The students are focusing on spring and approaching summer holidays, but the Sun Peaks Education Society (SPES) is planning for the third year of the Discovery Centre for Balanced Education. The community formed distributed learning centre, which resembles a regular school in most ways, had grown from 17 students enroled in its first year, to … [Read more...]
Epic winter conditions marched into April in most of B.C.’s mountain ranges. A northwest flow of cool unstable air provided fresh light snow and cool temps into the Easter weekend. Large avalanches continued to occur through March, both naturally and skier triggered, on the persistent Feb. 12 surface hoar layer and March 27 suncrust … [Read more...]
The second man arrested in relation to a series of property thefts at Sun Peaks last December was sentenced in Kamloops court on April 30. Jamie Koivisto was sentenced on Monday to 2 ½ years after pleading guilty to the thefts. The Kamloops Daily News reports that Koivisto was convicted of five counts of break-and-enter, one count of … [Read more...]
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