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KELOWNA paddleboarder Bob Purdy is the subject of a new documentary currently being filmed called The Paddler.
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THE VANCOUVER International Auto Show promises to be a familyfriendly event with some exciting new features in the wake of a record-breaking year for Canada auto sales.
KATHY MICHAELS says parents, not publishers, are in charge of a child’s view of the world
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FRIDAY March 21, 2014 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
Kathy Michaels STAFF REPORTER
P
hilip Struthers recently found himself up against the “greatest stress” he’s ever known.
School pressures were mounting, and the thirdyear engineering student was staring down a long list of life-changing decisions that soon had to be made.
He wasn’t open to much, but someone new, with scruffy hair, exhaling gusts of hot breath in his direction, broke through that hardened mindset. They were impossible to ignore, and when Struthers sidled up and started stroking their mane, the anxiety he’d been holding in started to release. The stress-alleviating relationship was forged with one of the dogs at a UBC Okanagan program titled Building Academic Retention through K9s—or BARK, for short. Each Friday 15 BARK-certified dogs along with their trainers are brought into a room in the university’s engineering building, and they work with students to combat homesickness, foster interpersonal connections, and promote overall social-emotional well-being. For Struthers—who had taken part in BARK twice as of last week—the dog days of university life were almost immediately cast in a softer light.
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