As well as loading Santa’s Sleigh with many, many toys, the Bargain Shop also donated a percentage of their sales to the Knights of Columbus Christmas Food Hampers. Manager Kim is shown here presenting a cheque for $555.75 to Knights Michael, George and Dale. Many thanks to yet another local merchant who supports the town.

Sunshine Helping to Power Museum A 21st-century power source is now helping a local heritage building to keep its lights on. Thanks to generous local donors, the Oliver & District Museum (built in 1924 as Oliver’s first police station) has a new pole-mounted solar panel array to help provide electricity in the Museum and the […]

Update on McKinney long-term care home: · Today Interior Health can confirm 27 residents and 13 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 at McKinney long-term care in Oliver for a total of 40 cases associated with this outbreak. · Each resident has an identified family contact; they have all been contacted and kept informed. […]

BC Cases 39 337 Recovered 28 448 Total death count 559 338 people in hospitals 76 of those in ICU Interior Health break out – Covid-19 Total Cases 2420 Recovered 1758 Total death count 6 16 people in hospitals 4 of those in ICU Source: BC Centre for Disease Control

Oliver Fire Department 101 pm at SOSS – alarm went off – no fire 806 pm at McKinney Place – alarm went off – no fire

Paul takes a much better pix than me and has agreed to help out this Xmas

Interior Health can confirm 27 residents and two staff have tested positive for COVID-19 at McKinney long-term care in Oliver. We would like to reassure all families of McKinney Place that we are working hard to contain the COVID-19 outbreak in a number of ways. This includes: enhanced cleaning, cohorting staff so they work only […]