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Feb 25, 2021 12:05 AM Russ Byth
West Kelowna Council supported an application to the Agricultural Land Commission. It’s asking for non-farm use for the relocation of the skateboard park on a portion of 3743 Old Okanagan Highway in the Agricultural Land Reserve. It would see the existing facility rebuilt at the nearby location as part of the overall site development for the new City Hall/Library Building.
Victoria has revealed the communities that will benefit from $30 million in small-scale infrastructure projects throughout BC. Locally, West Kelowna will receive 442-thousand to replace the 21-year-old ammonia chiller in the ice-making plant at the Jim Lind Arena and Royal LePage Place. And the Lake Country Art Gallery Society will get 40-grand for facility upgrades.
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/ Wikipedia.org February 01, 2021 - 7:30 AM Some residents may drive it every day and it connects many Okanagan communities but Highway 97 is also the longest highway in B.C. and part of one of the world’s longest north-south routes in North America. Highway 97 is known by a number of different names, such as Route 97 when it crosses into the United States. Normally a major route for U.S. travellers making their way to Alaska, the border portion of the highway hasn t seen a lot of use in the past 9 months, due to COVID-19. The highway in more normal times, however, is part of a route that officially begins in Weed, California, and passes through Oregon and Washington to the Canadian border at Osoyoos. It eventually becomes the Alaska Highway in northern British Columbia.
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West Kelowna council has approved spending almost a million dollars to proceed with project design plans for its first new city hall.
The building would have 45-thousand square feet, 30,000 of which would be owned by the city and 15,000 owned by the Okanagan Regional Library.
The timeline is to have it built and open by winter 2022.
The location is the Westbank Centre at 3731 Old Okanagan Highway and adjacent to the city’s Johnson Bentley Memorial Aquatic Centre (JBMAC),
Council has also said a new skate-park will be built as the building will take up the current skate-park location at Old Okanagan and Dobbin.
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