The Town of Oliver continues to take action to support citizens and businesses in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Yesterday, in a Special Closed meeting, Council directed Staff to bring forward changes to the 2020 Property Tax budget and utility rates to support taxpayers and citizens facing financial hardship. The changes that will be brought […]
Archives for April 2020
When does death…… normally occur?
A Tuesday note
This lesson is based on viewing the Ma (Margaret) Murray biography from The Canadians series. Murray became a legend in Canadian journalism despite her terrible grammar and spelling. Although her stories did occasionally generate public criticism, Murray had a loyal audience of readers. Ma Murray was a strong, independent woman who spoke her mind no […]
A nice story to end the day
Photos and story by Kim Santos of Kelowna “My heart has been warmed day after day hearing about people stepping up, donating time and materials during this crisis. If you are doing any more stories on people who are making PPE, my mom, Lia Pinske of Oliver, has been sewing up a storm over the […]
A night in the woods – around a fire
Snowmobilers become stuck, spend night on Mt Baldy Osoyoos RCMP requested the assistance of Oliver/Osoyoos Search and Rescue after receiving reports two snowmobilers had become stuck on Mt Baldy and failed to return to their base. Sunday – April 5 at 3:00pm, two snowmobilers, a 47 year old man and 39 year old man both […]
The Steele report
When it came to poor leadership south of the border Canadians could care less, that is until now. Canada and the United States have been neighbors, trading partners and until a few days ago, friends. That friendship has been severely damaged. No not for the reason of some masks and surgical gowns. It is about […]
Fleeing to the north – not a sound idea
McGill University psychology professor Ross Otto says there is a well-established psychological principle that may explain any decision by Canadians to flee to the North. In the early 1970s, psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman stated that humans have trouble estimating the likelihood of something happening to them because they are influenced by examples that […]
Option #3 selected by Osoyoos Council – a delay in tax payments
Options for Property Tax Due Date and Penalty application Section 197 of the Community Charter states that the annual Tax Rates Bylaw needs to be adopted after the financial plan but before May 15th. Due to the current COVID 19 crisis, and the effect it is having on our residents and businesses of our community […]