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Schools and parents brace for rotating teacher strike

PENTICTON - With just days left before British Columbia's public school teachers launch rotating strike action, contract talks have been put on hold. Union and management say both sides agreed to cancel Friday's bargaining session while they reassess each others proposals. Rich Overgaard, of the B.C. Teachers' Federation, says the union can't be expected to...

Schools and parents brace for rotating teacher strike

VERNON - With just days left before British Columbia's public school teachers launch rotating strike action, contract talks have been put on hold. Union and management say both sides agreed to cancel Friday's bargaining session while they reassess each others proposals. Rich Overgaard, of the B.C. Teachers' Federation, says the union can't be expected to...

Professor calls for changes to stop domestic violence

"YOU COULD CREATE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND PEOPLE WOULD STILL DO IT." THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – A Thompson Rivers University professor is calling on the province to make immediate changes to protect women and families under threat of domestic violence. Micah Rankin, a lawyer and criminal law professor at TRU’s law school says the...

JONESIE: What I want Apple to do next

This is part prediction, part wish. First, a confession: I’m a tech junkie and the worst kind because I know not how it works. I care even less. I appreciate the knowledge and those who know that, er, knowledge. But if the tech isn't simple enough to work for me without having to know it—I...

LOEWEN: Too many churches, not enough love

I don't believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him Not to intervene when it came to you Not to touch a hair on your head To leave you as you are And if He felt He had to direct...

PARKER: A joy ride from the wrong side

When I turned 14, I wrote a 730-day countdown to my sweet 16. It wasn’t that I was expecting anything special to happen for me — this was long before MTV started that craze — it’s just that I knew my life was about to change for the better. The day of my 16th birthday...

PHOTOS and VIDEO: Knox Mountain Hill Climb

KELOWNA - The 57th annual Knox Mountain Hill Climb is over for another year. High-powered cars tore up the 2.2 km track along scenic Knox Mountain Park and spectators were treated to gut-wrenching speeds and heart-stopping elevation changes. The event ran Saturday and Sunday. Race results will be posted on the event website. InfoTel News reporter Adam...

Looking for a forever home, Penticton SPCA Pets of the Week

Charlie Charlie is a very large dog that will require formal obedience training and an active guardian. Charlie would make an excellent acreage dog as he tends to be very loyal to his guardians. His bark alone would be enough to keep the bears and wildlife away. He is not a fan of cats so...

RCMP seize extensive cache of firearms, stolen property

KAMLOOPS – Cocaine, marijuana, a crossbow, flat-screen TVs, dozens of guns, ammunition and more are the latest cache grab stored at the Kamloops RCMP detachment. Insp. Brad Mueller shared the results of a three-month investigation into what RCMP believe are gang-related drug activities and led to seven arrests May 7 and 8. Six were released on...

JONESIE: Sometimes I should just shut up

My neighbour’s a good guy. Usually I only see him over the fence. He works many nights and most weekends on his yard, often with his family tending fruit trees, scaling ladders, moving dirt and rock. I’m usually wearing painting shorts, Crocs and a wife-beater and I wave at them from Dandelion Alley secretly hating...

GOG: Get it? Athletic rhymes with pathetic

'THEY DISPLAY LANGUAGE SKILLS SECOND ONLY TO THOSE OF THE COOKIE MONSTER' I have finally figured out why it is that team sports annoy me. I mean watching them, of course, participating being totally out of the question. (Many decades ago I was persuaded, against my better judgement, to try out for a high school...

LOEWEN: Everyone’s entitled to an opinion

'WE NEED FOLKS WITH THESE KINDS OF OPINIONS BECAUSE, FRANKLY, IF WE'RE LEFT TO THE OTHER OPINIONS OUT THERE, WELL, WE'RE SCREWED.' So with that, I thought I'd take a final walk The tide of public opinion had started to abate The neighbours, bless them, had turned out to be all talk I could see...

PARKER: The sweetness of doing nothing

I spent the first three months of last summer unemployed. It wasn’t an “I’m living off of EI” unemployment, either. I tried that route but they didn’t buy the story about me taking a female lover and leaving my job to follow her to the B.C. Interior. Fair enough, I suppose.  Without the pressure of...

GOG: Stop calling these things ‘rest’ rooms

Whilst browsing in the mall the other day I was once again reminded of my age, this time by my bladder. This is a moment I dread since it involves undergoing one of the most painful rituals of adult male life: The use of a public rest room. There is nothing restful about it. Ladies...

LOEWEN: If it ain’t one thing, it’s your mother

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” — Oscar Wilde May means Mother’s Day for most of us. And if you weren’t raised by a harridan wielding a strap to strafe your back with, chances are you probably have a pretty warm feeling when you think of your...

PARKER: Crossing the bucket off my bucket list

I like to consider myself a pretty worldly twenty-something year old. This one time, I built houses in Guatemala and yeah, I feel like because of that I’m allowed to dub myself experienced in the ways of the earth. I guess also because I grew up with three brothers — but that’s another story. I have...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The most comprehensive events listings for the Thompson-Okanagan

How far would you travel to see something you really want to see? We bet you would drive at least a couple hours to see a good show at Penticton’s South Okanagan Events Centre, Prospera Place in Kelowna or the Interior Savings Centre in Kamloops or the Performing Arts Centre in Vernon. We bring you...

WITH PICTURES, VIDEO: Injured geocacher rescued off Mt. Savona

SAVONA — A geocacher was rescued off Mt. Savona by helicopter early this evening after he was left injured by a displaced boulder. Around 1 p.m. two hikers were on Mt. Savona, about 12 km south of Savona, Friday afternoon and took a short cut to get to a geocache close to the caves. While...

In their shoes: Riding along with Vernon bylaw

VERNON - I thought bylaw officers spent all their time shoving parking tickets on my windshield with uncanny timing until I suited up in a protective vest and accompanied them on a typical evening shift. We didn’t go near a single parking meter. On a Friday night, Vernon bylaw officer Russ Lutsenko handed me the...