BACKGROUND: Staff have working with two different Engineering companies, over the last three years, to get more maintenance and improvement details to start rehabilitating Fairview vehicle bridge. Bridges are expensive structures and properly maintaining them will make them last longer into the future. The Fairview bridge was inherited by the Town from the Ministry of […]
Archives for May 2021
Change is constant – next the local building code
BACKGROUND: The BC Energy Step Code is an optional compliance path in the BC Building Code that local governments may use to incentivize or require a level of energy efficiency in new construction that goes above and beyond the requirements of the BC Building Code. Builders may voluntarily use the BC Energy Step Code as […]
April 28 – six years ago – a flashback
Do you know Jack? by JAMES MILLER, Managing Editor Penticton Herald Jack Bennest is a credible newsman. By all accounts, he’s a fairly decent town councillor, at least that’s what the people of Oliver think who keep re-electing him every couple of years. The owner and operator of Oliver Daily News, a successful news website […]
Backwoods garbage
On my way to Penticton spotted illegal dumps N of Ok Falls and then on the Rd past St. Andrews Email me if you wish to help me with this cleanup project !! Because of Covid you would need a vehicle and a mask High quality industrial type gloves Maybe a shovel would help and […]
From the Publisher
Oliver Daily News has served the community for over ten years and it must stop publishing soon. ODN is a spicy little blog. My recent remarks were insensitive but reflect my strong views on certain social issues. As a gay man and a person with substance abuse problems – I have reached an age where […]
Hack creek continues southward
This is called “west arm of the Okanagan” a creek that surfaces from the wet water table forms a creek, goes under the Highway heading to larger oxbows that pool the water slowing it down. By the time it gets to the river it has fueled the aquifer and this year in the basin it […]
by John Kiss
First bloom in the cacti patch