A self-confessed “hockey nut” is leading the charge and to have Osoyoos named Canada’s Hockeyville and she’s hopefult hundreds of local hockey fans will join her team. Cathy Martins, a local supply teacher and longtime fan and volunteer with Junior B hockey team in Osoyoos in its many variations over the past 16 years, has officially [...] [...more]
Town council has thrown its enthusiastic support behind the formation of a community stakeholders committee to take another look at establishing a community splash park here in Osoyoos. The idea of a community splash park was discussed by the previous council dating back more than three years ago, but the project “never got off the ground” [...] [...more]
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 suggested two [...] [...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 overall [...] [...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 the [...] [...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. “I would [...] [...more]
More than 50 people, including the mayor, town council, volunteers, community stakeholders and residents of Osoyoos made their way to the Watermark Beach Resort conference room on the night of December 8 for the official unveiling of the Integrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP). “This is absolutely great,” said Mayor Stu Wells after accepting the plan from [...] [...more]
For more than 30 years, John Slater has been in South Okanagan politics in one way or another. Asked what it is that’s kept him here since he first moved here in 1980, he had one simple answer. “The people are wonderful. Everybody’s working together and they’re all working for the community,” said Slater. “That’s what [...] [...more]
