http://www.westbankchamber.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:22:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-48/ http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-48/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:59:21 +0000 Westbank Chamber http://westbankchamber.com/?p=387 In May of 2001, a camper spotted the Ogopogo while camping at Okanagan Provincial campgroud, just south of Westbank. She saw two humps in the water!

]]> http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-48/feed/ 0 http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-67/ http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-67/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:59:07 +0000 Westbank Chamber http://westbankchamber.com/?p=457 The average daytime high during July and August is 27.40 degrees Celsius.

]]> http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-67/feed/ 0 http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-66/ http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-66/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:59:07 +0000 Westbank Chamber http://westbankchamber.com/?p=455 The average daytime high during December and Januray is -0.30 degrees Celsius.

]]> http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-66/feed/ 0 http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-64/ http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-64/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:59:07 +0000 Westbank Chamber http://westbankchamber.com/?p=451 Indian legend has it that the large lake creature (Ogopogo) was originally a demon possessed man who had murdered a well known and respected local man named “Old Kan-He-Kan”. In memory of this man, his people named our beautiful lake “Okanagan”. To pay for his sins, the Indian gods changed the murderer into a lake serpent so he would forever be at the scene of his crime and suffer eternal remorse.

]]> http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-64/feed/ 0 http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-62/ http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-62/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:59:07 +0000 Westbank Chamber http://westbankchamber.com/?p=447 Over generations the legend of Ogopogo gained credibility through retelling and hundreds of reported sightings.

]]> http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-62/feed/ 0 http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-61/ http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-61/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:59:07 +0000 Westbank Chamber http://westbankchamber.com/?p=445 It wasn’t until 1872 that the lake creature (Ogopogo) was actually spotted by a settler. Mrs. John Allison, a resident of Westbank at the time, was frantically watching the lake during a storm looking for her husband. What she saw instead was a large object, some distance out, swimming rapidly against the storm. She reported what she saw and this became the first official sighting of the soon to be famous Ogopogo.

]]> http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-61/feed/ 0 http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-23/ http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-23/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:58:36 +0000 Westbank Chamber http://westbankchamber.com/?p=337 Westbank Townsite’s first school was known as the “Little Red Schoolhouse”.

]]> http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-23/feed/ 0 http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-1/ http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-1/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:58:35 +0000 Westbank Chamber http://westbankchamber.com/?p=289 Gellatly Heritage Park, on Gellatly Road in West Kelowna, is the site of the Gellatly family cemetery. In 1984, the Gellatly Nut Farm property was designated a Class A Heritage site in the Central Okanagan Heritage Resource Inventory. The original family log house and barn were relocated to the Heritage Park in 1999.

]]> http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-1/feed/ 0 http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-79/ http://www.westbankchamber.com/fact-of-the-day/fact-79/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:58:09 +0000 Westbank Chamber http://westbankchamber.com/?p=482 A peck of apples weigh 10.5 pounds. A bushel of apples weighs about 42 pounds and will yield 20 – 24 quarts of applesauce.

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