Along with their continual work to educate the public about invasive freshwater mussels, the Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) has also been busy looking into the impacts of boating on Okanagan Lake and developing educational events for the fall.
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Sandy Beach Suites on Ponderosa Drive will be seeing some major changes in the coming months, and the first step toward putting current plans into motion was made on August 9 when Osoyoos town council approved a development variance permit for Norman Goddard Architecture.
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The BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) is reminding members of the public that wildfires are active worksites, and it is important to steer clear of them for your own safety, the safety of first responders and to avoid interfering with response efforts.
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The signs of summer’s waning are all around us. Back to school sales, shorter evenings, clearance sales off seasonal accoutrements, and so on. I even saw a formation of Canada Geese heading south the other night, a foreboding sight indeed.
And as Canadians bid adieu to another seemingly brief summer, attention inevitably returns to more serious matters of schooling, work, and of course COVID-19.
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Mid-summer is the time when landowners typically notice more bat activity, may have bats flying into their house, and occasionally find a bat on the ground or roosting in unusual locations.
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