News Items tag as: Central Okanagan school board

School board jumps back into the frying pan, asks for help naming Lake Country middle school
September 11, 2018 - 11:19 AM

LAKE COUNTRY - The Central Okanagan School Board is again inviting the public to help name a school, this time a new middle school in Lake Country.
Long-time Peachland school trustee looking for eighth term
September 06, 2018 - 5:04 PM

KELOWNA - If school trustee and chair Moyra Baxter can offer one thing, it’s experience and lots of it.
B.C. schools considering alternatives to U.S. travel over border uncertainty
April 28, 2017 - 9:00 PM

KAMLOOPS - B.C. school districts are quietly putting plans in place in case students on class trips are interrupted on what used to be routine trips across the U.S. border.
Roll out of new school curriculum underfunded, say Okanagan teachers' association
September 02, 2015 - 5:00 PM

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - Teachers in the Central Okanagan School District are welcoming the new provincial education curriculum but say the province isn’t providing enough money to give it a proper introduction.
Surging demand pushes French Immersion expansion into West Kelowna school
January 14, 2015 - 11:54 AM

POPULAR LANGUAGE PROGRAM LEAVES ONE LOCAL SCHOOL MORE FRENCH THAN ENGLISH
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Kelowna winery says accountant took almost a half-million dollars
The owners of a Kelowna winery and golf course allege their former controller took nearly $450,000 in just 30 months on the job. The Turton Group, which owns The View winery as well as Orchard Greens golf course and a rental business, is su

No weed, just beer: Bavaria bans smoking cannabis at Oktoberfest and beer gardens
BERLIN (AP) — You can get drunk at Bavaria's world-famous Oktoberfest, but don't get high. The southern German state will ban smoking cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens, and even at the Oktoberfest, the world

B.C. home sales slide almost 10 per cent in March despite mortgage rate drop
VANCOUVER - Home sales in British Columbia fell by almost 10 per cent in March compared with the same period last year, in a slowdown an analyst says could be buyers waiting for lower interest rates. The B.C. Real Estate Association says th

School board jumps back into the frying pan, asks for help naming Lake Country middle school