Recent story in the funny papers saying real estate sales in Oliver up a whopping 63 percent. If you look at a valuable resource – SO Real Estate Board – statistics you will note that any increase January to September 2015 over same period 2014 is related to farm sales – big dollars per unit. […]
Archives for October 2015
Children’s Hospital fundraiser dies
From Global BC Very sad news to share. Our long-time friend and co-host of the BC Children’s Hospital’s Miracle Weekend Telethon Brooke Malakoff died this morning at BC children’s Hospital. Brooke was fighting congenital infantile fibrosarcoma. She was diagnosed as a teenager. She was a tireless advocate for the hospital, always front and centre at […]
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Book review – Duane Hamm
Danial Neil The Trees of Calan Gray Fernie, B.C. :Oolichan Books, 2015 267 pp. $19.95 ISBN 978-0-88982-297-9 (pbk.) Duane Hamm’s review I liked that this book was written by a local Oliver author. When I put this book down I felt affirmed in my belief that being “different” can mean one is unique, that the […]
Tee-Shirts available today at Fire hall
The second round of the “Oliver Rockcreek Wildfires” T-shirts are in. For anyone who pre-ordered T-shirts at the Buy-Low BBQ, Facebook and Festival of the Grape the shirts will be ready for pick-up at the Oliver Fire Department from 10:00am-1:00pm TODAY We will also be selling T-shirts for anyone that didn’t make it to the […]
Another car off the pavement – Eastside Road
Update: 2015-15422 – Penticton RCMP responded to an MVI at 2330 hours on 2015-10-16. A 17 yrd old male from Penticton went off road left rolling his father’s GMC Sierra multiple times in to the lake. The driver sustained a large gash above his left eye. The driver initially stated his brother was also in […]
Condolences to the Porteous family
Barbara Joan Porteous (nee Buckmiller) 1936 – 2015 It is with deepest sympathy the family of Barbara Joan Porteous announces the passing of our much beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at the Penticton Regional Hospital at the age of 79. Barbara will be welcomed into heaven by her […]
The Al Lwisis are coming! – Oliver’s Syrian family
Linda Nunweiler (left) and Sandy Scott showing the beautiful, handcrafted quilts and blankets they’ve generously made and donated to our the Lwisis family. As you’ve likely heard, a group of volunteers have been working since June to bring a Syrian refugee family to our town. About a month ago, the Oliver Refugee Sponsorship Committee was […]