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  • Ethel Street, Saucier Avenue set to fully reopen Nov. 29

    With work wrapping up on Phase 3 of the Ethel Street Active Transportation Corridor, Ethel Street between Harvey and Sutherland avenues will reopen at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 29, along with Saucier Avenue between Richter and Ethel streets.
  • Kelowna students use spring break to build homes abroad

    Kelowna, BC – Six Central Okanagan students are off to Central America today to spend their spring break helping to build a house in El Salvador. Students from Mount Boucherie Secondary and Rutland Senior Secondary will travel with their teachers to volunteer for the international non-profit housing organization Habitat for Humanity Global Village.
  • Western Canada gold advances three OC teams to Enactus Nationals

    Thirteen students from Okanagan College’s Enactus team will be a whole lot busier this semester as they prepare to take on the rest of the country in Vancouver in May after notching three first-place finishes at the Regional Western Canada Enactus Exposition in Calgary last weekend.
  • Industry booms with 7000 jobs created and $400 million in wages during record year in Kelowna

    Kelowna B.C. On January 28, 2017 the Canadian Home Builders Association (CHBA) Central Okanagan will be holding its 25th annual Tommie Awards. The sold out awards ceremony received a record number of entries this year as 200 finalists will be competing for 39 awards.
  • New innovative learning spaces at Okanagan Mission Secondary school

    KELOWNA - With the final phase of the $15-million Okanagan Mission Secondary school expansion now complete, students are kicking-off the new school year in an environmentally friendly and updated school.
  • Construction begins on the 2017 YMCA/YWCA Dream Home

    KAMLOOPS - Canadian Home Builders’ Association Central Interior and our partner Thompson Rivers University School of Trades and Technology are pleased to announce the start of the 2017 Training House Project.
  • Push To End Homelessness

    Downtown Kelowna will be taken over by decorated shopping carts competing in the 5th Annual Arthur Cottie Memorial PUSH TO END HOMELESSNESS—an annual fundraising event for the local grassroots charity Inn from the Cold – Kelowna (IFTC). 
  • Prescribed burn in Kenna Cartwright Park starts today

    KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops is partnering with the BC Wildfire Service, Kamloops Fire Rescue and a local contractor, who will act as burn boss, to perform a prescribed burn in Kenna Cartwright Nature Park this spring.
  • Okanagan College and Justice Institute open degree path in law enforcement

    PENTICTON - Okanagan College and the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) are opening the doors for students to complete JIBC’s Bachelor of Law Enforcement Studies degree program at the College’s Penticton campus.
  • Building a strong foundation: Greyback Construction project gives students a chance to put their skills to work

    PENTICTON - A unique job-shadow project is providing a group of students from Okanagan College’s Residential Construction program the chance to gain hands-on training as they build a high-end home in the South Okanagan.

    The class of 11 students, under the guidance of instructor David Lovisa, is helping construct a home at the Skaha Hills development in Penticton. The project arose as a job-shadow opportunity through Greyback Construction Ltd.

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