Life

Voice of the Shuswap Broadcast Society began three years ago in the minds of a few individuals with an interest in providing local programming, music, information, news and emergency updates to the community. The Society’s first Annual General Meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Downtown Activity Center. You are welcome to attend and discover how you can help the whisper of an idea become the Voice of the Shuswap.

In the very back of the basement was the furnace and the chimney. My close encounter with death happened when I had to go check the clean-out for the chimney. I opened it up and saw what appeared to be a skull. I freaked out and ran upstairs to tell the foreman, Graham Redman, that there was a skull in the chimney.

Explosive and pulsating, ambient and flowing at times, Australia’s Ganga Giri is bringing its pumping percussive multi-layered experience of complex grooves and raw, deep natural sound to the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival, Aug. 19 to 21.

The kids loved it and now parents can hear why. Kelowna singer-songwriter Ryan Donn performed his How do you Follow a Dream program in elementary and middle schools in School Dstrict #83 last month.

Your journey begins with one breath.

If ever the old adage, “when things get tough, the tough get going” applied to anyone, it’s 2004 Salmon Arm Secondary grad Danielle Barker.

It’s all about the employees.

It happens once in a museum curator/archivist’s lifetime. Decades of visual records belonging to the community’s longest publishing newspaper are gifted to the community archives and Salmon Arm Museum staff member Deborah Chapman is still grinning.

SAGA Jazz hits a national note at Thursday, Feb. 10 when the Toronto-based Griffith Hiltz Trio plays the SAGA Public Art Gallery.