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Articles written by Catherine Mamo:

Cheesecake & Tunes

Penticton’s Dream Cafe has established itself as the entertainment hub of the South Okanagan. The place is rocking most evenings with excellent musicians from around the world, performing on a small stage to an ...Read More

Heavenly Gardens

It may seem like a bit of a leap to go from catering to gardening but that’s what Jacquie Cherot and partner Katsumi Miyazaki did when they moved from the coast to the Okanagan and ...Read More

Peachland Auto Genius

Have you ever considered building your own car? I thought not. Egon Ressel, a Peachland man, had no such qualms. He spent four years and nearly $20,000 making an electric ...Read More

Instruments of the Heart

Not many people make instruments by hand anymore. Cheap instruments from China, Korea and Eastern Europe flood the market. Machine-made, and often constructed from plywood, these instruments are churned out by the thousands. ...Read More

A Peachy Story

“Where’s the peaches?” ask many visitors to our little community. Not many peaches grow in Peachland anymore. But once upon a time Peachland had a very peachy reputation. Here’s where the Greata Ranch, just south ...Read More

Elvis Express

You might say that Terry MacGillivray was destined to be an Elvis tribute artist. Ever since he was a young man people called him Elvis because he had “the hair.” “When I walked down ...Read More