Annual used book sale – Friends of the Oliver Library today Saturday

Spelunkers A spelunker is one who makes a hobby out of exploring and studying caves. Exploring caves is an enticing adventure. We are not spelunkers but we have visited caves with stalagmites and stalactites, huge caverns and side passages, underground lakes and marvelous formations. We’ve experienced the utter blackness of lights out. It can be […]

Pop To pop corn is to heat the kernels until they ‘pop’ making a fine snack with just a bit of salt or butter. To have and drink a pop was to get a soda, with all those bubbles in there and a bunch of sugar that I didn’t usually have, so yum, and be […]

DEAR SIR OR MADAM Remember when formal letters from official agencies uses to start with dear sir or madam? Well all that is a thing of the past. It is now a huge faux-pas to assume that anyone actually falls into one of these categories. This gender thing has become ridiculous and utterly confusing and, […]

RCMP believe 29 Okanagan wildfires were caused by arson and are all connected. A deliberately set wildfire quickly spread through a Lake Country neighbourhood on July 15, 2017. Ralph Smith was just getting ready to settle in for a nap one day last summer when a wildfire suddenly ignited near his home in Lake Country, […]

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