2 former SOSS student have excelled in first year engineering at UBC Okanagan!  Mark DesBrisay (left ) and Tanner Phillips (3rd from left in pix below) were members of the first year Engineering #1 winning team.  Their task was to create a mechanism that not only crushed cans, but also loaded, sorted, counted and collected […]

1. Participant Ron Ethier of Oliver 2. Organizers Jack Wessel and Tracy Harrington 3. Race day and – off they go

Top: Tom Evans flanked by his sisters Evie, Esther and Aggie Bottom: Evie and Wheeler New celebrate 70 years of marriage

I said earlier – the owner was boring holes on the Fritz property for grapes. Wrong. As the picture clearly shows – trees are being planted. One orchardist said this land is prime for cherries.

~~ Photo by Laurena Weninger

From a plane, from a hill, from where?

Out this morning for my walk, camera in hand and saw some riverside activity. Pictured are Shawn Mamchur from Mould Engineering and Ken Whiskin of V Line, on the east bank of the Okanagan river, upstream from the drop structure, installing a new, deeper irrigation intake to service two adjacent farm properties. A good time […]