On Tuesday October 26 members of the Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance (PWPA) were the guests of Glencore Canada Corp. and Brenda Renewables Inc. (BRI) for a tour of the former mine site and proposed location of a composting facility near ...
Joanne Layh Over 500 people chose to celebrate Halloween last Sunday at the municipality’s Jack-O’-Lantern Walk on the Haunted Dock event at Heritage Park. Turnout to the event was significantly higher over last year, when an estimated 370 people attended. ...
Jim Witiw’s recent opinion piece seems to be taking advantage of the current public appreciation for wildfire crews, in order to push the fable that the logging industry is our saviour. While it’s noble that loggers are assisting in the ...
Joanne Layh Illegal dumpsites and abandoned vehicles litter the area of Peachland’s drinking water source and this weekend, two organizations are spearheading an effort to do something about it. The Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance (PWPA), Okanagan Forestry Task Force and ...
It is that time of year again when Okanagan residents get ready to start blaming poor old Mother Nature for the prospects of flooding. An expected upcoming warm spell will kick off the spring melt across the province, according to ...
Joanne Layh The Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance (PWPA) is planning a rally next week to oppose clear-cut logging and other industrial activity in Peachland’s watershed. The event is scheduled to take place at noon on March 19 in between the ...
Joanne Layh Peachland council has received 10 civic grant applications for 2021 totalling $65,150. The grant applications will be up for council consideration in budget deliberations scheduled to take place during committee meetings over the next several months. Peachland’s civic ...
Joanne Layh A group of demonstrators gathered peacefully in downtown Peachland last Friday afternoon as part of a larger Forest March BC event taking place across the province to rally for better provincial forest management. The event was co-organized by ...
Joanne Layh On Friday, Sept. 18 Forest March BC members in 16 communities across the province will march in support of changing current forest policy. In Peachland, the event is scheduled to begin at noon at the visitor centre on ...
I have followed for some time now a trail of letters authored by the Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance, whose root interests in sustainable forest management considerations of watershed health (among other values) are most certainly valid, common interests. Yet with ...
Once branded as, “Peachland–on-the-Lake”, today this central Okanagan town’s hashtag is “Peachland–in the-Lake.” If you live in the Okanagan, you have experienced three major floods in four years. If you live next to the lake, selling your home or buying ...
To the Honorable Bruce Ralston Minister of Energy, Mines & Petroleum, Re: Opposition to the mining exploration application for Tenure #1049752, “New Brenda” site in the Peachland Watersheds The Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance (PWPA) is writing to voice our strong ...
Joanne Layh Last week Peachland council supported a recommendation to disband the Peachland’s Economic Development Committee and Tourism Promotion Committee and reform them into one new committee: the Tourism and Economic Development Committee (TEDC). Last year it was acknowledged that ...
Westbank First Nation (WFN) and the Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance will mark International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 8 with a First Ladies of the Okanagan Tea and Bannock Celebration at the 50 Plus Activity Centre. The event was organized ...
