Summer has finally arrived and the almost normal amount of traffic and people are enjoying the Region. It may seem it is just as busy as usual but for our struggling small businesses this is a make or break season for the year 2020 and it is not business as usual. Small business retail may […]

Busy evening for Oliver Fire Fighters   8:14 pm – called to Coast Oliver Hotel, an alarm sounding – cooking in a room. All patrons evacuated. No smoke detected – cleared stink of burning food. no damage, no injuries   7:49 pm – called to Deer Park to assist an ambulance crew with a patient […]

An employee of the contractor that operates the Osoyoos Landfill was taken to hospital after inadvertently crushing a container of chlorine that had been improperly disposed. On July 28 at 1020am, Osoyoos RCMP responded to a medical emergency at the Osoyoos Landfill. A contractor’s employee compacting freshly dumped waste drove over a container of solid […]

New protocol 60 students in a ‘group’ in elementary and middle schools 120 students in a ‘group’ in high schools Groups are not classes but students in any school will be – divided into these “student” groups that may see kids only in class or in school social settings. Take an elementary school of 300 […]

_ Quebec: 59,073 confirmed ( 5,670 deaths, 50,886 resolved) _ Ontario: 38,986 confirmed (2,769 deaths, 34,741 resolved) _ Alberta: 10,470 confirmed (187 deaths, 8,886 resolved) _ British Columbia: 3,523 confirmed (194 deaths, 3,076 resolved) _ Saskatchewan: 1,218 confirmed (17 deaths, 907 resolved) _ Nova Scotia: 1,067 confirmed (63 deaths, 1,004 resolved) _ Manitoba: 391 confirmed […]

Left to right: Andrew Reeder – RDOS Manager of Operations Michelle Weisheit, Chair – Water Committee – Willowbrook Rick Knodel, Rural Area C – RDOS Willowbrook Boil Water Notice lifted The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) has completed upgrades to the Willowbrook water system and has lifted the Boil Water Notice. The RDOS installed a […]