For the first time, UBC Okanagan Heat varsity sports teams will enter a new season with four full-time head coaches.

The Westside Warriors will close out their BCHL exhibition schedule Friday night in Merritt against the Centennials.

The UBCO women’s soccer squad will continue to tune up for the 2010 BCCAA season this weekend with a pair of exhibition games on its home pitch.

CFL legend Angelo Mosca is the key note speaker at the Okanagan Sun scholarship dinner Friday, Oct. 8 at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna.

Two members of the Kelowna Falcons have been named to the West Coast League’s 2010 all-star team.

The two Stevens performed admirably in the Okanagan Sun’s 53-7 victory over the Kamloops Broncos Saturday night.

Westside Warriors head coach Darren Yopyk will have a few more decisions to make this week before deciding on his club’s final roster for the 2010-11 BCHL campaign.

The Kelowna Chiefs’ preparations for the 2010-11 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season are under way this week at Rutland Arena.

Lynda Palahniuk tuned up for her upcoming trip across the Atlantic with a sixth-place showing at the Canadian senior women’s golf championship.

The 14th annual Vernon Senior Oldtimers’ Harvest Hockey Jamboree is set for Oct. 4 to 7 at the Wesbild Centre in Vernon.

Once thought to be exotic, serial entrepreneurs can at times seem to be everywhere in places we might least expect.

As emails emerge as the primary mode of workplace communication, it is inevitable that their use (and abuse) will be subject to comment by a range of adjudicators.

How positive the growth of Kelowna International Airport is for the local business community will be the topic of discussion at a forum on Sept. 8, 5:30 p.m., at The Eldorado Hotel in Kelowna.

Don’t know about you, but I’m in total shock over the sudden change in weather this week.

It’s back by popular demand. The Maxine DeHart—United Way, Ramada Hotel Drive-Thru Breakfast will be held Thursday, Sept.30, from 6 to 9 a.m., at the Ramada Hotel, 2170 Harvey Ave. 

Every workplace has its own culture. We know this to be true—we read about it and we live it in our jobs everyday.

Not even the government wants to come between local cattle and their bovine-sized servings of Okanagan wine.

This week’s column is dedicated to Agostino Masi who recently passed away. I met Agostino and Julie in 2004 when they started Agostino’s on Bernard. Julie and their son Lucca are continuing on with Agostino’s at Shannon Lake. Condolen

What does it mean to be a director of a company?

If the lawless little South Similkameen town of Hedley had never been put up for sale by its residents, Canadian pop/rock fans might know the band by a different name.

“I’m tired of being asked to sponsor every golf tournament and gala out there.”

Marc Arellano’s documentary Strange Fruit: A Changing Landscape in the Central Okanagan, picked up Best Home Grown Award at the Okanagan International Film Festival. “It was pretty overwhelming, to say the least, to receive the OIFF award bec

She tiptoed her way out of Kelowna and onto a world stage, now Julia Harnett hopes to sweep the So You Think You Can Dance Canada season-long auditions.

Usher, or Usher

The PEAK Performance Project Boot Camp is underway at RockRidge Cayon Resort just outside Princeton.

Rushing into Cirque du Soleil for the opening night of Alegria, the air feels electric.

Reported real-life couple Drew Barrymore and Justin Long star together in Going the Distance, the story of a couple who try to maintain a long-distance relationship.

There’s no shortage of talented writers who are grappling with the social issues of the day, as the judges for the eighth annual George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in B.C. writing and publishing have learned.

The cool nights and hints of fall’s arrival in the air definitely have an impact on our menu selections. Comfort food has suddenly arrived back on my list of cravings after being left behind last spring, and nothing screams comfort food like pasta.

It’s hard to know where to start with the 2010 Ford F-150.

The Mazda2 GS sub-compact five-door is cute as all get out with a bold character line that starts behind the front wheel well and darts upward steeply to the rear fender. The “smiling” grille treatment is toned down a bit from the Mazda3.

By 2020, the government of Ontario wants one in 20 cars in the province to run on electricity alone.

My goodness how the summer has slipped away quickly this year.

The world that I live in now is very different from the one that I lived in a mere six years ago.