My last memory of “Big Mike” (six foot three, 265 lbs) was of him being wheeled out of the hockey rink in Las Vegas on a gurney flashing the “thumbs up” sign to both teams as the paramedics took him to the local emergency. Mike, age 40, died later that day. I still get emotional thinking about it and I’m not exactly sure why.
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Escape from cyber “friend”-ship Quitting Facebook is probably the hardest thing I’ve done this...
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The fun kicks off with a parade downtown. Eat, dance, snowshoe, lantern ski…the list of...
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“Hey, you want to see something neat?”
I turned from the entrance to the Allan Brooks Nature Centre to where a teenaged girl was beckoning from the shrubbery. She waved for me to join the knot of hunched figures bending low and peering intently at an ordinary looking bush.
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Phil Ackland’s summer job before his last year of high school paid a whopping $2 an hour—a small...
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Glacial remains and long hours of summer sunshine make this bucolic strip of land on the east side...
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Wilden’s Clear Pond Model Home by AuthenTech Homes:
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On a snowy winter morning, a small stream of luscious deep red wine flows into Jim Perwal’s glass as he stands at the bar. Peering out the expansive window overlooking Okanagan Lake,
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Was he dreaming of a day like this when four-year-old Duncan Keith laced ’em up for the first time in Fort Francis, Ontario.
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The games are coming to town. About 500 athletes aged 12 to 15 (plus their coaches), representing 37 cities from 13 countries, will be descending on Kelowna from Jan. 26 to 31, 2011, to compete in the International Children’s Winter Games.
Veronika Dimova, originally from Bulgaria,
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