“We’re going to have bears as long as we have fruit in the valley and garbage in our garbage cans,” said Bob Hamilton, conservation officer for the South Okanagan.
It’s quite normal this time of year for bears to come into residential areas after coming out of hibernation, said Hamilton, and that means the recent bear sightings are par for the course.
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A member of the Osoyoos-Oliver RCMP will continue to work while his conduct during a response to a recent domestic dispute in Oliver is being investigated, said Staff Sgt. Kurt Lozinski.
Last month, Const. Amit Goyal was the first of three RCMP members to arrive at an Oliver residence in response to a 911 call, Lozinski said.
It would seem that the robbery of an Osoyoos bank was part of a spree of heists across Western Canada last month.
At just after 2 p.m. on May 21, a man walked into the CIBC on Main Street and allegedly passed a teller a note demanding money and stating he had a weapon and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Members of the Casitas Del Sol strata corporation have voted to mediate a settlement with a resident of the manufactured-home community on 115th street who lives with a disability.
Maureen Poucher, who became the corporation’s president in June of last year, said 54 members of the corporation attended a meeting on May 29 and agreed to settle a discrimination issue with Mick Shannon, a retired train engineer in his 60s who suffers from a type of lung disease known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).