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The month of February is all about the heart. Most people

probably think of Valentine’s Day first and foremost, but February is also the month of the annual campaign of the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Heart disease and stroke are two of the three lead-ing causes of death in Canada. Inside this issue, we are up close and personal with stroke survivor Caroline Hughes on page eight. Valentine’s Day seems to be in direct opposition to heart health, but there is no need to partake of chocolates for this tradition-ally sweet filled day. Flowers can be just as nice to receive, or a spa gift card or dinner out, to name just a few examples. But if you absolutely must indulge in a chocolate (or two) on February 14, you might as well go all the way and try out Judy Harvey’s Death By Chocolate recipe on page thirteen.

By the way, dark chocolate when eaten in moderation may help lower your blood pressure and reduce your risk of a stroke. For those of you who want to give a unique and handcrafted exquisite Valentine’s card for that special day, take a look at the creations of our regular graphic design contributor Barb Derksen. See page 25 for some examples of her creative efforts. Derksen was recently mentioned in Sa-vour magazine, and she has her own ‘crafty’ blog online at www.lalalime.blogspot.ca On another note, the South Okana-gan Chamber of Commerce Business Awards were held recently in Osoyoos, but encom-pass all three

‘O’s’, Okanagan Falls, Oliver and Osoyoos. Look inside for cover-age of that event as well as a list of nominees and winners. For some eye appealing photos from the Osoyoos Pho-tography Club (we can never get enough of them) go to pages 14 through 17. Club president Peter Hovestad discusses how photo assignments can be inspiring.And on that note, Happy Valen-tine’s Day to all of our readers!This magazine is free to you, thanks to the support of our ad-vertisers.

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CONTRIBUT0RS

ANDREA DUJARDIN-FLEXHAUG has been living in the South Okanagan and writing for newspapers for 25-plus years, ever since she graduated from the Jour-nalism Program at Langara, VCC

JORG MARDIAN is a Certified Kinesiology Specialist, Myoskeletal Therapist, Fitness Trainer and Registered Holistic Nutritionist. He specializes in injury/pain therapy, functional fitness, weight loss and holistic nutrition.

We welcome feedback from our readers. Send comments to [email protected] or mail to Box 177, Okana-gan Falls, BC V0H 1R0 Tel 250.535.0540. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmit-ted in whole or part by any means without the written permission of the publisher.Whilst every care has been taken with this publication, the author(s) and publisher cannot be held re-sponsible for any errors it may contain. No liability is accepted for any loss or damage resulting from the use of this publication. © 2012 Okanagan Sun Publishing. We reserve the right to refuse any submis-sion or advertisement.

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ON THE COVERSpring Runoff - the Similkameen River by Michael Arne Jorden. Jor-den is the Oliver Art Gallery’s feature artist for February 2012

REPORTER & PROOFREADER

PUBLISHERBRIAN HIGHLEY has run international campaigns with Adbusters magazine and published the OK Sun newspaper in Osoyoos. He is of course writing this, and feels strange referring to himself in the third person.

DEREK HIGHLEY is a Class A Member of the PGA of America. He is TPI Certified and is a full time Golf Instructor teaching over 1,500 lessonsannually.

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CONTENTS FEBRUARY

7 Osoyoos Desert Society Winter Program

8 A Stroke At Age 42... Osoyoos Woman’s Story

14 Osoyoos Photography Club’s 2012 Year In Review

18 Chamber Of Commerce Awards Night

20 Mainly For Women Trade Show In Oliver

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PETER HOVESTAD has been an avid photographer since discover-ing the darkroom tucked under the stairs of his high school in the 1970’s. He is the president of the Osoyoos Photography Club.

SALLY FRANKS is the convener of the Mainly for Women Trade Show. She is proud of her association with the Women of Oliver for Women Society and a firm believer in their mandate and their contributions to the community.

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The Okanagan Regional Library (ORL) homepage will be getting a new look early in February. There will be more options for one-click ac-cess to popular resources, including Zinio for Libraries, the ORL’s digital magazine service, and TumbleBookCloud, containing digital chap-ter books for upper elementary to high school aged readers. The new design provides the ORL with an opportunity to feature the ORL’s Enhanced Catalogue. Neat elements of the Enhanced Catalogue include: a smart search experience: keyword searching offers relevancy ranked re-sults so the titles at the top of the list are more likely to be of interest to you. There is also an auto-suggest function for author and subject searching; ability to register a username so that you don’t have to always remember your barcode; optional social networking features, which will allow you to rate and post comments on items in the catalogue, as well as share booklists with other library members. The ORL will not be the only ones to change their look. OverDrive, the company that hosts ORL eBooks and Library to Go, will be up-dating their platform as well. Expect a more streamlined checkout process and an easier book finding experience with filtered searching, personalized title recommendations and more.

A Facelift for February: Okanagan Regional Library’s new homepage

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Heart disease and stroke take 1 in 3 Canadians before their time. And it is the #1 killer of women in Canada, taking more female lives than all cancers combined. While those numbers are shock-ing, there is good news for Canadi-ans. It’s possible to change the odds against heart disease and stroke. It’s possible to Make Death Wait.How? By taking action to reduce the risk factors that are within your control. That means factors like high blood pressure, eating an unhealthy diet, being physically inactive, smok-ing or being overweight. Nine out of 10 people have at least one risk fac-

tor, and 40 % have three or more.The Heart and Stroke Foundation website, heartandstroke.ca, is full of information and tools to help Cana-dians understand their individual risk factors and start making changes. For example, the newly updated Heart&Stroke Healthy Weight Action Plan is a personalized, step‐by‐step online program that helps you as-sess your current eating and activity habits, setting goals and taking steps to reach and maintain a healthy weight. Go to URL/TK to take the first steps. And another way Canadians can make death wait? By donating to the

Heart and Stroke Foundation during the annual Heart Month campaign this February. Every donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation supports invest-ment in life‐giving research, advoca-cy, health promotion and education programs. It’s all aimed at reducing the impact of heart disease and stroke, and helping Canadians live longer, fuller lives. Please give generously when Heart and Stroke Foundation Volun-teers come calling this February.You can also support online at heartandstroke.ca/HELP or by calling 1 888 HSF INFO (1 888 473 4636).

