OHMS? – No, they serve us It had not been my plan to write this last post before Christmas in defence of the monarchy, but the recent op-ed of Roy Wood demands a response. Meanwhile, to all, I send my best wishes for a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, prosperous New Year. You ask, […]
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To the food bank
Oliver Community Arts Council presents donations of food goods and cash totalling $805 to the Oliver Food Bank, the results of the Holly Jolly Oliver! concert. L – R: Brian Mapplebeck (OCAC member), and food bank volunteers Julie van Dusen, Marianne Hutterli, Merrill Bjerkan, and Jim Ouellette. Thank you to our audience, participants, and volunteers […]
Thanks to those that help in our community
Contributors towards ODN gift to the Oliver Food Bank Oliver Community Arts Club Knight of Columbus Outreach Signs Oliver Daily News and those that supported the ODN Christmas Card Fund Thank you
On the Sunnyside
Christmas Eve Marvel. It was the year of 1862, during the Civil War. It was a bitter cold night, with bright moonlight that gave clear view to everything below. A Confederate Soldier was on picket duty, when across the field, a Union Soldier who was also on picket duty, came into full view. The Confederate […]
Weather? Snow and road condition alerts
Coquihalla Highway – Hope to Merritt Highway 3 – Hope to Princeton via Allison Pass Hazardous winter conditions are expected. An approaching frontal system will track inland today and stall across the southern interior tonight. Snow at times heavy will begin this evening and persist through Friday. Snowfall amounts of 30 to 60 cm can […]
Large gift for SO General Hospital
Pat and Herb Wycherley and their family are donating $100,000 in support of South Okanagan General Hospital Osoyoos family makes major gift to SOGH Herb and Pat Wycherley’s support for South Okanagan General Hospital is very much a family affair. The Wycherleys, who both grew up on the Lower Mainland, moved to the South […]
Time to get out there….
My View
Will the House of Windsor… fade to black? As a life-long anti-monarchist, I must admit some delight in the recent discomfiture visited on Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, by his alleged trysts with a teenaged sex slave provided by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. One of my earliest memories is standing on a suburban Vancouver […]