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Evening update from Castanet on Tuesday, October 23 with reporter Wayne Moore.

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UPDATE: 1:30 pm Tuesday

It seems that two groups of people knocking on the doors of the Okanagan mention FortisBC.

A Castanet scam warned residents of Kelowna Monday night. Some people have asked to see your FortisBC bill at the door.

Fortis says no such campaign is taking place in the Okanagan. Click here to find out how to treat knockers claiming to represent the utility company.

At the same time, representatives of BC Spray Foam and Insulation say they will legitimately go door-to-door to offer attic leveling services.

Company representatives said they never ask to see utility bills.

They feared that people would be confused with a legitimate campaign and a simultaneous scam.

ORIGINAL HISTORY: 7:45 pm Monday

A door-to-door scam in the Kelowna area targets FortisBC users.

According to Castanet readers, people would shout at the doors claiming to be representatives of the electricity company.

They claim to represent the company with energy saving ideas and ask to see a copy of your electricity bill.

Those who contacted Fortis were told that they were not campaigning door to door.

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Helen Jackman, Michael Buffett and Matt Bertulli

If you're looking for real discussions about your company's failures, things do not become more authentic than F-up Night.

F-up Night – do not hesitate to fill the void there – is a gathering of entrepreneurs who are discussing where all went wrong. No sugar layer. No white lies. The Kelowna Innovation Center will hold its third F-up evening Wednesday from 6pm to 7pm.

"Everyone is very vulnerable and that feels really authentic," said Leslie Thomson, Community Curator at the Innovation Center. "The principle is that three or four people get up and have seven minutes to talk about a professional failure.

"The majority of this presentation must talk about failure. You can take the last 30 seconds or minutes to tell what you have learned from this, but the rule is that you can not run it at the end. "

For more information on this story, visit Okanagan Edge.

Alanna Kelly

Kelowna residents gathered on Tuesday to simulate what it is like to be homeless and break down barriers in our community.

The planning and measurement meeting to end homelessness was organized by the Journey Home strategy of the Canadian Homelessness Observatory with Kelowna.

Kaite Burkholder Harris, project manager at the Canadian Homeless Observatory, said it was a national project called Make Zero Count, which was taking place in various regions from Canada.

Functional zero means that communities have a systematic response in place to ensure that homelessness is avoided as much as possible.

A room filled with service providers, stakeholders and people who experienced the homeless took part in the role play.

Participants were profiled as trying to navigate the services in Kelowna.

"Today, we are all focusing on how to badyze the concrete reality of this reality and implement it," said Burkholder Harris. "The goal is to have a thorough knowledge of the user experience of using the system and navigating the system."

Darlene Taylor, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at UBCO, has been named Sarah.

"She just got out of the foster care system and she's trying to go to school and find an independent life, but she's not able to get affordable housing, so her life starts to get worse." , she said.

Taylor said that playing Sarah and getting through the services was frustrating.

"Now that I see how systems build on each other, if a domain breaks down … everything will collapse," she said.

Even though the event was fictitious, Taylor explained that it gave a glimpse of the obstacles that people in Kelowna face every day.

"We have the knowledge, we know it all in our heads," Burkholder said.

"What I think is a game-changer for society when the situation really starts to change in the community is that many people feel at every level to feel what it's like to find themselves in the community. other side of the table. "

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A $ 20,000 Arctic Cat Prowler was stolen Monday morning in the yard of a home in Lake Country.

Mike Megrian, the owner of the camp side by side, said that he woke up Monday for his worst nightmare.

"I'm devastated, he was sitting in my backyard right next to my garage, he's basically brand new, I've only been there for two years."

Megrian says that he will do everything to recover it.

"I'm offering a $ 1,000 reward to anyone who can find it. It's worth $ 20,000 so that means a lot and it's worth a lot, "Megrian.

The RCMP is investigating the situation.

The rancher's wine number is 4UF17MP0HT302268.

If you have any leads or think you might recognize side-by-side contact, contact Megrian at (604) 328-3977.

Madison Erhardt

UPDATE: 10:30

Castanet will broadcast live the press conference on the introduction of new Kelowna Rockets head coach Adam Foote live at 11 am.

UPDATE: 9:05

The Kelowna Rockets have formalized it.

Adam Foote is the new head coach of the Kelowna Rockets. Foote replaces Jason Smith, who was fired Monday after more than two seasons at work.

"Our hope is that Adam can enter and take over a team in transition," said President and CEO Bruce Hamilton.

"Because we host the 2020 Memorial Cup, we know that a number of personnel changes will need to be made, and we are confident that Adam will be able to help us move forward, not only this year but also next season. "

Foote's son, Nolan, is a club forward. His eldest son, Cal, became professional this season after three seasons in Kelowna.

Adam Foote played 19 seasons in the NHL after being selected 22nd overall by the Nordiques de Québec in 1989.

He won the Stanley Cups in Colorado in 1996 and 2001 and a gold medal with Canada at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.

"I'm excited," said Foote.

