By ROY WOOD Accessibility to be on OCP radar Council voted Tuesday to include accessibility as one of the cornerstones of the upcoming Official Community Plan (OCP) review. A presentation to council last month by members of the disabled community urged council to form an Accessibility Advisory Committee as part of an initiative to address […]
Archives for February 2016
Kiwanis – new president takes the lead
Leonard Gebhart of Osoyoos – incoming President of the local Kiwanis Club. Leornard invited me down to the Wednesday getting organized day – inputting new product for a Saturday Sale day. Kiwanis has two trucks busy collecting used material from homes in the South Okanagan. Gebhart is to replace Lee Chic also of Osoyoos. He […]
Not to be missed
Terrafina Restaurant
School gym jammed to fight closures
By ROY WOOD Nearly 1,000 people jammed the Osoyoos Secondary School gym Tuesday evening to lecture, scold, advise, plead with and otherwise try to convince school trustees and bureaucrats not to close one of the town’s two schools. More than 40 parents, politicians, students and others waited their turns at the microphones to express […]
School closures – MLA Linda Larson
Today more announcements of school closures in the Okanagan Valley. Castanet: Despite public opposition, School District 83 trustees have approved recommendations to close elementary schools in Armstrong and Salmon Arm before the start of the next school year. Parents from Armstrong Elementary and Silver Creek Elementary in Salmon Arm crammed a three-hour meeting of the […]
Local police to hold public forum
Community Safety Forum Oliver RCMP is inviting the residents of Oliver and area to attend a Community Safety Forum on Monday, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:00 P.M. at the Oliver Community Center, 6359 Park Dr., Oliver Sgt Blaine Gervais, Oliver Detachment Commander, Supt Kevin Hewco, Officer in charge of Penticton South Okanagan Similkameen Regional Detachment, […]
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Drought….. or flooding?
Okanagan Water Basin – Snowpack at 122% – latest figures released Above normal snowpack in southern BC including the Boundary area at 114% with the Similkameen at 103% of normal. By early February, nearly two-thirds of the annual BC snowpack has typically accumulated. At this stage in the season, there are two emerging snow pack […]