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Adam Proskiw
Adam has lived in B.C. most of his life. He was born in the Caribou, grew up in the Okanagan, went to university on Vancouver Island and worked as a news photographer in Vancouver. His favourite stories incorporate meaningful photography and feature interesting, passionate locals. He studied writing at UVic and photojournalism in California. He loves talking tractors, dogs and cameras and is always looking for a good story.
Adam Proskiw's Stories
Vernon man says he’s close to finding owner of war medals he found in an antique chest
VERNON - The Vernon man who found a mysterious box of Second World War medals inside an antique desk he bought in Montreal says he is close to finding out who their rightful owner is. Martin and his wife Jeanne Bokesch bought the desk at an antique furniture dealer last week. When they brought the...
Kelowna woman helped defraud Canada of almost $200 million in taxes sentenced to house arrest
KELOWNA – A Kelowna woman who helped defraud the Canadian government of almost $200 million in taxes was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment to be served at home. Deanna Lynne Lavalley, 54, is one of two women who committed fraud by cheating on her taxes and counselling others to do the same using an illegal...
UPDATE: FALSE: All clear in report of possible Kelowna child abduction
KELOWNA – Kelowna RCMP say everyone is accounted and a report of a child abduction earlier today was proven false. A release sent this evening says police have found both people concerned. It was all a misunderstanding, everyone is just fine and police say the boy who reported it did the right thing. "The Kelowna...
Thefts, crime getting worse in Lake Country
LAKE COUNTRY – A long time resident of Lake Country says crime in his community has increased over the last three months and is the worst he's ever seen. “There’s been a few waves, like when the Coquihalla first opened up there was a wave of chainsaws and that stuff stolen but it faded away,”...
Looking for owner of Second World War medals
VERNON – A Vernon man’s discovery inside an antique desk he bought in Montreal is going viral just days before Remembrance Day. Martin Bokesch posted to Facebook pictures of the Second World War medals and a short description of his timely find. “My wife bought an old used desk in Montreal at a furniture dealer,”...
Wheelchair rugby looking to expand across southern Interior
KELOWNA – With a grant from RBC Canada a wheelchair rugby team in Kelowna is holding a Try Our Sport Day in hopes of raising disability awareness and challenging the community to expand their boundaries. Colleen Bryant of the Kelowna KO’s says Kelowna still has the Okanagan’s only wheelchair rugby team, but that will soon...
Court ordered sale of Mandy and Me forces owner to seek help
KELOWNA – A West Kelowna woman who is losing her farm of more than 30 years has started raising funds to help provide care and possibly find homes for her animals. Silverado Socrates’s five-acre farm and business, Mandy and Me Trailriding, was sold to the highest bidder in Kelowna court last week. She was hoping...
UBC Okanagan students okay with pricier transit pass
KELOWNA – Students at UBC Okanagan approved an increases rate for the universal transit U-Pass during a referendum this week. The cost of the U-Pass is included with tuition and will cost students $63 per semester. The last time the rate was raised was 2011. U-Pass is a special universal transit pass allowing for a...
District refocuses attention on unlicenced dogs
CENTRAL OKANAGAN – The Regional District of the Central Okanagan estimates there are still more than 9,000 unlicenced dogs, and are launching a proactive effort to ensure all dogs in the district are in compliance with the law. Communications officer Bruce Smith says approximately 2,400 dog licences from 2014 were not renewed and starting next...
Kelowna car crash sends one to hospital
KELOWNA – A woman was taken to hospital after a noon hour crash on Harvey Avenue today. A middle-aged woman driving a silver Toyota Corolla and a middle-aged man in a Chrysler Sebring crashed into each other around noon, Nov. 6, at the intersection of Harvey Avenue and Richter Street. The force of the impact...
Twin Peaks gets Kelowna-themed reboot
KELOWNA – Fans of the 1990s cult favourite TV show Twin Peaks will have a chance to relive the moody adventures of FBI agent Dale Cooper as he tries to unlock the mysteries of the sleepy Washington town. Except this time, it's set in Kelowna. New Vintage Theatre is bringing the David Lynch-directed show back...
Court sells Mandy and Me farm to highest bidder
WEST KELOWNA – Things didn’t go the way Silverado Socrates was hoping in court. Socrates is the owner of Mandy and Me Trailriding in West Kelowna. Her bank foreclosed on her mortgage after loaning her $600,000 to upgrade the facility. On Wednesday, Nov. 4 she watched as a Supreme Court Justice read the winning bid...
