Rotary’s annual event – Gala and Auction on Saturday April 13th at the Oliver Community Centre. The format has changed this year. There will be 7 guest wineries and their executive chefs at different stations serving gourmet tapis style food matched to wine pourings. The majority of auction items will be offered on a silent auction format […]
Archives for April 2013
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Princeton gets crown grant for airport land – 21 hectares
Land transfer supports regional airport expansion PRINCETON – A transfer of Crown land to the Town of Princeton provides for the future expansion of the regional airport and supports the ongoing prosperity of the region, announced Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Bill Bennett today. This Crown grant transfers approximately 21 hectares surrounding the Princeton […]
Oliver Legion gets new kitchen
Branch #97 Members thank all those who helped get this project done. New floor, appliances, working surfaces, storage units – a thorough cleanup.
The need for new hospital urgent says Perrino
Janice Perrino is the Mayor of Summerland and she is the chair of the Okanagan Similkameen Regional Hospital District and she is Executive Director of the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation Speaking in Oliver at a Kiwanis lunch – Perrino says the need for improvements to the Penticton Hospital are greater now than in the […]
What is a “home child”? ~ interesting part of Canada’s history
Marjorie Too Afraid To Cry: A Home Child Experience by Pat Skidmore My mother Marjorie, now lives in Oliver Marjorie spent 5 years at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School on Vancouver Island, in the summer of 1940, Marjorie was later sent to work at the Fairbridge Fintry Training Farm just south of Vernon. […]
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Letter to BC Utilities Commission from RDOS director Angelique Wood
British Columbia Utilities Commission Box 250, 900 Howe Street Sixth Floor Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 2N3 Re: Conservation Rate two-tiered billing I write to you with an urgent request that you reconsider the two-tiered rate system implemented by Fortis in summer of 2012. As an Electoral Area Director for the Regional District of the Okanagan-Similkameen, I […]