A B.C. Fruit Growers’ Association survey shows more than 67 per cent of farmers have reduced fruit production as a result of uncertainties and risks created by COVID-19. The survey paints a bleak picture of the pandemic’s impacts on an already struggling fruit industry, and the real threat to food security in B.C. as producers […]
Archives for June 2020
by Mike Monaghan
Red Wing Black
Tomorrow is Canada Day
Oliver Parks and Recreation in partnership with the Oliver Fire Department are offering a free “drive-through breakfast” at the Community Centre parking lot July 1st 8:30-10:30am Egg sandwiches, hashbrowns, juice and coffee will served while supplies last. Attendees must stay in their vehicles at all times and staff and volunteers will be following COVID-19 safety […]
Big little announcement
ODN is about to take a bit of a summer holiday – July and August This has been an interesting year so far – six months to go until 2021 How will this affect you? Not much… but your expectations may be higher than I can meet at the moment So ODN will be here […]
A little sun each day
by Pat Whalley
KILL OR CURE Those of you who have followed stories of my childhood, growing up with my grandma, have heard some of the horror stories of my gran’s cures for all ailments. In today’s world, grandma’s cures would be thought of as odd and a bit eccentric, two hundred years ago she would probably have […]
Grads 2020 – great work for 12 years
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Quest Column
A rare occurrence It is not often that I find myself in agreement with Prime Minister Trudeau but in his decision to not get on board with a prisoner exchange involving Meng Wanzhou – he is right. To yield to what the Chinese government has now admitted to being hostage diplomacy would put every Canadian […]