Time: 8 am Tuesday Location: KVR right of way – east of 6047 Station Street (near Ken Forbes property) Fire crews dispatched – water applied Appeared to be material burning beneath a tree Limited threat of spreading
Archives for 2014
Canadian Tire presents
Kevin Smith-Tanner, the winner of the bike donated by Canadian Tire being presented by Selina and Antonio Garafolo. Submitted by Carol Sheridan
Help needed for Scottish Festival in Penticton.
“It will take dozens of eager volunteers to stage our Highland Games this summer.”, says Bob McMillan, Vice-President and volunteer coordinator for the Penticton Scottish Festival. “The Highland Games is returning to Penticton Saturday July 5, 2014 under a new banner: The Penticton Scottish Festival. And you don’t have to be a burly Scotsman to […]
Novel idea for OK Falls
Free Little Library Okanagan Falls will soon have it’s first Free little Library at Christie Memorial Park. The libraries, built by Jay Mallach, are awaiting paint before being installed by Parks & Recreation. Samantha James, Okanagan Falls Strongstart, took the lead on the project and is collecting books to stock the two outdoor libraries. Submitted […]
Hit and run sends victim to hospital in Kelowna
On May 29th at 10:15pm the Osoyoos RCMP responded to a Hit and Run collision. A 1996 Jeep Cherokee driven by a 29 year old male resident of Osoyoos struck a cyclist on Main Street at 87th Street. The 18 year old cyclist, an Osoyoos resident, was crossing 87th Street when he was struck. He […]
Time is running out
Rural report with Laird Smith
In keeping with last week’s story about the Secrest laborer’s camp, I found an article by Wally Smith dated July 10, 1980. ” A labor organizer on the air a few days ago talked about his new farm union. He severely criticized Okanagan fruit growers’ poor accomodation, and lack of any accomodation for fruit pickers. […]
Pictures are important to us
Another complaint today from a customer saying that pictures on ODN sometimes stretched. My usual answer is that I have three computers all on different ISP hosts and I don’t have a problem Need to get to the bottom of this problem. If you are having a problem let me know in one of two […]