Superintendent Ted De Jager named President of the BC Association of Chiefs of Police in 2019. Officer-in Charge of the Penticton South Okanagan Similkameen Regional RCMP Detachment’s Superintendent De Jager, has been named the newly appointed President of the BC Association of Chiefs of Police (BCACP). At the recent quarterly meeting, De Jager was elected […]

Emergency crews respond to early morning house fire On February 10 th, 2019, at 3 a.m., Police and Fire crews were dispatched to a house fire, located at 221 Huth Avenue, in Penticton Officers and fire crews arrived to discover a fully engulfed house fire at this location. Once the flames were extinguished, fire crews […]

Public Disclosure Required for the Office of Mayor – Town of Oliver Candidate Ron Hovanes spent about 936 dollars and had the advantage of signs paid for in a previous campaign bringing his disclosed expenditure to $2136 Candidate Martin Johansen spent $855.09 Hovanes declared no financial sponsors Johansen received cash to pay for the bulk of his […]

  TRAFFIC ADVISORY – incident Callan Road Detour – opened this morning at 5 o’clock Highway 97 Both Directions – Highway 97, in both directions. Rock slide at 2 km north of Summerland. Lane Closure. Expect delays. Intermittent closures during daylight hours with delays up to 45 minutes. Next update time Tue Feb 12 at […]

This is the 70th Annual Sheep Count at Vaseaux Lake– the longest consecutive wildlife and sheep inventory count in  Western Canada. Sunday Results We had approximately 25 Volunteers/Hikers attend with an 8am Start at the Vaseux Lake Campground. We’d like to thank our visitors who came from the Lower Mainland to be apart of history […]

by Marjo Koskinen

Dark-eyed Junco The colour in this is so wonderful Juncos are primarily ground feeders, and enjoy the millet found in mixed bird seed, sunflower hearts and cracked corn spread on the ground or in a platform feeder. … Juncos can sometimes be attracted to suet if it is offered low to the ground.