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Serving Success: A Look Inside Vernon's Pickleball Depot
August 21, 2023 - 9:30 AM
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Pickleball Depot is not just a store; it's a thriving hub for enthusiasts of a sport sweeping across Canada. Founded in 2012 by Bryan Banerd, with his daughter Cara Arding taking over in 2014, the company started its journey by selling equipment online. Arding made the shift to open the first brick-and-mortar retail outlet in Vernon, BC in 2017.
Negligence probed in deadly Beirut blast amid public anger
August 05, 2020 - 4:31 PM

BEIRUT - Investigators probing the deadly blast that ripped across Beirut focused Wednesday on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fertilizer in a waterfront warehouse, while the government ordered the house arrest of several port officials.
'Quarantine shaming': North America navigates radical new social norms
March 19, 2020 - 9:00 PM

The chairman of Arizona's Asian Chamber of Commerce didn't see much downside to attending a small dinner at a local restaurant to bolster the business and bring together other leaders to discuss how to help Asian-American eateries devastated by the coronavirus.
Slow arrival of aid frustrates Indonesia quake survivors
October 03, 2018 - 11:30 AM

PALU, Indonesia - Climbing over reeking piles of sodden food and debris, a crowd on Wednesday searched a warehouse wrecked in Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami for anything they could salvage: cans of condensed milk, soft drinks, rice, candy and painkillers.
Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas
June 18, 2018 - 6:00 AM

MCALLEN, Texas - Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.
Apple to build 2nd campus, hire 20,000 in $350B pledge
January 17, 2018 - 9:00 PM

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is planning to build another corporate campus and hire 20,000 workers during the next five years as part of a $350 billion commitment to the U.S. that will be partially financed by an upcoming windfall from the country's new tax law.
National and international headlines from 2015
January 01, 2016 - 6:30 PM

An in-brief survey of some of the significant news events in 2015, in chronological order:
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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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Top News - Vernon, Salmon Arm, Revelstoke and Areas

Serving Success: A Look Inside Vernon's Pickleball Depot

Negligence probed in deadly Beirut blast amid public anger

'Quarantine shaming': North America navigates radical new social norms

Slow arrival of aid frustrates Indonesia quake survivors

Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas

Apple to build 2nd campus, hire 20,000 in $350B pledge

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