A celebration of the Olympic flame’s arrival in Osoyoos will begin one day before the Torch winds its way down Anarchist Mountain.
The Sonora Community Centre is hosting a free mid-winter sock hop on Jan. 23 from 5 to 8 p.m. with music from the 1950s and 1960s being supplied by some of the entertainers scheduled to perform at a ceremony celebrating the Torch’s arrival in Osoyoos the next day.
“I think we live on the wrong side of the bridge,” said Valorie Paolera.
Valorie and her husband Angelo are claiming the Town of Osoyoos isn’t taking a dispute in their neighbourhood regarding noise and pollution from the Rattlesnake Canyon amusement park as seriously as it has been taking some other local neighbourhood disputes.
Osoyoos’s Sagebrush Lodge is about to have new tenants.
The Osoyoos Health Centre is moving from its home on Main Street to the former care facility on 89th Street which has been more or less vacant since November of 2008, when the seniors who were residing there moved to the Mariposa Gardens care facility on Hwy. 97.
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The owners of two fruit stands located on Hwy. 97 north of Osoyoos are worried that plans to expand the highway to four lanes will hurt their businesses.
In November, the federal and provincial governments pledged $8 million towards the construction of a new, two-kilometre stretch of four-lane highway running from Graveyard Hill to Dead Man’s Lake.