by Okanagan Life | Jan 21, 2011 | Health
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...
by Okanagan Life | Jan 20, 2011 | Rearview
Escape from cyber “friend”-ship Quitting Facebook is probably the hardest thing I’ve done this month. Not that I’m finding life lonely without it, or miss being privy to the daily musings of far flung friends, family and people I ignored in elementary school. The hard...
by Okanagan Life | Jan 13, 2011 | Events
The fun kicks off with a parade downtown. Eat, dance, snowshoe, lantern ski…the list of activities is long on fun. Take in the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta or head up to Silver Star to see the carvers create works of art during the Snow Sculpture championships. There...
by Okanagan Life | Jan 11, 2011 | Travel
“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...
by Okanagan Life | Jan 11, 2011 | Good Neighbours
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...
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