Community

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.

The Barriere and District Chamber of Commerce is preparing for their seventh annual Silent Auction and second annual Business of the Year 2010 Awards on Saturday, Feb. 19, in the fall fair hall.