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A Kelowna resident was honoured along with 44 others with the BC Community Achievement Award.
Trevor Day was recognized as the longest-serving volunteer of the Kelowna Branch of St. John Ambulance.
He has served 25 years as a member of its medical first response team.
Premier Gord Campbell presented the award.
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Not sure if it was the nice weather or spring break...but Police busted 3 drunk drivers on Saturday afternoon alone. Between 3:30 and 6...3 drivers were caught...with 3 more pulled over later that evening. Most of the drivers blew at least twice the legal limit...while a couple of them refused to give a breath sample.
All 6 drivers face charges of impaired driving and have court appearances in the future.
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The Vernon/North Okanagan area is a lot less green today thanks to a round up by the 'green-team'.
RCMP busted 6 different residents and brought in 1621 plants and 33 lbs of dried bud. RCMP spokesman Gord Molendyk says there are getting a lot of calls from residents.
Molendyk says 8 people in total have been arrested and they are looking for more.
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An elderly male is being treated for apparent non life threatening injuries after he, and his scooter, were knocked down by a vehicle.
The incident happened at just after 1:30 p.m. Monday. The gentleman was riding his scooter on the west sidewalk of Richter Ave, and was traveling towards KLO Rd.
A 63 year old Kelowna woman, who was making a right turn from the Mission Park Mall onto Richter Ave. apparently did not see the scooter, and hit it, knocking the scooter over and spilling the elderly man onto the street.
The victim was treated by ambulance at the scene and was taken to Kelowna General Hospital.
His scooter was trapped under the front bumper of the car, which had to be lifted off.
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Speaking in reaction to the avalanche in Revelstoke over the weekend, The BC Minister of Public Safety, Kash Heed says he doesn't want to prohibit snowmobiles on provinical land.
Heed says they are working at extending existing rules around backcountry usage instead of cutting people off.Meantime. The wife of a man killed, wants to know why the extreme snowmobiling event her husband attended went ahead despite avalanche warnings.
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March is Poison Prevention Month. It’s a time to raise awareness of the poison centres in our homes. Medications account for the majority of child poisonings. Be sure all medication, cleaning supplies, plants and even arts and craft supplies, are kept well away from the prying hands (and mouths) of children. Each year there are about 200,000 poisonings reported in Canada....
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The wife of a man killed in a weekend avalanche near Revelstoke, B.C., wants to know why the extreme snowmobiling event her husband attended went ahead despite avalanche warnings....
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Dozens of protesters were detained after bottles and firecrackers were thrown at police officers during an annual police brutality demonstration in Montreal on Monday evening....
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Uncertainty about whether the seal hunt will go ahead, and questions about who will buy pelts if it does, may make the federal government's announcement that it has increased the quota for this year's East Coast seal hunt meaningless, sealers say....
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A drug expert testified Monday that it's unlikely a Calgary man accused of killing a woman near an LRT station mistook the victim for his mother because the effects of the drug he smoked earlier would have worn off by then....
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WestJet president and CEO Sean Durfy has announced he's resigning as head of the airline, citing personal reasons....
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Ontario's Alcohol and Gaming Commission is investigating allegations that the 18-year-old charged with murdering two women on Friday was served alcohol in a Belleville bar the night before the shooting....
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The family of a man who was charged with killing an Ontario Provincial Police constable is asking that memorial donations be made to the dead officer's family....
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Visually impaired cross-country skier Brian McKeever wins Canada's first gold medal of the Paralympics, taking the men's 20-kilometre event in Whistler, B.C....
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A Calgary zookeeper has been suspended for failing to properly secure an outdoor gorilla enclosure, allowing one of the animals to perch on a perimeter fence....
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Conservative cabinet member Helena Guergis has no intention of filing a lawsuit against Air Canada or its employees after details of a tantrum she threw at Charlottetown airport emerged last month, according to her colleague John Baird....
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Grief counsellors are attending J. Percy Page High School in Edmonton after a Grade 10 student was killed on a school skiing trip....
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Toronto FC general manager Mo Johnston says the club has sent Canadian forward Ali Gerba home from pre-season training in South Carolina....
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The B.C. government is now reconsidering regulations for snowmobilers after the weekend's deadly avalanche near Revelstoke....
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Liberal MPs hammered the Tory government over the guidelines a former Supreme Court justice will follow in his review of documents related to the Afghan detainee affair....
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Greece has made another request for support from European finance ministers, as the Mediterranean country struggles to get its ballooning debt load under control....
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Thailand's prime minister rejects an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament on Monday as tens of thousands of protesters vow to splatter the seat of government with their own blood if their demands aren't met....
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty took his federal budget sales pitch to New York on Monday and found that convincing investors of Canada's merits was a surprisingly easy sell....
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U.S. President Barack Obama took his push for health-care reform to Ohio on Monday, calling on Congress to move beyond partisan politics and pass the controversial changes....
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Fiji declares a state of emergency in the hardest-hit areas as Cyclone Tomas batters the South Pacific nation's northern outer islands....
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Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese in Germany says it has suspended a priest convicted of sexually abusing minors and accepting the resignation of his superior....
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered more security forces dispatched to embattled Kandahar city following a series of deadly insurgent attacks....
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Iran's hardline government says the country's largest pro-reform political party - the Islamic Iran Participation Front - has been banned as part of the crackdown on the opposition....
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country's controversial plan to build homes in east Jerusalem won't harm Palestinians....
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U.S. President Barack Obama is reportedly outraged over the killings of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Mexico over the weekend....
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Embattled automaker Toyota Motor Corp. is casting doubt on a California man's story that his Prius car sped out of control, saying the company's internal investigation is inconsistent with the story as described....
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The mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she is helping him live "a life of truth" and the two remain in love even after their affair helped trigger his downfall from the pinnacle of U.S. politics....
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David Beckham successfully underwent surgery Monday in Finland and is expected to fully recover from an injury that will keep him out of the World Cup for England....
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Partial counts from all of Iraq's 18 provinces show the prime minister's bloc leading in the country's key parliamentary elections....
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The actress and boyfriend Adam Schulman talk to animal rescue volunteers at a park
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Michael David Barrett posted a nude video of the ESPN reporter and DWTS contestant on the Internet
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The second half of the season will be full of more music, more surprise guests and more Sue Sylvester
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The newest celeb couple, dubbed "Jemni," get support online
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The Two and a Half Men star, who'll still spend nights in rehab, wants to clear his name, a friend says
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"I'm like a little kid waiting for Christmas," says the Extra host
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Delvecchio wants you to know he's been playing records for 12 years - but he's getting better gigs now
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The new mom reveals the alternative name for Benjamin Rein Brady
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The singer sounds off on her ex yet again, and also talks about her time frame for having kids
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The pair, who have been married nearly seven years, call the breakup amicable
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RCMP say they have looked for abandoned vehicles and canvassed area hotels and there is no one that they know of left unaccounted for following a deadly B.C. avalanche....
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The Harper government has given a retired judge the guidelines it wants used for a review of documents related to the military's handling of Afghan detainees....
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The alleged gunman in an apparent murder-suicide at an Edmonton car dealership on Friday was convicted of killing a teenager in the 1970's....
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Bangkok on Sunday, demanding the Thai government dissolve parliament and call new elections....
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Partial counts from all of Iraq's 18 provinces show the prime minister's bloc leading in the country's key parliamentary elections....
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Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is expected to announce a federal emergency response plan on Monday in Ottawa, four months after being criticized by the auditor general for not having one....
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