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Joanne layhPeachland View

Peachland homeown-ers can expect a 2.8 per cent tax increase in their municipal property taxes this year, according to the 2013 fi nancial plan bylaw that is likely to be adopted next week.

Overall, the average single family dwelling will be assessed a 4.5 per cent tax increase, when taxes to other governments are taken into consideration, including Okanagan Re-gional Library, RDCO, Central Okanagan Re-gional Hospital District, School District 23, and the Municipal Finance Author-ity.

The 2.8 per cent munici-pal tax increase includes an increase in general mu-nicipal property taxes in

addition to increases in policing costs.

2013 is the fi rst full year the district will directly fund policing services. This year Peachland will pay a total of $606,655 in policing costs. Back in 2011 policing costs were $268,743.

The dramatic increase in policing costs was a result of Peachland’s population exceeding 5,000 in the 2011 census. The popula-tion increase means that the district is now assessed policing costs at a much higher rate and is also obligated to fund other re-lated expenses, including one RCMP support staff member and a portion of prisoner expenses.

The increased cost of policing will result in an estimated $26.13 tax increase for the average single family dwelling.

According to the fi nancial plan, resi-dential taxes will total $3,618,536 (92.6 per cent of taxes) while com-mercial/business taxes will total $191,641 (4.9 per cent of taxes).

For the second year in a row, Peachland council ap-proved a reduction in the business tax multiplier to decrease the tax burden on business owners by increasing taxation to utili-ties. The business tax rate multiplier deceased from 1.95 to 1.9 in 2013. In 2012 it decreased from 2.0 to 1.95.

As a result, the utility tax multiplier has increased, meaning reduced business taxes have no impact on the residential tax assess-ment.

This year the responsi-bility for transit services was transferred from the

regional district to Peach-land, resulting in decreased taxes to the RDCO and increased taxes to the District of Peachland. The cost of transit services is estimated to be $120,000, which includes $8,000 for increased transit service to be implemented later this year.

Capital expenditures projects for 2013 total $1,571,390.

The proposed budget, which received three read-ings at this week’s council meeting, also included the following key capital ex-penditures:• Road rehabilitations program (paving/repaving, crack sealing, and repair-ing) - $141,200;• Digital driver feedback sign (subject to funding from ICBC) - $10,000;• Computer aided dis-patch (for fi re department)

- $10,680;• WASP interface fi re pro-tection system - $24,700;• Walkway from Pondero-sa to Clements - $60,000;• Implementation of sidewalk master plan, including sidewalk con-struction - $377,000 (funded by federal gas tax funds available for sustain-able projects);• Priority 3 Ponderosa water interconnect – Glad-stone to Ponderosa Drive - $1,541,038 (funded by the Ponderosa develop-ment); and• Primary school improve-ments $339,287 (funded by grants from the provin-cial community recreation fund and the federal en-abling accessibility fund).

The 2013 fi nancial plan, tax rates, and parcel tax bylaws are expected to be adopted at a special coun-cil meeting on April 30.

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Thanks to all who came out to the 20th Annual Business Expo and congratulations to all our door prize winners!

Christine Millar, Dennis Bawdry, Loretta Robinson, Maurita Graham and Peter Price all won sets of braided water supply hoses, Richard Smith and Madeleine Patterson both won water sensors, Bob Cox won a jumpstart compressor, Nancy Stadnick won a emergency car kit and Judy McCrea won a wine basket! (Some of our winners are shown here)

We would like to thank Total Restoration, ABK Restoration, Stutters Restoration and J. Wright Plumbing for donating some of the door prizes and we also thank all of the insurance companies that we represent, who donated many of our fun and useful give aways. Finally, a big thank you to the tireless Chamber sta� and volunteers who put this expo on each year!

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RunneRs LeAVe the stARtInG LIne of the 10K portion of the Peachland Spring 10K and Half Marathon at Beach Ave on Sunday. See page 10 for more photos.

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What do you think needs to be done to bring more jobs to the area?

The best thing you can do is have a strong econ-omy and that’s what this party is for is a strong econ-omy. That’s what brings the jobs … my attitude is, the stronger the economy is, the better it is for everyone. In Peachland, like our-selves in Penticton and in Summerland, we are quite tourist oriented. We have these peaks and lulls and being in retail I’ve lived with

that my whole life … You don’t have a lot of industri-al land here, you don’t have a lot of commercial area, you’re refined with a com-mercial strip. You just do what you can do to make sure the business blossoms and then hopefully you can infill with that themselves. As they get busier you re-quire more people.

What do you think the province can do to help Peachland address is-sues with Highway 97

coming through town?My understanding is it

would be between Peach-land and the province on what direction they want to take. I had heard that there was a corridor that was tentatively being held above Peachland to direct the traffic around it coming from Penticton. Were that to happen it would be a detriment. It’s one thing to be a destination and Peach-land is becoming more and more of a destination. Your waterfront area along here

is spectacular as we’re very fortunate to be along the lake. But when you pull that traffic out of the area within the close proximity, it’s difficult for communi-ties. The province is going to have to work with Peach-land for this highway. I know they want to four-lane it and reduce some of that constriction … I think the province has shown that with the new traffic signals over here that they do want to get involved in the community and make sure that the community is able to divert some of that traffic off and it’s been spec-tacular since that’s been put into place because it gives you that point of access into Peachland not only in your south corridor but in your north corridor to bring people down to your waterfront and down to the business area … I don’t think a bypass is in any-body’s interest. I saw what happened in Penticton. Highway 3 used to come right through the down-town corridor of Penticton and when the bypass went into Penticton and being a retailer from there and having family businesses, because we had more than one on Main Street, right away there was a substan-tial drop in traffic. Traffic is customers. Traffic is people. Traffic is people being able to come into your commu-nity … In my opinion, the highway should stay where it’s at. I think it should be worked through with the province and you need the support of the both the province and the citizens to make sure it’s going to work because it is a two-way street, right? You can’t have it both ways.

