Prompt: One of the 18 men who survived the three-year journey under Magellan’s command during the first recorded circumnavigation of the globe in 1519, was not, newly recovered information reveals, in fact a man… BEST OF MATES Gideon disembarked from the fishing sloop that had brought him from Cadiz to the seaside village of Santo […]

The Oliver Starfish Backpack Program is up and running once again. It provides food for students who would normally go without on the weekend. This program is offered to all three schools in Oliver with the high school being the newest addition to the program. We were fortunate to have a donation from the Food for Thought […]

Have you ever joined the grand kids in popping bubble wrap? Yes you are an adult but some things are fun anyway. Popping all the latest fear monger topics is like popping bubble wrap. No matter how many bubbles you pop and chuckle there are always more. At least we are introduced to new absurdities […]

Zvi If we think we are lacking things to be thankful for this weekend, the following story may change our minds. Zvi Weichert was put into a Polish orphanage by his Jewish parents when the Nazi invasion of Poland was underway in 1939. He was 10 years old and told by his mother to make […]

*** David Stocks of Penticton died at the end of September at home. David was the youngest of five children born to Lumb and Marion Stocks. David’s father came to the Okanagan in 1910. Had a great look around and decided to make the valley his home. He went back to Britain to marry a […]

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