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The streets, hotels and restaurants of Penticton were full of church-goers over the weekend as the United Church of Canada held its provincial conference at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre.

It may have been unseasonably cold and wet for Penticton’s Relay for Life event, but that didn’t stop people from the South Okanagan from doing their bit to help out with the fight against cancer.

Former premier Bill Vander Zalm and his FightHST partner Chris Delaney were at the Penticton Sandman Hotel Saturday afternoon, encouraging residents to vote to cancel B.C.’s harmonized sales tax in the upcoming provincial mail-in referendum.

They aimed for $5,000 but got more than double that while shaving about 40 heads, including those belonging to two long-time city councillors.

An undercover drug sting has netted 15 individuals in Penticton who are facing a total of 39 criminal charges, mostly for trafficking cocaine.

If you’ve got a spare room in your family home, Richa Thorpe wants to hear from you.

WorkZone is hosting a job fair next week for Value Village, which is looking to hire 50 employees.

A man who robbed a Penticton bylaw officer in broad daylight last summer has been sentenced to jail.

Agriculture Minister Don McRae is trying to get a handle on issues facing the fruit industry in B.C. by going to the source and holding grassroots conversations with growers.