BC Wildfires – No fires of note in our region Small orange dot is the 10 ha Anarchist Mtn fire which is contained and in mop up stage.

Entry forms for the upcoming Fall Art Show & Sale (FASS) are already flying in from local artists. The Oliver Community Arts Council mounts the popular event on Saturday September 30 and Sunday October 1.  The show and sale runs jointly with the Festival of the Grape at the Oliver Community Centre, making it one […]

Smoke could result in cancellations at tonight’s Penticton Air Display, but the show will go on. The Canadian Forces Skyhawks Precision parachute team will jump as scheduled at 5 p.m., landing in a ring at Okanagan Lake Park. Flights of the RCAF Snowbirds as well as the Canadian Forces CF-18 Hornet fighter jet won’t be […]

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SOHS…SOSS…SOUTHERN OKANAGAN SECONDARY SCHOOL… September 1948 to September 12, 2011 In the early morning hours of September 12, 2011, our beloved SOSS was burned to the ground.  It took a few hours to burn and those who were woken up by fire sirens stood silently across the road, some crying, all remembering their time at […]

Update reunion has been confirmed Friday August 11 , Meet & Greet 5- 10 pm at the Fire hall Brewery   Saturday August 12th to the Open House at the Frank Venables Theatre,  from 10 am to noon; with a tour of the high school beginning at 11:30 am. at the opposite side of the building […]

Anne Polischuk, manager of the Osoyoos United Church Thrift Shop, displays some of the clothing in stock. The Dorcas Ladies Group, which runs the shop, has donated $30,000 to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation to help equip the new Patient Care Tower at Penticton Regional Hospital. For more than half a century the Osoyoos […]