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Feb 25, 2021 12:05 AM Russ Byth
West Kelowna Council supported an application to the Agricultural Land Commission. It’s asking for non-farm use for the relocation of the skateboard park on a portion of 3743 Old Okanagan Highway in the Agricultural Land Reserve. It would see the existing facility rebuilt at the nearby location as part of the overall site development for the new City Hall/Library Building.
Victoria has revealed the communities that will benefit from $30 million in small-scale infrastructure projects throughout BC. Locally, West Kelowna will receive 442-thousand to replace the 21-year-old ammonia chiller in the ice-making plant at the Jim Lind Arena and Royal LePage Place. And the Lake Country Art Gallery Society will get 40-grand for facility upgrades.
(CARLI BERRY / iNFOnews.ca) January 31, 2021 - 8:00 AM A blue and white sailboat has been the marketing staple of Holiday Park Resort since its inception in the 1980s, but the boat has a far longer history, some of which was spent beneath the waves of Okanagan Lake. The sailboat is actually the Orchard City II, a tugboat commissioned in 1903 that was used to cart logs across Okanagan Lake. In 1948, it sank after a storm near Kelowna’s Mission area, where it sat for almost 30 years, according to Old Kelowna, a Facebook page which highlights the Central Okanagan’s history. In 1979, it came back to the surface when Kelowna entrepreneur Leo Budnick decided to use it as a restaurant.