According to the workers in Oliver – they are operating on minimum staffing – 2 people who have been told they are part-time. All the rest of the full time, those staff on holidays or sick time will not be paid. Rural sorting seems intact but there are not enough inside postal workers to sort the […]

A demolition permit has been issued to the owners of the Cooper Building on Main Street, Oliver. Grant Beauclair Construction has a few days to remove windows, any useful material and one morning in the near future – the whole structure will be brought down and removed. This will make way for a larger lot being […]

The BC Government wants an indication from the people located on the Osoyoos Indian Band Reserve – as to what they think about a prison being situated on their land. That vote is Thursday, June 16th. The $220 million project could create up to 200 new full-time jobs in the area. The province plans to select a proposed site […]

Thanks to VMR for these shots taken on Sunday June 13, 2010. Top is the broken Testalinden Dam. Four shots taken above the highway looking first to the west and the creek – to the east towards the river – then north and finally south. I have my story of that day and I am sure […]

We purchased our property in 1989 and over the following 10 years we put in the driveway, irrigation, 6 acres of grapes and finally built our first home. For the next 12 years we operated our B&B, farmed our land and settled into a very comfortable life for ourselves.  The saying is, “You don’t know […]