Rock Wren at Willowbrook

School District No. 53 (Okanagan Similkameen) is pleased to announce the following appointments effective August 1, 2017: Ms. Stacey Smith as Vice Principal at Southern Okanagan Secondary School Ms. Smith is currently Deputy Head of Secondary at International School Dhaka, an International Baccalaureate (IB) school in Bangladesh. She has also worked as a physical education […]

Local State of Emergency Declared for Red Wing Resorts The Penticton Indian Band and the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) have declared a Local State of Emergency for Red Wing Resorts. Red Wing Resorts is immediately west of the City of Penticton along Okanagan Lake and the Penticton Channel. High water levels in Okanagan Lake […]

BC’S MOBILE MEDICAL UNIT to Visit OLIVER Quick Facts: The MMU is housed in a 16-metre tractor-trailer that expands to a 90-square-metre (1,000 square feet) flexible facility with up to six to eight patient treatment bays. The clinical capability of the MMU is flexible and can range from low acuity such as primary health care/outpatient […]

Picture above Penticton Marina Premier Christy Clark is spending the day checking out the flooding situation along Okanagan Lake. Penticton MLA Dan Ashton said she was visiting impacted neighbourhoods in Trout Creek and at the Red Wing Resort near Penticton. Ashton said he’s been keeping the Premier4 updated about the situation in the South Okanagan and she volunteered to tour […]