Join us October 3rd for local garlic growers, artisan crafters, food carts, live entertainment and more! This family friendly event is in support of the Oliver Elementary School Farm to Table lunch program. Admission is by donation to the program and the festival runs from 11am to 5pm.
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In Oliver, we have formed a Refugee Sponsorship Committee to try and help one family from Syria. We have never met them and have only just recently learned their names – they are the AL LWISI family. We have only a small amount of information given to us by Immigration Canada, so we know that […]
Jail time ordered
Judge says: “No doubt Mr. Roberts will suffer the wrath of public scorn for a very long time to come.” Summerland businessman Joshua Roberts has been sentenced to six months in jail by Judge Greg Koturbash in a Penticton courtroom. Roberts, 39, received the sentence after pleading guilty to a count of sexual exploitation. The […]
Candidates go three-on-one at Oliver forum
By ROY WOOD In what was often a three-on-one gang-up at the Frank Venables Theatre on Wednesday evening, the four main candidates in South Okanagan-West Kootenay laid out their party positions on a number of issues and touted themselves as the best choice for Member of Parliament. Conservative Marshall Neufeld gamely defended the Stephen Harper […]
Request For Qualifications and Expression of Interest
Local hopefuls for an MP’s chair at Frank Venables Theatre
The four major parties represented Wednesday in Oliver to an audience of about 250 people from the area. Candidates (l-r) Richard Cannings – NDP, Conservative Marshall Neufeld, Connie Denesiuk -Liberal and the Green Party’s Sam Troy (far right) Once the event is concluded – ODN will have full coverage with Roy Wood, reporter.
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Letter to the editor
Force of Fortis Last Friday we received a ” Final Notice” from Fortis BC to have our locked analog meter replaced with a ” smart meter” with either the radio signal on or off , or they will disconnect our power immediately. We wanted to keep our analog meter because of all the negative effects […]