Effective at noon on May 15, 2016, Category 2 and Category 3 open fires will be prohibited throughout the Kamloops Fire Centre to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect the public. From April 1 to May 11, 2016, BC Wildfire Service crews responded to 36 wildfires in the Kamloops Fire Centre. Many of these wildfires […]
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Tuesday
8 Days in May – begins next week
: center;”> SOAP members Bernice Myllyniemi, Aimee Grice, Diane Gludovatz and Nathan Linders accept the Okanagan Zone Drama Festival banner from O-Zone chair Adele Kuyek (centre) ** “It’s going to be eight great days to ‘play’ in May,” raves Nathan Linders, SOAP president. Since last spring, the South Okanagan Amateur Players have been gearing up […]
Peek a boo
Sheryl Parolin
Photographer Linda Irvine
3 day event starts today
Pictures from previous years BC Volunteer Firefighters Spring Training Seminar will host over 350 volunteer firefighters from across the province. It’s a weekend of practical skills training that leaves much of the theoretical work in their home departments. Every second year, the Oliver Fire Department’s (OFD) experience and history of exceptional training standards is partnered […]
Down the aisle
Not as much interest as expected
Once a wild sheep contracts the bacteria from domestic sheep they often die within days, but not before passing the bacteria on to other sheep in the population. This can have a cascading effect through adjacent populations which results in wide-scale die-offs. In 1999-2000 a die-off killed approximately 65% of bighorn sheep in the South […]