Top photo – Sarah Stanley of Okanagan Falls points to her ‘fall leaves on a walk path’ photograph. As the second photograph shows – this display on Main Street is about the work of grade 9 and 10 students from SOSS’s art classes.
Archives for 2015
Young photographers on the SOICS art wall
Town of Osoyoos – council briefs
Regional heritage program will have to wait Council decided Monday to wait for an administration report before deciding whether to join a regional heritage site initiative. Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen rural projects coordinator Lindsay Bourque told council the town’s annual share of the cost of the regional heritage program would be about $1,700. […]
Public input will precede conservation funding
By ROY WOOD Osoyoos town council will test the waters of public opinion before embarking on any commitment to a conservation fund aimed at protecting the environment. Two weeks ago, a representative from the South Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Program lobbied council to consider establishing a fund that would help protect “one of the most […]
Refugee backlash feared following Paris slaughter
By ROY WOOD The couple driving the plan to bring a Syrian refugee family to Osoyoos fears the effects the Friday attacks in Paris might have on enthusiasm for the project. Speaking to an Osoyoos town council committee Monday, Michael and Vera Ryan said the project “may be facing some headwinds” following the murderous […]
At the top of the hill
Osoyoos detachment was called to a tractor trailer roll over on Highway 3 just east of Mule Deer Drive today. A semi truck pulling a loaded 53′ trailer failed to negotiate the sharp corner and rolled onto its passenger side and then slid into the no post barricades. A male passenger who was in the sleeper […]
