Can someone tell me why the old Holiday Inn on Hwy 97. stopped getting renovated about a year ago? Thanks

I'm from Victoria and am in the middle of moving up to the Okanogan (not Kelowna.) I have a job lined up and everything, but I stupidly left getting my N to the last minute and just failed the test in Victoria. Nothing wrong with my skills, I just got too nervous and blanked out when parallel parking. I've retaken some lessons and i'm ready to take the test again and the first spot open is in West Kelowna off the Old Okanagan Highway. Just wondering if anyone has ever taken the test there before and if there's anything I need to be particularly cautious of when taking the test in this area. I have a practice test lined up beforehand too.

Does anywhere in Kelowna have drawing tablets for sale that are actually in stock? I have been thinking about purchasing one, but they aren't cheap, and I'd really like to see one in person first.

Have my eye on the XPPen Magic Drawing Pad, but where I am (Shuswap) it is only available for online delivery. Is there a spot in Kelowna that has a variety of drawing tablets to check out?

Also, if anyone actually has one, how do you like it?

Hello! My name is Nate Leibel and I was born and raised here in Kelowna. The last few years I have been working in the streets of Mexico trying to provide resources, mentorship, and safe places to skate for young skateboarders in Nayarit and Jalisco. Over the years I have grown close with many of my Mexican friends and we have been through a lot together. About a year ago I decided I wanted to tell their story so I picked up a camera and started making a short documentary. The journey has been nothing short of insane and I want to share it with as many people from Kelowna as possible. The documentary is out now and Castanet also did a story on it. I look forward to hearing what you think and I hope you enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv4NWSLIkrI

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/511164/Kelowna-man-s-documentary-about-skateboarders-in-Mexico-surpasses-100-000-views

Twice within a two week period, my delivery order didn't show up, and was marked as delayed, without any further information.

The first time, I had to call the store a total of 6 times until my order finally showed up, each time they gave me a new time-frame and said "It will be coming for sure this time." Then, when the order finally arrived two days after the original time slot, half of the order was missing. An hour later I got a text saying my order was out for delivery, which I did not receive for the first half of the groceries. Luckily it was the other half of the groceries.

The most infuriating part of this ordeal was that In order to talk to anyone from delivery, I had to wait on hold for at least ten minutes each time, just to be transferred to the delivery department as there was no direct line. After all was said and done, I said this was terrible, but at least I got my 180ish of groceries for free, as they appear to have refunded it without telling me. It's a one-off event, I can live with this.

Barely two weeks later, it happens again. My order on the site says "Delayed". I decided to wait this time, rather than waste hours of my life calling. I wait 24 hours, no update. The button directing you to the FAQ is useless, as there are no results whatsoever in regards to delayed orders.Obviously It wont do anything by itself, so I need to call again. I cant even just click a button to say "cancel my order,, since you obviously wont be giving it to me"

I call, I wait on hold for customer service yet again for about ten minutes before it hangs up on me. I call back, and just decide to direct to electronics this time. It works! The guy there then directs me to delivery, or as he said, "Omni". I wait on hold again, for 4 minutes. Then it picks up, and they just say their name. I then ask "is this the delivery section?". The person says "no, this is pickup". I follow up with "Who do I talk to about deliveries?". They reply by saying "Pickup". Very confusedly I reply, " Isn't that what you just said you were?" He then mumbles "....ahhh, just a moment" The line then goes on hold, and seconds later the line hangs up.

I call back to electronics, and get the same person from the last call there, I tell him what happened, and he agrees to search out a manager or supervisor for me. It takes him about 17 minutes, and he says he tried to call omni twice and didn't get through either time. On now to the manager, I tell her all of this, and about the last weeks one as well. She takes my number, and says she'll dig around to find whats up, and call me back. Nicely enough, I get a call back about an hour later.

