Water, water everywhere! We’ve heard a lot about water this spring. Too much water and we get floods that cause horrible damage. Too little and there’s drought, fires and famine. We need the right amount of precipitation for plant growth and animal thirst. Some of the rain needs to filter through the ground to be […]

Take 3 cars, 3 old friends, course designer Jacques Villeneuve, engineer Trevor Seibert and Area 27 President Bill Drossos, have them race around the track and through the ribbon at around 200 miles per to the music of purring engines. Press from around the world came to Area 27 with lots of questions for Trevor Seibert, Jacques […]

Organic farming is a way of life at Forbes farm writer – Kathy Michaels Okanagan residents are lucky to have an abundance of easily accessible, locally grown food. While some of us get the privilege of getting to know the men and women who produce that food, not everyone has that same access. So the […]

Think about it Stand To take a stand is to declare a decision, hold the line on an opinion, speak my conclusion as if to convince others to join me. Taking a stand is a firm thing to do. It can say ‘I’m not moving on this or from here, as in Custer’s last stand’. […]

SECOND BEST IS USUALLY FIRST I certainly do it. All of the people that I know do it. Probably most people do it. Why do we do it? What is it that makes us buy beautiful things and put them away for “best”. I buy lovely towels but keep them until someone special is going […]

Today’s race began at 8: 15 am at Rotary Beach Oliver Half Iron – begins 7:00 am Sunday – same location