Pat and Herb Wycherley and their family are donating $100,000 in support of South Okanagan General Hospital Osoyoos family makes major gift to SOGH   Herb and Pat Wycherley’s support for South Okanagan General Hospital is very much a family affair. The Wycherleys, who both grew up on the Lower Mainland, moved to the South […]

Will the House of Windsor… fade to black? As a life-long anti-monarchist, I must admit some delight in the recent discomfiture visited on Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, by his alleged trysts with a teenaged sex slave provided by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. One of my earliest memories is standing on a suburban Vancouver […]

Oliver-Osyoos Search and Rescue was awarded a grant of $100,000 to build a truck and trailer station in support of search and rescue efforts. The funds are part of $5 million released province-wide through community gaming grants. “We are excited to see these investments take shape as they will have a profoundly beneficial effect on […]

A Dog’s Life I cuddle my blanket whenever she goes. It’s lonely alone, as every dog knows. I wait in the silence for her to come home, for when she is here, I’m not alone. I don’t drink very much so I won’t have to pee. Peeing inside would humiliate me. But holding it hours […]

Tucked away in the pages of memory I recall how merchants went out of their way to decorate the stores for the Christmas Season. In recent years the tradition withdrew into a bit of a visual absence. At first many chalked it up to the cost of doing it. I spent the last several days […]

Some people like snow I do. How about you?

The Crime and Safety Committee decided to recommend  – hiring a Traffic Engineering consultant that would look at various traffic calming & safety measures between the four way stop at McKinney/Park Dr,  over the bridge, along Fairview Road up to Okanagan Avenue. Public Works will set up the speed reader to collect data along Fairview […]