AUTOMATION, THE GREAT TIME SAVER                 Scientists spend a great deal of their time on inventions designed to save our time, not always too successfully.  The trouble with many automated devices is not the article themselves but the people using them. As regular readers of this column are aware, I am a bit of a dodo […]

Hans and Linda Kohler of Osoyoos are donating almost $78,000 to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation to help acquire medical equipment for the Penticton Regional Hospital expansion. The couple take a lot of pride in donating to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation’s $20-million campaign to provide the medical equipment for the $312.5-million Penticton […]

Getting to work on Island Rd. First two pix on property Global Gateway (Beaver Lodge) Photographer Gail Blidook – the Park Rill Creek and old West Arm of Okanagan River join north of the locations pictured in this series.

Mark Woods, Community Services Manager at the RDOS says the level of water impounded behind the roadway (Secrest Hill Rd) has dropped 6 feet from its high point in the past when residents were evacuated below in Sportsman Bowl. At the moment two pumps are assisting the enhanced flow of three culverts funneling water over the falls. […]