News Items tag as: daycare services

'MORE THAN OUR MORTGAGE:' Kelowna daycare boosted rates to $1,700 per month
December 11, 2023 - 7:00 AM

Parents at a Kelowna day care are looking for answers after fees were raised $800 for many kids in the program to $1,700 per child, per month — after a $900 government rebate.
Why an Okanagan family is moving back to Vancouver to find childcare
December 01, 2023 - 7:30 AM

The state of childcare in the Okanagan seems to have reached a crisis point and parents are being put in near-impossible situations.
Central Okanagan parents scrambling to find daycare after centre loses 24 spots
November 05, 2021 - 3:18 PM

Central Okanagan parents are urgently trying to find a new daycare for their children after one is closing a classroom due to licensing issues and staffing shortages.
Child care appeals rising in Kamloops again
March 28, 2021 - 8:30 AM

While many of us are hoping for a return to normalcy following the pandemic, when it comes to finding child care in Kamloops "normal" isn't necessarily a good thing.
New childcare spaces set to open in Kamloops, Okanagan
March 02, 2021 - 11:18 AM

Okanagan and Kamloops families will soon have access to more childcare spaces.
Little Miracles Big On Life Skills and Fun for Vernon Children
March 30, 2020 - 8:00 AM

Children are often considered little miracles. Teachers are often credited with working little miracles.
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$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

'MORE THAN OUR MORTGAGE:' Kelowna daycare boosted rates to $1,700 per month