New vaccine raises concerns

HPV infection: Health Authority promoting Gardasil for local girls. Girls in grades 6 and 9 will be offered a vaccine to prevent the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection this fall. It is a vaccine that is purported to help protect young women from an infection that can lead to... more

Festival finds family niche

Roots & Blues: Event successful in not attracting rowdy patrons. Despite the heat, this year’s Roots and Blues Festival captured that loving feeling. The numbers may have been down from last year’s gate, but are in line with 2006 and... more

• Three dates for public hearing
• Regional district pays tribute
• Head over heels Pit crew members Chris Winship (feet) and Tony Procyk jump right in to get car #198 ready for the next heat at the annual Salmon Arm Demolition Derby held Sunday afternoon at the fairgrounds.

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Veggies provide education

Becoming a public speaker, or a television personality, wasn’t something that Pete Luckett planned. It was just something that happened. Many years ago, Luckett ran a fruit and vegetable stall in the city market in Saint John, New Brunswick. He... more

• Running out of gasoline
• What goes up keeps coming down
• Affected products removed

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Recording history on film

Co-operation: Local natives help Russian students capture aboriginal stories. If you want to know about a particular subject, it's always best to go right to the source. That's the thinking for a group from the Moscow International Film School who want to... more

• 2008 Roots&Blues
• Theatre stages busy new season
• Paint the town

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Blissful day Amie Nicklas and Ryan Schellenberg exchange wedding vows in front of friends and family Saturday afternoon on the beach across from Sky Blue Waters Motel and Resort on Shuswap Lake.

• From the archives
• Burglars strike businesses
• Hot dogging it: Skylar Bailey puts just a hint of mustard and ketchup on his hotdog during a fundraising event Saturday sponsored by the Shuswap Association for Community Living.

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Hunting treasure, GPS style

For the fun of it: Looking for locations, not riches or jewels. Intuitively, Steve Hall lifts the cap from a metal fence post, revealing a film canister glued to the top of it.... more

• Taking a trek of conscience
• 1908 The fruit crop of the district is conservatively
• Discovering beauty through tragedy

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