Royal LePage Real Estate Services has been named the 2015 Outstanding Corporate Citizen by the Canadian Franchise Association. Royal LePage, Canada’s largest and oldest real estate firm, received this award for demonstrating sustained support for the local communities through its network of over 600 brokerage offices from coast to coast, and for philanthropic innovation on […]
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Jobling estate spends half million for health care students
Donors and the public are invited to a pair of opening ceremonies at Penticton Regional Hospital this Friday from 2-4 p.m. The South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation raised $1.5 million in 2013 to update the Digital Imaging (X-ray) department at PRH. State-of-the-art digital radiography equipment was purchased to replace the outdated cassette equipment in the […]
A greener community with a bit of $$ help
Boundary-Similkameen receives grants to support greener communities OLIVER – The B.C. government has provided $27,325 to communities in the riding of Boundary-Similkameen in recognition of their commitment to support healthier, more sustainable communities. Receiving grants are: Grand Forks: $7,866 Keremeos: $883 Midway: $2,584 Oliver: $5,509 Osoyoos: $10,533 “This is a great example of the province […]
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Zip line location – everyone seems to want one
Back roads – an asset and a liability
In a new report on the state of access management, the Forest Practices Board estimates that B.C. now has over 600,000 kilometres of resource roads and concludes that the provincial government’s information about and management of these roads remains inadequate. “It is extremely difficult for the public and other users of resource roads to have […]
Born one day – swimming the next
On a hot bright day at the river – submitted by Pauline Grey
New leadership at the Elks
Installed Tuesday at the – B.P.O.E 267 Lodge Left to right: Ron Ethier, Annie Zandvliet (Past President), Lilly Zekanovic, Elfi Lang, Stefano Marciano, Frieda Stratton, Veronica Eadie, Gary Guraliuk and Barb Norum