New beginning for Penticton Regional Hospital Just a few months before construction starts on the $325-million expansion of Penticton Regional Hospital, the 10th annual Tree of Dreams campaign is reason to celebrate. The South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation’s annual holiday season fundraising campaign is now underway. Janice Perrino, the Foundation’s executive-director, said this is the […]
Archives for November 2015
Tree of Dreams
RDOS 2016 budget – all regions and areas
The link below gives you a “large” document. Night time reading for some. My belief that most readers just elect politicians to make these decisions The link below is for people who can say – “I am interested” ODN will give some highlights over the course of the week. Politicians will meet Thursday to review […]
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Did you hear the peal?
Chris Yerburgh plays the bells at St Edwards Anglican Church, to get people thinking about the COP21 climate change talks starting Monday, Nov 30 in Paris. Chris has been playing these bells almost since the day they were installed in 1952. Post script from Chris: To correct a couple of items – Chris Yerburgh is […]
The changing face of Mourning
By Pat Whalley I recently lost an old, dear friend, I am now seventy years old so find that I am attending more funerals than Christening these days, but this time the deceased was very near and dear. Twenty years ago funeral congregations were a sea of black and everyone kept a black or navy […]
Rural report with Laird Smith
I lived north of town on the family farm which was three miles from Oliver. One mile north of the farm was a complex called Wilcox Corner. A number of businesses operated there. Sid Scott ran a service station and garage, a radio repair shop and motel was run by Cecil Scott, Mr. Wilcox ran […]