by Okanagan Life | Jan 18, 2018 | Culture, Print Edition
Talent meets drive in Ben Klick Ben Klick is an anomaly: a 21-year old award-winning country singer born into a family of non-musicians. Country could be heard among the classic rock, east coast folk and Top 40 pop streaming from speakers in the North Vancouver home...
by Okanagan Life | Jan 17, 2018 | Features Progress, Print Edition, Winter Economics
Come dusk, the action on the slopes of SilverStar Mountain Resort doesn’t die down. Now is the time when the groomers head out—thanks to the popularity of its terrain parks—starting a nightly schedule that will take ten hours. The terrain park is home to freestyle...
by Kathryn Jenkins | Jan 16, 2018 | Print Edition, Rearview
Creatures of habit Have I always been a creature of habit, I wonder? When I was young, my routine revolved largely around school, and I was habitually asked, “what did you do today?” As a young adult, where weeks followed predictable routines, it was, “how’s work...
by Okanagan Life | Nov 20, 2017 | Community, Print Edition
By Elvia Picco Choirs from the Cathedral Church of St Michael and All Angels are proud of the 104-year-old-stone cathedral building near downtown Kelowna, with its wonderful acoustics and aged charm. However, singing at Salisbury Cathedral in England, whose foundation...
by Okanagan Life | May 12, 2017 | Print Edition, Wine & Food
Secrets of the Okanagan cellars Let me take you down to the dark spaces where wines sparkle and the angels play. Wine is a delicate thing, honed over thousands of years, its needs are still pretty basic: keep me cool and dark. In the blistering Okanagan heat, the best...
by Okanagan Life | May 8, 2017 | Community, Print Edition
Earth, Wind, Fire gala raises funds for land The Nature Trust of British Columbia is working to secure 35.4 hectares of critical habitat for bighorn sheep on the east side of Skaha Lake in the Okanagan. With flat benchlands interspersed through the steep hills, the...
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