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Boreal owl spotted in the North Thompson Valley community of Louis Creek. (Jill Hayward photo)

Who-o-o are you?

Look what a Louis Creek resident found perched on a tree branch…

Boreal owl spotted in the North Thompson Valley community of Louis Creek. (Jill Hayward photo)
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Making Pictures With Professional Photographer John Enman

What is a good lens for portraiture?

  • Nov 24, 2022
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Bill Kershaw has been a Barriere resident since 1968. (Star Journal file photo)
Bill Kershaw has been a Barriere resident since 1968. (Star Journal file photo)
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Rural dementia patients focus of five-year study at TRU

Goal is to improve health equity and ability for older people in small communities to age in place

  • Nov 24, 2022
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Katrina Kadoski is B.C.’s ‘Cougar Annie’. (submitted)

PODCAST.: Katrina Kadoski is B.C.’s ‘Cougar Annie’

TODAY IN B.C.: Singer-songwriter tells story of legendary pioneer in one-woman show

Katrina Kadoski is B.C.’s ‘Cougar Annie’. (submitted)
Sun Peaks resort opened for the winter season on Nov. 9, 2022.  (Sun Peaks Resort photo)

All three mountains are open at Sun Peaks Resort

Skiers and boarders explored their favourite resort in the North Thompson on…

  • Nov 23, 2022
Sun Peaks resort opened for the winter season on Nov. 9, 2022.  (Sun Peaks Resort photo)
(Jill Hayward photo)

Vehicle fire overnight in Barriere

A pickup truck burned up in Barriere the early morning hours of…

(Jill Hayward photo)
Actor/bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno with local filmmaker/promotor Norm Coyne. (Natasha Haldane-Anderson/Submitted)
Actor/bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno with local filmmaker/promotor Norm Coyne. (Natasha Haldane-Anderson/Submitted)
With a surge of respiratory illness in fall and winter, Interior Health is encouraging everyone to get an influenza vaccine. Photo courtesy Interior Health

There’s still time to get your influenza vaccine

Public health officials with Interior Health (IH) remind everyone there is still…

  • Nov 21, 2022
With a surge of respiratory illness in fall and winter, Interior Health is encouraging everyone to get an influenza vaccine. Photo courtesy Interior Health
Vasyl Davydenko and Dmytro Borovyk were able to come to Canada as immigrants under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) program. (Contributed)

Ukraine couple find safe harbour in Salmon Arm

‘Thus it was dangerous for us, a same sex couple, to be there and be ourselves’

  • Nov 21, 2022
Vasyl Davydenko and Dmytro Borovyk were able to come to Canada as immigrants under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) program. (Contributed)
Trupanion reports that Labrador retrievers are the most popular dog of 2022. (Metro Creative)(Metro Creative photograph)

Top ten dog names and breeds announced for 2022

Star Journal Staff It’s that time of year when we start to…

  • Nov 19, 2022
Trupanion reports that Labrador retrievers are the most popular dog of 2022. (Metro Creative)(Metro Creative photograph)
Kamloops-Thompson Board of Education (SD73) held its Inaugural Public Board Meeting on Nov. 7. Board Chair Hearther Grieve is continuing in her role as chair of the board since November 2021. (SD73 photo)

Kamloops-Thompson Board of Education host Inaugural Board Meeting

On Monday, Nov. 7, the Kamloops-Thompson Board of Education held its Inaugural…

  • Nov 19, 2022
Kamloops-Thompson Board of Education (SD73) held its Inaugural Public Board Meeting on Nov. 7. Board Chair Hearther Grieve is continuing in her role as chair of the board since November 2021. (SD73 photo)
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Dogs With Jobs organizers say “thank you everyone”

To the editor; The North Thompson Stock Dog Association would like to…

  • Nov 18, 2022
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Gilbert Smith Forest Products Ltd. staff are shown during a recent leadership team building weekend with Canadian Gold Medal Olympian and former Senator Nancy Green Raine (center front w/black sweater). The event focused on developing communication and leadership skills with a focus on individuals’ personal commitments to areas of self improvement as managers. (GSFP photo)

