Switzmalph members of IR #3 near Salmon Arm issued a press release stating they had voted to legally separate from the band, whose head office is in Chase, 70 kilometres away.
The rail trail team announced Thursday, July 29, that the ownership partners behind the project, the Splatsin, the Regional District of North Okanagan and the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, were awarded a $459,061 in COVID-19 Resilience Infrastructure Stream funding from the governments of B.C.
The funding will be combined with a $250,000 grant received from the B.C.
10, the fire was burning out of control across 1,349 hectares, according to the BC Wildfire Service.Though the fire’s behaviour had been more forgiving, Ogino said the blaze had been a challenge at fire guards.
• Laughter and tears were prominent features of Three Feathers’ walk from Saskatchewan and Alberta to Kamloops, a walk which included being welcomed by members of the Adams Lake Band at Pierre’s Point near Salmon Arm.
“The only one I worry about is somebody coming in and saying I don’t look good for 100,” laughed Forman, who has owned the store on Alexander Street in downtown Salmon Arm since 2000, but began working with the Salmon Arm clothier two decades prior, when it was Beer’s Department Store, started by Clinton Beer.
Several communities, including Fintry, La Casa, Spallumcheen, some around Monte Lake and portions of the Okanagan Indian Band land, were allowed to return home as local municipalities downgraded evacuation orders.