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MORGAN HUGHES (right) and her Kelowna Owls high school soccer teammates are competing this week in the B.C. AAA girls soccer championship.
COLUMNIST Maxine DeHart has found the latest two shop owners on West Avenue in Kelowna who decided to operates their businesses under the same roof.
HEALTHY KIDS DAY this weekend offers kids just what too many of them are missing from their lives—playtime.
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scoped talent, now seeds talent by offering schools and after school programs the funding necessary to help kids learn to play an instrument or develop their voice. He was back in Kelowna to honour two schools the charity has awarded with $10,000 grants. Both Glenrosa Middle School and Ecolé KLO Middle School have been awarded $10,000— a sum equal to half a dozen years worth of regular music program funding— to help build their band programs.
West Kelowna has officially parted ways with the vision of creating an urgent care centre on the Westside. Joanne Konnert, a health care consultant hired by the district last September to assess the health services located in West Kelowna, presented council with her report Tuesday. Her recommendations suggested the district needs more services— specifically those dealing with mental health and substance use, as well as chronic issues—and better communication with Interior Health. But her research also illustrated an urgent care centre in West Kelowna would likely be under-utilized at this time. Part of that reasoning stems from the fact Westside residents’ trips to the emergency room decreased by 20 per cent from 2008 to 2012. Konnert said the decrease was likely due to one new walk-in clinic opening and two others expanding their capacity during that time.
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COLIN JAMES (right photo) came to Ecolé KLO Middle School in Kelowna through the MusiCounts initiative to perform for the students Wednesday afternoon. The band students for KLO and Glenrosa Middle School (lower photo) also had an extra treat of being able to play with James to his song, Surely. The school band teachers (above), Kimberly Gorman and Chris Perry, were all smiles watching the Canadian Juno award winner on stage.
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The younger Reid spent the bulk of his career signing artists for A &M Records, after working his way into the industry through Kelowna’s CKOV radio station. He went from mowing lawns and convincing the radio station to let him on air to working with artists like The Tragically Hip, Sam Roberts, Big Sugar, Sarah Harmer and Hawksley Workman; and all because he loves music. Working with MusiCounts, an education charity aligned with the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the man who once
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School trustee Moyra Baxter says her former husband went to preschool with a Beatle. Mayor Walter Gray played trombone in the school band, turning in one of his first rounds of door-knocking to raise funds for the program. Astronaut Chris Hadfield took his guitar into space, wrote his own love song to Earth and collaborated with The Barenaked Ladies. Everyone has a tie to music that makes them a little unique, a little more interesting, and a little more engaged in the world, students at Ecolé KLO Middle School were told by Colin James at his MusiCounts concert hosted by the school on Wednesday. Learning to play music has even been shown to improve young students’ abilities in math. “For kids who maybe aren’t one of the jocks, or don’t excel in school, music can be a great equalizer,” said Allan Reid, director of MusiCounts. It can also be the rocket that launches a career as it has done for Reid, the Kelowna-born son of sculptor Robert Dow Reid, who crafted The Sails and Rhapsody (The Dolphins).
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