Overflowing Years ago shepherds depended on wells to provide water for their flocks of sheep. Often those wells were deep and the water had to be drawn by hand. That was tedious and hard work. Shepherds who didn’t really care about the well-being of the sheep would limit how much water each sheep got, much […]
Archives for October 2015
The unseen school
YouLearn.ca (Okanagan Similkameen – School District 53) Most people are aware of the many elementary and high schools in our district. These schools are highly visible with their buildings, playing fields and students. However, some people are unaware that there is a school in the district that caters to kindergarten students all the way […]
Condolences
Florence (Flossie) Forrest June 12, 1920 – October 18, 2015 Mrs. Florence Forrest (Flossie) of Coquitlam and a formerly long time resident of Oliver passed away at the Madison Retirement home in Coquitlam at the age of 95 years. She was predeceased by her husband William Forrest in January of 1998. Flossie will be fondly […]
R.I.P Morley
Morley Carter May 14, 1938 – October 20, 2015 Morley passed away peacefully with his wife Calie; his children, Tom and Tess and granddaughter Corinna at his side. Morley was born in Kelowna and raised in Oliver, attending his school days in Oliver. Morley became a member of the R.C.M.P. (Security) in 1964, serving for […]
Condolences to the family
Dorothy Amos April 10, 1925 – October 23, 2015 On Friday Mrs. Dorothy Jean Amos long time resident of Oliver passed away at Mariposa Gardens in Osoyoos at the age of 90 years. She will be dearly missed by her loving family and friends.
Thieves steal from volunteer rescuers
Saturday morning: Dale Jorgensen President of Pensar said “we sure got a shock today”. Our team came to the hall at 8:00 this morning to get set up for training and found that two of our search and rescue trailers had been broken into. Thieves made off with a 1000 watt Honda generator serial # […]
A rant on parks
A number of people will say from reading ODN – Jack Bennest has made up his mind – he is anti – National Park. What is true is that Jack Bennest is PRO park. (please note the lack of the word NATIONAL. This picture may be unfair but I think it is typical of the […]
Thanks to the Royal Canadian Legion
$3000 to help the kids with travel expenses if sick – the basic premise behind Highway to Healing (H2H) In the picture H2H, Ernie Dumais, Riley Martin and Shelley Bolingbroke RCL Branch 97 – President Marty Foss and Sgt/A Jim Stewart