Penticton news
Petition to stop trapping going to Penticton council
PENTICTON - One of the oldest animal protection groups in Canada is taking aim at Penticton city council in an attempt to restrict leg-hold traps within city limits. A cat was found in January with a leg badly mangled as the result of being caught in a leg-hold trap. The incident has prompted The Association...
B.C. Fruit Growers Association to choose a president this weekend
PENTICTON - Kelowna's Fred Steele, president of the B.C. Fruit Growers' Association, will find out if he'll remain at the helm for a second term when he goes head-to-head with Vernon's Jeet Dukhia at the annual convention in Penticton this weekend. Dukhia was the association president in 2013, prior to Steele's term, so each candidate...
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...
News software lost in Sportsplex theft
PENTICTON - The news has stopped temporarily, but the music plays on at SO Country Internet radio. A break-in at the Adidas Sportsplex in Penticton on the weekend cost well-known Internet radio broadcaster Dennis Walker his news software program. Early Sunday morning, Feb. 15, Walker was at his studio, which is set up in the...
Fair promotes healthy lifestyles
PENTICTON - The Okanagan-Similkameen Healthy Living Fair Society plays host to an expansive healthy living forum, just in time for spring. On Saturday, March 4, the Okanagan-Similkameen Healthy Living Fair returns to the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre. The fair showcases organizations offering health related resources, products and services that support and promote a healthy...
Stolen ATVs lead RCMP to men from Osoyoos and Kamloops
OSOYOOS - Two men will face charges following the theft of two ATVs and the attempted theft of a UTV as well as an attempted break and enter in the Anarchist Mountain area between Feb. 11 to 14. A utility trailer was also taken from 62 Avenue according to an RCMP media release. They say...
Keremeos Grist Mill operator gets renewed lease
PENTICTON - After a long wait, the present operator of the Keremeos Grist Mill Historic site can get on with the business of operating the property. Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson announced a lease offering to Mathieson Heritage Services for operation of the Keremeos Grist Mill on Feb.16. Mathieson...
Penticton group posts Lyme Sucks Challenge video
PENTICTON - A Penticton group has put out a YouTube video with a twist on last summer’s “Ice Bucket Challenge” in an attempt to raise awareness about Lyme Disease. The Penticton B.C. and Area Lyme Group recently put together the video as part of the “Lyme Sucks Challenge,” which started last October. Video producer Gary...
UPDATE: Missing woman found
MERRITT - The missing woman the Upper Nicola Band and Okanagan Indian Band were in search for has been located. Before she was found, Annie Joe Gottfriedson, 20, of the Upper Nicola Band was last seen Feb. 16 at noon near Nicola Street in Merritt. “Our concerns run deep for Annie Jo and her family,”...
Weather records fall in Kelowna and Penticton
KAMLOOPS, VERNON FALL SHORT THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - It was definitely a spring-like weekend and there are several new high temperature records to show for it. In Kelowna the mercury blasted past the previous record, 11.1 Celsius set in 1974, to a balmy 12.8 C on Saturday while temperatures Sunday reached the previous record of 10 C...
This great Canadian rock band to make second appearance at Peachfest
PENTICTON - Penticton will get another opportunity to rock to one of Canada’s best known bands this summer. The Penticton Peach Festival welcomes 54-40 as the band returns to Peach City again in 2015. Peachfest Entertainment Director Bill Kolter said people have been asking for a return engagement by the group since their appearance in...
Where to find Penticton’s own coffee shop troubadour
PENTICTON - There’s a little extra ambience for patrons of Blendz Coffee Shop in downtown Penticton, thanks to one of its regular customers. Colin Scott frequents the popular coffee stop on an almost daily basis, guitar in hand. After picking up his daily caffeine dose, Scott picks a perch and strums away on his guitar,...
Danger in the backcountry; avalanche warning issued
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – The unseasonably warm weather this week has the experts at Avalanche Canada warning backcountry enthusiasts about the risk of snow slides. There have been a number of recent reports of large avalanches in the mountains across the Southern Interior, including the South Columbia, Kootenay-Boundary, Purcells, South Rockies, Lizard Range and Flathead regions, avalanche...
Regional directors ponder prospect of establishing an economic development service
PENTICTON - A perennial request for grant money has one regional director advocating a policy change. West Bench director Michael Brydon introduced a director’s motion to reactivate a regional economic development service at the regional district board meeting last week. The motion came about following a meeting in which Okanagan Film Commission Commissioner Jon Summerland...
School board seeking partner input over busing, school calendar
PENTICTON - School District 67 is seeking partner input over the dual issues of too many “courtesy" riders on the bus, and how to manage class time next year. A review of bus routes in School District 67 appears imminent after the school board recently found evidence that one third of the district’s school bus...