Save Keremeos Heritage Site
A lot of water has flowed past the old grist mill in Keremeos. So have a lot of people. Around the turn of this century the Grist Mill and Gardens saw some 17,000 visitors annually, says Walter Despot, the town’s mayor and one of the site’s champions. “That’s down to about 4,000.” Efforts are underway to get that stream flowing once again. In 1877 the water-powered mill and onsite general store provided goods and services to the Similkameen’s burgeoning... Read More
Where’s the Fire
Phil Ackland 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 years later he decided to branch out on his own. Read More Read More
