John Kurvink, RDOS Manager of Finance provided Council with an overview of the 2020 Tax Requisition and factors affecting the requisition. Overall the Town will contribute $1,561,388 in taxes including a parcel tax (Sterile Insect Release) of $4,543. The requisition has increased $81,313 over 2019. Okanagan Regional Library (ORL) – Don Nettleton, Chief Executive Officer […]

71th Annual Sheep Count at Vaseaux Lake Foothill Rangeson Sunday February 8, 2020. We had 58 Volunteers/Hikers attend with an 8am Start at the Vaseux Lake Campground. We’d like to thank this years volunteers who organized and cooked for the event: BC Trappers Association provided Hot Breakfast at Vaseux Lake Campground Thankyou Ryan and Glen. Thankyou […]

Inclusion of trench and air curtain burners in the agricultural chipping subsidy. The current chipping program is proving way too expensive for the smaller farms to employ. The rational at the time was that the chips could be tilled back into the land for composting. It was found that tilling these large amounts of chip […]

Kicking truck incident – request for information   RCMP in Oliver are hoping the public can identify a man in an alleged road-rage incident. On Friday February 7th, at 6:00 p.m., officers in Oliver attended to a report of an apparent road-rage incident. A driver was traveling south into Oliver near the Vaseux Lake rest […]

LEST WE FORGET Last November, like millions of other people in Canada, I stood with bowed head as the list of those people who gave their lives for our freedom was read out. I listened and agreed with the message from the minister, encouraging each one of us to strive for peace, in our towns […]

Part Four Let me ask you a question.  What is a camel?  There is no need for a lengthy explanation for the…. truth is this. A camel is a horse designed by a committee.  A committee is struck for two reasons.  One is because those in charge can’t see the road ahead.  Or they want […]