Looking southeast to Bonaparte Mountain Washington State, elevation 7257 ft, from Baldy Trail at 5700 ft. at base and 2000 feet more at peak Mount Bonaparte above sea level Okanogan Highlands 48°47′07″N 119°07′20″W The highest mountains in Washington about twice that size. corrections made to copy based on feet vs metres based on comparison to […]

What Where Why First posted January 31st 2012 – ODN had a lot of fodder for these types of mysteries – and we got most of them published in ten years – but the oddities are running out.

Early Days – Lasting Lessons My father died twenty years ago this year. He was born on an Alberta ranch, finished Grade 8 in a one-room school, and left home on his horse for good reason at the age of 16 in the Spring of ’37 to do the only thing he knew – cowboying. […]

The buzz is we are going to have a cold snap the like we have not seen before.  Really……. I am willing to bet some older folks remember some very cold winters in the past.  For those more recent arrivals to the valley, you have been living in a false winter paradise. Our family moved […]

The man accused of a 2017 armed kidnapping in Okanagan Falls has been acquitted of all 10 charges against him, marking the end of one of the longest and bizarre trials in recent memory. Afshin Maleki Ighani, 46, had his head down in the prisoner’s box as Justice Nitya Iyer delivered her verdict Friday afternoon […]

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