Helped by Us

Helped by Us

Three years ago, on Feb. 24, the lives of the Kiladze family — Salome, Lasha,Amiran, and Milena — were torn apart when Russia invaded Ukraine. They escaped to Georgia and finally to Canada and have established new lives in Keremeos. They want to stay, but they, like...
Three Year Anniversary

Three Year Anniversary

Andrea Malysh, whose paternal grandfather came to Vernon in 1903, performs with her dance troupe Sadok, which she started in 1999. The dance is called Pryvit, a traditional welcome dance. Malysh, head of the Okanagan-Thompson branch of the Ukraine Canada Congress,...
1000 Days

1000 Days

A family from war-torn Ukraine is reunited at the E-Bus stop in West Kelowna. Older son, Oleksandr (far left) and his father, Serhii, remained in Ukraine because of difficulties with documentation while mother Liubov and son, Artem, travelled to Canada a year earlier....