Main Street in Summerland at night. Dan Walton

Summerlanders will spend another night without power

Summerlanders have to prepare for a night with no power as part of another planned outage.

The next blackout is expected to last for seven hours beginning at 11 p.m. Friday, April 29, according to the District of Summerland.

The same reason has been given for the upcoming outage. Fortis B.C. is upgrading the transmission system.

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Planned outages took place during the similar timeframes last year on Oct. 15 and Oct. 22. During the evening of Oct. 15, there were two separate incidents of thieves attempting to steal trailers. Mailboxes were also broken into that night.

A group of citizens responded by patrolling the town on the night of Oct. 22.

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Dan Walton

Before joining the ranks of InfoTel, Dan’s byline could be found in newspapers in Penticton, Peachland and Oliver. Prior to his arrival in the South Okanagan, he first sharpened his chops as a reporter at a radio station in Brighton, Ontario, and then newspapers in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, and Invermere B.C.
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