Burial

Cost to rest in peace set to rise in Kelowna

KELOWNA - Prices for interment should begin to rise next year at the Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery as part of a plan to ensure its long-term viability. “I would look to 2016 for a price increase if council agrees to it,” cemetery manager David Gatzke says. The increase would be part of a series of...

Grave concerns lead city to cemetery master plan

KELOWNA - The first phase of a 25-year plan to ensure the eternal viability of Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery, the municipally-owned cemetery, begins this year giving new meaning to the phrase rest in peace. With an aging infrastructure, changing consumer trends and limited space, cemetery manager David Gatzke says the time was right for a...

Toilets will no longer stand above ancestral burial site

PENTICTON - The province is working with the Osoyoos Indian Band on an agreement to protect an ancestral burial site found in Haynes Point Provincial Park last month — but the park will close indefinitely starting this fall. Human remains were found inside the park April 29 and an agreement between the province and the...