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An image of Clearwater’s May Day Parade from 2013 shows how much the community enjoyed the event. (Clearwater Times file photo)

Let’s bring back May Day celebrations back in Clearwater

When the May Day parade was first started in 1960 there were 40 to 60 floats

  • Mar 28, 2023
Kiya Heggie (from left), Bella Okezue, Nature Knight of the Raft Mountain Skating Club performance during the 2023 Spring Gala March 9. (Zephram Tino photo - Clearwater Times)

Raft Mountain Skating Club sings, sparkles at Spring Gala in Clearwater

Club wraps up successful season with spring performance

  • Mar 27, 2023
Cindy Faulkner uses little red wriggler worms to break down her organic kitchen waste into fertilizer she uses in her garden. Faulkner was at Seedy Saturday last weekend promoting worm composting. (Patrick Davies photo - 100 Mile Free Press)

Making ‘black gold’ with worms and kitchen scraps in the Cariboo

At Seedy Saturday Cindy Faulkner sand the praises of worms in gardening

Rona Tepper and Kristen Gribble are among six women who are active RCMSAR5 Crescent Beach crew members, out of a total 28. Tenures of the women range from eight months to 7.5 years. (Contributed photo)

PHOTOS: Number of women on South Surrey marine-rescue team ‘a bit of anomaly’

More than one-fifth of active RCMSAR5 Crescent Beach crew members are women

Rona Tepper and Kristen Gribble are among six women who are active RCMSAR5 Crescent Beach crew members, out of a total 28. Tenures of the women range from eight months to 7.5 years. (Contributed photo)
March 20, the first day of spring, is also International Day of Happiness. (File photo)

Strong social circles increase happiness and may increase life span

International Day of Happiness is March 20. Here’s what you can do to increase your happiness.

March 20, the first day of spring, is also International Day of Happiness. (File photo)
Chuck Neathway and Ron Colbourne install the new display case, which thrift store volunteers thank the Men’s Shed for with a donation and a promise of baking. (Photo: Mary Neathway).
Chuck Neathway and Ron Colbourne install the new display case, which thrift store volunteers thank the Men’s Shed for with a donation and a promise of baking. (Photo: Mary Neathway).
Shamrocks are associated with Ireland, but a four-leaf clover is much more rare. Do you know the odds of finding a four-leaf clover? (Pixabay.com)

QUIZ: How Irish are you?

St. Patrick’s Day, on March 17, is a celebration of Ireland and Irish culture

Shamrocks are associated with Ireland, but a four-leaf clover is much more rare. Do you know the odds of finding a four-leaf clover? (Pixabay.com)
For her father’s birthday, Christine Fritz made a donation at the Canada Blood Services Clinic in Walnut Grove on Saturday, March 11. It was her eighth contribution. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)

Daughter donates blood for dad’s birthday

‘If I’m out there donating, someone else is donating for him’ B.C. woman says

For her father’s birthday, Christine Fritz made a donation at the Canada Blood Services Clinic in Walnut Grove on Saturday, March 11. It was her eighth contribution. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)
Tammy Young beams with excitement when she returns from her first call with the Salmon Arm Fire Department. (Photo contributed)

‘I fell in love with it’: Salmon Arm woman always wanted to be a firefighter

Fire department celebrates its female firefighters on International Women’s Day

Tammy Young beams with excitement when she returns from her first call with the Salmon Arm Fire Department. (Photo contributed)
March 8 is International Women’s Day. (Photo credit: Stock photo)
March 8 is International Women’s Day. (Photo credit: Stock photo)
Name the puppy contest press conference at BC RCMP headquarters in Surrey on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. The two dogs are Tuesday’s announcement- Rip and Rev- were some of the last German Shepherd puppies born at the Centre last year. (Photo: Anna Burns)

BC RCMP asks youth to help ‘Name the Puppies’

The RCMP is asking for help in naming 13 German Shepherd puppies that will be born this year

Name the puppy contest press conference at BC RCMP headquarters in Surrey on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. The two dogs are Tuesday’s announcement- Rip and Rev- were some of the last German Shepherd puppies born at the Centre last year. (Photo: Anna Burns)
Ethan, 12, suffered damage to his leg after falling under a Kelowna transit bus on Feb. 28, 2023. (GoFundMe)

