News Items tag as: Turning Points Collaborative Society

Okanagan society working to keep people out of shelters one landlord at a time
March 13, 2023 - 7:00 AM
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Helping people avoid homelessness in the Central and North Okanagan is a prime focus of Turning Points Collaborative Society but it can’t always prevent people from having to go to emergency shelters or camp out somewhere.
iN PHOTOS: A tour of Vernon's new supportive housing complex
December 22, 2022 - 5:00 PM

Slated to open in the new year, Vernon will soon have another 52 units of supportive housing.
More winter shelter beds coming to North and Central Okanagan
November 16, 2021 - 3:20 PM

Vernon-based Turning Points Collaborative is going to provide shelter for dozens more people in Vernon, Kelowna and West Kelowna this winter.
West Kelowna's old food bank building to offer shelter
July 21, 2021 - 5:00 PM

Before West Kelowna’s homeless population moves into a recently approved shelter near an area gravel pit, they will find refuge in the city’s old food bank.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the fourth week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone

$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

Okanagan society working to keep people out of shelters one landlord at a time