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Let there be light ... and there was. And baseball players proclaimed, it was good.

New lights were officially turned on at the Lower Boucherie and Rosewood Sports Fields on Saturday night.

Canada 150 funding and City of West Kelowna funding paid for the $1-million project. The federal funding paid for about one-third of the project.

Minor baseball, football and soccer clubs in West Kelowna had been requesting the addition of lights to fields for several years. 

MP Dan Albas and Mayor Doug Findlater counted down to the illumination at the start of a West Kelowna Diamondbacks minor baseball game.

West Kelowna "had been saving for the improvements, but without the Government of Canada’s investment, several more years could have easily passed by before the city ... could have come up with the funding to install the lights," said Findlater.