Current Regulations: There is currently no Motor Vehicle Prohibition Regulation within the Oliver Mountain Goal 2 Area*, within Management Unit 8-01. *The Goal 2 area of Oliver Mountain is a proposed protected area following the recommendations of the Okanagan Shuswap Land and Resource Management Plan (2001). To date, the Goal 2 area remains unprotected. Proposed […]
Archives for January 2016
No alternate site for ORV’s in Oliver
Need funds for higher education ?
Interior Savings is reminding students that there is still time to take advantage of thousands of dollars’ worth of bursaries for 2016. For the third year in a row, Interior Savings has committed one million dollars in bursaries to help support youth to reach their full potential. There is still over $500,000 worth of bursaries […]
Would a 4 day school week save money?
Written by Andrew Stuckey, Osoyoos Daily News One parent-suggested pitch for achieving long-term financial savings at South Okanagan-Similkameen schools in the wake of proposed school closures is a transition to a four-day school week. The idea was discussed at Parent Advisory Committee meetings in Osoyoos January 25. The concept will likely be presented for SD53 […]
rdos test
How many chairs to fill a gymnasium?
Lyle Chapman, Vice Principal of Osoyoos Secondary School giving ODN a tour of the gym and weight room facilities at OSS. The story today – efforts to find enough chairs to fill this gym February 9th. Staff working on finding many chairs from a church, the elementary school for a crowd expected to be over […]
Motorcycle crash rate seems to be declining
We are pleased to report a significant improvement in the motorcycle crash rate in the South Okanagan Similkameen in 2015. There was an alarming trend of an increasing number of fatal and injury motorcycle crashes in 2013 and 2014 that was identified. That trend continued into the spring of 2015. South Okanagan Traffic Services wanted […]
Grand Forks man airlifted to Kelowna
A three vehicle collision, driver 1 and 2 minor injuries, driver 3 serious head injury. SO Traffic Services attended. On 2016-01-28 at 11:20 a.m. a northbound pickup on Hwy 97 near the south end of Vaseux Lake drifted into the southbound lane. This pickup clipped a southbound five ton flat deck lumber truck. That truck spun sideways and was ‘T-boned’ […]