February Is Heart MonthIt’s Time To Make Death Wait


In February and March, the Osoyoos Desert So-ciety will once again be hosting its popular Winter Program Series. This year’s four-part series takes a close-up look at some of the area’s most notable wildlife, and features an exciting line-up of local experts, films, behind-the- scenes tours, and more.The series kicks off on February 9th with a lecture presentation and film focusing on butterflies. One of nature’s most remarkable phenomena, the epic mi-gration of the monarch butterfly, will be explored in the documentary film The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies. Afterwards, lepidopterist Dennis St. John will take a closer look at the rich diversity of butterflies in British Columbia. The second program in the series, Cav-ity Nesting Birds-The Inside Scoop, will be held on February 23rd. Sherry Linn, with the Southern Interior Bluebird Trail Society, will share her in-depth knowledge and fascinat-ing first-hand accounts of bluebirds, house wrens, tree swallows and other local cavity nesters.On March 9th salmon are the featured spe-cies. Watch millions of salmon return to the streams where they were born in the stunning documentary, The Great Salmon Run. Following the film, naturalist Lee McFadyen will be on hand to talk about our local salmon run.The final program in the series, Birds of Prey, runs March 23rd and features a be-hind-the-scenes visit to the South Okanagan Rehabilitation Centre for Owls (SORCO). Participants will tour the SORCO facility with Executive Manager Lauren Meads, get a behind-the-scenes peek at the rehabilita-tion and release process and meet Houdini, the great horned owl. Tour space is limited and advance registration is required.Admission for the Osoyoos Desert Soci-ety’s Winter Program Series is by donation. Programs run from 2:00 to 4:00 pm and are held at the Watermark Beach Resort, except for Birds of Prey which takes place at the

South Okanagan Rehabilitation Centre for Owls. For more information, or to reserve a space for the SORCO tour, contact the Osoyoos Desert Society at [email protected] or 250-495-2470.The Osoyoos Desert Society is a nonprofit society that was founded in 1991 to conserve the biologi-cally rich and diverse habitats of British Columbia’s Southern Interior. Through habitat conservation, res-toration and education, the Society strives to gener-ate public knowledge, respect and active concern for ecosystems worldwide.

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BUTTERFLIES – Movie & An Expert February 9th from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at the Watermark Beach Resort

Watch The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies, a documentary chronicling the remarkable migration of the monarch butterfly, then take a close-up look at British Columbia's butterflies with lepidopterist Dennis St. John.

CAVITY NESTING BIRDS – The Inside Scoop February 23rd from 2:00 – 4:00 pm

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SALMON – Movie & An Expert

March 9th from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at the Watermark Beach Resort

Watch millions of salmon return to the streams where they were born in the stunning documentary, The Great Salmon Run. Following the film, learn more about our local salmon run with naturalist Lee McFadyen.

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Caroline Hughes never expected to have a stroke at the age of 42, but she could not have been in a better

place than she was when she had it...in the hospital. “And if I had been at home the

kids would have said, “Oh, mom’s just sleeping, let her have a lon-ger nap. It would’ve taken longer to even realize maybe I’d even had a stroke.” Hughes’s surroundings did indeed turn out to be fortuitous, as the doctor had her into a cat

scan and surgery within an hour. “So he probably saved my life. Plus he lessened the results of the stroke, or the effects of the stroke.” The way Hughes explains it, she had “sort of like a blood em-bolism in the front of my brain,

A stroke at age 42....Osoyoos woman’s storyBy Andrea Dujardin-Flexhaug


but more or less on the right side, because my left side’s affected.” She adds, “I guess they went in and released the pressure on it.” Hughes says the doctors have no idea how the stroke happened. “There’s all kinds of stressors that could cause it, you know, it could be buildup in your arteries, it could be just stress.” “After I was okay from that, I went and spent two months in a rehab hospital.” Hughes’s physical symptoms include no feeling in her left side, with her arm bent over her stomach at the elbow, and hand clasped into a perpetual fist. Hughes’s speech was not affect-ed, which she says was “really strange.” Quite often the stroke victim slurs their speech or they can’t remember words at all. “ I do have short term memory issues, like I could ask you some-thing today and two or three days later ask you again, and I want the answer now, not remember-ing that it was already asked and answered.” Although Hughes deals with her stroke in a positive and pro-ductive way, that does not mean it has all been a ‘bed of roses’ since it happened. “I was really young, I was 42 when I first had the stroke. And that’s technically kind of young for a stroke. All dif-ferent ages can get them.” BC born and raised, Hughes was married to an American and

was already a mother of two young children at the time, and living in Kent, Washington. “Well, I had to get used to not driving cause right away I couldn’t drive, and I had a ten year old who was active in baseball. So I had to get used to asking others for a ride,” she recalls. “And I was very active at church at the time and I was doing (guitar) music with the kids. Well, I couldn’t do that with the guitar.” “As a stroke person, I lost the ability to be joe creative because I planned halloween carnivals, I planned parties, I planned birth-day things at the church and I would be up and down on stairs and decorating and all that kind of thing and a one woman go for person. “

“WHY NOT ME?”

However, Instead of taking on a ‘woe is me’ attitude, with help from others, Hughes refocussed her creative energies. “Yeah I think it really is (important) to stay active or you sit at home and think, Oh why me? But I always thought, why not me?” Someone suggested that she work as a part-time receptionist at her church, so she did. When-ever she did understandably feel ‘down,’ from time to time, she would do things such as go and see her pastor who would remind

her that “who I am isn’t what I do, who I am is me, so I needed to be reinforced of that,” she says. Also, her stepdaughter and family had moved in with Hughes and her family. This proved to be a good thing for Hughes, as she had someone to help her around the house at first for several months. “Then I was running the house as per usual as much as I could.” “I couldn’t use my arm still but I could hold stuff between my body and my arm, so if I was going to carry something I could stuff it between my arm.” Hughes would think up new little tricks to make household chores easier post-stroke. For example, when doing laundry, Hughes would put the family’s clothes on a beachtowel and pull it down the hall to the washing machine. “So you had to come up with new ways to do things,” she explains. After her divorce, and with her children getting older, Hughes moved up to Osoyoos in the Spring of 2007 to be near her mother and brother. Hughes’s mom has been a great help to her, and her brother as well. Since Hughes’s concentration and short-term memory skills were affected by the stroke, her family helps oversee her financial and other personal matters as needed. But Hughes does retain a sense of independence in the

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From the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada About 80% of strokes are ischemic caused by the interrup-tion of blood flow to the brain due to a blood clot.About 20% of strokes are hemorrhagic caused by uncon-trolled bleeding in the brain.

