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Jason Aldean set to ‘Burn It Down’ in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Country music star Jason Aldean is coming to town this October on the Canadian leg of his recently expanded Burn It Down tour. Aldean, a three-time Academy of Country Music Vocalist of the Year and Entertainer of the Year nominee will be coming to Kelowna and Kamloops, as well as Vancouver and Prince...
Volunteer Highlights for April 30 to May 7
Western Canada Theatre VW Turtle River Race Ticket Seller - Volunteers are needed to help Western Canada Theatre raise funds by selling raffle tickets for our 14th Annual VW Turtle River Race. Responsibilities include tracking the number of tickets sold during shifts, handling monies, documenting sales, and reporting to the fundraising coordinator. Volunteers should have...
Western Canada Theatre hosts a Tapas Takeover fundraising event
KAMLOOPS - Western Canada Theatre will be hosting a fundraising event on Sunday, May 31 at Earls Restaurant in Kamloops from 6 to 8 p.m. To help celebrate the end of yet another great season, there will be live music, all-you-can-eat tapas, a silent auction, and a 50/50 draw. We would like to thank all...
Provincial economic development awards shine spotlight on Venture Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Venture Kamloops, the economic development arm of the City of Kamloops, has just been awarded the ‘Marketing Initiative Award’ at the B.C. Economic Development Association’s annual awards for its VK Venture Advisors program. The Venture Kamloops team, and volunteer VK Venture Advisors panel, couldn’t be more proud. “We are pleased to have been...
Cirque de la Symphonie: exciting circus acts choreographed to orchestral music
KAMLOOPS – Kamloops Symphony’s final performance of the season is an exciting adaptation that brings the magic of the circus to the music hall on Friday, May 8, and Saturday, May 9, at Sagebrush Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Cirque de la Symphonie is a traveling circus group that pairs circus acts and orchestral music together. The...
Supporting our aged loved ones
KAMLOOPS – Are you part of the sandwich generation? The sandwich generation is defined as adults that are caring for aging loved ones and also have their own family to provide for. Join a Lunch and Learn session on Wednesday, May 6, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at Interior Savings Centre. This workshop provides...
Author Visits Branches as Part of Kids Book Week
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District’s Library System is hosting a series of readings by Canadian author Joel Sutherland, seen at right, as part of TD Canadian Children’s Book Week. The readings will take place at three different branches — Kamloops Library on Tuesday, May 5 at 1:15 p.m.; the Barriere Library on Wednesday, May...
Arts scholarship available to Kamloops area youth
JULIA APPLEY-MITRA SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE MAY 31 KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Arts Council invites Grade 12 students going on to post-secondary studies in the arts to apply for its annual scholarship. The application deadline is May 31, 2015. The KAC's Julia Appley-Mitra Youth Scholarship is intended to support local emerging artists. Ms. Mitra was, and continues to be,...
Teenager rescued from rubble in Nepal as aftershocks keep capital’s residents on edge
KATHMANDU, Nepal – A long-absent noise — cheers — rang out in Nepal's capital Thursday as rescuers pulled a teenager alive from the earthquake rubble he had been trapped in for five days. The joy interrupted a dreary and still fearful day in which thousands worried about aftershocks lined up to board free buses to their rural hometowns.
Vees in Western Canada Cup Final
FORT McMURRAY, AB - The Penticton Vees are in the Western Canada Cup Final after holding off the Melfort Mustangs 3-1 Wednesday at the Casman Centre in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Pat Newell scored what turned out to be the game-winner early in the second, as the Vees are one win away from the RBC Cup...
Anheuser-Busch apologizes for ‘removing no from your vocabulary’ slogan on bottles
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Bud Light should have kept the word "No" handy in this case.
Police say moose stabbed to death in Alaska park
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Three men have been accused of stabbing a young moose to death at a popular park in Alaska's largest city, and police said witnesses reported seeing the men jumping on the animal, kicking it and attacking it with a large knife.
B.C. review board to mull partial freedom for dad who murdered his 3 children
COQUITLAM, B.C. – The issue of partial freedom for a man who murdered his three children is back before a British Columbia review board today.
Papa John’s Dreams for Kids Day arrives
KELOWNA - Communities are buzzing with the arrival of the much anticipated Papa John’s Dreams for Kids Day. April 29 marks the first Papa John’s Dreams for Kids Day in support of The Sunshine Foundation of Canada. Funds raised today at the five participating Papa John’s locations will support the 60th Sunshine DreamLift (Kelowna) and...
‘We are hungry:’ Nepal quake death toll passes 5,000 as aid reaches villages near epicenter
GUMDA, Nepal – Hands pressed together in supplication, the Nepalese women pleaded for food, shelter and anything else the helicopter might have brought on an in-and-out run Wednesday to this smashed mountain village near the epicenter of last weekend's mammoth earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people.
Medical student creates art classes for people living with brain injuries
KELOWNA - Second-year medical student Maksim Parfyonov has always had a keen interest in neuroscience. And art. When he was offered the chance to work with CONNECT as part of his Southern Medical Program studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus, it seemed like the perfect fit. Parfyonov began his work with CONNECT, a residential rehabilitation program...
Distinguished biomedical innovator to lead research at UBC Okanagan
KELOWNA - Molecular biologist and biochemist Philip Barker has been appointed Vice-Principal Research at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. A professor in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill University, Barker will lead UBC’s Okanagan research portfolio beginning August 1. Raised in the Okanagan and a graduate...
Road update: Okanagan Landing Road asphalt repairs and repaving
VERNON - City of Vernon crews and contract forces will be repairing Okanagan Landing Road from Cummins Road to Bench Road beginning Wednesday, April 29. The repairs are expected to take approximately four weeks to complete and are required to prepare the road for repaving scheduled for early June. Although every reasonable effort will be...
Rockets fall to Winterhawks in game three
KELOWNA - The Portland Winterhawks defeated the Kelowna Rockets 7-3 on Tuesday night in Portland, taking a two-games-to-one lead in the WHL Western Conference final. Oliver Bjorkstrand scored twice and added two assists while Nic Petan had three assists to key the Hawks offence. Portland was 4-for-8 on the power play while the Rockets were...
Vancouver to hear from public on pot shops as federal government protests
VANCOUVER – Vancouver city council has decided to hold a public hearing on its proposal to regulate marijuana shops as the federal government made new demands Tuesday for the controversial plan to be dropped.
Terriers take bite out of Vees
FORT McMURRAY, AB - The Penticton Vees now know how it feels to be on the other end of a hot start. After the Vees outscored their opponents 8-0 in the first period in two games, it was the Portage Terriers scoring twice in first 20-minutes, en route to a 3-2 win over Penticton in...
Baltimore on edge: National Guard called in, governor vows to prevent another round of rioting
BALTIMORE – National Guardsmen took up positions across the city and hundreds of volunteers swept broken glass and other debris from the streets Tuesday, the morning after riots erupted following the funeral of a black man who died in police custody.
‘Hard to imagine a more horrible death,’ judge says in bus shelter burning case
KENTVILLE, N.S. – It is difficult to fathom the "animalistic" actions of two men who targeted one of society's most vulnerable when they burned a homeless man alive, a Nova Scotia judge said Tuesday as he sentenced them to life in prison for murder.
Province-wide warrant issued for North Okanagan man
VERNON - Crime Stoppers is asking the public’s assistance in locating the following male who is wanted on a Province Wide warrant, as of April 28. He is wanted for Trafficking in a Controlled substance. Scott Wilfred Neuls, 49, is described as Caucasian, 6’0” and 210 pounds with brown hair and green eyes. Crime Stoppers...