Meningitis not a factor in death of Oliver youth who died October 12, 2017…. More than two years after a meningitis scare in the South Okanagan….. that led to mass vaccinations ….a coroner’s report looking into one death at the time of the outbreak has been released. Two years ago, Lee Pratt stepped forward to […]

Level A level is a tool used to determine if something, like say a wall, is parallel to the earth or perpendicular to the earth, or neither of those. We want our walls to be perpendicular to the earth and our floors to be parallel. If I am on the level it means I am […]

Tom Styffe, who chaired the Okanagan College board of governors for six years has died. The Okanagan Falls resident was 60. During Styffe’s time as chair, the college introduced a sustainable construction management technology program in Penticton. In addition to chairing the board from 2009-2015, Styffe was an alternate director for the Regional District of […]

Picture this week at Gallagher Lake on the beach front Large format picture

Checkers and Chess It’s early Friday morning, 3 January 2020. Should I write about an event that is so extraordinary, so significant, and so complex, and break the usual Sunday schedule by publishing early, or should I simply forget about it? I cannot ignore the fact that President Donald J Trump has ordered the targeting […]

As I watched the last hours of 2019 slip away I looked back at all the events of the year. The year was a learning experience that is by any definition intense. With the RDOS protocol and procedure are the first things that must be learned if you hope to accomplish anything at all and […]