Kelowna mayor returns to the job after serious health scare – Okanagan [Video]

Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas expressed immense gratitude to the community at large at the start of Monday’s council meeting.

“Your individual messages and well wishes during that time have meant the world to me and have greatly helped with my recovery,” Dyas said.

Dyas returned to his duties as mayor after a serious health scare five weeks ago.

“I am extremely, extremely grateful to be here,” Dyas said.

Dyas, who’s in his 60s, said he was driving down Pandosy Street towards city hall on Feb. 4.

He was at a red light at Highway 97 when he said he sneezed twice.

While he said he thought nothing of it, but by the time he reached city hall, his condition deteriorated and he decided to go home.

He told Global News that what he was feeling was unlike anything he had ever experienced and even though he had already passed the hospital, he decided to …