Page 61 - Rob Munro News Today

A company has been recognised for rising to the coronavirus challenge, keeping bakeries and households stocked up with one of the most essential ingredients in the world – flour. Internationally renowned miller Carr’s Flour, which has a factory in Maldon, scooped two gongs at the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards this month. One was for Ingredients Manufacturing Company of the Year, and the other for Food Manufacture Site Team of the Year for its sister mill in Silloth, Cumbria. Lo...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Province of B.C. February 26, 2021 - 10:55 AM B.C.s Health Minister is not impressed with people who are turning their opposition to public health orders into personal attacks and threats towards the provincial health officer. “We live in a democratic society and it’s absolutely legitimate to disagree, even about issues such as the pandemic,” Adrian Dix said during a news briefing yesterday, Feb. 26. “But some of the disagreement is totally un...

February 24, 2021 - 7:00 AM Expense claims and credit card receipts incurred by senior bureaucrats should be posted online to prevent wasteful spending, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says. “If you’re some bureaucrat and you’ve got the taxpayers’ credit card in your hand, are you really going to buy a $100 gift certificate at the local liquor store on it, when you know it’s going to be posted on the internet?” Kris Sims, the B.C. director for the federation said...

AVON LAKE

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Government of Canada February 24, 2021 - 10:55 AM Nestled next to the proposed UBC Okanagan downtown campus will be a six-storey, 68-unit affordable housing building. The site at 555 Fuller Ave. is where Pathways Abilities Society used to be located and is across the alley from the UBCO site on Doyle Avenue. That building was used for an emergency winter shelter for the homeless last winter. The land is owned by the City of Kelowna but the housing is b...

February 24, 2021 - 7:30 AM When Beth Cavers grew up in the Okanagan, cherries ripened in late June or early July. That was also the peak time for cherry fruit flies to infest them as much as they could. These days, cherries are being harvested up until late August or even early September and shipped by freighter to coincide with the Autumn Moon Festival in China – with no sign of those pesky fruit flies. “The cherry fruit flies are peaking in the first two weeks of July...

“Any time a crime is in progress or there is somebody who’s life or limb is at risk, by all means we want the public to call 911.”

Image Credit: City of Kelowna February 22, 2021 - 2:45 PM Two six-storey towers are proposed for the corner of Richter Street and Lakeshore Road, directly across from Boyce-Gyro Beach Park in Kelowna. Called Caban, the proposed development includes 130 housing units along with eight retail stores and a 520 square foot waterfall that will face the park. The areas is “considered by many residents as the best location in the City of Kelowna,” states a letter from Meiklejohn ...

"There is no evidence of COVID-19 transmission to other areas of the hospital at this time."

February 22, 2021 - 6:00 PM In her first public report to Kelowna city council, RCMP Supt. Kara Triance was forthright when asked by Coun. Loyal Wooldridge for her opinion on decriminalization of illicit drugs. “As your police chief for your community, decriminalization – meaning a pathway to health care for those who are addicted individuals within our community – is a priority for myself,” she said. “It is absolutely something I will always be advocating for when i...