News Items tag as: South Okanagan Rehabilitation Centre for Owls

Poisoned North Okanagan owl heads back to the skies
April 06, 2021 - 7:30 AM

It was a close brush with death, but following four weeks of intensive rehab, 'Henry' a great horned owl, has taken to the skies once again.
South Okanagan bird rehabilitation centre open house
April 13, 2016 - 10:21 AM

PENTICTON - Animal lovers looking to get up close and personal with the birds at the South Okanagan Rehabilitation Centre for Owls should mark May 1 on the calendar.
Okanagan group returning favour to rat breeder hit by flood
October 07, 2015 - 7:00 AM

OLIVER - A rehabilitation centre for owls and other raptors in the South Okanagan will return a food supply favour by sending a rat breeder some new stock.
Staff at Okanagan owl rehab centre trying to understand reason behind poisoning
June 23, 2015 - 9:00 PM

PENTICTON - A break and enter and food poisoning at the South Okanagan Rehabilitation Centre for Owls has left staff wondering what the reasons were for the weekend crime.
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
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Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

Poisoned North Okanagan owl heads back to the skies