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Winter! If I could think of a way to get rid of all that miserable white stuff, I’d do it post-haste (a fancy P.O. word for NOW).

If you are a visitor in the Biasotti’s home in Louis Creek you’ll notice a photograph of Mario Biasotti standing with Cameron Kerr at the Kamloops wildfire monument. The monument is about the 2003 wildfires, and Mario was used as one of the models for the work.

An area resident called the Star/Journal last week to warn others by reporting she had received a call from a phone scammer. She says the scammer said he called “about the error showing on your Windows based computer system”. The caller had a foriegn accent, and when she asked for his business name, number, and where he was calling from, he promptly hung up.

On Jan. 19, the Barriere and District Food Bank Society held their Annual General Meeting at the Food Bank building. In attendance were managing director Kim Keating, and directors Tina Tuaiti, Ellouise (Popo) Skjonsberg, and Marion Coltman, and members Rose Seymour and Alexis Jones.

The Barriere Lions Club have donated the proceeds from their Fall Book Fair to Lower North Thompson Learning and Literacy.

Family Literacy Day® is an annual initiative that takes place on Thursday, Jan. 27 to encourage families to learn together all year round. The theme this year is Play for Literacy. Playing games creates a strong family bond, promotes language comprehension and improves reading skills.

Barriere Secondary School created a Wall of Distinction in 2010, to recognize past Barriere students that have made a significant contribution or achieved outstanding status in their chosen fields of endeavour.

This year marks the 65th anniversary of The War Amps Key Tag Service. B.C. residents are already receiving their 2011 key tags. Support of this valuable service allows the Association to continue its tradition of “amputees helping amputees.”