Search and rescue crews were busy Sunday in the South Okanagan, called out to two separate rescues. Penticton and District Search and Rescue, along with Oliver-Osoyoos Search and Rescue and CASARA were called in to help two lost hikers who called for help from their cellphone. “Two young women from Quebec were hiking near Brent […]

Fire Camp (Sawmill Rd) and Aerial Operations (Airport Street) – closed and town set to resume normal fall activities OLIVER – The Testalinda Creek Wildfire is now 95% contained after hard work from BC Wildfire Service crews. As of Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, the fire camp was demobilized in Oliver; however, 32 firefighters and one […]

I was musing on food this week, recalling how as a youth, Auntie Kay’s cooking was delicious. Of course no kid feels that anyone cooks as good as his own mother cooks and I was no different. Auntie Kay made the best cinnamon rolls ever. She always used butter coated with golden yellow sugar and […]

$30,000 cost of equipment and installation for a shaded-from-the-sun COVER in front of the Oliver Community Stage. Installed last week and ready for its first use at the Festival of the Grape. Staff will be putting up the cloth cover in the next week.

Temporary brine-pipe fix complete – at a discount costing about $21 thousand. Once a study is complete and financing is in place the Arena will be modernized at a cost of close to half a million dollars to give it 20 more years of use in the community. Carol Sheridan of the Oliver Parks and […]

OLIVER – A new, three-year base funding model for community visitor services centres in Oliver, Grand Forks, Greenwood and Keremeos will ensure more stable and predictable funding and allow for greater flexibility and innovation. Destination BC, the province’s industry-led destination marketing organization, has announced the three-year base funding model for the 108 community visitor centres […]