OSOYOOS COUNCIL APPROVES FORMING COMMITTEE TO LOOK AT COMMUNITY SPLASH PARK
Town council has thrown its enthusiastic support behind the formation of a community stakeholders...
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LOCAL LEADERS SAY PLAN TO PUT PHASE 2 SEWER PIPE UNDER HIGH-WATER MARK WON’T HURT LAKE
The Town of Osoyoos is now accepting tenders for Phase 2 of the Northwest Sector Sewer Project that will service 16 existing homes along 148th Street towards Roberts Point.
The blueprints for the second phase show the proposed sewage pipeline will, at some points, run along the foreshore of Osoyoos Lake.
LEMAY SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS OF PROBATION FOR THREATENING BYLAW OFFICER
A 51-year-old Osoyoos man who was evicted from Desert Park in the summer of 2009 after threatening an Osoyoos bylaw officer was handed a suspended sentence on Dec. 17.
Louis Joseph Lemay was arrested on June 30, 2009, when RCMP were called to Desert Park by the Town of Osoyoos’s bylaw officer, Steven Marshall, to help remove Lemay from a tack room in a barn where he had been squatting.
MAN WHO ROBBED OSOYOOS CIBC IN MAY PLEADS GUILTY
A 53-year-old Calgary man pleaded guilty in Kamloops provincial court on Dec. 16 to robbing the Osoyoos CIBC on May 21.
He also pleaded guilty to four other charges of robbery in relation to heists that happened in the days leading up to the Osoyoos robbery.
OSOYOOS INDIAN BAND CHIEF NAMED TO ABORIGINAL BUSINESS HALL OF FAME
Chief Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band said he laughed when he heard he had been named as one of two recipients of the 2011 Aboriginal Business Hall of Fame Award.
“I thought you had to be really old, or retired and rich, to be in the hall of fame.”
The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business, which hands out the award, announced on Dec. 14 that Louie and Ruth Williams were the recipients of the award.