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Kelowna's Pela is expanding its green reach
May 21, 2020 - 2:30 PM

Kelowna-based company Pela is spreading its biodegradable reach beyond compostable alternatives to plastics and into personal care products.
iN VIDEO: Pela Earth surprises Kelowna customers paying for their groceries
February 13, 2020 - 4:15 PM

A Kelowna-based company known for its compostable cellphone cases surprised a handful of customers shopping at a local Nature’s Fare recently.
Kelowna company with Jay-Z ties becomes Certified B Corporation
October 31, 2019 - 1:30 PM

Pela is staying on-track to create a waste-free future with its freshly minted Certified B Corporation status.
From flax fields to Jay Z's venture capital fund, this Kelowna company is starting a tsunami of change
October 29, 2019 - 6:00 AM

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THOMPSON: Is dining etiquette a thing of the past?
OPINION I read a recent article that tried to make a case for getting rid of some rules of dining etiquette. Those rules, said the writer, “are made to be broken.” The writer’s logic seems flawed, at

$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

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

Kelowna's Pela is expanding its green reach