Former City of Penticton Chief Administrative Officer Annette Antoniak served her last day with the city on Monday. She starts a new position with the Regional Recreation Corporation of Wood Buffalo on April 6. Photographer: Steve Arstad

Former Penticton city manager is Alberta bound

PENTICTON — Monday night’s council meeting was the last one for departing Penticton Chief Administrative Officer Annette Antoniak, after announcing her intention to leave the city earlier this month.

A recent press release issued by the Regional Recreation Corporation of Wood Buffalo in Fort McMurray announced Antoniak’s appointment as Chief Executive Officer.

The release said Antoniak would bring “an impressive set of skills and experience to the role, including her tenure as Executive Vice President of Canada Place Corporation, President and CEO of the Pacific National Exhibition and President and CEO of the British Columbia Olympic and Paralympic Games Secretariat.”

Antoniak served the city as CAO since 2010, signing on in time to carry out the recommendations of a recently completed core service review. Prior to that, she spent approximately one year working as Economic Development Officer for Electoral Area “D” of the Regional District Okanagan Similkameen.

Antoniak is slated to begin her new position April 6.

To contact the reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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  1. Nick Bloomfield

    Hope this does not cost the taxpayers of Penticton too much in a severance package

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Steve Arstad

I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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