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Colton Davies
UPDATE: 21:40
An accident Saturday afternoon on Highway 97 between Oliver and Osoyoos could have been fatal.
It is believed that the collision involved a car and a motorcycle. Although the number of people involved is not clear, it is believed that two people were flown to the Kelowna General Hospital.
The RCMP would investigate the crash.
Highway 97 was closed between Highways 9 and 18 for more than five hours as a result of the incident.
UPDATE: 9:00 pm
Highway 97 reopened between Oliver and Osoyoos, reports from DriveBC, as a result of an accident that resulted in a shutdown of more than five hours
L & # Highway 39 was blocked between Highway 9 and Highway 18 as a result of the crash that occurred around 3:15 pm
. not confirmed, but it is believed to have involved a car and a motorcycle.
ORIGINAL: 4:00 pm
Highway 97 is currently closed in both directions four kilometers south of Oliver due to a collision, according to DriveBC.
Southbound traffic can use Highway 9 as a detour, and DriveBC advises motorists to wait for delays in the area.
Details about the nature of the accident are not yet known, and there is no estimate on when the highway will reopen.
Castanet will update
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Photo: Julie Dias
UPDATE: 8:15 pm
The Chief of Osoyoos Fire Department Ryan McCaskill, no one confirmed He was injured when a Toyota sedan fired on the edge of Highway 97 near Osoyoos on Saturday afternoon.
Curiously, McCaskill adds, no one was present during or after the car fire. He noted that the incident is not considered suspicious.
"I have never come on a scene, unless the car is stolen, where no one is there … It's unusual, probably with mechanical problems."
According to Mr. McCaskill, bystanders told the fire department that the occupants of the vehicle had stopped, called a taxi, and left the area well before the fire
. Osoyoos fire was on hand for about 30 minutes. The front of the car was completely engulfed by the flames when the crews arrived, McCaskill added, adding that it was a routine reversal and that the fire was confined to the only vehicle.
ORIGINAL: 5:20 pm
A vehicle burst the flames along Highway 97 near Osoyoos on Saturday afternoon.
Osoyoos resident Julie Dias pbaded by a Toyota sedan that is burning heavily around 5 pm. on the shoulder of the southbound lane of the highway, about seven kilometers from the center of the city.
Dias said that there was no one around the vehicle and that there seemed to be no one inside.
She said that someone was directing traffic on the highway but that fire crews had not yet arrived at the scene. The road was still open at that time, but I doubt that they will keep it open until they stop the flames.
She added that the incident was less than five minutes south of a detour she had just crossed. at a closure on Highway 97 near Oliver from an earlier accident.
Castanet will update with more information when it becomes available.
Photo: Google Street View
The Okanagan River from Fairview Road to Oliver looking north.
Oliver's crews were busy Friday night with consecutive rescues on the Okanagan River – they first spotted a missing man before bringing back four swimmers stranded safely to shore.
At approximately 6:45 pm, the Oliver Fire Department was called to help locate a missing man, last seen in a river area near Park Rill Road swimming with a friend.
The man from Quebec City was found around 7:15 pm. According to fire department spokesman, Rob Graham, along the shore, further downstream, the department's rapid rescue team said that at about the same time as the man, firefighters were called to help four people stuck on an island. In the river, further north, with no sure way to reach the shore
The crews needed about an hour, said Graham, to bring back safely to the four people who were a man and three women from Quebec
. Oliver – Osoyoos Search and Rescue helped and a raft was deployed to recover stranded swimmers one by one.
No one was injured. "The mosquito bites would be the main ones they would have suffered during their stay," Graham jokingly said. "They were happy and grateful for us to be there."
Graham said that the fluvial channel near Oliver can be difficult to navigate at this time of year.
"It's fast and high, and everyone just needs caution."
Colton Davies
Despite a continuing rise in real estate prices in the south of the Okanagan, activity has cooled .
Midway through to 2018, the difference is striking
By the end of June, 1,118 residential properties have changed hands in the southern Okanagan Valley, compared to 1,287 in the first six months of 2017, according to data from the South Okanagan Real Estate Board. 19659004] SOREB President Dori Lionello said that if the market "softened" this year, she points out that record years followed "
" I think we find the reality. "
Lionello adds that the new rules on mortgage loan stress tests put in place this year did exactly what was expected of them: make buying more difficult
"Last year, if (buyers) were buying $ 730,000, under the stress test, they would only qualify for $ 600,000," she says. "The level of expectations has really changed, so that the power of purchase has been significantly limited."
