By ROY WOOD Trustees at School District 53 (Okanagan Similkameen) will hear from senior staff in the new year on ideas for tackling the district’s over-half-million-dollar structural deficit and avoiding depletion of the district’s nest egg. The budgeted deficit for the fiscal year that began July 1 is about $564,000. Financial statements accepted by the […]

Oliver Fire Department fundraiser for Rock Creek UPDATE: The shirts will be available for pick-up at Oliver Buy-Low foods on Oct 3rd. We will be having a BBQ for the same charity starting at 11:00 am that morning in the Oliver Buy-Low parking lot…look for the Fire Truck…the shirts will be there. Another update, if […]

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Boonstock organizers failed to pay for policing – taxpayers left to carry the weight. An argument for getting a bond first or money up front. A statement from Perry Clark, executive director of policing, security and law enforcement infrastructure and finance with the Ministry of Justice, reads as follows: “The province was in contact with […]