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Kelowna Police Sharing at Christmas
December 21, 2017 - 3:00 PM

Christmas is all about sharing and this year an abundance of toys and gift cards were donated to the Salvation Army to help support local families in need with their Sharing Christmas Program.
Fill the Van for Sally Ann was a great success!
December 05, 2017 - 1:45 PM

Kelowna, British Columbia | December 8, 2017 Usually food is carried out of a grocery store but on Saturday, December 2nd hundreds of bags of food were coming to the store for the Fill the Van for Sally Ann event.
Kamloops weekly volunteer highlights
June 14, 2017 - 3:02 PM

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June 07, 2017 - 1:32 PM

Weekly Volunteer Highlights for June 7th - June 14th, 2017
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May 17, 2017 - 11:09 AM

Weekly Volunteer Highlights for May 17, 2017 to May 24, 2017
Jolly Good Spudz wins Enterprize Challenge
April 19, 2017 - 3:02 PM

Martin Paris dared to hope his business idea would be chosen as one of the top three winners in the Enterprize Challenge. He moved from his native England to Vernon five years ago, and while he’s held jobs in construction, his love is in the kitchen, namely potatoes.
Enterprize Challenge 2017 Finalists Announced: Part 2
April 02, 2017 - 11:39 AM

VERNON, BC—There’s a shop where you can buy hand-baked spuds and a storefront that sells local artisans’ wares. There’s a place to rent RV’s, have your skin health analyzed and your audio-visual needs fulfilled. It seems the third annual Enterprize Challenge finalists have nearly thought of everything.
Okanagan College students tackle food security with Refreshing idea
February 16, 2017 - 2:17 PM

Three Okanagan College business students battled their way to first place at UBC Okanagan’s inaugural Inventathon last weekend and took home $600 in prize money for their innovative and socially conscious business idea, Refresh.
Registration Now Open for The Salvation Army Sharing Christmas Food & Toy Program
November 08, 2016 - 5:03 PM

The Salvation Army offers their annual Sharing Christmas Food & Toy Program within the Central Okanagan and looks to the community for continued support as demand increases.
Rotary Club announces wheelbarrow winners
January 19, 2016 - 5:00 PM

PENTICTON - The Rotary Club of Penticton donated $2,515.29 to the Soupateria Society. These funds were raised in Rotary’s annual Wheelbarrow Raffle. Soupateria plans to use these funds to purchase a gas stove and ventilation equipment.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo

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
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

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

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