Shannon Quesnel

By Shannon Quesnel Suicide is the most common cause of death for those with Lyme disease. Deborah Hart and Lance Tycholaz know this. Both of them have been living with it. After years of being misdiagnosed and suffering with symptoms some Lyme disease sufferers opt to kill themselves. Hart and Tycholaz were at a Lyme disease...

By Shannon Quesnel The province will set the land on fire in the Bald Range from March 28 to May 15. Controlled burning in this area will help with ecosystem restoration and it will be handled by the B.C. Wildfire Management Branch and the Okanagan Shuswap Natural Resource District. The Bald Range covers about 150...

RCMP are looking for a man in connection to a Saturday robbery at an Acacia Crescent residence. At about 6 a.m. a homeowner was confronted by an unknown man inside the attached garage of the home. The homeowner told police he was awoken by suspicious noises. The owner looked outside his front door and didn't see...

By Shannon Quesnel A Penticton woman was shocked when her friend's blood spurted onto her clothes. This was Samantha Clark's reaction immediately following the stabbing of 40-year-old Clayton Bonthoux on July 27. Clark, Bonthoux and several others were at a gathering at 296 Power St., Penticton where the attack took place. She, Bonthoux and several...

By Shannon Quesnel The NDP will work on getting Penticton its new patient care tower if the party is elected into office on May 14. B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix said as much today during a visit to Penticton. He and NDP candidate Richard Cannings were at the latter's campaign office on Main Street. Dix's...

The Elevator race crams canoe/kayak, road bike, mountain run/snowshoe, mountain bike, nordic ski, alpine ski (or snowboard) into one event on Saturday. The first-of-its-kind race goes on tomorrow starting at the lakes of Penticton and ending at the slopes of the Apex Mountain Resort. All teams must be registered and have checked in by 7:30...

A lecture on lyme disease will stress education is the best defense. Jim Wilson will explain how this destructive disease gets around, how common it is in British Columbia and what people can do to prevent themselves from getting it. He will be at the Penticton Museum auditorium on Tuesday from 12 to 1 p.m....

A 44-year-old Penticton woman was arrested for drug and firearm violations following an RCMP vehicle check. Officers stopped a vehicle on Nanaimo Avenue on March 13. Cori Ann Mitchell and a 34-year-old Naramata resident were arrested for drug offenses. A drug search warrant was used to comb through a house on 700 block of Argyle...

By Shannon Quesnel The east side of Skaha Lake has become the 26th Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in British Columbia. Minister of Forests Steve Thomson made the announcement on Tuesday at a Penticton press conference. With him was Penticton Indian Band Chief Jonathan Kruger. The new McTaggart-Cowan WMA comprises 6,375 hectares of Crown land and...

A man killed in a traffic accident on Jan. 7 was recently identified to be a 43-year-old resident from Penticton. The BC Corners Service determined it was John Darrell McIntosh of Penticton who was killed after his pickup truck collided with a logging truck on a one-lane bridge near Mackenzie. McIntosh was the driver and...

By Shannon Quesnel Penticton city council has given the go-ahead for a trial backyard chicken project but space is limited. Would-be chicken farmers must fill out an application to keep backyard hens during the 18-month pilot project. Legislation for such permits requires addresses to be published as part of the approval process. The deadline to...

By Shannon Quesnel Premier Christy Clark all but guaranteed to build Penticton's patient care tower if the business case for it works out. The premier used the word, guaranteed, more than once today at a Penticton Regional Hospital press conference. She said the business case for the patient care tower should be finished this year...

By Shannon Quesnel Penticton city council will not name a piece of land after Capt. Jonathan Snyder. Council temporarily shelved the idea of naming a plaza or another portion of land after the Penticton soldier, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2008. This was done to respect the protocols regarding fallen soldiers. The Veterans Association...