Deaths

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Canada. Six percent of all deaths in Canada are due to stroke.Each year, nearly 14,000 Canadians die from stroke.Each year, more women than men die from stroke.

Prevalence

There are over 50,000 strokes in Canada each year. That’s one stroke every 10 minutes.For every 100,000 Canadian children under the age of 19, there are 6.7 strokes.About 300,000 Canadians are living with the effects of stroke.After age 55, the risk of stroke doubles every 10 years.A stroke survivor has a 20% chance of having another stroke within 2 years.

Of every 100 people who have a stroke

15 die (15%)10 recover completely (10%)25 recover with a minor impairment or disability (25%)40 are left with a moderate to severe impairment (40%)10 are so severely disabled they require long-term care (10%)For every minute delay in treating a stroke, the average pa-tient loses 1.9 million brain cells, 13.8 billion synapses, and 12 km of axonal fibres.

Each hour in which treatment does not occur, the brain loses as many neurons as it does in almost 3.6 years of normal aging.

Costs

Stroke costs the Canadian economy $3.6 billion a year in physician services, hospital costs, lost wages, and de-creased productivity (2000 statistic).Canadians spend a total of 3 million days in hospital be-cause of stroke.

form of her often seen around town scooter, with its easily recognizable Canada/USA flags fluttering above it. “My car is my scooter. I call it my year-round convertible,” says Hughes with her trademark humour. “I don’t have to worry about finding a parking spot in town. If I need to park it, I park it on the sidewalk or my vehicle can go inside.” The scooter has a driving radius that is more than adequate for Osoyoos, and Hughes makes regular trips downtown for ap-pointments and activities. And on a typical day, like many other lo-cal residents, her routine almost always starts out with a stop in at Tim Horton’s for a double double coffee. “I don’t have to wait too long before someone inside is coming out or that workers see me and come and open the door,” says Hughes. “ Or someone is coming and they open for me, locals us-ing the place.” “So it’s an awesome thing to let someone have their indepen-dence,” she says. Almost every store in Osoyoos is scooter ac-cessible, and for those that are not, Hughes uses her trusty cane to go inside for short walks.

VOLUNTEER WORK Ever since she moved to Os-oyoos, Hughes has continued to keep busy with various volunteer positions. Local residents may re-member when she helped out at the local Chamber of Commerce office in downtown Osoyoos for several years until it closed down, as well as with a reading pro-gram. She still continues to help out with the Osoyoos Festival Society, and participating in the July 1st parade, where she rides her scooter along Main Street,


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handing out Canada flags and flagpins to the attendees. Her creative efforts are evident at events such as the annual Eas-ter Eggstravganza where she wears her homemade Easter hats, along with her festively decorated scooter. After her stroke, for about once a month Hughes would still get seizures until her medication was adjusted to the right level. She has been seizure free for a time while living in Kent and while living in Osoyoos. As far as her clenched left hand and arm which is snugly bent against her body, she receives physiother-apy and holds a wooden cone while sleeping to help stretch the hand’s grip.

STROKE AND BRAIN INJURY SURVIVORS GROUP IN OSOYOOS

One avenue that Caroline Hughes finds helpful is a Stroke and Brain Injury survivors group held weekly at Osoyoos Bap-tist Church. She first found out about the group when she saw their fliers around town, and has been attending for the last year. “We check in, say how our week went, if any new thing (is) hap-pening with our activity level, etc. and watch videos about stroke related matters,” says Hughes. About 12 people attend the group regularly, and Hughes ob-serves that “everybody’s stroke happened differently. And in fact, just last week we went around the table group to say it (our sce-narios) again… .” Hughes finds the group help-ful, saying that “it’s always good to know that there’s someone worse off than you or better off. In the scale of your daily life you don’t meet someone all the time

Think about doing everything with one hand. You know, when you go to butter your toast, you hold it with one hand and butter it with the other. But when I got sent home from the rehab hospital, they sent me home with a breadboard with two nails in it, and it had edging on two sides. So that I could put down a muffin or something on it, nails would hold it, so I could cut it."

Osoyoos’s Caroline Hughes loves to do crafting, such as the handmade wreath she is holding, and she jokingly calls herself the “Glue Gun Queen.” Photo by Andrea Flexhaug

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But it wasn’t until recently that Hughes received treatment of another sort that has been around for years, botox injections. “This past November I got botox shots in my arm, botox, not just for the face,” she jokes. Hughes says she has no idea why the doctors in Washington or here did not get her start-ed on this form of treatment sooner. As it is, once she was put on the waiting list at number 500 to see a specialist in Kelowna, it was a full 23 months be-fore she got her first treatment. It entailed four botox shots to try and release the tone in her elbow, with four to six weeks to notice improvement, if any. At about the six week mark, Hughes did notice some-thing. Previously, whenever Hughes had tucked her phone between her arm and her stomach, it would stay there snugly. “Well, now if I don’t concentrate on holding my arm in, it’ll fall out because it’s loos-ened up that much,” she observes. Hughes says her physical therapist is ‘”really happy with it.” “She figures there’s been a twenty percent improvement in the range of motion of the elbow.” Next, Hughes will go back for more botox treatment in Kelowna in April, and this time she will get some shots in the forearm for the muscles in the fingers and the hand. It will be an ongoing process for Hughes, as the botox does wear off, but at least it is a start. Stay updated on Caroline’s treatment in future issues of the Okanagan Sun magazine.

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Valentine's Day is fast approaching and there is no better dessert for this occasion than Leslie Stowe’s classic. She came to

our cooking school in Calgary and made it.

Everyone raved! Line a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan with parchment paper. Makes 16 servings.

• 15 oz. really good quality semi-sweet or bitter-sweet chocolate (Valrhona or Callebaut work best)

• 1 cup heavy cream • 4 tbsp. Butter• 4 egg yolks • ½ cup icing sugar• 6 tbsp. orange liqueur cocoa powder for dusting• Raspberry Coulis• 10 ounces frozen raspberries • 3 tbsp. Berry sugar• 1 tsp. fresh lemon juice Chop the chocolate into small pieces and place in the top of a double boiler; add the cream and the butter. Melt over medium heat, stirring until completely smooth. Remove from heat and let cool for 1 minute, con-tinuing to stir. Whisk in the egg yolks.

