Paul McCavour is determined to help former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm extinguish the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) – and the formal part of the process has officially begun. “We have a 60-day waiting period, and after that we can start gathering names,” said McCavour, who is spearheading the local movement to convince the B.C. government to abandon the idea of bringing in the HST. [...more]
“I actually woke up minutes before the smoke alarm went off, and it felt like something was wrong,” said Sharon Hiller, about the night of the fire that burned her and her young family out of their home. Hiller was asleep in an upstairs bedroom when the fire broke out in their home on Braeburn Place on Jan. 27. [...more]
“We weren’t the only district in the province that asked for everything,” said Juleen McElgunn, superintendent for School District 53, about the across-the-board request they made for full-day kindergarten. “What happened was they (the Ministry of Education) had a set number of seats across the province.” In December, the board members of School District 53 received notice that instead of the 151 full-day kindergarten seats the district requested from the B.C. Ministry of Education, they will get 111 seats. [...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]
“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]
