Best of the Okanagan Special Winners Section

Best of the Okanagan Special Winners Section

You voted them the best. Now they’re thanking you. The businesses featured in this section would like to show their appreciation to Okanagan Life readers for voting them among 2012’s Best of the Okanagan. They consider it a great honour to be recognized by you. We...
Global Citizenship

Global Citizenship

When Roger Perry returned home a few days before Christmas and saw the pile of gifts for his grandchildren under the tree, he felt utter despair. “The children we saw had so little and we had so much,” he says. On a fact-finding mission in Ethiopia, Roger, who is the...
Addiction

Addiction

<H3>As seen in</h3> [downloads ids="146749" columns="1" excerpt="no"] [downloads category="current-issue" columns="1" excerpt="no"] The clean-cut young man doesn’t look up from his seat in the waiting room at Crossroads Treatment Centre in Kelowna. Neither...
Yarn Bomb ~ Cool Arts Society

Yarn Bomb ~ Cool Arts Society

Darn. We’re late again. I race along the walkway to the Rotary Centre for the Arts with my children. Somewhere inside the building a patient friend sits waiting for our coffee date. I’m about to run through the door when something catches my eye—a tree wearing a...