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YARD WASTE PICK-UP STARTS IN MARCHFor residents receiving curbside collection, Yard Waste Collectionbegins again in March. Every two weeks, yard waste in kraftpaper bags and reusable open containers marked as ‘Yard Waste’will be taken away. Please note, plastic bags cannot be acceptedand your yard waste must be at the curb by 7:00 am on your reg-ular garbage day.

Bundle branches using string or twine, and ensure the prunings areno more than three feet in length, three inches in diameter and 50pounds in weight. An unlimited amount can be collected, providingit meets the requirements.

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Penticton Herald, Wednesday, March 12, 2014

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Wendy Goudie saysshe works long hoursto run her ownbusiness but that she wouldn’t have it any other way

By JAMES MILLERPenticton Herald

Wendy Goudie, owner andoperator of Get BentYoga, Dance and

Wellness Centre, declares thereare no drawbacks to being self-employed.

Even if there are, it’s been solong since she’s had “a real job”that she might not remember.

Goudie, 36, has owned and oper-ated the studio, located at TheCannery, for the past 11 years.Prior to that, she ran an after-school theatre studio in SouthernAlberta where her students creat-ed small productions and thentoured seniors facilities.

A previous relationshipbrought her to the SouthOkanagan, and she’s been on thescene here ever since.

“I could complain about smallthings, but I won’t. I love doingwhat I’m doing,” she said whenasked about the drawbacks and challenges to being self-employed.

“When you work for yourself, itallows you to design the programthat’s beneficial to you and youget to do it. You can live your pas-sion and move forward. You canwork the hours you want towhich, for me, is usually 16-hourdays.”

Growing up in Alberta, Goudiewas active in gymnastics begin-ning at the relatively old age ofnine and once won the provincialchampionship in balance beam.Her former coach, JimMcKlusky, now in his 70s, re-mains a mentor to this day. Muchof what she learned from him sheuses in her teachings with youngpeople.

Get Bent has three mainspokes: yoga, dance and wellness.

In total, she has a team of 25 in-volved with the studio, which

includes a payroll of between fiveand 10 depending on the time ofyear. Her husband, John, is ac-tive in the studio’s back design,which includes the website andprogram guides.

“He is the business. I’m theface,” Wendy said.

Although she didn’t study be-yond high school, she’s beenblessed to have many mentors.Among them are John Cain andBob Bateman, owners of The

Cannery, and business consult-ant John Singleton.

“He’s brilliant,” she said.Much of the dance at Get Bent

is belly dancing. Goudie saidbelly dancing sometimes has abad reputation for being over-sexualized, and she insteadstresses the art form and theathleticism involved.

The studio has clients of bothgenders and all ages, with morethan 30 classes per week in yoga

at all levels. They also offer satel-lite programs and help trainhealth-care workers how to leadseniors in yoga.

During her many years inbusiness, she and her husbandformed a non-profit society thatfocuses on raising money forstudent scholarships, a semi-professional dance group andthe Esteem Team, which ad-dresses youth-oriented issuessuch as bullying and proper dietand nutrition.

Spring break is an active timearound the studio, with a seriesof camps available that encour-age positive values, laughter,learning, self-esteem and self-expression.

Special events are nothing new.Last year, Get Bent hosted twomajor conferences — B.C.Bellyfest and the B.C. YogaConference, which involved dele-gates from all over B.C. Both con-ferences used other space avail-able in The Cannery. Due to itsoverwhelming success, thisyear’s events will be moved tolarger facilities in the NaramataCentre.

Long term, Goudie would liketo open satellite locations else-where in the South Okanagan.The ultimate dream is to createa health and wellness retreatcentre.

In the meantime, she’s happy tobe in The Cannery.

“It’s a phenomenal building —lots of character — and we have awonderful community here,” shesaid. “We have great landlords, alot of great people and lots ofplaces to park. We’re also spoiledwith all of the great restaurantsand food to choose from.”

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Canada Post expectedto loosen rules foraddressing mail in fall

By JOHN MOORHOUSEPenticton Herald

“Return to sender” notices soonwill no longer be as big a headachefor those living on Naramata’s ru-ral postal route.

Karla Kozakevich, Naramata’sregional district director, says anagreement has been reached withCanada Post to allow mail withonly a street address to be placedinto rural route boxes.

Previously, many such envelopeswere stamped “incomplete ad-dress” or, in some cases, “returnto sender.”

The policy change likely will takeplace this fall, Kozakevich said.

In January, Naramata residentFrank Focken complained that hehad not received at least threemailed items marked with hisstreet address rather than the ru-ral route, mailbox site and com-partment numbers.

Focken noted his daughter inAbbotsford also lives on a ruralroute, but only her correct streetaddress is required for mail to bedelivered to her rural route box.

“If the mail in Abbotsford can bedelivered to a rural street box with-out the (site, compartment and ru-ral route) numbers, then it’s a no-brainer to institute the same proce-dure for everybody,” he wrote in aletter to Canada Post and others inthe community.

A copy of Focken’s letter was alsoforwarded to Okanagan-Coquihalla MP Dan Albas, wholooked into the matter.

“We’ve been told that come thisfall, it will get changed,”Kozakevich said. “You don’t haveto have that rural route site. It willget into your box.”

Kozakevich said this should dra-matically reduce the amount ofNaramata mail that might other-wise be returned to sender.

Focken said Tuesday he receivedconfirmation of the pendingchanges from a Canada Post offi-cial and is obviously happy withthe response.

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By Penticton Herald Staff

Introduction of a new weekend charter service toPenticton from Calgary has now been confirmed.

Roger Jewett, CEO of Calgary-based Jump OnFlyaways, says everything has been confirmed for aflight involving a hotel/wine tour package to Pentictonin early May.

Jump On began selling tickets through its websitethis week for a charter package arriving in Pentictonon Friday, May 2, and returning to Calgary on Sunday,May 4. At least 60 of the 76 available seats must be filledfor the flight to go ahead.

Jump On Flyaways is an air service rather than an ac-tual airline. The company utilizes planes from chartercarriers serving the Alberta oilpatch. Since these char-ter companies usually fly Monday to Thursday, theiraircraft often sit idle on weekends.

Jump On can hire these planes and their aircrews forweekend flights from Calgary to various other destina-tions, featuring discount fares.

It offered some flights to Kelowna last year and nowwants to fly into Penticton, which currently has no di-rect commercial airline link with Calgary.

City officials have been trying to convince WestJetEncore or Air Canada Jazz to introduce daily flights tothe Alberta city.

TOP 40 UNDER 40

Yoga, dance studio owner won’t sweat the small stuff

Air service sells ticketsfor flight from Calgary

POSTAL SERVICES

Street addresssoon will do for rural routein Naramata

JAMES MILLER/Penticton Herald

Wendy Goudie, owner and operator of Get Bent Yoga, Dance andWellness Centre, strikes a yoga pose. The entrepreneur is this week’sTop 40 Under 40 recipient as chosen by the Penticton and Wine CountryChamber of Commerce.