Life

TripAdvisor has just announced its top destinations in the world, and Sonora Resort in British Columbia has been voted number one for luxury in Canada.

If your child is a figure skater, a hockey player, gymnast, video game player or even a budding artist, you won’t have much of a challenge finding a summer camp for them.

Once, it was a place of quiet and serenity, but Penticton’s old school library, located in the Shatford building was buzzing Saturday night as the high school’s music department took over for their annual fundraising concert.

Real-life collides with art in the current production from Many Hats Theatre, Norm Foster’s Opening Night.

When I was just a little guy, I suffered from a speech impediment. Nothing close to what Colin Firth’s George VI goes through in The King’s Speech — mine was not a stammer, rather a lisp. And while I didn’t have to worry about addressing the British Empire, only talking to other children and occasionally standing up and reading in my otherwise cozy elementary classroom. No big deal, right? Maybe not. But it was at the time.

There are just a few days for young musicians and performers to get their registration in if they want to take part in the 2011 Penticton Kiwanis Music Festival.

Each year the Meadowlark Festival chooses a different artist’s work to use as the promotional image for the annual nature festival, looking for one that represents the charity’s mission to promote environmental awareness and participation in the Okanagan-Similkameen region.

It can cure what ails you, people say, and they don’t mean Grandpa’s “cough medicine.” They’re talking about British Columbia’s ultimate hot tubs — from the ones Mother Nature created to the ones humans have perfected.

Next week is Family Literacy Day – a time to celebrate the fact that parents are a child’s first teachers.