Property Tax to rise by 9% in 2022 and 9% in 2023 Sewer utility rates to rise by 4% next year and a further 5% in 2023 Water utility rates will increase by 5% in 2023 and an additional 5% in the year following. Utility rates will authorized by Bylaw in December. The […]
Archives for November 2021
Town of Oliver – Council Highlights
Five Year Financial Plan 2022-2026 Proposed Operating Budget – Council received the Five Year Financial Plan for 2022-2026 that incorporates the capital budget reviewed November 8th. The annual increases for property tax, sewer and water are part of a multi-year strategy to prepare for increased police costs and to meet inflationary, regulatory, safety and one-time […]
Five die in mud slides – Duffy Lake
Lisa Lapointe, chief coroner, has released the following statement about search and recovery efforts at the mudslide at Duffy Lake: “Over the past five days, a small team of forensic coroners has worked alongside law enforcement and search and rescue professionals to try to locate people who were reported missing after the extreme rainfall event […]
Sent to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9lsThbaQk http://aerial footage of Fraser Valley
Fire at the Bird’s
Time about 8: 34 pm smoke detected on the west slope of Bellevue Drive Fire department dispatched RCMP asked to attend What is left is a foundation owned by the Legion – there is no habitation but squatters or kids can use for ???? Fire extinguished and I went home to bed Thanks to the […]
Flashback two
From FB’s Oliver Heritage memories JUNE 16, 2016 The story of my “crazy Uncle Roman Bird” who lived halfway down the steep hillside off of Bellevue Road in Oliver. He was a town character that few he ever met forgot including me. Crazy Roman Bird by Denny Bastian (2012) Crazy Roman Bird, my pseudo Uncle, […]
Flashback – r u interested ?
Don’t call Jack Bennest, 73 years of age, a blogger. He will correct you. “Websites are what they’re called, websites. Blogs, they become just another idiot on the internet,” he said Bennest, a former broadcast journalist with CKNW in Vancouver and CBC in both Vancouver and Edmonton, founded his all-news website a decade ago. Due […]
North East South or West – gas up quick
To help keep people safe and re-establish the movement of critical goods and services following severe flooding and landslides, the Province is taking temporary measures to ensure fuel (gas and diesel) is prioritized for essential vehicles, while keeping it available to British Columbians. Measures to restrict non-essential travel to and from impacted areas are also […]