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1. Heavy snowfall warnings continue throughout the Okanagan. Expect snow and more snow in your weekend forecast. Numerous accidents have also been reported around 91大黄鸭 Saturday.
2. Blaine Gaffney, a veteran reporter at Global News Okanagan, has not been laid off.
Gaffney received his layoff notice due to a miscommunication. Global News cut nearly 80 media jobs in Canada.
3. The wife of is missing in Mexico.
Gloria Anne Miller was last seen Thursday morning diving near Puerto Vallarta.
Family members have flown to Mexico to help with a search for Miller.
4. A Lake Country pool and fitness centre study is back on the table for 2019.
After council鈥檚 initial rejection of a $50,000 study to see if a pool in the district would be possible, to the 2019 financial budget, said Mayor James Baker.
鈥淪taff talked to individual councillors and said 鈥榣ook, there鈥檚 a lot of people who鈥檇 like to see something happening so we should at least put it in for the 2019 budget,鈥欌�� he said.
5. Four times during his career, 91大黄鸭鈥檚 Jeff Thorburn has donned his country鈥檚 colours at an international sporting event.
With all due respect to the people and teams involved the first three times, it鈥檚 likely nothing will match what the 43-year-old athletic therapist is experiencing this month in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Thorburn is one of two athletic therapists working on the staff of the Canadian men鈥檚 hockey team at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
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