From May 4-6, the town of Oliver is home to the annual BC Volunteer Firefighters Spring Training Seminar which hosts over 300 volunteer firefighters from across British Columbia. It’s a weekend of practical skills training that leaves much of the theoretical work in their home departments. Every second year, the Oliver Fire Department’s (OFD) experience […]

Art show reception at Leza Macdonald studios at Beyond Bliss Show on to 25th of May Featured artists Tara Hovanes, Marion Trimble and Ava Grice Photo by Russell Work

Above: Pre-River Cruise Group Tour the ‘Battlefields of France’ – Amazing Sights – ‘LEST WE FORGET’ Below: Group of 37 – All enjoyed a ‘Burgundy & Provence’ River Cruise in France! Great time had by all! Submitted by Lakeside Travel in Osoyoos

Each year at this time – elementary school children, relatives and members of the local Legion Branch light the candles in memory of those buried in the Legion section of the cemetery. Best view at about 8pm tonight.

RDOS directors have agreed to write at letter to the Provincial Government in support of a crown land tenure application for moorage for the Fintry Queen. That moorage would be located 9 km north of Penticton off Hwy 97. The applicant for tenure is Andy Schwab,  owner of the vessel which is moored cuirrently near Vernon. Kickininee Provincial […]

Evacuation Alert The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) has placed 64 properties in the Twin Lake area under Evacuation Alert due to the potential of flooding. All homes are adjacent to Lower Nipit Lake. A full list of properties and map are included in this document. The Twin Lake area experienced significant […]

AUTOMATION, THE GREAT TIME SAVER                 Scientists spend a great deal of their time on inventions designed to save our time, not always too successfully.  The trouble with many automated devices is not the article themselves but the people using them. As regular readers of this column are aware, I am a bit of a dodo […]