African violet stamps revealed

Mar 6, Salmon Arm –

On March 3, 2010. Canada Post issued their latest pair of permanent stamps, featuring two vibrant Canadian-developed hybrid African Violets. It is the 6th year that Canada Post has celebrated the arrival of spring with a flower-themed stamp and indoor gardeners will be pleased to note that this year, for the first time, they are offering an indoor plant as the featured flower.

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Lucy the leucistic robin

Enderby resident, Donlea McCombs and a friend were watching a flock of robins in her backyard while they enjoyed a visit over a cup of coffee on February 23rd. Every year, these birds came to feast on the berries on her Mountain Ash tree. While other species preferred the birdfeeder, the robins often got drunk on the berries and were a great source of amusement to Donlea and her family and friends.

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Super Natural British Columbia

The BC Liberal government, in an attempt to focus the attention of the world on our beautiful province, has enlisted the aid of some big names in the entertainment world to produce a 30-second video which will be begin airing on Canadian TV beginning Monday, and in the US on NBC in February, thereby putting British Columbia into one of the world’s most lucrative television markets.

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Snowmobilers agree code of conduct for caribou

Sledders support mountain caribou recovery.

Ministry of Environment.

Snowmobile clubs in the Thompson, Kootenay and Cariboo regions of British Columbia have signed stewardship management agreements with the Province that will support the recovery of the mountain caribou population, announced Environment Minister Barry Penner.

“The new agreements give snowmobiling enthusiasts access to some beautiful mountain terrain for winter recreation yet provide protection to mountain caribou and their habitat,” said Penner. “We have worked in partnership with snowmobile associations to strike a balance to ensure mountain caribou have the space they need.”

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Columbia Basin adapts to ‘climate change’

“While world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen this week to discuss climate change, right here in the Columbia Basin, local governments, First Nations and communities are already taking action on climate change with support from Columbia Basin Trust”, says a news release from CBT.

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Scientists challenge Copenhagen climate agenda

Causes of climate change not ’settled’: scientists. UN challenged to provide sound evidence for catastrophic forecasts.

International Climate Science Coalition.

The International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC – see http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/) today released the names of over 140 leading climate experts from 17 countries who are asking the United Nations and other supporters of this month’s Climate Change Conference to produce convincing OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE for their claims of dangerous human-caused global warming (AGW) and other changes in climate.

The COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHALLENGE demands that the UN publicly substantiate each of ten fundamental assertions that underlie current climate concerns – see http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/.

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Copenhagen conference opens

While there may be little evidence of human-caused global warming thus far, that may be about to change. The Copenhagen conference on climate change has opened today and promises to generate enough hot air and heated discussion to cause more than a little ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’. Centrists and freedom lovers the world around clash over how to deal with global warming, whether it is anthropogenic (human caused), and even whether the world is actually warming or cooling.

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Copenhagen climate change conference, a hidden agenda?

On his recent return from the APEC summit in Singapore, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that there was “a pretty strong consensus at the meeting this morning that countries of the world remain a long way from a binding, legal treaty on climate change.” Some 3000 unagreed sections of the working document need to somehow be molded into a consensus. This stands in stark contrast to the stated objectives of the conference to reach such a near-impossible agreement.

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Vernon residents caught poaching

Two Vernon residents face charges under the Wildlife Act.

On Monday November 2 one of the police officers from the Vernon/North Okanagan detachment was out enjoying an evening with friends in the Sugar Lake area near Lumby when he noticed two males loading a mature bull moose into a vehicle.

The police officer, knowing that the season was closed for mature Bull Moose in that area, contacted the local conservation officer and then continued to remain in contact with the two males in possession of the moose.

The moose has been confiscated by the Conservation officers and the two men from Vernon are expected to face charges under the Wildlife Act at a later date.

Conservation officers advise that have been kept busy this fall with numerous complaints of poaching and animals being killed illegally.

Vernon
November 5, 2009
RCMP

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Time change and body clocks

Time to set the clocks back once again!

After midnight this coming Sunday, our clocks will move backward by an hour. The purpose is to shift an hour of daylight from afternoon to morning over the winter months. About a quarter of the earth’s population will experience this changeover.

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