"Kelowna is an excellent organization and there are some exciting times to come in. I am fortunate to have played in many great teams with outstanding players throughout my career.

"I have collected a lot of information over the years and I intend to apply them to the development of Rockets players."

ORIGINAL HISTORY: 6h30

Just one day after leaving Jason Smith as head coach with the Kelowna Rockets, the Rockets hired another NHL player for the leading coaching position.

Several reports indicate that former Colorado Avalanche defenseman, Adam Foote, will be named the team's head coach later in the day.

Foote has been consulting the Avalanche since his retirement in 2011.

Foote's son, Nolan, 17, sits down for the Rockets.

The former Foote spent 17 years in the Avalanche organization as a player, dating back to the Nordic era of the team, while also undergoing a brief three-year stint in Columbus. He had 308 points and 1534 penalty minutes with 1154 career corners.

A press conference is expected to be called later this afternoon, the Rockets welcoming the Swift Current Broncos tonight at Prospera Place.

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UPDATE 11:25

Fog observed early in the morning has wreaked havoc in recent days on some flights to and from Kelowna International Airport.

Sam Samaddar, director of YLW airport, says that they simply can not take off or land their flights in these conditions of reduced visibility.

"It's typical of October, especially when the cold air pbades over warmer waters or wetlands. Of course, we have Duck Lake at one end, which will generate some fog, there is no question. We are in a pocket of gel like geography at this end of the city is going. "

Sammaddar advises travelers and travelers to check YLW's website for the latest departures and arrivals.
and / or contact your airline, "it's really just day after day, just look at what's happening with the weather."

ORIGINAL 8:11

The cooler temperatures overnight cause a significant fog build up in the Okanagan on Tuesday morning, again.

The fog has had an impact on flights out of YLW and makes visibility difficult and the roads are slippery than usual.

To date, four WestJet flights on arrival have been delayed or canceled and six departing flights, WestJet and Air Canada, have been canceled or delayed.

It is advisable to check with the airport before leaving.

Madison Erhardt

A man used a house along Kelowna's Slater Road to dump garbage. It was caught red-handed by the owner, but when confronted with the man, things became extremely strange.

& # 39; & # 39; I went down to my shed to see what was happening. He was just trying to leave and I asked him if he had made an illegal dump and he did not want to admit it, but I said that I was going to look and watch, "he said. said owner Gerald Longhorn.

Longhorn then ordered the man to park his truck and load all the garbage.

"I told him that I did not need to call the police, I just wanted to see him load everything in his trailer, and then he claimed to do that," Longhorn said.

There was no license plate on the dump trailer, so Longhorn was leaning behind the trailer to try to take a picture of the truck.

"I had to go between the truck and the trailer because he had the plate bent.He jumped into his truck and he pulled it.He dragged me a few feet and crossed my foot law."

"He came back around 3 am Sunday and he left a crate of six bottles of wine accompanied by a really weird note saying to pull me out of social media." I went to see him when he came back home. next night and he decided to burn everything, "added Longhorn.

The illegal dumper lit a fire to get rid of all the evidence and spread into the Longhorn shed.

The shed is a complete radiation.

The Lake Country Fire Department was on the scene for several hours Monday morning.

"I'm not afraid that he will come back, but my lady is," Longhorn said.

The RCMP is investigating.

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A plane crashed near Kananaskis tragically killed two people on board and damaged valuable aerial imagery.

Eagle Mapping Service was hired to make LiDAR, a three-dimensional, radar-based form of Okanagan flood plains.

In April, the Okanagan Water Board announced that it had received $ 1.45 million from the National Disaster Mitigation Program and British Columbia. Community Emergency Preparedness Fund to photograph the region using light sensing and telemetry technology, or LiDAR.

A pilot and a technician were flying aboard the twin engine aircraft and crashed as they returned to Calgary from Penticton.

The Piper PA-31 fell into the Rae Glacier area and witnesses told police they heard the sound of an engine and then saw something explode. The Transportation Safety Board has now resumed the investigation.

Anna Warwick Sears, executive director of OBWB, said the news was tragic and that a smoky summer had created harsh conditions for aerial mapping.

"The most difficult and difficult part of the project was working around the smoke," she told Castanet News.

Sears says that they started flying and catching LiDAR at the end of March, but that they had to wait for the snow to melt at high altitude.

"They were flying a lot in July when they could when he was not smoking," she says.

The teams are working to recover the damaged data from the accident, but Sears has announced plans to shuttle between Kelowna and Vernon in Mission Creek and along the higher altitudes on the west side.

"They had to replace a bunch of equipment and of course buy a new plane and … it was hard for all the people who were working for the company to lose somebody because all their activity is the aerial mapping and photography, "she said.

All mapping was undamaged and Sears stated that they still had limited data and the lost data would not have delayed the entire project.

"The 2017 flooded areas along the shores of the Okanagan River and Okanagan River channel were all treated first, we have all this data," she said.

Sears added that once completed, it will be the first time that three-dimensional images of the entire watershed will be presented.

Alanna Kelly