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 [...]
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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 [...] A painting of Penticton’s landmark S.S. Sicamous by E.J. Heffel was sold at auction June 17 by the Heffel Gallery for C$128,700. The painting had been estimated to bring between C$75,000 and C$95,000. Hughes painted the watercolour in 1994, based on sketches he made during a 1959 visit to Penticton. For more details: EJ Hughes, [...] |
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