West Cost Amusements: Last year when we attended the Oliver Fair on Friday night (which we do every year and our children can’t wait for it they are so excited), they has several rides not available. The Ferris Wheel was there, but not running, The Children’s Dragon Roller Coaster was not running. And there was […]

I have lived in Oliver for a couple of decades now, having moved here at the beginning of high school with my family. Like many teenagers, I often complained about a lack of things to do here, and couldn’t wait to move on to bigger and better things. Eventually I did move away – several […]

The Simple Life by Pat Whalley Life at the Bel Air was simple because we made it be so. Our casual attitude may not have suited everyone but it suited us and many of our clients. It was really the best time of our life and the first time that Dave and I had been […]

  Better headline – government still working on way out of a tight corner A draft plan is being prepared to manage environmentally sensitive areas in the South Okanagan. That provincial government plan should be unveiled to the public in September but first it goes to the Okanagan Nation Alliance. That’s the key to this […]

  Genuine Humility The corporal of a small army squad was giving orders to his men to raise a timber to the top of a military building they were constructing. The weight and size of the beam was making it hard for the men to lift it into place. Frequent commands to push, heave and […]