As of Monday, September 26, Southern Okanagan Secondary School will be up and running with all classes from grades 8 – 12 (with the exception of one grade 8 elective, IT8). At this point, only 3 of the portables are ready, so some of the classes will be held in temporary locations for the week. […]
Archives for 2011
Ice maker at Curling Centre promises a cool time
Norm Card of Penticton is the ice maker hired by the Oliver Curling Centre and already it is cool inside – ice being prepared for Thanksgiving. Card says it will take about two weeks to get the ice in. Friday saw a mass registration night with many new people interest in signing up for leagues. […]
119 lbs of Canadian 'grass' seized – 8 people to go to court
3 males arrested – 119 lbs. of marijuana seized and later five males were arrested on Camp McKinney Rd. late Wednesday near Oliver. No local was involved in this incident. Vehicle was coming from the North Okanagan and hoping to cross the border in the Boundary Country. The RCMP Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) has […]
119 lbs of Canadian ‘grass’ seized – 8 people to go to court
3 males arrested – 119 lbs. of marijuana seized and later five males were arrested on Camp McKinney Rd. late Wednesday near Oliver. No local was involved in this incident. Vehicle was coming from the North Okanagan and hoping to cross the border in the Boundary Country. The RCMP Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) has […]
Tonight
Oliver and District Heritage Society and the Oliver Branch of the Okanagan Historical Society to co-host Fur Brigade Trail presentation Two hundred years ago in September, four men showed up in the Oakinacken to make fortunes in a trade that spanned the globe. Come join recognized authorities on the Fur Brigade Trails of the far […]
Walter Bork passes
Walter was born Henry Walter Herbert Bork on January 9th, 1936 in Penticton to John & Frances Bork. Walter was raised on an Oliver orchard and attended S.O.H.S., and then went out on his own at an early age, he first started out in logging and construction. Walter met his future wife Joyce Dixon on […]
Mural almost complete
Marilyn Marsel inspects – Cameron Ogilvie rolls the paint on. Take a look from a distance on a day when no cars parked up against the wall. Beautiful depiction of valley with Bluff on one side and Mt. Baldy on the other. Photo by Leza Macdonald
More concern about our emergency ward
Gentlemen, ( Government of BC ) I felt compelled to write after reading Mrs. Val Somerville’s letter to the local newspaper, re the need for Oliver Doctors to get more help from the government, so they can be on the same compensation schedule as Penticton Regional Hospital. My husband Alan Porter and I moved to […]