Sift the icing sugar into the chocolate mixture, whisking constantly. Whisk in the orange liqueur until smooth. Pour into the prepared pan. Refrigerate for at least 8 hours to set or overnight. To make the coulis – in the food processor, pu-ree the raspberries, berry sugar and lemon juice. Pass the sauce through a sieve to remove the seeds.Unmould the cake removing paper. Dust the top with cocoa powder. Drizzle a large spoonful of coulis onto each plate. Using a hot wet knife, slice cake and place on plate. The cake will freeze well. Enjoy! Fast easy appetizers are so important in our col-lection. This is one of my favourites. Jay Drys-dale came to Osoyoos Home Hardware and did one of his many classes. Thaw puffed tenderflake pastry in the fridge over-night. Roll out into round or square. Spread with goat cheese thinned with some heavy cream. Season with salt and pepper. Put caramelized onions and double smoked ba-con atop and some fresh thyme over all. Bake for 15 minutes at 375. Ummmmm good! Just like the Vancouver Canucks – Osoyoos Home Hardware Cooking classes are here again. We have seven wonderful classes lined up, which just might sell out quickly. Tickets for all but the finale will go on sale on Saturday, February 16 at 9 am (in person) and at 10am (phone orders). Put your name on the list for the BBQ class, and as soon as we have a date we will call those people on the list before opening up to walk-in sales.

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Photo Assigments

July Challenge : Monochrome PortraitClub selection: A photo by Greg Reely

April Challenge : Monochrome LandscapeClub selection: A photo by Peter Beckett

March Challenge : UnfinishedClub selection: A photo by Don Lilley

YEAR IN REVIEW


No matter how enthusiastic a photographer one might be when first starting out,

there invariably comes a time when you feel like you’ve taken all the pictures that there are to take. That seems hard to com-prehend when you’re first starting

out. Every sunset looks like a once in a lifetime event. But after shooting a few hundred sunsets, and a few hundred cute pets and a few hundred pretty flowers and a few hundred, well, you know what I mean. You just run out of interesting things to take pictures

of. The reality is, though, you’re just not seeing all of the things that are out there to photograph anymore. A great way to get the creative juices flowing again is to have a photo assignment – a topic or subject to photograph within a specific time frame.

At the club, we have a monthly assignment drawn from suggestions by club members. A month later we all meet up to see who shot what and what we think of the results. We pick our favourite from the images submitted and that photograph is posted to the club’s page on the Osoyoos Art Council web-site at www.osoyoosarts.com. Along with bragging rights, the photographer of the selected photo gets to draw the topic for the next photo-of-the-month from the lens bag. Then we go out and do it again

November Challenge : A Fine BalanceClub selection: A photo by Sean Peltier

October Challenge : "That Don't Make It Junk" a song by Leonard CohenClub selection: A photo by Greg Reely

April Challenge : Monochrome LandscapeClub selection: A photo by Peter Beckett

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STREET DANCE 2012

Sponsored by Osoyoos Home Hardware Join us August 10 from 7-10:30 pm for our 26th Year!

Located beside Osoyoos Home Hardware

Bring the whole family -

It’s a Family Affair!* Prizes

* Dance Contests * Family Fun

with Joanne Hebig from Designing For You

Freshen Up Your Home workshop

Please call to register

250-495-6534 Space is Limited. Admission is free.

KOUNTRY

KEN

Osoyoos Elks & Royal Purple Lodge present

A Country Eveningfeaturing the song stylings and banjo tunes of

Kountry KenElks Hall8506 92nd Ave. Osoyoos7:00 PM FEB 27, 2013

Donation at Door $10.00 minimum

All proceeds to Elks and Royal Purple Fund for Children

Plus a Donna Watson segment called

“Freshen Your Home With Flowers”

7pmFebruary 19 •

the next month. There’s always a reason to go out and shoot with this kind of motivational tool. So, if you’re a photographer in a slump, have a look at some of the images in this issue and see if there isn’t maybe a subject or topic that interests you enough to get out and shoot. If not, pick a topic or subject that interests you and make an assignment or project out of it. It’s a surefire way to get you out of a slump and likely improve your photography at the same time.

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May Challenge : FootwearClub selection: A photo by John Nearing


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Business Excellence

Awards

Walnut Beach Resort General Manager Don Brogan accepts the award for Large Business of the Year from newly elected Chamber President Holly Plante. “Walnut Beach Resort is always willing to donate rooms for non-profit fundraising ef-forts,” said presenter Myers Bennet. “The team is dedicated to creating ways to attract more visitors to the area by planning year round events at the resort and assisting other groups with their event plans.”

The South Okanagan Chamber of Com-merce held their Annual General Meeting and banquet at Walnut Beach Resort in Os-oyoos January 18. Excellence in business was recognized in three catagories: Large Business, Small Business, and Individual Business Person Of The Year. In her President’s Report, Petra Vein-timilla touched on 12 key programs the Chamber had been working on in 2012. Members viewed a power point presenta-tion by Holly Plante outlining the benefits of membership, and Sue Baker of Community Futures gave a presentation on the Eco-nomic Gardening program.

Tracey Veintimilla (left) and husband Alberto took home the award for Small Business of the Year on behalf of Alberto’s Decorating Centre in Oliver. “The store front and show room is a shining star in Oliver and would stand out in larger centres such as Vancouver,” said presenter Payam Sanai. “The Veintimilla’s were instrumen-tal in bringing “Paint the Town” to Oliver, a grant program that offered main street businesses reduced rates on painting their shops.”


Business Person of the YearApril Goldade Terrafina Restaurant

Kelsi BissonnetteBreathe Studio

Large Business of the Year

Watermark Beach Resort

Curt Garland Hester Creek Winery

Don BroganWalnut Beach Resort

Julie & Tim MartiniukStoneboat Vineyards

Small Business of the Year

Daniele Heninger & Brad McRae Kick Start Printing

Tracey & Alberto VeintimillaAlberto’s Decorating Centre

Entrepreneur Of The Year Kelsi Bissonnette

Kelsi Bissonnette has been the owner of Breathe Studio for over five years and has brought an abun-dance of programs to Osoyoos. Currently on the Board of the Osoyoos Curling Club, Kelsi is always one of the first to step up and volunteer for commu-nity programs in Osoyoos. Kelsi is inspirational, and her team of instruc-tors are encouraged to put their own creative spin on company programs. She has built her business from offering a few exercise programs in a small studio to a gym and studio at the Watermark Beach Resort. Her studio now offers clients yoga, spin, pilates and TRX. “Kelsi is an innovative person who is really in tune with the population of Osoyoos and her cli-entele,” said presenter Petra Veintimilla. “She always steps up and inspires others to set goals and achieve them. She pushes us all to be better people.”

