Total cost of this acquisition is $2.7 million including purchase and other costs such as appraisal, legal fees, and a land management endowment. The Nature Trust has divided the lot into 10 equal portions; our goal is to complete 3 portions early in 2015. With the commitment of a partial Ecological Gift donation by the […]
Archives for 2015
Photographer Robert Sieben
Green Lake Rd – northbound from Willowbrook – press to enlarge
Over $3500 raised for Variety
A successful bowling event took place at Kobau Lanes in Osoyoos Saturday. Members Mary Roberts, Ken Yoxall, Leonard Gebhart & Allan Close of the Kiwanis Club of Oliver were bowling in the BC Bowls for Variety ~ a children’s charity. The total raised for Variety – a children’s charity – was $3,561.35. Other participating teams […]
Haydn takes a ‘rest’
Haydn Jones taking his time on his next shot at the Oliver Senior Center pool tournament held today to a full house of pool players who came from all over South Okanagan. submitted by Georgina Forsythe
Survey results – water
Questions on rural/town water Tap or Filtered/Bottled 80 people with 152 answers = people vote only once Townspeople 48 rural 28 Tap water users 37 Bottled water users 39 I surveyed based on the fact that most people in town and in the rural area have year round potable tap water – many still prefer […]
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SOUTH OKANAGAN CONCERT SOCIETY – THIRD CONCERT
Our old Steinway saw some incredible pianists in its day. Jon Kamura Parker, Anton Kuerti, Janina Fialkowska, Angela Hewitt gave transformative performances that felt like “an outburst of the soul”. None were more exciting, however, than the finely nuanced performance of Sara Davis Buechner who played the Steinway very shortly before our auditorium burned to […]
1947 Apricot Fundae Queen
Photograph Kathi Wright (Vanderburgh) with permission Doreen Seidler