Meeting tonight in Summerland Several hundred people plan to show their opposition on Monday in Summerland to the removal of prime agricultural land from the Agricultural Land Reserve. The Stop the Swap group, founded by Erin Carlson, will present a petition with over 2600 signatures at the Public Hearing taking place at the Arena Banquet […]
Archives for 2014
Ken Lavigne on stage – a review by Sue Morhun
Triumphant Launch at the new Frank Venables Theatre …..Tenor Ken Lavigne’s “Road to Carnegie Hall” hits a high note. An uplifting story. A good looking, gifted tenor with a personality and a voice to match. An entertainer backed by equally skilled musicians. A compelling program of stories matched by songs. A “standing room only” audience […]
Rural report from Laird Smith
Last week I had planned on writing this week about the old swimming hole called Carters Crater. Then my Mother-in-Law(Johanna) died on Thursday at the age of 93 of kidney failure. Up to last Thursday, I had given my own morality no thought. When Wally died in 1982, I was 32 and my end of […]
Who
Names Year What do these two men have in common?
Dubh Glas
Grant Stevely ~ Distiller, Businessman, Skier & Volunteer Firefighter with Kirsty Clarke www.whiskeycorner.co.uk Grant, or Stevely as he is more commonly known, is the proprietor and distiller of Canada’s newest distillery, The Dubh Glas Distillery (@TheDubhGlasD). This is a craft distillery located in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia in the heart of the Okanagan […]
Farnworth – safe bet for NDP leadership
The B.C. NDP’s finance critic Mike Farnworth is the first to throw his hat in the ring for leadership of the party. Farnworth, who represents the riding of Port Coquitlam, says that with him in charge, New Democrats would take an aggressive stance against the B.C. Liberals. The New Democrats went into the campaign with a […]