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North Okanagan Eco-Encounter

by | Jan 11, 2011 | Travel | 0 comments

“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...
Where’s the Fire

Where’s the Fire

by | Jan 11, 2011 | Good Neighbours | 0 comments

Phil Ackland’s summer job before his last year of high school paid a whopping $2 an hour—a small fortune in 1966. There was a reason cleaning exhaust systems in restaurant kitchens paid so well. “It was filthy, disgusting work,” he says. “I quite enjoyed it.” A few...