(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) March 17, 2021 - 7:00 AM If you’ve ever walked through the rows of eastern white cedars near Kelowna’s Guisachan house, you may have heard the faint clip-clop of horses and echoes of laughter that has long since faded away. It harkens back to the 1890s and is one of this area’s only ghost stories a happy enough one, for the record. On the heels of the City of Kelowna s announcement that contractors and parks staff had begun removing the eastern white cedar trees from the laneway at Guisachan Heritage Park, historian Bob Hayes explained how the foliage had its roots in some colourful history.
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Image Credit: Submitted/City of Kelowna January 17, 2021 - 3:32 PM One of Kelowna’s favourite wedding locations is on route to becoming protected in perpetuity. The Central Okanagan Heritage Society is asking city council to have the entire 1.26-acre Benvoulin Heritage Park and all its buildings formally designated as a heritage site. Right now, only the church carries that classification. “We are just doing everything we can to make sure that building carries on forever, ideally,” society president Don Knox told iNFOnews.ca. There are about 200 buildings on Kelowna’s Heritage Registry but that does little to protect them from being modified or even demolished.
And the vaccine is a planet-saving enterprise. Godspeed to all who guide it.
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As we start road to recovery, it’s worth taking a look back
It is timely, as we enter a new year and hopefully a healthy era, to consider the life-saving value of vaccines.
The history of the eradication of TB from Ireland’s recent past is most relevant as a template for the crucial part played by inoculation.
Since the late 19th century, 750,000 people died in Ireland from tuberculosis right up to and including the 1950s.
Medical archives tell us this was due to poor housing/malnutrition, and general rudimentary health treatments for those times.