Drivers should plan their route around some local road closures over the next three days. Photographer: John McDonald

Plan your route around local road closures this weekend

KELOWNA – Locals drivers should take note of some short-term road closings that could affect travel plans.

Sexsmith Road will closed at 5 p.m. today to make way for crews installing sewer upgrades for a new commercial development.

The closing affects the segment of Sexsmith between Cambro and Campion Roads. A detour is available via Pinto Road, Appalosa Road Road and Arab Road.

The closure runs through until Sunday, April 12 at midnight, with additional delays expected during repaving on Tuesday, April 14.

Come 9 a.m. Monday morning, April 13, commuters in the Mission will have to deal with single lane alternating traffice between Cook Road and Lexington Road for paving crews to finish off some repaving. The closure ends at 5 p.m.

Drivers in the downtown core can look forward to the reopening today at 4 p.m. of Ellis Street between Doyle Avenue and the Library Parkade.

Upgrades to water mains and sewer services have kept the road closed since the middle of March, as crews prepare for the Library parkade expansion.

To contact the reporter for this story, email John McDonald at jmcdonald@infonews.ca or call 250-808-0143. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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John McDonald

John began life as a journalist through the Other Press, the independent student newspaper for Douglas College in New Westminster. The fluid nature of student journalism meant he was soon running the place, learning on the fly how to publish a newspaper.

It wasn’t until he moved to Kelowna he broke into the mainstream media, working for Okanagan Sunday, then the Kelowna Daily Courier and Okanagan Saturday doing news graphics and page layout. He carried on with the Kelowna Capital News, covering health and education while also working on special projects, including the design and launch of a mass market daily newspaper. After 12 years there, John rejoined the Kelowna Daily Courier as editor of the Westside Weekly, directing news coverage as the Westside became West Kelowna.

But digital media beckoned and John joined Kelowna.com as assistant editor and reporter, riding the start-up as it at first soared then went down in flames. Now John is turning dirt as city hall reporter for iNFOnews.ca where he brings his long experience to bear on the civic issues of the day.

If you have a story you think people should know about, email John at jmcdonald@infonews.ca

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