The Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA), in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Adaptation to Climate Change Team, invite the public to participate in a one-day workshop on the Columbia River Treaty on October 7th. The workshop, called “Columbia River Treaty: Past, Present and Future” will be held at the Sonora Centre in the South Okanagan […]

Monday’s press release – Save Skaha Park hires legal counsel and files a civil claim on September 25 in the B.C. Supreme Court, challenging the lawfulness of the city’s deal with Trio Marine to expand the marina with a water slide. A Kamloops lawyer retained by the Penticton protest group to be paid for by donations. […]

Canadian tenor, Michael Burgess has died. Burgess came to Oliver twice to help with fund raising efforts by local organizations including Oliver Community Arts Council and Highway to Healing. “Michael created the role of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, which was one of the first international blockbusters to have its own production in Canada with a local cast, instead […]

The Oliver Curling Club Society will get a break on its 2015 municipal tax bill thanks to an exemption granted by town council on Monday. The exemption will see the club pay $1,625, or just 12% of the $13,537 property taxes that would otherwise have been owed. By way of comparison, council was told that the […]

Oliver’s chief administrative officer (CAO), Heidi Frank, was missing from the town council meeting on Monday, replaced at the senior staff table by acting CAO David Svetlichny. Asked about the missing top staff member, Mayor Ron Hovanes would say only: “(She) is not in her office for the time being.” The mayor said chief financial […]

School is back. Back to business at School District #53 (Okanagan-Similkameen) This weekend trustees from around our branch (Revelstoke to Kamloops to Cache Creek and Princeton and all the communities in between) will come to our district to hear about the many great initiatives in our schools. We will also showcase our new Southern Okanagan […]

During the 1970’s, Wally Smith’s opinion on the cause of many of the world’s problems was over population of us humans. “Just too many people!”, he would exclaim when issues such as farm land consumption and hungry nations came up. Wildlife is generally tuned in to the availability of food. Birds will build a nest […]