Observations Saturday June 20 – lake level high but not as high as in previous years at freshet Owners indicate the danger is in wind storms where the water can move over permanent walls and make its way towards homes. Norm Gaumont – Vaseux Stewardship Group: “The water is up to everyone property and with […]

“The biggest challenge for the next 100 days will be to take conversations offline, depoliticize everyday life and rediscover the shared humanity and solidarity that seemed to have been awoken in the pandemic early days.” — Samuel Veissière, co-director, Culture, Mind and Brain Program at McGill University

I was thinking that next year I might run in the Boston Marathon with a goal to place in the top 3 overall. To reach that goal, and in light of the fact that I don’t normally run (anyone that knows me can attest to that) I won’t do any training or stick to any […]

Male House Finch

  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 […]