Editor: The people move here because it is so beautiful with orchards and vineyards all around us. Then they try to change the work practices of us farmers. Cannons are used here to help us protect the fruit crop. Birds come in huge flocks when the fruit is ripening. We use netting, strips and cannons, all of which are not [...] [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-June 24, 2009 Watching a loved one die right before your eyes must be terrible. And nothing but sympathy should be directed towards Gilles Blackburn, whose wife, Marie-Josée Fortin, ended up succumbing to hypothermia after the couple became lost in the back country of the East Kootenay region for roughly a week in February. The anger and [...] [...more]
If you thought you saw someone famous in town last weekend, you were probably right. Actor Jason Priestley was only one of the celebrities who came to Osoyoos to take part in the inaugural Celebrity Wine Festival, put on by the Black Hills Estate Winery and Destination Osoyoos. [...more]
The beat of drums and the vibrant colours of folk costumes drew the attention of the hundreds of people who gathered at the Sonora Community Centre on June 14 to witness the unveiling of the Osoyoos Portuguese Commemorative Mural. The tile mural depicts the part the Portuguese people played in the development of agriculture in the Osoyoos and Oliver area during the past 50 years. [...more]
“No more wall, let ‘er fall,” said Lobelia Drive resident Ken Nelmes. His words are in response to the B.C. Supreme Court’s decision to grant an injunction that will make him remove his 5.5-metre-high retaining wall. [...more]
The Town of Osoyoos is trying to take a tougher stance on unpermitted signage and boat trailer parking on the community’s roadways. At its June 15 meeting, Osoyoos town council gave first, second and third readings to proposed changes to Osoyoos’s traffic bylaw. If approved, the changes would allow the Town to remove unpermitted advertising signs from highway right of ways in Osoyoos. [...more]
Editor: There are many local residents still working towards a South Okanagan – Similkameen National Park to protect our fragile ecosystems and bring economic benefits to our community. Letters such as written to the Oliver Chronicle last week, which indicated the need to gather up many bags of garbage, really shows more reasons for such “Protection.” Many people, [...] [...more]
Every footstep creates a small dust storm. The scents of pine, sweat and gunpowder melt together in the 30 C heat and a bear can be seen wandering in the haze a few hundred metres to the south. The paint is peeling off the general supply store which conveniently doubles as a saloon and there are few places to escape the sun as it beams down through a cloudless sky. [...more]
The first of several planned meetings between the Town of Osoyoos and Destination Osoyoos (DO) to map out the future of economic development in the area took place on May 28. The meetings coincide with the Town’s efforts to review its relationship with the economic development organization and they come in the wake of a gathering on April 24 where roughly 30 community members laid out what they see as economic development priorities for Osoyoos. [...more]
Motorists waiting to pick up coffee and doughnuts in the Osoyoos Tim Hortons drive-thru line on June 3 were treated to shrieks of disbelief and joy as everyone from the commander of the Osoyoos RCMP detachment to the doughnut store’s manager to members of Osoyoos’s paramedic service splashed into the waters of the local Kiwanis Club’s dunk tank in the parking lot. The tank was just one special treat meeting people coming into the shop on Tim Hortons Camp Day, a fundraising effort to send 14,000 children across Canada to one of the chain’s six Foundation camps. [...more]
