Smile of the Week – Nixon Atkins Photos – Oliver Parks Thanks to the volunteers Shiela Lange and Dennis Magoffin; Ambassadors: Avnit Sidhu, Enola Mills, and Jennifer Zepeda; The Oliver Ambassador Candidates: Phat, Myaia, Kael, and Sharon. As well Linda Magoffin, Pat Aldridge, Don Bartsch, Mike and Barb Mills, Cathy Pidduck, Dale and Carol Young, […]
Draft National Park Reserve agreement awaits the “pens”
Link to Document dated June 26, 2019 Government of Canada to host meeting in Osoyoos Tuesday morning to request signatures on this fundamental document. Oliver Daily News will not speculate to the meaning of all the words in a draft agreement (not signed) It is however available to the public to read prior to any […]
Desert Park struggling to survive
By ROY WOOD With no horse racing for two years and no Medieval Faire this year, it would be reasonable for one to believe that the Desert Park Exhibition Society (DPES) has disappeared from the Osoyoos scene. But that is far from the case. Recently elected president Bobbie Fischer and the rest of the volunteer […]
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Validation
Floaty engineers with rock crews assemble ” Inuksuk ” south of Rd 9 Bridge. River is low and moving slow – ideal conditions for a Sunday work project……
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Praemonitus, Praemunitus –
Political Nudge Last week, I wrote about nudging. Party names and party mission statements are nudges. I searched for the mission statements of each of eight Canadian national political parties. I was able to find a mission-like statement for each party – with two exceptions. I was unable to find a constitution for one of […]
The Steele report
Happy Birthday Canada. Tomorrow we celebrate one hundred fifty-two years of accomplishment and contradictions. We will celebrate in towns and villages with the swearing in of any number of new Canadians. In our past and present we are surrounded by Canadian Inventions, we commonly use on a daily basis at least by most of us. When […]