Here’s a compendium of some of your thoughts which we received this week. Follow the link to read the original version.
The chairman of Tourism Kelowna’s board of directors reviewed the revised pan the board has for building a tourist centre at the foot of Queensway Avenue in downtown Kelowna. It will still be set back from Okanagan Lake by about 15 meters, and be about 40 per cent smaller than the original plan presented to Kelowna earlier this year. It will be one storey tall and have no space for staff offices.
A Halloween fundraising dog walk organized by students in the KSS Global Awareness Club, was appreciated. The Shake-a-Paw program helps youth with mental health issues learn to train dogs that need a home.
And still on the theme of Halloween, a Kettle Valley resident invited Capital News columnist, and Kelowna city councillor Charlie Hodge to visit her community next Halloween. His column had lamented the loss of a holiday filled with fun for the kids into something young adults had taken over. ” My newly acquired ghouls and ghosts will sit quietly in the garage for 364 days, until they can delight hundreds of children” next Halloween, she wrote.
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