Shane Swift and Luke Whittall, two of the Okanagan’s most gifted guitarists and vocalists, are releasing their debut recording and capping it with a concert at Medici’s on Friday night, June 1st. Luke, a locally grown artist, has been a mainstay talent in the Oliver music scene in recent years. Shane Swift left a hot […]
Archives for May 2012
Local band the Gala Vanters – play this week
Economic gardening gets a boost
This year marked the 60th year anniversary for the BC Chamber of Commerce Annual General Meeting. This year Penticton was host to over 241 delegates over a 3 day period. One of the main highlights of the AGM included the most organized Policy Resolutions Review to date with over 41 new resolutions to be presented […]
School Board Report – 23 May 2012 Submitted by Marieze Tarr, Board Chair, SD53
Our district will be applying to the Industry Training Authority (ITA) to fund our Secondary School Apprenticeship (SSA) program. This year our district has 18 active SSA’s with two more being signed up this week. In the past all SSA projects that met the criteria were funded, but in the future we will be receiving […]
Area forests to be treated to reduce budworm
The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations plans to aerially treat up to 28,000 hectares of Douglas fir forest in the Okanagan to reduce populations of western spruce budworm. The proposed treatment areas are located near Bear Creek, the Ellis-Carmi forest service road, Clark Creek, Inkameep, Madden Creek, Naramata Bench, Okanagan Falls, Naramata […]
OES Marathon completed today
About three weeks ago – students at OES began a marathon of 6 laps each school day during outdoor PE periods. Today came the award of completion with a number of visitors and dignitaries joining them on the final 6 laps around the track. Well done students. Below a picture of Hunter Miller showing how […]
Oliver RCMP report
On May 22, 2012 the Oliver RCMP were informed that two Oliver residents were traveling on an e-bike eastbound on Fairview Rd towards Oliver. A red Chrysler minivan was traveling westbound and came into oncoming lane causing them to go onto the gravel and fall over. The van continued westbound without stopping and no plate […]
RV magazine choses Oliver – bronze award granted
RV West 6th Annual Readers Choice Awards Oliver Visitor Information Centre was nominated by our readers and has WON the BRONZE AWARD for “Favorite Visitor Information Centre in all of BC!” As an award winner, Oliver will be listed in our magazine, eMagazine (on the web for a full year), eNewsletter (emailed to 10,000 subscribers […]