Eleven of Canada’s top chefs competed in three events over the weekend in Kelowna, with one goal, to be crowned the Canadian Culinary Champion. And the 11th annual Canadian Culinary Championship crowned its winner Saturday night, with the new Champion Chef Jinhee Lee of Foreign Concept in Calgary, winning with her finale dish being “Cha […]

Provincial Courthouse and government offices during construction Picture from Okanagan Archive Trust Society. (Present work – 2017 work underway is a $311,000 maintenance program for windows and skylights. The job will be completed by the end of March. The next phase will include improvements to the courthouse’s roof and exterior finishing. $1.3 million committed to […]

Penticton Provincial Courthouse – 1949 – 100 Main Street The Penticton Provincial Court house is a two storey Art Deco-Moderne office building The Penticton Provincial Courthouse is significant as a symbol of the Provincial Government presence in Penticton, both as a Courthouse and home of many Provincial departments and agencies. Its construction in 1948 reflects […]

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as winter depression, winter blues, summer depression or seasonal depression, is a mood disorder subset in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms at the same time each year, most commonly in the winter. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of […]

Time: 2:15 am Sunday Location: 8100 Block River Road, Oliver BC (North) Police, ambulance and Fire Department dispatched to scene of a fire. Early this morning (thought to be a structure fire but later called a car fire). More accurately an RV. Fully engulfed – visible from a great distance. Problem with a power line […]