She proceeds to tell me that it is an error where doordash's system says it sent someone, but for some reason or another, they dont show. The doordash system marks it as delivered, and the walmart system just sits in limbo saying delayed, until someone manually checks on it. Which of course, is only possible if I call in and tell them to check. She then tells me they get a lot of calls through to electronics, because their customer service line only has 1 incoming line, and bumps people off a lot. She gives me a new number to call if this ever happens again, saying it should be a lot less hassle as its an offsite number, and does use their system. She then helpfully says It my order should be on its way in an hour, and that shed check up on it to make certain its coming this time.

Hours pass. I give up and go to bed. The next day rolls around, and there is no sign of the order, and the site still hasnt updated and is stuck on delayed. I give in and call the number she gave me. I tell them the story, and they tried to help, but then refused to give information unless they talk to my partner, who is the credit card on file. According to them, her name is the only one on file, despite the entire account and address being in my name. I cannot give her the phone, as she suffers from a very severe anxiety disorder, and she WILL have a panic attack if I hand her the phone. We even have paperwork set up in the government allowing me to speak on her behalf. I admit walmart has no way of knowing this, but walmart should be capable of seeing that the account has my name plastered all over it. My partners name is literally only in the credit card billing address. At this point, I'm beyond fed up, and extremely upset at this apparently completely unfixable situation.

I call my walmart again, and get the same electronics guy, probably the only helpful person I've ever talked to. He forwards me to the management office so I can leave a message. I then leave one briefly mentioning the entire problem, and asking them to call me back. At this point it is ten minutes shy of my order being 49 hours late. I dont even care about my order at this point, I just want to ask them to seriously look into all this, as nobody should fall in this limbo of "Delayed Order" that cant be fixed without calling on four an hour or two each day. Not to mention how many times Ive been told "Its fixed, the order should be on its way now"

Fast forward to the day after I leave the message. I refresh the web-page after coming back from a bath. It says delivered, and refund is processing. No delivery anywhere around my home. And definitely no sign of anyone calling me back to get this situation checked out.

If I could have called someone literally once, with a direct line to call delivery, or "Omni", and the situation would be fixed, or even if their system had some way of telling them its delayed so they would know without me calling, this would be significantly different. But it isnt, and this labyrinth of attempts has left me exhausted and worn out. Im posting all this in some hopes to draw attention to this issue hoping it gets fixed before someone with a lot less free time, or some helpless elderly has to suffer through this.

BOTH of them. You were in a black pickup, me in my grey Corolla, yesterday at around 3:10 near 97 and Ellis. I would never have known, and that could’ve been a bad accident because I do deliveries for DoorDash at night sometimes. Was able to replace them within 24 hours thanks to you!

I have no idea how long I’ve been driving that way since most people don’t bother to take the time to let people know about something like this.

Is anyone still fishing? I mainly fish from shore and as the weather cools down, fish start to come shallow to spawn or find food. Not having any trouble with trout but would like to try my hand at a couple other niche species in Okanagan lake.

Curious if anyone has any experience catching Whitefish or Burbot in these colder months, specifically in shallow water, and would share some tips.

Where did it come from/how did it start?

Anyone have an extra they want to sell?

I accidentally ordered 3 tickets for the wrong game today November 9 at Prospera Place thinking it was in Spokane. PM me to get 3 tickets for cheap 70CAD (less than half what I paid).

Section 108, Row H, Seats 7-9

Edit: clearer pricing

Hello!

I am going to Kelowna for the first time for a company meeting but will have 2 evenings to myself. I will be travelling alone- also my first ever solo travel.

Need some recommendations where I can spend my evenings and not get bored considering I will be by myself I need to kill sometime.

I see the Kelowna art gallery is open until 8pm on Thursdays so thats on my list. Anything else I could do?

Thank you in advance.

I was just in Mary Jane's in Rutland to grab some plugs and they're all 75% off!! Now is the time to grab them apparently. I don't work there or know anyone who does so this is not an ad, it's just such a good sale I figured I'd share.

