The South Okanagan Rehabilitation Centre for Owls, SORCO, will soon have a new manager.   Dale Belvedere was appointed by the board and will take on the new job March 1. The change come after executive manager Lauren Meads informed the board of her intention to leave the position.   Belvedere is no stranger to SORCO. […]

Julie Fredlund

With permission – Alice M. George-Thomas

The sole survivor of a shooting near Princeton will testify in a double-murder trial that opened today in B.C. Supreme Court. Bradley Martin took a bullet to his chest but was able to escape the shooting scene on Old Hedley Road where Robert Keith Wharton, 43, and Rosemary Fox, 32, died almost two years ago. […]

If you went to see the movie ‘Flashdance’ and wondered if there would be a time when women held jobs as welders, wonder no more! Osoyoos Secondary School graduate Kelsey Gorgichuk (shown left above) will soon be writing her journeyman’s exam. Kelsey suggested to the Board that she may have been influenced by her ‘Heavy-Duty Mechanic’ Dad; […]

Little evidence of a reported trailer on fire at Gallagher Lake (west side of Hwy 97). No police. No ambulance. Call 7:15pm Wednesday Location in daylight