Community

The Williams Lake & District Credit Union picked the Williams Lake B.C. SPCA as one of five charities to help during a recent fundraising campaign. Here, Kelly Ann, financial services representative from the credit union (right), presents Liz Dighton, Williams Lake B.C. SPCA branch manager, with $480.80 that was collected from the campaign.

The community of Esket will host a Secwépemc gathering this weekend.

The Williams Lake Lions Club donates $500 to the Cops for Cancer Tour de North ride. Pictured are safer communities co-ordinator Dave Dickson (left) accepting the donation from Larry Gray.

The 12th annual Discovery Coast Music Festival will be held in Bella Coola on July 23 and 24.

Madden Mize, 3, enjoys a ride on the big toy’s slide at 150 Mile House elementary Saturday during 150 Mile House’s 150th anniversary celebration.

China teacups and 65 perfect roses were on hand along with friends and family to celebrate Ina and Gordon Bedford’s sixty-fifth year of marriage. The celebration took place at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Lesley and Bill Lloyd, and was blessed with the gift of good weather.

Three very talented acts hit the Gwen Ringwood Theatre in Boitanio Park tonight.

In such a technologically savvy and digital entertainment oriented world, kids often end up spending more time indoors than out, and parents have begun looking for positive solutions to what has recently been recognized as “nature deficiency.”

A fox checks out the yard of Nimpo Lake resident Ted Hlokoff, who snapped this photo from his window Thursday.

A barbecue to raise money for the Cops for Cancer cause was held at the Williams Lake & District Credit Union Friday. Pictured from left to right are Zena Chelsea, safer communities co-ordinator Dave Dickson (who will participate in the Cops for Cancer Tour de North ride), Zena’s son Nicholas Paul, 15 (who has leukemia), and Nicholas’s father James Paul.