This shot about a month ago. Same look today. Had a communication with Area 27 spokesman Bill Drossos (middle below) who states the paperwork on a long term lease is not complete with details in the hands of lawyers from both sides with the Department of Indian Affairs in the middle. If you could start construction […]
Archives for July 2015
Area 27 update
End of era
Karen Niven wanted to wait until she was 75 but the pressure was on to retire – and make plans. Niven came to Oliver in 1975 – buying some property below and west of Bellevue Drive. Karen, Al and two young girls arrived from Vernon looking for a good place to settle. They liked the […]
Water colour with Julie Fredlund
Villanova – war memorial in Italy
Chief Clarence Louie and three of his council members at Villanova Buried there – Ernest Baptiste George of the Osoyoos Indian Band – Pictures submitted with thanks
Must be the heat
Separating fact from fiction in the Okanagan July 2, 2015 UBC graduate students Maayan Kreitzman and Maery Kaplan-Hallam and UBC associate professor Kai Chan say local residents support the proposal to create the South Okanagan Similkameen national park. They discuss two recent UBC studies that show the park would provide both local and global benefits […]
Two views of the Newby Lake fire
Above Helene Godin Below Roger Richardson
Summer reading – kids of all ages
We had a great crowd tonight for our first Summer Reading Club event of the summer. Guest artist Leza Macdonald encouraged the kids to start their Steampunk Books by first picking out their “doodads and gadgets” and then with help from energetic members of the Friends of the Library and staff the children start constructing […]