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May 14, 2021 - 2:25 PM As of this Sunday, all Interior Health residents over the age of 18 can start booking their COVID-19 vaccines. That means, everyone willing to get vaccinated will be able to get that shot by the end of the month, according to the Interior Health Authority. “We are aiming to have availability in our clinics within two weeks of the invite going out,” Karen Bloemink, Interior Health’s vice-president for pandemic response said during a news briefing t...

May 12, 2021 - 7:00 PM The idea of a ban on idling vehicles has been around for a long time and such bans are in place in 30 B.C. communities, including Kamloops. Its been talked about in the Central Okanagan for at least three years but it may finally see the light of day in Kelowna this year. But, even if such a bylaw is passed, it will be more for educational purposes than punishment, Jerry Dombowsky, the City of Kelowna’s transit and programs manager told iNFOnews.ca to...

(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) May 13, 2021 - 10:28 AM Corrected financial reports will be filed with Elections B.C. within the next day or two by Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran after a complaint was made about money he raised in 2017. He raised about $20,000 in 2017 that was spent that year, Basran told iNFOnews.ca today, May 13, prior to the official 2018 Election Period which started on Jan. 1, 2018. Basran was reelected for a second term that year. “Apparently you have to, at le...

May 13, 2021 - 11:00 AM There were 134 fewer cases of COVID-19 recorded in the Interior Health region last week versus the week before. From May 2 to 8, the region recorded 323 new cases, the lowest weekly tally since mid-March, based on information posted on the B.C. Centre for Disease Control website. Kamloops Local Health Area led the way, dropping to 33 new cases from 57. Penticton cases fell to 15 from 34 while the Central Okanagan recorded 162 cases last week, down only...

Image Credit: GOOGLE STREET VIEW May 12, 2021 - 2:01 PM As the number of employees sent home to self-isolate because of COVID-19 in their workplaces grows, so does the number of family and other household members who have to cut off their outside lives. There have now been seven workplaces in the Thompson and Okanagan regions of Interior Health that have been closed due to COVID cases. “Living in a household with a person who has COVID-19 means you and all of the other peop...

May 11, 2021 - 11:20 AM A third Kelowna business has been ordered closed by Interior Health due to COVID-19 in less than a week. The accounting firm Thalheimer & Company was ordered to close its office yesterday, May 10. The firm will be closed until May 20. It joins OK Tire on Dilworth Drive and the parts and service department of Kelowna Toyota. It doesn’t necessarily mean they were violating COVID safety rules, the general manager of Kelowna Toyota told iNFOnews.ca. “...

May 11, 2021 - 7:30 AM Shannon Christensen started Mamas for Mamas as a Facebook group in 2014 and grew it into a national organization that battles poverty. As with most non-profits during the COVID-19 pandemic, Christensen has found that funding for such organizations is a struggle. So, she joined forces with honourary Mama John Oughtred to create a special line of coffee as an ongoing revenue source. “Consistently people need their coffee,” Christensen told iNFOnews.c...

May 10, 2021 - 2:30 PM The parts and services department at Kelowna Toyota has been ordered closed by Interior Health because of COVID-19 transmission. It’s one of five businesses in the Interior Health region closed under new health orders issued April 12. The closure at the Toyota dealerships parts and service department was imposed on May 8 and runs through to May 19. OK Tire on Dilworth Drive, also in Kelowna, was ordered closed May 7 but is scheduled to reopen tomorro...

May 10, 2021 - 3:42 PM RCMP engaged in what was described as a high-risk takedown today following a shooting in Chase. Officers from the Chase detachment responded to reports of shots fired on Fairview Road in Anglemont at around 6:45 a.m. today, May 10, where they found a man with gunshot wounds, according to an RCMP media release. He was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. At 9:40 a.m., near Pritchard, police spotted a car similar to one that sped away fro...

(JOHN MCDONALD / iNFOnews.ca) May 10, 2021 - 3:17 PM Vernon city council is asking its staff to dig deeper into the idea of having some kind of outdoor synthetic skating rink by as early as next year. Where it might be located or what it will look like – councillor Kari Gares suggested it could be structured as a trail system – has yet to be determined. And, it would still need council to approve it in the 2022 budget. “It would be unusual,” Mayor Victor Cumming said ...