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Carol Ann Quibell photoRunning for Terry

Despite the inclement weather, approximately 40 people attended the Terry Fox Run at the Oliver Community Centre on Sunday. Here, Lori Martine’s class from Oliver Elementary School sets out on the run in the park. Participants raised $1,012 for cancer research, and five local wineries raised approximately $200 for the cause.

The benefits of a helicopter flight training school in Oliver would far outweigh the noise factor, according to Adam Sloan, the man behind the proposal.

During a recent presentation to Town Council, Sloan (a principal in Rotorworks Inc.) said his goal is to establish the school at the Oliver Airport.

“Oliver is an ideal location for helicopter flight training. Surrounded by mountains and several different landscapes within flying distance, students will be introduced to vari-ous types of flying techniques and weather conditions.”

Sloan, an Oliver resident, said Rotorworks Inc. would in-troduce new educational opportunities to the community, which in turn would attract new families and boost the lo-cal economy.

Sloan acknowledged the concern about the noise factor,

saying he realizes this may be troubling for some people. He explained the helicopters they use today (the R22 and R44) are fairly quiet machines that cause minimal distur-bance. He said the majority of the training would not occur at the airport; it would be outside of populated areas. The only training at the airport would be five to 10 minutes of hovering at the start and end of each class.

“The benefits much outweigh the noise,” Sloan said, noting the students are trained how to “fly neighbourly.”

The instructor pointed out there would be two to three full-time courses a year. Each course is four months in du-ration, and there will be an average of four to six students per course.

“I enjoy instructing and seeing the excitement on a stu-dent’s face the first time they hover without help,” Sloan said.

He noted that Rotorworks Inc. has been very success-ful in training pilots in the helicopter industry; graduates have an 80 percent success rate in finding work. Sloan

said there is a growing demand for pilots with a working knowledge of the oilfield and forestry sectors.

Sloan stated this educational venture will be a great op-portunity for the younger generation that won’t have to move to Vancouver or Calgary for training purposes. And students who move here from out of town will also have an impact, Sloan said.

“Our local businesses would see increased revenues as students will rely on their services, entertainment and amenities year round, requiring housing, food, and sup-plies.”

Sloan pointed out that Rotorworks Inc. would support the local infrastructure of the airport by utilizing aircraft maintenance services, purchasing fuel and attracting oth-er business to Oliver.

Rotorworks Inc. initially wants to rent a hangar at the airport and then plans to build its own hangar to house two offices and two classrooms. The goal is to have two helicopters on site for training purposes.

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Water quality advisory still on as IHA cautious about samples

At least one Town councillor is raising a concern that the water quality advisory in Oliver is still in effect

“It’s uncommon that it would go this long our schools have to have a higher standard right now,” said Marji Bas-so

She made this comment at the September 13 council meeting where water quality matters were discussed

Basso said two local schools are not allowing its students to use water fountains because of the advisory

Director of Operations Bruce Hamilton said he spoke to the Interior Health Authority (IHA) about lifting the advi-sory, but the Town hasn’t received approval to do that yet

“All (water) samples have been clean for several weeks, but we’re getting some coliform (bacteria) originating from one of the wells (the Rockcliffe well),” Hamilton said

As a result, IHA does not want to lift the advisory until that is resolved So more disinfection work is being done at Rockcliffe in hopes they get clean samples, Hamilton pointed out

The advisory was issued on August 3 when total coliform

bacteria was detected in the Town’s domestic water sup-ply Total coliform consists mainly of organic matter, but it does include fecal coliform

Engineering technician Chris Tucker said nobody can pinpoint where the bacteria is coming from Until consec-utive clean samples come back, the IHA is firm in keeping the advisory in effect, Tucker said He noted they’ve been taking water samples daily from Monday to Thursday

Tucker explained that the advisory is not a boil water advisory, but a notice that children and people with weak-ened immune systems could be affected by drinking the water

“A lot of people are saying they have to boil their water, but we’re not telling them to boil their water (it’s only a precaution),” Hamilton said

He noted there’s a chance the advisory will be lifted soon if the disinfection (chlorination) procedures work But the final say comes from the IHA

On Monday, IHA spokesperson Lannea Parfitt said the water quality advisory is still in effect She confirmed that residents aren’t required to boil their water; the advisory is just a warning for the elderly and people with deficien-cies in their immume system


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Council briefs Border briefsTown spends $6,500 for monitoring

Council has approved spending $6,500 to participate in the Okanagan Groundwater Monitoring program.

The Town received a request from the Okanagan Ba-sin Water Board to get involved in a strategy to monitor water table levels in wells, including one in Oliver. This monitoring will provide useful data for future develop-ment decisions and to help determine how current uses are affecting acquifers.

The goal is to establish 15 new observation wells in the Okanagan basin within three years.

Air cadet expansion not approved

The Airport Advisory Committee has turned down the local Air Cadet squadron’s lease expansion proposal.

However, it recommended that a new lease agree-ment be negotiated, and that the squadron update the committee on site improvement work. Apparently some committee members are concerned about the area being a little “unsightly.”

Councillor Jack Bennest said the squadron had re-quested additional lease space, but the airport land in question is currently under a contract that hasn’t ex-pired yet. “That’s the reason for turning down the re-quest,” Bennest said.

Town to commit $3,000 towards new gate

Council has approved a $3,000 contribution towards a new gate at the Oliver Airport.

The Airport Advisory Committee originally recom-mended the town contribute up to 50 percent of the cost, but Councillor Jack Bennest countered with the $3,000 amount.

“We don’t know how much it’s going to cost. We should have a price plan.”

It was noted that the original gate was manually oper-ated, but then a mechanical actuator was installed with-out consent from the Town. Now a new gate security system is being considered.

New Ambassadors update council

Oliver Ambassadors Juliana Martine and Rory Lodge have a busy schedule ahead of them.

Both girls recently updated council on their activities. Martine said they’ve been busy with the following: at-tending pageants in Lytton and Merritt; attending the Communities In Bloom reception; assisting the Rotary Club Ironman aid station, participating in a car wash fundraiser, attending the Covert Farms agricultural mu-seum site designation, and the Cops For Kids fundraiser.

Lodge said they are preparing for the Peachland pag-eant and the Festival of the Grape. After that, it will be the “Scareview” event on Halloween, and joining the “big red guy” at Christmas time.

Mayor Pat Hampson said he wasn’t sure if the girls were referring to him as the “jolly old fat man.”

Boys and Girls Clubs get $5,000 more

Council has approved giving the Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs an additional $5,000 in funding.

The Town gave the group a grant-in-aid amount of $10,000 last year, but the group requested $15,000 this year. This includes $5,000 to be paid to the Air Cadets for facility use, and $10,000 for staff wages.

New chief financial officer hired

The Town has hired Dave Svetlichny as the new chief financial officer.

He comes from Cranbrook, where he worked for BDO Dunwoody.

Mayor Pat Hampson said Svetlichny has a tough job ahead of him.

Be good, mayor warns

The recent “Cops For Kids” fundraiser in Oliver taught Mayor Pat Hampson a painful lesson: wearing handcuffs is no fun.

“They are not ergonomically designed . . . they’re ex-tremely uncomfortable.”

Hampson was arrested and handcuffed as part of the recent fundraiser, in which people paid $200 to bail him out of jail.

“I was sitting in the sun, slowly cooking.”Hampson advised people to stay out of trouble if they

don’t want to wear handcuffs.Councillor Marji Basso thanked the mayor for being

tied up.“We really did torture you somewhat. I hope it was

worth the $200.”

Individuals inadmissable

Past criminal history was a major factor for some for-eign nationals who were discovered to be inadmissible to Canada at the Osoyoos Port of Entry during June.

Over 80 percent of the individuals deemed inadmissi-ble to Canada had charges and convictions against them. Others were inadmissible to Canada for a variety of rea-sons including: medical requirements and/or being un-able to financially support themselves during their visit.

Company fined

Border officers issued a $2,000 fine against a Canadian

company that failed to account for goods that entered Canada temporarily and were never exported.

Upon examination of the shipment, the officers dis-covered that only part of the initial shipment was being exported and the rest of the goods were remaining in Canada. The goods remaining in Canada were subject to duties and taxes. As the importer failed to report that part of the shipment was staying in Canada, a fine was assessed under the Administrative Monetary Penalty System.

Criminal activity noted

Canada Border Service Agency officers encountered a wide variety of criminal charges while assessing entry requirements of visitors to Canada. Charges included: rape of a child, resisting arrest, possession of narcotics, domestic violence, assault, burglary, larceny, forgery and impaired driving.

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Gleaners reach third reading amidst debate over subdivison plans to upgrade operation

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The ‘Friendship Force’Shown in photo from left are Gleaners president Steve Hetherington, and exchange directors Ei-leen Tymm ( Okanagan ), Yukiko Goshima (Miyagi), Koji Kai (Oita), and Yuko Takamatso (Miyagi). The Japanese group recently toured the Gleaners facility and was impressed by the volunteers’ work in feeding the hungry around the world.

The Okanagan Gleaners Society passed a big hurdle last week as the RDOS gave third reading to its subdivision proposal.

But the hurdle didn’t come easy as three of the eight directors voted against the by-law amendment after some emotional de-bate.

“It’s not finished . . . next comes adop-tion. If one more director changes his mind (by voting against the bylaw), it’s defeated . . . a tie is a defeat,” said Area C Director Allan Patton.

But Okanagan Gleaners president Steve Hetherington said he was delighted with the vote, noting it was the “real hurdle” they had to clear.

The Gleaners propose to subdivide and purchase 1.6 hectares of property that it leases on 336 Ave. in order to upgrade its food processing operation. It plans to build a 5,000 square-foot processing/storage fa-cility and develop 12 recreational vehicle sites for volunteers. The zoning would change from agriculture to part industrial.

The Gleaners received overwhelming support at a public hearing last month. However, the RDOS has yet to pass final adoption. Ministry of Transportation ap-proval is also required as the proposal im-pacts Highway 97.

