The Town of Osoyoos announced that Gina MacKay has been hired as the new director of planning and development services. MacKay comes from the Lower Mainland, where she was the manager of long range planning and special projects for the District of Mission. In that role, MacKay prepared the community’s new official community plan, […]
Archives for January 2018
$1 million gift
Claire and Ed Festel left a Whitehorse apartment building in their will to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation. The building in Whitehorse was recently sold for more than $1 million to help provide medical equipment for the Penticton Regional Hospital expansion. Both have passed away and the funds designated.
Condolences to the family
Obituary for the late Lucy Marie Grimard April 21, 1926 – January 9, 2018 On Tuesday, January 9, 2018, Mrs. Lucy Marie Grimard of Osoyoos passed away peacefully at her home at the age of 91 years. She was born on April 21, 1926 in Albertville, Saskatchewan and had a long happy life with family, […]
Did we mention snow?
Wednesday’s forecast
Curling club appreciates support of Oliver Lions
We at the Oliver Curling Club are very aware of the contributions that the Lions Club give our community! Our Junior program is in a rebuilding year and this donation offsets costs associated for many different components such as equipment, snacks for athletes, and our biggest event for Juniors is our Junior Bonspiel which will […]
Car smokes
8:30 pm Oliver Parks and Recreation parking lot One car with rear end fire. Extinguished quickly by Oliver Fire Department. Cause of fire not known.
Oliver criminals operating in Penticton ?
Firearms were seized and four people were arrested at a Penticton motel Tuesday in an ongoing investigation by the local RCMP detachment’s TE unit. Several uniformed officers, along with plain clothes officers and a police service dog reportedly moved in on the motel on Tuesday as a the group arrived in a pickup truck. Two […]
by John Kiss
Sixty Years Ago There were apple orchards from the US Border to Vernon. These orchards had only 40 trees per acre planted in perfectly straight rows 40 feet apart in every direction. These apple trees were giants. They had to use 20 foot long orchard ladders to prune, thin and pick the apples from them. […]