What do you think needs to be done to move affordable seniors hous-ing initiatives to fruition

in Peachland? It’s important we have

it. I look at my mom. My mom is almost 89 years old. She’s able to live on her own but at some point in time when she’s not she doesn’t want to go to another community. She wants to be in the commu-nity she lived in and has her friends in. I think it’s very important. My understand-ing is we’re very close to a decision from the province … I’ve heard lock, stock and barrel how important it is to Peachland and I’ve said that my number one priority for Peachland is to try and make sure that

transpires … it has been a promise from the party to try and get that here.

What can the prov-ince do to keep business strong in B.C.?

When you have a strong economy you have a strong business. I’m a well-known financial conservative. I’m a well-known fiscally re-sponsible individual and I’m taking that to the prov-ince … The last thing in the world you want is that debt structure hanging over your head. So the quicker you can get debt under control and get the economy going and make sure everybody

CONNECT WITH THE CANDIDATESAll Candidates Forum: Wednesday, May 1 at 6:30 p.m., Peachland Community CentreModerated by Shayn Moritz

LiberalDan Ashton778-476-0911dan.ashton@bcliberals.comwww.electdanashton.comfacebook.com/electdanashtontwitter: @electdanashton22-5500 Clements Crescent, Peachland, V0H 1X0

BC First Doug Maxwell250-490-5041 or [email protected]/pages/Doug-Maxwell-BC-First/300239540109784381 Norton Street, Penticton, B.C., V2A 4H9

NDPRichard Cannings778-476-1111richard.cannings@bcndp.cawww.richardcannings.bcndp.cafacebook.com/richardjcanningstwitter: @canningsndp575 Main Street, Penticton, B.C., V2A 5C6

ConservativeSean [email protected]/seanupshaw23twitter: @seanupshaw1401 Appleridge Rd, Kelowna, B.C., V1W 3A6 (not a campaign office - mailing address only)

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PUBLIC NOTICEATTENTION BUOY OWNERS

The District of Peachland Bylaw Enforcement Staff will be conducting inspections on Okanagan Lake during the month of April. Staff will be in-specting permanent and temporary Buoys anchored along the lake shore-line.

All unmarked Buoys found to be illegally occupying the District foreshore area will be removed by the District and impounded. Please ensure that Buoys are registered with the District and fees paid in full. All Buoys must display current registration numbers.

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Richard Cannings, NDP candidate

What do you think needs to be done to bring more jobs to the area?

I think there are two things. One is there is a real skills shortage in Brit-ish Columbia and I hear from industry and other businesses … they have the jobs but the people ap-plying for them just aren’t qualified. What the NDP proposes is a major invest-ment in people who are looking for jobs, whether they are young people or people who are changing jobs. We’ll have a $100 million grant program to help people get the training they need and that I think would go some way in fill-ing those jobs so we don’t have to bring in foreign workers.

The other thing I think to mention anywhere in the Okanagan is what we really have here that nobody else has to our extent is lifestyle. We really own lifestyle and we should be working on attracting businesses and industries to the Okanagan based on that. There are a lot of industries out there that can be anywhere – I.T. companies, obviously, and we just need to let them know we’re here and what-ever they need in terms of infrastructure we need to build on that … We need to figure out what is stopping industries from coming here and fix that. There is a great program called Ac-celerate Okanagan that is based in Kelowna and also has people working on it in Penticton that are really trying to get young entrepreneurs excited about moving here … I

think it will make a big dif-ference.

What do you think the province can do to help Peachland address is-sues with Highway 97 coming through town?

I know MOT has vari-ous plans that they’ve been working on for 10, 20 years for bypasses go-ing on either sides of the lake. I’m not aware of the current state of those plans … I know when I lived in Naramata they came to Naramata and said, “How would you like Highway 97 to go through Nara-mata?” and people didn’t want that there.

What do you think needs to be done to move affordable seniors hous-ing initiatives to fruition in Peachland?

The NDP take a serious view of senior’s residences in general, both in terms of the need for new ones and the management of the ones we do have … 20 years ago affordable se-niors housing tended to be done by local service clubs and that sort of thing and that’s changed. There are a lot more for profit ones and some of them have had some difficulties so we want to see better regula-tion of those facilities but we’d also like to facilitate in any way the construction of new ones … You have seniors in these small com-munities. They may have lived there all their life and they don’t want to go to Kelowna or Penticton be-cause that’s the only place to go. They’d rather stay in

their own community and I think it’s important that we try to work toward that.

What can the prov-ince do to keep business strong in B.C.?

The main difference be-tween the Liberals and the NDP would be that we want to strengthen the economy from the bottom up. We want to invest in people so they have skills, apprenticeships, post-sec-ondary education. 80 per cent of the jobs that are go-ing to be created in British Columbia over the next de-cade will require that sort of level of education and skills training and the Liber-als have been cutting back in those areas. We want to invest more in those areas to ensure that we have the people with the skills that businesses need.

What sort of things do you think could be done provincially to further support the local arts community in a sustain-able way?

