Delaney Wise and Shawn Hiibner seen at the Air Cadet hangar Monday evening. Two grade nine students at SOSS that made the archery team for Zone 2 at the BC Winter Games with the competition starting next week in Penticton. Both Wise and Hiibner – shoot Bare Bow.
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First in a series – chronic underfunding of Education in BC
Questions and answers about the underfunding of BC public schools February 2016 What is new in the 2015–16 district operating grants? The figures in the Ministry of Education three-year plan are published each year in the Operating Grants Manual. Based on the Ministry’s figures for total operating grants, there is no increase in operating grants […]
Rutland shooting – investigation at early stage
A shooting incident Monday afternoon in Rutland is taking the time of police. This afternoon at 2:17 Kelowna RCMP responded to a report that a man had been shot in the 100 block of Highway 33 East. Several police resources have been deployed in the area. The victim suffered what police describe as non-life threatening […]
Got what it takes? Close date Feb. 21
Okanagan Correctional Centre – Oliver OCC will be the largest provincial, sentenced facility in BC and will offer a comprehensive array of inmate work and rehabilitation programs. This new state of the art correctional centre opens this year. COR SV 18R – Correctional Officer (Growth Series) Requisition #: 29182 Department: Ministry of Justice SG […]
Masked thieves dump ATM on highway
Police are investigating after suspects dropped a stolen ATM on the side of the highway north of Kelowna. Sunday at 4:01 am, RCMP responded to a report of a break-in and theft from a gas station located in the 3600 block of Highway 97 North. Officers have determined that at least two masked men, associated to an older […]
Rural report with Laird Smith
I credit Jack Bennest as being elementary in helping me to discover who my father, Wally Smith was, as a man, a husband, an orchardist, a writer, and a father. He was all of those descriptions. You might ask what part did Jack play? Jack encouraged me to continue to write stories in ODN. At […]