Thursday August 1st 10:30 am Speed for a good cause! The idea is to raise funds for the OSNS Child and Youth Development Centre in Penticton. Tickets range from $100 to $400, depending on the vehicle, and passengers must be 16 years and older. General admission tickets cost $20. If you’ve ever dreamt of putting […]

Over the Horizon Previously I wrote when expressing what I want in a candidate, “I would rather you see over the horizon than to the horizon”. Let’s look more closely. The phrase ‘temporal exhaustion’ means being mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present and having no energy left for imagining […]

THE LIGHT AT OLD GROUCHY Roiling fog banks slithered around the rocks of Old Grouchy, obscuring the cliffs one minute, then parting to let a shaft of sunlight touch the island’s one grassy knoll.  No beaches, not even rocky ones soften Old Grouchy.  Fisheries and Oceans Canada had, many decades ago, built a stone and […]

  Learning to Fly In the tree just outside our window a pair of crows built a nest. For weeks the crows brought food for the baby crows. It seemed as though it wasn’t just the parents that fed the baby crows, others joined in for the task. Eventually the young crows were able to […]