National Park (Reserve) Day Monday at local town council One. Will there be a public meeting Tuesday at the Community Hall ? No. Cancelled by Parks Canada – they don’t like meetings with more than 150 people. And I thought the locals were paying for the hall. I was wrong. Bill Ross heads a local […]

Park maybe be closed for the season but you can walk it Thanks to John Chapman for making the walk to the very end of it. Osoyoos – looking north – a panoramic view

  by Julie Martineau

DIFFERENT BED, DIFFERENT COUNTRY         Tonight I sleep in my own bed.  It is getting old and has various hills and craters that wrap themselves round my body when I get in.  My pillow is equally old, is stuffed with feathers and can be screwed up into a tiny ball or shook out into a full […]

Superintendent Ted De Jager named President of the BC Association of Chiefs of Police in 2019. Officer-in Charge of the Penticton South Okanagan Similkameen Regional RCMP Detachment’s Superintendent De Jager, has been named the newly appointed President of the BC Association of Chiefs of Police (BCACP). At the recent quarterly meeting, De Jager was elected […]

Emergency crews respond to early morning house fire On February 10 th, 2019, at 3 a.m., Police and Fire crews were dispatched to a house fire, located at 221 Huth Avenue, in Penticton Officers and fire crews arrived to discover a fully engulfed house fire at this location. Once the flames were extinguished, fire crews […]

Public Disclosure Required for the Office of Mayor – Town of Oliver Candidate Ron Hovanes spent about 936 dollars and had the advantage of signs paid for in a previous campaign bringing his disclosed expenditure to $2136 Candidate Martin Johansen spent $855.09 Hovanes declared no financial sponsors Johansen received cash to pay for the bulk of his […]