Naturists to present their side in Three Mile Beach controversy
PENTICTON – Penticton City Council will be revisiting a contentious issue this evening.
Penticton City council will receive a report from staff suggesting options for resolving the issue of nudity at Three Mile Beach at tonight’s council meeting, March 2.
Staff will be presenting 10 potential avenues for council to pursue, including amendments to the city’s parks bylaw to include provisions to regulate and levy fines for public nudity, investigating ways to control clothing optional uses for all or a portion of Three Mile Beach, encouraging clothing optional behaviour away from the beach, or doing nothing at all.
Council first dealt with the issue at the Feb. 2 meeting of council, when Three Mile Road property owner Cary Pinkowski addressed council, calling for council to get tough on bylaw enforcement regarding public nudity at the beach.
At tonight’s meeting, Penticton naturist Kevin Proteau will also address council to present his case for allowing nude sunbathing to continue at the beach. Accompanying his request for a delegation, Proteau included as attachments to the meeting’s agenda letters of support from Nicky Hoffman of the The Naturist Society, Shirley Mason and Seth Paronick of Beaches Foundation Institute, and other naturist groups.
Proteau’s message to the board also attempts to solicit support for clothing optional beaches from a tourism perspective, including an outline of economic benefits generated at Haulover Beach Park, a designated clothing optional beach in Florida.
Also contained in tonight’s council meeting package is a letter from a Penticton law firm, written on behalf of property owners in the Three Mile Road area, requesting council impose a bylaw "allowing signed postings on Three Mile Beach to reflect that nudity is prohibited and any and all offenders would be subject to a minimum of a $100 fine per occurrence or some other amount that is reasonable.”
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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let ME guess Aaron? you’re single?, likely unemployed? or unemployable? you rent….have NEVER owned a home? & likely never will….NEVER been involved with any CIVIC organization….
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Did YOU want To post YOUR address so all the GEAR BOXES in the Okanagan CAN STRUT THEIR STUFF on YOUR FRONT LAWN? Take the Initiative to become informed by LIVE STREAMING the PENTICTON CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS and find out the FACTS behind all this! THEY ARE HURTING PEOPLE….PROPERTY VALUES HAVE DROPPED IN THE AREA; people are performing sexually in the bushes where children once played.There are used condomns, crapped on toiletpaper, cigarette butts and booze containers, left behing, barried very shallowly in the sand.
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Nudism is natural and healthy. Are you Single and a Nudist?Meeting nudists? Try Nudist Dating to give yourself a better chance by meeting nudist singles who enjoys the same nudist lifestyle that you do!
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mr.proteau and friends didn’t bring their a game or VIDEO PRESENTATIONwith them( a least the NO HOW to run it)to the City Council Meeting that was live streamed tonite. Mr. PROTEAU sounded like DONCHERRY on coaches corner…A COMPLETE DOG’S BREAKFAST!
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Mr. Proteau approached Me a my place of business a couple of years ago , attempting to pursued me to buy advertisingspace in a calendar he was producing.I gave him some pertain ate information but he needed to borrow my pen because he failed to bring one to the meeting…enough said!
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