Do you feel like we are having a long weekend?  – I am going to the dentist Monday. For the last five years – the 2nd weekend of February has been a long three day weekend but no more. Next year our stars will be aligned with Alberta and other provinces – on the third weekend […]

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Internal review of the province’s response to floods is complete. Vernon engineer assesses decisions in lead-up to 2017 floods. Report’s release delayed until April ? A retired Vernon engineer has completed a technical assessment of the decisions made by the provincial government during last year’s disastrous floods throughout the Okanagan Valley. Brian Guy says the […]

Theagenes: Olympic Wrestler Theagenes was famous in Greek history for his prowress as a wrestler. It is reputed that at age 9 he spotted the statue of a god in the marketplace in Thasos that somehow challenged him to wrestle it off its moorings. He broke it off and carried it home. Later his punishment […]

Resolve To resolve a dispute is to settle it. When I find a solution to a problem I have resolved it. Interesting that the word solve is in the word resolve, as if something had to be solved again. I suppose in the case of settling disputes, it could certainly be more than the first […]

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Death Railway near Kanchanaburi. Erawan waterfalls. Chaingrai

Sunrise from the porch of our B&B at the Waitomo glow worm caves in New Zealand.