Remember how they lived
No malice is intended but I find it troubling when someone prominent in the community dies, people want to know the cause of death.
It’s human nature to be curious, a natural reaction, but please, when death is involved use some discretion.
There was a well-publicized suicide recently and when our reporters were out in the streets they had a few people ask, “what was the method?”
I don’t know, I don’t care and that shouldn’t be any of the public’s business.
To quote multiple clergy, remember how the person lived, not how they died.
I had a great time in Summerland last night at the 30th annual Light Up. Thanks to the organizers for another great event. Most communities in the valley host some form of light up but, in Summerland, it’s become their signature event. Well done Summerland Chamber of Commerce and District of Summerland.
It must be winter. First is snow tires, second is skating at the Stuart Park’s outdoor ice rink in Kelowna.
Weather permitting, free skating at the park begins Friday, Dec. 1 at 10 a.m. Skating is available daily from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m. until late February.
I’m glad to see Black Friday catching on in Canada. Although it’s nowhere near the outrageous event that it is in the States (that’s due mostly to the U.S. Thanksgiving), it is now a date of significance in Canada. Maybe Trump is right, we need to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in November. At least we’d get a four-day weekend in the deal.
From Penticton, city council unanimously approved a daycare for a residential neighbourhood. The city has a huge shortage of daycare spaces available which makes it challenging for working professionals. I applaud council’s decision.
Several neighbours had legitimate concerns but I ask, what’s wrong with a daycare? Children and young parents are a treat to be around. I live in an over-45 complex (I barely made the age requirement, LOL), and when tennants have their grandkids around, I love it. Ricky Nelson was gone too soon.
This year’s inductees into the Toy Hall of Fame are the board game Clue, the Wiffle Ball, and the paper airplane. Professor Plum was unavailable for comment.
If you check “Today in History,” in 1984 the all-star choir Band Aid released “Do They Know It’s Christmas,” the only famine-relief anthem from its day which has stood the test of time. I really have a problem with the line, “Thank God it’s them, instead of you.” Apparently, so did Bono, until writer Bob Geldof explained his meaning behind the words. It’s still in poor taste, they need to change it.
Speaking of the American Thanksgiving, I’m not a sensitive guy when it comes to movies but one of the saddest moments in film history is the final scene in “Planes Trains and Automobiles” when John Candy reveals that his wife died eight years earlier. A belated happy 47th birthday to Penticton Mayor Andrew Jakubeit who celebrated his big day on Thursday. James Miller is Valley Editor for Okanagan Newspapers. To contact the writer: james.miller@ok.bc.ca