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The advantages and limitations of robot servers in Kamloops and Okanagan restaurants
February 21, 2025 - 7:11 AM
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Customers can find a cute kitty robot whizzing around serving food at a handful of Kamloops and Okanagan restaurants, but one restaurateur in Kelowna predicts it will take time before the bots become regular fixtures in the industry.
iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
November 26, 2024 - 12:00 PM

Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the fourth week of November 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.
Popular spots to enjoy ramen in Okanagan, Kamloops
November 02, 2024 - 6:00 AM
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Fall is here and the weather is turning colder so many are turning to comfort foods in the Okanagan and Kamloops.
SMOOTH AND AGED: Penticton restaurateur now making his own sake
September 16, 2023 - 8:00 AM
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Penticton restaurant owner Tatsuo Kan opened the first sake brewery in the Okanagan and now he has a permit to bring the freshly brewed rice wine out of the tasting room and straight to his customers in the dining room.
Prestigious Silver Star Wine Festival about to uncork for second year
July 31, 2023 - 4:30 PM
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Elevated menus, wine tastings, entertainment and markets are on the menu for the four-day Silver Star Wine Festival, and it's less than two weeks away.
New Asian fusion eatery opens in downtown Vernon
September 29, 2022 - 6:00 AM
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An Asian restaurant located in the heart of Vernon opened this month.
The future is now: Robot kitty will bring you food at Kelowna Smitty’s
May 16, 2022 - 12:32 PM
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It makes noise, flashes lights, has a set of wheels and enjoys head scratches.
Kelowna take-out orders top Canadian list for pickiest, and best tips
November 03, 2021 - 6:30 AM
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Uber Eats has declared Kelowna home to some of the pickiest eaters in Canada.
Why some Interior businesses are starting to open their doors again
April 23, 2020 - 8:00 AM

After enduring more than a month of lockdown restrictions, it appears some businesses are starting to rear their heads and open up again.
Kelowna made it through a pandemic before and can learn from past mistakes
April 19, 2020 - 12:00 PM

Close churches, schools, libraries and theatres. No more public weddings or funerals. Loitering in restaurants and bars is prohibited. Avoid crowded areas.
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Federal regulators to step up invasive beetle response in Kamloops
A seasonal pesticide treatment isn't enough for federal regulators as Kamloops looks to curb an invasive beetle new to the city. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is expected to come down with additional rules for Kamloops like restri

North Carolina governor forms council to recommend cannabis regulations
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein says a panel he's tasked with recommending cannabis sale regulations — including potential legalization of adult use of marijuana — should aim to provide a structure in a s

Kelowna’s tent city policies ‘make people want to give up’
Members of Kelowna’s unhoused population and local housing advocates are warning that a new city strategy is putting the health and safety of unhoused people at risk. For almost

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Kelowna daycare that shorted staffer $9,000 in wages loses another appeal
A Kelowna daycare on the hook $10,000 for failing to pay a former early educator, has failed in its latest attempt to overturn the ruling. According to a recently published April 9 Employmen
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Ex-fiance wanted her Kelowna home, but judge ruled he was mainly a tenant
A Kelowna man has failed to get his hands on half of his former fiancé's home after a BC judge ruled their relationship only lasted a summer. Kory Damian Garwasiuk had argued he w
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iN VIDEO: Kamloops gardener catches tiny garden thief red handed
Kamloops resident Christine Rissanen is losing her precious garden to pocket gophers and voles for the second year in a row, and recently captured video of one tiny criminal in the act of snipping
June 07, 2025 4:00 AM
Blobs of dog vomit slime mould appearing in Okanagan gardens
Slimy masses resembling piles of vomit or scrambled eggs have appeared in some Okanagan gardens this spring, attached to decaying wood and organic materials. Kelowna resident Tracey Cochrane
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After 30 years in Canada, prolific Vernon drunk driver faces deportation
After more than 30 years in Canada, a Vernon man who has been jailed multiple times for drunk driving will be kicked out of the country after he finishes his latest stint in prison. At the V
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BC woman sexually abused by stepdad awarded $900,000
CONTENT ADVISORY A BC woman who endured a decade of sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather has been awarded $900,000 after she sued him in court. James Arthur Smith was never in
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The country that made smoking sexy is breaking up with cigarettes
PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot lounged barefoot on a Saint-Tropez beach, drawing languorous puffs from her cigarette. Another actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, swaggered down the Champs-Élys&e
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Miss Atomic Bomb: The woman, the mystery and the man who solved it
LAS VEGAS (AP) — It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found pr
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Federal regulators to step up invasive beetle response in Kamloops
A seasonal pesticide treatment isn't enough for federal regulators as Kamloops looks to curb an invasive beetle new to the city. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is expected to come d
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