Editor: I would like to briefly comment on a beautiful jewel we discovered in your City; namely, your museum. My two brothers from the Lower Mainland and myself from the Kootenays met in Osoyoos for a sibling get-together. We had a wonderful time in your City visiting various points of interest and enjoying your hospitality. In our travels, we [...] [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-September 23, 2009 Osoyoos has come through once again. While many of us are struggling through difficult economic times and new funding cutbacks from all levels of government are announced seemingly on a weekly basis, the community was still able to dig deep and help the Cacchioni family, who are dealing with a serious illness. It truly [...] [...more]
Police are asking the public for help in finding a 41-year-old Osoyoos woman who has been missing since the evening of Sept. 14. Sandra Kelly Harris was last seen in the 9100 block of Main Street at about 10 p.m. that night. [...more]
An Osoyoos-area horse is one of the first horses in the province to test positive for West Nile virus. And a second local horse may also be infected. Tara Sackett, who operates Osoyoos’s South Valley Veterinary Hospital with her husband, Dr. Henry Kleinhofmeyer, said blood work from a female horse, whose owner lives in a rural area between Osoyoos and Oliver, came back positive for the virus on Sept. 10. [...more]
Osoyoos’s Parent Advisory Councils (PACs) will have to make do with fewer provincial Community Gaming Grant dollars this year. For the 2009/2010 school year, PACs around the province will receive a payment of $10 per student, down from the $20 per student handed out in previous years. [...more]
The owner of an 8.8-hectare piece of land on Main Street known as the Wish property intends to apply to the Agricultural Land Commission to have the site removed from the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). The land, located at 4927 Main St. is owned by Kevin Demers of Holiday Trails RV Resorts, a company that owns RV resorts in B.C., Washington state and Alberta. [...more]
Each summer, some businesses in Osoyoos put up signs making it clear their washrooms are off limits to the general public. “It’s always really rankled me,” said Barb Stephens, owner of Yore Movie Store on Main Street. “I abhor those signs. Being able to use a washroom is a human right. A basic human need.” [...more]
Editor: I hope everyone has noticed that Urban Connections (Brad Elenko), agent for the registered owner, is again attempting to have the “Wish property” at 4927 Main Street released from the Agricultural Land Reserve. There have been previous applications for this site which were denied. Unless local residents speak up now in support of preserving farmland, I really fear that [...] [...more]
At the site where the 171-unit Indigo condominium project was slated to be built at the end of Cottonwood Drive, one can find a for-sale sign next to advertisements for the project. The 1.2-hectare site went on the market in mid-July and the asking price is $7.5 million. [...more]
“It’s almost a matter of making honest people do dishonest things because they don’t have a choice,” said Donna Byers, from Desert Dream Rentals. Byers is frustrated because she and her partner, Lee McLeod, have been trying to get a business licence from the Town of Osoyoos so they can legally operate their business of renting out personal watercraft. They were turned down. [...more]
