Learn New Tricks

Okanagan Life scouts out the fun and fantastic things you can add to your lifelong skills list - right here in the Valley

In this issue we'll show you 17 courses to jumpstart your career or fill your leisure hours. You'll also meet an artsy blacksmith, climb a cliff, venture into the forbidden forest and spend the day with an Okanagan Charon. All this and more...

Fresh Tricks — 17 Things We Bet You Never Thought You Could Learn To Do in the Valley
Our everyday talk is filled with learning clichés — some camp, some corny, some even contradictory: “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” but “you’re never too old to learn.” We’re going with that last one — along with “lifelong learning” and a sincere belief that “you learn something new every day” ... So we’ve pulled together some ideas to help you make it happen.

Fawning Over Flora
Small places, tricky spaces — indoors or out — containers solve a whole pot full of garden glitches, year round. This easy planter will keep you smiling from daffodils to December.

Destination: Shuswap
Far up Seymour Arm a hidden creek rushes toward Shuswap Lake, cascading down the mountainside through a landscape as bewitching as the five steps of Albas Falls.

Perky Pinot Packs Pizzazz
Pinot Gris - Pinto Grigio - Grey Monk ... Pick your language, this versatile varietal loses nothing in translation.

Couch Neglecter
Some rock-climbers are fearless, feather-light, adrenaline-junkies, but the rest of us just love puzzling through the delicate moves and take pains to make the sport as safe and controlled as possible.

Who Among Us
Death is the last thing most people want to think about. But caring for those who have passed on — and assisting their kin — is a vital, even rewarding, service provided by professionals like Kerry Heidebrecht.

Rear View
Putting affordable housing behind the eight ball.

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