ODN Publisher First of a series of stories on high water, health issues in Willowbrook, flooding, and creek/culvert maintenance *** Gold Tau road is once again impassable. This is an Argo (ministry) maintained road that was scheduled to be upgraded to prevent the failure by flooding that occurred last year. Once again a residence has […]
Osoyoos set to dole out over $60K in grants
By ROY WOOD The Osoyoos Festival Society, Canada Day Fireworks and the Royalty Committee are slated to grab the biggest pieces of the pie as the town prepares to hand out more than $60,000 in Community Service Grants. At Monday’s committee of the whole meeting, town council will peruse the short list of recommendations […]
$50 thousand more for MSP premiums
Following is a brief report of items discussed at the March 14, 2018 Board of Education meeting. The board was proud to recognize that of the 33 secondary students who participated in the recent regional Skills Canada Competition in Kelowna on March 9th, 15 students were awarded either a Gold, Silver or Bronze. The 5 […]
Non-partisan?
People from five South Okanagan communities met to encourage a “yes” vote for the upcoming provincial referendum on proportional representation. The referendum, which will give BC voters the choice of keeping the current first-past-the-post electoral system or switching to a system of proportional representation, will be held this fall by way of a mail-in ballot. The newly […]
Think about it with Joseph Seiler
Give To give in is sort of like to give out. Giving in is surrender and is closely related to giving up, which is to stop trying. To give out is to lose the ability to hold on, as in the road gave out from the flooding. Interesting to note the relationship between in and […]
by Ron Peace
Easter – a planning guide – add your free events today
Easter Sunday is April 1 Good Friday is March 30 Lent started February 14 and end Thursday March 29 Hey my Lent box is filled with pennies.
by Brenda Shaw
A Family Recipe for Easter Bread With Easter not too far away, this is a story of a family separated by oceans and years brought together again. When I started doing my Italian and French genealogy I got a lot of information from Mom. One really great find was the letter that she kept in […]