The UN report on climate change which came out August 9th, 2021, suggests that we have to expect more heat domes, such as the one we went through in June. The electrical power usage during that time, attributed to air-conditioners, almost overloaded BC’s electrical grid. It did ‘brown out’ and even bring down many USA […]
Archives for 2021
One of Oliver’s great citizens has passed
Ella Evelyn “Dot” Cranston November 28, 1925 – August 5, 2021 On Thursday, August 5, 2021, “Dot” Cranston of Oliver passed away peacefully at McKinney Place Extended Care at the age of 95 years. She was predeceased by her husband Charles Edward Cranston and step-daughter Jill Sullivan. Dot will be fondly remembered by a loving […]
A reply to anyone out there – lol
Are we going to use the dinasours as an example of where the human race is heading ? I beg to differ to any analogy given by Steele, Pat, Hampson, Jessica and others with opinions. BTW why do women use someone else’s last name not their given last name. After the last big war WW2 […]
Sunday picks – a play on words for the birds
Now for a morning laff
Yes No Maybe – part three – no rain Saturday or overnight
The Steele report
Fires in BC, the USA, Turkey, Greece, Russia. Other places have unprecedented flooding or drought, heatwaves for extended periods of time. We were warned about our careless wasteful habits and we somehow believed cheaper was better than safer. So what happened? We ticked Mother Nature off. We compromised our surroundings. We have allowed lax forest […]
by Rick Knodel, Area C director RDOS in Oliver
Concerns to be directed to Ministry or Transportation and Infastructure (MOTI) The first thing for me that comes to mind is the absolute need to rapidly establish a new more restrictive policy on roadside mowing during extreme or even high fire ratings. Currently B.C. WFS restrictions are questionable at best for the conditions we are […]