There is funding for the arts and the NDP believes that a real vibrant arts com-munity is important in any community. It’s important not just for the local resi-dents, but also attracting others. It’s part of that whole lifestyle mix. One of the things that people look at when they’re looking to move or relocate, if they have the choice of building their business anywhere, is the local arts community, whether it means having

See RICHARD CANNINGS on page 5


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Mayor Keith Fielding Special to the Peachland View

In 2008, the District of Peachland, along with many other B.C. municipalities and regional districts (178 at last count) signed-on to the B.C. Climate Action Charter. In doing so, the sig-natories indicated that they shared with the province an understanding that:• A scientific consensus has developed that the release into the atmosphere of hu-man caused greenhouse gases (GHG’s), including carbon dioxide, methane and other GHG emissions, is affecting the Earth’s cli-mate; • The evidence of global warming is unequivocal and the effects of climate change are evident across

British Columbia;• Reducing GHG emis-sions will generate environmental and health benefits for individuals, families, and communities;• Climate change and re-ducing GHG emissions are issues of importance to Brit-ish Columbians;• Governments urgently need to implement effective measures to reduce GHG emissions and anticipate and prepare for climate change impacts;• Protecting the environ-ment can be done in ways that promote economic prosperity; and• It is important to take ac-tion and to work together to share best practices, to reduce GHG emissions and address the impacts of cli-mate change.

The Climate Action

Charter recognizes that municipalities are critical partners in the effort to reduce GHG emissions be-cause of their role in land use planning, their ability to promote green building design, invest in sustainable transit and transportation options, adopt appropriate technology for infrastruc-ture development, manage waste responsibly, promote energy reduction strategies and in some cases invest in clean energy generation.

The District of Peachland can point to many initiatives that it has undertaken in pur-suit of its GHG reduction goals including an annual energy audit to track energy consumption and the GHG emissions generated by mu-nicipal buildings and fleet; policies to promote green buildings in future develop-

ments; and a Community Energy and Emissions Plan (CEEP) setting out a long term strategy.

Of particular interest to many readers will be the “Peachland Renewable En-ergy Opportunities Study” presented to council this week at the Committee of the Whole meeting. Under-taken by energy consultants Morrison Hershfield in collaboration with JDQ Engineering and the Community Energy As-sociation, this remarkable report analyzes the viability of different approaches for generation of renewable energy in Peachland assess-ing for each approach the technological viability, the financial viability, and the environmental impact. Six technologies are explored: geo-exchange, solar ther-

mal, biomass, wind, solar photo voltaic, and run of the river hydro generation.

Because the viability of these technologies is affected by the scale of application, the report presents its analy-sis for different scenarios. This allows, for example, a comparison between geo-thermal energy production for a cluster of buildings compared to its viability for a single family home.

Project viability for any scenario depends on the data used and the assump-tions being made. This is particularly true in the case of run of the river hydro power generation, account-ing for yet to be explored differences between the current report and an ear-lier study showing a more optimistic outlook for this technology. This remains an

area for further review.The Peachland renew-

able energy opportunities study is a lengthy and com-plex report. However, it has an easy to read executive summary, and the entire document is available on the District of Peachland website www.peachland.ca, accessible from a promi-nently displayed link.

This report, which was funded by a gas tax grant at no cost to the town, will be a great resource for the district, for developers, and for individual homeown-ers interested in domestic, renewable energy opportu-nities.

I am always interested to receive and respond to readers’ comments and questions and can be reached by email at [email protected].

From the Mayor’s Desk: The greenhouse gas challenge

Open letter to candidates running for election to the BC Legislature:

Firstly we congratulate you for run-ning for public office. As a candidate, the Highway 97 Task Force Society has a question for you regarding your po-sition about the four-lane expansion of Highway 97 through our around Peachland.

The Highway 97 Task Force Society is a registered society with over 500 members. This exceeds 25 per cent of the voting age population of Peach-land. Our concern is the planned widening of Highway 97 through Peachland.

Such a widening of the highway through our small town would have devastating consequences to the small urban fabric of Peachland. The town council of Peachland is on record that a bypass is the preferred option, not the widening of the existing roadway through town.

After considerable study and con-sultation with the stakeholders, the task force prepared a comprehensive 36-page document, based on materi-als given to our members by the office of highway planning in Kamloops, of

the then Ministry of Transportation. The study deals with the criteria that the now Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure must use in evaluat-ing a number of options for highway development or expansion. Such a se-ries of options could simply deal with variations to the planned widening of Highway 97 through Peachland.

The task force believes that the route for a bypass should be located above Peachland in the general area shown on plans developed by engineers, who are members of the society. The task force agrees with district council that a route above the town must be one of the options considered by the ministry when it develops plan options for the four-laning of Highway 97 between Greata Ranch and the connector (Highway 97C).

If you are elected, what will you do to ensure that a bypass option around Peachland is given a full and proper study equal to those of the other re-quired options that will be developed by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure?

Terry Tanner, director, Highway 97 Task Force Society, Peachland

Candidates asked for hwy. bypass support

Re: Scott Brison M.P. letter of April 12, “Despite his claims, Albas is raising your taxes”.

I made my living in various countries and never, ever have I experienced a government that did not raise taxes. Mr. Brison is paid by the taxpaying people in Canada. I assume that his salary and pension are covered by a COLA, (Cost

of Living Adjustment, meaning that if inflation has eaten away two or three per cent of his income the COLA will make it up.) That is not a raise. A raise, if any, is in addition to the COLA.

Mr. Brison is part of the problem be-cause his COLA is covered by raising taxes.

