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EDITOR’S NOTE: Your turn
Last week we promised something different from our columnists, and hopefully you see our commitment to quality. When we find them, we help them. We don’t bury them. And we’ve got room for more. Now it’s your turn. Come and try out for the team. If you’ve got the chops, we want to hear from...
FOERSTER TRIAL: The night Taylor Van Diest was killed
KELOWNA - Taylor Van Diest wasn’t embarrassed to be the teenager who’s too old for trick-or-treating but goes anyway. Halloween was her favourite day of the year, and she wouldn’t miss the chance to dress in costume, this year as a zombie, and go giggling door-to-door with her best friends. She worked hard at her...
Power struggle puts tourism funds in jeopardy
'IMMEASURABLE AND IRREPARABLE HARM' PENTICTON — An estimated $350,000 to $700,000 is sitting in bank accounts doing nothing for tourism while the City of Penticton and Penticton Hospitality Association continue a power struggle that began before they even signed an agreement on tourism tax funds in 2012. And it appears from documents filed in Kelowna...
JONESIE: Don’t let do-gooders hijack distracted drivers
Someone needs to stop the do-gooders. Please. Before it’s too late. They’re gathering their minivans together like locusts, feasting on good sense, forcing politicians to flee like wasteland farmers to Victoria to do something, anything. Because WON’T ANYBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN? If someone doesn’t rein them in, your days of 'distracted driving' and mine...
GOG: Outta the way, grapefruit head
The snow has melted, the sun shines. Which can only mean any time now the only roads worth driving will be once again clogged with packs of brightly-coloured bicyclists. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against bicycles. I used to have one myself, rode it everywhere. Before I learned to drive, that is. Of course...
LOEWEN: On Writers
'Cause I gonna make you see There's nobody else here No one like me I'm special so special I gotta have some of your attention give it to me (Chrissie Hynde/Pretenders, “Brass In Pocket”) Writers are, for the most part, a very bad lot. Full stop. The only professionals more egregiously whorish and pimpish than...
PARKER: Nothing is solved by glitter alone
On my fifth birthday I managed to convince my mother to host a neighbourhood-wide masquerade party in my honour. If this request of mine doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about me, it’s because you’re a passive reader. To spare you the humiliation, though, I’ll tell you the full story as a means...
A high school book with sex, alcohol, drug use: Ban it?
IS IT IRONY? STUDENTS HAVE THEIR SAY KAMLOOPS — After a Kamloops father went public this week about his efforts to get a book banned from high school reading assignments, we took the conversation back to some South Kamloops Secondary school students. Dean Audet is pushing School District 73 and its partners to remove The...
Just what does a raptor wrangler do?
KELOWNA – There are few things less appealing to summer tourists than a park or beach covered in bird feces. An adult Canada goose will eat more than a kilogram of grass and damage 1.5 square meters of parkland every day. Multiply that by thousands and you will have an idea of how serious the...