Open air burning season opens

To ensure the Okanagan-Similkameen’s air quality is as good as it can be, the Regional District implemented an Open Air Burning Bylaw for the fire protection areas of Naramata, Okanagan Falls, Kaleden, Willowbrook and Tulameen. “Inversions are common in the OkanaganSimilkameen valleys, making our airshed susceptible to the build up... more

Similkamen Rec Centre Bowling Scores

Tuesday Golden Agers, October 20 Ladies High Single Valerie Organ 207 Ladies High Triple Maggie Fowler 515 Men’s High Single Ed Wilson 204 Men’s High Triple Ed Wilson 549 Tuesday Golden Agers October 27 Ladies High Single Molly Davidson 212 Ladies High Triple Betty Lloyd 539 Men’s High Single Paul Herchak 261 Alan Fitzgerald 260 Andy Kittleson 225 Men’s High Triple Andy Kittleson 661 Paul Herchak 644 Alan Fitzgerald 600 more

• SRC Bowling

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Pickers conditions - from a pickers’ point of view

A number of websites are available on line that discuss fruit picking in the Okanagan and Similkameen. The following outline of conditions, aimed at backpackers, gives some insight into conditions that transient labourers may come upon locally. This discussion can be... more > more

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Crimestoppers

Crime Stoppers and the Police would like the public’s assistance in identifying three males that were going door to door in the Kaleden area on October 28, 2009 at approximately 2:00 p.m. These individuals claimed to work for Teresen Gas,... more

• Retired Okanagan Falls librarian keeps creative with miniatures
• Okanagan Historical Society, Similkameen Branch presents
• Selecting a Christmas telescope

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Unnecessary and overpriced professional fees are unfair

We have a nine year old Newfoundland - Pyrennees cross at home. She’s a pretty large dog and even though old, is high spirited. When she was young, she blew the ligaments in one of her rear legs. It was... more

• H1N1 vaccine rollout starts this week
• Truth must be told
• U.S. interests pull our strings again

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Local RCMP praised for diffusing situation

To the Editor: Re: Thanks to the local RCMP Last week I was at a local gas station/convenience store when a young man began acting erratically and in a threatening manner towards the customers and the store’s young workers. The RCMP were... more

• Support for the agricultural community
• Evening stroller unhappy with police treatment
• Liberals not serious about climate policies

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Two worlds

Forty-five minutes of highway are a gulf between two very different worlds. A few months ago, I became a crime reporter in Kelowna. My time is now split between the Capital News and the Summerland Review. Travelling back and forth each... more

• The quest for a local apple
• The Den Report, Lions beat 'Riders, now 2-4
• The Den Report, Logan impressing in NFL camp

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