Author: Osoyoos Times

A group effort saved a man’s life after a near-drowning off of Osoyoos Lake Regional Park on the evening of June 21.
An Osoyoos woman, a Burnaby man and a Calgary man worked together to get a drowning Mexican man, aged 39, out of the water and to resuscitate him.

“This all belongs to someone else. I want them to take it back,” said Kathy Mercier, waving her hand at the mixture of mud and debris surrounding her broken home.
“Someone’s inaction, someone’s neglect, someone’s dereliction of duty, arrogance at the worst, has caused this to happen.”

A Kilpoola resident concerned with a proliferation of illegal signs on private properties in rural Area A said the Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) is going in circles in its response to a formal complaint she filed in March.
Sherry Linn mailed a letter to the RDOS on March 2 requesting that a bylaw officer enforce signage regulations for rural properties in Area A.

There is now at least one more family of burrowing owls in the South Okanagan.
“It’s a numbers game,” said Jim Wyse, a volunteer with the Burrowing Owl Conservation Society of B.C.
About six weeks ago, society volunteers released four pairs of burrowing owls into artificial burrows built in natural grasslands on Ace Elkink’s property west of Osoyoos.