Central Okanagan Academy Sold

It is my understanding the the Central Okanagan Academy has been sold. The purchaser is Graham Illingworth of Geotivity. The deal closed yesterday. A meeting with the parents will be held Thursday evening. This will be good news for the parents and the 200 students at the school. I noticed the other day they actually had someone cutting the weeds around the office building...

It was time for the large crane to carry the spruce tree to the top of the building as the workers topped it off at the 17th floor. The tree is in place. The job done. Park Place will always be one of the tallest buildings in the city, today it is the tallest.

It was always the dream of local developer Gary Dober to build this deluxe condo-apartment building on the site of the land where he once lived and operated his landscaping business way back when.

The seventeen story Park Place, 99 unit project is sold out. It has sixteen stories, no 13th floor and an underground garage. This is another prestigious high-rise apartment community from Dober's Pasadena Estates. He also built the four story Park Residences on Durnin Road. High-rise living with everything at your doorstep. The views are incredible. Now the Gary is on to another project, one that he will announce soon...

She has been in the business for twenty eight years and has owned her own shop for 19 years - Excel Spa on Pandosy. Janinne Cleary, the award winning hairstylist celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her shop in July. She bought the business from her mother. While her mother was opening a second shop, she first managed her mother's eight operator shop in Golden at nineteen.

"Mother, believed in training and sent me to numerous sessions so I could learn," said Janinne. She has represented the Italian company Dikson as a presenter and trainer at many of their national events for a number of years. When I asked her how business was this year, she replied, "Weddings are really strong this season and we have been doing a lot of them."

I sat in the new chair massage she has just added to the spa side of the business. It is quite a design for the shoulders and neck...

Here is a story. Eighty per cent of the "spam" emails we are all receiving originate from home computers that have been secretly taken over by spammers. Internet companies like Shaw are cracking down on spam by blocking Internet addresses used by the spammers. Just as quickly the spammers have created "worm" programs that can be sent over the Internet to infect unprotected computers, mainly home machines connected to broadband networks. These worms contain "Trojan horse" software that can transform an infected computer into a spam relay. The machine will pump out thousands of spam emails without your knowledge or consent.

I know your first question is how realistic is this? I called the software company Symantec. They explained that thirty per cent of the spam being generated is coming from infected home computers through "spam houses" which are Internet service providers that specialize in sending out bulk messages. One family in Kitchener were just shut down by authorities as they were transmitting millions of spam messages for clients from all over the world every day.

What's wrong? You and I are not keeping our protection up to date. Don't fluff this off You don't need this problem...

The bread business has suffered some loses since the carb diet took over so many people’s eating habits in the last two or three years that bakers are fighting back with new product. George Weston has joined forces with Kellogg's to make a line of cereal based breads. The first two are Kellogg's popular All Bran and Raisin Bran. They are on our shelves now. They are trying to get a price point that isn't in the $7 category like the recent Atkins Low Carb bread…