On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – Reconnect by disconnecting
Camping at the beautiful Mabel Lake Provincial Park came at a price last week: I had to function without the Internet for the...
2015 Feast of Fields by Darcy Nybo
Okanagan Feast of Fields 2015 We came - we ate - we drank! Not so long ago, in a land not so...
On A Brighter Note – The hitchhiker’s guide to safety by Lori Welbourne
My parents taught me to never hitch a ride and never pick up hitchhikers, but after becoming a cabbie in North Vancouver at...
The right to bare chests – On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne
In Canada, wherever a man can go topless, a woman can go topless too. I didn’t discover that until two summers ago after I...
Just Good Business – Thanks Kamloops Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram
I know that when you are in business and are a consumer, we all have expectations of customer service, to be care for...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – Stop dog theft in the Okanagan
In the last year and a half at least 22 dogs have been stolen in the Okanagan and at least 52 more have vanished...
Hangin’ With Satch: A Conversation With Joe Satriani
Somewhere in the last half of May, I got an email from Sony Music asking if I'd like to chat with Joe Satriani. I...
One A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – Be who you are meant to...
Bruce Jenner, the man who became a national hero during the 1976 Olympics, when he won a gold medal and...
One A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – A second chance at life
My father had three kinds of cancer last year: basal cell carcinoma caused by sunburns as a kid, a low grade leukemia that needs...
Head over heels – latest column and cartoon from On a Brighter Note
On Saturday night my friend and I attended an event at the Delta Grand Okanagan Hotel honouring the former mayor of Kelowna, Walter Gray,...