Hockey Valley
No question we’re obsessed with the national sport. Check out our Okanagan hockey highlights … Download PFD… On the Scouts’ List The top prospects for the 2012 NHL draft will take to the ice at Prospera Place in Kelowna at the end of January. It will be familiar territory for two talented Kelowna Rockets. The Rockets’ right-handed captain Colton Sissons (#15) finished December with 20 goals and 27 points. Dubbed a defensive forward, Sissons’ proficiency... Read More
Does Okanagan Living Make Us Happier
In this corner, San Luis Obispo, the happiest place in America as named by National Geographic writer Dan Buettner; and in this corner, the Okanagan, thought of as one of the happiest places in Canada by its citizens, media and country. Looks like we’ve got us another gold medal game—a happy-off! What is happiness? Some say, the ability to live in the moment. Many imagine it as a “conscious or unconscious” attempt to measure if we are “better off” than someone else.... Read More
Duncan Keith: Slam Dunc
NHL and Team Canada star Duncan Keith 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. Most Canadian kids dream of playing in the NHL but maybe Dunc (as his father David calls him) dreamed bigger. The magnitude of what the Okanagan’s own Duncan Keith accomplished last year is the epic stuff of fairy tales. He struck gold as a member of Team Canada’s ice hockey team in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics... Read More
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