Author: Osoyoos Times

A study published this month that looked at the effects of a trio of pesticides on the early-life stages of great basin spadefoot toads and Pacific treefrogs living in Osoyoos found that pesticide levels observed in this area caused death and deformities to the amphibians, even though the levels “met the requirements for federal water quality guidelines.”

Starting late this summer, if you drop a letter into a mail box in Osoyoos that is addressed to another address in Osoyoos, that letter will get to go on a bit of a journey before it gets to its final destination.
“Customers can still post their mail items on a Friday that are destined within their local trading area and they’ll still be ready for delivery on Monday,” said Colleen Frick, a director of communication for Canada Post Corporation.

Personal patient information sent out by Interior Health to those to whom it did not belong is being chalked up as “human error.”
“This breach was caused by a setting on a new device not being correctly set, resulting in double appointment letters being stuffed into envelopes,” said a letter sent out to a number of patients within Interior Health’s coverage area, which includes Osoyoos.