I'm assuming this isn't just Kelowna, I'm guessing this is happening all over BC. I get at least 3 calls a day asking me to switch my cell carrier. I was under the impression you could tell them to take you off the calling list but it doesn't seem to happen. I had one caller get belligerent with me and said, "No! I will call you again! and Again! and Again!" The numbers are always changing so I can't block them.

I'm trying to find work and I do get calls from recruiters so I need to pick up when I get calls.

Hello, I was wondering if any locals and or Tourists would know of any good places to visit in Kelowna during Early March. I know it will be quite cold, but I’m trying to make the most of it . Thank you!

The traffic is baaaaad

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If you're an ex-Harvester, I'd love to hear your story. If you feel alone, hurt, or confused, I'm here to listen. Please reach out. Your story matters. YOU matter.

I live in a small city very close to Kelowna, in a suburban neighbourhood, so I might as well post this in the Kelowna sub. I was walking home from the bus stop a few hours ago and it was dark, and suddenly a truck stops by me asking me "are you lost, are you ok man, do you want a ride" and I tell them I'm good and keep scrolling my phone and walking. The truck drives past me then like a minute or two later drives past me again from the other direction in which it drove the last time, and the driver stops to ask me the same thing, and I again reply the same way.

I finish walking up the 1km hill to my home and start walking towards the block where my house is, and I see a man in a black jacket with black pants and his head down walking towards my direction, I stop to watch my phone since I'm a nervous person and enter the general area towards where my house is and start walking.

I'm like 300-400m from my house when I hear that same man shout at me from behind "hey, where do you live, what are you doing here?" He was like 100m away from me, following me. I don't remember every single thing I shouted back at him in exact detail but I was like "Why do you need to know where I live, who are you, why are you following me?" and he replied "Because you look fucking weird, you look out of place buddy" clearly trying to call me "buddy" to intimidate me and show me he's the big intimidating fuck who is attempting to police me. I shout back to him "Stop following me, I'll call the police, I'll get my family member to come out here to show you shit" and he was like "yeah right you'll call the police"

I end up going to my house, (he now knows where I live) opening my garage door, coming inside, and getting my mother who lives with me to come out with me because I know if he's some kind of idiot he might still think I'm a criminal if I don't get a family member to come out with me, and we both go out looking for him and I grab a metal stick just in case he gets aggresive, and would you guess, he's nowhere to be found.

This little entitled fuck now knows where I live, that's the scary part. He harassed me multiple times from his car and then followed me on foot demanding to know where I live, and he found that out since I opened my garage door so he knows the house I live in. It's a good thing I'm a white man and not black or something because something tells me he would have escalated his profiling of me if I was.

I don't care if you think someone in your neighbourhood "looks weird". I don't care if they "walk weird". I don't care if they "look intoxicated" whatever that means (I was not). You don't have a right to treat people this way, or follow them home. You don't have the right to demand to know where they live, or be hostile to them. You don't have the right to act this way.

I have life issues and I walk weird and I space out and I can move my arms weird sometimes, I play with bushes and wheat that grows on the side of the road sometimes, I space out sometimes when walking or stop to look at something in a spaced out way, I constantly stop to look at my phone or scroll it while walking because I'm anxious and spaced out. I never threaten anyone, I always try to stay on the edge of the sidewalk when someone walks past, look away from them, cross the road to avoid making people uncomfortable. Just because I'm a broad bigger guy and I look and act different from does not give you the right to harass me and follow me home at night, I am not threatening anyone.

Do not do this to people, leave them alone and stop judging them and harassing them from being different from you.

Hey, so this is probably a long shot but I left my GoPro 5 at the west Kelowna skatepark yesterday around 4pm. Honestly the camera isn’t worth that much but I could give a small reward as it’s mostly the footage on that I want. I put it down on the ground near the lamp post and forgot to grab it when I left. I don’t live in Kelowna but come in often.