At the RDOS board meeting last week, Patton and directors Michael Brydon and

George Hanson voted against the proposal. Patton said nobody is questioning the good work the Gleaners do, only the appropri-ateness of the land use change. Patton, a staunch supporter of agricultural land, op-poses the location of the facility. He said it’s much better suited to the Sawmill Road area.

“If we make an exception, these people deserve an exception for the work they do. But if we make an exception for one, you set a precedence (and everyone else will be asking for an exception),” Patton said.

But Hetherington said this non-farm use is for the Gleaners only and is not transfer-able to anyone else. “There is no danger of seeing a factory on that property.”

According to the Gleaners, moving its operation to the Sawmill Road area is too expensive and would not be conducive to volunteers and youth group visits.

In other Gleaners news, 10 “Friendship Force” members from Oita and Miyagi, Ja-pan, recently visited and toured the Glean-ers facility.

Several of these guests were hosted and billeted by residents of Oliver. The visi-tors were most impressed by the work the Gleaners were doing and the natural beau-ty of the area.

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Lyonel Doherty photoHeavy traffic

Highway 97 traffic along the Southwinds Crossing construction site has been heavy during the past week with minor delays. Patience and safety are being encouraged as work crews go full steam ahead building the foundations for the new shop-ping centre. The flag persons have a big job, so treat them well.

Due to a change in availability of the hangar facility, the Oliver Youth Centre hours have been altered.

The new hours are 3:30-6:30 p.m. on Monday, 5-10 p.m. on Friday, and 5-10 p.m. on Saturday.

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nings. “We are in the midst of creating a ‘theme’ for Monday

afternoons, and will forward more details as we confirm this,” said Youth Centre Director Laurene Sloboda.

“Sorry for any inconvenience. We hope these hours still work for the youth of Oliver and Oganagan Falls.”

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Oliver Packing HousesOliver Transfer contracted the hauling of shipments from the Oliver Packing houses to the shipping points at Penticton. By today’s standards, these were rough and expensive hauls, as the small trucks car-ried only one to one-and-a-half tons, and the roads were still unpaved. Rates were $4.00 per ton to Penticton. Ol-iver Transfer also transported school children, which was done by putting removable sides on the truck deck and some sort of benches.Roma Pedersen, Archives Volunteer

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Town had duty to address taxi cab complaints

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There’s no doubt that Oliver Taxi will be missed by many residents who rely on this service for their transportation needs.

We can envision seniors and the handicapped worrying about who’s going to drive them to their medical appointments. But we can also envision those with grave concerns about alleged impropri-eties behind the wheel.

It may have seemed like a “witch hunt” to taxi op-erator Jeff Fenton, but it would have been remiss of the Town to ignore the complaints.

Based on legal advice, council scheduled an open hearing to discuss the fate of Fenton’s business li-cence. The cabbie was specifically invited to answer the allegations, but he failed to appear. It was un-fortunate that he chose not to defend himself, but really, would you want to attend a hearing in which you had to dodge a steady stream of criticism? Talk about intimidating.

Fenton’s supporters say he provides professional service and is compassionate to their needs. But in stark contrast, others say the opposite. The fact is there were too many serious allegations that had to be addressed, especially those affecting public safe-ty.

It should be noted that Fenton has not been charged with a criminal offence despite complaints being lodged with the RCMP.

We can only imagine how difficult it is to be a taxi operator in any community, particularly when a portion of your clientele is impaired by alcohol (af-ter leaving a drinking establishment). Some of these patrons aren’t ideal customers, to say the least.

In any event, Town council had no choice but to revoke Oliver Taxi’s business licence. If it hadn’t, it would have been accused of failing to carry out its moral and civic duty to protect the public.

However, some people may find it strange that council isn’t revoking Fenton’s business licence until October 1. He’s still allowed to drive people around despite the allegations.

Mayor Pat Hampson acknowledges the Town is between a rock and a hard place. While public safety is a concern, so is the lack of taxi service that many people rely on.

The October 1 date was set in order to give other companies a chance to make an application to pro-vide this service. Even an existing taxi service in an-other community could provide temporary service in Oliver if service isn’t compromised in the other community.

We shall see. But the mayor is cautiously optimis-tic that taxi service will be restored soon.

Point way to safety at crosswalkto let drivers know your intent

Public invited to help celebrate 50years of radio astronomy at DRAO

Town’s expectations unrealistic

Editor, Oliver Chronicle:

I have lived in Oliver for 17 years and coming from a life in Toronto of 40 years I find that the people of Oliver do not understand how to use a crosswalk properly.

We all know that operators of a vehicle must give signals to show his intent as to going left or right or stop and he knows that the pedestrian always has the right of way.

My daughter got a ticket in downtown Toronto for not signalling her intent and just walked out into the cross walk. I see people stand at the crosswalk and hope the ve-hicle stops, then wave a thank you at the driver and cross the street.

Like the driver the person at a crosswalk should show

intent by putting their arm straight out and point so the driver of a vehicle can see that they want to cross and he is to stop.

I do not know what the law is in BC but as I remember in Toronto the vehicle at a crosswalk is not to move un-til the person has reached the other side of the street. He should not proceed when the person has left his lane as the action of him moving could cause the vehicle coming the other way who is not paying attention to proceed; this could cause a personal injury.

The moral of this story is point your way to safety.

D. Dunn, Oliver

Editor, Oliver Chronicle:

Unrealistic expectation is what we as a community have when we expect one person to provide 24-7 service as a cab driver.

This is not Kelowna; we don’t have the population de-mands for 24-7 service from our cab company.

Instead of stressing this man (Jeff Fenton) even further with these complaints, the councillors could help him or-

ganize his business hours to serve the greatest number of customers during reasonable business hours, with possible options of bookings outside those hours if he feels he can manage a few of those.

Let’s get some common sense happening here.I don’t know about the rest of his customers, but this

customer wants a driver who is not stressed by a 24-7 job.

Dorothy Jardine, Oliver

The National Research Council invites the public to cel-ebrate 50 years of radio astronomy at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (NRC-DRAO) located north west of Oliver.

Open House 2010, scheduled for Saturday, September 25, will showcase pioneering experiments for radio astron-omy leading up to the development, design and construc-tion of leading-edge digital signal-processing hardware now being delivered to telescopes in the USA and the UK.

Visitors will learn about the progress of innovative projects such as low-cost, high-performance antenna con-struction, wide-field “radio cameras,” low-noise electron-ics, and high-speed digital signal processing hardware.

Everyone is invited to be a part of the celebration, at-

tend the ceremony for the prestigious IEEE award, wander the observatory grounds and buildings and speak directly with the people working toward advancing science and technology in the area of radio astronomy.

This is a family event for the curious of all ages with many activities, from scientific lectures and technical dis-plays to hands-on learning experiences for children.

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‘Millennium Development Goals’ reviewed

Fables from old times have meaning for our times

David Suzuki

Gwynne Dyer

When wading through the words of pundits and the babble of political posturing, I can’t help but think of some of the simple truths we learned as children.

Remember those stories from Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm brothers that enthralled us while imparting powerful messages?

Two childhood fables seem particularly important today.

Once upon a time, a couple owned a goose that laid a golden egg every day. They became very rich but were not con-tent with a single egg a day. In their greed, they killed the goose to get at the eggs in-side. Of course, they found the goose had guts like any other goose, and they ended up with nothing.

I thought of that story while working on a Nature of Things program on the destruc-tion of the Amazon rainforest. In the 1980s, Brazil’s government encouraged people to move to the Amazon to make a living or a fortune. “Land without people for people without land” was how the government promoted it.

And so one of the largest, most complex, and irreplaceable ecosystems on the plan-et has been logged, flooded, mined, and burned for decades as Brazilians seek their fabled El Dorado, the city of gold. But, as in the fairy tale about the goose, El Dorado is the forest, not the resources being exploit-ed by destroying it.

Many see the destructive activities in South America as a response to poverty. If that’s true, what’s our excuse? In North America, we have demolished the bulk of our original forests through the unsustain-able practice of clear-cut logging.

Across the country, one logging com-munity after another has gone from boom to bust as forests have been cut down. The golden eggs were the economic benefits of logging, which could have been obtained year after year, as long as the goose – the forest – was healthy.

Over and over, we find ourselves rush-ing to get more eggs. In doing so, we end up losing the goose. We do it in agriculture as we use up the topsoil created over millen-nia; we do it in fisheries as our increasing

technological power allows us to catch more fish faster; and we do it in northern Alberta as we tear up boreal ecosystems, pollute the water, and inject massive amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmo-sphere, all to get more of those eggs. And damn the goose.

I thought of another children’s tale while listening to the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge interview Prime Minister Stephen Harper earlier

this year. The prime minister claimed Canadians

were only concerned about the economy and that Canada’s possible involvement with torture in Afghanistan was not a seri-ous concern.

Harper also ignored the massive public demand for leadership on climate change that preceded Copenhagen. The tale that comes to mind is the story of the emperor who wore no clothes.

Long ago, a vain emperor was overly concerned about his appearance. Two crafty weavers promised to make him a fine outfit from material that could not be seen by those who were stupid or unfit for their position.

When the weavers pretended to display samples, the emperor couldn’t admit he was unable to see them, for that would be an admission of incompetence or stupidity. His courtiers and ministers were likewise unable to admit they saw nothing. When the weavers came with the finished outfit, everyone oohed and aahed.

Putting on the imaginary clothes, the emperor paraded outside so the public could admire him and his new attire. Ev-eryone in the crowd, enthralled by the status of the king and bowed by their de-sire to be seen as clever and fashionable, remained silent. Only a child, innocent of the claims of the weavers, pointed out the obvious: “The emperor has no clothes.”

