Life

If there really must be big, loud re-makes (and apparently, there must), we can at least celebrate the fact that, finally, someone got it right.

The Coffee Party for Hospice hosts and hostesses invite their friends, who invite their friends, who...and if all goes well, more than 13,000 people will be able to get together to help the hospice volunteer program.

For its next film, the Vernon Film Society has chosen Inside Job, nominated for 10 awards including a 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

As dietitians, we get a lot of questions about healthy eating from people everywhere we go. How can we hope to answer everyone’s nutrition questions in this all-consuming profession (pun intended)? It’s actually easy. We point people towards registered dietitians that are just a phone call away, and to credible nutrition resources that are just a mouse click away.

Never mind the February chill, the room will be hot when electrifying harmonica bluesman Sherman “Tank” Doucette returns to the Vernon Jazz Club Saturday.

I’ve recently been following the series Village on a Diet on CBC TV Monday nights, that shows the residents of Taylor, B.C. trying to lose a ton of weight and get fit.

It’s been several years since Headbones Gallery graced Vernon’s 30th Avenue with its avant garde collection, revolving exhibitions, and exotic events.

A Lumby-raised comic book artist is flying high after hearing she has been nominated for a national award.

Dennis and Sandy Caryk and Walter and Eunice Jakeway are pleased to announce the marriage of their children, Steve Caryk and Julia Jakeway, May 22,2010.

Kevin and Louise Grazier of Vernon and Mom Anita Miki of Falkland are proud to announce the marriage of Amiko Grazier to Scott Nickiforek, son of Sandy and Sam Nickiforek of Vernon, B.C., in a beautiful outdoor wedding celebration May 13, 2010 in Polson Park.