Inmates are running a craft business  at the Okanagan Correctional Centre. For little more than the price of materials, members of the public can order items produced in the jail’s multi-purpose shop, where inmates learn skills like metalwork, woodwork and tailoring as part of a program designed to make them more employable once they’re released. […]

Attraction There is a movie called The Secret about the Law of Attraction. It was wildly popular a few years ago because it promised we could have anything we wanted, if we just followed the formula. The movie featured an example of a man who had crashed his small plane and not expected to live […]

  Thanks to the Oliver Community Arts Council and its members

  South Okanagan  Bantam Recreation Hockey Team got silver medals at Castlegar Hockey Tournament last weekend. All players showed amazing hockey, good behavior on the ice and great efforts. Thanks a lot to the coaches and to all parents and family members who came to support our team. Way to go South OK!!! Submitted by Olga […]

“Mourning Dove in the morning sun” Until five years ago or so the Mourning Dove was a common sighting…However, the influx of the Eurasian Collared Dove at that time displaced the Mourning Dove so it is now a rare sighting… So it is now rather exciting to see these gorgeous birds !

Update – Man identified in Oliver suspicious occurrence Police have positively identified the individual associated to the vehicle involved in the report of a suspicious occurrence incident Wednesday morning in Oliver. Police are satisfied through discussions with all those involved that the man’s intentions were not criminal in nature. “Oliver RCMP would like to thank […]