It looks like the Town of Osoyoos will have a community dog park in place before next summer. Councillor C. J. Rhodes asked his fellow councillors to support the concept of a community dog park at Monday’s final meeting of council for 2011 and fellow councillors agreed it would be a very good idea. Rhodes [...] [...more]
Town of Osoyoos councillors have unanimously supported spending up to $5,000 to help complete an airport obstacles report to determine if and how the Osoyoos Airport’s runway could be expanded to accommodate larger airplanes in the future. “I think this is a good investment in our community,” said Councillor C.J. Rhodes. “I think it’s an [...] [...more]
Birds of the wrong feather The December 14 issue, on page 14, has a fine panoramic shot of Tundra Swans resting on Osoyoos Lake. Unfortunately, they got labeled as Snow Geese, which is “winging it” in the wrong direction. Routinely a flock of these magnificent birds winter over on the north end of Vaseux Lake [...] [...more]
The greatness of Lloyd Fairweather I came down from Oliver last night to hear Lloyd and his Okanagan International Choir. This year’s performance has outdone all of Lloyd’s former performances. I needed a lift and I got it big time. Lloyd seems to have all of this music in him [so] that he is just [...] [...more]
If you’re thinking, as some observant readers have, that Lake Osoyoos water levels are very low, it turns out it isn’t that the water level is so low, but rather that the spring levels were much higher than usual. The large drop in water levels has only returned the water to its normal winter levels, [...] [...more]
Phoenix Lonsdale, who has also gone under the name Phoenix McGourty, was sentenced in a Penticton court room Monday, to four years in prison. Lonsdale, who was arrested and charged with arson causing damage in May 2011, was sentenced for burning down the Osoyoos Christian Ministry Thrift Store on Main Street. The fire also destroyed [...] [...more]
It wasn’t so long ago that commuters were traveling both north and south along Spartan Drive, but with the construction of the new marina, the road had to be closed for safety reasons. When it reopened, a few residents were surprised to see what was once a two-way arterial road had been turned into a [...] [...more]
The Customs Port of Entry on the Canada/United States border celebrated its 150th anniversary on December 10 with a short ceremony at the Canadian Border Service Agency facility in Osoyoos. In attendance were local RCMP officers, border service officers, the mayor, some members of town council and a few descendants of the original customs officers. [...] [...more]
We wish to inform your readers that, unlike those who oppose the national park in the recent ‘No National Park’ advertisement, our experience with Parks Canada has been positive. Sure, we are impatient with the slow pace of progress, but we have never felt we were being deliberately misled nor have Parks Canada officials been [...] [...more]
Kyoto’s carbon reduction emissions target, signed onto by then-PM Jean Chretien, was a political move at the time. The successive Liberal government never made any real attempt to cut or cap our carbon emissions. Perhaps that is why Environment Minister Peter Kent took a moment, when formally announcing Canada’s formal withdrawal, to take a partisan [...] [...more]