Bert Put, Peachland

Accusing MP is a part of the problem

Please think about who you’re electingWith the provincial election just

weeks away, many voters are asking themselves, does it really matter who we elect?

It seems no matter who is elected, its just more of the same. I question many of the candidates running. Do they re-ally want to make a difference or just a difference in their lives?

The gravy train is a tempting ride for those who truly don’t care about the people of British Columbia. Some can-didates will say and promise anything for that ride.

On a recent TV spot, our Premier Christy Clark is asking us to vote for her

“again”. The people of B.C. didn’t vote her in as premier the first time. It was the B.C. Liberal Party who voted her as their new leader and only by a slim margin, which unfortunately gave her the premier’s title. She talks about the 90s (NDP government) when the gov-ernment was big and bloated and failed to control spending. However, under her watch the premier’s office staff has never been bigger and our deficit has grown every year under her guidance.

Please everyone, get out and vote on election day and really think about who you might be electing!

Derek Bunce, Peachland


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is prospering to the best of your ability, that makes a huge difference. That’s what this government is. It’s a free enterprise government.

What sort of things do you think could be done provincially to further support the local arts community in a sustain-able way?

When you have those people involved in your community it makes the quality of life a lot better. Practicality again says there is only so much you can do, but when you work to-gether, the arts community and the province, you can do a lot more things. Un-fortunately there is so much need out there for finan-cial resources. If everybody pulls together it’s a little easier if you do it in con-junction. I was brought up in a family where my dad or my mom didn’t just give me everything. They helped to the best of their ability but they put the onus on my-

self to do it … if you work together you can make a difference.

How do you envision provincial investment in providing sustainable funding for recreation facility infrastructure re-newal?

Here’s what we did in Penticton. We had a com-munity centre that was older, that was wearing out, that had to be refurbished. We worked together, both provincially and federally, to get those tax dollars … By working with my coun-terparts federally, which was Stock at the time, pro-vincially, Bill Barisoff, the City of Penticton and a good council that realized the value of a dollar, we put together a phenomenal cen-tre that is getting accolades everywhere … The econo-my has turned and I bring it forward that if you do not have a strong economy you do not have those cash re-sources.

What can the province do to support commu-nities in achieving the targets of the Climate Ac-tion Charter?

Transit is going to be an integral part of the valley in the future. One doesn’t need to look too much farther than what’s taking place in Vancouver now and the trials and tribula-tions that they’re going through. We are the second fastest growing area in the province and it is some-thing we’re going to have to look after. When you start talking about climate action and communities’ abilities to reduce their car-bon footprint, it is a difficult process … under climate action, we’re going to have to work together otherwise we’re not going to obtain it. We’ve all see the difficulties that the province has faced with this up to this point.

How can we maximize the use of public build-ings, such as schools, for community access?

In Penticton we were short sports fields so we went to the school district and we came up with a joint program where the City of Penticton would advance funds and we did improvements on the fields so the community could utilize the school facilities on an ongoing basis with-out interfering with the kids during class hours, but on evenings and weekends. The municipality actually

put money towards the school board to do that.

What sets your plat-form apart from the other candidates?

I bring that fiscal conser-vetancy and that financial responsibility and I’ve shown that all the way through both at the Region-al District of the Okanagan Similkameen and at the City of Penticton not only as a member and a director

of the RDOS but as a chair and also as a councillor and the mayor of Penticton. Penticton was booming. Our demands for revenue ourselves was being met by development. When that development stopped there had to be some hard decisions and I’m willing to make those hard decisions … one of the key parts of my platform is the ability to get things done.

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Dan Ashton, Liberal candidate

coffee shops that have good live music or whether it means interesting art gal-leries or anything of that sort. I think we realize it is a very important part of so-ciety but it also has a real impact on local businesses. As for concrete measures that the NDP would bring in, I can’t say, but we’re a friend of the arts, let’s put it that way.

How do you envision provincial investment in providing sustainable funding for recreation facility infrastructure renewal?

I can say we will likely have funding for building renovations that are geared to saving energy, for in-stance. We’re going to take the carbon tax money that you and I pay at the gas pumps that right now literally goes to helping corporations with their corporate income tax be-cause when the carbon tax was brought in, the Liber-als made it revenue neutral by lowering the corporate income tax. Both the Liber-als and the NDP are now proposing to bump the cor-porate income tax back up and we’re going to use that money that that frees up to fund projects, whether it’s retrofitting old buildings or old houses or providing better transit for people – things that would reduce our carbon footprint.

What can the province do to support commu-nities in achieving the targets of the Climate Action Charter?

There are hundreds of millions of dollars each year that we pay into the carbon tax. We will now be able to give grants to groups or agencies or in-dividuals who are trying working toward that. Up until now the government had a scheme that was taking money away from hospitals and schools and things like that. To make them carbon neutral, they had to buy carbon cred-its from industry, which I don’t think made much sense. They should have used the carbon tax to do good things and that’s what we propose to do.

How can we maximize the use of public build-ings, such as schools, for community access?

A lot of these things can be solved by sitting down and people pester-ing politicians like myself to do things. I’d be happy to work on files like that if it meant coming up with agreements between school districts and communities.

What sets your plat-form apart from the other candidates?

