The Steele Report So everyone’s waiting for ‘normal’ to return. We shouldn’t rub our hands together in glee just yet. I think there will be two normals. The new version of our personal normal and societies collective vision of normal. Neither of them might be anything we are anticipating. To get out of a financial […]
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by Jessica Murphy
Prompt: If it rained food what would you want the forecast to look like. PEACE REIGNS “It’s bad enough when it rains water. Who wants food?” Tom looked at the sky and glowered. “Anyone who’s hungry, I guess,” replied Bill, Tom’s friend and fellow curmudgeon. They were sitting on Tom’s porch, a careful two metres […]
The plan – an interview with Shawn Goodsell – Town of Oliver
Preliminary routing plan from June 7, 2017. Question: Can you give a brief update on the plan for the Gallagher Lake “pipe” – I understand the pipe will be on the west side but I did know this until recently. [SG] “This has always been the route from even the first preliminary drawings to be […]
Fence sitter !
Duck on vinyl fence by Mike Monaghan
Oliver arena needs improvements soon – update
Couple of calls from concerned residents about masked men entering the Oliver Arena with full protective gear. As a reporter I have attended several of this calls at night after an alarm goes off and the monitoring company gets the local fire department dispatched. Wednesday we made inquiries with Carol Sheridan, Manager on the situation. […]
by Edwin Dukes
More trees, more colour
Meals to students a priority
In school districts of all sizes, staff acted quickly to use their resources and work with community organizations and local businesses to ensure students who normally received meals at school would continue to have them at home. Teachers, education assistants, administrators and school support staff are putting together weekly grocery hampers for families, delivering food […]