After years of losses, fruit growers in the Okanagan celebrate bountiful harvest

The grandparents of Vince Kuipers emigrated from the Netherlands to Kelowna in 1921 when they began to wort, and finally transmitted knowledge to their parents. Today, Kuipers has a family business collection business, Kuipers Fruit Family Farm in Kelowna, which has had difficult years with extreme climatic events that kill crops in Okanagan. “I grew…

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The C.B.N. wildfire cancelled an annual fire department fundraiser, so a St. John’s circus owner stepped up

After listening to the annual fundraising of the North Shore Volunteer Fire Department, Beni Malone, founder of Wonderbolt Circus, took the opportunity to organize a new event. (Alex Kennedy/CBC) An artistic space in St. John’s organizes a collection of funds for people who have lost everything in the Conception Bay North forest fire. On Saturday…

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Supporters head for B.C. ostrich farm as it preps application to Supreme Court to stop cull order

Lucas Robinson de Vancouver made a 575 -kilometer trip to the east to the small community of Edgewood, BC, with fillets, hamburgers, watermelon and his dog. The truck driver said that he felt the responsibility of protecting the almost 400 ostriches owned by universal ostrich farms that were ordered sacrificed after a long judicial battle…

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