The South Okanagan Similkameen Preservation Society has been in negotiations with Parks Canada for the past 3 weeks to host a “stakeholders” meeting regarding the proposed National Park Reserve.  Only on Feb 8th (4 days prior) did our group receive confirmation.  The day after (Feb 9th) sending out invitations to our membership, Parks Canada wanted […]

Consultations with residents of the region are an important part of assessing the establishment of a national park reserve in the South Okanagan-Similkameen. The information sessions on the proposed national park reserve in the South Okanagan-Similkameen on February 12 with the Grasslands Coalition, the British Columbia Wildlife Federation and the South Okanagan–Similkameen Preservation Society and on […]

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 […]