By ROY WOOD The elevator planned for Desert Park will end up going to the arena and curling rink, at least partly because there are no events scheduled this year for the race track and grand stand facility. Part of the credit for the switch also goes to members of the International Curling Club, who […]

Submitted by Joan Lindsay National park Reserve Process is flawed   It is becoming clear that a Vancouver based group is running the show. The area parks Canada is stealing away from the people of the Okanagan Similkameen has been managed successfully by nature and the people of the area for centuries, before biodiversity was […]

  By ROY WOOD The folks working to develop the Osoyoos airport into something more than a country landing strip that doubles as a drag strip have received a boost of more than $30,000 from the town. Responding to request from the Osoyoos Airport Development Society (OADS), council agreed today to provide $15,000 this year […]

  By ROY WOOD The Osoyoos water system needs to be upgraded and expanded over the next several years at a cost potentially as high as $25 million. The town staff and council will spend the next several months studying the system’s problems and possible solutions. And it is possible that the result will be […]

Open Letter to * Sarah Boyle, M.Sc., P. Biol. Project Manager / Gestionnaire de projet, South Okanagan – Similkameen / Okanagan Sud – Similkameen Protected Areas Establishment Branch / Direction de l’établissement des aires protégées Parks Canada / Parcs Canada On behalf of the Board and Members of the South Okanagan Similkameen Preservation Society we […]

By ROY WOOD Members of Osoyoos council will get a chance to indicate their views on the future of the local airstrip as the society driving airport expansion comes looking for money from the town. The Osoyoos Airport Development Society will ask at Tuesday’s regular council meeting for a $15,000 contribution toward a “runway extension […]

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