Walnut Beach Resort General Manager Don Brogan accepts the award for Large Business of the Year from newly elected Chamber President Holly Plante. “Walnut Beach Resort is always willing to donate rooms for non-profit fundraising ef-forts,” said presenter Myers Bennet. “The team is dedicated to creating ways to attract more visitors to the area by planning year round events at the resort and assisting other groups with their event plans.”

Deborah Wile & Lanny Kinrade Hidden Chapel Winery

Derrald & Gwen UlryOsoyoos Signs

Mike & Holly PlanteUnveil Shuttles

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Women of Oliver for Women Society (W.O.W.) presents

Mainly for Women Trade Show

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Oliver Community Centre

Saturday, February 16th, 2013

10 am to 4 pm

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Free Admission!

Everyone Welcome!! Interesting Exhibits!!!

The Women of Oliver for Women, formerly known as the Oliver Chapter of

Soroptimist International, was the first group in Oliver to participate in the Adopt- A-Highway program. At least twice a year, the mem-bers donate a few hours of their time to clean up the highway just north of town. The Women of Oliver for Women group is made up of community minded women who believe in giving back to their community through working for the betterment of women and families, community service and the donation of funds raised for worthwhile causes. In addition to the highway cleanup, other com-munity services include dona-

tions of park benches in strategic locations, and refurbishing and caring for the entrance gardens at McKinney Place. Every February, the ladies host the Mainly For Women Trade Show featuring businesses owned and operated mainly by women, displaying everything from beautifully crafted pottery and jewelry, to foods, clothing, quilts and health products. All of the funds raised at the trade show are donated to organiza-tions such as the Desert Sun Counseling, a citizenship schol-arship for a student graduating from Oliver Secondary School and a bursary for women who through circumstances need to return to the work force and need

further education or courses. This year the show is being held on February 16. A Christmas Auction held every December raises monies for hampers, Safe House, Oliver Food Bank, Oliver Hospice Soci-ety, Desert Sun Counseling and gift baskets for women who are totally on their own. Many other projects have been taken on by these dedicated members of WOW. We have contributed to the Oliver Public Library, the Literacy Program, helped with the Senior’s Centre teas, Halloween celebration with Parks and Rec, peeled veggies for the Okanagan Gleaners as well as filling soup bags to be sent to countries in need. Dic-tionaries have been provided for schools, and funds are provided to enable children to attend the Sun Fun program in the summer. A CPR course open to the com-munity was held last spring. A Bridge Tournament was held in the fall as a fundraiser to enable the group to extend their projects. Membership is open to women who are interested in helping WOW achieve the goal of “En-riching The Lives Of Women And Children In Our Community And Beyond.” Meetings are held the third Tuesday of every month from September to May, at the Quail’s Nest Arts Centre on 95th St. We are a great group and we welcome new members. For further inquiries please contact Terry at 250-498-6420, Shirley at 250-498-6300 or Sally at 250- 498-0104.

Mainly For Women Trade Show In Oliver

By Sally Franks


Many of you will remember be-ing spellbound

last year when Daniel Bolshoy worked magic on his newly acquired high tech German-made guitar. His per-formance for the South Okanagan Concert Society was billed ‘not to be missed’. The thunderous applause of the audience after a second encore spoke to the thrill of hearing one of the brightest and the best. This year, on Friday, February 8 at 7:30 pm., we may have a problem on our hands. Daniel is return-ing with violinist, Jasper Wood. Known together as Duo Rendez-vous, we are already counting how many extra seats may be needed in the temporary venue of the Oliver Alliance Church. Jasper has performed twice before in Oliver and both times his music was enthusiastically embraced. He has been award-ed two of the most distinguished prizes from the Canada Council for the Arts and has a flourishing concert career as well as his ap-pointment as Assistant Professor at the University of B.C. Check out www.youtube.com - Duo Rendezvous to understand the beautiful musical tension created when Daniel and Jas-per perform together. It is most apparent in their interpretation of

Csardas by Vittorio Monti, This piece will conclude the pro-gramme for the Oliver concert. Flex pass tickets are on sale now at Beyond Bliss in Oliver, at Imperial Office Pro in Osoyoos and at the door. A four admis-sion pass costs only $60. The four admissions are entirely flexible and can be used together or in combination. Single admis-sion is $20. Young people 17 and under are welcome to attend the concert free. Daniel is a Russian born, Israeli-raised Canadian. He has an uncanny intimacy with his instrument and an aggressive multi-layered quality to his style. His charismatic stage presence has endeared him to audiences around the world. As head of the guitar department of the newly created Vancouver Symphony

School of Music, he is living in Vancouver and thus is able to tour in British Columbia. Jasper was born in Moncton, New Bruns-wick, into a musical family of six brothers and sisters. He gave his first public perfor-mance at the age of 5! He holds a master of music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and in 1996 embarked on his inter-national solo career. Together, Daniel and Jasper present some magnificent

music. The programme includes the Suite Populaire Espagnole by Manuel de Falla, as well as pieces from Ravel and Debussy, Paganini and a Histoire du Tango by Astor Piazzolla.

If you didn’t heed my warning prior to the last concert, here it is again. There will only be one performance. Don’t be one of those who can only wish they had been there when they listen to the reviews of those who were. Be one of those enthralled by the stories and heart stopping virtu-osity of this exceptional duo.

Call Maureen at 250 495 7978 to arrange for transportation by van if you are worried about win-ter driving conditions and know this performance is one you just can’t miss!

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Can you spare five?

