Community involvement – something new? Osoyoos Mounties will be knocking on doors and checking them twice in a bid to curb break and enters to commercial businesses. The detachment’s Business Watch program will involve members conducting foot patrols in the downtown core. “During these patrols, members will check business doors to ensure they are locked […]
Archives for June 2016
Service with a smile…in Osoyoos
Low cost tenting
Where may you ask?
Screaming – the challenge is Edvard Munch
The Ripoff Artists are SCREAMING in anticipation of this year’s Ripoff challenge!!! This year’s artwork, The Scream by Edvard Munch, will have everyone shrieking with glee! This also marks the tenth Ripoff Artist challenge! Besides the usual skullduggery of ripping off a famous artist, the group is showing works from all their previous challenges. AND, […]
Tax gap – business vs residential
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is a non-profit, non-partisan business association that seeks to give independent business a greater voice in determining the laws that govern business and the country. With 109,000 members across Canada, and 10,000 in BC, we are the largest organization exclusively representing the interests of small- and medium-sized businesses […]
Truckload of bikes…. for humanity
Tony Cabral and Joe Giesbrecht pose with Fr Neil Lustado prior to sending another truck load of used bicycles to Kelowna to Bicycles for Humanity. The bicycles are combined with others from the South Okanagan and sent to West Africa in a container, a couple of times each year. Rather than take unused bicycles to […]
Hopes buoyed for future of OSS – board voted to seek funding
By ROY WOOD The chances that Osoyoos Secondary School will be open in September got much better this evening as school trustees agreed to apply for a last-minute financial lifeline from the province. Okanagan-Similkameen board members voted 5-2 to apply for the money that could keep the school open this September and beyond. Accompanying the […]