The motto of our cam-paign is “change for the better – one practical step at a time” and we’re set-ting out all these practical

steps. We’re not going to be spending billions and billions of dollars of new tax money to just throw money at stuff. We have very good ideas, very tar-geted, pragmatic spending and each one is designed to help the economy. Right now we’re running against a Liberal government that has, I think, really run out of practical ideas. They’re really hanging their whole economic plan on liquefied natural gas, which, we’re for liquefied natural gas as well, but we’re talking 15, 20 years in the future. We need something to help us right now. Sure we’ll do what we can with natural gas, get it to markets and see what that will do to the B.C. economy, but I think it’s foolish to build your whole platform on some dream that’s decades in the future. The reason we had such a big deficit this year in British Columbia is because they totally mis-calculated what natural gas revenues they were going to bring in this year. If they can’t figure out what’s go-ing to happen next year with natural gas, how can they tell people that the future will be rosy in 20 years because we’re going to sell natural gas for this price and it will cost us this much to develop it? Yes, let’s move in that direction but I think it is better to have practical, pragmatic steps and that’s what we’re doing.

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LOCAL ACTIVITIES & EVENTS | [email protected]

sundaysJerry Dober Breakfast, 8am, Peachland Wellness Centre

Peachland Baptist Sun-day School, 9:30am, 4204 Lake ave.

Peachland United Ser-vice, 10am, united Church

St. Margaret’s Anglican Church Wor-ship, 10am, st. Margaret’s anglican Church

Emmanuel Church Workship Service, 10am, Peachland Elementary school

Peachland Baptist Service, 10:30 service fellowship 11:30am, 4204 Lake ave.

Meat Draw, 2pm, Royal Canadian Legion Branch #69

Meditation Group, meets weekly 7-8 pm, please join us! Call 778-479-3794 for more information.

MOndaysYoga, 7:30am, 50+ activ-ity Centre

Take Off Pounds Sensi-bly, 9:30am, 50+ activity Centre

Peachland Variety Sing-ers, 9:30am, 50+

Ladies’ Morning Coffee, 10-11am, Peachland Well-ness Centre

Tai Chi, 12pm, 50+ activ-ity Centre

Needle Arts, 1:15pm, 50+ activity Centre

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS Tween Scene, 2:30-5pm, 4th street Place

Peachland Guides 5:15pm, community centre

Peachland Sparks (girls 5-6), 5:30pm, community centre

Youth Boxing Club, 6-8 pm, 4th street Place

Wood Carvers, 7pm, 50+ activity Centre

TuEsdaysCarpet Bowling, 10am, 50+ activity Centre

Computer Literacy, 10 am -12 pm, Peachland Wellness Centre. By ap-pointment only.

Peachland Toastmasters, 12pm, Peachland Community Centre

AA, 12pm, 50+ activity Centre

Tuesday Mens Coffee and Crib, 1pm, Peachland Wellness Centre

Friendship Tuesday, 1:30 movie “One Fine day” april 23. Blood pressures at 1:00. all welcome. 50+ activity Centre

Tai Chi (Wellness Centre), 6:30 pm, united Church Hall

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS Floor Hockey (age 8-12), 6:30-7:30pm, community centre; $2 (Jumpstart fund-ing available)

Bridge, 7pm, 50+ activity Centre

Youth Night, 7-8:15pm, Peachland Baptist Church (For Grades 6-9)

WEdnEsdaysAerobics, 9:30am, 50+ activity Centre

Wellness Circle, 10 am, Peachland Wellness Centre

Chess, 1:15pm, 50+ activ-ity Centre

Yoga, 1:30pm, 50+ activ-ity Centre

Sunshine Singers, 1:30pm, Peachland Wellness Centre

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS, Tweens 5-6:30pm, middle teens 6:30-8pm, 4th st. anglican Church

Peachland Baptist Church Gym Night, 7-8:15 pm, Peachland Community Centre For children K-6.

Lions Den Meeting, 7 pm. 2nd week: 6th ave. Police station. 4th week: 6th ave. Comm. Ctr. dan 250-767-9034

Central Okanagan Model Railway Company Group, 7pm, Peachland Museum

THuRsdaysTai Chi (Wellness Centre), 9:30am begin-ners, 10am continued level, united Church Hall

Bereavement, 10am, Peachland Wellness Centre

Ladies Cribbage, 10:30am, Peachland Well-ness Centre

Iron and Silk Exercise, 11am, 50+ activity Centre

Storytime, 11:30am, starts Feb. 7, Peachland Library

Peachland Rotary Club Meeting, 12pm, Gasthaus Pub

AA, 12pm, 50+ activity Centre


BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS, middle teen hangout 5:30-7pm, community centre. Free.

Bingo, 6:45pm, 50+ activ-ity Centre

FRIdaysMen’s Coffee, 10am-11am, Peachland Wellness Centre

Yoga, 10:30am, 50+ activ-ity Centre

Friday Art Club, 1pm, 50+ activity Centre

Tea in the Tranquil Room, 2-3pm, Peachland Wellness Centre

Ladies Snooker, 5pm, Royal Canadian Legion Branch #69

Potluck, Meeting, or Entertainment, 6pm, 50+ activity Centre (4th week of the month only)

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OUTING, meet at commu-nity centre; Call to register.

saTuRdaysCarpet Bowling, 10am, 50+ activity Centre


National Daffodil Walk, april 27, 10 a.m., commu-nity centre. Walking from the community center to the kiosk at Heritage Park.

FOOTPRINTS and Mini Powwow, april 27, 12 noon, 4th street Place. A day of na-tive celebration for everyone. It brings together aboriginal artists creating a lasting legacy of music, drumming, singing, dancing, arts and crafts.

Grant in Concert, april 27, 7 p.m., Peachland Recreation

Centre. Beer, wine, des-serts available, tickets $15, available at Rocky J’s. Limited seating, reservations recom-mended.

