Notice to Retired Teachers in the South Okanagan Similkameen Area Exciting News: The very first meeting of the South Okanagan/Similkameen Retired Teachers’ Association, a Branch of the B.C. Retired Teachers’ Association, will be held on TUESDAY, MAY 8th, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Savvios Family Restaurant: 34646 97th St. Oliver, B.C. (across from SuperValu) All […]
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Interview with a coach
Interview with Ross Convertino, Graduate Assistant Coach at Gonzaga University. ODN: Please tell us a little about your background. Where are you from? How did you get involved with basketball and what made you want to be a coach? RC: I am from Hampden Massachusetts, which is a small town that boarders Springfield Mass. I […]
Talking sticks – art at Quail’s Nest
So very cute! We learned about conversation today. If you hold the Talking Stick you may talk, when someone else is holding the Talking Stick you don’t talk – you listen. We all made our own talking sticks and took them. Photo and story supplied by Leza Macdonald
New Rotary bench for beach
Saturday was international Rotary work service day. In recognition of this, the Oliver Rotary Club headed on down to Rotary beach to get the area prepared for the summer influx. The playground area was raked, the beach cleaned and the whole area made tidy. Two new addition this year are the concrete picnic tables, one […]
Fire damages vehicles and equipment on reserve wood lot
Fire of a suspicious origin last night gutted three trailers, a motor home and a flat deck truck at a commercial wood lot off Black Sage Road east of Oliver. Owner of the operation TCB – The Chopping Block, Gerhard Israel, says the vehicles are all insured and the lot has a security alarm system but […]