Salmon Arm campus expands construction trades training

Ground-breaking ceremony for Okanagan College expansion.

Okanagan-Shuswap MP, Colin Mayes joined Shuswap MLA and Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconcilliation, George Abbot as well as representatives from Okanagan College for the official groundbreaking ceremony of the $1-million expansion of the college’s trades training facility.

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Unique snowmobiles stolen in Revelstoke

Revelstoke – thieves target snowmobiles.

Revelstoke RCMP.

An early morning theft netted thieves some very expensive snowmobiles. Sometime between 8:00 p.m., February 12th, 2010 and February 13th, 2010 at 7:00 a.m. a Ford F350 with a sled trailer, carrying 7 sleds, was stolen from behind the Mountianview Motel.

The snowmobiles belonged to Alpine Motorsports from Salmon Arm and they were all newer high performance demo models and included:

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Port Coquitlam hometown hospitality for Salmon Arm curlers

Port Coquitlam hosts games visitors from Prince George, Salmon Arm.

City of Port Coquitlam.

First Nation youth hockey players from Prince George and a seniors’ curling group from Salmon Arm will enjoy some hometown Port Coquitlam hospitality during the 2010 Winter Games.

The two groups of approximately 20 people each will bed down at the Port Coquitlam Recreation Complex during the Games: the Salmon Arm group on Feb. 15, followed by the Prince George group on Feb. 17 and 18. The connection between Port Coquitlam and the two other communities was made by Port Coquitlam’s Spirit of BC Committee, which offered to host upon hearing that the visitors needed a place to stay.

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Okanagan athletes make Olympic Team

35 B.C. athletes make Canadian Olympic team.

Office of the Premier / Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport.

Thirty-five B.C. athletes have been named to the Canadian Olympic Team and will have the distinct honour of representing their country at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games on home soil, Premier Gordon Campbell announced today.

Local athletes — Justin Kripps, Summerland (bobsleigh) – Chris Le Bihan, Kelowna (bobsleigh) – Kelsey Serwa, Kelowna (ski cross) – Steve Omischl, Kelowna (aerials) – Kristi Richards, Penticton/Summerland (moguls) – Duncan Keith, Penticton (hockey) – Shea Weber, Sicamous (hockey) – Drew Neilson, Vernon (snowboard cross)

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Salmon Arm Olympic celebration

The Olympic Torch came to Salmon Arm today (Jan 27) and it’s hard to remember a time in recent years when an event aroused so much pride, not only in Canada, but also pride in our community. Red-mittened hands waved along the route and folks cheered with all their hearts while the procession wended its way toward City Hall where three thousand smiling faces waited for a glimpse of the Torch.

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Passing the torch in Salmon Arm

This short video shows a handing off of the Olympic Torch in Salmon Arm. You will see the ever-present red white and blue entourage — Coco-Cola’s red speaker truck and the sleek blue Royal Bank truck, along with the helpful boys in black who guide the runners’ every move.

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Olympic Torch takes historic train ride

On November 7, 1885, one Donald A. Smith drove the last spike into the great transcontinental railway that would link British Columbia with eastern Canada. This historic event signaled the end of one era and the beginning of the next for the Canadian Pacific Railway and also for Canada.

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Snowmobiler dies in avalanche near Queest Mountain

Sicamous RCMP – Tue Jan 19 09:36:00 PST 2010

Late Monday evening at approximately 10:30 pm, January 18th, 2010, the Sicamous RCMP Detachment responded to a report of a group of snowmobilers being caught in an avalanche in the Queest Mountain area near Sicamous.

The RCMP activated the Shuswap Volunteer Search and Rescue Team, with the rescue effort commencing last night. Provincial Emergency Air assets were in the Interior of the province, with a Comox based CH-149 Cormorant helicopter that had been responding to the earlier reported plane crash near Nelson.

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Salmon Arm, Kelowna, Kamloops all finalists in GamesTown 2010

After counting nearly 200,000 ballots, the BC Minister of State for the Olympics and ActNow, Mary McNeil, has announced that British Columbians have chosen 10 communities around the province to be finalists in the contest for the title of GamesTown 2010.

Congratulations to the top 10 communities of Houston, Princeton, Smithers, Quesnel, Salmon Arm, Dawson Creek, Prince George, Kamloops, Kelowna and Coquitlam.

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Shuswap hospital renovations to finish in March

SLGH redevelopment moves one step closer.

Interior Health.

The redevelopment of Shuswap Lake General Hospital reached a milestone this week with the relocation of the Ultrasound Department into their new home. This $25 million project has included the construction of an addition on the existing building to support a portion of the expanded Emergency and Diagnostic Imaging departments. With this move, the Diagnostic Imaging department is fully operational in its new, permanent location.

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