Editor: Re: “Ballet Kelowna” Last Thursday (Nov. 5) we dragged ourselves away from TV to see the Ballet Kelowna perform in the Osoyoos Mini Theatre. It was a wonderful and exciting performance! They danced and danced. It was an evening to remember. Thank you! Please come back and entertain us again. Traude Aspe, Osoyoos OSOYOOS TIMES-November 18, 2009 HST WILL LIKELY HAMPER B.C.’S ECONOMIC RECOVERY Editor: Consumer spending [...] [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-November 18, 2009 The provincial government has stated that the main reason it passed legislation which brought an end to a seven-month-old paramedics strike was due to pressures on the health care system brought about by H1N1. “With the H1N1 pandemic impacting the acute care system and winter and the holiday season fast approaching, the public [...] [...more]
A 48-year-old Osoyoos woman was killed on Nov. 9 when the pickup truck she was driving veered off Hwy. 3 at the base of the Richter Pass and plunged more than 20 metres down an embankment. Police said Anna Torine Burris was heading eastbound in a 2005 GMC Canyon pickup truck when the crash happened just before 9 p.m. [...more]
“They did very well (at dealing with the crowd), even with all the hype,” said Adele Jenkins from the Osoyoos Seniors Centre, who was involved with coordinating last week’s H1N1 and seasonal flu shot clinic. The first few people in line said they arrived at about 8 a.m. on Nov. 4, the day Interior Health came to Osoyoos to give out the first round of H1N1 vaccinations to those who qualified. [...more]
The winner of the first-ever Olympic gold medal for snowboarding will be carrying the Olympic Torch in Osoyoos in January. Ross Rebagliati, who captured gold at the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998— and became the subject of controversy after testing positive for marijuana following his gold-medal finish— said he received the news last week that he’ll be a torchbearer on one leg of the torch’s cross-Canada journey when it passes through Osoyoos on January 24 and 25. [...more]
Lakefront property owners in Osoyoos are having their rights eroded due to where Osoyoos Lake’s natural boundary is found, said a local planning and development consultant. Brad Elenko, who is also a lakefront property owner, wants the natural boundary of the lake established at an elevation lower than where it is determined to be now. [...more]
Editor: I recently was in your fine town for the British Columbia Museums Association conference from October 14 until 17. Hosted by Gayle Cornish and the Osoyoos Museum at the Community Centre, it certainly was able to deliver both good sessions and support for the presenters. I would in particular like to mention how my colleague, Heather Dunn [...] [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-November 11, 2009 Getting so-called supportive housing efforts off the ground at Osoyoos’s Desert Valley Care facility has certainly been a fiasco. In the beginning, the province said the 10-unit facility— which has not been in use since November of 2008 and was purchased by the provincial government last January— would be housing people who are [...] [...more]
Investigators are looking into suspicious circumstances surrounding a fire that broke out on Lambert Court in Osoyoos on the evening of Oct. 29. A two-storey house and trailer at 6 Lambert Crt. went up in flames just after 6 p.m. The house’s residents, Jay Anast and his children, were not home at the time and no one was injured in the blaze. [...more]
The Town of Osoyoos and the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) have now officially signed an agreement to exchange some land for new roads, and it’s an agreement that brings the OIB one step closer to changing their boundaries and expanding their reserve. “(Yes, it will be) a loss of land off our tax rolls,” said Osoyoos Mayor Stu Wells about the three lots that will eventually be considered band land instead of Town land. [...more]
