Editor: I feel compelled to weigh in on the ongoing Home Building Centre (HBC) and neighbour issue. Having first-hand knowledge of this issue as an HBC employee, I feel Council members’ negative comments towards HBC to be unjust. Following Mr. Wright’s July letter to Council, strict directives were promptly implemented by management and followed by HBC yard [...] [...more]
The final combined H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccination clinic in Osoyoos will take place at the Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre at 100 Rancher Creek Rd. on Dec. 14 from 1 to 6 p.m. [...more]
Recent news of the arrest of UN Gang leader Douglas Vanalstine brought back a few painful memories for Osoyoos resident Dave Loeppky, who won a $314,000 civil settlement against 49-year-old Vanalstine in September. “He shot me twice. Once in the left foot, once in the right leg,” said 53-year-old Loeppky, while sitting on a rail just outside the Breeze Cold Beer and Wine Store last week. [...more]
“It’s a daunting task,” said Terry Underwood, from TRUE Consulting. “Our job is to go out and re-acquire the six-metre right-of-way.” Underwood is working on completing one of the biggest necessary steps for delivering sewer service to the northwest shore of Osoyoos Lake. [...more]
There are fewer hairy men in Osoyoos this week. With the wrap-up of the global fundraising and awareness drive called “Movember,” several of the Osoyoos men who were letting their facial hair grow have shaved it off. “I shaved mine late on the 30th (of November),” said Phil Johnson, pastor of the Osoyoos Baptist Church. “It was itchy… and I think it made me look old.” [...more]
“The SIREC (proposal) was just a lot closer to council’s vision about what should be happening up there,” said Osoyoos Mayor Stu Wells, as Osoyoos town council unanimously agreed to choose the proposal prepared by the South Interior Recreational Equine Centre (SIREC) for the future of Desert Park. [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-December 9, 2009 Last week, the B.C. Finance Ministry issued a media release with the headline “B.C. economy expected to stabilize in 2010.” This optimistic statement was born out of a projection from the province’s Economic Forecast Council, which is expecting British Columbia’s economy to grow by 2.9 per cent in the new year. That’s up from [...] [...more]
Residents of Osoyoos Lake’s northwest shore whose properties will be serviced by the extension of the Town of Osoyoos’s sewer system got the lowdown on some of the final details of the project at an information session on Nov. 26. Roughly 100 people showed up to the session at the Sonora Community Centre which was hosted by representatives of the Town of Osoyoos, the Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) and TRUE Consulting, the Town’s engineering consultant. [...more]
So far, roughly 70,000 adult sockeye salmon have returned to the South Okanagan this fall. Howie Wright, the Okanagan Nation Alliance’s fisheries program manager, said between 50,000 to 80,000 salmon were expected to return to spawning grounds near the McIntyre Dam north of Oliver in the past two-and-a-half months. [...more]
If any of your belongings are sitting on a public beach access around Osoyoos Lake, the Town is about to remove them. “The Town of Osoyoos has recently had a surveyor complete surveys on all Town properties adjacent to Osoyoos Lake,” stated a sample letter sent out by the Town to a number of property-owners around the lake. “After completion of these surveys, staff toured all these properties. [...more]
