Photo supplied by Aimee Grice, Venables Theatre On September 22nd, we lit the theatre lobby up in RED to participate in the Canada wide Day of Visibility for the Live Event Community, an unprecedented and united show of support for the live event industries in Canada. Search #lightuplive to see photos of other participating venues […]

Quick Facts: * Illicit drug toxicity death rates involving males have increased in recent months and have remained high, whereas rates of death involving females declined to average levels in August 2020. * Illicit drug toxicity death rates for those aged 19 to 59 have increased in recent months and remain high. * Illicit fentanyl, […]

September 26th is Oliver’s BC Thanksgiving Food Drive’s 10th anniversary! Because of the COVID-19 concerns this year brings, there will be NO DOORSTEP DONATION PICK-UPS OR BAG DROP-OFFS. Instead, you can support the Oliver Food Bank and the 2020 BC Thanksgiving Food Drive in any of the following ways: By dropping off food donations (non-perishable), […]

Here are the Winner’s for this weeks draw Regular Draw $52.00 – Ticket 90 – Heather Frank Regular Draw $100.00 – Ticket 346 – Heather Falkenholt

BC Tree Fruits – owners of the Monashee Packinghouse in Osoyoos (now closed) seek to exclude more than 5 hectares of land for other purposes that agriculture. How many hectares are you proposing to exclude? 5.2 ha What is the purpose of the proposal? For over 80 years, this parcel has been utilized for the […]

Reliably informed that voting is now taking place – in a virtual context – to select a candidate for the upcoming provincial election. Two candidates in the running: Aimee Grice – Town of Oliver Councillor Roly Russell – Rural Director (Area D Grand Forks) and Chair of the Kootenay Boundary Regional District Results should be […]

What happened on September 8th – readership of ODN spiked on that day? 80,313 visitors in previous 30 days Those viewers looked at 206,127 items on the pages of ODN Most startling is the average viewer stayed on the website for more than 2 minutes so that means – some less and some more gaining […]

It would seem that the Liberal Party of BC, like the NDP is starting to play hardball and both parties  seem to indicate they do not want nominating meetings… they do NOT want democracy and they are about to scare away members from voting and financial support. That is the message given to me this […]