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After watching Canadian Search and Rescue Buffaloes do search patterns over the valley for days, we finally learned today that the missing PA-24 with 4 souls aboard has been found on or near Apex mountain. It is unclear yet as to whether the airplane had mechanical problems or whether it simply couldn't reach sufficient altitude to scale the mountain --- a 'boxed canyon' in aviation terms --- … [Read more...]
As we played cards by candlelight during Earth Hour last year, we were disappointed to see that most homes in Penticton remained well-illuminated... TOO well-lit, in fact. Perhaps they forgot? Perhaps they didn't know about Earth Hour? Let's hope that this year proves substantially better and that people here and around the world turn their lights off for Earth Hour. The following is quoted from … [Read more...]
OK, perhaps saying the air quality in Penticton is almost as bad as Beijing is a bit of an exaggeration, but when the smoke rolled in yesterday from a forest fire near Omak, Washington (the picture to the left shows the leading edge of the thick layer of smoke)- the air quality and visibility in Penticton took a huge nosedive. Earlier in the week, skies were a little hazy due to smoke from forest … [Read more...]
As I write this, the Penticton Peachfest parade has been underway for 1.5 hours and it's been raining almost the whole time. Amazing, considering we've enjoyed an incredibly beautiful summer in Penticton up to this point - hot, dry and completely clear skies day after day and month after month... until today. Ugh. And the fact that I'm here writing this post rather than showing my support down … [Read more...]
As I write this, I hear the sound of jets departing the Penticton airport. If you live in a big city, that might not sound like a big deal. But here in Penticton - where the biggest commercial aircraft that serves the city nowadays is a Dash-8 - the sound of jets is something special... especially when it's the sound of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds in formation. The Snowbirds opened the 2008 … [Read more...]
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