Page 63 - Rob Munro News Today

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Province of B.C. February 12, 2021 - 4:07 PM COVID-19 is advancing at a steady pace throughout B.C. with 446 new cases in the last 24 hours. That’s roughly the same number of new cases as has been recorded each day this month. The Interior Health region is also keeping pace with 44 new cases, according to provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry during a news briefing today, Feb. 12. Health officials have administered 162,982 doses of vaccines in...

February 12, 2021 - 6:00 AM Over the past three decades, the number of acres in the Okanagan and Creston valleys devoted to growing apples has dropped to about one-third of what it once was. There were more than 20,000 acres of apples grown when the program started, says a report from the Sterile Insect Release program going to Lake Country council next week. That was in 1992. Now there are 7,500 acres. As a result, the report says, the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture, Food and ...

“The risks from COVID-19 remain high for all of us, especially with the variants of concern, which is why staying in our local community and avoiding any unnecessary travel is so important right now."

February 11, 2021 - 6:30 AM Even though COVID-19 caused a slowdown in film production last year, the Okanagan Film Commission was still able to secure two dozen shoots worth $48.8 million to the local economy, according to the film commissioner. That figure is included in a report going to a Regional District of Central Okanagan committee tomorrow, Feb. 11. “The South Okanagan set an industry standard by being in the forefront of safe production and hence became the first r...

(CARLI BERRY / iNFOnews.ca) February 09, 2021 - 4:01 PM Even though temperatures plummeted to at least -15C overnight in Kelowna, some people still chose to sleep rough. The daily “point in time” count of homeless in Kelowna found five people who had slept outdoors overnight, Stephanie Ball, executive director of the Journey Home Society told iNFOnews.ca today, Feb. 9. Ball recognizes that Kelowna is a big city and not everyone who slept outdoors is found by people doing ...

“Working in an outbreak environment is a tough scenario for everyone involved.”

Image Credit: SubmittedKamloops RCMP February 10, 2021 - 12:13 PM Half a pound of hard drugs were seized and a 19-year-old man from Mission was arrested after Kamloops police pulled him over because of mismatched licence plates. He was stopped in the 1500 Block of River Street yesterday, Feb. 9 and police say he resisted arrest for driving without insurance. A civilian helped the officer so the suspect could be handcuffed. A search followed the arrest and a quantity of drugs ...

February 09, 2021 - 8:30 AM For the first time on record, no Central Okanagan students were given indefinite suspensions in the 2019-20 school year. That’s not just because school was suspended for much of last spring because of COVID-19. It’s part of a growing trend to issue fewer suspensions of any kind. A report going to the School District 23 board of education on Wednesday, Feb. 10, says there were around 90 indefinite suspensions 15 to 20 years ago and 139 in the 19...

Central Okanagan has lowest unemployment rate in the country.

Melissa Smyk lightheartedly commented in a group of fellow green thumbs that she would be taking Feb. 26 off work so she could get first crack at buying thi