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By David F. Rooney Sally Carmichael is a go-getter. In fact, she’s such a go-getter that she’s going to ride 200 kilometres in two days to raise money for the fight against cancer. A regular participant in the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, Sally says she decided to “change it up this year” to [...]

By David F. Rooney Companies, organizations and just plain folks have been pitching in to help Pauline and Simon Hunt and their family by donating to the $200,000 expansion of her family’s small home on Sixth Street East. Pastor Dave Olsen of the C3 Church was the most recent donor to the cause with a [...]

Arrow Heights Elementary School has entered Blue Imp’s Wee Play Contest for a chance to win new play equipment. “We need your help,” says Principal Todd Hicks. “Starting May 3 through to June 3 please vote for our entry at www.blueimp.com. “The more votes we get, the better our chances to win!” You can vote every [...]

Grins & Gripes A HUGE thank you for your bridge-building work We would like to give a HUGE shout out to Paul Sylvestre and Davis Proch from the Monashee Crew and Gavin Grace from the Columbia Crew for the awesome job they did on building a bridge over a creek in the Illecillewaet Greenbelt. There [...]

By David F. Rooney When Eve Wolters moved here last year she wanted to teach yoga. Imagine her surprise when she discovered there were almost as many yoga studios (5) in town as there are cafes (7). What do you do with that? “I think yoga is a wonderful art and it is my first [...]

Cathy English’s long-anticipated 30th anniversary party was held at the Museum & Archives on Friday and was greatly enjoyed by everyone who attended. Judging by all of the stories about Revelstoke and its people that Cathy has filed away in her brain, we’ll bet those 30 years of preserving our community’s history and heritage were [...]

Saturday was a nearly perfect day: sunny and warm with generally clear skies and only a hint of chill in the breeze. It was so nice that hundreds of people came downtown to do their marketing, shop for bargains and attend the Relay of Life’s terrific kick off party. Here are some photos from the [...]

By David F. Rooney Joan Holzer called it a day on Friday, closing a 24-year-long chapter of her life at the Okanagan Regional Library. Libraries and their custodians are important in our culture. They maintain what are essentially temples of literacy and they work hard to inculcate that literacy in children and adults. 24 years. [...]