ODN has learned that more than 100 prisoners housed in Oliver have been transported out over the course of the last three days. There are 394 inmates serving time or on remand in the Okanagan Correctional Centre. Most of those moved are women. Whether this shuffling around will continue is not known. But those moved […]
Archives for August 2019
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Outliving your retirement portfolio
The average life expectancy for a Canadian is just over 82 years. For those that make it to age 65, your updated life expectancy is around age 85. While it’s nice to see lifespans continually increasing, longer life expectancies do complicate many traditional ways of calculating retirement plans. With retirement phases now being measured in […]
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Some final thought from CAO at Osoyoos
By Roy Wood Today is the final day on the job for Osoyoos chief administrative officer Barry Romanko. He came to Osoyoos nearly 11 years ago after successful stints as a senior town manager in Jasper, CAO in Spirit River, Alberta and in the community development branch of the Alberta government. He announced his retirement […]
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Incendiary devices ?
At one point – late this afternoon the side of a mountainous hill exploded in “deep” black smoke. According to one source BC Wildfire is using chemical incendiary devices that burn hot and fast creating an up draft for the smoke. Pretty dramatic and scary at times. This fire was so hot I could feel […]