Temporary change to hours at emergency department Keremeos and area residents are advised of a temporary change to the emergency department hours at the South Similkameen Health Centre due to limited physician availability. As of Nov. 1, the emergency department will be open: • Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Interior Health […]
Tough measures
As the largest single employer in the Province’s public sector, the Government of B.C. is safeguarding its workers, requiring that all direct government employees have the best defence against COVID-19 and variants by being fully vaccinated by Nov. 22, 2021. Building on existing health and safety measures in provincial government workplaces, the proof of vaccination […]
Halloween in the light
Boy ….these grapes are good – iced wine?
Two colts and a filly by Cecelia Lewis
by Paul Johnson
I never saw the sun shinin’ so bright Never saw things goin’ so right Noticing the days hurrying by When you’re in love, my how they fly by Blue days, all of them gone Nothin’ but blue skies from now on…. Willie Nelson
From the Washington Post
Natural immunity to covid is powerful. Policymakers seem afraid to say so. People making decisions about their health deserve honesty from their leaders. By Marty Makary Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, editor-in-chief of Medpage Today, and author of “The Price We Pay: What […]
The Steele report
Tonight is Halloween and aside from the safety messages to watch out for them—it should be noted it is a night for kids. This wasn’t always so. The day evolved out of a religious day of rituals from the Celts and before that the Druids. Our version of Halloween came about when the early church […]



