Author: Osoyoos Times

Members of the Osoyoos Indian Band who gathered at the band’s Community Hall on Sept. 2 for an information meeting on a proposed housing project questioned the project’s developers about how it could affect traffic and fish in the area.
Roughly 30 band members turned out for a presentation hosted by Eric Van Maren of the Van Maren Group of Companies, Rod Cook of the Kent-Macpherson real estate appraisal, consultation and arbitration firm and Darryl Arsenault, a senior fisheries biologist from Golder Associates Ltd. acting as environmental consultant to the developers.

An investigator from the British Columbia Forest Service has determined that a wildfire that devastated 40.2 hectares of land west of Osoyoos around Spotted Lake on Aug. 2 was human-caused.
Michaela Swan, an information officer with the Kamloops Fire Centre, said an investigation into the fire concluded that, without question, the fire was caused by the activities of people and was likely the result of a discarded cigarette.

The public hearing for the Oasis medical-commercial-residential development was held at the Sonora Community Centre on Sept. 7 and was attended by more than 120 people.
About 54 people spoke out to tell Osoyoos council just what their thoughts were about the proposed development.
Twenty-two people spoke in favour of the development and 12 people expressed reservations.

The Osoyoos Coyotes can boast that they are still undefeated for all time after winning a pair of exhibition games and tying a third match this past weekend.
The team played its first game ever on the evening of Sept. 3 before an enthusiastic crowd of more than 280 people at the Sun Bowl Arena in Osoyoos.