The throne speech highlighted concrete actions government will take over the next year to ensure that B.C. comes back from the pandemic stronger and more resilient: * improving health care so B.C. is better prepared for future challenges by addressing cracks in long-term care that COVID-19 has exposed, reducing surgery wait times and building more […]
Archives for April 2021
Tip of the lip
· Completed oversight for the Loose Bay Campground, which closed on October 31, 2020. A total of 1,451 persons stayed at Loose Bay for a total 13,424 nights with no COVID-19 exposures or outbreaks Grants · Continued work on the Similkameen flood response and mapping projects through UBCM grant. ($138,957) · Continued work on […]
Downloading – at its finest
RE: ADDITIONAL CAPITAL FUNDING REQUEST FOR THE 2021/22 FISCAL YEAR Request from IH to designation Penticton walk in clinic as a HOSPITAL As a follow up to our funding request letter dated December 17, 2020 we would like to present you with an additional project, for which Interior Health (IH) has received government approval to […]
by Robert Sieben
This is the Pecker that “Woody the Woodpecker” is based on… the male Pileated Woodpecker. The red moustache on males only.
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Geology camp gets new digs
Fieldwork has been part of UBC earth sciences curricula for almost 100 years, and the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences has based its primary geological field school near Oliver, BC since 1960. Most of the buildings that comprised the old Geological Field Station complex were moved onto the property in those early years, […]
by Edwin Dukes
Cool spring in the orchards
Fire and sirens
7181 Island Way Rd Estimated time of dispatch 2:13 pm Saturday At rear of property near hike and bike path Grass fire…..This is the third fire on path and is huge and has burned fencing, at least two huge willow trees and came within a couple of feet of burning a playhouse. The family, […]