By ROY WOOD Late last week ODN sent an email to all the candidates for Osoyoos council asking the following question: In August 2016 the mayor and council voted themselves pay raises : 15 per cent for the mayor and five per cent for councillors. These were in addition to the annual cost-of-living increases already […]
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Challengers agree more openness needed in council pay decisions
Did you get it in the mail?
20 page, smallish brochure from Elections BC in your mailbox ?? Very complicated process about to start after municipal elections Saturday. This time you get to vote (by mail in ballot) in favour of a voting system that has worked well for you and me – all of my life. Select First past the post. Why the […]
by Pat Whalley
THE TIES THAT BIND, (OR STRANGLE US) I think there are very few families that are not dysfunctional. Most of us love our families and get on well most of the time but there is usually one member who has some sort of dispute with another relative. This can be of varying degrees depending on […]
Blast from the past – 2014 – by Doris Lancaster
Susan Guerin suggested a caption “You put your left foot in…you put your left foot out. You put your left foot in…and you shake it all about!… You do the hoky poky and you turn yourself around! That’s what it’s all about!
Streaming video reveals revelations
Monday October 15th 7 to 8 pm during an unusually dry meeting of rezonings, leases, plans and finally a report from water councillors…. Rick Machial to CFO Devon Wannop “was any of the water fund used to seek a legal opinion on duties of a water councillor?” Andre Miller to Mayor Hovanes – “why was […]
Osoyoos ‘pushes back’ on Recycle BC edict
By ROY WOOD Osoyoos council was in high dudgeon* this afternoon after getting word their decision on the use of recycling blue bags has been arbitrarily overturned by a provincial agency. Recycle BC is an arm’s-length, not-for-profit organization with a mandate from the province to handle the recycling of packaging in BC. It recently sent […]
Unique Monday
Both Osoyoos and Olivers had council meetings on the same day. Not normally scheduled that way – but life is about change. So you see two reporters from ODN doing double duty in two different ways and styles. But most importantly – almost instant news by people who know their way around a pen and […]