The members of Order of the Eastern Star will hold a burger & hot dog sale this Friday proceeds to assist the family of Cody O’Connor Please help this family at this tragic time Burgers and hot dogs with all the fixin’s lots of fried onions, of course!! BY DONATION Friday September 20th, SUPER-VALU 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Archives for September 2013
Reflection of a lily flower – Jeremy Cook
Drugs…the new currency
Three men giving Okanagan Valley addresses riding in two separate vehicles were arrested during an early morning road check today after police found a significant quantity of drugs and cash. At about 12:45 a.m., an Oliver man, 33, was pulled over in his black Mazda sedan on the Bennett Bridge and was arrested for possession of a […]
Plan on it
Dix to step aside
B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix has announced that he is stepping down pending a leadership vote by mid-2014. Dix told reporters he must take responsibility for the party’s devastating election loss in May, a vote the NDP was widely expected to win. “It has become clear to me that the best interests of our party mean that […]
Former Oregon tax appraiser pays fine for gun offence at border
66 year old Fred Alton O’Banion of Bend Oregon appeared in a courtroom in Penticton today and pled guilty to two criminal charges – and then paid the piper. O’Banion and his companion in a motorhome attempted to cross the border at Osoyoos August 7 but two things happened. He admitted lying to the border official and […]
Danielle Mathieu passes at home
Obituary for the late Danielle Mathieu 1958 – 2013 Danielle Mathieu, age 56, passed away, suddenly but peacefully, at her home in Oliver, BC on Friday September 13th. Danielle was born on March 26, 1958 in Vancouver BC, the youngest of 7 siblings. The family moved to Penticton soon after, and it is in the […]
Rest in peace
Obituary for the late William Ross Scott 1927 – 2013 On Tuesday September 3rd, at the age of 86, William Ross Scott passed away peacefully in the South Okanagan Hospital. He is predeceased by his partner Daisy Schultz. William is survived by his sister Jean McKay; his brother Alan Scott; the mother of his 5 […]