Hummingbirds They’ll soon be here! Hummingbirds are amazing. Their size, beauty and even aggressiveness are only outdone by their agility. They can fly forwards, backwards, up, down and even hover while beating their wings 50 – 80 times a second. Huge breast muscles make up 40% of the bird’s weight. Ounce for ounce some of […]
Archives for 2018
Where? 's – a cup of Jo
Photo by Marjo Koskinen who stopped to see old friend Tim north of Town
by Michelle Weisheit
Rd to Donna Cooke’s home – impassable for some time – temporary fix in place Second in a series of articles on Willowbrook water issues This is a letter (email) from Weisheit Linda Larson MLA and Jeff Wiseman, MOTI (Highways) I am writing to you once again regarding the water issues in Willowbrook. The lack […]
Regional police chief receiving some pushback to recent remarks – calls a town hall meeting
On April 11th, 2018 from 7pm to 9pm, Penticton/South Okanagan Similkameen Regional – Detachment Commander, Superintendent Ted De Jager, will be holding a Community Policing Forum at the Penticton Trade and Convention Center, with doors open at 6pm. For the locals in Penticton – another meet ya’ here invite: Penticton RCMP is inviting residents to […]
by Rick Knodel
ODN Publisher First of a series of stories on high water, health issues in Willowbrook, flooding, and creek/culvert maintenance *** Gold Tau road is once again impassable. This is an Argo (ministry) maintained road that was scheduled to be upgraded to prevent the failure by flooding that occurred last year. Once again a residence has […]
Osoyoos set to dole out over $60K in grants
By ROY WOOD The Osoyoos Festival Society, Canada Day Fireworks and the Royalty Committee are slated to grab the biggest pieces of the pie as the town prepares to hand out more than $60,000 in Community Service Grants. At Monday’s committee of the whole meeting, town council will peruse the short list of recommendations […]
$50 thousand more for MSP premiums
Following is a brief report of items discussed at the March 14, 2018 Board of Education meeting. The board was proud to recognize that of the 33 secondary students who participated in the recent regional Skills Canada Competition in Kelowna on March 9th, 15 students were awarded either a Gold, Silver or Bronze. The 5 […]
Non-partisan?
People from five South Okanagan communities met to encourage a “yes” vote for the upcoming provincial referendum on proportional representation. The referendum, which will give BC voters the choice of keeping the current first-past-the-post electoral system or switching to a system of proportional representation, will be held this fall by way of a mail-in ballot. The newly […]