Principal Dave Foster of Tuc-el-nuit Elementary puts out the traffic sign this morning A group of SOSS students mingles at rear of tech building mixing it with workers still on the job site – with much left to do. Bus arrives at SOSS – with parking supervised by Link Crew members – off the […]
Neighbourhood Learning Centre (NLC) – opens this week …some of it
You Learn Principal Caroline Pennili opens the door on her part of the NLC this morning at 8:30 pm. Larger facilities and integrated – no more three locations in Oliver. Furniture not all there yet – but staff raring to go. Empty offices for workers at Desert Sun Counselling Resources – who are in the process of […]
Biggest event of the year – FOG
Time is running out
by Marion Trimble The deadline to enter the 30th annual Fall Art Show and Sale is 4 p.m., Friday, September 13th. There’s still time to return your completed form to Oliver Community Arts Council but hurry! Enter in any one of the 8 categories: Watercolour paintings, acrylic paintings, oil paintings, fibre art, 3-dimensional, photography, other […]
Sunrise – new day, new school, new opportunities
SOSS will fill at 8 o’clock this morning. It will be quite an experience for everyone concerned – students, administration, teachers and custodians. It will be a mad traffic jam and then it will settle down. A short day of instruction in the gym and then back in the buses. Wednesday the first full day […]
Signs for a fall event – less than three weeks away
The signs above The names below – with a note on which have contributed biographies published on ODN The names of candidates: Jeff Ashe Joanne Bray Bill Ross Mo Basso Doug Pederson Rhonda Bruce Larry Schwartzenberger Dan Robertson – no bio submitted John Micka – no bio submitted All bio material will be repeated prior […]
Other regional items of interest
Willowbrook Fire Department – Area C Directors will be asked to approve a five year finance plan to purchase a mini-pumper truck for the Willowbrook Fire Department at a cost of $12 thousand – funded from reserves. That reserve at the moment totals $15,944. *** Fortis Energy Diet – all rural areas Grants to first […]
Can we ignore bio-diversity?
A biodiversity strategy entitled “Keeping Nature in our Future” will go to the Regional Board this week for a 2nd last review. This process conduct by the South Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Program was initiated in 2010. Keeping Nature in Our Future identifies why we should conserve and restore natural areas, which natural areas should be […]