The SOSS Senior Photography exhibit: “Finding Beauty: Life in a Small Town” attracted a crowd of impressed parents and shutterbugs on Thursday January 18. SOSS art teacher Lindsey McVicar presented her class with two major photography projects during the fall semester. One, an autumn expedition, paired senior students with kindergarteners. The seniors took portraits of […]
Archives for 2018
Festival of Trees raises $7000 for two children's charities
Oliver Osoyoos Wine Association’s Festival of Trees has come and gone but its legacy continues, with the event raising $5,513.20 for the BC Children’s Hospital and an additional $1,783 for the South Okanagan Children’s Charity. “It’s a wonderful feeling to give back and remember what the holidays are really about,” explains Executive Director, Jennifer Busmann. […]
National Park – yes – no ??
Folks: this is an olive branch – use it, explore it, discuss it. The feds are now committed to a plan. Only you can change the plan, modify the plan or ……. ( for the record this info here came to me Thursday ) Good discussion happening – nice to see. Keep it clean. […]
by Pat Whalley
ONWARD AND UPWARD Moving from a roomy home in England to a fourteen foot trailer amid the trees in the hills above Port Moody was quite a change, as you can imagine. We arrived at midnight on Halloween 1974 so the first day of November we began our new life, which was quite a […]
World record – 3500 pounds of BC sugar
Special thanks to Ernie Race – who found and sent in this classic pix from the event Come out to the Rotary Club of Oliver meeting January 23. Talk – and eat – Cherry Pie. Who knows, you may see yourself on BC Was Awesome someday soon! In 1950, Frank Sinatra and Rosemary Clooney recorded […]
Think about it with Joseph Seiler
Mirror ‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall…’ is a familiar line from Sleeping Beauty. The mirror, in this case, is not only showing the Queen herself, it is comparing her beauty to all others. Wow, quite a mirror. A mirror was a greatly prized object in early days as the technology to make a good one […]
On the Sunnyside
Kim Phuc, the Napalm Girl Nine year old Phan Thi Kim Phuc and 30 others were hiding in the temple of Trang Bang, South Vietnam. It was the summer of 1972. Enemy soldiers were threatening to shoot them if they were found. Suddenly there was a new threat – bombs in canisters of napalm that […]
by Sue James
Peeking ?