Best of the
Okanagan

Okanagan Life presents our 13th annual
Readers' Choice Awards plus our 2nd annual
Editors' Choice Awards

In this issue you'll discover the people and places, shops and services that our readers have named the very best in the Valley – along with our completely subjective but divinely diverting editors' picks. You'll meet two very special Olympians, one switched-on conductor, a guy who's bugs about furniture and a woman with heart. We'll show you a fun museum (not a misprint), some awesome ethnic eats and a gallery of winter wildlife. All this and more...

2nd Annual Editors' Choice Awards
Subjectivity – it elicits the kind of responses (stirring debate, inflamed passions, hurt feelings) usually reserved for family get-togethers. The simple exercise of picking favourites is never without these reactions. Still, we editor types aren't the kind to back down just because you readers might call what we choose to single out "ridiculous." After all, one must be perfectly crazy to work for a magazine in the first place. So it is with copious amounts of loopy pride that we present this year's assortment of the talented, the caring, the unique and the slightly bizarre.

13th Annual Readers' Choice Awards
You've placed your votes. And once again, the results are in. We sent out more than 24,000 ballots in our June 2007 issue. The individuals and companies listed on the following pages are the ones you and your fellow readers decided are deserving of being called this year's BEST.

The Winter Wild
It seems that most budding photographers want to put away their cameras when the snow hits. Too bad. Because these shots prove that, even in the cold season, the Okanagan is teeming with natural inspiration.

Menu
Winter meals are a snap when you draw on traditions that rejoice in the season. Hearty thanks to our French-Canadian, Scots and Chinese ancestors for handing down these family favourites.

Destination Okanagan
Museums are dusty mausoleums filled with junk from Aunt Enid's attic, expressly designed to repel everybody but bored fifth-graders on obligatory field trips ... Not this one.

Who Among Us
In this Valley of highly visible wealth and oh, so conspicuous consumption, we have neighbours who'd go to bed hungry if it weren't for food bank volunteers like Faith Lanthier.

Rear View
Eastern transplant rails at ridicule.

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