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The fifth Battle of the Badges hockey game between RCMP members and members of the Williams Lake Fire Department will take to the Cariboo Memorial Complex ice tonight, Friday, April 1.

Naturalist Mary Forbes brought her pet rat along for the Walk for Harmony on Tuesday, which proved to be a big hit with students participating in the walk. Jordyn Kerley (left) visits with the friendly rat as Caitlyn Wiebe, Adrienne Magnell and Nicole Dickens look on with interest

(Left) Four-year-old Katie Neufeld and sister Sara, 2, play at Marie Sharpe Elementary School during gym time, part of the Strong Start program held at the school Tuesday morning.

Some of the most popular shows on television these days are ones involving solving murders and cold case crimes through forensic science.

Once again the Horsefly 4-H club has had an active couple of months. At the beginning of February we had an annual sledding party that was held in the old gravel pit just outside of Horsefly.

While winter has still not released us from its grasp, spring is upon us.

A day-long All Nations Workshop on the Cariboo Regional District’s Community Heritage Registry will be held at the Long House April 19.

Scout Island Nature Centre is hosting a morning workshop on April 9 with B.C. natural history author, botanist and naturalist Rosamund Pojar.

Grade 5 Chilcotin Road elementary students Keheu Jack (left) and Kaitlyn Lebrun look toward a brighter future, free of racism and strife, as they watch a balloon fly off into the sky prior to participating in the Walk for Harmony Tuesday at noon.

Noted B.C. biologist Dr. Rob Butler and Carl MacNaughton, acting land manager for the Nature Trust of B.C., will both give presentations at the annual Scout Island Nature Centre banquet coming up Friday evening, April 8 at St. Andrew’s United Church hall.