Pair astounded by devastation

Haiti relief efforts: Salmon Arm residents work around the clock to help homeless survivors. They smelled decomposing bodies and rotting garbage, saw mountains of rubble and unimaginable misery. During their week in Haiti, Salmon Arm residents April Feenstra and Kevin Pattison saw more than pain and suffering. “It’s like entering other Third-World countries,”... more

Harper heads for B.C. legislature

VICTORIA – Before the B.C. legislature joins the House of Commons in an Olympic recess until March, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will address the chamber on Thursday. It's the first-ever speech by a sitting prime minister in the B.C. legislature, as... more

• Crowds cheer for torch arrival  
• Finish OCP review before SmartCentres decision
• Vander Zalm-led petition to drive out HST gets green light

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SilverBacks take two at home

Playing three games in three days with only five regular defencemen, the Salmon Arm SilverBacks knew it would be a challenge last weekend to keep the puck out of their goal. But who would have thought it would be the Merritt... more

• Pirate skiers conquer Larch Hills
• Keeping success in the family
• Lantern love Shorts

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Funk fanatics

With attendance cresting the 34,000 mark in 2009, Roots and Blues has become known as an innovative and exciting kaleidoscope of music, traditions, and cultural expression, bringing exceptional artists like Nomfusi from around the world to the Interior of BC.... more

• The 21st Shuswap International Film Festival runs Frid
• Musical pot-pourri
• Guatemalan night

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Celebrating women

Woman of the Year: Dorothy Argent earns honour. All the fun, camaraderie and learning on Saturday culminated in the recognition of one special woman. On Saturday evening about 150 people attended the Take Back the Night Gala, the conclusion to the... more

• In view of an Olympian
• Foundation boosts health care services
• Library for literacy Ashley and Maggie Maas read over a book they discovered at the Friends of the Library book sale held over the weekend at the Mall at Piccadilly.

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Cabin candidate for Haney

W hy is Lois Cunningham so passionate about preserving a little log house on property she called home for 76 years? When she sold her property on North Broadview in 2007, she had one wish. She wanted her parent’s home... more

• Singing at the thresholds of life
• Archives
• Adoption interrupted

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The Den Report, Lions beat 'Riders, now 2-4

It took six weeks, but the B.C. Lions were finally able to put forward a complete effort in their 35-20 win over Saskatchewan last Friday. But it was their play on defense that won the game for the Lions. Six... more

• The Den Report, Logan impressing in NFL camp
• The Den Report, Lions sign three
• Everything I like is bad for me

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