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 brimming over [...] [...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]
On November 21 I bought an electric handheld blender at the Home Hardware that was featured on the front page of their flyer for $9.97. When I paid for it I was charged $2.25 for a “small electrical appliance eco fee” and, to add insult to injury, they charged me HST on the fee. The [...] [...more]
Re: November 23, Osoyoos remains true to Wells Congratulations to Osoyoos Director of Corporate Services and Returning Officer, Janette Van Vianen, and her staff for a wonderfully well-organized and well-run civic election. It’s too bad only about 40 per cent of the electorate took the few minutes required to exercise their democratic right to vote for [...] [...more]
Open letter to Osoyoos Council Re: Osoyoos Lake and drinking water infrastructure Dear Mayor and Counsellors of the Town of Osoyoos I wish to express my deep concerns about the major infrastructure of our town. We are able to live without parks, paving of roads and similar attributes of our life here, but we are unable to live [...] [...more]
The province and the BCTF are squaring off over cost increases that seem to have little to do with good governance or children. For the BC Liberal party they are being slowly backed into a corner mostly of their own making. Holding themselves as the economically responsible party, they have a fairly dismal record of [...] [...more]
You may remember a decade ago when the NDP government ran the very unpopular photo radar program. The essential argument for the campaign was speed kills. The argument against the program was that it was a cash grab. The fact is that most motorists speed. There may be a few angels out there who never break [...] [...more]
Museum facility inching forward – Osoyoos Times, November 23 In this move are some apparent peculiarities the citizen may want to consider. For instance, why was the Home Building Centre purchased for this purpose? Were other options considered? The town already owns land upon which to erect a new building, which definitely will costs less than [...] [...more]
From where I sit – part of the mountain community, but not part of Regal Ridge itself – initially zoning delays, plus the HST, the huge economic slowdown and the trickle down effect from cheap housing in Phoenix, etc., have all contributed to the present situation. Unfortunately, so has negative comment. However, Regal Ridge has been [...] [...more]
