Along with the fall season’s many activities comes Oliver’s annual right-on-your-doorstep opportunity to help get those shelves at our local food bank stocked for winter. Soon volunteers will be traversing Oliver and communities all over BC on foot to distribute donation bags and pick up food donations. You might not think a few cans and […]

Misdirected Compliments A group of friends had gathered in a home for an evening of fun, food and fellowship. One person in the group was a photographer who took great pains to produce good work. As the pictures were being admired while they were passed around, the hostess remarked, “These are really good. You must […]

The Province is amending Wildlife Act regulations to enforce the closure on the grizzly bear hunt, increase the amount of meat a hunter retrieves from big game species and require hunters to carry all their species licences during a hunting trip. The changes came into effect earlier this year. To help enforce the ban on […]

HOME SWEET HOME, YEAH RIGHT! Once again, here I sit amidst the clutter. Dust accumulating on all surfaces, oddments of clothing hanging over furniture, a cat draped over the arm of a chair and folded laundry piled up on the kitchen table. Am I ill, not feeling up to my usual happy homemaker self no, […]

At Ok Falls – Friday evening

McIntrye (Vaseux) Creek – picture at Deer Park – wild creek in the spring damaged land and roadway. While Okanagan water purveyors are generally experiencing average supply conditions, regional drought conditions have escalated after weeks of hot, dry conditions. Kokanee and other fish species need sufficient flows in the fall to successfully spawn and fisheries […]