Author: Osoyoos Times

Who’s right and who’s wrong is sometimes simply a matter of which side of the street you are standing on.
“We really don’t see it as an issue, and don’t want to get involved in anything,” said Joe Chwachka, store manager for the Osoyoos Home Building Centre. “Our business has been here for 20 years.”
On the wall of Chwachka’s office, there is a Town of Osoyoos map.
He points out the line dividing “downtown commercial” from “single family residential.” It runs right smack dab down the middle of 78th Avenue.

Who’s right and who’s wrong is sometimes simply a matter of which side of the street you are standing on.
“We really don’t see it as an issue, and don’t want to get involved in anything,” said Joe Chwachka, store manager for the Osoyoos Home Building Centre. “Our business has been here for 20 years.”
On the wall of Chwachka’s office, there is a Town of Osoyoos map.
He points out the line dividing “downtown commercial” from “single family residential.” It runs right smack dab down the middle of 78th Avenue.

It might not look logical to mathematicians, but in B.C. if you add GST and PST you get HST and it’s a change in the provincial tax structure that South Okanagan Chamber of Commerce president Kenn Oldfield isn’t so sure of yet.
“Maybe from a book-keeping point of view it will make our lives easier,” he said.
The province announced on July 23 that it intends to harmonize the provincial sales tax (PST) with the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST), effective July 1, 2010.

It might not look logical to mathematicians, but in B.C. if you add GST and PST you get HST and it’s a change in the provincial tax structure that South Okanagan Chamber of Commerce president Kenn Oldfield isn’t so sure of yet.
“Maybe from a book-keeping point of view it will make our lives easier,” he said.
The province announced on July 23 that it intends to harmonize the provincial sales tax (PST) with the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST), effective July 1, 2010.

“Our best B.C. model to emulate is Princeton,” said Eike Scheffler, director of the South Interior Recreational Equine Centre (SIREC). “They have their PXA, a successful community supported viable society that is (a) highly respected and well managed business model.”
Osoyoos’s Desert Park re-opened this spring, under a temporary contract with SIREC.