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X Games: Chantelle Bykerk, on right, stands on the winners’ podium in Los Angeles after earning her bronze medal.

Extreme champion

This time last year, the idea of attending the X Games was just a dream.

X Games: Chantelle Bykerk, on right, stands on the winners’ podium in Los Angeles after earning her bronze medal.
Wedded mist: Tyler Adair and Ayla Ranahan exchange vows in heavy rain in Blind Bay.

AN UNFORGETTABLE KINDNESS

A wedding disaster turned into a true story of unbelievable kindness, lifelong memories, and inspiration.

Wedded mist: Tyler Adair and Ayla Ranahan exchange vows in heavy rain in Blind Bay.

Bugz gets bigger

Snuggle Bugz is taking things to the next level by moving the store to a new and larger location on Lakeshore Drive

#An ambulance waits to provide help to two kayakers who ended up in the lake on June 26.

Young kayakers survive spill

Two 14 year olds are lucky to be alive after their afternoon of kayaking went wrong.

#An ambulance waits to provide help to two kayakers who ended up in the lake on June 26.
Blind Bay Road at Marine Drive was flooded preventing drivers from using the lakefront road.

Worries rise with water

Blind Bay residents were worried, but hoping the sun will soon begin to shine.

Blind Bay Road at Marine Drive was flooded preventing drivers from using the lakefront road.

Changes to Shuswap Canada Day plans

Due to multiple complications, the Shuswap Canada Day events, originally scheduled to take place in the Blind Bay area, have been postponed

The tenting area in Mill Park filled with water after lake levels began rising due to heavy rainfall and melting snow.

Lake infringes on park

Chase residents are being advised to boil their water and stay away from the lake

The tenting area in Mill Park filled with water after lake levels began rising due to heavy rainfall and melting snow.
The Blind Bay Marina and a section of Blind Bay Road are shut down due to high water levels.

Flood closes Blind Bay Road

Flooding in the Shuswap covers beaches and closes roads

The Blind Bay Marina and a section of Blind Bay Road are shut down due to high water levels.

Larch Hills tastes success

Shuswap winery takes 17 wines to Northwest Wine Summit and brings home 11 medals.

More than 150 people signed a petition calling for safety improvements to Cottonwood Street to assist children crossing over to Haldane Elementary and Chase Secondary.

Near-misses spark safety petition

A Chase mother is taking a stand for the safety of her children after witnessing too many close calls on a local school road.

More than 150 people signed a petition calling for safety improvements to Cottonwood Street to assist children crossing over to Haldane Elementary and Chase Secondary.
Top chef: Salmon Arm’s Jenna Angle will be competing with some of the best junior chefs from North and South America.

Cooking up a success story

She dazzled the taste buds of chefs and judges straight across the country.

Top chef: Salmon Arm’s Jenna Angle will be competing with some of the best junior chefs from North and South America.
Honour: Al Oster with his Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Oster gets royal treatment

A Salmon Arm man has brought home what he believes to be the greatest honour in Canada.

Honour: Al Oster with his Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Support: Valerie Andersen and Laurie Bruce are partners in a new in-home wig sales business.

Wig service offers quality and compassion

Laurie Bruce and Valerie Andersen learned firsthand why a business such as theirs is desperately needed in the area.

Support: Valerie Andersen and Laurie Bruce are partners in a new in-home wig sales business.
John Cummins, leader of the British Columbia Conservative Party, speaks to supporters at Salmon Arm's Holiday Inn.

John Cummins targets land claims during Shuswap speaking tour

British Columbia Conservative leader John Cummins waded into land claims and other First Nations issues during a May 24 speech.

John Cummins, leader of the British Columbia Conservative Party, speaks to supporters at Salmon Arm's Holiday Inn.
An air tanker drops fire retardant on a blaze near Pritchard Saturday.

Fire doused near Pritchard

A Pritchard wildfire burned about four-and-a-half hectares this weekend before local fire fighters were able to get it fully contained.

An air tanker drops fire retardant on a blaze near Pritchard Saturday.

Badly beaten resident uncooperative with police

Sixty-year-old Chase man won't tell police details of an attack that left him in hospital.

A member of the Emergency Response Team helps to surround the Royal Bank in Chase while passersby watch the action.

Update: Police arrest man after armed standoff at bank in Chase

RCMP arrested a man late Thursday night who had barricaded himself inside the Chase branch of the Royal Bank Thursday afternoon.

A member of the Emergency Response Team helps to surround the Royal Bank in Chase while passersby watch the action.