Earlier this year, I decided to make a commitment to im-

proving my golf game. Over the last few years my game had slipped a bit, but luckily I had all sorts of excuses at the ready to justify my ris-ing scores; I wasn’t playing enough, never practiced, working more hours, young kids at home, etc. In gen-eral, I had conceded that I was just too busy to devote any time to my improve-ment ... for many of you this may sound familiar. While the days get shorter and our schedules stay as busy as ever, how is it possible to find time to practice? Well, I have found a solution! Now, I know that this sounds like a 2 am info-mercial, but all you really need to commit to see a positive difference in your golf game is five minutes. Sure, it may be better if you could practice for a half hour or an hour. But when you just don’t have the time, do you know what five minutes is better than? No minutes. The idea of “Five Minutes to Better Golf” was

passed along to me by Charlie King, a top 100 Golf Instructor and the Director of Instruction at Reynolds Plantation, just outside of Atlanta Georgia. So here is one of the five minute drills. Since we are working within our five minute window, this drill is designed to be done at home. Take two clubs and lay them down about three to five feet from your target. I have a practice putting cup that I use, but you can just as easily cut out a circle or use a cd (as shown in picture, a cd is very close to the correct size) as your target cup. To space the clubs, give about

an inch on either side of your putter head, those are your tracks. Then place two golf balls on either side of your target cup an inch from the edges, these be-come your gate. The “Tracks” are there to help you see the face angle of your putter as well as your path, either straight back and straight through or with a slight arc, both are acceptable. The Gate is there to make the hole look bigger, giving you more confidence. Once you have your Tracks and Gate set up now it’s all about getting your reps in. As you

continue to stroke in these putts of three to five feet, you are quickly building a pattern of success. In a five minute period you should be able to get in around 50 to 60 quality repetitions. In a very short period of time, in just a few days to a week you will have quickly built up quite a reservoir of practice and success to draw from; and you will see the positive results on the golf course. Even though five minutes doesn’t seem like it could possi-bly be enough time to improve your game, believe me it is, and at the very least it is better than nothing.


HOW ARE YOU HELPING TO STOP BULLYING?Sale of Pink Shirt Day T-shirts Raises Anti-Bullying Awareness in Okanagan

The Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs are once again joining the Provincial and

National movement to celebrate Pink Shirt Day – Bullying Stops Here, on Wednesday, February 27, 2013. City councils across the Okanagan along with Boys & Girls Club kids, staff, school districts, McDonald’s staff and other community members will be wearing pink to raise aware-ness and to demonstrate that we are all part of the solution to stop bullying. We are encouraging the Okanagan community to wear pink on February 27 to show that bullying will no longer be tolerat-ed. Boys and Girls Clubs across the Okanagan will be participating in planned activities that provide education, awareness and teach skills to encourage empathy building during the week leading up to Pink Shirt Day. Pink Shirt Day originated in Nova Scotia where a new high-school student was being bullied and harassed when he showed up at school wearing a pink T-shirt. In support, two young men purchased 50 pink T-shirts from a discount store and enlisted fellow students to wear the pink shirts at school to support the new student who was being bullied. Since this powerful act of soli-darity, Pink Shirt Day has made its way across Canada and into BC and is now internationally rec-ognized. This year the response

has been overwhelming, with over 3,500 shirts being sold so far sold in the Okanagan! Pink Shirts will be available at Boys and Girls Clubs and McDonalds Restau-rants throughout the Okanagan February 20-27, 2013 until sup-plies last. With all that we hear and see about children, youth and adults being bullied and the effect this has on individuals, we know bul-lying has to STOP! At Boys and Girls Clubs, we know that victims of bullying, witnesses of bullying and bullies themselves all ex-perience the very real and long term negative impacts of bullying regardless of its forms—physical, verbal, written or on-line (cyber-bullying). We also know that there are constructive and supportive ways to help children and youth develop skills to prevent bully-ing and to thrive. And, we know that by developing those skills in a supportive environment, the emotional and psychological scars from bullying that haunt and shape people’s futures can be avoided. Boys and Girls Clubs programs foster self esteem, social engage-ment, academic success, inclu-sion, acceptance, respect for self and others, and connection to community—all of which are key elements of bullying prevention. Boys and Girls Clubs proudly par-ticipate in Pink Shirt Day because it promotes awareness, under-standing and openness about

the problem and a shared com-mitment to a solution. Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs rely heavily on community support to deliver our daily Club programs. Sup-porting Pink Shirt Day supports everyone who has experienced bullying as well as Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs anti-bullying programs. Every one of us has a role to play to STOP Bullying and aware-ness and understanding is a good place to start. Join us and become one of the people “mak-ing a difference” in the Okanagan and beyond. Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs is a leading provider of pro-grams to children and youth that support the healthy physical, edu-cational and social development of more than 6,000 young people and their families each year. Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs have been helping young people discover, develop and achieve their potential since 1959. Every day at Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs, where no one is refused membership because of an in-ability to pay, children and youth get the help they need to learn to develop positive relationships—with peers, family, teachers and the community at large. Our mission is to provide a good place to be—regardless of their circumstances—for kids dur-ing their out of school hours. To learn more, visit www.boysandg-irlsclubs.ca

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The truly remarkable Pha-ris and Jason Romero out of Horsefly, BC, take to the stage at Medici’s

Gelateria & Coffee House in Oli-ver on Saturday, February 16. It promises to be a signature show of the 2013 folk/blues season.Pharis and Jason have one foot firmly planted in tradition and enough jagged edges to feel modern. Much of their singing is crafted in the tradition of the clas-sic brother duet, with duet singing throughout, but they are by no means a throwback.

Pharis and Jason sing like birds and play wonderful old time mu-sic. Their harmonies are close, unusual and haunting, whether they are performing traditional country blues, roots or old time songs from the early days of radio. Both are accomplished instrumentalists, accompanying themselves with acoustic guitars, resophonic guitar and banjos. A show with the duet moves from spacious, almost ethereal, folk songs to hard- edged country blues with stories and an easy

rapport. It carries a feeling of inti-macy and complete love for each other and the music at hand. They have played country and folk festivals up and down the west coast and have been feature performers on CBC. Seating is limited and advance tickets are $20. They can be purchased at Medici’s on Fairview Road and Beyond Bliss in Oliver, or at Dolci Deli in Osoyoos. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and The Romero’s take the stage at 7:30 pm. Call 250-498-2228 for more information.

The Romeros in Oliver


Osoyoos crafter Barb Derksen hassome newly created Valentine’s Day cardsavailable for reasonable prices. If you want a unique handmade card to give to your loved one on Febru-ary 14, feel free to e-mail Barb at [email protected] or phone her at 250-498-9887and she will be pleased to help you.Derksen also has a fine stock of her lovingly made cards for other occasions, and will custom design as well.

