Skip to contentHomeSports‘It’s like steeplechase but with bikes’Bowen AssmanPreviousNext/ExpandPreviousNextRacers took to Vernon’s DND Fields for a full day of heart-pumping cyclocross (CX) action on Sunday, Oct. 1.The race, dubbed, The Burn in Vernon, was a part of the B.C. Interior Cyclocross calendar, running for its 12th year.“It’s a beginner friendly sport and race discipline. Once the gun goes off, everyone is going at the same time,” said Steve Gaucher, an organizer of the event. “We tell all our racers to bring all their friends. You get some spills and people take some tumbles so...…Skip to contentHomeSports‘It’s like steeplechase but with bikes’Bowen AssmanPreviousNext/ExpandPreviousNextRacers took to Vernon’s DND Fields for a full day of heart-pumping cyclocross (CX) action on Sunday, Oct. 1.The race, dubbed, The Burn in Vernon, was a part of the B.C. Interior Cyclocross calendar, running for its 12th year.“It’s a beginner friendly sport and race discipline. Once the gun goes off, everyone is going at the same time,” said Steve Gaucher, an organizer of the event. “We tell all our racers to bring all their friends. You get some spills and people take some tumbles so...WW…

Skip to contentHomeLocal NewsThe RS1 Cup series will crown a new champion at the track on Oct. 7Logan LockhartIt’s Thanksgiving weekend at the Penticton Speedway and that means it’s time for some championship racing.The final RS1 Cup Series event of the year comes to the venue on Oct. 7, with NASCAR and Indy Series racers among those set to hit the track, the speedway says.This season’s top racers in the class, Ryley Seibert, Cameron Hayley, and Trevor Noel Dowler, will all vie for the year-end title after swapping leads in each race, based on the track’s point system.In the Challenge...…Skip to contentHomeLocal NewsThe RS1 Cup series will crown a new champion at the track on Oct. 7Logan LockhartIt’s Thanksgiving weekend at the Penticton Speedway and that means it’s time for some championship racing.The final RS1 Cup Series event of the year comes to the venue on Oct. 7, with NASCAR and Indy Series racers among those set to hit the track, the speedway says.This season’s top racers in the class, Ryley Seibert, Cameron Hayley, and Trevor Noel Dowler, will all vie for the year-end title after swapping leads in each race, based on the track’s point system.In the Challenge...WW…

Skip to contentHomeLocal SportsChampionship pennants from Memorial Arena have been reworked ahead of the Vees’ new seasonLogan LockhartBanners from the Penticton Vees’ 2022-2023 championship season won’t be the only additions to the South Okanagan Events Centre rafters come Friday night.When the team plays its home opener on Oct. 6, fans in attendance may notice dozens of new banners that date back to the 1960s hanging from above.That’s because the Vees reworked 44 of its own championship symbols from Memorial Arena, and have given them a second home at the SOEC.Fred Harbinson — the team’s...…Skip to contentHomeLocal SportsChampionship pennants from Memorial Arena have been reworked ahead of the Vees’ new seasonLogan LockhartBanners from the Penticton Vees’ 2022-2023 championship season won’t be the only additions to the South Okanagan Events Centre rafters come Friday night.When the team plays its home opener on Oct. 6, fans in attendance may notice dozens of new banners that date back to the 1960s hanging from above.That’s because the Vees reworked 44 of its own championship symbols from Memorial Arena, and have given them a second home at the SOEC.Fred Harbinson — the team’s...WW…

Skip to contentHomeLocal NewsChristopher Donald Vern Davis was found guilty of possessing child sexual abuse imagesBrennan PhillipsA Penticton man who was found guilty of possession of child sexual abuse material has had his sentencing delayed over errors in a report made for the courts.The assessor behind the pre-sentencing report for Christopher Donald Vern Davis, born in 1990, had written under the misunderstanding that Davis had pleaded guilty instead of being found guilty at a trial.No full psychological assessment was conducted either for the report. Those errors may have contributed...…Skip to contentHomeLocal NewsChristopher Donald Vern Davis was found guilty of possessing child sexual abuse imagesBrennan PhillipsA Penticton man who was found guilty of possession of child sexual abuse material has had his sentencing delayed over errors in a report made for the courts.The assessor behind the pre-sentencing report for Christopher Donald Vern Davis, born in 1990, had written under the misunderstanding that Davis had pleaded guilty instead of being found guilty at a trial.No full psychological assessment was conducted either for the report. Those errors may have contributed...WW…

Skip to contentHomeLocal EntertainmentThe Oct. 18 event features 10 local artists’ paintings up for auctionMonique TammingaFor the third year, the Penticton Art Gallery has once again collaborated with Cannery Brewing to present the Square Mini Mural Fundraising Auction on Wednesday, Oct. 18 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Cannery’s Ale-Catraz.The auction will features 10- 4’ x 4’ paintings created by local talents Arianne Tubman, Brittany Bidlake, Endrené Shepherd, Lukas Lundberg, Naomi Qoyllur Díaz Robledo, Neil Erickson, Robyn Sylvester, Taylor Baptiste, Toni Albert and Zac Abney.Tickets are...…Skip to contentHomeLocal EntertainmentThe Oct. 18 event features 10 local artists’ paintings up for auctionMonique TammingaFor the third year, the Penticton Art Gallery has once again collaborated with Cannery Brewing to present the Square Mini Mural Fundraising Auction on Wednesday, Oct. 18 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Cannery’s Ale-Catraz.The auction will features 10- 4’ x 4’ paintings created by local talents Arianne Tubman, Brittany Bidlake, Endrené Shepherd, Lukas Lundberg, Naomi Qoyllur Díaz Robledo, Neil Erickson, Robyn Sylvester, Taylor Baptiste, Toni Albert and Zac Abney.Tickets are...WW…