iN DISCUSSION: Free Shuswap ferry set for second season

This is where cold hard facts give way to the hottest of takes, mostly mine I suppose. I’m the editor, Marshall Jones.

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Volunteers helping fill need in community

Hello,

The folks behind the free, ferry service for pedestrians and cyclists on the North Okanagan and Shuswap section of the Rail Trail are getting ready for their second year of operation.

Last season, the Sicamous Ferry Society ferried more than 10,000 people across the Sicamous Narrows Channel. It’s a much safer option than trying to get over the under construction Bruhn Bridge on Highway 1 in Sicamous.

The volunteers saw a need and filled it by bringing the community together.

If you want to help, they are looking for donations and advertisers. Go here for more information.

iNFOnews.ca

(Email us at news@infonews.ca)

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Handgun seized during Salmon Arm traffic stop: RCMP

That handgun is a Smith and Wesson .380 Bodyguard. It has a very short barrel at roughly 70mm. In Canada any handgun with a barrel length of less than 105mm is a prohibited weapon. It is highly unlikely that this pistol was ever legally owned by anyone in Canada let alone legally owned by the guy in the car. It is more likely that it has been smuggled over the USA/Canada border from the USA.

— William Mastop via INFOnews.ca

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Tara Armstrong Recall Countdown

Tara Armstrong is currently the MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream. She rode the coattails of the BC Conservative Party, got elected, then rejected and left the party to serve as an Independent within weeks because the Conservatives were too left wing. Now she gets to spout moronic, hateful rhetoric and claim that her riding supports her.

Elections BC says you can recall an MLA if 40% of eligible voters in the riding sign a recall petition — but not for the first 18 months after an election. Some people started an online petition calling for a byelection once she made a shift to independent, then got herself a raise by forming her own party, but it won’t mean anything until the countdown clock hits zero.

So let the countdown begin!

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