Recently my younger brother corrected my English ….or pronunciation on the work bereft. I had called it ‘berift’ for most of my life. It is bereft.   Let me use it in a sentence:  ODN is bereft of local news. ……As are most newspapers and news websites in our area.   Why ?? No local […]

The 2020 homeowner grant threshold in British Columbia has been set at $1.525 million, maintaining that 92% of homeowners continue to be eligible for the B.C. Home Owner Grant. The threshold is down from $1.65 million in 2019 due to moderating housing prices throughout the province. The threshold has again been set to ensure the […]

NEW YEAR, NEW HOPES, NEW START     Christmas is all over, tree disposed of and precious ornaments stored away for another year.  New Year parties are now just a memory, empty bottles removed from the house and left over calorie laden nibbles have been finished.  Another year’s festivities over and done with. Those of us who […]

Walt’s New Year Howie was intent on his game of marbles ‘singles’ when a shadow covered him. A tall, lanky fellow greeted him and asked him if he would be interested in being part of his Sunday School class. Any sentence with school in it was bad news to Howie. “Not interested,” he replied. “May […]

Meningitis not a factor in death of Oliver youth who died October 12, 2017…. More than two years after a meningitis scare in the South Okanagan….. that led to mass vaccinations ….a coroner’s report looking into one death at the time of the outbreak has been released. Two years ago, Lee Pratt stepped forward to […]

Level A level is a tool used to determine if something, like say a wall, is parallel to the earth or perpendicular to the earth, or neither of those. We want our walls to be perpendicular to the earth and our floors to be parallel. If I am on the level it means I am […]