Steroids for Students

Steroids for Students

Performance-enhancing drugs can give athletes an edge on the competition, but can pill-popping pump up students’ grades? When “Benfastic” Johnson flew across the finish line in Seoul, capturing the 100-metre, 1988 Olympic gold medal, Canadians marvelled at our machine...
6th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards

6th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards

The results of our 6th Annual Best of the Okanagan Editors’ Choice Awards: best excuse for a volunteer to play dress up; best creative youth role models in the North Okanagan; best troupe of multi-talented child stars with “no stars” philosophy; best...
Stay & Play

Stay & Play

No passports, no airport pat downs, no more than a single tank of gas. Maybe it’s time we discover what tourists from around the world already know. A few months ago, I was talking to a travel writer pal of mine in Toronto whose specialty is spas. Toby has roamed the...
Rollin’ on the River

Rollin’ on the River

My husband’s next milestone birthday was closing in and wanting to make it a particularly memorable occasion, I decided to take him on a very special surprise trip. This may seem like an odd choice for a couple of travel writers, sort of a busman’s holiday, but it...
Residential Care: The big step

Residential Care: The big step

Canadians now live an average of nearly two decades past their 65th birthday, often forcing boomer generation kids and aging spouses to make the heart-wrenching decision to place a loved one in residential care … Wendy and Terry L. are faced with that tough...
Sustainability Built In

Sustainability Built In

New building projects are a common sight in the Central Okanagan. We decided to get to know some of the people behind the steel and concrete of today’s forward thinking residential developments. JoAnne Adamson development manager, Mission Group   JoAnne Adamson...