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Cory Labrecque is now in the top job at the District of Peachland. He held several positions with the town before becoming chief administrative officer last month.
New Peachland chief administrative officer has community roots
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By Jeff McDonald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
he old saying is, you can’t go home again. But new District of Peachland Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Cory Labrecque likely wouldn’t agree. Labrecque, who moved into the top job at the district last month, first came to Peachland at age 14 when his family moved here from Saskatoon. He went to high school at Mount Boucherie in West Kelowna.
“Here’s a tidbit for you. In high school I was part of the Peachland Ambassadors the same year as West Kelowna fire chief Jason Brolund,” he chuckled, referring to the long-established Peachland program for young leaders. The road from and back to Peachland was a long and winding one for Labrecque. Armed with a degree in planning and business from UBCO and qualified as a Registered Professional Planner but with few jobs in the Okanagan, he headed to the city of Leduc, Alberta. He began as an intern in
2009 and spent ten years working up to manager of long-range planning. “That was a very interesting job in a city that had high growth pressure,” said Labrecque. But the Okanagan was calling, and Labrecque and his wife wanted their daughter to spend
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more time with his parents, so they moved back home to Peachland in 2019. He spent two years as a planner with the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen in Penticton before joining the District SEE LABRECQUE PAGE 7