Bylaws: • Packinghouse Lane Road Usage Bylaw 1401 – Council adopted Packinghouse Lane Road Usage Bylaw 1401. This bylaw will see motor vehicle traffic restricted on a portion of Packinghouse Lane behind the Oliver Place Mall. • Security Issuing Bylaw – Gallagher Lake Siphon Loan Authorization Bylaw 1391 – Council approved the Municipal Security Issuing […]
Archives for November 2021
Weather Watch
The Steele report
Our perspective on a given subject is not always in tune with our knowledge or lack there of. In the realm of politics or religion for example, our beliefs and opinions are at times made up of what we were taught or heard growing up. As we grow we develop an ability to reason, some […]
Starfish back packs – Thanks to Oliver Rotary
The Oliver Starfish Backpack Program provides food for local children who would normally go without on the weekend. Backpacks are filled every week throughout the school year with nutritious food. It is truly a community effort and could not happen without the support of local businesses, service groups and individuals who all do their part to make […]
A beautiful day in the neighbourhood
CBC reports
It’s a day many Canadians have been waiting for: When the clock struck midnight on Monday, the U.S. land border reopened to fully vaccinated Canadian travellers following a 19-month shutdown. The United States has kept its shared land border with Canada closed to non-essential travel since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. […]
Then Came November
The wild month tinged with melancholy and the promise of shortened days, dull and dark. Just barely a day old it brought the long awaited rattle of rain on my roof and then later that week, a hard frost which finally decimated my summer Begonias. A mad rush of snow birds head south in their […]