Celebration

Alli Graham enjoys her 99th birthday party at the Sicamous and District Seniors Centre March 15, 2023. (Rebecca Willson/ Eagle Valley News)

Sicamous senior honoured at 99th birthday celebration

Author Alli Graham celebrated over lunch at Seniors Centre

 

(Photo - Jordy Cunningham/Kelowna Capital News)

Students share their experience at Kelowna Primary Winter Festival powwow

Grade 3 students in Kelowna gathered to celebrate the Winter Festival

 

Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas lights the first candle on the menorah on Dec. 18, 2022 to kick off Chanukah celebrations. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)

Kelowna fire department helps Jewish community kick off Hanukkah

The menorah will remain at Stuart Park for the duration of the holiday

 

Beloved Armstrong Grade 1 teacher and Vernon trash collector Helen Sidney with one of her many gifts from admirers at her (soon-to-be) 100th birthday celebration Thursday, Dec. 15, at Vernon’s Schubert Centre. Sidney officially becomes a centenarian Dec. 24. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)

Famous Okanagan trash collector piles up birthday wishes

Retired teacher Helen Sidney, who picks up garbage on her daily walks on a Vernon road, turns 100

Beloved Armstrong Grade 1 teacher and Vernon trash collector Helen Sidney with one of her many gifts from admirers at her (soon-to-be) 100th birthday celebration Thursday, Dec. 15, at Vernon’s Schubert Centre. Sidney officially becomes a centenarian Dec. 24. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
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Your morning start for Monday, Dec. 12

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Okanagan College students honour National Day of Action on Violence Against Women Dec. 6. (Morning Star file photo)

Okanagan College Vernon, Salmon Arm campuses host candlelight vigils

Events open to the community commemorating 33rd anniversary of Montreal massacre, missing local women

Okanagan College students honour National Day of Action on Violence Against Women Dec. 6. (Morning Star file photo)
Priya Shyama dances at a previous Diwali Festival at Muriel Arnason Library. (Special to the Langley Advance Times)
Priya Shyama dances at a previous Diwali Festival at Muriel Arnason Library. (Special to the Langley Advance Times)
James Baker (far left) sits next to his wife Anita while Mayor-elect Blair Ireland (far right) wishes him well at a retirement party held Oct. 16, 2022 at the Lake Country Museum (Brittany Webster - the Calendar)

Retirement starts now after 17-year run as Lake Country mayor

James Baker has been involved in local politics since 1981

James Baker (far left) sits next to his wife Anita while Mayor-elect Blair Ireland (far right) wishes him well at a retirement party held Oct. 16, 2022 at the Lake Country Museum (Brittany Webster - the Calendar)
Ucluelet garbageman Frank Thomas Trodden took this photo of just some of the bounty he received during an appreciation day held in his honour to thank him for his hard work and positive attitude. (Photo courtesy of Frank Thomas Trodden)

B.C. small town shows its ‘Frank Appreciation’ for popular garbage collector

“Thanks Frank for doing a great job. We really do appreciate you.”

Ucluelet garbageman Frank Thomas Trodden took this photo of just some of the bounty he received during an appreciation day held in his honour to thank him for his hard work and positive attitude. (Photo courtesy of Frank Thomas Trodden)
Buddhist monks and nuns from across Canada and the U.S. gathered in Kelowna for the grand opening of the Okanagan Buddhist Cultural Centre on Sept. 4, 2022 (Brittany Webster - Capital News)
Buddhist monks and nuns from across Canada and the U.S. gathered in Kelowna for the grand opening of the Okanagan Buddhist Cultural Centre on Sept. 4, 2022 (Brittany Webster - Capital News)
Jane Gagnon holds up balloons left over from celebrating her 100th birthday Aug. 14, 2022 (Brittany Webster - Black Press)

‘I just love to live’: Vernon woman celebrates 100th birthday

Jane Gagnon celebrated her 100th birthday Aug. 14.

Jane Gagnon holds up balloons left over from celebrating her 100th birthday Aug. 14, 2022 (Brittany Webster - Black Press)
(Photo - Jordy Cunningham/Capital News)

Canada Day celebrations take over Kelowna

Festivals Kelowna was hosting their celebration at Waterfront Park for the first time since 2019

(Photo - Jordy Cunningham/Capital News)
Festivals Kelowna and Mayor Colin Basran (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)

‘There is still a place for Canada Day, but it is different’: Kelowna Mayor

Kelowna Canada Day celebrations are back in full force July 1

Festivals Kelowna and Mayor Colin Basran (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)
Kelowna’s Plasma Donation Centre celebrated its one year anniversary on June 22, 2022 (Brittany Webster - Black Press)

B.C.’s 1st plasma clinic collects over 12,000 units in 1st year

The first plasma donation centre to open in B.C. was in Kelowna’s Orchard Park Mall

Kelowna’s Plasma Donation Centre celebrated its one year anniversary on June 22, 2022 (Brittany Webster - Black Press)
Two-year-old Nola and her mom Bree, from Kelowna, were at the 2016 Canada Day festivities in Swalwell Park. (File Photo)

Red and white festivities returning to Lake Country’s Swalwell Park

Canada Day celebrations in Lake Country were cancelled the last two years

Two-year-old Nola and her mom Bree, from Kelowna, were at the 2016 Canada Day festivities in Swalwell Park. (File Photo)
Ashley Tinney took this great aerial shot of Lumby Days Saturday, June 11, showing a busy Park Oval. (Ashley Tinney photo)

Last day for Lumby Days

The 65th village celebration’s return following a two-year absence has been fantastic

Ashley Tinney took this great aerial shot of Lumby Days Saturday, June 11, showing a busy Park Oval. (Ashley Tinney photo)