Here is a mystery that you can help solve – if you are “in the know”.

A couple of nights ago at about 11:30 some Oliver residents were awoken to the sound of a dump truck travelling on a isolated rural road. Then they heard something being dumped and then grinding gears as the driver had to make a turnaround in a tight space before a quick exit. What they dumped is pictured here. Was there a need for some pavement material for the rural road potholes – that late at night? Was this an illegal dump – a driver wanting to get home with a clean truck? Do you know? Can you  venture a guess?

Now my linkage to the story is that the person who told me this had difficulty explaining just where this rural road is. And to my delight I found an avenue (Road 1B) that I had never travelled on in 64 years and the vista it took me to is directly related to me.

The photo above is the old Esso bulk plant on Sawmill Rd – directly below where the pavement was dumped. WOW – talk about reliving the past. In 1953 my father moved from Penticton and set up shop as the Esso agent  in the South Okanagan and delivered fuel to farmers for about 5 years. The bulk plant was closed many years later because of problems with the tanks as I recall.