Oliver Council Meeting, December 9th, 2013 Issue: Agricultural Land Reserve This information, except for my opinion at the end, was copy and pasted from news clippings and online articles. It is the opinion of the provincial government that the Agricultural Land Commission’s legislative mandate is too narrow to allow decisions that align with its priority […]
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Interesting reading habits
This is a graph I seized today from the AWstats programme that tracks my viewers More people reading the blog at midnight than at 8 in the morning Peak reading time 11am Highest numbers connecting 10 am to 12 noon – but very steady readership into the evening Unique computers over 4000 which reflects to more than […]
Slow down – watch for buses and children
Photo by Mike Beaulieu
Changes at Canada Post good?
Atamanenko Reacts to Canada Post Five-Point Action Plan BC Southern Interior Member of Parliament Alex Atamanenko is critical of the Five-point Action Plan released on December 11 by Canada Post. According to the NDP MP there are better ways to modernize Canada Post than killing good jobs, eliminating home delivery, drastically increasing postage rates […]
Brenda Shaw reports
The Year Cablevision was born in Oliver In the fall of 1958, Dad had purchased a rather large antenna from a trip to Spokane and he and Vic Tribbick mounted it on our roof. Vic’s house was at the bottom of our hill but they could not find a signal there. I remember how hard […]
Food Bank receives cash and canned goods from Christmas Concert
A generous audience at the Community Christmas Concert on Sunday December 1 contributed a van-load of canned goods and other staples as their admission to the concert. In addition, audience members also gave generously from their wallets, with proceeds after expenses totalling $275.03 being donated by cheque to the Oliver Food Bank today. The Oliver […]
Liberal-ize liquor laws – 12 points – “No” on liquor in grocery stores
12 recommendations: The Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) should improve its marketing of BC liquor products in stores, developing new opportunities for product placement and innovative promotional and educational materials. Government should work with industry and tourism associations to develop promotional materials such as maps, apps and brochures on BC wineries, breweries and distilleries. Government should work with […]
Student achievement report – School District 53
School Superintendent Bev Young was almost beaming as she presented an annual report on Student Achievement with the 8 page document revealing that ‘the gap’ between all students and aboriginal students is significantly narrowing in reading and writing. Foundation Skills Assessment results for Grade 4 and 7 are above the provincial average. Grade 4 Aboriginal results […]