Community

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.”

‘BE BARRIERE’ was the slogan at the Tuesday, Jan. 18, Barriere Integrated Community Sustainability Plan action plan round-table held at Municipal Hall in the Ridge.

Last year you may have read in the Star/Journal about McLure youth Callie Clarke and her Paralympics adventure.

Hello and a very happy new 2011 year to all our fellow North Thompson Valley residents. It has now been four-and-a-half months since that exciting night when we were officially crowned as the North Thompson Fall Fair and Rodeo (NTFFRA) Royalty, and we would love to share with you our experiences to date.

On Friday, Jan. 28, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the North Thompson Volunteer Centre in the Ridge, you can travel to Africa for free.

Student artists from across British Columbia will showcase their impressions of important environmental issues through a provincewide Earth Day Art Show and Competition, Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Stephanie Cadieux announced last week.

Star/Journal editor and photographer Jill Hayward was notified in November of last year that one of her bird photographs had been chosen for the Cornell University ‘Celebrate Urban Birds’ calendar for 2011.

The Children’s Charity today announced that it will conduct a province wide search for talented vocalists leading up to the annual Show of Hearts telethon.

Barriere SmokeEaters are thanking area residents “For the fantastic support” they received during the area’s Boot Drive for Muscular Dystrophy held last fall. They especially want to recognize four young boys (pictured above), who came in to the fire department with $29.15 in change that they had personally collected in the community.