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City council looking to support the local production of food by amending laws around greenhouses.
The move affects residential lots and the size of greenhouses
The proposed change would allow for greenhouses up to 3.5 metres in height and 30 square metres in size.
Any structure beyond 10 square metres would require a building permit.
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The warm, dry weather we enjoyed this winter, could hurt fruit producers in the Okanagan.
Right now the snow pack is at 85-per cent of normal which is below average.
Glen Lukas, GM of the BC Fruit Growers says because its been so dry in the past summer- we kinda needed snow.
Lukas says the reservoirs are pretty low, and water rationing the summer could be a possibility,.
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Kelowna RCMP have arrested 28 year old Trevor NILSSON, who was wanted on a Canada wide warrant, at a local restaurant yesterday March 8th.
Thanks to some astute and observant Loss Prevention Officers from a nearby mall, NILSSON was tracked down to a restaurant in the 1900 block of Cooper Rd. where he was arrested without incident.
NILSSON will be returned to the Kamloops Regional Correctional Facility today. Nilsson became wanted for a Federal Parole Violation when he failed to report to his parole supervisor in Kamloops. He has a history of Criminal Code and violence related offences.
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The Okanagan Sun will no longer be getting grant money from the Province. The government has announced it will no longer fund adult sports because they can't justify it.
Okanagan Sun President Bill Long says he's okay with it, even though they got 30-thousand dollars from the province last year.
Long says they will take revenue away from other areas to make up that shortfall, but he says this is the new reality,.
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We are still on target to open the new patient care tower at the Kelowna General Hospital in the next 2 years.
Communications Officer Cam McAlpine says they're ahead of schedule, maybe by a couple of months, and things have fallen in place nicely, and it looks good.
McAlpine says we could see a lot more activity in the upcoming months.
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Fred Preston, a former Ontario township council leader who was struggling with marital problems, has been identified as the suspect in a shootout on a rural road that killed Const. Vu Pham....
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