We are living in a time when ecological degradation is occurring everywhere. B.C.’s northern forests have turned red, victims of mountain pine beetles no longer killed by winters that have become too warm. Farmers know harvest time is later, bird-ers report birds migrating north two weeks earlier and departing weeks later than nor-mal, competitive skiers tell us European meets are being cancelled for lack of snow.

“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.” It may have been Ella Fitzgerald who first said that, or maybe it was Sophie Tucker. Doesn’t matter. It’s true, other things being equal – but “other things” are not equal.

On 20-22 September, while the United Nations General As-sembly is holding its annual meeting in New York, most of the world’s leaders will come together to review progress on the “Mil-lennium Development Goals” that the UN adopted 10 years ago. All the anti-poverty campaigners will claim that change has been too little and too slow, but actually it hasn’t been bad at all.

Measured against the real state of the poorest countries in the late 20th century and not against some impossible dream of a perfect world, there have been major improvements in key areas like literacy, access to clean water and infant mortality. A great deal of the progress has been due to the efforts of the poor countries them-selves, but there have been big changes in the behaviour of the rich countries too.

Back in the 60s, 70s and 80s, most aid to developing countries was driven by the competition for global influence in the Cold War – so when that confrontation sud-

denly ended in 1989-90, the rich countries’ main motive for giv-ing aid vanished. The 90s were a miserable time when the flow of aid virtually dried up, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of 2000 were an attempt to re-focus global attention on the needs of the poor.

To a surprising extent, it worked. Aid flows have recov-ered, much poor-country debt

has been forgiven, and there have been startling success stories like Tanzania, where the literacy rate has jumped from 52 percent to 98 percent since 1991.

Even more important than the aid was the fact that the great powers stopped backing rulers in the developing countries who oppressed and stole from their own people. Once those thugs had been impor-tant, because they kept their countries on the right side in the Cold War. Afterwards, the West didn’t care whether they survived or not – and many of them didn’t.

Better leadership and cleaner politics account for much of the improvement, es-pecially in parts of Africa. Ghana, for exam-ple, has cut the rate of child malnutrition in half since 1990. The greatest decline in poverty has been in China and India, home to over half of the very poor people in the

world, where high economic growth rates rather than foreign aid have lifted hun-dreds of millions out of poverty. Hundreds of millions of others have been left behind, of course, but the glass is definitely half full, not half empty.

If the story ended there, it would be an uplifting tale. For thousands of years most people everywhere lived in dire poverty and ignorance. Then one group, the Euro-peans, discovered technologies and ways of doing things that made them unimaginably rich and powerful. They behaved very bad-ly for a while, conquering everybody else in the world, but that is now over, and we can all look forward to a future of prosper-ity AND equality.

It sounds naive when you put it so baldly, but that is really the notion that lies be-hind things like the Millenium goals. It is certainly not an ignoble ambition, and ten years ago it seemed almost attainable. To-day it seems much less so.

The problem is not the current economic slump. That is cutting into living standards in many places, but even if it lasts for years it is essentially a transient event. The real worm of doubt is the gradual realisation that seven billion human beings cannot all live the current lifestyle of the billion rich-est without causing an environmental and ecological catastrophe. It is inherently un-

sustainable.Clean water, literacy and healthy chil-

dren do no harm by themselves, but that is just a way-station on the path to a full “developed” style of life. We do not really imagine that the billions of poor should or will accept a permanent existence as healthier, more literate peasants who still live lightly upon the earth. They will de-mand the whole package, and it will be the ruination of us all.

Even one billion people consuming re-sources and producing pollution at the current rate may be unsustainable over a period of more than a generation or two. Seven or eight billion people living like that would be unsustainable even over a couple of decades: global warming and re-source depletion would swiftly overwhelm our emerging global civilisation and its high aspirations.

Yet that is the road we have put our-selves on, because maintaining the gulf be-tween the relatively few rich and the many poor is morally offensive and politically impossible. Rich really is better than poor, in the sense that people who are physically secure and have some freedom of choice in their lives are generally happier people. But we have to do a serious re-think about how we define the concept of rich.

Glaciers are receding, Arctic ice is melt-ing… the list is long. But where the emperor and his sycophantic subjects were blinded by vanity, we are prevented from seeing by

the cloak of economics and politics.Let’s throw off the blinders and see the

world as any child can.


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Swing band nightIt was quite a “swing band night” at Medici’s Gelateria & Coffee House on Saturday, Sept. 18, when Iris Larratt (shown singing) and “Jazz Out West” performed for a sold-out crowd. People came, people sang and they swung.

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Lyonel Doherty photosDance away the afternoon

The band “Paul and Friends” provided a great musical environment for old time dance enthusiasts at the Oliver Senior Centre last week. In left photo, Margaret and Gordon Bradshaw from Oliver accommodate Darlene Holliday (middle) from Omak, WA during a trio performance. In right photo, Irene Covey from Oliver dances with Al Anthony from Kelowna.

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Crokinole players gearing up for Tuesday nightsThe Oliver Community Center room #2 is booked for

crokinole every Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. starting Octo-ber 12.

Please contact Clif Antypowich at 250-498-0304 in ad-vance if you plan to attend so the right amount of boards can be set up. He could also use help doing this.

“It’s been suggested we play more doubles, so we will try to do that . . . bring your playing partner.”

Antypowich believes there will be several crokinole groups playing this year from Kelowna, Summerland, Penticton, Kamloops, and Osoyoos.

“Remember to tell your friends about this great Cana-

dian game and bring them along.”Antypowich said that crokinole players of BC are now

known by crokinole players across the country. Next year’s March, 19 tournament is already being noticed by other players competing in the Ontario doubles championship next month (October 6).


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The monthly general meetings of Branch 97 started the fall with their meeting on Monday, Sept. 13 with members and two guests present. The attendance draw was won by Sharon Dagenais.

After the opening ceremony, the presi-dent introduced Ed Findlater, the BC/Yu-kon Command Chairman from Okanagan Falls. Findlater was assigned to chair a local

committee, (consisting of Oliver members Kent Dagenais and Chris Yerburgh) to take applications for financial assistance from any people affected by the recent mud-slide. To date, only one person had applied and was concurred by the local committee and this evening a cheque was presented to Kirk Casselman for $3,000 to help in replac-ing his lost furniture and effects. This relief

fund is still available for any local people who still wish to obtain assistance.

The 2011 membership cards are now available in the lounge – if you obtain your card during September, October and No-vember you are eligible for the monthly draw for a free membership for the early-bird campaign.

The Branch lounge hours have been ex-tended to include Sundays and Mondays for the next week or two, depending on attendance. If there is insufficient sales to make it worthwhile, the previous days will be incorporated.

Branch chaplain Ray Turner requested members to visit those members who are now living in Sunnybank, MckInney Place and Mariposa Gardens (in Osoyoos). He also reported that four local Second World War veterans passed away over the sum-mer months.

The annual Market Days will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 1-2 beginning at 8 a.m. This will include sale of fresh fruit and vegetables, a bake table and flea mar-ket. Lunch of soup and sandwiches will be available both days for a small fee. All donations and volunteers are gratefully ap-preciated.

Pool and darts will start up on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. and cribbage will be an-nounced when known.

Edith Lundin accepted the position of nominating chairman to select members to form the Branch executive for 2011.

A donation in the amount of $100 was approved for the Legion Foundation in memory of Allan Fleury, recently deceased vice president of BC/Yukon Command.

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From left to right are Sergeant at Arms Norm Williams, BC/Yukon Command Chairman Ed Find-later, cheque recipient Kirk Casselman, and financial assistance committee members Chris Yer-burgh and Kent Dagenais.


A cheque was presented to Kirk Casselman for $3,000 to help in replacing his lost furniture and effects. This relief fund is still available for any local people who still wish to obtain assis-tance.

Only one person appliedfor financial assistance

The Friday night dinners at the Legion is one of the better fundraisers from the Branch, however, if there aren’t any cooks there is no meal and no 50/50 draw. Please think about it and volunteer to either help cook a meal or help with cooking/cleanup. The more people, the less work.

The Legion old timers slo pitch ball team won the league championship this year – a motion was accepted to purchase new ball

caps for the team and sweaters in the new year.

Within the next month the Legion build-ing should be all spruced up with a new coat of paint, thanks partly due to the town painting campaign.

Due to Thanksgiving on October 11 (our normal meeting night), the meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. – come out and bring another member with you.

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Naturalists invite all to exciting autumn events

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The Oliver/Osoyoos Naturalists offer many fresh air activities and events, such as hikes and en-vironmental tours. Various walking trips and outings are scheduled for the month of October, so be sure to check them out. Here, a hiker treks up a hill in the proposed national park.

If you’re up for a little exercise in the great outdoors, check out the Oliver/Os-oyoos Naturalists’ schedule of events this fall.

Until mid-October, the public is invited to watch Doug Brown and others band birds that are migrating south. The band-ing takes place at the bird-banding station

at Vaseux Lake from 6-11 a.m. daily. To reg-ister dates, call Brown at 250-495-6164.

Volunteer helpers are invited to record data, remove birds from mist-nets, etc. No special expertise is required. Bring bug spray, binoculars, lunch and water.

The station is located through the gate, one kilometer north of the Vaseux Lake parking lot.

In October, there will be saw-whet owl banding after dark.

On Saturday, Oct. 9, a Manuel Creek out-ing will features many creek crossings on a steady uphill walk, leading to a nice water-

fall. Meet at the Osoyoos Lakeview Plaza, at 9:30 a.m. For more information, call Mari-anne at 250-498-2743.

A potluck dinner party will be held at Oli-ver United Church at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 17. There will be a talk on the Testalin-den slide and others, by Nigel Skermer, a geotechnical engineer. Bring your food contribution, plates, cutlery, etc.

A Mount Anarchist outing is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 24.

There will be an exploratory walk along Lamont Road, with a possible connection to Long Joe. Meet at 9:30 a.m. at Osoyoos Lakeview Plaza. For more information call Carol Boan at 250-495-6107.

