Who’s right and who’s wrong is sometimes simply a matter of which side of the street you are standing on.
“We really don’t see it as an issue, and don’t want to get involved in anything,” said Joe Chwachka, store manager for the Osoyoos Home Building Centre. “Our business has been here for 20 years.”
On the wall of Chwachka’s office, there is a Town of Osoyoos map.
He points out the line dividing “downtown commercial” from “single family residential.” It runs right smack dab down the middle of 78th Avenue. [...more]
It might not look logical to mathematicians, but in B.C. if you add GST and PST you get HST and it’s a change in the provincial tax structure that South Okanagan Chamber of Commerce president Kenn Oldfield isn’t so sure of yet.
“Maybe from a book-keeping point of view it will make our lives easier,” he said.
The province announced on July 23 that it intends to harmonize the provincial sales tax (PST) with the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST), effective July 1, 2010. [...more]
“Our best B.C. model to emulate is Princeton,” said Eike Scheffler, director of the South Interior Recreational Equine Centre (SIREC). “They have their PXA, a successful community supported viable society that is (a) highly respected and well managed business model.”
Osoyoos’s Desert Park re-opened this spring, under a temporary contract with SIREC. [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-July 29, 2009
By Paul Everest - Osoyoos Times
The Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre has been tasked with caring for 11 snakes seized from a vehicle attempting to enter Canada on July 11 at a border crossing east of Creston.
According to a media release from the Canada Border Services Agency, two travellers seeking entry to Canada [...] [...more]
Editor:
When the group calling themselves Friends of Desert Park first formed I attended and supported their cause for that park.
I support the SIREC’s president Allan Carswell’s response when Tom Shields announced his offer for Desert Park.
I think the work that’s been put in and their proposal would be good for the community.
The SIREC deserve a [...] [...more]
Imagine Shania Twain belting out Man! I Feel Like a Woman! while the moon rises over Anarchist Mountain.
Or picture the boys from Bon Jovi rocking out to Wanted Dead or Alive with each drumbeat echoing across the orchards.
Tom Shields, the “Former Rock ’n’ Roll Mayor of Canada” and Osoyoos, wants to see it happen. [...more]
Five people escaped an early morning fire that destroyed a house on Cottonwood Drive on July 17.
Police were the first to arrive at the scene and roughly 25 members of the Osoyoos Volunteer Fire Department arrived at 6821 Cottonwood Dr. at about 1:30 a.m. to find the house fully engulfed in flames. [...more]
Local government should target young couples and single-parent families when it comes to providing more affordable housing options, agreed all parties involved in a recent affordable housing study in Osoyoos.
CitySpaces Consulting Ltd. was hired in April by Osoyoos and Oliver town councils at a cost of $20,000 to complete a study on affordable housing needs for both communities. [...more]
As one of the official suppliers for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Vincor Canada offered its employees a chance to participate in the Olympic Torch Relay in a big way - by actually carrying the Olympic Flame.
Richard Baptiste of the Osoyoos Indian Band said he never expected that from more than 50 national submissions, that he would be one of the nine selected to represent the wine producer and marketer in the relay. [...more]
Editor:
Although there is a banner over the Main Street, “to go green and to sail,” town instead rolled out a “red carpet to power boats and Sea Doos” to allow further damage to Osoyoos Lake.
The “resort town” thinks to be obliged to satisfy visitors by using public money to organize their arrival in town with [...] [...more]
