2 men OK after running into trouble near Oliver
Two men in their 60s had to be rescued Sunday near Oliver after running into trouble in the great outdoors.
The first incident, just before 3 p.m., involved a 67-year-old Summerland man on a motorcycle who veered off Willowbrook Road and into a field. Thankfully, a witness saw what happened and called for help.
The rider was taken to hospital for treatment. Alcohol was not a factor in the crash, according to police.
Then, just before 7 p.m., Mounties were called to help a 61-year-old Oliver man whose vehicle had become stuck in snow on the 104 Forest Service Road, approximately 20 kilometres off McKinney Road.
“The male was not adequately dressed for the weather in that location, and with impending darkness, search and rescue was activated,” Oliver RCMP Sgt. Don Wrigglesworth said in a press release.
Rescuers accessed the site on an all-terrain vehicle and drove the man to safety.
“They met up with the RCMP member who drove the man home once it was determined that he did not require any medical attention,” added Wrigglesworth.
“We had never ran a candidate in Penticton and I had to educate the electorate on what the Libertarian party was, as well as why I would be a great candidate. I can’t count how many times someone said if I was Conservative they would vote for me, and after a brief conversation they changed their mind,” MacIntyre said in a press release announcing his leadership bid.
“We are experiencing the biggest loss of liberty in many lifetimes and it’s happening across the globe. I’ve watched in amazement as people have applauded the government for locking people in quarantine hotels and now we are going to have random police checks for leaving our health region? What’s next, stickers on our cars, or our person, indicating where we are from so the police can demand us to show them our papers?
“There is no disease serious enough to take these measures. If the government treated us like adults, and allowed us to live more freely and had any semblance of strategy to this pandemic, we’d be living our lives by now.”
MacIntyre, who owns Big Bear Software and the Big Bear Innovation Centre, is seeking to replace current party leader Don Wilson, who is stepping down from the position.
The party, which believes the role of government is mainly to protect and preserve individual rights, ran candidates in 25 of 87 ridings in the 2020 election and collected 0.4% of the popular vote province-wide.