Do You Value Your Water? Would you join me on March 22, “World Water Day” to turn off your taps for 4 to 6 hours when you are at home? You can prepare for this by filling containers, the bathtub and sinks, and then do not turn on a tap or push the flush handle. […]

  Feed the birds, twopence a bag………that is one of the songs from the Mary Poppins film.  Obviously it was written many years ago as our bird seed costs us $20.00 a bag and they go through two bags a month. We love watching our visiting birds and have a hanging feeder, outside the kitchen […]

Community Foundation offers more $$ The Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen will award $11,000 more in bursaries than the previous year to students throughout the RDOS. Two of the bursary funds will make awards to arts students, one bursary fund is for Aboriginal students and the largest bursary fund is open to any […]

Refuge A large evergreen tree stands not far from our home. We can watch the antics of birds on that tree from our kitchen window. Often several birds sit near the very tips of the tree to scout out the scenery or look for enemies. Sometimes there is a whole flock of birds in or […]