Heritage Conservation -a new regional service to be set up (Bylaw 2706) to carry out heritage conservation services in all of the Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen allowed under the Heritage Conservation Act of BC. The annual cost of said service can be raised by taxes, fees, gifts and grants. Mayor Ron Hovanes asked that before municipal governments […]
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Free Seminar Coming Up
4th Annual Garlic Festival – Saturday
Join us October 3rd for local garlic growers, artisan crafters, food carts, live entertainment and more! This family friendly event is in support of the Oliver Elementary School Farm to Table lunch program. Admission is by donation to the program and the festival runs from 11am to 5pm.
Can you help?
In Oliver, we have formed a Refugee Sponsorship Committee to try and help one family from Syria. We have never met them and have only just recently learned their names – they are the AL LWISI family. We have only a small amount of information given to us by Immigration Canada, so we know that […]
Jail time ordered
Judge says: “No doubt Mr. Roberts will suffer the wrath of public scorn for a very long time to come.” Summerland businessman Joshua Roberts has been sentenced to six months in jail by Judge Greg Koturbash in a Penticton courtroom. Roberts, 39, received the sentence after pleading guilty to a count of sexual exploitation. The […]
Candidates go three-on-one at Oliver forum
By ROY WOOD In what was often a three-on-one gang-up at the Frank Venables Theatre on Wednesday evening, the four main candidates in South Okanagan-West Kootenay laid out their party positions on a number of issues and touted themselves as the best choice for Member of Parliament. Conservative Marshall Neufeld gamely defended the Stephen Harper […]