On Saturday, Nov. 6, there will be an easy walk on Sidley Road, along a logging road (from McKinney Road) past a lake and a meadow. Meet at the Oliver CPR station at 9:30 a.m. For more information, call Skip at 250-485-0263.

An easy, short hike, exploring an old rail-way tunnel near Midway awaits naturalists during a Rock Creek expedition on Satur-day, Nov. 13. Meet at the Osoyoos Lake Pla-za at 9 a.m. Call Doug at 250-495-6164 for more information.

Visitors and non-members are invited to join the naturalists on their outings. Re-member to wear suitable clothing and foot-wear, and bring water and lunch.

Ask your leader about signing up as a member of the club. Membership includes a subscription to BC Nature, mailed four times a year.

If you have any suggestions for hikes, talk to one of the leaders.


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Osoyoos’s Tim Hiebert, in his 2001 Ford Mustang, beat out Osoyoos’s Blair Ogilvy on September 12, during one of the elimination rounds at the Wine Country Racing Association’s drag races. Hiebert took the eight-mile ride at almost 96 kilometres per hour, but still didn’t make it to the finals. The next race is scheduled for October. 3.

Forty-seven race cars showed up at the Osoyoos Airport on September 12 to line up at the starting line and fly down the eight-mile drag strip at the Wine Country Racing As-sociation’s first of two fall events.

The bleachers were full of cheering fans, eager to take a gamble or a guess on which racer would take the victory of each race down the strip.

Final results: Penticton’s Kevin Clarke won the Sports-man Warrior class, using his 2009 Chevy Cobalt SS to de-feat Summerland’s Don Anderson in a 1967 Porsche. Pent-icton’s Tom Hansum, in his 2004 Chevy Silverado, took the Sportsman’s Bracket, defeating Twisp, Washington’s Walt Pearce in his 1932 Chev.

In the Pro Bracket, Kaleden’s Darin Venne, in a 1964 Dodge Fargo, beat Tonasket’s Al Rise, in a 1965 Ford Galax-

ie, and in Pro Bracket Fast, Oliver’s Chip Sabyan, in a 1985 Olds Cutlass, beat out his brother, Dave Sabyan, who was driving a 1978 Monte Carlo.

In the bike and sled division, Osoyoos’s Steve Macor beat Oliver’s John Martin. Macor was riding a 2002 Kawa-saki, up against Martin’s 1997 Suzuki.

Penticton’s Kayle Shaw earned himself credit for cut-ting a perfect light in his 1980 Chev pickup, when he left the line with a .5 second reaction time.

The last race day in this year’s series is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 3, and it’s an event that’s as exciting for spec-tators as it is for participants. Admission for the races is $10 (free for those under 12), and that gives a day’s worth of racing action.

Racing starts with qualifying rounds at around 11 a.m., and the elimination rounds begin at 1 p.m. More informa-tion can be found at www.winecountryracing.ca.



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Wedding engagementBob and Lia Pinske and Jaime and Celeste Santos are pleased to announce the engage-ment of their children, Kimberly Krystle and Licinio Marques Figueira. The wedding is planned for June of 2011. Both are graduates of SOSS, class of 2003.

Last time we looked at the concept of race and how it can’t have any scientific validity because there will never be a universal idea of what it is.

If scientists can’t all work from the same points of un-derstanding then they can’t reliably share and test each other’s work. If it can’t be rigorously tested, free of lo-cal and cultural biases, then it can never be more than opinion and hypothesis.

In apparent contradiction with that is the knowledge that certain medical condi-tions are more prevalent in some groups of people than others. The provision of medi-cal care can be more effective if the ethnic-ity and genetic background of the patient is taken into account. This would seem to im-ply that classifying people by race is good for them, but unfortunately the genetic differences that affect medical issues sel-dom coincide neatly with the common ra-cial classifications. For instance sickle cell anemia, once naively associated with black Africans, is found in people all around the Mediterranean, regardless of race.

If we can’t rely on differences in physical appearance to let us tell one from anoth-er, how can we quickly and easily decide what is best for each individual? Maybe the genes will tell us. Maybe we could classify everyone by their DNA, then put them in their appropriate groups with other people whose DNA is similar, by whatever defini-tion suits our purpose, and then everyone

could get the best possible medical care.

Maybe we could. The re-sults would not correlate very well with the current racial categories, espe-cially since the categories vary depending on who is making them. But if ev-eryone had their genome sequenced then clinicians could advise them on their statistical risks, and doctors could treat them according to their genes. That’s better

than the crude method of deciding what a person’s race is and basing their care on that. The important thing is that they would be treated according to their indi-vidual nature rather than by lumping them in with other people who share certain characteristics of appearance. It shouldn’t even be necessary to group people based on similarities in their DNA, though it’s bound to happen.

Race continues to lose its relevance in the practice of science, but it sticks much more persistently in the less disciplined language of popular culture. While most scientists can differentiate between a per-son’s genetic profile and their supposed race, non-scientists might not be able to do so. The need to segregate and classify is so strong in some of us that one wonders if there might be a genetic marker for it.

Using genetic differences in people to offer them the best possible medical care is good. Using those differences to justify racial classification is not.

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The Keremeos RCMP responded to a head-on collision between a truck and a quad on Fairview Road near Cawston on September 19.

The driver of the quad, 49-year-old Her-bert Sehn of Cawston, died at the scene as a result of his injuries. He was not wearing

a helmet. The driver and passenger of the truck were not injured.

A preliminary investigation points to alcohol consumption by both the driver of the truck and the quad. The driver of the truck, a 22-year-old Oliver man, was issued a 24-hour driving suspension when he reg-istered a warning on the roadside screen-ing device.

The investigation is ongoing and further charges are pending.

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NEWS

Gardens on the move

Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen

Zoning Amendment Application 30864 Blacksage Road, Rural Oliver, Electoral Area ‘C’ Lot 2, District Lot 2450S, SDYD, Plan 14038, Except Plan 14940

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING:Wednesday, October 6, 2010 – 7:00 pmFirehall Bistro34881 97th Street, Oliver, BC.

PURPOSE:Proposal: amend the Zoning Bylaw to facilitate the expansion of the existingwinery from its current size of approximately 505 m2 to an area just under 810 m2in size.

Amendment Bylaw No. 2453.08, 2010: to amend the Zoning Bylaw by changing thezoning designation of the subject property from Agriculture One (AG1) to AgricultureTwo (AG2).

Permitted uses within the proposed Agriculture Two (AG2) zoning designation include:Principal Uses: agriculture, intensive agriculture, processing of farm and off farmproducts, including sales, packing and storage of farm and off farm products, includingsales, wineries and cideries, including sales, fruit stands, veterinary establishments,kennels, stables, single detached dwellings; andSecondary Uses: accessory dwellings, agri-tourism accommodation, homeoccupations, home industries, bed and breakfast operations, accessory buildings andstructures.

VIEW COPIES OF THE DRAFT BYLAWS & SUPPORTING INFORMATION AT:

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on weekdays (excluding statutory holidays)between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed bylaw amendments canpresent written information or speak at the public hearing. All correspondence for thepublic hearing to be addressed to: Public Hearing Bylaw No. 2453.08, c/o RegionalDistrict of Okanagan-Similkameen. No letter, report or representation from the publicwill be received after the conclusion of the public hearing. This public hearing hasbeen delegated to a Director of the Regional District.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT DEVELOPMENT SERVICES:Telephone: 250-490-4107 Fax: 250-492-0063 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rdos.bc.ca

Donna Butler, MCIP Bill NewellManager of Development Services Chief Administrative Officer

CANADA GOOSE HUNTING SEASON

The Town of Oliver has issued six exemptions under Firearms and ExplosivesBylaw 644, as amended. These exemptions will allow the permit holders todischarge firearms within the Town of Oliver specifically for the purpose ofhunting Canada Geese during the provincially-established hunting season fromSeptember 20, 2010 to November 28, 2010, inclusive and December 20, 2010 toJanuary 5, 2011, inclusive.

The holders of these exemptions must follow all provincial and federal huntingregulations and receive permission from affected land owners before discharginga firearm. In conjunction with the exemptions, the Town of Oliver has grantedspecific permission to these six special permit holders to discharge firearms onpublic land at the Oliver Airport and surrounding Tuc-el-Nuit Lake.

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35016 97th Street • PO Box 638 Oliver, BC V0H 1T0 • Tel: 250.485.6200 • Fax: 250.498.4466 • www.oliver.ca

Lyonel Doherty photoWired in

A lot of utility work is being done during construction of Southwinds Crossing shopping centre. Here, EastLink cable crews work on a pole just north of the development, where work has begun on Tim Hortons and Canadian Tire.

Oliver Community Gardens is on the move.

The Murray family, owners of the land used by the existing Community Gardens on 97 Street, has recently listed the prop-erty for sale. The family has guaranteed that we can finish the 2010 growing season which is much appreciated.

Three years ago the Murrays generously invited the Community Garden Society to set up temporarily on their vacant corner, with its ideal location and handy fence, to help the gardens get started. They told us at the time: “This town has given us so much, we’re happy to be able to give some-thing back. Please use this area until we put it up for sale.”

That time has come, and all the tem-porary structures will need to be cleared out over the next few months. We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Thursday, September 30 in the basement

of the Oliver United Church. An important agenda item will deal with a suitable new location. We invite anyone and everyone in Oliver who shares the values of a commu-nity garden and is wishing to support us, or is simply curious, to join us at the meeting at 6:30 p.m.

If you are a renter of a plot or have joined the OCGS in a supporting role we hope that you will attend. If your friends and ac-quaintances have tasted some of your de-licious home-grown vegetables or admired your “deer-free” flowers and are interested in the concept of community gardening, encourage them to attend. This is an op-portunity for all community gardeners to assess their experiences, share the tasks and make reasonable plans for the future.

Over the past three years, the OCGS has created a community setting to enhance life-long learning, healthy attitudes and cooperation as we grow and share quality food.

