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Fight, accident or murder ?
31 year old Jacqueline Layman, mother of two young children, found dead on Tuesday in the Glenview Avenue area of Kelowna. A four-year-old boy and six-year-old girl are staying with their grandmother for the time being. A fall down a set of stairs is a likely cause of death but the RCMP investigation continues. The […]
Trashy photos
You asked me the other day if I’d seen any garbage lately. This is what our hiking group saw Tuesday just off White Lake Road about a kilometer north of the observatory. Ironic – they were taken in the same spot. Mary Doyle
It’s scary out there
Vine Monster Photograph by Jeremy Cook
Ongoing investigations
The Osoyoos RCMP were extremely busy over the night of March 30 and throughout the day of March 31 with two major events. On March 30 just before 10:00pm the Osoyoos RCMP were alerted by US Border Patrol of 3 males illegally crossing the US/Canada border northbound into Canada near Highway 3 on Anarchist Mountain. […]
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Children’s playgrounds don’t encourage enough risky play, a University of British Columbia researcher says. Susan Herrington, a professor in the school of architecture and landscape architecture at UBC, has been researching children’s playgrounds for more than a decade. She was inspired to conduct her research when she noticed how many children in Vancouver playgrounds seemed […]




