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Image Credit: Submitted/Breathe Medical Manufacturing May 09, 2021 - 3:30 PM Kelowna’s Breathe Medical Manufacturing went from 0 to 180 employees in just five months last year to help replenish the frightening shortage of personal protective equipment in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. It did that, first of all, by winning a federal contract to produce 46 million medical masks. Then it set up a production plant in Kelowna last May to get the job done. Those 46 million ...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Vernon RCMP May 10, 2021 - 11:15 AM Calls and offences dropped in the Vernon and Coldstream over the first three months of 2021 versus last year. The Vernon-North Okanagan RCMPs quarterly report will be presented to Vernon city council today, May 10, by detachment commander Supt. Shawna Baher. It shows there were 4,470 calls for service in Vernon and Coldstream. That’s a 3.6 per cent decrease from last year. Criminal Code offences were down 16.3 per...

May 10, 2021 - 7:00 AM Despite the death, sickness and economic devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are occasionally some upsides even for people with serious health problems. For Kelowna city councillor Charlie Hodge, whose lung illness requires him to be on oxygen pretty well 24 hours a day, it has helped keep him alive. “COVID has worked perfectly,” he told iNFOnews.ca. “I never have to leave the house. The biggest problem for me is getting pneumonia or getti...

While housing prices have soared throughout the country, the demand for industrial land in Kelowna has also been very strong. Over the past year there has been a 6.7 per cent increase in the amount of developed industrial space in Kelowna, according to a new report from MCL Real Estate Group. That’s added more than 700,000 square feet to the inventory, bringing the total amount of space to 11.4 million square feet. Image Credit: SUBMITTED/MCL Real Estate Group May 09, 2021 ...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Province of B.C. May 07, 2021 - 4:08 PM After a steady drop in daily COVID-19 cases in B.C. in recent days, the numbers climbed up to 722 today from less than 600 just two days ago. The Interior Health region, on the other hand, saw a drop to 38 new cases in the last 24 hours. Recent daily counts had been more than 50. This comes at a time when the province has injected more than two million people with vaccines. Interior Health has injected approxim...

May 07, 2021 - 3:38 PM People living in three Interior Health region neighbourhoods will have greater access to the AstraZeneca vaccines. Golden and Summerland have been identified as high transmission communities, along with the Rutland neighbourhood of Kelowna. “When we looked at the data it looked like Rutland had one of the lowest immunization rates in the region and they also had one of the highest infection rates in the region,” Interior Health region’s chief medi...

May 07, 2021 - 4:37 PM A recent leak of COVID-19 data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control showed that much more information is being collected than is being made available to the public. That includes case counts by neighbourhood, not just town or region. Early on in the pandemic, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry only reported on cases in the province’s five health regions. As more cases were recorded, the data was broken down, for example, into the four Heal...

Image Credit: FACEBOOK/Anna Jacyszyn May 08, 2021 - 7:30 AM Kelowna musician Anna Jacyszyn is flabbergasted and angry that a special Mother’s Day performance by her and her quartet was cancelled at the last moment by Interior Health. “Everything was perfect and clean,” she told iNFOnews.ca. “It’s the safest gig in Kelowna.” She worked with the Coast Capri Hotel management which consulted with Interior Health and believed they had the approval to go ahead about a ...

May 06, 2021 - 5:02 PM Three people have died during the COVID-19 outbreak at the Spring Valley Seniors Community long-term care home in Kelowna. The outbreak was declared on April 28 after one resident and one staff member tested positive. As of today, May 6, there are 32 cases in the facility, including 22 residents and 10 staff, according to an Interior Health news release. Interior Health doesn’t say whether those who died were staff or residents. Spring Valley is one ...

(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) May 07, 2021 - 11:09 AM Tolko Industries has been granted the one-year extension it applied for months ago to determine what contaminants may be in the soils of their Kelowna mill site. The mill was closed in 2019. Demolition started in the spring of 2020 and is expected to continue into the fall. Once the company got its first demolition permit from the City of Kelowna in February 2020, they had one year to do an environmental study of the site and ...