Community

The Star/Journal office has recently received a number of calls from Barriere residents and businesses asking about how the Business/Business Person of the Year nominations and voting is judged.

The Barriere Farmers market offers a local and accessible option for both producers and consumers to generate and receive wholesome, quality locally produced foods and products.

Have you ever dreamed of being a princess or a queen?

A new seamstress is in town – and looking for things to sew for Valley residents.

The love of travel comes through loud and clear in the most recent literary work of Louis Creek author/poet Réjean Coallier. His 132 page Travelling Poetry Trilogy is packed full of adventures as he travels through Central America, Mexico, and Canada. Coallier relates all that he sees and experiences, including unexpected romances, and a girl he loved but “couldn’t bring home”.

Are you planning an event within the Lower North Thompson Valley during 2011? If so we’d like to hear about it and list the dates in our Community Calendar & Summer Vacation Guide. Give us a call at the Star/Journal.

Goodbye 2010, and welcome 2011 – it’s time for another great year of 4-H!

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.