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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Central Okanagan, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 2,759 stories have been published about Central Okanagan which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Central Okanagan, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 2,759 stories have been published about Central Okanagan which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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Kelowna · KelownaThe AltiTunes music festival has expanded to two days this year. Thousands of people packed into the venue at Big White's Happy Valley parking lot area Friday afternoon. The event is hosted by Thick as Thieves Entertainment, a local Kelowna company co-founded by Kurt Jory and Mitch Carefoot. About 4,000 tickets were sold for both the Friday and Saturday of the festival.
AltiTunes Music Festival returns to Big White this weekend
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Kelowna · KelownaPhoto shows the SS Sicamous coming into dock at Kelowna in 1915. The dock was located downtown at the foot of Bernard Avenue. Paper prints of the black and white photographic negatives were manually coloured at the time. The modern photograph is actually a composite of two photos spliced together.
A second look at Kelowna's downtown lakefront - A Second Look
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Kelowna · KelownaTicks can be found year round, but are most likely to bite from March to June. Entomologist Rob Higgins says the most common area to find ticks is on grasslands. Western black legged ticks, a species which exists in low numbers in B.C., can carry Lyme disease.
Heads up - wood ticks are out and about in the Thompson-Okanagan
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Kelowna · KelownaSpring leaf pickup returns April 17-21 in Vernon. Residents who receive curbside waste collection services may put out an unlimited number of transparent bags by 7 a.m. at the same location as garbage pickup. People are reminded not to rake leaves onto the street, as they block storm drains and jam the street sweeper.
City of Vernon annul spring leaf pickup takes place April 17
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Kelowna · KelownaThorgy Thor, a celebrity drag queen best known for her appearances on RuPaul's Drag Race, brought her show to the Tournament Capital for sold-out Sagebrush Theatre performances on Thursday and Friday. The show, which was created in 2018 by Thor in collaboration with Canadian conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, incorporated lively orchestral performances of traditional and modern pieces.
Thorgy and the Thorchestra blended drag, symphony for 'uplifting' performance
Kelowna · KelownaPenticton Art Gallery's operating grant for 2023 was slashed by more than 50 per cent a week before the Ignite the Arts Festival's opening. The three exhibitions of Indigenous Art Excellence are Levi Bent's Rad on the Rez, Clayton Gauthier's Sus Yoo The Bear's Medicine, and a showcase from the National Indigenous Professional Artist Training Program (NIPAT) 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Curator Paul Crawford said he wanted to launch the exhibition alongside the festival as a way to make it the main focus.
Penticton Art Gallery showcasing numerous talented contemporary Indigenous artists
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Kelowna · KelownaPeeps are a traditional sweet made by a third-generation family-owned company called Just Born, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The company is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. If you feel like attempting a batch of marshmallow from scratch, I can verify that this link to a great recipe has produced smiles at our house.
April Fool's Day is a fun time for foolish food - Happy Gourmand
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Kelowna · KelownaAs of April 1, PharmaCare will pay for many different types of birth control for any B.C. resident. AccessBC organizer and UBC resident physician Dr. Ruth Habte says it is a "really exciting day" People will still need a prescription from a doctor, nurse practitioner or midwife at a walk-in clinic, hospital or through a street nurse program.
Birth control covered by PharmaCare in B.C. starting today
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