By Ed Dukes
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Air cadets – a busy schedule
The Big Horn Air Cadets will be holding their 3rd Annual Christmas fundraiser November 16th from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the hangar on Cessna Street on the east side of the airport. Cadets from Oliver, Osoyoos and OK Falls will be busy assisting. All money raised is used to fund cadet activities and […]
Work with cadets honoured
Susi Midgley recently attended the Cadet league BC Provincial Committee AGM and received a Certificate of Honor for her work as Sponsoring Committee Chair of Oliver’s 232 Bighorn Cadet Squadron. Susi is now Vice-Chair and the duties of Chair have been assumed by Ron Worth, one of the original cadets in 232 Squadron.
Top cop in South Okanagan pushes concept of crime reduction
Inspector Kevin Hewco is new on the job as head of the Penticton RCMP. Hewco is also the chief when it comes to supervision of all detachments in the South Okanagan Similkameen. He spoke to the RDOS board this morning in his first visit with the politicians as a group. 1. Hewco says he will follow the […]
Safety at RDOS operations still at top of agenda
Bill Newell, CAO of the Regional District Okanagan Similkameen say the story on safety issues within the district and its complimentary organizations in the rural area has reached a “watershed moment” when policy changes will be necessary and funds committed to a single “Safety Management System”. In 2010 a safety audit was conducted and the […]
Starts Friday
Chopper ride gets windy
Picture taken about 3pm A 195 square metre telescope reflector, which looks like a massive satellite dish, traveled from Okanagan Falls to the White Lake Observatory via helicopter. But nearing the end of its journey, a strong wind lifted the 3-tonne dish into the supporting cables causing some damage and the dish collapsed in part into […]