The Osoyoos Fire Department donated $5,000 to South Okanagan General Hospital to help acquire this new trauma stretcher, flanked by nurse Teresa Fortune and Paul Brunner from the Fire Dept. Construction continues on a $1.25-million upgrade to the SOGH Emergency Department due to be completed by late December. Submitted by SO Medical Foundation

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The Steele Report Post Election Edition Ah, for the silence of an autumn morning.  The election is over. Time to gather up the paperwork and balloons and get ready for the aftermath. As predicted it is a Liberal Minority with a strange equation.  The conservatives finished second with 122 seats yet they will have less […]

  By ROY WOOD The free local tax ride enjoyed by churches in Osoyoos could hit a snag next year after a council member suggested the tax exemptions be reviewed individually. Under the Permissive Tax Exemption Bylaw, non-profit organizations and places of worship are exempt from paying local property taxes. What routinely happens is the […]

South Okanagan-West Kootenay 2015 incumbent: Richard Cannings, NDP 2019 winner: Richard Cannings, NDP Cannings won with about 800 votes more than Tory Helena Konanz 24304 23505 Liberal Connie Densiuk well back at 11, 481 Green Party’s Tara Howse at 5520 People’s Party Sean Taylor 1588

  92nd Ave project moves on step closer  Despite spirited opposition expressed at a public hearing two weeks ago, council unanimously passed third reading for the six-unit townhouse development in a keyhole property off 92nd Avenue. One of the issues raised at the public hearing centred on what might happen if the current developer abandons […]

  By ROY WOOD Despite being a million dollars short of their first-phase fund-raising goal, the Osoyoos Museum Society will forge ahead with its relocation project starting early in the new year. “We’ll be in there with sledgehammers on January 2,” executive director Kara Burton told ODN this morning following a presentation to Osoyoos town […]