The Province of B.C. is launching the CleanBC Organic Infrastructure and Collection Program, which will provide up to $25.7 million, over three years, to communities to develop or expand opportunities to divert organic waste from landfills. The program is meant to enable communities throughout British Columbia to be able to build organic waste processing facilities […]
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K9 brings down ………Penticton prolific offender
“This is yet another classic example of a Prolific Offender creating criminal havoc in our community. Prolific Offenders do not care who they steal from, nor do they care about the emotional and financial toll their criminal behaviour has on the countless victims in our community,” states Supt. Brian Hunter. “In this case, a bicycle […]
Sunny and cool
Deeply disturbing
Indigenous people in British Columbia are exposed to widespread racism that often results in negative experiences at the point of care, inequitable medical treatment, physical harm and even death, the independent review into Indigenous-specific discrimination in the province’s health-care system has found. Informed by the voices of nearly 9,000 Indigenous patients, family members, third-party witnesses […]
BC Covid 19 info
New cases in last three days 2364 with 46 new dead Total dead 441 80 percent of the latest deaths at LTC facilities 316 people in BC hospital’s with Covid 75 in ICU 212 new cases in Interior Health New case totals break out 750 Friday 731 Saturday 596 Sunday 277 adjust figure just […]
Chasing the shortest day
In the Northern Hemisphere the day of the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year (the day with the least daylight and the longest night) and occurs every year between December 20 and December 23. Well every day is about the same time in minutes but the shortest day has least number of hours in the sun. Why is it important? Once […]
December set to begin
Traffic stalled – responders on scene
13:07 pm Highway 97 – river rd and island rd junction Small car enters Hwy, clips truck passing north bound Fire, police and ambulance on scene