Lines have been put down on a map to identify the rural Osoyoos homes that will be included in the new Northwest Sector Sewer project. Each homeowner inside that line will have to pay at least $8,000 to be part of the system. It’s not optional and not everyone is happy about it. [...more]
Local police want you to arrive home safely this holiday season, so they are letting the community know they’ll have their eyes open for impaired driving during the period around Christmas and New Year’s Day. “This time of the year, certainly with all the office parties and the celebrations, we usually gear up that there is significantly more impaired driving cases in December and January,” said Staff Sgt. Kurt Lozinski, commander of the Osoyoos RCMP detachment. [...more]
The Town of Osoyoos is cleaning up the streets – a few signs and unlicensed vehicles at a time. “The new Traffic Bylaw prohibits anyone from erecting or placing any sign, sign board, advertisement, advertising device on any street or arterial highway or right-of-way unless they receive written permission from the Town or in the case of arterial highway or right-of-way, the Ministry of Transportation,” said Osoyoos’s director of corporate services, Janette Van Vianen. [...more]
“Not everybody has a family that gathers around the fire and sings Christmas carols,” said Dr. Mark Welch. “Some find this is the time of year they are most acutely alone.” Welch is the manager of acute care for South Okanagan Mental Health and Addictions and he said there are many people who just don’t like Christmas all that much – and that is more normal than one might think. [...more]
Editor: Mr. Hatherly’s feeling that council’s negative comments were unjust is an opinion. Council made a request in motion 300/09 that the Home Building Centre keep compliance logs for the period of time from Aug. 16 to Nov. 16. During that time I did my best to comply with dates and times when available. The HBC kept no [...] [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-December 23, 2009 Another momentous year has passed in Osoyoos and so the Osoyoos Times has prepared another Christmas list of wishes for this community for 2010: the completion of the affordable housing strategy water metering sidewalks around Osoyoos Secondary School an end to agricultural burning continued success for Osoyoos’s businesses and community organizations a momentous year for the ongoing revitalization [...] [...more]
Dharnpal “Paul” Sekhon is a young man of few words, but his face says it all. “His face was fixed with a smile the whole time,” said Sally Lindley-Jones, who went with the 11-year-old Osoyoos resident to Disneyland on Dec. 10. It was the Sunshine DreamLift to Disneyland day, and Lindley-Jones, from the Osoyoos Physiotherapy Clinic, and Sekhon, her young patient, were chosen to take part in the whirlwind trip. [...more]
“Mostly what’s working well is the support from family and good neighbours,” said Janis St. Louis. “The rest is quite fragmented, and people are not aware of what is available.” St. Louis, an Osoyoos resident who was attending a public meeting on Dec. 10 about challenges facing senior citizens who are trying to remain in their homes, was offering up some of the answers thought up by her brainstorming workgroup. [...more]
Anyone looking to get out from the cold in Osoyoos may have to depend on the goodwill of local residents or community organizations or rely on shelters as far away as Penticton. On Dec. 9, the provincial government passed the Assistance to Shelter Act which allows police to assist homeless people to shelters when an extreme weather alert is issued for a community. [...more]
A reduction in thefts from construction sites and a greater sense of security on Anarchist Mountain are signs that a community watch program established one year ago is working, said the president of the Anarchist Mountain Community Society. [...more]
