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Image Credit: Submitted/ City of West Kelowna July 26, 2021 - 6:30 PM A West Kelowna family is being applauded by city council for the many contributions their family has made to the community across several decades. The Mar/Marr family has recently sold a portion of their land to the city for soccer fields and donated land for a walking/bicycling trail that will also be used as a temporary off-leash dog park. The Mar/Marr family moved to Kelowna from Revelstoke in the late 1920s. Brothers Mar Jok and Marr Fee purchased a 400-acre homestead in the area now known as Rose Vall...

China says most rocket debris burned up during reentry FILE - In this April 29, 2021, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Long March 5B rocket carrying a module for a Chinese space station lifts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Wenchang in southern China's Hainan Province. The central rocket segment that launched the 22.5-ton core of China's newest space station into orbit is due to plunge back to Earth as early as Saturday in an unknown location. (Ju Zhenhua/Xinhua via AP, File) May 09, 2021 - 4:34 AM BEIJING - China's space age...

May 09, 2021 - 2:07 AM TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $23 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in the Prairies. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on May 12 will be an estimated $27 million. News from © The Canadian Press, 2021 More News ... West Kelowna residents may know Mar Jok by his name on an elementary school but his legacy stretches far beyond that as a communicator between the Chinese and Caucasian communities in the Okanagan in the 20th Century....

Image Credit: Forty-eighth annual report of the Okanagan Historical Society January 24, 2021 - 8:00 AM West Kelowna residents may know Mar Jok by his name on an elementary school but his legacy stretches far beyond that as a communicator between the Chinese and Caucasian communities in the Okanagan in the 20th Century. The Canadian Chinese pioneer and his beloved Golden Pheasant Restaurant welcomed everyone, even the poor, during a time when Chinatown, located along Leon Avenue, and its residents faced racism and discrimination. Born in 1900 in Canton, China, Mar Jok came t...