South Okanagan Similkameen Transit System operating service provider BC Transit has awarded the contract to operate conventional and custom transit services in the South Okanagan Similkameen Transit System (with the exception of Princeton) to Penticton Transit Services LTD. (Berry & Smith), effective July 1, 2018. Penticton Transit Services LTD. (Berry & Smith) already operates the […]

TEA, THE BRITISH CURE-ALL                When I was a kid we always had a glass of water with our meals, it was either that or a cup of tea, which I didn’t like.  As I grew into an adult I realised it wasn’t the tea I didn’t care for but the way it was […]

Work to Protect Sportsmen’s Bowl   The Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) has been working with emergency pumping crews at Secrest Hill Road north of Oliver. Water levels have gone down temporarily behind the road, reducing the risk of the road failing and releasing a debris flow into downstream properties along Sportsmens Bowl Road. Ministry of […]

More work, more sand bags, more effort. Creek is spilling over all the efforts and presents danger. Seems Oliver Fire Department is alone with the problem tonight.    

Large format pictures ( press for larger ) Oliver Fire Department cooperating with crews from the Ministry of Forests have brought forward more than a thousand filled sandbags and crews to bolster Park Rill Creek (main arm) in the 200 block Sportsman’s Bowl Rd. near the gun range. Oliver Fire utilizing not only their own equipment […]

From: Al Hudec   The Comeau Decision – Bad news for Canadians and for the Canadian Wine Industry As a result of a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of Canada today, Canada remains the only nation in the world in which its citizens cannot readily consume their own domestic wines. Canadian fine wines are […]