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Final ride out of Kelowna

Kirk Penton

Norm Fix came to Kelowna’s Greyhound depot Wednesday night to see the the last bus leave the station.

“I’m very excited to be here for the last bus, because I was here for the first bus,” Fix said. “My wife and I owned the property and built this building for Kelowna (in 1985), and we got a little bit (choked up) because it’s the end of a long era. I’ve worked at Greyhound since I was 21 years old.

“So it’s kinda sad in one way, but then in another way that was the way things were going. We’re kind of excited to just get a picture of the last one driving out and going on with our lives.”

Greyhound ended decades of service in Western Canada on Wednesday, pulling up stakes for financial reasons in a move that was announced in July. The last bus to leave the city, headed for Kamloops, rolled onto Leckie Road at its exact departure time of 5:30 p.m.

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