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The week of September 12, 2025
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WELCOME BACK
TURNER PARK OFFICIALLY OPENED No more on again, off again restrictions
Soccer players Fox Jenkins, Walker Lin, and Milo Tassone ham it up at a Turner Park mural. Martha McKenzie photo
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By Keith Fielding
t has been a roller coaster ride getting here but Turner Park is all ours and ready to welcome us back. And how welcoming it is. In addition to a ball park and soccer field, attractions now include beautiful murals, playground equipment, a park space with trails, picnic tables, benches, landscaping, and shaded ar-
eas, as well as renovated washrooms and improved parking. The playground equipment was the choice of students at Peachland Elementary School, and the mural was created by artists Wayne Power, Alex Morrison, Shelley Sweeny, Nichole Tutt and children and youth from the community.
The right to access Turner Park has often been fraught with uncertainty. Back in 1976 School District 23 purchased the site from the Turner family for possible future use as a school. Later, the district acquired the right to use the land as a park, provided the school did not want to build on it or sell it. In 2006 the School District did
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want to sell and put the property up for sale. The District made an offer to purchase but it was declined by the Board of Trustees, who preferred an offer from a private developer who planned to use it for a housing development. In 2020 after a period of reSEE TURNER PARK PAGE 7
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