Dick Cannings is not a coward – he knows what happens when you walk into a swarm of hornets. The local MP made it known he was coming to Oliver and the “No Park” folk made full use of the opportunity to have an open-forum outside of a local café on Fairview Rd. Estimate of […]

2018 receipant of the Governor General’s Bronze Medal for all round secondary school student in her class with a very high academic standing. Simi was a Youth Ambassador 2016-2017. She plans on attending in-residence at UBC Vancouver to obtain a B.Sc. Degree specializing in micro-biology. *** Lord Dufferin, Canada’s third Governor General after Confederation, created […]

Tony Thompson’s ties to the South Okanagan’s pioneer years run deep. Now the Okanagan Falls area rancher is donating $30,000 in memory of his late wife Sharon to Penticton Regional Hospital. Both Tony and Sharon have direct family links to the South Okanagan of the late 1800s.  Tony was born on the family’s Garrison Ranch […]

Eight residents appeared before council with a petition signed by 153 people indicating that four large lots on Chardonnay Ave (zoned RH1 – Multi-Family) seem to be a threat to their way of life in the neighbourhood. The zoning has been in place since 1994 when the whole area came out of the ALR for development […]

  Mayor Ron Hovanes thanking retiring Ambassador Abby Teigen at Monday’s Council Meeting   Introduction of new Oliver Youth Ambassadors to Town Council. Sworn in by Mayor Ron Hovanes are Jennifer Zapeda, Enola Mills and Avnit Sidhu