Penticton News

Penticton City Council held a number of public hearings Monday night, dealing with everything from carriage homes to the construction of the north gateway building.

In regards to business licenses for carriage homes, Councillor Dan Albas says they're still looking into it.

“From my understanding there might be a few of them out there already and so this is just saying, to bring them in line with the safety codes, the sign that we are looking at. It was a very positive sign last night, but there was some questioning of business licences and that whether someone who has a carriage home should have one,” says Albas.

The construction of the 'North Gateway' building passed and will go for final hearing.

He says the developers made a presentation to Council.

“It looks like we have another development that has received support from Council and that means more jobs and a more beautiful entrance to our north gateway.”

Albas says a proposed zoning bylaw open house is set for Wednesday.

“From 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Council Chambers, this is to document our zoning bylaw is second only to our OCP and basically talks about a lot of the provisions for parking in the community. And in this case talks about restricting turf for single family dwellings and then there's some issues with exiting and entering the industrial area.”

Albas would like to see people attend and give their input.

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A Penticton man is recovering from a stab wound while his common-law wife faces charges.

RCMP responded to a call at an apartment on Dynes Avenue just before 10 p.m. Monday.

Sergeant Rick Dellebuur says the 44-year-old man was found lying on the floor of the living room with a deep stab wound to the chest and a laceration to his arm.

“The man’s common-law wife was arrested at the scene and transported to RCMP cells where she remains in custody pending a court appearance later Tuesday,” says Dellebuur.

He says the man was taken to Penticton Regional Hospital and then transferred to Kelowna Hospital where he remains in stable condition.

Penticton RCMP General Investigation Service Unit continues to investigate the incident.

Some kids in Osoyoos have a lot of explaining to do.

RCMP are investigating a pair of suspicious fires which started Monday afternoon near Osoyoos Elementary School on 68th Avenue.

Fire chief Rick Jones says the first fire was called in at 4:13 p.m. and was a garbage bin fire on Main Street.

“While there, we were called to another small fire, this one at 4:21 p.m., a brush fire on 68th Avenue, near the school,” says Jones.

He says neither fire caused much damage as they were on scene fast enough to get them out before they could really get going.

Jones says the cause of the brush fire was pretty clear.

“It was kids screwing around. While on scene at the brush fire, we came across a couple of kids, they didn't start the fire, but told us who did. We called the RCMP on them.”

RCMP are investigating the fires.

There were several accidents in the South Okanagan over the weekend, but none that lead to serious injuries.

The first came Friday afternoon on Green Mountain when a school bus collided with a vehicle.

“RCMP responded to a three vehicle MVA, there were two cars and a school bus involved. None of the vehicle passengers were injured and there was no one on the bus but the driver,” says Fire Chief Wayne Williams.

He says the bus driver was OK.

Another accident happened Saturday near the construction zone near Summerland with minor injuries, followed by a single vehicle accident Sunday afternoon when a truck collided with a power pole on Commercial Avenue.

“A truck had struck a wooden power pole in front of the address, the pole was broken off at the base but still supporting the lines. The fire department blocked the roadway and waited for electrical and RCMP to attend.”

The driver of the truck wasn't injured.

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The Penticton Pursuit blasts off today in the hopes that participants will learn more about Penticton - and the universe.

Hosted by the Penticton Museum, the activity can be done by a group or by a single participant.

The Penticton Museum is challenging Pentictonites to pursue the planets! This free competition is open to everyone and is a terrific family challenge. Hop on your rockets (or bikes, cars, scooters) and travel around Penticton, using your cosmological knowledge to locate the planets in our solar system.

The game involves determining the distances between planets by imagining the geographic area of Penticton as the solar system and the orbiting planets as points on a map, says Penticton Museum curator Peter Ord.

"For example, if the Sun is a beach ball sitting on the museum’s reception desk, Pluto would be a pea located at 3 Mile Beach. Using these two points, participants can determine where the rest of the planets are located."

Ord says the mission is to find out where exactly the rest of ‘planets’ would be in Penticton and take photos of them.

There are hints on the museum's Facebook page about where to start and where all the "planets" are hidden around town. Once they're discovered, people are asked to take a photo of themselves and upload it to the Facebook page.

There is a First Place Prize and "Constellation" prizes for all participants.

The event runs until March 27, where there will be a wrap-up party at 3 p.m. The Planetary Pursuit is part of the museum's Skies Alive exhibit.

Link: Penticton Museum website Link: Planetary Pursuit Facebook page