Peachland Lions Charity Golf Tournament, april 28, summerland Golf Club. Call 250-767-5258.

Gymkhana, april 28, 9 a.m., Peachland Riding Club. Free for spectators. www.peachlandridingclub.com

All-Candidates Meeting,

May 1, 6:30 - 9 p.m., com-munity centre. Dan Ashton, Richard Canning, Doug Max-well, and Shawn Upshaw, moderated by Shayn Moritz. Hosted by the Peachland Chamber of Commerce.

Take A Break, May 2, 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m, Westside seniors Centre. “Tax Breaks for You and Your Caregiv-ers,” Presented by JC (Broc) Braconnier, business consul-tant. Free admission, open to everyone, coffee & tea provided. Phone 250-768-

3305 for information.

Spirit of Peachland Civic Awards, May 3, Residents are recognized for their ser-vice. Visit www.peachland.ca for more information.

St. Margaret’s Church Plant Sale, May 4, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., 4th street Place. Annuals, perennials, baskets, houseplants, bake table, cof-fee corner, BBQ lunch.

Walk for Polio, May 5, 11:30 a.m., Rotary Pavil-

lion. The Wellness Centre Teen Volunteers are hoping to raise donations for their project to help eradicate Polio in developing countries. Sponsored by the Peachland Rotary Club. Hotdogs, drinks available by donation and everyone donating $20 will receive a t-shirt.

Ashton Kintzinger Benefit and Talent Night, May 5, 6:30 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church. The church is raising money so that Ashton can go to a much-needed hospi-

tal in Switzerland.

UPCOMING EVENTS

DentistsDr. Don MacRae

Dr. Phil KachanoskiDr. Karl OppenheimDr. Peter CormillotDr. Jeff Krawchuk

ChiropractorDr. Peter Stapleton

PharmacyWes Bedford, B.ScGeoff Davis, B.Sc

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Peachland Dental Centre

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Go Batty in Peachland, May 16, 7:30 - 9:30 pm, Peachland Historic Primary school. A Meadowlark Fes-tival Event. Meet at Peach-land Community Centre for an informative Bat Talk by biologist Tanya Luszcz and learn about the Peachland Bats Stewardship Program. A viewing of the Primary School and observation of bat activity in the attic will follow. Refreshments; $10 per adult + one child.


Phyllis PaPineau Special to the Peachland View

As the garden centres are featuring new variet-ies of roses, this might be a good time to replace or add to your landscap-ing plans. There are even some new “thornless” varieties, which makes pruning less painful. Some of the heritage varieties are beautifully scented. Rose plants vary in size from com-pact, miniature roses to climbers that can reach seven metres in height.

It is not too early to start planning for the Annual Peachland Rose Show which will be tak-ing place on Saturday, June 22. This year the venue will move from

4th Street Place to the banquet room in the Peachland Commu-nity Centre. The show is fortunate to once again welcome interna-tional rose show judges Malcolm and Danielle Scott. In addition, a master gardener will be on hand to answer any of your gardening ques-tions.

Also, mark your calen-dars for Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m. in the Peach-land Little Schoolhouse. At this time Malcolm and Danielle Scott will be giving tips on how to display roses and many

other useful tips. Who would have thought that a Q-tip is a useful tool in exhibiting roses?

The Rose Show cata-logue will be available in May and will be simi-

lar to last year. However, this year there will be a trophy for the best mini rose, which will be do-nated by show sponsors, the Sowers and Growers Garden Club.

sandra halMe Special to the Peachland View

It’s that time of year again when we open the windows to the fresh air and begin cleaning out the winter months of ac-cumulations.

With this in mind, the Friends of the Peachland Library, book loving vol-unteers who fundraise to support activities ei-ther partially funded or falling outside regular funding sources, such as the children’s summer reading program, are reminding people that they are gladly accepting most new and previously enjoyed books, movies, music and themed maga-zines in good condition.

These donations will be used for the friends’ annual book sale, with all proceeds supporting library activities.

People can bring their donations to the library or call Sandra at 250-767-9076 if they have any questions.

The friends remind people that we cannot accept educational texts over two years old, any

computer or self help books, encyclopedias, National Geographic and other general interest magazines. We strongly encourage people to re-cycle these items.

In other friends’ news, we are a conducting a raffle with a quilt gen-erously donated by the Peachland Quilters and Needlecrafters. The draw will take place at the Peachland Library on Saturday, June 29 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $2 and are available at the library as well as other locations includ-ing the farmer’s markets in Peachland, Penticton and Kelowna.

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is a small ground lov-ing bird preferring to run rather than fl y. It is the state bird of California. These birds have an inter-esting curved crest, made of six feathers, that droops forward.

They are very sociable birds that gather in small fl ocks known as “coveys”. One of their daily commu-nal activities is a dust bath. A group of quail will select an area where the ground has been newly turned or is soft, and using their underbellies, will burrow downward into the soil about one or two inches. They then wriggle about in the indentations they have

created, fl apping their wings and ruffl ing their feathers, causing dust to rise in the air.

Their diet consists mainly of seeds and leaves, but they do also eat berries and in-

sects. When they visit a bird feeder during breed-

ing season the male usually stands guard while the female

feeds.Although the female may hatch 12

-16 eggs, in urban areas less than half the young survive. Once hatched fami-lies group together into ‘communal broods,’ which will include at least two females, multiple males and many offspring.

