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Rotary Club holds used musical instrument drive for Penticton kids
September 30, 2016 - 3:29 PM

PENTICTON - Aside from personal enjoyment and cultural growth, music education can make a transformative difference in a child’s intellectual and emotional development. Current neurosciences research has revealed a causal relationship between music training and brain fitness, both structure and function.
Discovery Park officially opens on Saturday
May 09, 2014 - 12:22 PM

Penticton – Play time is going natural. Alongside project partners, the City of Penticton is officially opening its first natural playground, Discovery Park, in Skaha Lake Park this coming Saturday.
Ontario student can’t wait to teach trades in B.C.
June 13, 2013 - 1:53 PM

An Ontario man hopes to soon be among those helping to address a critical shortage of trades and technology teachers in the province.

James Ross entered the two-year Trades Technology Teacher Education (TTTE) diploma program at Okanagan College last fall, after making the decision to move to Kelowna specifically for the program.
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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

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
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

Rotary Club holds used musical instrument drive for Penticton kids