Darren Handschuh
[email protected]
250-826-5829

Darren was born and raised in B.C. and has lived in Vernon for the past 24 years.

After bouncing from job to job in his younger years, he spent two years working in a sawmill and quickly realized that was not the career for him.

After getting laid off for the third time, he went to college where he took journalism and photography which formed the basis for a career he has been enjoying (most of the time) for the past 25 years. He wrote a slice-of-life column for a daily newspaper for eight years and still writes articles for his blog, therudemonkey.blogspot.ca.

He is a middle-aged father of three children. He has one dog and shares his home with two cats (although he's not exactly sure how that happened.)

He is losing hair where he wants it and is growing it where he doesn't need it. He has a love for motorcycles and enjoys martial arts.

Carnival raffle tickets on sale

Photo: Polaris More than $28,000 in prizes are up for grabs through the Vernon Winter Carnival raffle. Tickets are now on sale for the 2023 raffle that features a 2022 850 Pro RMK 155 Matryx Polaris Snowmobile from BDM Motorsports and Polaris

Backpacks full of blessings

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Bid your time, help a charity

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Photo: Canadian Horse Defense Coalition Horses can spend hours in small shipping containers while be shipped overseas for human consumption. Canada is one of the only countries in the world that breeds, raises and transports horses overseas

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3 cars lost, more damaged

Photo: Contributed UPDATE 5:40 p.m. Vernon fire rescue crews have now cleared the scene of an early-afternoon vehicle fire at a downtown parkade that filled the surrounding area with heavy smoke Following an initial investigation, fire

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