Do you have an artistic passion? Artwork to sell, artistic group or event to publicize, arts information to share? If you have an arts-and-culture based business, home-made handicrafts, or something creative to teach, the upcoming Spring Arts Faire is the place for you! Fabric, photographic, literary, visual and performance arts and craftworks ….. the Faire […]
Kurt – caught fooling around
Kurt Hutterli of Oliver, BC has recently been featured on “Swiss 100 Canada”, a website celebrating the lives of the Swiss in Western Canada. Kurt is best known locally as a three-dimensional artist working with found objects and as a painter. In his home country, he is quite well-known for his radio and stage plays, […]
Wildlife area protected east of Skaha
PENTICTON – Wildlife habitat in the Okanagan is better protected today following the establishment of the McTaggart-Cowan/nsek’tniw’t Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The announcement by Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson creates the McTaggart-Cowan/nsek’tniw’t WMA on the east side of Skaha Lake. The new Wildlife Management Area conserves 6,491 hectares of habitat, including 6,375 […]
RIP Ellen Cote
Ellen Cote July 4, 1925 – March 11, 2013 Ellen Alvina Mann Tache Coté – Mom, Gram, Great-Gram Ellen passed away in hospital March 11th after a short illness. She is predeceased by her husbands Audie Tache (1985) and Victor Coté (2001) and her brother Ragnar Mann (2001). Survived by her nine children; Bob, Lynn, Bonnie, […]
Get dressed and show your support
SOSS coming out with new apparel by Reilly Irvine Southern Okanagan Secondary School has come out with a new line of clothing for students and adults alike, and they’ve got some big reasons for doing it. As Steve Podmorrow explains, “We at SOSS have seen tragedy with the fire, and have been undergoing some major […]
Being a Real Man
I am one of the many volunteers bringing “The Vagina Monologues” to Oliver and Osoyoos. This award-wining play will be performed by a group of wonderful local women, none of them professional actors, at the Osoyoos Secondary School Theatre on Saturday April 6, 7 pm. Now, one strange thing: I am an old retired male. I became […]
BC government investment in region important to Liberals
Oliver and Osoyoos business people invited to a special dinner with Attorney General Shirley Bond Tuesday night. Bond is visiting the South Okanagan to sign documents with the OIB – a necessary step in the process of constructing the new corrections facility south of Senkulmen Industrial Park in Oliver. Pictured Bond, Liberal candidate for Boundary […]
Wednesday a busy day for news people
Media asked to attend two events in the morning First Event: Premier Christy Clark will make an announcement benefiting families in the southern Okanagan. Event Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Time: 8 a.m. Location: Penticton Regional Hospital Second Event: Minister of Justice and Attorney General Shirley Bond and Chief Clarence Louie to sign agreement at […]