Spartan Street Light options That Council choose one of the following lighting options; • Option 1 for $10,000, • Option 2 for $13,350, • Option 3 for $26,200, or • Budget an option for street lighting into the 2019 General Capital budget. RECOMMENDATION: Staff’s recommendation is to go with Option 1 and order new lamp […]

Safety To be safe, feel safety, is to be protected, unthreatened, at ease as a result. Maslow’s hierarchy of basic human needs has the safety and survival needs at the foundation. Food, warmth, without serious and present threat, those are the components of safety. When we are feeling safety we can put attention to ‘higher’ […]

Last of the season

I have lived in Oliver for all of my life. I grew up on farm and learned early that water was the life blood of our tree’s. I still remember changing long aluminum pipes by hand and was sure happy when solid set irrigation was introduced. I went to school  and graduated from S.O.S.S. I […]

Donation received  earmarked for Oliver/Osoyoos safe house. Sad to say that there are still many women in our area facing physical and mental abuse.  Sometimes they have to get out of the home in a hurry to avoid facing physical harm. Many women have no family in the area and have to turn elsewhere for […]

The Oliver Community Gardens have had a successful season, with beds fully rented, a new compost program, and increased donations to the Food Bank. The rented and food bank beds are all tagged, but theft of produce has been a problem this summer. This is particularly disappointing for the students participating in the “Young Farmer” […]

I am a 3rd generation apple/cherry farmer, whose family has been growing tree fruits in rural Oliver since my grandparents came to Canada from Portugal in the 1960s.  I have been farming my parent’s, Joe and Anna Machial, 11 acre orchard for the past 15 years, but like anyone who was raised on a orchard, […]