For more information contact 250-498-8889 or 250-485-2575.

Judy HarveySpecial to the Chronicle


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Registration will be available in our Club Room in the Oliver Arena from

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Cathy Pidduck photoGolf fundraiserFounding committee members John Chapman, left, and Leo Rivera, far right, join the winning team of Pat Batchelor, Bill Ford, and Pat Beauchamp in the sixth annual FUNdraiser golf tournament.

On Sunday, September 12 the Oliver Curling Club held its sixth annual FUNdraiser Golf Tournament. The empha-sis was on fun.

Ninety golfers blessed with various levels of golfing tal-ent pitted their skills in a scramble format against the cac-tus, sage and sand of Nk’Mip Canyon Desert Golf Course. Finding the elusive fairways and greens proved to be the exception rather than the rule. All players soldiered brave-ly on even though the weather took a turn for the worse.

Back at the Curling Club the volunteer ladies and gents

presented the played-out golfers with a fine steak barbe-cue while the hard driving event committee distributed prizes to all.

No golf match is complete without a winning team. The winners’ prize rewards were enhanced by the presentation of the newly minted Winner’s Plaque. Two members of the event’s founding committee, John Chapman and Leo Rive-ra were on hand to grip and grin with the winning team of Bill Ford, Pat Batchelor and Pat Beauchamp; yes, they did it with only three and perhaps a foot wedge or two.

The committee thanks all who participated in this event, which was a “blast,” with every participant, volunteer, sponsor and the Curling Club being in the winner’s circle.

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Believe it or not, breast cancer was the best thing that ever happened to Diane Worth from Oliver.

“There was nothing negative about it,” she said of her double mastectomy in 2003, which totally changed her outlook on life.

In fact, her recent essay on the topic won first place in the Survivorship Dragon Boat Writing Contest. It was a great opportunity to tell her story, which she hopes will make a difference in people’s lives.

“I journaled everything that happened with the idea that it would be helpful to others.”

Worth, 67, had to start the essay with . . . “It was the day I found out how breast cancer changed my life.”

What she didn’t mention in the essay was the happy face she had to maintain after getting home from the doc-tor’s office. She just found out the bad news, yet she had a wedding to attend and congratulations to hand out. Worth

couldn’t tell anyone that day except her husband Ron that evening.

“As I had always maintained a healthy lifestyle and did not have any hereditary risk factors, I was stunned beyond belief that this could happen to me,” she wrote in her es-say.

Worth said it seemed futile to ask “Why me?” She could have felt helpless and depressed about this question that had no answer. Instead, something turned on her inner strength generator, which began pumping out a steady stream of courage and power.

Cancer had picked a fight with her, so the gloves were off.

“Having my breasts removed I could handle, but to even consider that the cancer may have spread beyond my breasts and into my body was taking its emotional toll.”

Much to her husband’s disapproval, she wore bright co-loured pants on the morning of her surgery. She was in great spirits and felt cheery and relaxed. The nurse said it didn’t look like she needed a pre-op sedative, but Worth

took it anyway. The surgery went well. There was very little pain after-

wards, and the lab results brought wonderful news – the cancer had been successfully removed and had not spread.

Worth has become a healthier person by walking daily and watching her weight – two things she didn’t do very well prior to cancer. She decided not to undergo breast reconstruction procedures because she was very comfort-able with the shape of her body.

What she did opt for was to allow her spirituality to soar. “I choose to be more joyful because life is so unpredict-

able. One lesson I learned is to enjoy the moment more fully, for that is the only amount that time gives us.”

The winning prize for her essay was $100, plus a cer-tificate. Her essay, along with others, can be found in an anthology published by Penticton Writers and Publishers. This book is available at the Canadian Cancer Society in Penticton.

Anyone who would like to hear Worth’s story or share thoughts on the topic can contact her at 250-498-0654.


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A story to tellDiane Worth from Oliver beat breast cancer and tells her story in an essay that won the top literary prize in the Survivorship Dragon Boat Writing Contest. Worth says she could have felt helpless and depressed, but she rose above those negative feelings and changed her life around. Now she’s healthier than ever.

B2 Oliver Chronicle Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21It might be time to lay low for awhile, Gemini. When conflicts arise you want to stay below the radar until things smooth over. Thursday proves to be a challenging day.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, put your trust in someone close to you. You will need this person in the weeks to come to help you through a difficult situation. Chances are it could stretch on for a while.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, complacency is not your credo. Take mat-ters into your own hands if you find things aren’t going according to how you see them. Do it right.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Oliver Chronicle B3COMMUNITY NEWSToo much sodium hurting trees in Oliver

SEPT 22 - Royal Canadian Air Cadets invite you to our open house, refresh-ments served. 7 - 9pm.

SEPT 25 - Wild West days in OK Falls 10am to 10pm at Centennial Park.

SEPT 27 - Card making workshop with Double “O” Quilters at community centre, (non members welcome). 8:30 am. Workshop fees apply. Call 250-488-3798 for more info.

SEPT 28 - The Peach Blossom Chorus invites you to learn to sing a cappella harmony at 7pm to 9pm at Victory Church, 352 Winnipeg St, Penticton.

SEPT 30 - The Oliver Community Garden Society is holding their AGM at 6:30pm in the basement of the Oliver United Church. Members and everyone is welcome.

OCT 1st & 2nd - Oliver Legion Mar-ket Days starts at 8am. Sale of fresh veg-etables and fruit. Flea market & bake sale. All donations greatly appreciated.

OCT 2 - 27th Annual Fall Art Show & Sale presented by the Oliver Com-munity Arts Council in conjunction w/

Festival of the Grape & Oliver & District Museum. 3pm to 9pm at Community Centre, free admission, everyone wel-come.

OCT 3 - Fall Art Show & Sale, noon to 5:30pm. Open to Festival of the Grape attendees only.

OCT 4,5,6 - S.O.& Kelowna Grand-mothers for Africa present a textile art show at Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna. Call for more info and times each day 250-493-0076.

OCT 12 - Kiwanis Club of Oliver meets at noon for lunch at community centre. Potential Kiwanians welcome . Call Peter at 250-498-0889.

OCT 3 - 14th Annual Festival of the Grape at community centre. Noon to 5pm. Call toll free for ticket info at 1-866-498-6321.

OCT 14 - South Okanagan Concert So-ciety presents Andi & Peter Alexander with “Opera Spice & Everything Nice”, 8pm, Venables Auditorium. Tickets at Beyond Bliss or the door.

If a tree could talk in Oliver, it would say, “Hey man, pass the potassium . . . you’re killin’ me with too much sodium.”

Trees are like humans – too much salt is bad for them. That’s the message the Town wants to deliver to residents who use so-dium chloride in their water softeners.

Director of Operations Bruce Hamilton said a lot of sodium is finding its way into the Town’s reclaimed water supply that is used to irrigate Fairview Mountain Golf Course, the cemetery, local parks, the air-port hayfield, and the Public Works yard. This sodium is having a negative effect on trees and plant life, which are suffering leaf burn and, in essence, are slowly dying.

“We’re making a plea to the public to use potassium chloride (instead of sodium chloride) in their water softeners,” Hamil-ton said.

The Town has been reclaiming its waste-water for irrigation purposes since 1983, a commendable practice in BC.

“All our wastewater is put back to bene-ficial re-use,” Hamilton said, noting it takes the pressure off the Town’s fresh water supply.

In fact, Fairview golf course superinten-dent Art Riome said without this reclaimed water supply, the golf course simply “wouldn’t exist” in Oliver.

He noted the biggest problem with so-dium concentrations at Fairview is the impact it has on the trees, particularly the

ponderosa pines. He calls it “a long, slow death.”

Riome said these trees have declined in health very rapidly during the last few years. A few maples trees are also strug-gling to survive, he added.

“Doctors tell us to cut out the salt (so the same advice applies for trees),” Riome said.

Engineering technician Chris Tucker said plants and humans are basically the same. Potassium is an essential nutrient for both species, while too much salt isn’t healthy.

Hamilton said a number of trees in the cemetery have died in the last couple of years, and sodium chloride is the suspected culprit.

Town horticulturist Mark Jamieson agreed, saying some trees develop leaf (tip) burn or “yellowing,” which is a sign of trouble. This is a shame when residents en-joy seeing aesthetically pleasing plants and vegetation in the community, he pointed out.

Hamilton said the Town could better utilize its reclaimed water if more people switched to potassium chloride. Both he and Riome use potassium in their water softeners.

Riome said a few communities in the US actually ban the use of sodium chloride in water softeners. According to one study Riome cited, using sodium chloride in your softener is equivalent to dumping a whole bag of sodium in a river.


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Fairview Mountain Golf Course superintendent Art Riome (left) and Town of Oliver horticulturist Mark Jamieson look at some serious leaf burn on a pin oak tree at the Oliver cemetery. The Town is urging people to use potassium chloride in their water softeners rather than sodium.


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River Rd. & Hwy 97 - 3 miles north of Oliver

Pastors Mark & Rae PankratzSunday Service 10:00 a.m.

www.livingway.com250.498.4595

OLIVER ALLIANCEJust north of town on Hwy 97

Lead Pastor: Jeremy CookAssociate Pastor: Steve McLeanPastor of Seniors: Henry Wiebe

Sunday Services 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.Kids FORCE & Adult Sunday school at 9:30 a.m.Nursery care is available during both services.

Phone: 250.498.4253www.oliveralliancechurch.com

Office : 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Mon. - Fri.

OLIVER WORD OF LIFE CENTREOn 119 St. off of 350th Ave.

Pastors Cameron & Margaret OgilvieSunday Services:

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.(includes Children’s Church)Wed. 7:00 p.m. - Bible Study

at the Church250.498.4020 (home)

250.498.4434

PARK DRIVE CHURCH36672 - 79th St., Oliver

Sunday Morning WorshipService at 10:00 a.m.

Affiliated with Pentecostal As-semblies of Canada

Phone: 250.498.2322Office hrs: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Tues. - Thurs.

