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Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival bucks the trend and survives
SALMON ARM - We’ve got Joni Mitchell to thank for the words ‘You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’ but the community of Salmon Arm gets the credit for acting on that epiphany before it was too late. Six months ago, things were uncertain for the Roots and Blues Festival. A number of...
Second year without a vigil to mark Vernon Good Friday massacre
VERNON – For the second year in a row, a vigil to remember the nine members of the Gakhal and Saran families who were murdered in Vernon on Good Friday in 1996 will not be held. The families will be remembering their loss in private, according to a media release from the Vernon Women’s Transition...
UPDATE: Power restored to 2,400 Enderby and Spallumcheen residents
VERNON - More than 2,400 residents in Enderby and Spallumcheen were without power this afternoon. B.C. Hydro says power went off at 11:43 a.m., March 27 for some 2,450 customers east of Highway 97. The outage was caused by a tree falling on the wires and power was restored shortly after 2 p.m. To contact...
Spring snow at Okanagan resorts leaves ski bums less bummed
OKANAGAN - It may have been a rainy week in the valley, but it was dumping snow at local ski hills. Silver Star Mountain in Vernon got close to 60 cm of new snow in the last week, blanketing alpine runs with a 209 centimetre base. As of Friday morning, all chair lifts except the...