Community

Lioness Mary Lewis (left) presents Audrey MacLise with a cheque for the Alzheimer Society.

Science World is wrapping up a week of presentations at schools in the district this Saturday with a Community Science Celebration for the public at Thompson Rivers University this Saturday.

The BC SPCA Williams Lake Branch voted in a new community council on Monday, Feb. 21.

Veera Bonner is thrilled that a book she wrote with her late sisters Hazel Henry Litterick and Irene E. Bliss has been included in Allan Twigg’s new book 150 Great B.C. Books and Authors – The Essentials.

The Williams Lake Field Naturalists are hosting the B.C. Nature Federation of BC Naturalists 2011 spring conference and annual meeting at Thompson Rivers University in Williams Lake May 12 to 15.

The Chimney Valley 4-H Club speech day was held Feb. 19.

While spring clearly hasn’t arrived yet in our region, spring events are beginning at the Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin.

Well another month has flown by us and was of course filled with great memories. On Feb. 3, Nicole and I headed to Vernon to see the crowning of the 51st Queen Silver Star.

Harry Manx has been dubbed an “essential link” between the music of East and West, creating musical short stories that wed the tradition of the Blues with the depth of classical Indian ragas.

It looks like magic but it is actually science.