After a successful event last year, the B.C. Book Prizes tour is once again stopping at the Oliver Library on Wednesday, April 20 at 7:00 p.m. The BC Book Prizes Tour and Awards, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers, illustrators and publishers. The Oliver Library presentation will be the only public […]
Archives for April 2011
Sandhill cranes fly high
photo by Ed Dukes Taken Monday – of Sandhill Cranes migrating over Oliver. Every year they fly north to Alaska and in October fly south again to Utah and California. Tens of thousands pass over us so high that they are hard to see with the naked eye, but you can usually hear them ‘croaking’. They […]
A look back at recent history – ODN revisited
Later today, Trustees of School District #53 Okanagan Similkameen, will revisit a decision to start a consultative process over the possible closure of Tucelnuit Elementary School. Here are two stories from the back files of Oliver Daily News that shows the process of finding ways of cutting back has been going on for some time: […]
Henry – a closer look
Henry on ‘Shan’ at the top of Secrest Hill. They rode up the slope where people used to toboggan and dirt bike–where the kiosk is now about a km from Covert Farms. That’s McIntyre Bluff in the background… He was up there riding with Margaret and Bill & Phil Parsons. Circa 1964. He would have been about […]
75 years in Oliver: Pioneer Henry Anderson passes
October 20 1913 – April 18 2011 William Henry Anderson was born at Port Reeve, SK, in 1913, in a sod shanty. His parents homesteaded there in 1910 as they raised three sons. The family moved to BC due to the depression in the 1930s, settling in the Oliver area in 1936. Henry was a […]
Hot sun – trees come alive
Loukie Schuurman passes
Schuurman, Cornelia May 22, 1929 – Apr 7, 2011 On Thursday April 7, 2011, Mrs. Loukie Schuurman of Oliver passed away suddenly but peacefully at her home in Willowbrook at the age of 81 years. Loukie will be sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her children Rick, Ronald (Angeline), Robin (Anthony) and Lesca (Alan) and […]
