Volume 7 : Issue 11 November Skaha Matters 2015 Your FREE Monthly “Bringing Community Matters To You” Community Newsletter Published by Okanagan Matters Publications www.SkahaMatters.com [email protected] 250.490.6951 Quick Facts: 3300 copies are printed and distributed each Scan QR Code to month. All residents and businesses in Kaleden, Heritage the left with your Hills, Okanagan Falls, Skaha Estates, St. Andrews, and smart phone and Twin Lakes receive an issue via Canada Post on the last read any issue of business day of each month. 35 locations also carry copies. Skaha Matters. For full advertising details and to send in a submission, please email [email protected]. A peaceful warm autumn day on Vaseux Lake. Water - Sewer - Garbage & Recycling - Bylaw Enforcement - Permits Regional Heritage Strategic Plan - Ocial Plan Plans Community HeritageRegional Strategic “D” GOV EA ERN AR A What services does the RDOS L N A C R E S O T provide? What do they cost? 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Call for Special Area “D” covers Upper Carmi, Heritage Hills/Lakeshore Highlands, Skaha Estates, Apex, Orders Twin Lakes, St. Andrews, NE Vaseux Lake, Okanagan Falls, Kaleden & surrounding areas. of Chester’s The Governance Study Committee is made up of citizens from throughout Area “D”. 250.497.5194 Chicken Open 9-9 Daily Curious about the Electoral Area “D” Governance Study? Please visit our webpage at www.rdos.bc.ca & click on the Stocked with the LARGEST Craft Selection in the South Okanagan! Electoral Area “D” Governance tab on the right hand side. Invasive Species - Regional Trails - Volunteer Fire Protection Fire Volunteer - Trails Species - Regional Invasive Transit - Parks & Recreation - Regional Growth Strategy - Bear Aware BIG SALE ~ BELOW BC GOVT PRICING EVERY MONTH! Page 2 November 2015 SkahaMatters.com Get Your Event November 2015 Community Calendar on the Community Calendar! View Online at www.SkahaMatters.com ~ Event Reminders on Facebook Page! 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Church Services* 1 2 3 Seniors Travel Tips * 4 5 6 7 OK Falls United Church 9am OK Falls Senior Centre* KalRec Budget * OK Falls Library 10:30am OK Falls Lions Club Random Act of OK Falls Senior Centre* Anglican Church 9:30am Elections 1pm Kaleden Hall 7pm OK Falls Senior Centre* School Breakfast * Kindness Day * Pancake Breakfast 8-10pm Kaleden & OK Falls Carpet Bowling Weds 1pm OK Falls School 7:30am Blood Donor Clinic * OK Falls PAC * OK Falls Legion #227* Zumba Gold ® * Community Churches 10am OK Falls Gym 9:30am Nov 2 & 3 1:30-5:30pm School Library 6:30pm Skaha Bluffs Meeting * SO Genealogy Meeting Meat Draws Fri/Sat 5pm Catholic Mass 11:30am Governance Study * Origami for Adults * Penticton Lakeside 4-8pm Penticton Library 7pm * OK Falls Legion #227* The Well 6pm OK Falls Club Room 6:30pm OK Falls Library 6:30pm SD#53 Forum 7pm* LA Monthly Bingo 1pm 8 9 10 11 Fall Book Club * 12 13 14 OK Falls Legion #227 OK Falls Parks & Rec Kaleden Kids Club * Remembrance Day * Kaleden Church Thermography * Skaha Sewer Steering Open Darts 11am Floor Hockey Mondays Kaleden Hall Tues 2:45-4pm In Okanagan Falls Helping Hand Food Mobile Breast Clinic Committee Meeting * Sunday Funday 1pm Get Bent Yoga * Kaleden PAC * Ceremony at School 10am Drive & Registration * In Penticton OK Falls Gym 9-11am Service at Cenotaph 11am OK Falls Senior Centre* Kaleden Church 1:30pm School Library 6pm Luncheon at Legion follows BC Winter Games * OK Falls Parks & Rec Game On! * Music Jam 1pm Origami for Kids * Torch Lighting Ceremony Youth & Teen Night 7-9pm OK Falls Gym 3-5pm 2nd Sunday each month OK Falls Library 6:30pm SOEC 6:30pm 15 16 Gentle Yoga * 17 What’s That Worth?*18 Kaleden Library 19 20 21 OK Falls Legion #227* Women’s Institute * Kaleden Hall Tues 9am OK Falls Library 10:30am Xmas Card Making * OK Falls Senior Centre* OK Falls Senior Centre* LA Christmas Bazaar 9am OK Falls Club Room 1pm OK Falls Senior Centre* Family Storytime * Kids 2:30pm / Adults 6:30pm Music & Coffee Drop-in Bingo 1-4pm LA Breakfast 8-11am Wed/Fri 9-10:30am OK Falls Revitalization 1st 3 Tuesdays Bingo 1pm OK Falls Library OK Falls Senior Centre* Tuesdays Pool 6:30pm Wednesdays 1:30pm Public Meeting * Thursdays Scrabble 10am, Flu Shot Clinic * Thursdays Bridge 1pm & Senior Centre 7-9pm Stay Healthy Naturally * RDOS OCP-D-1 * OK Falls Senior Centre OK Falls Library 7-8pm Kaleden School 5-8pm Thursdays Crib 7pm 22 23 24 Pharmasave’s 25 26 27 28 St. Barbara’s Church OK Falls Lions Club Tumble Bumble * Customer Day * OKF Heritage Meeting * Kaleden Community Homemade Craft Fair * 1st 3 Sundays at 9:30 Regular Meetings * Kaleden Hall Tues 11-Noon Transit & Resources * OK Falls Club Room 1pm Family Party * 9-5 Legion Upstairs 4th Sunday at 1pm 2nd & 4th Mondays at 7pm Preschool Storytime * OK Falls Library 10:30am LEGO After School * Kaleden Hall 6-9pm OK Falls Senior Centre* OK Falls Legion Kaleden Library Tues 10am Kaleden Ladies Kaleden Library at 2:30pm OK Falls Parks & Rec Pot Luck Dinner 5:30pm LEGO Night * Weekly Drop-in* OK Falls Parks & Rec Youth & Teen Night 7-9pm OK Falls Library at 6:30pm Kaleden Church Weds 1pm Active Kids Thursdays 29 30 December 2015 Special Events OFWA Holiday Cheer Delivery of December 5th ~ “Fill the Van for the Helping Hand” at Okanagan Falls IGA from 10am - 3pm Skaha Matters Open House * Skaha Matters December 5th ~ “Haircuts for the Helping Hand” at East Side Salon Submission Wild Goose, Meyer Family, by Canada Post Noble Ridge - Nov 28 & 29 December 6th ~ “Christmas Festiv-ALL” Event from 4-6pm in Centennial Park, Okanagan Falls Deadline December 7th ~ Governance Study Committee Meeting at 6:30pm in OK Falls Club Room By Nov 20th. December 9th ~ Helping Hand Christmas Hamper Registration Deadline �Fine lemon yellow, lovely slightly honeyed nose with Okanagan Falls Winery Association citrus notes, really good palate with same honeyed fruit and HOLIDAY CHEER citrus edge, very good use of Open House oak, a really fine wine in the Chassagne 1er Cru style.� Nov 28 & 29 ~ Steven Spurrier "crafting single vineyard wines of excellence” 18 Points (93 Points) ~ 2013 Pat Quinn Tribute Series Chardonnay 17.5 Points (91 Points) ~ 2013 McLean Creek Rd Vineyard Pinot Noir 17.25 Points (90 + Points) ~ 2013 McLean Creek Rd Vineyard Chardonnay ~ Wines scored on a 20 point scoring system by Steven Spurrier, Consulting editor for ���s Decanter Magazine & chairman of Decanter World Wine Awards Tasting Room Hours: Nov - March by appointment | Open Nov 28 & 29 from 10AM to 5PM T 250.497.8553 | 4287 McLean Creek Rd, OK Falls BC | [email protected] SkahaMatters.com November 2015 Page 3 been winterized and plans are underway to get the new accessible FROM THE DIRECTOR washroom facilities up and operating before springtime. “At the going down of the sun Okanagan Falls News ~ The Okanagan Falls Parks and Recreation and in the morning, Commission have also been working on budget plans for the coming We will remember them!” year. The recently acquired “Lamb” house on the shores of Skaha Lake Laurence Binyon, 1914 has been upgraded and rented out on an interim basis, while the Parks Commission contemplates a range of park development possibilities As we refl ect on these familiar words from for this waterfront property at the foot of Willow Street. Extension of Laurence Binyon’s moving poem, “For the the lakeshore pedestrian walkway through the “Lamb” property has Fallen”, we are reminded of the thousands been identifi ed as a high priority by the Parks and Rec Commission. of young Canadians who made the ultimate sacrifi ce over the past 100 years, Regarding the Town Center Revitalization Project, our planning in defense of our rights and freedoms as consultants, Counterpoint Communications and Urban Forum Canadians. One of the most compelling of Associates will be presenting their fi nal report on the recent design these is the privilege of choosing how, and charrette at an Open Public Meeting on Monday, November 16th Tom Siddon by whom, we are to be governed. from 7-9 pm at the Okanagan Falls Seniors Centre. You are invited Director of to an interesting and informative evening where the consultants will On October 19th, Canadians chose a new RDOS Area ‘D’ present specifi c land use proposals and possible re-zoning options course and a return to some long-held to facilitate the desired Town Centre Plan. Without an effective Liberal values by electing Justin Trudeau to serve as Canada’s 23rd “implementation strategy” we will not be able to create a disciplined Prime Minister. My very best wishes go out to Prime Minister Trudeau approach to the proposed future layout for the town centre. and his newly-appointed Cabinet colleagues, as they begin to tackle the many formidable challenges which will confront our Nation My congratulations to Janet Black and her Age-Friendly Planning during the days ahead, and in ways that will infl uence our respected Committee on completion of the new concrete “accessible ramp” reputation in the world for years to come.