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A tale of two peaches in the Okanagan

The Peachland mayor offered her comments for the new symbol
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Penticton’s peach isn’t the only one in the Okanagan Valley.

Peachland Mayor Cindy Fortin believes the district is the rightful owner of the peach symbol.

A six-foot wide golf ball has been sitting on a 20-foot high tee at the base of Ponderosa Drive alongside Highway 97 in Peachland since the mid 1970s. It once pointed the way toward a golf course that has since been closed. In recent years it signalled plans for world-class Greg Norman greens that have long since been abandoned.

The remnant of these broken plans was a bit of an oddity, but that won’t be the case anymore.

Now it appears that the District of Peachland has taken ownership of the larger-than-life ball and wants to give it new life.

Dean Lauzé, a classically trained, professional multimedia artist, has been commissioned to do the work and was atop a tall ladder most of Tuesday, painting the base coat of the town’s namesake fruit.

A lot of people were seeing the golf ball and thinking there was a golf course in the area, said Fortin. The project cost the district $10,000.

Penticton also has a peach located on Lakeshore Drive, which operates as an ice cream shop during the summer.


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