By ROY WOOD Osoyoos civic tax bills will jump a modest 2.93 per cent for 2019 under the draft financial plan presented to council this afternoon by financial services director Jim Zakall. According to the report, for the owner of a single-family home assessed at $430,673, the civic tax tab will be $1,723.65, compared […]
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CAO plans to step down
The Town of Osoyoos Chief Administrative Officer Barry Romanko has advised Mayor McKortoff and Council that he will be leaving the CAO position effective August 23, 2019. “Mr. Romanko’s departure in August will be a loss for the Town of Osoyoos. Barry approaches Town issues with a sense of professionalism, knowledge, respect and he has […]
Osoyoos: designing a new park-naming policy
By Roy Wood It will apparently take a few more weeks before the park at the north end of Cottonwood becomes officially known as Osoyoos Rotary Park. The service club approached town council on December 17 proposing that Rotary take on the park as a project and asking that the town adopt the name. […]
Town of Osoyoos notice
Notice to Residents We have a potential water main line break on 87th street between Jubilee Drive and 78th Ave. We are in the process of excavating the area. Service may be restored later today. Please click on the link below for more details. https://www.osoyoos.ca/content/notice-interruption-water-service-march-4-2019
Think about it with Joseph Seiler
Back The human back is the part of the body between the neck and tailbone, opposite the chest and tummy. The back includes the spine a stack of disc shaped bones that can bend giving us the ability to bend and turn our torso. A pretty important part of our body, for sure. […]
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Beauty… in the beast
Secrest Hill Road on the way to Willowbrook Starting Monday for 4 days – road closures and detours Secrest Hill Rd closed with access to cross roads from Hwy 97 to Johnson Rd Work to be done on Victoria Creek road crossing and possibly at Test Orchard Rd. spill way In Willowbrook itself – a […]
Will JF win again? Updated
1964 Buick Riviera Custom built by owner and builder J.F. Launier of Osoyoos.The crowd at Cobo Hall (Detroit Autorama) exploded as Canadians had made the trek here to Detroit to show support for Launier and his gorgeous custom Rivision. Launier had invested $300,000 in parts and materials and 20,000 hours of labor to complete this […]