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Well, here it is, the New Year is rolling along and the Oliver Art Gallery is

proud to announce Michael Arne Jorden, as their Feature Artist for the month of February, 2013. Mike will be displaying his finest Western Spirit Paintings, from February 12th through and into March. Born in the B. C. Kootenays, Michael spent most of his life living and working on the coast, and now resides on a small ranch near Osoyoos where he enjoys raising and training horses in the

vast grasslands of the area.Michael is a graduate of the University of British Columbia in Biological Sciences and post graduate work in Planning, Agri-cultural Economics and Resource Science and a Masters degree in Business Administration. A love of Art and a passion for the West have been a feature of his life since childhood. The two have come together in his choice of painting subjects which all have a western flair. Mountain landscapes, horses, early trans-portation or figurative works, all

have a depiction of the west. Recent works include a se-ries of Kettle Valley Railroad scenes from the age of steam, early stage coach scenes from the South Okanagan, and the depiction of packing and guiding through the Rockies and South-ern interior landscapes. Michael is one of the founders of the South Okanagan artists’ co-op known as our “Oliver Art Gallery”. Come and see Michaels works at 6046 Main Street and see the splendor of the west for yourself.

Michael Arne Jorden


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Humic and Fulvic acids contain 100-percent of the macro-and micro-nutrients needed by our bodies. In this regard, much has been written in recent years about the deterioration of our food supply. There has been intense ques-tioning about how to improve the poor nutrient quality of today's available foods. USDA studies show a 25 to 80 percent decline in minerals in the food we eat. Even way back in 1936, U.S. Senate Document 264 stated, “The alarming fact is that foods, fruits, vegetables, and grains now being raised on millions of acres of land no longer contain neces-sary levels of essential minerals. These foods are starving us, no matter how much we eat.” That was 77 years ago? Even when minerals are supple-mented, most preparations are only minutely available to the body. Thus, our bodies cannot properly absorb the minerals! Finally, the remedy is available! Humic Acids and Fulvic Acids not only contain all the minerals our bodies need, but, more impor-tantly, the Humic Acids and Fulvic Acids enable these minerals to be absorbed by the human body. According to the Water Qual-ity Association, Fulvic Acid (FA) is a “water-soluble, natural or-

ganic substance of low molecular weight, often found in surface water.” It is one of several sub-classes of umic acids (HA) which rise from complex mixtures of partially-decomposed organic materials. In other words, they are biological compounds created by Mother Earth, originally laid down by pristine, ancient forests and compacted and transformed over millions of years, waiting to be extracted for our use today. Scientists have discovered that FA is nothing less than tiny fragments of DNA from past generations of living organisms! Truthfully, FA is the “milk” from Mother Nature, meant for giving life, energy, health, immunity, and renewal to Earth and all life forms. This “milk” is an important discovery in the history of health and medicine. Scientists through-out the world call fulvic acid “the missing link to optimum health.” FA is the finest electrolyte known to man. Its electrolytes are able to restore vitality in all life forms. For when our electrolytic potential fades away, so does our energy and our health. It is indeed, the main reason why we get old. As we age, many facets of the body's chemical equilibrium become unbalanced. Humic substances help maintain this chemical equilibrium in the body,

creating “homeostasis.” This makes Humic and Fulvic Acids , superior anti-aging and rejuvena-tion formulas.Used internally: * acts as a free-radical scavenger,* supplies electrolytes, increases hydration, increases assimilation, stimulates metabolism, chelates heavy met-als and pollutants.Helps in the following patholo-gies: *arthritis, *asthma, *cancer, *chronic bronchitis, *diabetes mellitus, *digestive disorders, *genito-urinary diseases, *re-spiratory diseases, *influenza, * retroviruses and more. Used externally: * open wounds and skin ulcers,*burns, *bruises, anti-microbial and fungicide, * rashes and skin irritations, * insect bites and spider bites, and more. Humic and fulvic products are available as tinctures, powders, mud baths, facial products, as well as humic and fulvic water, used for energy, hydration, and as anti-viral, cold and flu drinks. These products are produced locally, in Oliver, Bridesville and Vernon. All are available exclu-sively in the South Okanagan at Bonnie Doon Health Supplies at 250- 495- 6313 Ref: www.goldenmoor.comwww.thegoodlycompany.com

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It is said that an ounce of preven-tion is worth a pound of cure. Although that makes a great sound bite, why is this adage not practiced more often? It’s sad to

see so many abuse their body with unhealthy lifestyle choices and think it won’t affect them. Research shows this to be a grave mistake. According to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, every 7 minutes in Canada, someone dies from heart disease or stroke; two of the three leading causes of death in Canada (based on 2008 data, the latest year available from Statistics Canada). These conditions cost the Ca-nadian economy more than $20.9 billion every year in physician ser-vices, hospital costs, lost wages and decreased productivity. How can I prevent heart disease?

The good news is that heart disease is both preventable and manageable. Your best defense is controlling the risk factors that could lead to this dis-ease, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, stress, excessive alcohol consump-tion, physical inactivity, poor food choices and being overweight.In my years of being a nutritionist and counseling thousands of people, I’ve observed that diet has been a driving factor in prevention of heart

Prevention: The Rx For Heart Health

disease. Nutritious, balanced meals and healthy snacks will reduce the incidence of heart disease and stroke and help you feel and look better, have more energy and vital-ity. Eat a diet that includes natural foods and less of the packaged variety. Include healthy fats, more vegetables and fruits, healthy protein sources and less processed starches. If you don’t know where to begin, see a nutritionist with exper-tise in holistic eating principles. Physical activity is another great factor in prevention. Canadian Phys-ical Activity Guidelines recommend that you accumulate at least 150 minutes of moderate-to vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity per week. I’m inclined to believe that’s a low recommendation, as most people have sedentary jobs and need greater exposure to make up for inactivity levels. Staying active four to five times a week for up to 45

minutes each time should not be a burden on anyone who understands the gravity of heart disease. Include brisk walking or bike rid-ing, jogging, cross-country skiing or going to a fitness facility. By doing so, you can dramatically lower your risk of heart disease and stroke and after three months, you could experi-ence better health, improved posture and balance, stronger muscles and bones, more confidence and an increased positive outlook on life. If in doubt about how to start, seek a Personal Trainer to set you up for lifelong success. Education through encourag-ing healthy behaviour should be a necessary part of our daily life. The nutritional principles and exercises to use should always be based on mod-eration and consistent effort. Follow them and you have the primary heart disease prescription: prevention. Adopt this newfound focus to reap the ultimate Rx for heart health.

