Absolutely loved the air show

Dear Editor: Thanks to the 2017 air show committee. I appreciate all you did to make a great air show for everyone in attendance last Wednesday at the Penticton Peach Festival. A special thanks to the pilots and crews for their appearance on stage. They were great.

The Skyhawks were also enjoyable even from a distance — amazing. Thanks also to Peters Bros. for all their continued support and to the whole Peach Festival committee. Merle Waite

Penticton plants that will allow colour in both the summer and winter.

For example, there are two hotels proposed for Eckhardt, the entrance into our city. But both renderings of the buildings do not offer any setbacks. They are right next to the sidewalk. The landscaping appears to be a bush in gravel. The hotels are needed as some motels are losing usefulness, but this is a chance to make the entrance into the city open and beautiful, if the hotels are set back from the street and a line of trees and bushes were planted.

If setbacks and better landscaping requirements are not met, we will end up with a concrete jungle effect — a type of mini-Vancouver. We can do better. This is not an urban centre, it is a lovely rural city and I would like to see it remain that way. The city planners do not seem to have the same vision of a future Penticton. They have a vision of extreme high density and minimal landscaping.

Second, wouldn’t it be nice if all the businesses along Main Street were encouraged to plant some ornamental shade trees along the roadway. It would be lovely to have a tree lined street all along Main Street and Skaha Lake Road. If you agree with these ideas, please go to the City of Penticton website and email the city planners, mayor and council members and express your opinion of what the city is becoming. Do we want to add beauty to Penticton or just efficiency? Kathy Corbett

Penticton