A public engagement on electoral reform ends in one month, and British Columbians are encouraged to make their voices heard to help shape the referendum that will determine how B.C. votes. The engagement, launched by Attorney General David Eby on Nov. 23, 2017, invites British Columbians to learn about different voting systems and to complete […]

12:20 pm Friday –  Oliver firefighters dispatched to a car accident on Road 22. A car had landed in an oxbow – east of the wooden bridge. Rob Graham of the Oliver volunteer fire department says: “Vehicle rolled into oxbow off road 22. Two occupants of the vehicle managed to get out of the vehicle. […]

Sixty years ago, the Grader room at The Oliver Co-Operative Growers Exchange ( known as The Packing House ), was a gigantic, noisy, very complicated room. Belts, rollers and chains moved in every direction at ground level, waist height and over head. At one end of  the room  apples were hand trucked in from the […]

Try to remember who was carrying that torch. Below picture sent in by Paul Eby

Usufruct Usufruct is a olde legal term meaning that something can be used but not consumed or harmed. Renting a field is an example of a usufruct transaction. I can plant and harvest and sell the crop but am not permitted to take away the topsoil. If you lend me a tool, it is expected […]

Gratitude Written from the perspective of the homeowner. Our house was directly across the street from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients. One summer evening a truly awful looking man came to the door. His small body was stooped and shrivelled and his face was red, raw […]