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thIs BeAutIfuL sAnDhILL CRAne was spotted feeding in the grassy fi eld on Somerset Ave. Sandhill cranes spend the summer months on the Arctic Tundra where they lay two buffy-olive eggs spotted with reddish-brown. Both parents incubate the eggs, for around a month. It eats grain, insects and small animals.

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ADAM hICKs of the suPeRIoR eXCAVAtInG DIGGeRs swings for the ball in their game against the Big E’s Brewzers at Cousins Park on Sunday as part of the Peachland Mixed Slo Pitch season.


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Skate board competition sponsored by Freeride Board Shop is FREE and open to Beginner and Intermediate riders under age 14. The 1st 30 kids to email [email protected] will be entered into the competition. An Advanced Pro competition will follow.

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Join us for theCommunity Skate Park Celebration

Offi cial ceremony is 12:00-12:30 with the skate board competition beginning at 12:45. The Skate Park will be closed to the public 12:00 -5:00 p.m.

For more informationvisit www.peachland.ca

Runners compete at Spring 10K and Half Marathon on Sunday

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CARoLIne RAIne of West Kelowna came in second in the ladies’ 40-49 age group in the 12K run.

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RunneRs stARt off at the 10K run. The run was won by Michael Kascak of Penticton with a time of 0:39:52.

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tRACey LICht, nAnCy MCDonALD, AnD CheRyL sPeIss (left to right) compete in the 10K walk. The winner was Doris Taylor of Prince George with a time of 1:15:01.

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MAtt hoLMes of Penticton placed first in the men’s 30-39 age group in the 12K run.

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VALeRIe MCGARVIe of Peachland placed third in the ladies’ 30-39 age group in the 12K run.

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RIChARD WILson of Peachland placed second in the men’s 40-49 age group in the 12K run.


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Dan Getsit Done.Dan AshtonBC Liberal CandidatePenticton Riding(Peachland, Summerland & Penticton area)

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As Mayor & Regional District Chair Dan has…

Rightsized the operations at Penticton City Hall and the Regional District to fit today’s economy

• Made the difficult decisions required

• Brought rising municipal and regional expenses under control

Delivered 3 years of Zero percent (0%) tax increases in the City of Penticton

• Completed drinking & wastewater improvements

• Helped establish Skaha Bluff Provincial Park

Member of Municipal Finance Authority

12 years experience in local government

What We Have DoneHWY 97 Four-laning and Bennett Bridge

Centennial Walkway & Old School Revitalization in Peachland

New Traffic Controls for safety at Plaza Intersection in Peachland

Dan and the BC Liberals Will Continue to get it Done! Campaign Office:

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Janet hornsethSpecial to the Peachland View

20th Annual Business Expo

An estimated 750 people went through the doors of our 20th Annual Business Expo held at the Peachland Community Centre on April 13. Over 50 vendors showcased their businesses ranging from chiropractic ser-vices, travel, fashion, hot tubs, insurance, invest-ments, golf, hair care and real estate, just to name a few. 10 community groups were represented and the Peachland Lions served their signature hamburgers throughout the day. Feedback from both the vendors and at-tendees was very positive with over 75 per cent of the vendors committing to next year’s expo.

Valleywide Business After Hours

Tickets are now avail-

able for the popular Valley Wide Business After Hours to be held on Thursday, May 9 at the Peachland Commu-nity Centre. A limited number of tickets are available through each Chamber of Commerce in the valley so book yours now to avoid dis-appointment. This is an outdoor event that runs from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and features a trade show with over 50 exhibitors as well as beverages from local wineries and breweries. Tickets are $20 each and included with your tick-et is a fabulous pulled pork sandwich and your choice of a marinated potato salad or a premi-um pasta salad prepared by Bliss Bakery as well as two tastings from the beverage vendors. This is a private member af-fair and tickets must be purchased in advance. Call Janet at 250-767-2455 to book your group.

Business After Hours

Odina Skovgaard/No-tary Public hosted a very successful Business After Hours at her new offi ce location at 5878A Beach Avenue. Over 30 people enjoyed an informative evening of networking with fellow business own-ers as well as learning about the varied services offered by our B.C. No-taries. Odina can help you with all of your estate planning needs – wills, powers of attorney and health care agreements. She also does real estate work including purchas-es, sales and refi nances. Call 778-479-4706, visit www.lakesidenotary.ca or email [email protected].

Annual general meeting

It’s that time of the year again – our AGM will be held at the Peachland Community Centre on Monday, May 6 at 6:30

Peachland to host Valleywide Business After Hours event

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Passed away peacefully with her family by her side at Kelowna General Hospital. Born in Thunder Creek, SK, to parents George and Annie Morley, she was the youngest of 4 girls. Elsie married Gordon Brown on October 27, 1946 and the newlyweds moved to Richmond, BC to raise their family. In 1974, Gord and Elsie moved to Peachland, BC where Elsie settled into a life of ‘retirement’, sewing, knitting, baking and tending her � owerbeds and garden. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband Gord, of 66 years, her daughters Linda Hart, Barbara (Phillip) Keetley, grandchildren; Karen (Sean) Mac Connell, Jesse Keetley, Michelle Keetley, great-grandchildren; Jenna Mac Connell, Matthew Kinna, Amy Mac Connell, her sisters Joan Wilm, Mary Watkinson and by many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. Elsie was always available as a kind and helpful neighbour and will be sadly missed by her family and friends alike.