ST. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR

(Anglican/Episcopal)Welcomes you!

34660 - 103 St., OliverRev. Patrick ReidSunday Service:

11:00 a.m.Information:

250.498.2559

ST. JOHN’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCIC)

10132 - 362nd Ave., Oliver(2 blocks west of Legion Hall

Sunday Worship: 10 a.m.250.498.8889

ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCC)

Visitors welcome!342nd Ave. at Airport Rd.

Pastor Chuck CooleyDivine Service: 11 a.m. Sunday

Sunday School: 11 a.m. during Wor-ship Service

Adult Bible Study: 9:45 a.m.

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH

All are welcome10450 - 346th Ave.

Pastor: Oscar HalversonServices Saturday:

Sabbath School: 9:30 a.m.Worship Service: 11 a.m.

250.498.4820

THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA

All are welcome9915 - 358th Ave.

Minister: Ann WhiteServices Sunday:

Sunday School & Church Service: 10 a.m.250.498.2781

VALLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

30850 Black Sage Rd.Sunday Worship Gathering:

9:45 a.m.250.498.4829

Christina DohertyOwner/Manager

ph: 250.497.6426 cell: 250.486.0382

LITTLE STARS DAYCARELicensed Family Child Care

Okanagan FallsFor ages

0 - 12 years

Now accepting full-time, part-time and drop-in care.

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Wine Capital Realty

Box 220 - 9712 356th AvenueOliver, BC V0H 1T0Tel: 250-498-6500Toll Free: 1-888-498-6588Fax: 250-498-6504Email: [email protected]

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Dave Whalley photoEarly morning mist

In June, Testalinden (or Testalinda) Lake was at the center of the Oliver mudslide controversy, but now it lies in beauty shrouded in early morning mist. It’s a hiker’s paradise indeed.


Smile of the week

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Deb Varner says goodbye to Oliver with a smile

Deb VarnerStaff photo

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What is your most important value and why?Honesty – if you can’t be honest about what you are doing, you shouldn’t be doing it.

Why did you choose to live in this town?I came to visit a friend during Easter. The day I was leaving to go back to the island, just

for fun we went into a real estate office to see if there was a house available that was large enough for our two families to live in. Five days later we moved to Oliver, two weeks later I had a job.

What would make Oliver a nicer community?Oliver needs to attract and keep young families. I believe one of the ways to do that

would be to build a fitness centre that would offer everything from weight training to racquetball sports. It would have its own gym so that programs such as floor hockey, vol-leyball, etc. could be offered without having to deal with the school board. We already have the most beautiful complex in the valley, these additions would just enhance what we have already.

If you won the $50 million Max lottery, what would you do with the money?Build my dream fitness centre, buy a cabin at Banff and in the Okanagan, bribe my kids

–money in exchange for grandkids.

If you were the Mayor of Oliver, what would you do?Quit!

If you were a fly, which wall in town would you like to inhabit?A salon.

What is your pet peeve in this community?That we can’t seem to attract a good quality clothing store to the town.

If you could fast forward the Town of Oliver by 50 years, what can you visualize?Unless businesses are encouraged to stay in Oliver I don’t think there will be many

changes.

What is the perfect day for you in Oliver?Walking along the hike and bike path with my dog on a warm spring day.

What community issues need the most attention?Drug dealers.

What would be your ideal job?I have had my ideal job for the past 15 years.

Who inspires you the most?Happy faces makes all the work that is required to put on an event worthwhile.

What is your greatest extravagance?Moving to Calgary without a job.

What living person do you most admire?Carolyn Madge who was the manager of Parks & Recreation for 25 years. She taught me

everything about recreation and encouraged my craziest ideas.

When and where were you happiest?Anytime, anyplace where I am with my kids, their spouses and especially my grand-

daughter.

Which talent would you most like to have?Just once I would like to hit a home run or even get to third!

What or who is your greatest love in your life?Hmmm

What is it that you most dislike?People that spit on the sidewalk – gross! Or people who let their dogs poop on the side-

walk – come on people, seriously!!

What do you consider your greatest achievement?My children – Susie and Jimmy.

What is your favourite book?The Secret.

What is your favourite meal?Roast beef, garlic potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, and fresh veggies.


COMMUNITY NEWS

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Whatisacataract? Inside the eye, behind the coloured ring (iris), there is a lens which looks like a marble. This lens changes shape when you look up close to give your eye extra power (ac-commodation). The lens gets rigid with age and reading glasses are often required. A cataract occurs when the lens changes colour and is no longer clear. Your optometrist is able to evaluate your cataracts and determine if you should be re-ferred for cataract surgery.


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GOOD SHEPHERD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

Parents interested in enroll-ing their child for 2010/11 school year in K-7, F/T Kin-dergarten Sept. 2010, Call 250-495-3549 (school), 250-495-5077 (home), or email: [email protected] 37ctf

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS.RE: The Estate of MIKE CERVEN, deceased, former-ly of 32416 95 Street, CMP 19 STE 44 RR1, Oliver, Brit-ish Columbia V0H 1T0, who died on March 5, 2010.Creditors and others having claims against the estate of MIKE CERVEN are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particu-lars of their claims should be sent to Pearce Taylor Sch-neider (Attention: Janice M. Dewer) at 474 Main Street, Penticton, British Columbia V2A 5C5 on or before No-vember 5, 2010 after which date the executor will dis-tribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, hav-ing regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice. 14c4

WE BUY cars & trucks for parts or for running. Call 250-485-3560. 9p10

1999 DODGE CARAVAN. V6, 3.0 L, A/C, P/S, P/B, P/W, new tires, excellent condi-tion, 167,000 km. $3900. OBO. Call 250-498-8394 af-ter 7 pm. 11v4

1991 FORD AEROSTAR mini van, new tires & other new parts. $500 OBO. Call 250-498-8418 or 250-498-6744. 13p3

2000 FORD F450. 7.5L Die-sel. 147,000 km. With 25 ft. flatbed (hydraulic tilt) Ser-vice records available. Call 250-486-1582. 14p3

ARE YOU EXPERIENCING FINANCIAL DISTRESS? Relief is only a call away! Call Harry Martens, Estate Administrator At 1-800-661-3661 today to set up your free consultation. Donna Mi-halcheon, CA, CIRP, KPMG inc. Trustee in bankruptcy. Jan 1, 2011

“DO YOU DO NAILS?”Beyond Bliss Esthetics

is looking for you. We are a fun, well established business looking for a new member to our team....Inter-ested? Come see Julie with a resume at 35672-97 St, Oliver. 12c4

TAXI DRIVERS NEEDED. Looking for persons with a Class 4 or higher, willing to drive taxi day or night shift, part time or full time. Call Subag 250-535-0137. 14p2

LOCAL DOCTOR’S OF-FICE, seeking part-time MOA for Fridays as well as holiday and sick relief. Must have computer skills and knowledge of Med Access would be an asset. Mail re-sume to Box 820 Oliver BC V0H 1T0. 14mc2

EXPERIENCED Hairstylist wanted at Innervisions Hair Design. Now hiring a full or part time fully qualified hair stylist. Please bring a re-sume and apply in person at 9972-350th Ave, Oliver, BC. Ask for Monica. 13v4

WANTED TO HIRE person to remove and dispose of a washer and dryer. Call 250-498-2157. 14p2

GRAPE PICKERS to start approximately Oct. 12 at Os-oyoos Larose Vineyard. No dogs allowed. $10 hr plus bonuses. 3 miles north of the Osoyoos Husky near the Desert Centre and Landfill. Must have SIN #. Call and leave your name and a con-tact phone number at 250-498-4981, extension 307. 14ctf

ALFALFA – grass/hay on Road 18, in Oliver. $8/per bale. Call 250-498-2918. 1mctf

SAWDUST and livestock bedding for plants, green-houses, farms, fir bark mulch for landscaping and com-post. Call 250-498-4267. 51vtf

ACOUSTIC 6 string MA-HAR. $150. 8 piece drum set, $400. Call 250-485-0339. 13ftf

MARY KAY - SKIN CAREFinally. Skin care that’s

made for you. Call Margaret Ogilvie at 250-498-4020. Mary Kay Independent

Beauty Consultant. Dec 31/10

CALL FOR YOUR FREE REGAL CATALOGUE. Hun-dreds of unique gift ideas. Call Tina 250-497-6426 or shop online www.OKFALLS.shopregal.ca 31ftf

FIREWOOD, larch $180 per cord, fir $150 per cord, split, seasoned, delivered. Call 250-485-7916. Dec 31/10

WATKINS PRODUCTS100% guaranteed, natural, organic products. 140 years of dedicated service. Call Inez and Ken at 250-498-4450. 4p12

SHOPRIDER scooter - 6 yrs. old, fully enclosed. $1200. Call 250-498-6464. 14p1

EDGING CEDARS 6 ft - 10 for $200.00

We Delivery Call Budget Nurseries

250-498-2189. 11vtf

KENMORE stacking washer & dryer. 5 yrs old. (110 volt) Includes stacking rack. $200 OBO. Call 250-689-0719. 12v3

DOUBLE BED w/ pillow top quality mattress. 1 yr old. Excellent condition. $400 OBO. Also: 4” double bed memory foam, as new. $300. Call 250-498-3400. 13f2

EXCELLENT horse hay, Brome, Timothy, orchard grass mix, alfalfa grass mix. $8 per bale. Round bales for cows. 1700 lb, $65 each. Call 250-446-2080. Anar-chist Mtn, Osoyoos. Jan01/11

SOLID MAPLE Vilas buffet and hutch. Sofa bed, like new, padded card table & 4 chairs, 40” round patio table & 2 chairs. Reasonably priced. Call 250-498-2234. 13p3

DRY FIREWOOD for sale. Spruce/Pine/Cedar, $100 per cord. Fir/Larch, $150 per cord. Delivery now avail-able., $50 extra. Call 250-809-5285 or 250-498-8299. 14mc4

FIREWOOD AND WOODCHIPS

(Beetle kill, orchard or other) Call T.C.B

The Chopping Block250-498-9039. Inkaneep Rd.

