News Items tag as: Solar power

Fresh air, birds, phone chargers: Central Okanagan parks add new amenity
April 26, 2019 - 2:09 PM

KELOWNA - A dead cell phone won’t also mean death to your Instagram life at two regional parks this spring.
Powerful, Portable and Attainable - Harnessing the power of the sun
July 03, 2017 - 12:00 AM

Matthew Longman and Shari McDowell of Aquassure Accessible Baths are once again changing the shape of an industry with their Kelowna based solar company Azimuth Solar Products Inc.
First solar road in Canada coming to Kamloops this summer
March 29, 2017 - 6:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - The first solar road in Canada will be built this summer at the Thompson Rivers University campus in Kamloops.
Okanagan Indian Band explores solar power
October 21, 2016 - 1:03 PM

VERNON - The Okanagan Indian Band may soon be going green with solar energy.
Historical solar project moves ahead at newest Kamloops park
October 30, 2015 - 6:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - The newly renovated West Highlands Park Community Centre will soon be home to the largest solar project in Kamloops history.
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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

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

Fresh air, birds, phone chargers: Central Okanagan parks add new amenity