By ROY WOOD Osoyoos council is expanding its efforts in the battle to keep both of the town’s schools open in the face of the school district’s proposal to shutter either the elementary or the secondary school. Following discussions at an in-camera meeting Monday morning, council passed a motion directing a multi-pronged effort to save […]
Archives for February 2016
Desert Sun will organize CRN
Desert Sun will be the host agency for the South Okanagan’s very own Community Response Network (CRN). The local organization with offices in Osoyoos and Oliver applied to the CRN for funds to cover the set up costs of same, as they receive their funds from Gaming to operate these programs across the province. CRN’s […]
Public comment -must be in by- Friday
The Gyro Park Pier will continue the work which began with the construction of Phase ‘A’ of the Gyro Park Plaza in 2015 and completion of Phase ‘B’ in early 2016. Subject to funding availability and Council budgetary approval, the Advancement Study lays the ground for a shelf-ready project for final design and environmental approvals in 2016 and […]
Update
Oliver RCMP report On 2016-01-29 at 9:44PM, Oliver RCMP received a report of a single vehicle motor vehicle collision on Highway 97, near River Rd., just north of Oliver, BC. Officers attended to find a grey 2008 Dodge Avenger off-road left against a sheared utility pole at that location. Investigation suggested that the vehicle was […]
How things have changed – George Fraser
In this, my final instalment of my descriptions of a few memories of growing up in Osoyoos, I would like to try to mention a few of the differences between then and now. Now my parents were not the overly-permissive sort, and I may not have been a typical child of that era. However, these […]
Crime report
One “Gem” of a guy helps police in stick up On Friday January 29th, 2016 at 2pm, the Penticton RCMP responded to an attempted theft of jewellery from Paris Jewelers at Cherry Lane Mall in Penticton. When Police arrived on scene, one of the two suspects was being held down by citizens that witnessed the […]
Shoe game – let’s try it again
The annual shoe game between SOSS (Oliver ) and Pen Hi will be played February 4th at 6:30 at SOSS. This is the 50th Anniversary of both teams playing for the shoe. The actual challenge game started in 1963, and in 1965 Wayne Radies donated his shoe and so the legend began. Over the years […]
Leap into February (a story about Julian and Gregory)
29 days this month – almost like a normal month. Leap Years are needed to keep our modern day Gregorian calendar in alignment with the Earth’s revolutions around the sun. It takes the Earth approximately 365.242199 days – or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds – to circle once around the Sun. This […]