14p1

FREE- Cherry tree wood. Cut yourself. Call 250-498-7210. 14f2

EDGING CEDARS 6 ft - 10 for $200.00

We Delivery Call Budget Nurseries

250-498-2189. 11vtf

FOUND- Tan coloured fe-male dog. Large breed (ridgeback x) Found at Tuc-el-Nuit school, wearing a shock collar. Call 250-498-3415 or 250-498-4077. 14f1

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YORKSHIRE TERRIERS. Females, purebred, 12 weeks old. Parents are CKC registered and both 5 lbs. Must go, expecting new lit-ter.$700 each. Call 250-497-8397. 14mc3

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PANARAMA ORCHARD and fruit stand of North Oli-ver is open for the season. Peaches, nectarines, field tomatoes, Roma, canning tomatoes and much more. Call 250-498-6103. 2v14

ITALIAN PRUNE PLUMS. Large, juicy, easy picking. Rd. 6, U-Pick, Oliver. Call 250-498-4603. 12mc3

1999 TRIPLE E Camandor motor-home. 35 ft. with slide, 106,000. km. V 10, must sell. Asking $36,000. For more info, call 250-485-3136. 13v2

8 FT DIPLOMAT camper, new hydraulic jacks, clean and ready to go. $1500 OBO. Call 250-485-0339. 10ftf

NEWER 3139 sq. ft. Ranch-er, walk-out basement, 3 bdrms, den, 2.5 bath rooms, 2 kitchens. Tuc-el-Nuit area. Immaculate. $489,900. Call 250-498-2021. 5v10

PRICES SLASHED on 2 Park Place condos both on the 3rd floor. One is 980 sq ft, 2 bdrm, 1-1/2 bath priced at just $134,900. The other is 870 sq ft, 2 bdrm, 1 bath priced at $119,000. This complex features many common ameni-ties and a real community atmosphere. Is it time to downsize? These units are vacant and ready to move in to. Call Beth Gar-rish, Royal LePage South Country at 250-498-6222 or email [email protected]. 9ctf.

STOP PAYING RENT!!With only 25% down. Pay-ments are less than rent per month, you can buy a 2 bdrm. 1.5 bath condo, 3 minutes from Oliver. 972 sq. ft. includes washer, dryer, fridge, stove. Less than a car payment. Stop squandering rent and get equity for the same money. Priced to sell at $120 K. $20,000 less than a year ago. Illness forces to sell. Call Bob at 250-498-7861. 14mc2

CASA RIO – Ground floor & upper unit, 2 bdrm, 2-bath. $875 & $975 per month. Call Karen Lewis at RE/MAX Wine Capital Re-alty, 250-498-6500. 37ctf

FOR RENT - 1 bdrm. Large suites, S/F, AC, close to downtown, very nice, freshly redone. Ground level. $575 to $675 + util. Call Honey Bug Suites. 250-498-0232. 4p20

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Terminal Bailiffs, Call 250-493-2618.

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STORAGE/RENTAL space. Approx. 1500 sq. ft. avail-able immediately. High ceil-ing. Secure location. Ideal for boat, RV etc. $600 mth. Call 250-498-4506. 12ctf

HOUSE IN OLIVER. Ap-prox. 1200 sq. ft. 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath, open floor plan, plus basement. 55 + community, quiet setting, recent renos, $1000. mth. Call Bob 250-768-4117. 11mc4

4 BDRM HOUSE, full base-ment, avail Oct. 1. $1200 mth. plus utilities. Near high school. Call 250-498-6190 (after 3:30) 250-498-1553, or 250-498-1544. 11v4

55 PLUS 2 bdrm basement suite. 1600 sq ft, F/S, W/D. Private patio. Close to golf course & beach. $700 in-cludes all utilities & satellite TV. Small pet ok. Avail Oct. 1st. Call 250-498-4121. 13p2

36 FT. 5th. wheel. Fur-nished, 6 km N of Oliver by Jackson Triggs, $720 mth. includes utilities, damage deposit and references re-quired. Access to OK River. Avail. Oct. 1. Call 250-495-2872 or (cell) 250-689-5045. 13v2

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3 BDRM TRAILER, close to town. $650 month plus utili-ties. Available Oct 1st. Call 250-498-6763. 13p2

4 BDRM HOUSE for rent, close to town, 1 km north. Pets OK. $1100 incl util. Avail Oct 1st.ALSO: 2 bdrm basement suite. $850 month, incl util. Avail Oct 1st. Call 250-809-1975. 13p2

3 BDRM SUITE in town. $725 month plus utilities. Call 250-535-0426 after 6pm. 13p3

3 BDRM TOWNHOUSE in Oliver. Avail Oct. 1st. Call 250-498-9592. 13c3

2 ROOM CABIN. 6 km N of Oliver by Jackson Triggs, A/C, furnished, $600 mth. includes utilities. Referenc-es and damage deposit re-quired. Access to OK River. Avail. Sept. 15. Call 250-495-2872 or (cell) 250-689-5045. 13v2

BEAUTIFUL 2 bdrm base-ment suite. $750 month, electricity & cable incl. Pri-vate entrance, fireplace, yard. Avail Oct 1st.Call 250-408-9222. 13v2

SNOWBIRDS WELCOME or long-term for 3 bdrm house in vineyard. S. Oli-ver. W/D, F/S, N/S, N/P. $900 month plus utilities. Avail immed. Call 250-498-2389. 14f1

3 BDRM TOWNHOUSE, 1.5 bath. W/D, F/S, fenced back yard w/ shed. Small pet ok. $900 month + 1/2 month security deposit. Avail Sept. 15th. Call cell 250-498-9927. 13p3

SUBLET - 2 bdrm. furnished home, avail. Nov. 1 to April 31, 2011. Reasonable rent. For more info. Call 250-485-3136. 13v2

2 BDRM. HOUSE, orchard setting, $750 mth. plus utili-ties, N/P. Call 250-498-3943 or 250-486-4613. 13p2

BASEMENT SUITE, avail. Oct. 1. Two bdrm, N/P, N/S, own private daylight en-trance, $750 mth. Call 250-498-6316. 13p2

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3 BDRM. HOUSE w/in-law suite. $900 mth. plus utili-ties. Avail Oct. 1. Yard, N/S, N/P, Call 250-498-0887. 13p4

1 BDRM SUITE, level entry in Osoyoos. $400 month including utilities., N/S, N/P. Adult oriented. Call 250-495-6320 or 250-495-6875. 13p2

HOUSE FOR RENT. Avail. Oct. 15. 2 bdrm. $750 mth. plus utilities. Call 250-498-6105 or 250-485-8334. 14p2

BC HOUSING is now ac-cepting applications for a wait list from families need-ing affordable housing in a 3 bedroom townhouse complex. The monthly rent is 30% of income. The eli-gibility criteria must be met. Please contact: 1-800-834-7149 or for applicationswww.bchousing.org 14cv9

2 BDRM SUITE, F/S/W/D, $750 mth. 40% power, N/S, N/P. Call 250-498-3219. 14p2

CAMELOT COURT APTS.Near post office, one bed-room, private ground en-trance, F/S, A/C, long term tenant welcome. Owner managed for 24 years, in-door cat welcome. Rent per month: $550 plus utilities, security deposit and refer-ences. Call 250-498-4058. 14p4

2 BDRM HOUSE. N/S, N/P. ALSO 1 bdrm. apt. N/S, N/P. Call after 11 am. 250-498-0872.

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FOR LEASE OR RENT1) 900 sq ft office space. Second floor of Shopper’s Drug Mart building.2) 1000 sq ft workshop, warehouse and/or office in centre of town. Clean, se-cure, reasonable rate.3) Storage areas from 60 sq ft to 500 sq ft. Clean,secure, in town, reasonable rates. For info about any of the above Call 250-498-4014 or cell 250-498-1096. 13f1

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LARGE 1 BDRM suites & bachelor suites avail for rent from Oct 1st to April 1st, 2011. Fully furnished, util/cable incl. quiet loca-tion, near mall & local bus service. Prices start at $450 month. Call the Maple Leaf Motel at 250-498-3584. Dec30,10

OLIVER,$1,400 month- plus util. New townhouse at The Willows, 3 bdrms, 3 baths. 2000 sq. ft. Avail. Oct. 1/10.$950 month plus util, house in rural Oliver, 2 bdrm, 1 bath N/P. Avail Oct 1st.$800 month - plus utilities - winter rental only - 2 bdrm, 1 bath, house in town. Avail. Oct 15 to March 31.$750 month - plus utilities, short term rental, 2 bdrm, 1 bath house right on the lake. Avail. Oct. 1 to June 30. $775 month - plus utili-ties, Lower ground level of house, 2 bdrm. 1 bath in town. Avail. immed. OSOYOOS,$1000 month plus util, 2 bdrms + den, 2.5 bath townhouse, close to town. Avail Oct 1st$700 month - plus util, large 2 bdrm, 1 bath, ground level basement suite w/ view of the lake. Avail. Sept 1/10.PENTICTON, $1000 month + util. 2 bdrm, 1 bath house in Penticton w/ 4 appliances & close to all amenities. Avail immed.KALEDEN$725 month + utilites - 2 bdrm, 1 bath, ground level suite - No pets, no children. Avail. immed.

