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West Kelowna woman swept into creek was a skilled potter and community advocate

Elaine Hughes-Games died May 11 after falling into a creek in West Kelowna.
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The 68-year-old senior who died yesterday hiking in West Kelowna was a well-accomplished potter, a keen gardener, and a devoted community member.

Elaine Hughes-Games died May 11 after falling into a fast-flowing creek at Glen Canyon Regional Park.

According to Bob and Gloria Harrold, who knew Hughes-Games for more than 20 years, she had been taking a photo of Powers Creek at Glen Canyon Provincial Park and slipped on a rock and fell in. The water was very high and very fast and she was swept away.

Bob said the West Kelowna resident was involved in multiple organizations throughout the community. She was a professional potter who sold her pottery at various stores around the region and at the Kelowna Farmers Market, where she sat on the board.

She was the president of the Okanagan Potters’ Association and had been working in the medium for more than 40 years and was also involved with the community theatre.

"She was never just a casual observer she would get right in there," Gloria said about her friend. "She was very intense, she didn't do anything halfway she would dive right in."

Gloria said she thought Hughes-Games became a potter because she liked creating something from nothing.

"You could take something from dirt and turn it into something else," she said.

Hughes-Games lives just a few blocks away and the pair had been gardening together for about 20 years.

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She was an avid hiker who went walking two or three times a week Gloria said.

Born and bred in Kelowna, Hughes-Games later graduated with a Fine Arts Diploma from the Kootenay School of Art.

Bob said her husband died several years ago and she had no children.

He described his friend as "strong-minded."

"She had her own opinions about things and her own values and you couldn't change them," he said.


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