SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (Okanagan Similkameen) REPORT FROM ADMINISTRATION Edited due to earlier stories on ODN District Innovation / Initiatives Core Competency Profiles for Social Awareness and Social Responsibility: The drafts of the core competencies for Creative Thinking as well as for Communication have been released by the Ministry of Education for review and feedback. […]
Signage on highways – will government back off?
Important meeting today at RDOS in Penticton. Okanagan Shuswap District Manager Murray Tekano to speak to board meeting. Will Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) advise their contractor Argo to take down illegal signs in the highways right of way? Highways had agreed with a joint project with the Regional District but maybe be getting cold […]
OK Falls – SIddon says government not encouraging incorporation
Area D Director Tom Siddon told a community partners meeting Wednesday that the Province of BC has stated it will not fund a civic governance study – putting a halt to planning for incorporation of a Town. SIddon stated that former Director Bill Schwarz had worked on this idea and got this item placed at the […]
Advanced care planning
Desert Valley Hospice Society is a strong advocate for a very important process – Advanced care planning. We never know when a serious accident or illness will leave us incapable of making our own personal and health care treatment decisions. It is never too early to start advanced care planning. When people you trust know […]
Presenting on stage
from left to right: Sofie Everest, Kelen Harty, Cassidy Mackintosh, Noorat Gill, Kane Borchert, Conner Vu, Matthew Stott, Claudia Polk, Chace Alaric Playing at the Frank Venables Theatre in Oliver Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID JR. starts on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. for 3 days through Thursday, May 1, 2014. The 75-minute musical, […]
Two performances
Alberto’s
WHAT IS THE CANCER CAR?
The “Cancer Car” is a ten passenger Mercedes Van that transports cancer patient to the Cancer Lodge, in Kelowna five days a week. There are many cars and vans running the service throughout the province, three of them in the Okanagan Valley. Patients are picked up at a central location in each town, in Oliver […]