Osoyoos RCMP General Release 2012-02-20 2012-02-14 a local reported that while parked at the Osoyoos Shoppers Drug Mart parking lot someone placed 2 nails up against the front and rear driver’s side tires of his vehicle. The vehicle driver suspected a male he had seen in the area who he then spoke to about the […]
Archives for February 2012
Is the National Park issue dead?
There will be 3 opportunities to attend presentations on “Everything you want to know about a national park in the South Okanagan-Similkameen”. Chloe O’Loughlin from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society will be talking about the benefits of a national park to businesses, communities and the region. This meeting will be of particular interest to business […]
Local school district settles with CUPE
The BC Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA) board of directors has ratified two-year collective agreements for support staff in 11 school districts under the government’s 2010 net-zero mandate. The collective agreements were reached through collaborative discussions between the BCPSEA, the accredited bargaining agent for the Province’s 60 public boards of education, and union bargaining teams […]
Confessions
Next to the pooh bear and the honey pot on a rock face – no other recent story has captured the imagination of so many – as our space junk story. Here is another picture and a full explanation. When the new administration building (old gym) was re-done last summer – the contract called for […]
News from the RDOS
RDOS STAFF CHARITY DONATIONS 2011 Among other contributions to communities in the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS), Regional District staff has worked hard over the course of 2011 in order to raise funds for local charities. This year, the extensive fundraising efforts of the RDOS staff have reached an amount of $3000.00. Each year, staff […]
Tax time
We are blessed by the talent that comes to Oliver
Zoom Zoom – some odd things on them thar hills
Rockcliffe area – a lone tree growing in a rock and a large sharp boulder on a shale flow ready to break free?


