Most election races involving Rural Directors or Town Councillors involve a spending limit of $5000. Mayors can spend double that. Most will not in small areas like Oliver, Osoyoos, Keremeos and Princeton. In our neck of the woods only one RDOS race – Rural Oliver – Area C Randy Toor vs Rick Knodel Toor did […]

This was the lesson – Mrs. Lablanc’s grade 5 class and Mrs. Basso’s grade 6 class went to the dry creek bed near the Welcome Inn and collected rocks. Both classes painted them, and each student identified where they would like to drop their rock in the community. We have completed two walking trips to drop […]

by John Chapman Note: Road is actually called/renamed Willowbrook Rd I might have called it North from Greg’s, Mr. Moo’s family and Ed looking for companionship

Thinking Thinking is connecting ideas, thoughts in my brain. Thinking is the source of our decisions. It is from the thoughts that we think that we try to make sense of the world, and sometimes we believe that we do. It can feel threatening not to understand, we can lose our sense of place or […]

Biomimetics – What’s That? When engineers try to copy the design of some features in living creatures they are working in the field of biomimetics. One of the more recent endeavors involves the scaly skin of a sandfish skink lizard. Those scales do not overlap, they allow smooth movement forwards but resist any backward motion […]