Fundraiser tops $10,000 for Okanagan boy injured after falling under bus

The GoFundMe says donations will help with cost of physiotherapy

Ethan, 12, suffered damage to his leg after falling under a Kelowna transit bus on Feb. 28, 2023. (GoFundMe)
Jessica James, who grew up in Nimpo Lake, B.C., is the star aviator in History’s reality show Lost Car Rescue, with Season 2 to be released this Spring. (Jeff Topham photo)

Nimpo Lake pilot happy to be right where she is, taking off in Season 2 of Lost Car Rescue

Female aviators might still be a rarity, but growing up in Nimpo Lake, it came naturally to James

Jessica James, who grew up in Nimpo Lake, B.C., is the star aviator in History’s reality show Lost Car Rescue, with Season 2 to be released this Spring. (Jeff Topham photo)
Drummers sing as they walk into the Sts’ailes Lhawathet Lalem (Healing House) on Friday, March 3. (Adam Louis/Observer)

PHOTOS: ‘This beautiful work’: Sts’ailes First Nation welcomes 29 baskets home

Ancestral baskets repatriated to First Nation from Kilby Historic Site

Drummers sing as they walk into the Sts’ailes Lhawathet Lalem (Healing House) on Friday, March 3. (Adam Louis/Observer)
South Surrey Grade 3 student Zhiji Dong has been honoured by Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth as “one of the brightest students in the world.” (Contributed photo)

B.C. Grade 3 student ‘one of world’s brightest’

Zhiji Dong was among highest scorers in Center for Talented Youth assessment

South Surrey Grade 3 student Zhiji Dong has been honoured by Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth as “one of the brightest students in the world.” (Contributed photo)
Canadians are making their final Registered Retirement Savings Plan contributions, in advance of the deadline. (Black Press Media file)

QUIZ: How much do you know about money and savings?

In January and February, Canadians make their final savings contributions for the tax year.

Canadians are making their final Registered Retirement Savings Plan contributions, in advance of the deadline. (Black Press Media file)
Tyne MacLennan (from left), Kiah Phillips and Owen Sim are three of five local students preparing to take the Heavy Metal Rocks program in Kamloops in April. Missing from the picture are Mady Clark and Alex Sauve. (Dayton Fraser photo)

Clearwater students set sights on Heavy Metal Rocks program

The students will get hands-on training operating equipment

Tyne MacLennan (from left), Kiah Phillips and Owen Sim are three of five local students preparing to take the Heavy Metal Rocks program in Kamloops in April. Missing from the picture are Mady Clark and Alex Sauve. (Dayton Fraser photo)
Patsy (Metcalfe) Alford posted this photo of herself at about age three, showing how happy she was with her new “swirly dress.” In the mid-1950s she lived at Peavine near Vavenby. Although you might not know this particular child, anyone who was a little girl in this time period can identify with her expression of joy and remember a special new dress. (Photo submitted)

VALLEY VOICES: Facebook page collects history of the North Thompson

Perhaps one key to unlocking the vault of history is online

  • Feb 20, 2023
Patsy (Metcalfe) Alford posted this photo of herself at about age three, showing how happy she was with her new “swirly dress.” In the mid-1950s she lived at Peavine near Vavenby. Although you might not know this particular child, anyone who was a little girl in this time period can identify with her expression of joy and remember a special new dress. (Photo submitted)
Linda Selbee and Tracy Simpson receive a donation for the Clearwater Food Bank from The Clearwater Times. (Photo: Michelle Johnson/The Clearwater Times.)

Clearwater Times donates to local food bank

The donation funds came were raised from a feature promoting the Cram the Cruiser event

Linda Selbee and Tracy Simpson receive a donation for the Clearwater Food Bank from The Clearwater Times. (Photo: Michelle Johnson/The Clearwater Times.)
Deckert took this selfie while teaching her online writing workshop and says the quilts she made visualize how a patchwork of individual memories can become a larger memoir. (Photo: Eleanor Deckert).

Virtual memoir-writing workshop led by local author returns to Thompson-Nicola library

Everyone has an interesting memories to write about, Eleanor Deckert says

Deckert took this selfie while teaching her online writing workshop and says the quilts she made visualize how a patchwork of individual memories can become a larger memoir. (Photo: Eleanor Deckert).