Pick your candidate. Several candidates filed their nomination papers Tuesday in what should be an interesting race for the new town council.As expected Ten Cronmiller has thrown his name into the hat for the position of councillor for the Town of Osoyoos.Cronmiller has been a resident of Osoyoos for the past six years, five of which [...] [...more]
High school and elementary school join forces A unique event to build leadership skills in Osoyoos youth took place at the Sonora Centre last Friday.Students from Stan Coutu's Leadership 11 class joined forces with Osoyoos Elementary Grade 7 students to do a series of leadership workshops.The students divided into four teams and attended four workshops [...] [...more]
Wall coming down? A controversial issue seems to be coming to a head.The Town of Osoyoos has filed a petition with the Supreme Court of B.C. on notice to Osoyoos resident Ken Nelmes.Nelmes' concrete block retaining wall, situated along Jasmine Drive, was constructed on or about May 2004 to support a swimming pool on his property. [...] [...more]
Government needs to put students ahead of political agendas Who suffers most from a teachers' strike?rnWell obviously the students.Despite comments from the BCTF that even a strike has little detrimental effect on students' overall learning, it will be those least able to resolve this dispute that suffer the most.That type of ridiculous comment from the [...] [...more]
Destination Osoyoos' accounting is long overdue Editor:rnCongratulations on a timely and well considered editorial (Destination Osoyoos' books should be open to the public in Sept. 28th issue). The people of Osoyoos deserve a full accounting for the use of tax dollars given to Destination Osoyoos and the results they have achieved using them.The Town of [...] [...more]
