Leaping Leprechauns! St. Paddy may have chased all the snakes out of Ireland but he left all the curlers in Oliver to have some fun on March 17! The Oliver Curling Club held its annual Wind-Up BBQ Dinner and Awards on St. Paddy’s Day at the Eastlink Curling Centre. The Oliver Curling Club’s new President, […]
Wow – this weekend
The show is about to begin
The public showing was to begin Friday March 23rd – but the erector set is engaged. Modules stored in OK Falls are being transported to Oliver, un-wrapped and set to be erected.
More than a facelift
Oliver’s Kiwanis Manor – major reno underway in earnest
Bringing guns across the border – DON'T
Oliver (OIB) resident – Alex Louie (Senk’lip) caught at the Osoyoos border crossing with two undeclared handguns last year will spend 477 more days in jail for his crimes. Louie, 50, has represented himself in court, and verbally sparred with Judge Arne Silverman stating that the court had “no jurisdiction” over him, due to his First Nation not […]
icing on the cake
Council briefs – Osoyoos
by Roy Wood Subsidized housing lot switch OK’d Osoyoos council has agreed to allow the developer of the so-called Richter Property portion of the Southeast Meadowlark subdivision to switch the “near market” designation from one lot to another. But council ordered that any future such requests for switching the designation would see the town’s administrative […]
New Lieutenant- Governor of BC (confirmed)
The CEO of one of the province’s largest non-profit organizations and the former chair of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, Janet Austin has reached the highest level of achievement in both the social and business sectors. Janet has guided YWCA Metro Vancouver through a number of transitions that have put the organization at the […]