Annual Report 2020 Lake Country Heritage & Cultural Society The Lake Country Heritage and Cultural Society presented its 2020 Annual Report at the Annual General Meeting on May 13, 2020. For any questions regarding this Report please contact the LCHS Executive...
The front entrance to Jack Seaton Park got a new face lift with the installation of a new gate, landscaping upgrades and an addition to the sign that marks the entrance. Lake Country Crane Service owner Bob Yunick and Seaton Park board directors Jack McCarthy and Lawrence Saukarookoff erected a...
Work began in February on Phase 2 of Lake Country’s sewer project, as well as an extension of sewer service from the new Cooper’s Foods store on Beaver Lake Road via Jensen Road and Bottom Wood Lake Road (pictured here) to the Phase 1 works installed at Berry Road. Source: District of Lake Country...
R and L Excavating began work in late November, prepping the land in order to begin installing sewer pipe under the area already dedicated for Main Street. Adding the sewer line this year was not something the District had planned but when Winfield Plaza started to have trouble with their septic...
Middleton Road may be relatively newly established but the Middleton family for whom it was named arrived in the area in 1903. The first of the Middleton family to move to this area were William and Catherine Middleton. They had five children — Louisa Alexandra, Morrice Smith, Mary, Elsie and...
At the recently concluded convention in Penticton of the B.C. Fruit Growers Association, long-time association activist Allan Claridge was re-elected as the industry’s ombudsman. In addition, son Don was elected as the new market board chairman, replacing the controversial Avery King. BCFGA...
Tennis courts have been added to Jack Seaton Park — a Lake Country Lions Club project. See also 1971,...
St. Edward’s Catholic Church was built in 1949. It was named for St. Edward the...
Al and Ida Vecchio open Al’s Cafe in Winfield which they operated for forty years. It became a center of community activity for both children and...
Pollard’s Pond, as it was known to the locals, is now the upscale, quiet subdivision known grandly as “The Lakes.” Pollard’s Pond was the original site for trap shooting and a rifle range. In that era, shooting was literally a family affair. Trap shooting was very popular and one of the first...
Sid Holtom built Winfield’s first service station from lumber salvaged from the Duke...
The old cemetery dates from between 1906 and 1908 when the Maddock Brothers gave a lot of land (East half, Lot 66, Plan 444) for the cemetery, land where ‘several bodies had been buried’. The Museum has a copy of a ‘Deed of Land’ documenting the gift but it apparently was not registered in...