No structures threatened by Sunday wildfire at White Lake. One bomber with spotter plane and one helicopter fighting the blaze that broke out at about 1pm west of the observatory with a pall of smoke visable in Penticton. Fighting the fire, Willowbrook Fire Department and the Forestry Ministry. RCMP on the scene for traffic control […]
50 acre fire at White Lake Sunday – now out
Last day September 30 at the Festival of the Grape
Hammer’s House of Hog would like to thank all our many customers in the Oliver and Osoyoos area, and indeed the entire southern Okanagan, for an outstanding summer! This is our busiest season so far and I appreciate my many returning customers who just can’t get their fill of barbeque. We’ll be open until the […]
Today
Summer is officially over – the colours of fall begin
Photo by Bob Cameron
The ride of a lifetime – more to the story
Clarence Louie, Taylor Baptiste and Bill Vanderzalm on board the yacht of Jim Pattison. Taylor writes: Jim Pattison invites a bunch of business people to his boat a few times a year to have a meeting kind of like a conference, and everyone he invites is allowed to bring one person, and Chief Louie was […]
First day of fall
A smoky morning by Marion Trimble
Profile – Jagmel Singh
I met Jagmel Singh at the offices of the South Okanagan Immigrant Community Services on Main Street in Oliver. Jagmel is a bit of fixture there as he is at various spots in the community as he helps out being an ambassador/a-go-between. He is often the point man when members of the East Indian community […]