More clarification on the increasing costs of a new high school in Oliver. ODN is now told that the total amount over budget is $ 2.3 million with a shortfall of 1.2 million dollars as stated last week by School Trustees. Mitch Van Aller, Director of Operations at School District 53 says the district is 10% […]
Grade 5 Osoyoos student to make Dragon’s Den appearance on Halloween
Teagan Adams, 10, attends Osoyoos Elementary and will promote his new game “DooGoods” to the cast of Dragon’s Den on CBC later this month. Teagan hopes someone on the show will pickup on his fund raising idea to help with an overseas project of building a school in Kenya. Facebook: TEAGAN IS GOING TO BE […]
John Slater to run again
Sitting MLA for Okanagan Boundary John Slater confirmed Sunday he will run again in the next election. Slater said he wanted to wait until the end of September before announcing his intentions and did so at the Festival of the Grape at Oliver on Sunday. Slater addressed the Festival attendees during the opening ceremonies and […]
Art show winners pictured
1. Best Oil Painting – Ellen Cote with Sally Franks 2. Best Other Media – Tara Hovanes 3. Best Three Dimensional – Ken Hale 4. Best Photography – Merle Somerville 5. Best Water Colour – Luba Chpak 6. Best Acrylic – John Salsnek with Linda Blaschuk 7. Best Interpretation of Theme – Kurt Hutterli Photos […]
Very successful Festival of the Grape – warm day, lots of people
1. Parade of wineries, dignitaries all lined up 2. Bacchus (Petra Veintimilla) welcomes the large crowd 3. Crowd gathers for formalities on stage 4. Kids take a look at what is in store for them 5. Ladies fund raise for $10 thousand goal – Angie and Shelley 6. The fun of the afternoon – the […]
Shadow Festival
Bill has my mints
Bill L. – Celebrating granddaughter’s art show 2nd place win (Eliza King – Emerging Artist) with sparkling apple juice in really cool little fancy cups ! Story line and photo – Toni Leverett Publisher: I was bidding on this item – mints and demi tasse cups and a Bill L. kept out bidding me in the silent […]