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Bar and restaurant owners give up on push for changes

Worsening backlog may set more accused free

Members of the RCMP and the BC Coroners Service check the scene where a body was discovered Friday morning in a ditch on the east side of the Channel Parkway near the old railway bridge. Police also retrieved a number of items from what is believed to be a small campsite nearby.

James Ludvigson is happy he won’t have to take matters into his own hands to make picnic tables in Penticton city parks wheelchair accessible.

The Penticton Community Centre has a new general manager.

At the request of the West Bench Irrigation District’s board of trustees, the province officially dissolved WBID and transferred responsibility for the West Bench water system to the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen.

It is still statistically uncertain how this year’s cherry crop will turn out to be. As the president of the B.C. Fruit Growers Association Joe Sardinha says, much of it depends on “what we haven’t had yet — summer.”

For the first time in recent history the City of Penticton will work with the District of Summerland to try and bring a sporting event to the region.

The Vancouver Canucks Young Stars Tournament will be returning to Penticton this Sept. 11 to 15, featuring four Canadian NHL teams.

Agur Lake got a bigger boost than they expected when they signed an agreement with the residential construction program at Okanagan College to build the first of the cabins needed to make the respite camp a reality.