STAR WARS is back
Hey, there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out , Episode VIII: The Last Jedi and it’s actually the eighth film in the series, not counting stand-alone films, books, cartoons or the 1978 holiday Christmas special.
Confused? You won’t be after this week’s episode of Soap.
After the terrible prequels in the early 2000s, they clearly rebooted the franchise with Episode VII: The Force
Awakens, which combined the old favourites with some new characters we actually cared about. Spoiler alert. There was one problem I had with the last Star Wars film. When Leah met Chewbacca for the first time after Han Solo’s death, she brushed the wookie off to console Rey, who she had never met. Chewbacca was Han Solo’s best friend and by far the most intelligent of Luke Skywalker’s friends.
Chewbacca hadn’t been treated this poorly since Leah didn’t give him a medal at the conclusion of Episode IV: A New Hope.
Otis Redding was gone too soon.
If Edmonton is changing its CFL team name, does that mean Paul McCartney will have to rewrite the lyrics to Junior’s Farm?
“I was talking to an Eskimo, said he was hoping for a fall of snow. When you popped a sealion ready to go.”
Great song, but what the hell was he talking about? I Am The Walrus made more sense.
Coming next Friday in the pages of
The Daily Courier and The Penticton Herald — both papers will count down the top 10 local news stories of 2017. On Jan. 2, both papers will also announce its local Newsmaker of the Year. Something that’s never happened before is four of the top 10 stories in both communities are the same.
Weekend passes are now available for Rock the Lake, three great days of classic rock outside Prospera Place, the weekend of Aug. 10 -12, 2018.
If event passes for as low as $153, headliner Randy Bachman, or three full days of great classic rock doesn’t entice you to buy tickets, I have another thing to consider.
Men Without Hats, featuring its original lead singer and songwriter Ivan Doroschuk, is on the bill. That’s it, I’m in!
Sports fans are delighted with the new sports scoreboard which we introduced on Tuesday.
One thing I prefer about working in the Kelowna office is they have a large press in the building. The last few papers I worked at, The Herald included, printed the paper off-site. There’s nothing that reminds a person that they’re a print journalist than the sound and smells of a press room.
For Penticton Herald readers, there is still time to purchase a Christmas
Wishes 2017 message. For the low price of $35, you can have a 25-word greeting prominently published in
The Herald, with partial proceeds to the Penticton Hospice Society.
Businesses may also purchase display ads for the section. For additional information phone Debbie Matson at 250-492-4002 or visit Linda, Debbie or Shannon at the front office at 101-186 Nanaimo Ave. W.
Happy Hanukkah. It begins at sundown on Tuesday and ends with nightfall on Wednesday, Dec. 20.
James Miller is valley editor for Okanagan Newspaper Group. Email: james.miller@ok.bc.ca.