Author: Osoyoos Times

The Boundary-Similkameen electoral district will be ground zero for a possible recall campaign later this year, said Bill Vander Zalm, who is spearheading a provincial campaign to have the HST quashed.
The former B.C. premier was in Osoyoos on July 29 to meet with Paul McCavour and Julie Turner, who helped organize signature-collecting efforts for the South Okanagan during the Initiative Petition campaign which ran from April to June.

Ready for a dip in the lake?
Beat the heat by heading down to the swimming areas at one of Osoyoos’s public beaches.
But it turns out finding out who is responsible for placing and maintaining various markers designating swimming areas off of these beaches is not an easy task.

Despite Osoyoos council’s support of the proposal, the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) has once again refused to grant the removal of the “Wish” property from B.C.’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).
“Excluding the property would have a negative impact on agriculture in that it would remove an 8.8 ha (hectare property) from the limited agricultural land base and transfer the urban/rural boundary and any potential conflict areas to the east,” states minutes of the ALC’s decision regarding the property.