APC draft minutes show reservations and comments of planning commission (APC) on proposed Oliver Mountain recreational area Area C Oliver RDOS APC members raised a number of concerns regarding this application for motorized recreation track on Oliver Mountain: · Potential noise impacts to neighbours and beyond · Impacts to species at risk including Lewis Woodpecker and […]
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A sign, a road, a project….. and improvements
6,100 boats inspected as B.C. leads the fight against invasive mussels
OSOYOOS – British Columbia remains free of invasive mussels, thanks to ongoing efforts that have seen more than 6,100 watercraft inspected so far this year – already surpassing the number of inspections in all of 2015. Through the Invasive Mussel Defence Program, a crew of 32 trained mussel inspectors are working seven days a week, […]
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Back a few years with Mike Meagher
OUR LIVES WITH MR. RITCHIE 1948-1951 Sixty-five years after departing the South Okanagan High School our grey cells are in serious need of re-tooling, but Mr. Ritchie is hard to forget. He was Principal of the school with whom we marched in 1949 from the current Elementary School to enter the majestic new building – […]
PRH gets boost from Osoyoos Rotary Club
A service club in the home of “Canada’s warmest welcome” has opened its arms to supporting the expansion of the region’s acute care hospital. The Rotary Club of Osoyoos has pledged a $30,000 donation to the South Okanagan Similkameen (SOS) Medical Foundation for medical equipment for the new patient care tower at Penticton Regional […]