Osoyoos town council decided to put off second and third readings of a zoning amendment bylaw that would allow for the construction of a marina at Lions Park.
Instead council scheduled a session to provide more information on the matter to the public.
Researchers from Ontario’s University of Waterloo and the B.C. Transportation Ministry are working to give rare amphibians living near the site of the Hwy. 97 four-lane expansion project a helping hand.
Sara Ashpole, a researcher at the university, teamed up with ministry personnel last month to construct a new teardrop-shaped pond on ministry property near the intersection of the highway and Road 22.
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With the summer agricultural season about to come into full swing and hundreds of seasonal workers about to descend upon the Osoyoos area, the question about what to do about the Strawberry Creek area becomes that much more urgent.
Along with concerns about trash left behind by people who have adopted the area behind the Buena Vista Industrial Park and adjacent to the Osoyoos Rifle Range, even more attention has been drawn to the site due to last summer’s fire which scorched more than three hectares of Crown land.
Residents of the Casitas Del Sol manufactured home community on 115th Street will vote later this month on whether to proceed with a judicial review of a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decision that found the community’s strata council guilty of discriminating against a physically disabled resident.
In December, the tribunal issued a decision stating the council discriminated against Mick Shannon, a retired train engineer in his 60s who suffers from a type of lung disease known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), by not allowing him to keep a solar screen installed on one of his home’s windows.