Wind storm this week left many Willowbrook residents with no power for 18 hours. To add pain to that injury – the pump house and well for the domestic water system has no back up generator. What does that mean? – No water, no flushing toilets, no baths/showers etc. Residents have told the RDOS that […]
18 hours no power, no toilets, no showers… at Willowbrook
Updated: Passing by a ‘kettle lake’
Lower – Twin Lakes is receding slowly – but still adding to the mix of water heading to Sportsman’ s Bowl in Oliver. EVACUATION ORDER for Nine Properties in Twin Lakes is RESCINDED The threat of flooding in the vicinity of Twin Lakes; in Electoral Area “D”, has been reduced. The potential danger to life, […]
Back Alley concerts start this Saturday
Finally! Another season of sunshine, camping, swimming, biking, and other forms of summer playtime has arrived! That’s worth a celebration! The Firehall Brewery’s “Back Alley Concert Series” will be toasting to life in paradise once again this summer. This coming Saturday (June 30th) we’ll be firing up the Series with a Canada-Day-Weekend performance by local […]
by Val Friesen
We Love Our FOTOL Book Sale – 20th annual Oliver Book Sale. The Friends of the Oliver Library was incorporated as a Society in 1998, following an organizational meeting called by Librarian Vicky White. Three of the charter members remain as active FOTOL members to this day. One of the major activities of the FOTOL […]
Updated: Scholarships and Bursaries – Over $100 thousand awarded
One half of the graduating class – recipients – of $101 thousand in awards given Monday night at the Frank Venables Theatre to a crowd of over 250 people; students, parents, grand parents and those persons making presentations. A complete list of receipients is below the pictures in this post. Komal Dhaliwal – with Fiona […]
National Park in Alberta in trouble
Hydro projects in BC cited as one major concern: UNESCO inspectors visited the park in September and October. They came at the urging of First Nations, who have long expressed concern about the cumulative impacts on the Peace-Athabasca Delta of hydro projects in British Columbia, oilsands development in Alberta and climate change, which is already […]
The Steele Report
Part Two – Change to Cannabis Law and the history The calendar is ever closer to October seventeenth and the legalization of Marijuana in Canada. Last week we looked at the history of how it became illegal and now we look to the future to see where we go from here. The present is always […]