Credits Flicker Keith Rajala My good friend Julie Martiniuk (former owners of Stone Boat Winery) suggested I let you know that I have some old photos of Oliver Elementary School back in 1945. I have included the grade 3 class from April, 1945 with the teacher June Lans who married Toivo Rajala and I am […]
Archives for 2021
Decisive victory
Councillor MILLER James -1666 GILBERT Isaac – 766 HANSEN Kate -718 BLAKE James – 95 BOULTBEE Amelia – 610 BROWN Steve – 399 BROWNLEE Karen – 237 COX Jason – 317 MACINTYRE Keith – 67 O’KELL Katie – 134
Senior editor at the Herald elected as Penticton councillor
“Well, just thank you to everyone for that overwhelming vote of confidence. It’s humbling. And thank you to the people who work so hard to get me elected. Thank you to the people who did things in their own little way, whether it was talking me up among friends or liking a post on Facebook […]
Towels and trunks
On the Sunny Side
Fathers The officials at one prison thought it would be a good idea to provide all willing inmates with a Mother’s Day card to send to their mothers. The response from the inmates was positive. Many were glad to use them. They then decided to do the same thing for Father’s Day, the next month […]
Down the aisle
Letter to the editor
I have in the last three years been part of the various crime prevention conversations at different levels of government. The one thing that all have had in common is an abundance of concern for those with mental health or addiction issues and rightly so. The one thing all these meetings lacked was any real […]



