How Safe are our Schools

How Safe are our Schools

Ready for trouble The noon break draws to a close on a sunny February day at Clarence Fulton Secondary School in Vernon. The hallways are full of life. Fulton cheerleaders are packing up and counting profits from their Valentine’s Day cupcake sale in the bright school...
On Set: Stace Williamson

On Set: Stace Williamson

Thick dark blood is about to drip into my eye. I’m in the back yard of a little house near Knox Mountain. The guy sitting next to me throws money and a knife on the table as weird noises circle around the yard. Suddenly, he’s sucked up into the air by an unidentified...
Case of the Missing Cake

Case of the Missing Cake

It was 1967. A culprit had made off with a piece of cake and Mom and Dad were on the case. Deliciously, I anticipated and welcomed the trial as we assembled in the kitchen because innocence was mine. My eight-year-old eyes sneered at my seven older brothers and...
Dané & Julie Le Roux

Dané & Julie Le Roux

Dané le Roux sits in bed and for a moment the then 12-year-old thinks before she picks up her ballpoint pen and notebook. After filling three pages of whatever comes to mind, she hands the notebook  to her mirror image sister. Julie scans through the words. “Well,...
Vanilla Pod @ Poplar Grove

Vanilla Pod @ Poplar Grove

Newly opened, the Vanilla Pod Restaurant at Poplar Grove Winery is one of the Okanagan’s most gorgeously situated winery restaurants. I’m eager to try it out. Poplar Grove’s founder and executive winemaker, Ian Sutherland, and president and owner, Tony Holler, join...