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1) 2 bdrm unit in Casa Madera in Osoyoos. Pool, hot tub and comes furnished or unfurnished. Available im-mediately. N/S, N/P. $800 plus utilities.2) Beautiful executive home on golf course in Osoyoos. Available Sept. 1, 2010. N/S, N/P. $1500 plus utilities.3) Two bedroom home on large lot in Osoyoos. Newly remodeled. Avail immed. $1000. plus utilities. N/S, N/P.4) Large 2 bdrm condo in Desert Court Complex with pool. 1 small pet allowed. Available Sept 1, 2010. $950 plus utilities.5) One bdrm cabin in Os-oyoos vineyard, newly up-dated - $600 utilities includ-ed.6) Lovely newer 2 bdrm condo. All appliances, u/g secure parking - Casa Rio. N/S, N/P. Faces park. $885 mth.For more information on these homes, please callNita Neufield at Royal LeP-age South Country Prop-erty Management. 250-498-6222. 14c1

1 BDRM. NEW CABIN. Or-chard setting, appliances in-cluded. $550 mth. Call 250-689-1111. 14p2

BACHELOR SUITE. Very private quiet setting. Suit-able for a single person. 55+ preferred. N/S, N/P. $500 mth. includes utilities, cable and internet. Avail. Oct. 1. Call 250-498-0164. 14p2

FOR RENT, bachelor suite, includes furniture, utilities, cable and laundry facilities. Available Oct. 1. $575 mth. Call 250-498-2650. Close to Buy-Low Foods. 14p2

In loving memory of

Kenneth Emanuel Krause

Sept. 16, 1960 - July 30, 2010

It is with great sadness that the Krause family says good-bye to their brother, Ken, who passed away suddenly in Fredericton, New Brunswick on July 30, 2010.

On September 16, 1960, Kenneth Krause was born in St. Martin’s Hospital in Oliver, BC, to a large family. He was the eighth child born to Isabell and Emanuel (Manny) Krause. His young years were spent growing up on Sawmill Road in Oliver, where he took full advantage of the river and oxbows in the area. Ken loved the outdoors and spent most of his summers down by the water, fishing and catching whatever moved – frogs, snakes, salamanders and squirrels, which he cared for, then let go back to the wild. He loved nature and en-joyed being a part of a large family and was thrilled when the family moved north of town to a house right next to a creek.

Ken attended school in Oliver and after a few years of hunt-ing for the right place to be, headed to Prince George for a few years then moved east and settled in New Brunswick. He never married or had a family of his own, and was hoping to eventually return to BC to the nature and family he loved. He will be missed by his family and friends.

Ken was predeceased by his parents, Isabell and Emanuel Krause, and is survived by his brothers; Redge Krause of Vernon, BC, Don Krause of Kamloops, BC, Alvin Krause of Princeton, BC, and by his sisters; Sandra Derker of Princeton, BC, Gail Davis of Omak, WA, Sharon Krause of Surrey, BC, Cathy Becker of Oliver, BC, and Shelly Hogg of Princeton, BC. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews. Ken was cremated in New Brunswick, and his ashes were returned to BC. A private celebration of Ken’s life took place Sept. 16, 2010, near the river on Sawmill Road. May he rest in peace.

In lieu of flowers or cards, the family would greatly appre-ciate donations to the Canadian Diabetes Association.

5 miles south on Hwy 97$5/sq. ft., triple net

Available Sept. 1, 2010

Contact Chris Jentsch: 250.498.7873

12,000 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE FOR RENTIn loving memory of

June B. Vanderburgh

1926 - 2010

June B. Vanderburgh, age 84, widow of John Vande-burgh, entered into eternal rest in Vancouver, BC, on Sept. 5, 2010.

Born June 26, 1926, in Penticton, BC, she was a daughter of William B. and Lillian E. Raincock,

June attended school in Oliver, BC, and was honoured to be the 1943 May Queen.

In addition to her husband, June was predeceased by her parents and brothers, Herbert A., Billy and Kenny.

June is survived by son, Richard J. Bauder, daughter, Penny Fox, and granddaughter, Tanya Smith (Troy), great-grandchil-dren, Imogen, Hayden and Eihley of Margaret River, Austra-lia, step-daughters, Kathi Wright and Nancy Baker (Gordon), three granddaughters and two great-grandchildren. June also leaves her cherished sister, Yvonne Lightbody of Sumter, South Carolina, and numerous nieces and nephews.

June will be remembered as a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

In loving memory

Helene Wiens1921 - 2010

The family of Helene Wiens announces her pass-ing on Friday, September 17, 2010 at Sunnybank Care Centre, Oliver at the age of 89 years.

Helene was predeceased by her husband, Bernhard, in 2007. She is lovingly remembered by her two sons, Reinhard (Cindy) and Eduard (Debbie), as well as grandsons, Andrew and Matthew.

Helene was the second oldest of five sisters; Luise, Olga, Anne and predeceased by Katie. Helene loved gardening, arts and crafts especially her knitting and cross-stitching.

A funeral service for Helene will be held on Friday, Sep-tember 24, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. from the Chapel of Graham Fu-neral Home, with Pastor Jeremy Cook officiating. Interment will follow at the Oliver Cemetery.

Arrangements entrusted to

Graham Funeral Home34616 - 99th Street, Oliver

(250) 498-3833

Your messages of condolence, sharing your fond memories

of Helene may be sent to: www.grahamfh.com

In loving memory

Sonya Petryk1944 - 2010

PETRYK: (nee Sytune) Sonya – Born March 26, 1944 in Hillcrest, Alberta. Peacefully died at her home on Monday, September 20, 2010.

Sonya will be lovingly remem-bered by her three sons, Duane (Colleen) Poburn, Ardrossan, Alberta; Ross (Rose) Poburn, Norway House, Manitoba; and James Dochuk, Oliver, B.C. Survived by her sister, Rose (Eugene) Boyko, Edmonton, Alberta; niece, Sheri Goede, Ed-monton, Alberta.

Predeceased by her parents, Michael and Ksenia Sytune and brother, Peter Sytune.

A family service will be held in the Chapel of Graham Fu-neral Home on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.

As an expression of sympathy donations to the Oncology Department of Penticton General Hospital will be greatly appreciated. Cremation will follow with interment at Beach-mount Cemetery, Edmonton, Alberta.

Arrangements entrusted to

Graham Funeral Home34616 - 99th Street, Oliver

(250) 498-3833

Your messages of condolence, sharing your fond memories

of Sonya may be sent to: www.grahamfh.com


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2 BDRM SUITE for rent. N/S, N/P, on Rd 18. Avail. right away. $700 mth. incl. utilities. Call Nancy after 6:00 pm. Call 250-498-4708. 14p1

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Helping you prepare your children for tomorrow

The weather forecast was not favourable for the second annual mixed doubles ten-nis tournament on Sept. 11-12.

Rain was the order of the weekend. But after all was said and done and the last ar-ticle was packed away the rains came and we are happy to report a very successful tournament was completed. Someone up there likes us.

We had an early start Saturday morning. At 7:45 a.m. the A and B divisions had to compete in a pro set (eight games) to de-termine whether they would be A players or B players. At 8:45 mayor Pat Hampson honoured us by opening the tennis tourna-ment. He gave a speech on all the attributes of Oliver, which we know are many and worthy to be explored.

Our tournament directors Bob Grant and Greg Smith have again outdone themselves as the contingent of players doubled from last year.

I would venture to say it will be even larger next year as many compliments were given in favour of the club. A special thank you to Dr. Dave Shaw for the great job done in soliciting all the sponsors.

The players and volunteers enjoyed the kind donations of our sponsors, both at the games and later at the dinner as our presi-

dent Graham Jenkinson and his wife and first lady Elaine opened their home to 50 guests for a steak dinner on Saturday eve-ning. It was an occasion to be remembered and a good time was had by all. Graham was in a large part responsible for the suc-cess of our tennis club and we would like to thank him for putting his organizational skills to such good use.

Many door prizes were handed out among the players and the first one was a new tennis racquet donated by Porfirio Gonzales. It was won by Kersten Grant and later to be donated to her husband Bob.

We watched some very interesting matches throughout the weekend. One comes to mind where Curtis Hamilton did a roll on court (to show us his agility) and still keep the ball in play, plus mentioning of two or three sore arms and feet and a tumble by Nieves Windley which resulted in a nasty bump on the head and will re-quire lots of TLC from Greg and friends.

Now, it’s down to the finals. The A (Vin-cor International) division was won by Por-ferio Gonzales and Jayden Carr, first place, and Kees den Otter and Dawna den Otter, second place.

The B (Buy-Low Foods) division was won by Vern Henniger and Dian Lees, first place, and Mary Wee and Curtis Hamilton, second place.

Last but not least the C (Antelope Ridge) division, Janet Shaw and Jack Johnston, first place. Erin Mulburn and Ken Nahlar, second place.

Tennis is not over yet and we are looking forward to an exciting future with our club.

Photo contributed

Nk’Mip Ladies’ & Men’s Golf Results for September 15th, 2010

Ladies’ Day Championship

held over two days, Sept. 15 & 16:

Winner:Gwen Miller

Runner Up:Donna Priest

Overall Low Net:

Sandi Ellefson

1st Flight Winner: Cathy Pidduck

Runner Up: Sandi Ellefson

2nd flight Winner:

Nan Hendrie

Runner Up:Pat Beauchamp

3rd Flight Winner:

Carleen Dyck

Runner Up:Josce Hale

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Men’s Nite Sept. 15 Results:

Low Gross, 0 - 17:Bronsen Teigen, 35

Low Net, 0 - 17:Chuck Builder, 33

Low Gross,18+:Skinner, 45

Low Net, 18+:Dave Pagett, 34

KP, 0 - 10:Bronsen Teigen

KP, 11 - 17:Andy Marsel

KP, 18+:Colin Evans

Longest Drive:0 - 10: Brad Smith11 - 17: Jeff Glenn

18+: Gary McCluneKP in Two: Bronsen TiegenLongest Putt: Bronsen Tiegen

KP to Tree 4: Tim Bell

Luck of the drawThe recent mixed doubles tennis tournament was very successful. Shown during a 50/50 draw are, from left, Peter Perkin, Deb Edwards, Greg Smith, Dave Shaw and Bob Grant.

Peter PerkinSpecial to the Chronicle

online edition - september 22, 2010

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