News Items tag as: Penticton Search and Rescue 2017

Another busy year for Penticton Search and Rescue
December 29, 2017 - 11:00 AM

PENTICTON - As 2017 comes to an end, Penticton Search and Rescue manager Randy Brown reflected on the year’s efforts by the dedicated group of volunteers.
Penticton Search and Rescue called twice on Saturday
August 20, 2017 - 2:47 PM

PENTICTON - Because of two emergency situations on the weekend, Penticton and District Search and Rescue are encouraging people that frequency use cycling trails to download the Trailforks mobile app.
Emergency crews rally to rescue hiker at Skaha Bluffs
May 24, 2017 - 8:21 AM

PENTICTON - Penticton Search and Rescue along with Penticton Fire Department came to the aid of an injured hiker at Skaha Bluffs yesterday.
Reunion celebrates heroic Penticton rescue effort
March 20, 2017 - 2:30 PM

PENTICTON - Rescue and first response teams involved in a critical incident last summer on Apex Mountain got together recently to acknowledge the successful collaborative effort that saved the life of a young woman.
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THOMPSON: Junk drawers: No method to my indefensible organizational madness
OPINION Maybe everyone has that drawer, you know, the one where you stick things because you don’t know where else to put it. I hope - for your sake - you don’t have what I have, multiple drawers. I

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

Another busy year for Penticton Search and Rescue