from the Kelowna International Airport, to both offer training and career development opportunities and celebrate the country’s aviation industry. “KF Aerospace has a long and proud history as a leader in the aviation industry in Canada,” YLW airport director Sam Samaddar said. “This spectacular new facility in Kelowna will not only celebrate the rich aviation history of the Okanagan but will work with education facilities to ensure that we continue to innovate by providing hands-on, technology-driven education and solutions for the demand of aerospace jobs in the future.” The Centre for Excellence will include a museum, aircraft hangers, conference suites, classrooms, a cafeteria and an airfield viewing gallery. Some 15,000 squarefeet of training space will also be dedicated to the aircraft maintenance engineering programs offered by Okanagan College. Okanagan College president Jim Hamilton said the new Centre for Excellence will further the impact that KF Aerospace has on its industry. “Okanagan College is proud to be a part of this exciting plan,” he said. “KF has been a tremendous partner and a force behind building the aero-
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Lingering Elbow Injury? Shockwave Therapy Cleared Scar Tissue on Okanagan Sun Athlete (and may do the same for you!) Nick W., Quarterback with the become chronic around 2-3 months Okanagan Sun, had this to say about at which time that scar tissue occurs. his experience with Shockwave This scar tissue or adhesions involve Therapy at Glenmore Chiropractic: muscle fibers “gluing” to one another I have been having on-going elbow until the muscle may ultimately pain that’s been affecting me with become dysfunctional to the point Football and just that even simple everyday life such tasks irritate the as work. I had muscle. tried quite a few This brings us different treatments back to why over a long period Shockwave of time but nothing Therapy works compares to the when other results I received treatments do from Shock Wave. not. Shockwave Compared to how Therapy breaks I was feeling at the up scar tissue start of my football and adhesions. season I would say This in turn I had about a 90% restores the success rate after function of my treatments. I the muscle would definitely and promotes recommend Shock One of Canada’s Most Experienced new blood Wave therapy not Shockwave Therapists vessel growth, just to an athlete stimulating but anyone! The faster healing. staff at Glenmore A d d i t i o n a l l y, Chiropractic it stimulates were amazing as production, increases well! They made it really easy to collagen book appointments and answered oxygen to the injured tissue, and any question I had. Definitely a creates firmer, stronger muscle fiber. place I would go back to. - Nick W., If you have been suffering from Quarterback with the Okanagan Sun. golfer’s elbow, tennis elbow, carpel After 8 years of treating with tunnel syndrome or another painful Shockwave Therapy I can say that arm injury, you know how debilitating 85% of my patients who have found these conditions can be. Sometimes relief with Shockwave Therapy sought the chronic pain is accompanied by other therapies first without success. a shaking hand or a reduction in So why is Shockwave Therapy grip strength, making simple tasks working when other treatments are such as holding a cup of coffee very not? The answer revolves around difficult. Numbness or tingling may what has happened to the tissue also be present. Sometimes the pain inside your injury; the reason why and limited mobility extends up to your injury persists. Whether your the shoulder and down to the wrist, injury occurred from a trauma or making it challenging to know where from repetitive activity, both causes the source of the injury is. Whether create microtears in the muscle. the exact cause and source of your The body has only one answer for injury is known or unknown, and this, and that is to create scar tissue. whether or not you have already tried Scar tissue is weak, inflexible, prone other therapies with limited success, to re-injury and attaches to other I encourage you to come in for a free healthy tissues creating an unwanted consultation. I can help identify the bridge called an adhesion. Once exact site of the injury and determine this happens, any use of the muscle if Shockwave Therapy is likely to causes friction, heat and tension in help. If you have chronic pain and/or the muscle, which limits the amount of oxygen entering the injury and limited mobility, do not give up hope. creates even more scar tissue. Your Remember, most of my patients who body enters a cycle of inflammation, have found success with Shockwave pain and scar tissue formation that it Therapy had tried other therapies first without improvement. cannot get out of. Therapies most of us try are aimed at Dr. Harris is very experienced reducing inflammation, decreasing in ESWT (Shockwave Therapy), swelling, and temporarily reducing having performed over 15,000 pain. If the injury was fresh from Shockwave treatments. Results are a trauma, this may be appropriate. often experienced within a couple of If, however, it is not a brand new visits and the treatment is covered by injury, or if is due to repetitive many insurance companies. Call 250activity or seems to have come out 763-3580 to book a free consultation of nowhere, it likely now has scar or view Dr. Harris’ You Tube video tissue embedded. Also remember “Shockwave Therapy Kelowna” or go that while ice or braces provide to www.glenmorechiro.com and click temporary relief, these conditions “Testimonials”.
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all get together, even though we can behave very differently when we are with other people or functioning in our regular work or home lives. Dynamics and family patterns are sure to emerge as siblings face the need to come together more intimately when the declining health of one or both parents is surfacing. It helps to check in with yourself with a sense of inquiry to see if you are feeling yourself being pulled into an old pattern of behaviour that you played out in the family mobile and question what reactions that may be triggering. Whatever the old roles were, it serves you to re-examine them now. Don’t look to one sibling to be the peacemaker or fill the role of an ailing parent. It helps if everyone takes responsibility for being mature and the platform of family caregiving is the perfect motivator.
