The Ripoff Artists will kick up their heels this summer with Toulouse-Lautrec! One of the best-known and well-loved artists of the 19th century, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is famous for being short, consorting with characters of ill-repute such as prostitutes, performers and artists, and for creating many beloved images of dancers, clowns, and musicians in his […]

Part five As September faded into October the Bel-Air transformed itself into a little village. Over the following weeks rigs would come in and there would be loud hails of welcome as our winter people arrived. People from Alberta, Saskatchewan and some from further east, returned to the campground for the winter. A new sense […]

Wally Smith’s tree fruit orchard had many pests. One that he had to reduce in numbers every year was the Pocket gopher, called that because of the cheek pouches in which they used to transport their food to caches in their burrows. Wally’s first indication of the gopher’s presence was the mound of fresh dirt […]

A collision occurred on Highway 3 west of Osoyoos near Kobau Mountain at 0930 this morning Sunday July 5th. A Honda Civic went off road (to the left) down an embankment. There were 6 occupants on board. All taken to South Okanagan General Hospital by ambulance. One passenger was flown to Kelowna with a broken femur –  but […]