saobserver.net —  9+ hour, 56+ min ago

...The WorkBC Shuswap Inclusive Seminar & Job Fair will take place Tuesday, April 18, at the Prestige Harbourfront Resort.... ...information sessions with various presenters and agencies who will speak to the different funding and services available that can help job seekers, community... ...has arranged for two keynote speakers who will be presenting at the April 18 event, Victoria Maxwell and Salmon Arm's Justin Brien.... ...Wage Subsidy Program; Employer supports with Shuswap Association for Community Living; and Funding Diversification in your Business: Open Door Group...

saobserver.net —  15+ hour, 4+ min ago

...In late February, Ford Motor Co. applied for a patent on a technology that would give the company the ability to remotely control the vehicles of... ...According to figures from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the average household income before taxes is $92,764.... ...In Canada, the average price of a new car is somewhere past $45,000....

saobserver.net —  9+ hour, 56+ min ago

...Baritone Michael Volle is the larger-than-life knight Sir John Falstaff, leading a sterling ensemble cast in Verdi's ingenious Shakespearean comedy... ...A trio of clever women sopranos deliver his comeuppance and gleefully torment Sir John. Daniele Rustioni conducts the Met orchestra.... ...personality of Sir John Falstaff.... ...The opera is set in and around the town of Windsor, west of London, in the first decades of the 15th century....

saobserver.net —  1+ day ago

...It joins the Chevrolet Silverado EV pickup and the compact Equinox EV utility vehicle, also slated to arrive as 2024 models.... ...The familiar Chevrolet Blazer name, which was revived for 2020, will soon become more visible with the 2024 electric model, which Chevrolet expected... ...Chevrolet hasn't provided much in the way of specs, but it appears the Blazer EV has a bit less cargo length behind the rear seat than the internal-combustion... ...For the midsize/five-passenger Blazer EV, the prominent front-end shape does include a type of grille, but it's mostly for aesthetics....

saobserver.net —  1+ day ago

...Stites Consulting project manager Jennifer Stites presented Sicamous council with an update on the bridge replacement at the March 22 committee of... ...The long-awaited tendering process for construction of the RW Bruhn Bridge replacement project is scheduled to go ahead this year.... ...Any new roads or accesses included in the project will be maintained by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure and no unanticipated costs... ...Work on the bridge is anticipated to take three years, said Stites, with the last year being primarily demolition of the old bridge....

saobserver.net —  1+ day ago

...They included musicians George Leach and the Melawmen Collective, the St"at"imc Bear Dancers, puppeteer DerRic Starlight, Bernice Jansen & Pow Wow... ...Held on March 18, Pellsquepts Spring Winds Music Festival was a new event from the Salmon Arm Folk Music Society, featuring a lineup of some of the... ...Because of the cold, people didn't stick around for the headliners, the Melawmen Collective and George Leach.... ...Kenthen Thomas, the folk music society's Indigenous and youth coordinator, worked tirelessly to put the festival together with a short lead time....

saobserver.net —  1+ day ago

..."This time of year, is very busy for OHS and all of our volunteers as the rescue work begins, states Romany Runnalls, Volunteer Board President,... ...The Okanagan Humane Society (OHS) has launched their annual Spring Raffle to Rescue Animals to raise much needed funds at this very busy time of... ..."Much of our mission work and funding goes directly to spaying and neutering animals in our community", states Romany Runnalls, Volunteer Board President... ...Rose and Orchid were recently rescued by a good Samaritan in the Mara Lake area....

saobserver.net —  1+ day ago

...The kids are mostly does, said employee Adam Hamilton, and two more mother goats are yet to have their babies.... ..."Everybody's gotta come down and see them before they get too big," said Hamilton.... ...Hamilton said kids are ready to eat pellet food by the time they are a day-and-a-half old, and patrons to the farm have been overjoyed at the sight...

saobserver.net —  2+ day ago

...the banks of the Yangtze, wrote the Blind Bay-based GT Dragon Boat Society.... ...In the Shuswap, the GT Dragon Boat Society was formed to bring the sport of dragon boating to Blind Bay and the society says it is time to awaken... ...GT Dragon Boat Society supplies paddles and life jackets, and new paddlers can experience a test cruise once the dragon boat is in the water in mid-May... ...Registration for the 2023 season will be at the Blind Bay Village Grocer parking lot on Saturday, April 22 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m....