Events
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This Saturday marks the culmination of eight months of preparation and work by HunCity Productions, when Run Outta Road premieres at the South Cariboo Theatre October 29. Run Outta Road is a music video featuring an original song by local musicians Laura Kelsey and Peter Thorne.
The project started last February when HunCity Productions producer Charles Jones was filming a Hootenanny Cafe in Forest Grove, B.C. During the event, Laura and Peter performed 'Run Outta Road'.
(Photo: Laura Kelsey. Photo by Monika Paterson.)
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By Sage Birchwater
A yellow and black plastic helicopter, the size of a cocker spaniel, lifts off skyward two hundred feet straight up in the air. Then suddenly it darts sideways fifty feet, then straight ahead, then backwards. Its high-pitched engine screams, all the while emitting a cloud of blue smoke. Its movements are quick and eratic, resembling that of a giant dragonfly, only more versatile; upright one moment, then upside down the next.
(Photo: Brian Motta points to the servo motors that power the moving parts of the radio-controlled model planes.)
Donna Barnett makes announcement in support of the province's wood product sector
On Thursday, March 17, Cathy McLeod, MP for Kamloops - Thompson - Cariboo, on behalf of the Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, and Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA and Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Economic Development, Donna Barnett, will make a joint announcement in support of the province's wood product sector.
The announcement will be made at 9:00am at Canada's Log People Inc. at 5467 Tatton Station Road in100 Mile House.
BOOK REVIEW Double or Nothing: The Flying Fur Buyer of Anahim Lake
By Sage Birchwater
During the thirty years I worked as a journalist covering the news and happenings in the Chilcotin and Bella Coola Valley, there wasn’t a more colourful character in the region than former Anahim Lake store owner, Darcy Christensen. The front of his general store was emblazoned with a multicoloured mural of galloping horses, and above it were the words: “If we don’t have it; then you don’t need it.” Darcy was known far and wide as the “Flying Fur Buyer”, and if you were feeling lucky you could step inside the store and flip double or nothing with Darcy for anything in the store.
Cariboo Book Fest
Cariboo Book Fest
Several local authors are attending the second annual Cariboo Book Fest in 100 Mile House, at the Creekside Seniors Activity Centre this Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Lorne Dufour, Christian Petersen and Sage Birchwater of Williams Lake, Chris Harris of 105 Mile Ranch, and Van Andruss of Lillooet will have their latest works available at the book fest which will feature several workshops, Kids Storytime for children, and an Ask-A-Writer panel.
