RDOS directors have agreed to write at letter to the Provincial Government in support of a crown land tenure application for moorage for the Fintry Queen. That moorage would be located 9 km north of Penticton off Hwy 97. The applicant for tenure is Andy Schwab,  owner of the vessel which is moored cuirrently near Vernon. Kickininee Provincial […]

Evacuation Alert The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) has placed 64 properties in the Twin Lake area under Evacuation Alert due to the potential of flooding. All homes are adjacent to Lower Nipit Lake. A full list of properties and map are included in this document. The Twin Lake area experienced significant […]

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 […]