Shelley Jordan

Shelley Jordan

  • Joined: January 1, 2023
  • Articles: 5188

Buy a cheap composter

KELOWNA - Here’s your chance to cut your garbage in half, give your garden a chemical free boost – and save money.  For one more week you can pre order a backyard composter, food digester, or worm cycler — at a reduced rate. Until Tuesday, March 31, the Regional Waste Reduction Office is offering subsidized...

Free fitness week starts Saturday

PENTICTON - This spring, it’s time for you to be free and fabulous. With release of the new Spring-Summer Recreation Guide, the Penticton Community Centre celebrates the return of Try It For Free Week. From Saturday, March 28 to Friday, April 3, the public is invited to get their fitness on track for a price...

United Nations special rapporteur to speak about Indigenous rights

KELOWNA - While many of the world’s remaining natural resources are mostly found in Indigenous people’s territories around the globe, there continues to be a basic violation of their rights while others access and harvest these resources. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, an Indigenous leader from the Cordillera Region in the Philippines, will be in Kelowna to discuss...

Celebrate 2015 Earth Hour by participating in the Energy Conservation Contest

VERNON - The City of Vernon is encouraging the community to celebrate Earth Hour 2015 on Saturday, March 28 at 8:30 pm. Earth Hour started in 2007 as a lights-off event to raise awareness about climate change. It has since engaged over 7,000 cities in 162 countries and territories worldwide. The symbolic hour has grown...

Project Management programs earns international approval

KELOWNA - Okanagan College has earned the designation of Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) from the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s largest project management member association. R.E.P.s are organizations that have been approved by PMI to help project managers achieve and maintain the Project Management Professional (PMP)®, Program Management Professional (PgMP)® and other PMI professional...

Lake Country referendum mail ballot options

LAKE COUNTRY – If you won’t be in town for the referendum on April 25, 2015 or during any of the advance polls on April 15, 16, 17, 20 and 21, you may still be able to vote by mail. Lake Country is seeking elector assent through a referendum to approve the borrowing of up...

Penticton athlete nominated to compete in 2015 Toronto Parapan Am Games

PENTICTON - An athlete from Penticton is among 40 nominated to the Canadian swim team competing this summer at the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games. Andrew Cooke of Penticton will compete alongside Vernon swimmers Sarah Mehain and Riley McLean during the games, according to a media release. "It was such an honour to announce the...

Two Vernon athletes nominated to compete in 2015 Toronto Parapan Am Games

VERNON - Two athletes from Vernon are among 40 swimmers nominated to represent Canada this summer at the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games. Sarah Mehain, 20, is a seasoned paralympian and will compete in four events in Toronto, while the games are a first for teammate Riley McLean. The two will compete alongside another fellow...

Four local pharmacies to participate in ground-breaking genomics project

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - The concept of tailored medical care based on individual DNA was once the stuff of science fiction novels but now the possibility is ever closer with four pharmacies in the Thompson-Okanagan signed on to take part in a first-of-its-kind genomics project. The 'Genomics for Precision Drug Therapy in the Community Pharmacy' project is...

Death of longboarding teen killed by vehicle was accidental

VERNON - A Vernon teenager struck by a car while longboarding July 13, 2014, died of multiple blunt force trauma as a result of the impact, and the incident was accidental, the B.C. Coroners Service has concluded. Christopher Mathew Mitchell, 17, was out longboarding on 39 Street at 11 p.m. when he was hit by...