All local governments in British Columbia will have a general election on October 15th this year. The previous election took place on October 20th 2018. Starting in 2014 the term for local Councils was changed from three years to four ...
The Peachland Chamber is a member of the Regional Chamber Coalition “OKanaganWeGoThis” consisting of the Kelowna, Vernon, Armstrong, West-Kelowna, Penticton, South Okanagan, and Peachland Chamber managers. This coalition was formed 2 years ago to cope with the Covid-19 situation. This ...
Joanne Layh The Peachland Rotary mural was once again vandalized late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. Peachland Community Police president Gary Hedge said the mural was vandalized in numerous places with permanent lacquer. “They wanted to make sure they ...
Eric Hall Peachland View The future of Peachland’s Historic Primary School was debated over many years. When a large bat colony was discovered in the attic, not everyone was happy. But when people realized that a single little brown bat ...
The Peachland Sportsmen’s Association (PSA) is very well known in this community. Previous president, Al Springer, was one of the key people in the building of the Peachland Pier. He developed fishing programs for people with disabilities and the pier ...
By Dale Boyd Aberdeen Publishing Roughly one third of School District 23’s population in middle school or older have tried vaping, according to the superintendent of schools. Three students in the school district appear to have had “really negative reactions ...
Last week district council approved best practices for staff to follow regarding water bill reimbursement when a homeowner experiences a leak on their property. The best practices would offer property owners some water billing reimbursement following a leak, provided the ...
A grass fire along Highway 97 on Drought Hill was quickly contained Thursday afternoon, thanks to fast acting witnesses, including an Approved Services driver who used his vehicle’s load of water to extinguish the fire. A call for the grass ...
BC’s Forest Practices Board says it has conducted an investigation into the impacts of forestry activities on drinking water from the Peachland and Trepanier watersheds and has found that forest licensees did a good job of minimizing the impacts of ...
Dozens of volunteers spent a gray and windy Saturday cleaning up a massive amount of trash – of all kinds – in Peachland’s backcountry and Beach Ave areas. RDCO waste reduction facilitator Rae ...
If you see her, congratulate Melanie Evans (one of our very own Peachland residents), who operates West Kelowna Wine Tours. She just got back from London England’s Global LTG (Luxury Travel Guide) Awards. In April she got the call that ...
Council will apply to the Ministry of Environment (MOE) to operate a yard waste transfer station at the former landfill site on Princeton Avenue. The decision came at the April 12 regular council meeting, when council unanimously approved a staff ...
The government of B.C. is re-opening angling for streams and rivers in the Okanagan Region due to lower water temperatures and increased flows. Effective Sept. 16, 2015, all streams and rivers in Wildlife Management Units 8-1 through 8-8, 8-12 through ...
Concern over highway expansion in Peachland has once again reared its head, after council got a detailed look at a contentious report on the subject. At its Sept. 8 Committee of the Whole (COTW) meeting, council heard from Tom Freeman, ...
