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

'Avalanche Awareness Days' is held annually in January in over 40 Canadian communities. Community events are planned at ski and snowmobile areas in mountain communities across Canada, from Crowsnest Pass, Alberta to Whitehorse, Yukon to Pond Inlet, Nunavut. Day-time activities include hands-on demonstrations of safety gear such as avalanche transceivers, probes, and shovels, and tips on how to use public avalanche bulletins. In every community, avalanche professionals and many volunteers share their expertise to help people learn how to manage their risk in avalanche terrain.

Rick Jelley, president of the Williams Lake Powder Kings Snowmobile Club stated today that they do an avalanche awareness course every year, including one coming up in the next two weeks. The courses are done with Mark Savard from Red Shreds and Powder Kings safety director Sue Price.

An adaptation by Danya Keeley

The following is based on a true story; therefore the names, places and various details describing the events have been altered:

The freshly ordained Unitarian minister and his wife, ripped open the letter which had finally arrived. John and Claire had been anxiously waiting for weeks to get their first ministerial placement. Now they were holding it in their hands!

(Original artwork by Danya Keeley)

By Danya Keeley

Who are you?  The Spiritual Masters down through the ages believed this to be the most essential question.  This powerful question was designed to take you deeper than your own thoughts, beliefs and judgments about your self.

Can you imagine discovering that the personal identity you have adopted all these years is a pale imitation of the Truth? What if you suddenly recognized that ‘Who You Think You Are,’ is completely bogus? Add a comment

By Pastor Andy Kahle

If your household is like mine, you have more rolls of wrapping paper than you do presents.  Wrapping paper has become an essential part of the holiday season.

Along with decorating our Christmas trees, hanging up our lights, setting out all of the other decorations, it just would not seem right to put our presents under the tree without wrapping them in festive and colorful paper.

By Danya Keeley

Exquisite, unique, magnificent, resplendent, incredible, priceless, etc-- these are more than the alternative words for beautiful found in a thesaurus—these are words describing YOU!

There is no one in this world like you. You are one of a kind, a rare original in a world of replicas and disposable products.  You! 

No one can manufacture the intricacies of your distinctive nature or engineer another like you. Your very existence is an awesome present to the whole of mankind.  You-- exactly as you are.

By Andy Kahle

What do snowflakes have to do with Christmas? Well, nothing in the truest sense. However, as I think about it, perhaps WE are somewhat like snowflakes and in our personal ‘snowstorms’, we might actually miss seeing the ‘snowflakes.’

By Danya Keeley

Yes, I said FREE!  I am offering a free sample session to anyone who would like to experience Life Coaching for the first time during the month of December.

First and foremost, this is a gift of gratitude to the faithful readers of Cariboo Coach’s Corner and the welcometowilliamslake.ca news website, as well as an invitation to anyone who has misplaced their holiday jolly!  

British Columbians continue to light up the phone lines at 8-1-1, with almost 34,000 smokers calling for help quitting. 

The Province's smoking cessation program, which launched on September 30, 2011 supports British Columbians who wish to quit smoking and is accessed by calling and registering with HealthLink BC. Once each calendar year, B.C. residents registered with the Medical Services Plan can receive PharmaCare coverage of a single continuous course of treatment of a prescription smoking cessation drug or a free 12-week supply of a Nicotine Replacement Therapy product. 

Ground-breaking research with world-wide implications and the potential to improve the lives of millions of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will begin in the Okanagan in the New Year.

Neil Eves has been awarded a substantial grant from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research to study how exercise impacts COPD. Eves will receive up to $635,000 over the next eight years to allow him to examine this important line of inquiry.

By LeRae Haynes

One of the informative and entertaining delegations that addressed City Council this fall was Bob Bell, Chief Operating Officer at www.healthlinkbc.ca  who presented information that could change the way BC residents access information about their health.