New officers elected at the Okanagan Regional Library with a strategic plan getting approved. Chair Catherine Lord, the ORL rep from Vernon City Council, opened the meeting highlighting successes from the 2015 year, most notably the opening of the long-awaited new library branch in Summerland. While the building has only been open 4 months, statistics […]
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Park Place update – CTV investigates
Reporter Kent Molgat with Mayor Ron Hovanes today at Town Hall. All residents of Park Place requested to leave their homes to find other accommodation in the summer of 2013. Molgat was following up a lead about a lawsuit and how the Mayor felt about that many people being displaced. Mayor Hovanes expressed compassion for […]
In the legislature
42 percent increase in per student funding in BC says Minister of Education POTENTIAL SCHOOL CLOSINGS IN OSOYOOS – Hansard Report in Draft Form NDP Victoria MLA Rob Fleming: Recently, families in Osoyoos learned that they may lose one or even both of their public schools because of Liberal cuts and unfunded cost pressures onto […]
“When the red red robin comes a bob bob bobbing along” Sheryl Parolin
https://southokanaganphotos.today/articles/2016/02/17/132276-2/
1st turtle of year…. came up, saw his shadow and loved it.
Jim Linton – turtle farm
Public comment encouraged
Comment on Oliver Mountain Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan Oliver Mountain was proposed as a Goal 2 Protected Area in the finalized Okanagan Similkameen Land and Resource Management Plan of 2001 due to the significant ecological values found there. The Goal 2 has never been fully dedicated as a Protected Area and therefore it has not been […]