News and event information for Williams Lake, BC - as it happens.

By LeRae Haynes

Jennifer Kopp has opened a home-based business as a natural health practitioner with spa and holistic services. With a focus on relaxation, strengthening your immune system and improving overall wellness, she is enjoying the opportunity to share the knowledge and passion she has for healthy inner balance with her customers. 

Inner Balance Wellness Studio and Spa operates out of Jennifer’s home in a quiet neighborhood—a warm, elegant, professional environment for the wide range of health treatments she offers.

(Photo by Leslie Rowse)

By LeRae Haynes

Felix and Jasmin Schellenberg’s Pasture to Plate shop on Commercial Drive in Vancouver held its grand opening on Saturday—celebrating the successful circle of Rafter 25 Ranch, Chilcotin Harvest Abattoir and the Pasture to Plate store/butcher shop where the finished products are sold.

(The meat counter at Pasture to Plate's grand opening this weekend displayed natural products from Chilcotin Harvest and Rafter 25 Ranch near Redstone.)

By LeRae Haynes

Escaping the hectic pace and demands of city life to complete peace, tranquility and luxurious comfort has drawn travelers from around the world to Sheridan Lake Bed and Breakfast at Nature’s Doorstep in Lone Butte. Owners Deborah and Vance Kroeker have gone the extra hundred miles to ensure that their guests enjoy a unique and unforgettable wilderness experience in the beautiful south Cariboo.

We are delighted to announce that the winner of our ‘Facebook Fan Appreciation Season’ Sweepstakes, a fun promotion we started on December 5 to thank our Facebook ‘friends’,  is Heather Berkelaar from Williams Lake. In our draw on December 31 she won a $500 travel voucher courtesy of All Ways Travel. 

(Photo: Sweepstakes winner Heather Berkelaar.)

Heather said that she really liked the fact that the contest featured a local news website and local businesses. “I thought it was awesome—a bonus was that I discovered a couple of businesses that I didn’t know about,” she said. “And the little giveaways in the contest were very fun: they really get your attention.” 

By LeRae Haynes

Two best friends are close to celebrating a year in business together: a year of promoting health, wellness and healing to their many clients in the Williams Lake area. Tricia Hohert and Angie Delainey are the owners and instructors at Satya Yoga Studio located in the lower level of the Delainey's Center at 271 Oliver Street.  

(Tricia Hohert, Angie Delainey and Shilo Labelle, instructors at Satya Yoga Studio in Williams Lake, know from personal experience how healing and therapeutic yoga can be.)

By LeRae Haynes

A unique and flexible opportunity for small businesses is opening on Mackenzie Avenue in the next few weeks. The Mackenzie Business Centre will have a total of 10 office spaces available early in the new year, along with a convenient conference room, kitchen area, receptionist service and a kitchen area.

By LeRae Haynes

Williams Lake residents George and Bea Dodd were recently awarded an all-expenses-paid trip to Orlando, Florida and $15,000. They earned the trip through their home-based business where their hard work and commitment to helping people has led to success and a pure enjoyment of the work they do every day.

(The Dodds said that their week in Orlando was relaxing, exciting and inspirational.)

By LeRae Haynes

Children and adults have a unique opportunity in Williams Lake to learn from an equine instructor who believes that what people can learn from a horse goes far beyond neck reining and tack options. Holli Smith from ‘Blue Star Equine Adventures’ offers beginning riding lessons and therapeutic riding lessons for kids and adults---letting you see firsthand how knowing a horse can change your life.

(Holli, pictured here with 'Echo', offers customized lessons at Eagleview Equestrian Centre)

Strongbow Exploration Inc. is pleased to announce results from recent exploration programs at the Company's wholly-owned Piltz Mountain and Mons Creek properties in the Chilcotin region of south central British Columbia. The Piltz Mountain property, recently expanded, has excellent access through a network of logging roads approximately 90 km southwest of Williams Lake, and the Mons Creek property now covers 6,545 ha, approximately 75 km southwest of Williams Lake.

Teslin River Resources Corporation is pleased to announce that it has signed a definitive agreement with Eureka Resources to acquire up to a 75% interest in the Frasergold Project, located 100 km east of Williams Lake in the Cariboo area of central British Columbia.