Flashback Saturday 2011 – Megan and Trent worked all day to raise funds for a local student in need – Great looking lemonade stand. No more fuel sales at OK Tire from February 1st and onward……… Kristina and Chris Murray will continue offering personal service – tires, mechanical services, oil and filter changes and services you […]
Archives for 2019
Quote of the week
Words of Wayne Belleville of Oliver “I had been shot, laying in the dirt and he (Ron Tenecyke) drove off and the thought running through my mind was ‘Holy shit, I’m not going to survive this.” “I would love for there to be a day that I don’t think of that asshole,” laughed Belleville. “That’s […]
Support for National Park is decreasing – residents want a vote
The South Okanagan Similkameen Preservation Society (SOSPS) is pleased to present a newly commissioned poll regarding the proposed National Park Reserve. This contentious issue has many residents concerned about the environmental and economic impacts of a new National Park Reserve. The new poll was commissioned by the SOSPS through the firm Innovative Research Group, with […]
Pavement that needs a “fixin”
Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen board members had long lists of roadway complaints to share with Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure representatives at this week’s meeting — issues operations manager Jeff Wiseman could only agree were problems that keep on piling up. Wiseman and Ryan Thorpe, both with the ministry, laid out expected 2019 projects, including ongoing flood […]
Delays cost time and money – no decision in court today
A sentence hearing before Judge Michelle Daneliuk Friday – turned into a confession by a crown prosecutor and arguments by the defence lawyer that the longer this situation continues the more his client has to pay and pay. It was not long ago that a judge stated firmly this matter should be determined by November of 2018 with […]
Down the aisle
Think about it with Joseph Seiler
Usufruct Usufruct is a olde legal term meaning that something can be used but not consumed or harmed. Renting a field is an example of a usufruct transaction. I can plant and harvest and sell the crop but am not permitted to take away the topsoil. If you lend me a tool, it is expected […]
Sunday evening – total lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse will take place in the evening of Sunday, January 20. A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that nearly coincides with perigee—the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit—resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as viewed from Earth. The […]