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18th Annual Best Restaurants

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Our readers choose their favourites in a host of categories and Okanagan Life brings you the results. Welcome to the 18th Annual Best Restaurants issue. Perhaps above all others, this is the keeper magazine of the year. Readers try new restaurants all the time and you can expand your dining experience by referring to these listings throughout the year. Get ready to dine—Okanagan Life style!  Read More

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Defending nature

John & Mary Theberge

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Renowned ecologists, authors and activists, John and Mary Theberge have spent a lifetime studying nature, working to increase understanding and seeking to protect endangered environments through the national park system… Before you start talking to them, John and Mary Theberge look like another pair of comfy grandparents from the south end of the Valley. But beneath that thin veneer of age lies the chain mail of their just cause—nature. John and Mary are ecologists living a crusading life that would be the... 

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Golf Feature

Venus on the Greens

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

When celebrated LPGA golfer AJ Eathorne joins the pro staff at Predator Ridge in Vernon this season, she’ll also be joining the handful of women golf professionals and professional golf teachers who make their living in the Okanagan. Meet four of these accomplished women. Find out what they bring to the sport, to their students (both female and male) and to the growing community of women golfers. And see how the tips they share can boost your game. AJ Eathorne News that AJ Eathorne was joining the pro staff at Predator... 

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Community

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Top Community Lawyers

Top community lawyers

Get the inside story on the people behind the legalese. Richard Enns – Compass Law | Tessmer Law | Nadine Casey French Law | Robert O. Levin Law Office | Okimaw Law | Blakely & Company | Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law | William Clarke – Courtyard Law Read More  Read More

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In Person

Chairman of the Board

2012-May-Frechette

Derek Frechette was intrigued by the rich, red piece of Australian jarrah. It’s a wood not often seen on this side of the Pacific because of its rarity and the fact that it’s hard on tools, dulling them quickly, ?even in the hands of a highly skilled woodworker. But Derek had a plan.

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Culture

Installation Art

2012-May-Cult

A giant metal hand sits on a track that runs along the ceiling. A hard push sends it lumbering across the room, the forged knuckles almost dragging across the cement floor. Down the hall, bushels of hair, severed and splayed, fill a darkened room. Around the corner sits a huge pile…

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Paul's Voice

Think About It

2011-Paul

“I think, therefore I am.” Is this statement false or true? Last year I wrote about an author who claimed to know the happiest region or city in which to live. I wondered out loud if the Okanagan might be it, or if it could ever be that place? I concluded it could—but only if we corrected a few things.

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Wine & Food

Richard Kamphuys – Ancient Hills Winery

2012-May-Kamphuys

A hill overlooking Kelowna International Airport may seem an unusual site for an estate winery, but for Dutch native Richard Kamphuys and his wife Jitske, it’s a perfectly sensible spot to grow quality grapes and make fine wine. When the couple first immigrated to Canada in 1992…