While returning from Penticton Saturday afternoon at 3pm, and approaching the bridge at the intersection of Green Lake Road and Highway 97, a double bogey wheel assembly flew off the rear of a moving semi trailer vehicle heading north. It was coming straight for us, in our lane, necessitating an evasive manoeuver, to avoid a […]
They are okay….
Saturday- about 3:05 pm Okanagan Falls Bridge A moving van is proceeding north bound and loses both rear wheels leaving the axle hanging. The wheels spin off the vehicle towards a car in the south bound lane. The smaller vehicle diverts to miss that impact and hits the street sign and a power pole on […]
Up Up and Away
“We’ll search the clouds for a star to guide us If by some chance you find yourself loving me We’ll find a cloud to hide us…” Jimmy Webb
Bus flips on road to Big White
Mounties in Kelowna say six people have been taken to hospital after a bus flipped over on Big White Road east of Kelowna on today. The road, which is the route to Big White Ski Resort, is closed at approximately the four-kilometre mark, according to an RCMP release shortly before 10 a.m. “A bus has […]
To their credit
Road is not paved yet but had to visit the area early this morning before the traffic. My personal compliments to MOTI and the contractor for the planning that went into the Secrest Hill Rd project. What my eye saw was a much better view of the creek entering and exiting the dam like roadway. […]
A tale of two poles
Gale Kleckner sent in a picture similar to the one above – and I said I would take a look at these two poles at the corner of Columbia Place and Columbia *Street. I also asked when the new pole was installed. I took a couple of pictures, drove around the neighbourhood twice reflecting on […]