- Business Leader of the Year: Beth Campbell, Best Western Inn, Penticton
- Business of the Year: Valley First Credit Union
- Community Booster Award: Colin Powell, Marketplace IGA
- Hospitality and Tourism Award: Penticton lakeside Resort
- Best Home Based Business: Szabo Photography Co.
- Industrial Business Award: Pattison Sign Group
- Retail Service Business Award: Guerard‘s Fine Furniture
- Best New Business Award: Bellevue Cafe
- Young Entrepreneur Award: Rene Carloni, The Mortgage Centre
- Young Citizen of the Year Award: Neetu Garcha
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The gig is up for the Summerland Hills Golf Resort. The development partners, Brandenburg Properties and Locations West, informed Summerland that they intended to let the option to purchase a parcel of municipal property expire. The parcel was about a quarter of the total 420-hectare property being developed for the golf resort. This move comes after a previous announcement from the developers last November that they intended to scale down the original development proposal. This development has been in the works for almost a decade and initially promised to bring a substantial economic boost to the small Okanagan community. More Once again, Okanagan fruit growers are in trouble and are looking to government to bail them out. At the recent BC Fruit Growers Association convention in Kelowna, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz was told that the Okanagan industry was in crisis, caused by low prices for apples and cherries over the past two years. Ritz also heard calls for an emergency one-time payment to local fruit growers and reinstatement of a replant subsidy to assist growers with replacing existing varieties with new more lucrative ones. More |
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