Biofuel for planes
This Dream Lottery prize truly is dreamy. It’s worth $2.5 million and includes an opulent view home at with all the latest furniture and accessories, not one, but two Tesla luxury electric cars and $100,000 in tax-free cash.
Every year B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver runs the Dream Lottery as a fundraiser for the facility, which helps sick and injured kids from all over the province.
This is the second year in a row the hospital has tapped Predator Ridge Golf Resort to supply one of the dream homes.
The winner will have their choice of seven grand prizes packages, including three different homes South Surrey or one in Vancouver, Richmond or Sooke.
The modern-ranch-architecture Predator Ridge house is an open-plan beauty called The Tapaderos in the new Commonage neighbourhood with three bedrooms plus a den and three bathrooms over 2,500 square feet.
If the winner doesn’t want a prize package, and who wouldn’t?, they can take $2.2 million in tax-free money.
Lottery ticket sales continue until Oct. 12 and other prices include vacations and cars.
Tickets are three for $100, six for $175, nine for $250 or 20 for $500.
You can purchase tickets online at BCChildren.com, by calling 1-888-887-8771 or at any London Drugs or Save-On Foods.
New at Silver Star
Silver Star Mountain Resort’s new sales and marketing director brings with him a wealth of skills and knowledge from working at Vail Resorts and Whistler/Blackcomb.
Ian Jenkins starts his new job at the Vernon-area ski resort on Wednesday.
He was most recently director of international sales and marketing at Vail Resorts’ headquarters in Colorado.
“It is my great pleasure to be joining the team at Silver Star Mountain Resort to help promote the fantastic resort and community,” said Jenkins.
“With a new gondola, year-round activities, as well as an abundance of light, dry snow, it has everything needed for a great mountain holiday.”
Silver Star expects to open for the season sometime mid-to-late November.
The resort has 3,282 acres of skiable terrain, a 760 metre vertical drop and annual snowfall of about seven metres.
Just imagine, aircraft fuel made of biodegradable household and industrial waste, used vegetable oils, algae or oily seeds from flowering plants.
Alaska Airlines, which flies Alaska Airlines is looking at using biofuels to power its fleet of planes. between Kelowna and Seattle twice daily, is working with Helsinki-based Neste to implement the use of such sustainable aviation biofuels.
Traditional plane fuels are petroleum oil-based and create harmful-to-the-environment greenhouse gas emissions and turbine emissions.
Adoption of such renewable fuels would not just reduce emissions, but potentially improve plane performance and airline operations.
Neste is a producer of such
What could make the Greyhound Bus property in Kelowna worth $6 million?
Likely a redevelopment of the two acres at the corner of Leckie Road and Enterprise Way to higher-density commercial.
With Greyhound going out of business Oct. 31, the scruffy Greyhound depot and the land it sits on is up for sale for $6 million with HM Commercial Group, which is licensed by Macdonald Realty Kelowna.
The listing on HM’s website calls the property a “valuable opportunity for a centrally located income-producing building with upside potential through redevelopment (and-or) densification.”
The building is 9,228 square feet and is located in a prime location beside the Best Western Hotel with exposure to busy Highway 97 and walking distance to Central Park and Orchard Park malls, Canadian Tire, Safeway, restaurants and transit.
The property is already zoned C4 (urban centre commercial) and C10 (service commercial) which allows everything from hotels, condominiums, apartments and offices to gas station, retail, restaurants, brewery, distillery, arcade and light manufacturing.
Steve MacNaull is The Okanagan Weekend’s business and wine reporter and columnist. Reach him at steve.macnaull@ok.bc.ca.