Members of Town of Osoyoos council are meeting all week to discuss and complete 2013 budget deliberations. About the only things guaranteed are there is going to be plenty of debate about whether or not to create a reserve fund to pay for additional policing costs three or four years down the road and resolving [...] [...more]
B.C.’s first Family Day will be held on the second Monday in February, Premier Christy Clark has announced. That will make the date for the first Family Day in British Columbia on Monday, Feb. 11. More than 30,000 people submitted their choices online to help the government determine which Monday in February should be chosen [...] [...more]
It’s a sure sign that spring is not too far off when local municipalities find themselves in the midst of budget deliberations. Osoyoos town council and the board of the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) have been engaged in meetings recently to hammer out priorities. Both have also invited input and questions from the public. [...] [...more]
If his players remain as committed to playing defensive hockey as they have been over the past six or seven weeks, the Osoyoos Coyotes are going to be a force to be reckoned with in the rapidly-approaching Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) playoffs, says head coach and general manager Ken Law. [...] [...more]
There are few things sweeter for a competitive curler than winning a big bonspiel on home ice, says Dale Abrey. Abrey’s rink from Osoyoos did just that, in thrilling fashion, by defeating Stan Green’s rink from the Summerland Curling Club 9-8 in an extra end before a large crowd of appreciative [...] [...more]
Many of you will remember being spellbound last year when Daniel Bolshoy worked magic on his newly acquired high tech German-made guitar. His performance for the South Okanagan Concert Society was billed ‘not to be missed’. The thunderous applause of the audience after a second encore spoke to the thrill [...] [...more]
In one of the most bizarre days in South Okanagan political history, two of the three candidates running in the Boundary-Similkameen riding in the May provincial election resigned within an hour of each hour Monday afternoon. Marji Basso, an Oliver school teacher who has been on leave for several months, has abruptly resigned as the [...] [...more]
At an old tobacco plant on the edge of Oliver, a group of dedicated volunteers is mixing dried vegetables to feed the hungry in distant corners of the world. The beginning of January marks the time of year when volunteers at Okanagan Gleaners spend a couple weeks making soup mixes [...] [...more]
Town of Osoyoos council is seriously thinking about getting rid of the town bylaw which allows people to hunt Canada Geese, saying it hasn’t had any substantial impact on the thousands of geese that are causing numerous problems in and around town. Council discussed the issue after a letter written by a local citizen relating [...] [...more]
Fighting stigma and changing public attitudes about dementia are the goals of Alzheimer Awareness Month, which runs nationally throughout January. The disease is a challenge especially in communities such as Osoyoos, which have aging populations, because the likelihood of Alzheimer’s increases considerably with age. “With us being a retirement destination, demographically the South Okanagan is [...] [...more]
