Roy and Marlene Phillips’ grandson underwent open heart surgery just one week after being born at Penticton Regional Hospital. Max Tremblay is now an active 10-year-old and one of key reasons why Roy and Marlene have donated $30,000 to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation to help supply medical equipment for the new Patient […]
Archives for 2016
Phillips family ties to PRH run deep
Thursday is Budget Day at RDOS – again
Press for larger There will be a first reading vote for these budget amounts this week. Note increase in Area C and Town of Oliver totals Note that Summerland has two votes and spends about $600 thousand Oliver (Area C and Town) spends more than 2.7 million $ and gets the same number of votes on […]
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2015 – Vaseux Lake Christmas Bird Count
19 December Reported by Dick Cannings 12 observers in 7 to 10 parties. -2 to 0°C, oxbows partly frozen, other water open; snow depth 0-2” in valley bottom, calm, mostly cloudy in valley with some sunny periods. Cackling Goose 11 Canada Goose 224 Trumpeter Swan 62 Tundra Swan 6 Wood Duck 4 Gadwall 2 Eurasian […]
Apex / Hedley bird count 2015
Apex-Hedley Audubon Christmas Bird Count Eva Durance, organizer The Apex-Hedley Christmas Bird Count circle covers from Hedley on the west to Twin Lakes on the east and Keremeos to the south. Routes that can be covered are very limited, but count including high-elevation areas allow for counting of the particular species that live up high […]
2015 – Osoyoos / Oliver bird count
The 37th annual Oliver-Osoyoos CBC was held yesterday with 23 participants going out in 11-12 parties plus 4 feeder watchers. This is our lowest number of participants since 1992 but despite the poor turnout we managed to get 112 species. I’m still waiting for some feeder watchers to report but I don’t expect any additional […]
Rural report with Laird Smith
Well folks, here we are in 2016. Who would have thunk it would happen so fast? I’ve had two columns on former Reach For The Top student Pat Churchland. I put out a request for those who knew of or had information on the other three former Reach For The Top students who are Rees […]