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The City of Penticton is set to start allowing third-party advertising on its facilities.

RDOS expected to award contract at Thursday’s meeting

With all the rain, wind, clouds and cool temperatures that have been overshadowing the Okanagan Valley for the past weeks and even months, it seems 2011 might go down as having the longest February on record.

Planning is in early stages, but organizers at the Penticton and District Hospice Society are hoping to reach out by creating a more accessible bereavement resource centre as way to augment the services provided by the hospice house.

For Ryan Kruger, a 10-day journey by canoe is just a taste of what he hopes to experience later this year on a trip to the North Atlantic, though there is no doubt the Penticton Indian Band member enjoyed the experience.

Plans for a new RCMP station in Summerland could undergo revisions as the district tries to keep the project within its $4.5 million budget.

The Sound of Summer Music Festival will not take place in Penticton, at least not this year.

Parker Summers, a 23-year-old Naramata man, was pronounced dead at the scene of a motor vehicle rollover at the KVR trail on Saturday.

The B.C. government finished the fiscal year this spring with a deficit of $309 million, nearly $1 billion less than what was forecast last fall.

On June 17, the RCMP Integrated Child Exploitation Unit, with the assistance of the Penticton and Summerland RCMP, arrested a 34-year-old male identified as Stephen Hughes from his home in Summerland. Hughes was charged with luring a child using a computer and invitation to sexual touching.