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Creating a way to keep the lines of communication open takes some work and strong intention. Keep in mind that parents can often tell their kids different things about how they are doing. Trying to keep everyone on the same page takes each person recognizing that it is Engaging in time to let go of old ways Aging and be committed to honest, direct communication and Marjorie understanding of how the Horne vulnerability of aging and loss can affect a parent’s behavior. This commitment can only start with each sibling’s desire to do it differently and then get on the train and participate fully with this clear intention. Four women, somewhat mature but still influenced by the past, had to each bring this commitment to our own family journey of caregiving first of our father and then our mother. It took letting go of our defenses and being willing to listen, listen and then listen some more.
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Homeless support service loses office space Capital News Staff
Inn From The Cold Kelowna has shut down its office after 20 years serving the homeless in the city. “It is with much regret that we feel we have no choice at this time but to close the society’s office,” said treasurer Kim Froom. “We have been blessed to work with an amazing
group of staff who are incredibly skilled and compassionate in their support of the homeless and who have continued to remain loyal to the Inn and what it stands for, despite the challenges we’ve faced over the past couple of years.” The not-for-profit society officially closed its doors June 21. In January, the Inn From The Cold emer-
gency shelter on Sutherland Ave. saw its lease terminated when the building was sold for redevelopment. Inn From The Cold continued to search for a new space and sought assistance from the community, local businesses, the provincial and municipal governments, but alternative arrangements were not found. Unlike other emergency shelters, it wanted
to lease space in light commercial or industrial-zoned areas away from the downtown core. The organization’s “good neighbour” protocols demonstrated its ability to minimize the impact on the surrounding community, Froom noted. She said the Inn From the Cold board of directors now plan to re-evaluate the society’s values, purpose and future direction.
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Extreme forest fires, urban flooding and severe storms make frequent headlines across Canada as these events become more prominent and destructive. So, over the past year, researchers from the University of British Columbia and the University of Waterloo worked with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to conduct a survey studying municipal adaptation planning across Canada. Building on results from a similar survey in 2012, the research team found that over the past 10 years,
above-average rain and snowfall and more severe storms are the most frequent weather events experienced by local governments. “Canada’s economic well being depends on adapting vital infrastructure to this new reality,” said Kevin Hanna, director of the Centre for Environmental Assessment Research, in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences at UBC’s Okanagan campus, and one of the project’s leaders. “These effects are driving important planning discussions and decisions about how to adapt to a changing climate.
More than half of local governments surveyed have initiated formal adaptation planning discussions in their community within the last four years.” Estimated to cost Canadian communities $5 billion a year by 2020, the price-tag of responding to climate change impacts could grow to $43 billion a year by 2050, and the new research suggests the response requires involvement from all levels of government, industry and the public. “Canada’s municipalities influence half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Critical physical and natural infrastructure are especially susceptible to changes in the climate,” said Mark Seasons, professor with the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo. “All levels of government, industry and the public must work together to reduce emissions and respond to climate impacts.” The 2018 Climate Change Adaptation Survey of Canadian Municipalities ran from January to April 2018, and was open to all local governments in Canada. Other key findings from the survey include:
• Municipal engineering and public works, planning and traditional departments such as emergency management and public safety play an increasingly important role in adaptation planning. • Results show that adaptation planning is more often undertaken on an as-needed basis, such as for infrastructure projects or risk assessments, than as part of a broader plan or strategy. • Very few local governments have one or more full-time staff dedicated to adaptation planning or related initiatives. • Local governments
are increasingly using climate change and other data to make adaptation-related decisions. • The Federation of Canadian Municipalities, provincial and territorial governments, and the federal government are seen as the main sources for municipal adaptation planning and implementation funding, and for information and training resources that support adaptation. “Responding to these changes will be expensive across the country,” said Seasons. “The economic benefits of taking action now, rather than later—or at all—are
becoming clearer every day.” The survey indicates local governments see the connections between adaptation planning and emergency management and disaster response, however, they struggle to take action because of a lack of human and financial resources. “The shortage of dedicated human resources for adaptation planning is not a new issue and may, in large part, explain the degree to which planning takes place within local governments,” said Troy McMillan, research associate with the Centre for Environmental As-
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The summer solstice is here and that marks the return of West Kelowna’s Music in the Park. The weekly concerts will take over Annette Beaudreau Amphitheatre with both local and national
artists performing every genre—rock, country, soul and pop. Local party-based band The Insiders kicks off Music in the Park on June 28 along side opening act J.S. Garcia Band and upand-comer Anika Ellis.
Other feature artists during July are Nuela Charles, who won the Western Canadian Music Artist Award for Urban Artist of the Year, and Crystal Shawanda, who won Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the 2013 Juno
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ZWILLING® 4-Stage Pull-Through Sharpener MSRP $100 60% Off 32602-001 99 +SAVE THE TAX
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ZWILLING® Aberdeen 20pc Flatware Set MSRP $180 67% Off 07146-320 99 +SAVE THE TAX
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GRAND OPENING JUNE 27 ZWILLING® Orchard Park Shopping Centre, 2271 Harvey Ave, Kelowna BC www.zwilling.ca Offers apply to ZWILLING J.A. Henckels Orchard Park Shopping Centre in-store only purchases; before taxes; may not be redeemed on past purchases; limited quantities; some exclusions may apply; not valid with use of promotional codes or other discounts. Sale valid June 27 - July 1, 2019 or while supplies last.
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