Women of Oliver for Women (WOW) SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16TH At the Oliver Community Center Main Hall 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Women of Oliver for Women, formerly known as the Oliver Chapter of Soroptimist International was the first group in Oliver to participate in the Adopt- A-Highway program. At least twice a year the […]
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Ten years of steady improvement.
More Aboriginal students completed high school last year than ever before, building on more than ten years of steady improvement. The overall Aboriginal student completion rate for public and independent schools combined in 2011-12 was 56.4 per cent, up from 53.7 per cent in 2010-11, and up from 50.4 per cent in 2009-10. During the […]
Birdman Bedard
Where is this guy? In bird land? Why the perfect light? When will Bernie return to shoot our skies?
Question period – House of Commons
Canada Post Corporation Oral Questions Alex Atamanenko British Columbia Southern Interior Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are at it again. Post offices around the country have been closed. Now we have learned there are even more cutbacks on the way. They are talking about reducing the number of home deliveries per week and closing more post […]
Slater concerned about private conversations
Independent MLA John Slater says he intends to seek the help of the RCMP or a special prosecutor to determine how to identify how his privacy is being invaded. Slater wants to know how some of his personal text messages came to be in the possession of blogger Alex Tsakumis. “These are private conversations, they had nothing […]
Lori Ashe – fitness instructor at Parks & Recreation
Lori Ashe moved to Oliver in 2011 from Victoria where she worked as a head trainer for twelve years, at one of Vancouver Island’s largest gyms. Lori is a proud mother of her two sons, Kody, 24, and Dylan, 26 and is happily married to Jeff Ashe, Owner of Canadafit Starting as a lifeguard at […]
Introducing Rhonda Bruce
My name is Rhonda Bruce and I have spent most of my youth in Oliver and then raised my two sons here. My parents are Dal and Gaye Carter and I have two sisters and a brother. I am married to Mark Mattes and have two sons, a daughter-in-law and two grandsons. A friend […]
Additional park land for Oliver – part of bigger BC picture
Inkaneep Park Addition (0.9 hectare): This addition to Inkaneep Park is being added to the park as a mitigation measure for the deletion of 0.24 of a hectare to provide for secondary road access to a planned correctional facility. The total area of the park will be 16 hectares. B.C.’s total provincial protected areas system […]