Image Credit: SUBMITTED: Darren Copley February 20, 2021 - 10:30 AM They re pretty clumsy fliers and spend nearly their entire lives underground, and while their name is generally only used by scientists, the Okanagan Valley does have its own family of insects named after it. Their genus name is Okanagana but they are more commonly known as cicadas. They re often described as the sound of summer and there s no escaping the hum coming from the insects on a hot evening in July and August. While the sound they make is very recognizable, the scientific name Okanagana, has never become a common term. As with all things related to insects, there is not just one Okanagana cicada, and the word Okanagana actually refers to the insects genus. In the genus Okanagana, there are more than 60 species across North America, largely in the U.S. but also here in the Okanagan Valley.
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But within hours of the statement, potential deliveries from the global vaccine-sharing initiative known as the COVAX Facility diminished and Canada learned the production problems that cut this week s deliveries from Moderna by 20 per cent are now going to affect the next shipment as well.
Moderna was to deliver almost 250,000 doses to Canada the third week of February. It hasn t said yet what the impact will be.
A spokeswoman for Moderna told The Canadian Press the company remains on track to meet its contract to supply two million doses of its vaccine by the end of March.
They are but the latest headaches for Canada s vaccine efforts, coming after supply constraints cut Pfizer-BioNTech deliveries by more than two-thirds over four weeks, and European export controls that could put our entire supply of vaccines at risk.
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There will be a story in the sky nightly in Kelowna this month.
From tonight (Feb. 5) to the end of the month, projections in downtown Kelowna will showcase fascinating stories in a new exhibit called Celestial Bodies. On display every evening from 5:30-10 p.m. outside the Rotary Centre for the Arts (421 Cawston Ave.), Celestial Bodies is a multicultural creation of animated media that depicts ancient astrological stories, exploring the belief systems that make up Canadian and Indigenous society’s diverse fabric. The multimedia projection shows animated images of star stories alongside world-class cross-cultural music.
Celestial Bodies is the second projection series to be showcased in downtown Kelowna this year thanks to Light Up Kelowna a new partnership between the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan (ARTSCO) and UBC Okanagan’s Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies. In addition, there are a diverse range of artists involved in the production of Celestial Bod