New winery coming soon
A new winery will be coming to the South Okanagan with a focus on the reds. In particular, the new winery by Phantom Creek Estates will focus on Bordeaux-style wines after acquiring three vineyards on the Black Sage Bench. “Family is at the core of our estate, and the sense of family extends to our […]
Lazy, narcissistic generation?
Are millennials lazy and narcissistic? That’s one of the topics of an upcoming talk at Okanagan College’s Trades Training Complex Atrium on Wednesday, with author Ian MacRae. He will be talking about his new book, co-authored by Adrian Furnham, Motivation and Performance: A Guide to Motivating a Diverse Workforce, which looks at those questions and more. […]
Silver for pedal pitchers
A quartet of Okanagan College students have pedaled their way onto the podium with an Okanagan-inspired business idea at one of B.C.’s most prestigious tourism case competitions. Adrian Lemiski, Brooks Hewko, Merissa Hucul and Nick Gallant took second place at The Winning Pitch competition at the B.C. Tourism Industry Conference in Victoria this week. Hosted […]
Join downtown YMCA
The YMCA is now selling memberships for its soon-to-open, downtown Kelowna facility. The facility is still being built, but the YMCA says the it should be fully up and running by June 2017. The 700-square-metre facility will make its home on the ground floor of Interior Health’s new Kelowna Community Health and Services Centre at […]
Newspaper plant closes
Black Press is shuttering its press operations in Penticton, meaning the Penticton Western News will now be printed in Vernon. The move is a result Aberdeen Publishing, the company behind Kamloops This Week, Merritt Herald, Peachland View, Oliver Chronicle and the Osoyoos Times, pulling their print work out of the facility. The Penticton Black Press facility will be consolidated with its […]
10 more single-family lots
Developers are looking at a pair of sections of the Wiltse area to add 10 more single-family homes to the 22-lot Panorama View Estates. The two lots add up to about 0.4 hectares of land, which will expand the neighbourhood to a 32 single-family lots in what is dubbed by the city the upper Wiltse […]
Art Knapp closing
After 34 years in the same building, Art Knapp is shutting down its Springfield Road location. Jeff Vander Zalm owns the Kelowna garden centre and says that, as of today, he has officially sold the property. He said the realtors facilitating the sale have been “pretty vague” about the buyer, but did confirm the property is […]
Bids galore for new arena
There is no shortage of interest from companies wanting to build a new arena in Vernon. Tenders for the $13-million project that will add a second sheet of ice to the existing Kal Tire Place were supposed to close on Friday, but that deadline has been extended to March 10. Doug Ross, director recreation services for […]
Exemption good, could be better
The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board is applauding the provincial government’s promise to increase the Property Transfer Tax exemption threshold for first-time buyers. Finance Minister Mike De Jong announced last week an increase to the tax exemption given to first-time homebuyers in B.C. Through First-Time Homebuyer’s Program, homebuyers can now get a property tax exemption […]
Gabor Maté in Kelowna
Renowned speaker and author Gabor Maté is giving a pair of sold-out presentations in Kelowna today. Hosted by OBCO’s Faculty of Health and Social Development, the Feb. 27 presentations will be aimed at both health care practitioners and the general public. In the afternoon, Maté will discuss the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic currently plaguing the […]
