An Osoyoos man is facing possible charges of production of a controlled substance for the purposes of trafficking after police uncovered and dismantled an alleged marijuana grow operation on Oleander Drive on March 10.
Several members of the Osoyoos-Oliver RCMP executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrant just before 10:30 a.m. that morning at a small white bungalow at 4219 Oleander Dr.
The Okanagan Valley could be facing another summer of low river levels and reduced lake and groundwater storage due to below-average snowpack levels around the province.
“If you’re in the Okanagan and you need water, pray for rain,” said Bill Kuhnke, the manager of forecasting information for the B.C. Environment Ministry’s Water Stewardship Division.
Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) officials were put on the hot seat on the evening of March 15 at a standing-room-only information session on the RDOS’s proposed 2010 budget.
Roughly 70 people from rural Area A, most of whom are Anarchist Mountain residents, crowded into a room at the Sonora Community Centre to bring up their concerns about taxation rates, a lack of services and some alleged accounting discrepancies to Mark Pendergraft, director for rural Area A, Bill Newell, the RDOS’s chief administrative officer and Jim Tarves, the acting finance manager for the RDOS.
The South Okanagan Chamber of Commerce is looking for a new office in Osoyoos because it can no longer afford to stay at its current location on 85th Street.
Chamber President Chris Scheuren said the organization still wants to maintain a presence in town and will move out of its current office on April 1.
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