“Don’t leave floating devices because you don’t want to carry them out, put your empty bottles back in the cooler and don’t throw your chocolate wrappers in the river,” said Keremeos mayor Manfred Bauer.

The Village of Keremeos has applied for tenure of the Similkameen riverbed adjacent to the village to ban overnight camping.

A French Canadian fruit picker has just arrived in Keremeos for the harvest season, but with nowhere to stay he's pitched a tent along the banks of the Similkameen River.