Schneidmiller, who lives in Penticton and is an Okanagan Hockey Academy alumni, played for the Broncos Junior A hockey club earlier this season before being traded.
— taking in a Broncos playoff game and visiting with his old coach, teammates and billets afterwards.
"I can’t imagine what it’s like back home…
Crews in Oliver will be working around the clock to get a handle on a wet excavation site where a major roadwork project is taking place.
Due to delays on the project from excess water, the town said the excavation site will now be open 24 hours a day — reducing traffic to a single lane on Fairview Road at Station Street.
Two water systems in the South Okanagan have been put under advisories, the Regional District Okanagan Similkameen said on Saturday.
Further upstream, Kearns Creek is one of the tributaries that flows into Park Rill Creek.
Kearns Creek runs through Willowbrook, which remains under a state of emergency due to flooding.
In the past week, parts of two roads have been torn up in the tiny community to remove two culverts and allow the creek to release water faster.
The subject of water will carry the flow of this year’s annual general meeting for the Okanagan Similkameen Parks Society.