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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Dorothy May “Dot” Keene November 23, 1930 – July 4, 2018 Dorothy May “Dot” Keene, of Oliver, BC and resident of Sunnybank Center passed away peacefully Wednesday, July 4th at the age of 87 years. Dot was born November 23, 1930 in Ralph, Saskatchewan to parents Harold Victor and Lilian Walls. She was one of […]

  Over a hundred kids thrilled to the presentation of Patrick the Reptile Man Thursday evening at the first of this year’s Summer Reading Club for Children at the local Library. This is one of the activities supported by funds raised by the Friends of the Oliver Library at their annual book sale which takes […]