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Every Monday Alcoholics Anonymous meetings 7 pm St. Anne’s Catholic Church.Every 3rd Monday Osoyoos Arthritis community group meets at 1pm Osoyoos Health Centre. Everyone welcome. For info call 495-8041 or 495-3554First Monday Parkinson’s Disease Sup-port Group meets at 1 pm in Osoyoos Health Unit. Maureen 250-495-7978Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday Kiwanis Club of Oliver meets at noon at the Com-munity Centre. For info call Rosemary at (250) 498-0426Every Tuesday TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) 4 pm - 5:30pm at the Oliver Search & Rescue Bldg. Call Norma 250-498-8455 for more info.Third Tuesday Soroptimist Osoyoos meet at McKia’s restaurant at Best Western at 6 pm (no meetings July and August) Con-tact Doris at 250-495-4428. New mem-bers welcome.Third Tuesday Women of Oliver for Women (WOW) 250-498-0104.First & Third Tuesdays Osoyoos Quilters meets at Anglican Church Hall at 9 am For more info call 495-4569First and Third Tuesdays The Oliver Royal Purple Lodge # 63 meet at 7:30 pm at the Oliver Elks Hall. For info call Annie at 498-2170.Every Tuesday South Okanagan Toast-masters meet @7pm in Oliver. Call Bill 485-0006.First & third Tuesday Osoyoos Photog-raphy Club meets at 7 pm in meeting room above the Art Gallery. New mem-bers welcome! Please contact Peter at 250-535-1278.

FEBRUARY

First and Third Wednesday Osoyoos Royal Purple Lodge #240 meets at 7:30 pm at Osoyoos Elks Hall. For info 250-495-6748. First Wednesday and second Thurs-day O’s Own Writers meet at 10 am (Wednesdays) at 7:30 pm (Thursdays) above the Osoyoos Art Gallery. New members welcome.Last Wednesday of every month Os-oyoos Reiki support group 7 pm at Holis-tic Desert Connections 250-495-5424Every Thursday Bingo at 1pm Osoyoos Senior CentreFirst and third Thursday Kiwanis Club of Osoyoos meets at noon at Cactus Ridge Retirement Residences. For info call Donna at 495-7701. Second Thursday Multiple Sclerosis group meets from 10 am - noon in the basement of the Community Services Building in Oliver. Call Cathy at 250-495-6866.Thursdays The Rotary Club of Osoyoos meets at McKia’s Restaurant in the Best Western Hotel at noon. Visitors are welcome.Every Thursday Desert Sage Spinners & Weavers drop-in at Oliver Community Centre between 10 am and 3 pm. Info call 498 6649.First & Third Thursday Osoyoos Lake Lions Club meets at 7 pm at Jack Shaw Gardens Building. 250-495-2993Every Thursday Oliver & Osoyoos Search & Rescue. 7 pm at Oliver SAR hall. www.oosar.org.Every Friday night, Osoyoos Elks invites you to play Bingo. Doors open at 5 pm Bingo starts at 7 pm.

Feb 2: Osoyoos Coyotes host the North Okanagan Knights at the Sunbowl Arena.Feb 8-10: Ladies Bonspiel at Osoyoos Curling Club. Details at osoyooscurlingclub.comFeb 8: Duo Rendezvous (Jasper Wood - violin, Daniel Bolshoy - guitar) in concert at The Oliver Alliance Church as part of the south Okanagan concert Soci-ety 2012/2013 Concert Series. Tickets $20. Students 17 & under free. 7:30pm. Feb 9, 10, 11: Osoyoos & District Arts Council presents Kids Art on Family Day Weekend at the Osoyoos Arts Centre. Ages 7 - 14 years. Drawing, Pastels and Watercolour. 2 pm - 4 pm each day. $5 per day. All materials supplied. Contact Sue Whittaker at 495-7664 to register. Feb 16: Valentines Potluck Din-ner and Dance at the Osoyoos Seniors Centre. $10 with a potluck dish, $15 without. Happy Hour 6:00pm, Dinner at 7:00. Music by Corner Turtles. Call 495-6921 for more information. Feb 16: Osoyoos Coyotes battle Summerland Steam at the Sun Bowl Arena. 7:30 pm.Feb 16: Osoyoos Family Fair. 11:00am - 1:00pm at the Sonora Community Centre. Admission is free. Ages 0-6. Play, do, learn and socialize!Mar 2: Okanagan-Similkameen Healthy Living Fair. Healthy Heart Screening & Trade Exhibi-tion. Free to the Public. Over 50 Health & Fitness Exhibitors. Pent-icton Trade & Convention Centre, 273 Power Street in Penticton. 9am - 4pm

The Oliver/Osoyoos Winery Association has a new website to go along with the new year, with everything you need to know and more regarding local wineries. Go to www.oliverosoyoos.com and check it out or send it on to any visitors you might have coming here this year. It hosts three major events every year - the Pig Out, the Half Corked Marathon and Winter in Wine Country.


Known around the Okanagan for fresh food & excellent service!Set under the dramatic landscape of McIntyre Bluff (Indian Head), the historic Ye Olde Welcome Inn has been a long-time favorite place for people to relax and dine by the real wood burning fireplace. Enjoy a barbeque on the patio or play a game of pool or darts.

Our extensive menu features most meals for under $10 or up to $19.95 for a New York Steak and Lobster. You can depend on Dale or any of the eight year-round staff to give you “old school service” every day of the year, with a chef on duty until 11:00PM seven days a week.

Come savour fresh, homemade food served by well trained staff in our warm, friendly and comfortable establishment!

Eat in or take out.

39008 Hwy 97 Oliver at Gallagher Lake250-498-8840

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With more than 60 stores and services, Cherry Lane is the retail destinationof choice in the south Okanagan and Similkameen.

2111 Main Street at Warren Penticton www.cherrylane.ca 250-492-6708OPEN DAILY 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ■ Thursday & Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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