Osoyoos town council is ready to receive official proposals for the long-term future of Desert Park. At the Oct. 19 meeting, councillors moved to advertise for expressions of interest (EOIs) for the development and operation of the Desert Park facility, and they are planning to make a decision about the future contract at the Dec. 21 council meeting. [...more]
Editor: We would like to respond to the article, “Golf Club members consider Options” hosted by Brian Bagnall and Lowell Ritchey. We have been playing members of the Osoyoos Golf and Country club since 1987 and have found it very easy to keep ourselves informed of the financial doings of the club in the following manner: Annual audited [...] [...more]
“I assumed it was a chimney fire,” said Lily Paradis, who, up until Oct. 8, lived at 9107 26th Ave. “I was in the house. We have an extra kitchen downstairs.” Paradis was cleaning up that extra kitchen, because a group of mothers was coming over to use the basement to can vegetables. [...more]
An emotionally charged meeting of members of the Osoyoos Golf and Country Club ended with the suggestion that a survey be conducted to see which members will pay a recently announced dues adjustment and to determine if members want a change in course management. Roughly 250 club members gathered at Desert Park’s grandstand building on Oct. 8 to discuss last month’s announcement from club President Fred Meester that, due to a cash shortfall for 2009 of $275,000, active members will have to pay an additional $410 and members paying retainer dues will have to cough up an extra $110. [...more]
Osoyoos’s seniors have some choice this season about where they can get their annual flu shot. Pharmasave and Shoppers Drug Mart have teamed up with the University of British Columbia (UBC) for a program that offers free flu shots to community residents aged 65 or older at Osoyoos’s pharmacies. [...more]
The reason people waiting to enter Canada at the Osoyoos port of entry may sometimes face long lines is because the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) often has to balance its resources between keeping B.C.-bound traffic flowing and protecting the border. That’s the response Alan Profili, the agency’s acting chief at the port, gave in response to recent local concerns raised about long wait times at the border. “We shift our resources to where they’re required,” he said, adding that circumstances sometimes come up where the attention of CBSA officers processing traffic at the border is required elsewhere. [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-October 14, 2009 Beyond the dues adjustment and arguments about whether the Osoyoos Golf and Country Club needs new management or if the members should give up the club to the Town of Osoyoos, it seems clear that the club’s leadership is not providing club members with enough information about how things are being run. Indeed, [...] [...more]
Police have released more information about the man accused of attacking a former Osoyoos councillor with a hatchet on Sept. 22. Louis Joseph Lemay, 50, is charged with assault, assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for the purpose of committing an offence after allegedly swinging a hatchet at Allan Carswell at the Haynes Point Provincial Park boat launch. [...more]
For Osoyoos’s Don Brunner, little has changed in the last 70 years when it comes to the Osoyoos border crossing. “In 1937 we had one lane and 72 years later we have one lane and there’s more traffic now,” he said. Brunner and Albin Hochsteiner of Osoyoos were two of about 20 people who attended a community forum in Osoyoos on Sept. 24 hosted by Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko, Mayor Stu Wells, rural Area A Director Mark Pendergraft and Diana Thomas, a representative of Boundary-Similkameen MLA John Slater’s Osoyoos office. [...more]
The Osoyoos Indian Band council has agreed in principal to a proposed boundary exchange agreement with the Town of Osoyoos. The agreement, if approved by both the Town and the band, would transfer roughly 16 hectares of land near 45th Street to the band. [...more]