Lake Country man arrested for lighting house on fire
LAKE COUNTRY – A Lake Country man has been arrested for a suspicious fire at a house on the corner of Highway 97 and Beaver Lake Road this week. Emergency services were called to a fire at a house at 3109 Beaver Lake Rd. around 10 a.m., Monday, Nov. 2. A bystander, Dean Bose of...
VIDEO: West Kelowna restaurant vandal caught on camera smashing glass
WEST KELOWNA - The owner of Thai Fusion has had enough and wants the community to see the man who continues to smash his front window. Luke Sumpantarat has shared surveillance footage of a man he believes has been targeting his business. Four times this year Sumpantarat has arrived at the restaurant he and his wife...
Fictional sport gets real tournament in Kelowna
KELOWNA - Teams from across North America will be in Kelowna this weekend for a real tournament of a fictional sport. Quidditch is a mixed-gender, full contact sport played with seven athletes on each team that was made famous in the Harry Potter books and movies. Players pass, shoot, score and defend their three hoops...
Man hiking with daughter rescued near Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
KELOWNA – A man who was hiking with his daughter in the June Springs Road area had to be rescued Sunday after he fell and injured his leg. Central Okanagan Search and Rescue vice president Duane Tresnich says in a media release, the father and daughter were hiking on Angel Springs trail, near Myra-Bellevue Provincial...
Central Okanagan curbside yard waste collection deadline looms
CENTRAL OKANAGAN - As leaves continue to drop across the Central Okanagan, the deadline for the final curbside yard waste collection of the year is fast approaching. As of Monday, Nov. 30, the Regional District will no longer be collecting green bins, however landfills in Glenmore and West Kelowna will continue to accept up to...
Flu shot season in the Southern Interior
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - With the peak of flu season just a few weeks away, Health Canada has started its yearly vaccination program. Although last year’s flu vaccine wasn’t particularly effective, Interior Health medical officer Kamran Golmohammadi says, this year’s vaccine cocktail will target the more severe of the two types of viruses – Type A. Every...
Kelowna Mountain taking Central Okanagan Regional District to court once again
KELOWNA – The Regional District of the Central Okanagan is once again being challenged in court by Kelowna Mountain Development Services. This is the second attempt by Kelowna Mountain and its owner Mark Consiglio to challenge the planning authority of the regional district. The most recent failed bid was in September 2014 when the Court...
Court forces sale of Mandy and Me Trailriding
WEST KELOWNA - Silverado Socrates is hoping for a miracle. Socrates, the owner of Mandy and Me Trailriding, a West Kelowna farm and horseback riding attraction, is in foreclosure and tomorrow, Nov. 4, a Supreme Court Justice will sell the farm where she's lived more than three decades to the highest bidder. “I’m just sad,”...
Kelowna man sold thousands in illegal securities for unlicenced Alberta mine
KELOWNA - A Kelowna man is facing sanctions from the B.C. Securities Commission for assisting in the sale of $21,000 in promissory notes for an unlicenced Alberta mining company to four B.C. residents. A commission panel determined that Rodney John Snider referred investors to Murdo Campbell McLeod, a former director of Flag Resources who is now deceased....
Pioneer Oyama family donates private land to ducks
OYAMA - An Oyama family has generously donated a parcel of land to a national wetlands preservation society. The Young family settled in Oyama more than a century ago and was granted a parcel of land to be used for grazing land and for faming oats and potatoes in the 1930s. By the time Joyce...
Two car crashes stall highway traffic through Lake Country
LAKE COUNTRY - Traffic was backed up in both directions on Highway 97 in Lake Country today after two separate car crashes and a house fire. Lake Country Fire Chief Steve Windsor says the crash that caused the most traffic problems happened close to noon, Nov. 2, while fire trucks and police were still on...
One year after killing, why there still aren’t any cameras on Okanagan buses
KAMLOOPS HAS 25 KELOWNA – One year after the horrific killing of a Kelowna man on a B.C. Transit bus and six months after they promised to begin installing them, there still isn’t a single operational camera on any Kelowna buses. Last year, on Oct. 30, Caesar Rosales was killed in front of more than...