Messages of condolence may be sent to the family by visiting www.HansonsFuneral.ca Arrangements entrusted to the care of

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This Sunday, April 28 the Peachland Rid-ing Club will host its first event of the season starting at 9:30 a.m. The

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hole race, flag race, stake race, pole bending, barrel racing and there are al-ways a few surprise races as well. These events are all broken into age divi-sions including pee wee for riders 10 years old and under, junior and youth categories and se-nior for riders 19 years and over. We also have a novice category for any riders in their first or sec-ond year of this type of competition.

The smaller riders that are still being lead through their events can also take part in the nov-ice division. We really try to have something for everyone and every level of rider at the Peachland Riding Club events!

Riders will earn points at each of the six monthly gymkhana events in their respective age divisions and at the end of the year, the rider with the most points will win a beautiful engraved silver buckle for their accom-plishments as high point champion of the year!

The Peachland Riding Club will also host a bar-rel racing saddle series that will run at 3 p.m. on

the gymkhana dates and also on the July 1 Canada Day weekend. This is our third season running this program that awards the highpoint rider of this se-ries with a trophy saddle. This program runs 10 rac-es throughout the season, with added prize money at all events. These barrel races are co-sanctioned by the BC Barrel Racing, Canadian Barrel Racing, National Barrel Racers 4D and the National Bar-rel Horse associations, so the competition is re-ally awesome and riders come from all over the

Okanagan and interior for these competitions.

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inga sMith Special to the Peachland View

If you band or braid your horse’s mane the night before a show, you may want to use a sleezy (or slinky). A sleezy is a lycra four-way stretch hood to keep a finished mane clean and in place overnight.

A sleezy is a very good investment after the tedious, time-consuming core of banding/braid-ing! A nylon sheet is also recommended to keep your horse clean and shavings free. Ny-lon will also polish and shine the coat, without breaking the hairs.

Tips on banding and braiding:

Banding (Western) and braiding (English) are techniques used to make your horse’s mane lie flat and close to the neck (even on a windy day) to give the illusion of a slimmer neck.

If your horse has a thick mane, it may take some continuous thin-ning beforehand to make banding/braid-ing easier. The length of the finished mane is usually between three to four inches and will comprise of about 50 half-inch sections neatly banded with small banding elastics (Western) or braided and often sewn under with wool (English). It takes a little prac-tice to do a nice job, but you will get the hang of it. To tighten the bands, split the banded section and pull the mane hairs outwards to slide the elastic up close to the top, staying as close as possible to the neck. Trim to tidy when fin-ished.

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robin graves St. Margaret’s Anglican Church Special to the Peachland View

Scarcely four months ago I began my Christ-mas letter to members of St. Margaret’s with the following: “A grey vista before me with clouds low in the sky and lake water forbidding, Christ-mas music is playing quietly in the background with hot coffee at hand to hold the winter chill at bay. A morning at home after a number of days out and about, a reminder of the sanctuary that home can offer, the warmth and comfort, the security and peace. In a distant room the sound of a television newscast—more cover-age of the horrific events in Newtown, Connecticut and their aftermath—a reminder of how life can turn in an instant, sanc-tuary destroyed, warmth and comfort turned cold, security and peace torn asunder.”

Today I sit at the same desk, sunlit vista before me, the emerging green of spring framed by a window rather in need of cleaning, immersed in the promise of the summer months to come. While the Christmas music has been set aside, the hot coffee remains close at hand, a reminder of daily rituals that say “home”. In a distant room the sound of a television newscast – more coverage of the horrific events in Boston and their aftermath – a further reminder of how life can turn in an instant.

Yesterday – Newtown; today – Boston; and to-morrow – we do not know. For so many of us these events are hard to fathom and harder yet to comprehend. How to make sense of what has happened? How to re-spond?

For myself, and per-haps for others, it is often tempting to simply dis-engage. Indeed, there are moments when I have heard more than enough and have turned the tele-vision off.

I have not wanted to hear more, have not been able to hear anything more. There have also been moments when I have wrapped myself in cynicism, a false comfort of believing ‘twas ever thus in the big bad world, and that’s the way things are. And there have been moments too when I have been tempted to surren-

der to a profound sense of helplessness, to the suggestion that in the face of such events there is re-ally nothing that I can do.

The temptation to dis-engage is real. And yet, I would suggest, it is one that must be resisted. The recent events in Boston summon us once again to engagement, a call not to retreat but to move for-ward.

In doing so we will recognize that there are two stories that emerge from these days that are equally true. The first is a story of evil and death. It is a story of two broth-ers, of bombs and bullets and blood that has been spilled. It is a story of life that has been taken, inno-cence that has been lost and promise now empty.

The second is a story of goodness and fullness of life. It is a story of first responders and citizens, of loved ones and strang-ers, of the many who ran into the heart of chaos

and danger that life might be saved. It is a story of bravery and sacrifice, of humility and compassion, of determination and re-solve. It is also a story of untold gestures of hospi-tality and the remarkable generosity of the human heart in the face of our deepest needs.

In moving forward we will recognize that we, like those in Boston, are called to choose the story we shall embrace.

For many the choice will be clear. Those who share in the Christian traditions affirm the Easter calling to choose life. Here we align ourselves with stories of goodness and all that is life-giving. Indeed, we are to bring such stories to life in our own lives, for this is at the heart of the commandments to love God, neighbour and self.

As these words have been put to paper, a fu-neral has been held, the life of Krystle Campbell has been celebrated and

a moment of silence has been observed. The sun-light streaming across my desk and the green-ing of spring still remain

– reminders of the call to move forward.

How shall we respond? Together, raising up good-ness and the fullness of

life, that we might share with one another the hope of true peace and the promise of new life for all.

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