Keylight Photography
A photography business at a Rendell Drive address in Coldstream, listed under Photographers, with no phone or website on the record to book through.
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Home Goods
A construction business on Aberdeen Road in Coldstream, though the directory files it under Home Goods; worth a call to confirm the work before you book it.
Keith Construction operates from an Aberdeen Road address in Coldstream, on the side of the valley where the district's working trades tend to base themselves. Aberdeen is one of the older trade-and-workshop streets here, the kind of road small operators who serve the surrounding houses set up on rather than a retail row, and a building business fits that pattern far more naturally than a storefront would.
Construction is a broad trading name. It can belong to a builder, to a supplier, or to an operation that does a little of both, and in a rural district the work behind it can span a wide range: new builds on acreage lots, additions and renovations to houses that have been added to more than once already, garages, shops and barns, foundations and framing, and the general contracting that ties a set of subtrades into one schedule. Coldstream properties bring their own wrinkles to any of it. Septic and well servicing rather than municipal connections, long driveways and site access for deliveries, slope on the Middleton Mountain side, and outbuildings that matter as much as the house all shape what a job costs and how long it runs.
Settle the scope in the first conversation rather than assuming it. Ask which parts of the work are handled in-house and which are subcontracted, whether the builder carries the licensing and insurance appropriate to what you have in mind, how permits with the District of Coldstream are managed and by whom, and what the schedule honestly looks like, since trades across the north Okanagan book out well ahead through the building season. Ask for addresses of recent local work you can go and look at, and get the quote in writing with allowances spelled out line by line. Builders in a district this small live on repeat work and word of mouth, which usually makes them plain about what they will and will not take on.
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Other home goods stores and nearby businesses in the Coldstream directory.
A photography business at a Rendell Drive address in Coldstream, listed under Photographers, with no phone or website on the record to book through.
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Friesen’s on Kalamalka Road, filed here as a restaurant, but the Country Tyme Garden name reads like a plant or produce market, so check before you go.
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A neighbourhood pub and bottle shop on Kalamalka Road: drinks and pub food at the bar, a full liquor store attached, and a patio out front.
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A cafe, market and gift shop at the Okanagan Rail Trail near Kalamalka Beach: coffee, counter food, local products and the odd grocery rescue.
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A public track and field complex in Coldstream: a running track open dawn to dusk, throwing and jumping areas, and turf fields for the team sports.
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The City of Vernon outdoor pool in Lavington: a shallow, lifeguarded public pool, free to swim, with lessons and parties in season.
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From the blog
Longer reads from the editor, with the places worth a detour linked inside them.
The District's Kal Beach and Lavington Park fireworks nights, and the nearest pumpkin patch in Vernon.
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A free timed 5k on the rail trail Saturday, Kalamalka's clearest work all weekend, Lillyfest landing the weekend just before, and Vernon's crowds just across the line.
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Kalamalka Lake changes colour as it warms, and Coldstream owns its best beaches. When Kal Beach is flattest, what Kekuli Bay adds, and why the lake's clarity peaks between seasons.
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