Author: Osoyoos Times

Being at the top of a hit list “is a little distracting” for Boundary-Similkameen MLA John Slater.
On June 29, Fight HST, the organization working to have the pending harmonized sales tax repealed, issued a media release stating it had collected 700,000 signatures for the Initiative Petition which began three months ago.
As of June 29, 12,005 signatures have been added to the petition in this riding.

Having been plucked from the grip of death, Bardomiano Hernandez is looking at what he calls a “second chance at life.”
The 39-year-old man from Mexico’s Puebla state has been working at an orchard on 16th Avenue since April on a seven-month contract.

While concerns over plans to build a marina near Lions Park grow, Osoyoos town council gave second reading to a zoning bylaw amendment that would allow for the project to go ahead.
The reading was given at a special council meeting held on June 24.

When Terry Wells of Osoyoos drove through the scene of devastation around Road 16 south of Oliver after Hwy. 97 reopened following the June 13 mudslide, he couldn’t help but think of a similar slide he witnessed at Tinhorn Creek 27 years ago.
It was May 28, 1983, when a mudslide tore down the creek next to a vineyard Wells used to own at the site where the Tinhorn Creek Winery now stands off of Road 7.