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Archives for June 2016
It takes a big team
It takes a big team to help run the annual ALS Golf Fundraiser at Fairview Mountain each year. This year Assistant Pros Thierry Martine (3rd from left) and Rob Tadey (7th from left) managed to play twelve 18- hole rounds yesterday and are shown here on the 18th tee with some of their supporters and […]
From FB’s Oliver Heritage memories
The story of my “crazy Uncle Roman Bird” who lived halfway down the steep hillside off of Bellevue Road in Oliver. He was a town character that few he ever met forgot including me. Crazy Roman Bird by Denny Bastian (2012) Crazy Roman Bird, my pseudo Uncle, had a gold tooth in the middle of […]
October – gun amnesty month – call first – don’t just bring them in
History: Similar programs in 1997, 1998 and 2006 successfully removed thousands of guns from B.C. streets. During the four-week, provincewide gun amnesty in 2006, British Columbians turned over 3,213 guns including 505 handguns, and 725 other unwanted weapons to police departments, as well as 96,500 rounds of ammunition, a rocket launcher and a machine gun. […]
SO Conservation Fund ” in jeopardy” says Michael Brydon
A further delay for advocates of a conservation fund in the sub-region of South Okanagan within the RDOS Both Penticton and Osoyoos have backed out of a plan but say the door is still open to some form of participation. The plan was to go to the people of the South Okanogan with a referendum […]
To coordinate and to cooperate – Osoyoos and Oliver
By ROY WOOD While occasional animosity or rivalry arises between the townsfolk of Oliver and Osoyoos, the mayors and councillors seem to get along famously and regularly hold joint meetings to discuss issues of mutual interest. The most recent was last Friday in Oliver. It followed one last year hosted by Osoyoos council. “I just […]
Glimmer of hope for Osoyoos Secondary
By ROY WOOD The emotional roller coaster ride surrounding the threatened closure of Osoyoos Secondary School took another sharp curve Wednesday as the province announced funding that could potentially keep the doors open. Less than three weeks after MLA Linda Larson raised and then crushed hopes for a reprieve on the school shuttering, the province […]
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