The province of BC is now offering incentives to municipalities and rural areas for recycling material that can be sold. $38.00 per household is a tremendous cash bonus that can be used to offset the costs of residential recyling. The nature of recycling is to take material out of the garbage stream and the province […]
Archives for 2013
Month long assessment ordered on Penticton man
Update – The 42-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old Penticton teen will remain in custody as he undergoes a 30 day psychiatric assessment. Defence lawyer Jim Pennington told the court his client who did not appear in court, was not feeling up to par and had suicidal inclinations. He is not names nor the victim. […]
Tonight – Highley and Cook
Thursday evenings 6:30pm – Rear of Historic CPR station
Sketching in the garden with Leza Macdonald
Terry Irvine and Marion Trimble show off sketches at the Oliver Community Garden Photo by Leza Macdonald – Art in the Garden series
September 14th comes quickly – pledge today
With just under a month to go until Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer benefitting the BC Cancer Foundation there is still time to help us share the remarkable stories of the courageous, dedicated people who are getting off the bench to improve cancer research outcomes. An estimated 8,900 people living in Canada will be diagnosed […]
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Brandt Leinor – apple talk
I had the privilege of working many years at the Summerland Research Station, for the British Columbia Certified Budwood Association. This was a small, yet incredibly vital part of the tree fruit industry whose sole purpose was to provide the genetic material, the ‘bud’, of fruit trees to nurseries who would insert the small bud into rootstock […]