Still, prices continued to rise steadily. The South Okanagan single-family home sells for an average of $ 537,500 this year compared to $ 492,000 last year [19659004] In Penticton, the average single-family home sells for $ 581,500, compared to $ 522,000 there is a year.
Photo: Heather Prisk
Robert Wright in Penticton
A resident of Penticton claims that she and her husband are out of the way with an institution that they received there are more than two years of RCMP, after high profile jail A cell incident in Terrace caused permanent head trauma to her husband
Heather Prisk, who moved to Penticton with her disabled husband Robert Wright after reaching the settlement, says that the trustee did not release funds to provide adequate care to Wright.
Prisk says that Royal Trust, the settling trustee, will not release funds for Wright for care funded by Interior Health – which means he can not have a home caregiver, respite or other
The settlement, an amount that Prisk could not disclose, is discretionary, which, in its view, was not clarified by Wright's counsel when the agreement was made.
Prisk adds that she is unable to get a job to support the couple because she has to take care of Wright 24 hours a day, saying that she feels "trapped" while she is caring for him.
She was previously paid eight hours a day for her care at Wright, until December, when she resigned from her position as a legal administrator, after it was said she had failed in her duty in trying to get help at home to take care of Wright
. "All my credit cards are exhausted … I have pledged my wedding ring … we do not have any money," says Prisk, noting that the couple is not going to pay for it. had no income since January while he lived in his motorhome. She says she still owes more than $ 30,000 in fees that she disbursed directly for Wright's care.
She says that Wright is currently able to access a program from the South Okanagan Similkameen Brain Damage Society.
Royal Trust is an RBC firm, and a company spokesperson has not been able to comment, for privacy purposes, on why the trustee is not willing to release funds for IH funded care. Prisk believes that her husband would be better off with a caregiver at their home 24 hours a day, which she says has also recommended Interior Health after a recent badessment.
She adds that Wright has declared his desire to live at home and not in dependents, and a psychiatrist's letter obtained by Castanet indicates that Wright is actually able to make these decisions, despite his "serious brain injury" who prevented him from
Wright suffered a cerebral aneurysm in 2012, which occurred after he was taken by an RCMP officer to a cell in Terrace Prison after being arrested for alleged driving while intoxicated. The officer in question, Const. Brian Heideman, reportedly used excessive force at the origin of the accident.
"Since the case has been settled, all I can say is that the RCMP has met all the terms of a settlement or order, Spokeswoman Sgt Janelle Shoihet said in a statement
Prisk said she plans to obtain a court order for the trustee to provide him with funds for his settlement and that of Wright [19659068] Photo: RDOS
This is a large-scale marijuana crop that started in Kaleden earlier this year still has a regulatory hurdle to settle with the Farmland Commission. [19659004TheGreenMountainHealthAlliancestagedaceremonyinMarchforthestartofconstructionofa200000squarefootmedicalcannabisproductionplantapropertyonRoute3Aapproximately7kmawayWestofKaleden
However, the company is in front of the Okanagan Si Regional District milkameen next week to ask for help in an application to ALS to place an embankment to prepare a subplate under the greenhouses and parking.
The encroachment of industrial cannabis production on LRA lands provoked the outcry of many municipalities concerned over the loss of arable land.
Friday, by amending the regulations to give local governments the power to block "industrial cannabis production bunkers" that do not use an open field or structure with a soil base.
The designer of GMHA facilities, Dominic Unsworth, said they are building away from a "bunker", and will use seasonal greenhouse cultivation and geothermal heat.
"It is an intensive, high-tech, high-density agriculture," he said, citing the objection to the production of medicinal cannabis. "Absolute ignorance".
RDOS staff recommended that the council support the company's request to ALC, although the local rural project director, Tom Siddon, has up to now opposed the production of cannabis on the land. farming lands. The RDOS board of directors also seems to have the power to simply block the ANS application, but Mr. Unsworth believes this is unlikely, given that most medical cannabis grow facilities were supported by the majority of the boards, except for Siddon and sometimes another vote.
If the RDOS supports demand, SLA will have the last word if the land can be filled to make room for greenhouses. The project is being developed in partnership with the Penticton Indian Band, which will provide many construction workers and plans to hire more than 200 workers once completed.
