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Backward Glances is a series of articles originally written for the Lake Country Calendar (and later, the View in Lake Country) by Richard Gibbons, a long-time resident of Lake Country.

On New Year’s Day we came home from a great day of snowshoeing with friends at Beaver Lake to a phone message from friend Dan Pretty; his dad had died the previous evening. George Pretty was one of the builders... [Continue Reading]

Okanagan Centre Road East.    It appears to me that as we age our memories begin to perform very strangely.  We meet old friends and talk about the “old days” with amazing recall yet increasingly find ourselves standing in the... [Continue Reading]