October is Small Business Month in BC but the importance of Small Business needs to be acknowledged all year.   I want to use this opportunity to talk about what a Small Business really is and how significant they are to each of our Rural Communities and to the economy of BC. The definition of […]

MADE TO LAST The clothes of my youth were bought to last. If you were lucky enough to be the eldest child in the family, you quite often were the only one to ever wear new clothes, when you grew out of them, they were handed down to the rest of your siblings.  However, before […]

Northbound Honda Pilot went off-road right into the rock face near Vaseux Lake. The male driver, 75 years old from Penticton, was deceased on scene. BC Coroner services, fire, EHS, MOTI, Oliver RCMP and South Okanagan Traffic Services all attended. Any witnesses to call South Okanagan Traffic Services 250 499 2250 According to police a […]

Box A boxer is one who competes in a fight using gloved hands. Two boxers compete boxed within the confines of a ring made of three horizontal ropes strung between four corner posts. It is sometimes called a squared circle. The boxer wears the gloves, a pair of shorts (loose fitting and short) and high […]

    5 am – Environment Canada   South Okanagan – including Penticton Be prepared for strong winds today. A cold front associated with a low pressure centre will sweep across the southern interior this morning reaching Washington State this afternoon. Strong southerly winds have developed ahead of the front. Winds will shift to west […]

The B.C. government’s promised legislation on Indigenous rights is expected to be tabled Thursday and, if passed, would make the province the first in Canada to legally implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). In the months since Premier John Horgan committed to the legislation a team from the Ministry […]

Diwali – the festival of light   Sunday October 27 for five days ends November 1st