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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
April 16, 2024 - 12:00 PM

Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.
Why Kelowna pays way over assessed value for land it buys
March 03, 2024 - 6:00 PM
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Whenever the City of Kelowna announces a big land purchase, reporters scurry to the BC Assessment website and write headlines screaming out how many times more than the assessed value was paid in taxpayers’ dollars.
Restoration of vintage gas station proposed in midst of downtown Kelowna skyscrapers
February 29, 2024 - 10:32 AM

Kelowna’s tallest skyscraper at 42 stories is well under construction at Leon Avenue and Water Street in downtown Kelowna. Kiddy-corner was once a proposal for a 40-storey tower and a block away there’s plans for 34 story tower.
Will we 'walk across the backs' of sockeye salmon in the Okanagan again?
December 28, 2023 - 7:00 AM

The Adams River is famous for huge runs of sockeye salmon each fall as the river runs red with spawning and dying fish.
Workers in downtown Kelowna building forced out as UBCO digs deeper
December 06, 2023 - 6:00 PM
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Damage to a fourth building near the construction site of UBC Okanagan’s new downtown Kelowna campus has triggered a “do not occupy” notice to a commercial building across Doyle Avenue from the site.
New Kelowna tower proposal aims to build community from ground up
September 19, 2023 - 7:00 AM
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The One Water Street project, with its two highrise towers, has helped transform downtown Kelowna.
Breaking the rules: Vernon council approves pool permits after the fact
July 21, 2023 - 7:00 AM
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To appease the owners of two multi-million dollar Vernon homes, council has OK'd the building work for their cliff-hanging swimming pools even though one of the properties had done the work without the permit, and the other built a wall higher than they should have.
iN VIDEO: How 'Canada's biggest water system' took Vernon from cattle to fruit
April 30, 2023 - 8:00 AM

It was mostly foreign land barons who transformed the Coldstream/Vernon area from cattle and hay to fruit in the early part of the 20th Century.
Province spends $7M on Vernon court renos but trials still transferred elsewhere
March 27, 2023 - 7:30 AM

The B.C. government has spent $4.7 million on renovating the Vernon courthouse but is still having to transfer cases elsewhere.
Why there’s a tomb and not a university on Knox Mountain in Kelowna
January 22, 2023 - 6:00 AM

There is a certain amount of mystery around why a remote but popular beach in Kelowna is called Paul’s Tomb.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of February 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jo

'No rationale': BC pub fined $7,000 for customer drinking beer in its bowling alley
A BC pub has been fined $7,000 after a customer took a beer from the bar to its bowling alley. According to a Jan. 16 BC Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch decision, the Victoria bar argued the rule was difficult to manage because custom

France targets traffickers and recreational drug users as minister warns of a 'tsunami of cocaine'
PARIS (AP) — “Every day, people pay the price for the drugs you buy.” Amid record cocaine seizures and deadly shootings, the slogan is simple and aims to raise awareness among France’s millions of recreational drug u

Kelowna rental property manager gets licence cancelled
The managing broker of a Kelowna property management company whose clients complained they hadn't gotten their money has been suspended. According to a Feb. 10 BC Financial Services Authority decision, Tao Guo, who goes by Terry Guo, ha

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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say

Why Kelowna pays way over assessed value for land it buys

Restoration of vintage gas station proposed in midst of downtown Kelowna skyscrapers

Will we 'walk across the backs' of sockeye salmon in the Okanagan again?

Workers in downtown Kelowna building forced out as UBCO digs deeper

New Kelowna tower proposal aims to build community from ground up

Breaking the rules: Vernon council approves pool permits after the fact

iN VIDEO: How 'Canada's biggest water system' took Vernon from cattle to fruit

Province spends $7M on Vernon court renos but trials still transferred elsewhere

Why there’s a tomb and not a university on Knox Mountain in Kelowna

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