B.C. athletes big contributors to Canadian medal total   VICTORIA – British Columbia-connected athletes excelled at the London 2012 Olympic Summer Games. They brought in half of the nation’s total medal haul and substantially increased the percentage of medals won by B.C-connected athletes. Of Canada’s 18 medals, athletes who are either from B.C., or train […]

The third annual Perseid meteor shower event takes place at DRAO this coming Sunday, August 12. Admission is free. The gates open at 7:30pm. Talks by Ken Tapping, Chris Purton, Roland Kothes and Ryan Ransom will be offered in parallel at 8:15pm. Sky viewing will start at about 9:30pm. The event ends at 11:15pm.

Photo of Russell Work by Val Friesen Photo of Barb Levant by Val Friesen Photo of Marion Trimble Photo of paint on furniture by JoAnn Turner   Photo of Leo Pedersen work in wood Photo of Enid Baker – paint on cloth Photo of Terry Irvine’s work – felted material Photo of Kurt Hutterli’s corrugated work

Article and photo by Brandt Leinor Oliver Airport hosted its annual Fly-In Breakfast Saturday.  Pilots came from many parts of our province.  Notably, a pilot flying the famous Burt Rutan designed ‘VARIEZE’ plane flew in from Lower Mainland.  The planes were exceptional but one visit to Ab Moshanski’s hangar was the highlight of my day.   Ab, […]

This exceptionally talented group of local artists took on the challenge of representing Ansell Adam’s black and white photograph of industrial buildings in San Francisco, and came up bursting with creative ideas in so many different media. Russell Work superimposed some images of Oliver over Adams’ original photo to create on his computer an ever […]

Colourful, musical and fun- Penticton’s annual parade Saturday