Correction to the RDOS Assistant Director, Terry Schafer comments on July 17, 2020. There are 5 creeks not 3 feeding into Sportsman Bowl. No earthen dam was taken out of the Upper Twin Lake and this was not a one- time event. On April 23, 2018 RDOS held a meeting of concern with Willowbrook and […]

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Police, fire and EMS attended a one car incident at Highway 97 and Rd about just after 5 o’clock this morning. Driver was able to get out of the small car – taken to SO General Hospital for check up Oliver fire crews directed traffic until police arrived Traffic disrupted for a short time.

The two most significant things to happen were the insulation (1980) and subsequent painting (1984) of the ice shed ceiling with fire retardant paint. Previously the ceiling was just truss rafters with nothing in them. Volunteer club members rolled scaffolding on plywood sheets over the sand floor with a crew of volunteers working to install […]

Not all of us can jump to the photo library and find a personal ” old tin bath ” picture but one reader did. I will let her tell the story. If you have a pix of you in a tin bath – send it on.

THE OLD TIN BATH How many of my generation were scrubbed in the old tin bath? I would think many of us because here, as in England, an inside bathroom was a bit of a luxury when we were kids. In Lancashire, Friday evening was always bath night. After dinner the copper boiler would be […]

Superintendent Brian Hunter in a report to Penticton Council – set for this week Penticton Detachment received 5,100 calls for service during this reporting period. 4,135 of these calls for service occurred within the municipality of Penticton. Total reported crime events in the municipality for the period was 1,751, which is down 19% from last […]