Tipping Fees – hot topic at this week’s regional district meeting – for main RDOS facility at Campbell Mountain Pr0posed Refuse Charges Per Tonne Cost for REFUSE Campbell Mountain 2012 2013 2014 (recommended) $65 $72 $95 2010 Engineering Report showed $85 – $90 per tonne required for Campbell Mountain Landfill Significant drop […]
Archives for 2014
Bird Count – official
Photo by Dick Cannings The 35th annual Oliver-Osoyoos Christmas Bird Count was held on Saturday, December 28th with 36 observers in 12 parties taking part plus three additional feeder watchers. The counters spent the day searching the count area for birds and recording the numbers of all the different species seen. This year there were […]
Four days in August
Almost a week has been set aside in BC Supreme Court for the trial of a local young man charged with his participation in a bomb incident last summer in Oliver. Eric Daoust, 23, was charged with 81(1)(c) placing / throwing explosive to damage property His trial date at Penticton has been set to start Monday […]
Photographer Penelope Johnson
Sumac
Photographer Zoli Kovacs
Pink sky at night sailor’s delight, pink sky in the morning sailor’s warning.
Rural report from Laird Smith
My last story involving my 1957 Chev, reminded me of another occasion of leisure time during that winter of 1968. A group of us would meet up Secrest, at a flat area just west of the entry of the Boy Scout Camp main gate. About 100 yards south of the government graveled road was a […]
Friday January 17th – one performance
Upcoming
SOUTH OKANAGAN CONCERT SERIES – 3rd Concert 2013-2014 Series It is that dark time of year where locals look for music to lighten their spirits. This year the South Okanagan Concert Society has a special concert for you on Friday, January 17th, filled with colour and movement, story and music. “Khac Chi: Sounds of Vietnam” […]