Burrowing Owl’s charitable contributions soar past $1 million – helping endangered owls. The Okanagan’s Burrowing Owl Estate Winery is proud to announce a milestone in its support of charitable organizations including the Burrowing Owl Conservation Society of BC.  As of August 1st the winery had raised $1.02 million, which has benefited not only the Society, […]

Information released by Okanagan Basin Water Board While some regions around us have been moved to Drought Level 3, the Okanagan, as of August 22, remains at Level 2. That said, we haven’t had any significant rainfall for many weeks, and the forecast is calling for more hot and dry weather. According to provincial staff, […]

A motion on ‘gaining intervener status’ has been approved at the RDOS Both the Rural Director Area C –  Terry Schafer and his alternate Rick Knodel were hoping for passage of a motion to gain access to the BC Utilities Commission on the two tier rate system review. We asked Manager of Legislative Services Christy […]

Highway 97 – at Bank Avenue between Royal Bank and Medical offices. Highway maintenance removed this over the weekend A new painted crosswalk should be completed on the south side of the intersection in due course.

From Wayne Danbrook   What happened to the democracy in Oliver? We as taxpayers deserve better attention and a referendum regarding the choice of building on green space. One Man should not have his dream come true until the people of Oliver have their choice by referendum and not wishy-washy council meetings where as the […]

Osoyoos/Penticton bus service expanded to Fridays Transit System:  South Okanagan-Similkameen Starting September 5, transit users in Osoyoos, Oliver and Kaleden will be able to take the bus to Penticton five days of the week, thanks to the addition of a new day of service to route 40 Osoyoos/Penticton. This service expansion amounts to a total […]

  Submitted by Edwin Dukes