News Items tag as: Kamloops seniors housing

Public hearing to be held for Kamloops affordable senior housing
March 01, 2020 - 11:00 AM

A public hearing will be held this month for an affordable seniors housing complex.
Okanagan, Thompson and Shuswap easiest regions in B.C. to find seniors’ rental housing
May 31, 2019 - 11:47 AM

KELOWNA - While overall rental vacancy rates in cities like Kamloops and Kelowna are below two per cent, the picture is much brighter when it comes to housing for seniors.
The Hamlets in Kamloops to add 48 residential care beds
March 20, 2017 - 2:30 PM

KAMLOOPS – Residential care for seniors in Kamloops is getting a helping hand with the addition of 48 care beds.
Funding approved for Kamloops housing project
December 16, 2016 - 11:25 AM

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops is getting $2.5 million for 24 units of supportive housing.
CARE HOME HOMICIDE: Her mother's gone, but a Kamloops woman wants you to know her story
February 13, 2016 - 12:00 PM

"I LOOKED AFTER HER WHEN SHE WAS ALIVE AND I'M LOOKING AFTER HER WHEN SHE'S GONE"
Orchards Walk turns focus to seniors
February 23, 2015 - 10:52 AM

KAMLOOPS - A development at the east end of Valleyview continues to grow at a quick rate with a 193-unit seniors' housing development next on the agenda for the ever-growing neighbourhood of Orchards Walk.
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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

Public hearing to be held for Kamloops affordable senior housing