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Remembrance Day at the Military Museum


Red poppies on lapels, decorated veterans at supermarket entrances – sure signs that Remembrance Day is around the corner. We’ll be marking the day in Kelowna with ceremonies at the Cenotaph in City Park as well as in Rutland Lions Park, and a moment of silence at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday. We all have our [...]

Countess Bubna’s Halloween Surprise


Everyone loves a ghost story, and I stumbled across one this year in a decidedly unspooky – in fact, charming – place: Kelowna’s boutique Hotel Eldorado.

Camelot Vineyards Invites You


Meet Rob and Denise. They are the owners of Camelot Vineyards, a new cottage winery in Kelowna, and they have a great story of fate and family support that led them to where they are now. As flight attendants for Air Canada as well as being owners of a winery, this couple sure knows how [...]

Say Cheese! Close up on Carmelis


One of the first times I went to Carmelis Goat Cheese Artisan (a few years ago with some visiting media) I came face to face with a bone chilling fear of mine: blue cheese. In fact, I’d never had blue cheese before, and I thought that I was philosophically opposed to it. We’d done the [...]

Fall Fun: Corn Maze at McMillan Farm


I was at McMillan Farm last week to check out their corn maze, which I had heard is a ton of fun. Let me tell you, it was quite a discovery for me! First of all, I’m pretty sure that I’ve never been in a corn maze. Well, lesson number one is that it’s never [...]

Indie Shops and Mardi Gras Festival in Downtown Kelowna


This weekend, Downtown Kelowna will take centre stage with the Mardi Gras festival on Saturday, August 8 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will run along Bernard Ave. (from Bertram to Abbott), right smack in downtown Kelowna. This is a great event because it shows off the many independent shops in the downtown [...]