The BC Thanksgiving Food Drive is a province-wide initiative that is annually organized and “run” (literally) by local volunteers who travel our community on foot to distribute donation bags and pick up food donations. You might not think a few cans and boxes of food collected on each street would add up to […]

Greyhound seeks to amend its operating license Has applied to the Passenger Transportation Board ( BC) Public has until October 13th to comment Reduction in service would affect Similkameen and Okanagan points and routes. *** Eliminate the routes listed below: • I1: Dawson Creek – Fort Nelson • I2: Fort Nelson – Yukon Border & […]

New documentary screening at Oliver Theatre this Sunday, Sept. 17th at 1:00 pm. The film is called “Out of the Interior: Survival of the Small-town Cinema in British Columbia” and was made by Curtis & Silmara Emde. The Oliver Theatre is featured in the documentary The documentary’s website reads: “Out of the Interior: Survival of […]

Oliver resident to share why solar is a wise investment Residents of Oliver and Osoyoos will have an opportunity to learn about home solar power systems at an upcoming free education session. Terratek Energy is hosting Going Solar in Oliver-Osoyoos: An Introduction to Home Solar, Saturday, Sept. 30 from 11 am to 12 pm at […]

Bit of a slow period of the month – latter part of the week Time to post FREE events, FREE classified. How about a picture for publication? Anything going on we all should know about?

John Kiss garden

  By ROY WOOD Despite a last minute-plea from a local dog owner, Oliver council went ahead Monday with closure of the off-leash area at the town ball diamonds except for early morning hours. The amendment to the town’s animal control bylaw will see the creation of a new off-leash area at the north end […]