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Family’s Naramata heritage reflected in PRH gift
December 21, 2017 - 11:21 AM

In Naramata, the June family’s orchard roots run deep.
Volunteers tackle backwoods mess for community clean up
March 27, 2017 - 4:55 PM

This weekend marks the kick off to Community Clean-Up Month-- and to mark the occasion a crew of enthusiastic volunteers will head to a popular recreation corridor to clean up garbage-- left behind by a careless few. And they’re challenging you to do the same—to take even a small portion of your day to do a clean-up in your own neighborhood.

The clean-up kickoff event is an annual one, organized in a new locale each year by the Regional District Waste Reduction office.
Fire Rescue Society fundraiser barbecue successful
August 19, 2016 - 4:24 PM

OKANAGAN - It may have been the barbeque burgers, smokies and good food. Or perhaps it was the great music and camaraderie. Quite possibly it was the wide variety of charity auction items.
NeighbourWoods ‘greens’ up Kelowna
April 20, 2016 - 3:00 PM

KELOWNA - The City of Kelowna’s NeighbourWoods program, a residential planting initiative, has fewer than 40 trees available for purchase.
Fire hazard debris burning today in West Kelowna
March 07, 2016 - 8:55 AM

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - With good air quality and venting conditions today the Regional District of Central Okanagan advises controlled burns are underway in two regional parks.
UBC Okanagan management students help promote BMX park and food forest
December 21, 2015 - 2:51 PM

KELOWNA - A presentation by business students might conjure up images of snazzy suits, flashy displays, and talks about profit margins, market demand, and growth.
City seeks healthy evergreen for Roxby Square
November 09, 2015 - 5:00 AM

KELOWNA - Someone will help the City of Kelowna’s Park Services department spruce up Rutland’s Roxby Square over the winter holidays by donating an evergreen tree.
The Communities in Bloom judges are coming!
July 25, 2015 - 2:00 PM

WEST KELOWNA - On July 26 and 27, the City of West Kelowna and Westbank First Nation, the Partners in Bloom, will be visited by two judges with the National Communities in Bloom competition. The judges will evaluate the Partners on environmental action, urban forestry, landscape, heritage conservation and floral display.

“West Kelowna and Westbank First Nation are truly magical places, both to visit and to live.
Northside donation keeps Okanagan College trades campaign on upward arc
June 14, 2015 - 11:13 AM

Training the next wave of welders will be crucial for the local manufacturing industry, says one Okanagan College donor who has stepped up to support the College’s new trades training complex.

Northside Industries, a steel manufacturing company based in West Kelowna, has donated $30,000 to the Bright Horizons Building for Skills Campaign.
Kelowna Communities in Bloom Committee calls for Green Thumbs
May 16, 2015 - 2:16 PM

The City of Kelowna’s Park Services and the Communities in Bloom Committee are now accepting nominations for Green Thumb Awards which honour local gardens.
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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

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The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

FYI - For Your Information

Family’s Naramata heritage reflected in PRH gift

Volunteers tackle backwoods mess for community clean up

Fire Rescue Society fundraiser barbecue successful

NeighbourWoods ‘greens’ up Kelowna

Fire hazard debris burning today in West Kelowna

UBC Okanagan management students help promote BMX park and food forest

City seeks healthy evergreen for Roxby Square

The Communities in Bloom judges are coming!

Northside donation keeps Okanagan College trades campaign on upward arc

Kelowna Communities in Bloom Committee calls for Green Thumbs

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