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(JOHN MCDONALD / iNFOnews.ca) March 04, 2021 - 8:30 PM A joint effort called Adaptive Equipment wants to set up a rental outlet at the base of Knox Mountain to help people find new ways to get around. The two groups – Elevation Outdoor Experiential Programs Association and Community Recreation Initiatives Society – are asking council to grant them a $1 lease for space at the base of Knox Mountain from May 1 to Oct. 15 for a pilot project renting standard and low barrier el...

Image Credit: Submitted/Central Okanagan School District March 05, 2021 - 8:53 AM After 54 years with the Central Okanagan school district, first as a teacher and last as a trustee, Rolli Cacchioni died yesterday, March 4. Cacchioni died after suffering a stroke, according to a Central Okanagan school district media release. "Trustee Cacchionis many years as an educator, and his community connections, meant he brought a unique, welcome perspective to the board table,” Moyra...

March 04, 2021 - 7:30 AM There is no provincial body with the power or mandate to make sure local government employees or elected officials don’t squander taxpayers money. The recent revelations showing Thompson-Nicola Regional District CAO Sukh Gill charged about $500,000 over five years to his corporate credit card – including alcohol, lavish meals and gifts – is indicative of a local government structure that has no consistent system of checks and balances. That fact...

A tiger dam in City Park in Kelowna is pictured in this submitted photo. The province needs to step in and review how Okanagan Lake levels are managed in order to reduce the risk of floods like the one in 2017, according to the Okanagan Basin Water Board. Image Credit: SUBMITTED/OBWB-OkWaterWise March 02, 2021 - 3:16 PM After weeks of collecting letters of support from Okanagan governments, the Okanagan Basin Water Board is sending a letter to the province urging it do an exten...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/TNRD March 01, 2021 - 12:57 PM Ken Gillis, on behalf of the Thompson Nicola Regional District board, is taking “full ownership and accountability” for the spending habits of former CAO Sukh Gill. About $500,000 in credit card receipts that Gill racked up over the last five years of his tenure (he “retired" a year ago) have been documented by Kamloops This Week and sparked a community backlash as many of those expenses seem extravagant and often in...

February 27, 2021 - 6:00 PM With commercial flights cancelled between Mexico and Canada, Okanagan fruit growers are having to pay higher charter air fares and take the risk of the workers not being able to fly because of COVID-19. As with all air travellers, Mexican farm workers have to show they’ve tested negative for COVID-19 within 72 hours of their flights. “With that, we have seen some challenges,” Veronica Moreno, program manager with the Western Agriculture Labou...

February 28, 2021 - 8:00 AM The “unintended consequences” of B.C.’s COVID-19 lockdown rules are affecting a wide range of residents in the Interior Health region, from the youngest to the oldest. Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Albert de Villiers, said he doesnt have hard numbers showing the impact, but he knows they exist. “There were, there are and there will be some unintended consequences of the pandemic based on fear,” he said during a news briefing, Feb. 25....

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Province of B.C. February 26, 2021 - 3:48 PM After dropping below 500 new COVID-19 cases per day earlier this week, the daily case count jumped to 589 today. That includes 39 in the Interior Health region in the last 24 hours. Most of those new cases, 317, were in the Fraser Health region with another 157 in Vancouver Coastal, according to a joint statement issued by provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix today, Feb....

February 27, 2021 - 9:30 AM When Roy Hulse wanted to expand his Scallywags clothing business in the late 1990s, he wasn’t keen on following the Mexican stylings of nearby Mission Park Shopping Centre. He was pleasantly surprised when Kelowna City Hall approved his design for a new building on the corner of Pandosy Street and West Avenue that was dubbed Scallywags Junction and is still highly visible today with its striking Marmalade Cat Café on the corner. It transformed t...

Another death was recorded in the COVID-19 outbreak previously declared over at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, while the new outbreak at Kelowna General Hospital has claimed a life.