“Here it comes!” rippled through the crowd of roughly 2,000 people that filled Gyro Park on the evening of Jan. 24. The masses had huddled together, fending off a tolerable January chill, to take in the spectacle provided by local entertainers, VANOC and presenters from RBC and Coca-Cola. But they were all awaiting one special moment. [...more]
A memorandum of understanding signed earlier this month will allow for Destination Osoyoos (DO) to provide tourism marketing services to the Town of Osoyoos, the NK’MIP Resort Association and the Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS). The trio of organizations will contribute towards $150,000 worth of funding that DO will use to carry out marketing services for the entire Osoyoos area. [...more]
The Town and the owners of the Sage Pub found themselves in Penticton provincial court earlier this month, clearing up the matter of some outstanding municipal tickets relating to noise. “They pled not guilty to six counts,” explained Osoyoos’s chief administrative officer, Barry Romanko. The tickets were issued by the Town’s bylaw enforcement officers on six consecutive days, from August 18 to 23, 2009, and each of the six tickets carried a fine of $100. [...more]
“Let’s get busy and find that $5 million somewhere,” said Coun. CJ Rhodes after a committee presentation at the Jan. 18 Osoyoos town council meeting by a group determined to build a new museum in Osoyoos. The presentation was made by Mat Hassen, chair of the New Museum Committee established by the Osoyoos Museum Society. [...more]
Editor: I would like to respond to Laurena Weninger’s article of January 13th, 2010, “Local MP feels prorogation…” I find the word “prorogation” to be Canada’s newest piece of current vocabulary. Mr. Atamanenko finds this to be “dictatorial” and a “real affront to democracy.” So I guess the question that needs to be asked: “Why have Canadian governments prorogued parliament [...] [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-January 27, 2010 From Tony Batista’s heart-string-tugging address to the crowd after lighting the Olympic cauldron, to Tom Shields’ spirited hosting performance, to Olympic gold-medal winning snowboarder Ross Rebagliati’s skateboarding adventure up Hwy. 97 with the Torch, Osoyoos’s Olympic Torch Relay celebration was an awesome experience. It almost seems like a little bit of serendipity was [...] [...more]
Cries of “Allez!, allez!” could be heard alongside the more familiar shouts of “Hurry, hurry, hard!” at the Osoyoos International Curling Club last weekend. France’s Olympic curling team was in Osoyoos to participate in the club’s annual Men’s Bonspiel from January 15 to 17 and despite being bound for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver next month, the foursome found some serious competition here. [...more]
A celebration of the Olympic flame’s arrival in Osoyoos will begin one day before the Torch winds its way down Anarchist Mountain. The Sonora Community Centre is hosting a free mid-winter sock hop on Jan. 23 from 5 to 8 p.m. with music from the 1950s and 1960s being supplied by some of the entertainers scheduled to perform at a ceremony celebrating the Torch’s arrival in Osoyoos the next day. [...more]
“I think we live on the wrong side of the bridge,” said Valorie Paolera. Valorie and her husband Angelo are claiming the Town of Osoyoos isn’t taking a dispute in their neighbourhood regarding noise and pollution from the Rattlesnake Canyon amusement park as seriously as it has been taking some other local neighbourhood disputes. [...more]
Osoyoos’s Sagebrush Lodge is about to have new tenants. The Osoyoos Health Centre is moving from its home on Main Street to the former care facility on 89th Street which has been more or less vacant since November of 2008, when the seniors who were residing there moved to the Mariposa Gardens care facility on Hwy. 97. [...more]
