Photo by Pat Hampson
Archives for July 2012
Coming up – make a note
Town of Oliver report on civic damage from Friday’s storm
Trees – Cemetery (trees lost) 12 – 16’ CEDAR TREES ( Pine section) 2 – 20’ Apple trees ( Veterans) 1 – 20’ London plane ( Veterans) 5 – 30’ Cedar trees ( Fairview) Boulevard & Park Trees – approximately 15 trees removed or cleaned up and maybe more still. This includes several trees from private […]
$2500 raised for Habitat for Humanity
Despite a rainy June we managed to get 250 people out to our Gallagher Lake Village Park Grand Opening! Our Umbrella organization Maximum Modular Corp. contributed $10 per person who attended the Grand Opening toward Habitat for Humanity – South Okanagan for an upcoming build in Penticton. A special thanks goes out to the following […]
Dump – here
A busy place these days is the landfill. It is free to take your branches from the storm and lots of people taking advantage of that fact. Photo and story by Dave Whalley
Louie pleads not guilty – elects trial by judge alone – speaks out in court
Brian Douglas Louie, 33, of Oliver charged with five criminal code charges including aggravated assault in connection with a domestic violence case on the Indian Reserve at Oliver more than 63 days ago appeared in court today to state his piece. Louie plead not guilty to all five charges and his lawyer Jim Pennington says […]
New – peaches on the tree – new Main Street store for ice cream
Wave of destruction – rain and wind damage – story from Castanet and CBC
by Deborah Pfeiffer Castanet Harman Bahniwal was packing up cherries in his family’s orchard last Friday when a storm unlike anything he had seen before rolled in. He and his fruit pickers quickly found shelter under a shed roof, but the fruit trees on the Oliver property did not fare as well. Bahniwal […]