Gilbert Smith Forest Products encourage leadership and team building

The Gilbert Smith Forest Products Ltd. leadership team recently spent a weekend…

  • Nov 17, 2022
Gilbert Smith Forest Products Ltd. staff are shown during a recent leadership team building weekend with Canadian Gold Medal Olympian and former Senator Nancy Green Raine (center front w/black sweater). The event focused on developing communication and leadership skills with a focus on individuals’ personal commitments to areas of self improvement as managers. (GSFP photo)
Former Williams Lake resident, Captain Shawn Tyerman, of the Royal Canadian Air Force touches down with a CC130 Hercules aircraft into the Williams Lake Regional Airport on Nov. 10, 2022 for a brief reunion with some friends. Read the story of Tyerman’s lifelong journey to realizing his aviation dreams on Page 9. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

VIDEO: Pilot touches down CC-130 Hercules in Williams Lake after long journey to aviation

Flight a return to where his interest in aviation began, when his father flew firefighting airplanes

Former Williams Lake resident, Captain Shawn Tyerman, of the Royal Canadian Air Force touches down with a CC130 Hercules aircraft into the Williams Lake Regional Airport on Nov. 10, 2022 for a brief reunion with some friends. Read the story of Tyerman’s lifelong journey to realizing his aviation dreams on Page 9. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
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Making Pictures With Professional Photographer John Enman

Winter garden photo walk in mid-November

  • Nov 17, 2022
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TNRD: Audit recommendations near complete

Jessica Wallace Kamloops This Week The Thompson Nicola Regional District says it…

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Author and columnist Jack Knox. (Submitted photo.)
Author and columnist Jack Knox. (Submitted photo.)
Barriere Secondary Senior Girls Volleyball Team are currently in the top two of their league. Pictured (l-r) back row;
Coach Tiffany Bowser, Willow Stefan, Taylor Harris, Kayla Chrystall, Bobby-Raye Farrow, and Coach Pam LeFeuvre.
Front row (l-r); Cassidy Calahasen, Rachel Veitch, Holly Gordon, and Haille Johnson. (Michelle Johnson photo)
Barriere Secondary Senior Girls Volleyball Team are currently in the top two of their league. Pictured (l-r) back row; Coach Tiffany Bowser, Willow Stefan, Taylor Harris, Kayla Chrystall, Bobby-Raye Farrow, and Coach Pam LeFeuvre. Front row (l-r); Cassidy ?????, Rachel Veitch, Holly Gordon, and Haille Johnson. (Michelle Johnson photo)

Barriere Cougars in top two of their league

Barriere Secondary (BSS) hosted the Senior Girls Volleyball Playoffs on Tuesday, Nov.…

  • Nov 16, 2022
Barriere Secondary Senior Girls Volleyball Team are currently in the top two of their league. Pictured (l-r) back row;
Coach Tiffany Bowser, Willow Stefan, Taylor Harris, Kayla Chrystall, Bobby-Raye Farrow, and Coach Pam LeFeuvre.
Front row (l-r); Cassidy Calahasen, Rachel Veitch, Holly Gordon, and Haille Johnson. (Michelle Johnson photo)
Barriere Secondary Senior Girls Volleyball Team are currently in the top two of their league. Pictured (l-r) back row; Coach Tiffany Bowser, Willow Stefan, Taylor Harris, Kayla Chrystall, Bobby-Raye Farrow, and Coach Pam LeFeuvre. Front row (l-r); Cassidy ?????, Rachel Veitch, Holly Gordon, and Haille Johnson. (Michelle Johnson photo)
Barriere Legion Branch 242’s colour guard ready themselves in front of the cenotaph on Nov. 11, for Remembrance Day ceremonies inside the Legion Hall. (Jill Hayward photo)

Barriere Legion remembers all who have served

Pastor Todd English leads a large gathering in prayer while Legion executive…

Barriere Legion Branch 242’s colour guard ready themselves in front of the cenotaph on Nov. 11, for Remembrance Day ceremonies inside the Legion Hall. (Jill Hayward photo)