Issues at Senior’s Forum: The candidates heard and responded to many statements and questions covering such issues as the environment, the economy, the need for a truly Universal health care system to deal with such things as a Canada-wide bulk buying of pharmaceuticals, housing for seniors, palliative care, Old Age Security at 65 (not 67), […]

“CARSON RUHLAND MEMORIAL TRUST” FUND HAS BEEN SET UP BY VALLEY FIRST CREDIT UNION. A BURSARY IN CARSON’S NAME WILL BE GIVEN TO A MUSIC OR ART STUDENT.   “THANK YOU” seems inadequate for all that you all have done. Merci. Gracias. Grazie. Dankjewel. Danke. Shukria. Shookran. Vinaka. Köszönöm. Salamat. We, the family of Carson […]

RCMP say they have made an arrest BUT the girl has not been found and the search continues in Alberta and BC. A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the abduction of a young girl but the whereabouts of the toddler is still unknown. Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette, 2, was taken from a home in […]

The Kelowna RCMP and Central Okanagan Search and Rescue continue efforts to locate Megan DOYLE after she was reported missing last week. Megan DOYLE was last seen on the evening of Friday, September 11, 2015 in the Kelowna area. Megan is driving a grey 2012 Toyota Rav 4, bearing BC licence plate 978 LHJ, which […]

Even though summer is over, we are still getting some nice warm weather but not in the consistency of July and August. With the cooler weather coming on comes the season of sniffles and colds. Auntie Kay had a cure for sniffles and colds. That was cod liver oil. I know this subject generates a […]

An Amber Alert remains in effect for Hailey Dunbar Blanchette, a toddler whose father was found dead yesterday in a home in Blairmore, Alta., in what appears to be a murder-abduction. “This is a terrifying ordeal,” said Blair Painter, mayor of Blairmore, a small mountain community where the two-year-old was living with her father and […]