Juliana Martine declared this week she will enter the race for BC Ambassador following in the footsteps of Simmi Brar and Nav Gill – all have held the title of Oliver Youth Ambassador. Julie is a grade 12 student at SOSS. Photo by Amber Muller www.bcambassador.com
Archives for September 2011
GRAND OLD STEINWAY SAFE
Music, “an outburst of the soul”, cannot be quelled in Oliver. Our lovely auditorium is in ruins but the “Old Lady” is safe and sound. Our somewhat elderly Steinway has been a center piece for dazzling world class pianists over the decades. Angela Hewitt, Jon Kamura Parker, AntonKuerti and, most recently, Sara Beuchner are just […]
Where is it?
The powers of Austin
New FaceBook page ” I love SOSS ” set up by Austin Basso. Almost 900 so far on that FB page – pictures and info including latest updates for high school students in Oliver. Save our School Site ( SOSS)
Starts Saturday – drop in anytime
Back road gremlins
Just when you thought you could beat the odds and speed up the highway travels – the back road gremlins arrive. I mean by that contractors are now seal coating the Fairview-White Lake Road above Secrest. This has been the almost-secret roadway for locals to bypass the highway down in the valley that is getting […]
Something to think about
thanks to Brian Wilson – Okanagan Archive Trust Society www.oldphotos.ca Believed to be the ribbon cutting day in 1948
Official SD #53 Plan for High School operations
Instruction at South Okanagan Secondary School Will Resume Monday, September 19th, 2011 The Board of Education, school, and district staff have been working diligently along with the support of the Ministry of Education to get students back in class after the devastating fire that destroyed most of South Okanagan Secondary School in Oliver. Our work […]