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Archives for June 2020
Scouting volunteers in the 70’s
A Picture of 50 years Introducing some of the Scouting volunteers of Oliver from decades long past. In the 1970s and 1980s Don Shippitt and Gail Blidook were instrumental in the leadership team of 1st Oliver Wolf Cub Pack, which had grown to two large Cub Packs in 1978. Blidook was carrying on a […]
Down the aisle
On the Sunny Side
Rusty This is a compelling example of extremely bad and very good fathers. Rusty “cowered in the corner of a dirty, roach-infested death row cell in a South Carolina prison. His body curled in a fetal position, he seemed oblivious to the filth and stench around him.” He had been sentenced to death for murder. […]
Approved – increased bus traffic Osoyoos to Kelowna
The applicant, Michael David Hathaway, doing business as Mountain Man Mike’s Mountain Man Mike’s (MMM), has a licence to operate inter-city buses (ICBs). The licence includes the following routes and minimum route frequencies (MRFs): • Route A (Kaslo – Kelowna) with MRF of 1 trip per week in each direction • Route B […]
100 T$ Sani Dump planned for airport…but….
The purpose of this report is to award the new “Airport Street Sani-Dump” project which was recently tendered and closed on June 9, 2020. Options to be debated Monday: 1. Award the ‘Airport Street Sani-dump’ to Mike Johnson Excavating Ltd for $99,233.40 which incorporates extra electrical work and pay option and increase the original budget […]
From the office – of the Premier of BC
Health professionals gambling on who is more intoxicated…..???? Native organizations asking Ministry of Health to hold a public inquiry into Indigenous-specific racism in the B.C. health-care system, with a focus on hospitals and emergency rooms, to ensure all front-line staff are required to take mandatory cultural training. “What is allegedly happening in B.C. hospitals to […]