Questions and answers about the underfunding of BC public schools February 2016 What is new in the 2015–16 district operating grants? The figures in the Ministry of Education three-year plan are published each year in the Operating Grants Manual. Based on the Ministry’s figures for total operating grants, there is no increase in operating grants […]
Archives for February 2016
Rutland shooting – investigation at early stage
A shooting incident Monday afternoon in Rutland is taking the time of police. This afternoon at 2:17 Kelowna RCMP responded to a report that a man had been shot in the 100 block of Highway 33 East. Several police resources have been deployed in the area. The victim suffered what police describe as non-life threatening […]
Got what it takes? Close date Feb. 21
Okanagan Correctional Centre – Oliver OCC will be the largest provincial, sentenced facility in BC and will offer a comprehensive array of inmate work and rehabilitation programs. This new state of the art correctional centre opens this year. COR SV 18R – Correctional Officer (Growth Series) Requisition #: 29182 Department: Ministry of Justice SG […]
Masked thieves dump ATM on highway
Police are investigating after suspects dropped a stolen ATM on the side of the highway north of Kelowna. Sunday at 4:01 am, RCMP responded to a report of a break-in and theft from a gas station located in the 3600 block of Highway 97 North. Officers have determined that at least two masked men, associated to an older […]
Rural report with Laird Smith
I credit Jack Bennest as being elementary in helping me to discover who my father, Wally Smith was, as a man, a husband, an orchardist, a writer, and a father. He was all of those descriptions. You might ask what part did Jack play? Jack encouraged me to continue to write stories in ODN. At […]
