Life

Explosive and pulsating, ambient and flowing at times, Australia’s Ganga Giri is bringing its pumping percussive multi-layered experience of complex grooves and raw, deep natural sound to the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival, Aug. 19 to 21.

The kids loved it and now parents can hear why. Kelowna singer-songwriter Ryan Donn performed his How do you Follow a Dream program in elementary and middle schools in School Dstrict #83 last month.

Your journey begins with one breath.

If ever the old adage, “when things get tough, the tough get going” applied to anyone, it’s 2004 Salmon Arm Secondary grad Danielle Barker.

It happens once in a museum curator/archivist’s lifetime. Decades of visual records belonging to the community’s longest publishing newspaper are gifted to the community archives and Salmon Arm Museum staff member Deborah Chapman is still grinning.

It’s all about the employees.

SAGA Jazz hits a national note at Thursday, Feb. 10 when the Toronto-based Griffith Hiltz Trio plays the SAGA Public Art Gallery.

Get out the tissues and hot fluids, the flu is on the way.

One diet tool I get a lot of questions about is the glycemic index (GI).

The Robinson children: Taylor, Colin and Alexa, want everyone to know they love their dad, Tim Robinson, who died suddenly in June 2009.