News Items tag as: Helen Sidney

Vernon woman acknowledged for nearly 30 years of picking up litter
October 11, 2016 - 2:39 PM

VERNON - A Vernon woman earned heartfelt applause this afternoon at city hall as she accepted an award for her many years of community service.
93-year-old Vernon woman spends two hours a day picking up garbage to 'keep busy'
April 11, 2016 - 9:00 PM

VERNON - If you’ve ever walked or biked along Bella Vista Road which hugs the grassy, and at this time of year, flower-filled hills on the west side of Vernon, you might have noticed a pleasantly surprising absence of coffee cups, plastic bags and other waste that mars most other roadsides.
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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

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

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

Vernon woman acknowledged for nearly 30 years of picking up litter