Water Matters: Directional Drill under river at Buchanan Road Steve Underwood, Engineer writes: A budget of about $150 thousand has been set to auger (trenchless underground) a hole under the river for a water main to connect the new Buchanan Rd well to the other side and the homes that will soon get “twinned potable” […]

Last article, generated some additional information by a family member who remembers the beaver problem slightly different from mine. The property owned by Wally Smith had four beaver dams in Park Rill. The southern dam was just upstream from Grampa Smith’s house. Since power had not yet arrived to that section of the property, it […]

Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District will receive a $20 thouand grant for an Okanagan Falls Age-friendly Assessment. Twenty-six communities throughout the province will receive 2014 Age-friendly BC grants to support a variety of projects designed to help older adults stay mobile, physically active and healthy, Health Minister Terry Lake announced today. “This year communities were encouraged to […]

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 213 has decided to take a few days before accepting or refusing after FortisBC tendered an offer of “Binding Interest Arbitration” to solve the five-plus month contract dispute. Fortis employees have been on the picket line since June 26 when FortisBC locked out IBEW members. FortisBC managers have done the […]

  On December 03, 2013 a resident in the area of the 200 block of Willowbrook Road reported that at some point overnight someone had come on their property and taken a log splitter and a generator. It appeared that a small vehicle was used in the theft as drag marks leading to tire tracks from […]