Ironman Schedule 7am Swim – 2.4 miles in Okanagan Lake at Peach Bike – 112 miles route: Penticton-Osoyoos-Keremeos-Penticton – on Highway 97/Hwy3/Hwy3a/Hwy97 Run – 26.2 miles route: Penticton – OK Falls – Penticton east side road

Thanks to Lou Dobos With a brief explanation as to why I crop some submitted pictures. Many images are sent at high resolution (larger format). To get the maximum amount of picture up close they are cropped to 651 X 651 pixels – the size of the blog window. If I just reduced what you […]

The Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey, one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the “chickenhawk,” though it rarely preys on standard sized chickens.It breeds throughout most of North America, from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies, and is […]

Georgette St. Louis (right in the picture) was the lucky winner of the Friends of the Oliver Library’s recent quilt raffle. Georgette received her quilt from Friends’ President Enid Baker and Michelle Morisset of Wine Country Quilters who made and donated the awesome quilt. The Friends of the Oliver Library made over $300 on the […]

  Who is the little girl in the picture? What year was it? Do you have a similiar picture of going to school in Oliver many years ago? Submitted with permission

Sky Bright over Oliver Tonight. Star Light Star bright, The first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.