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RED SERGE AND SANTA IN SMITHERS
The 10th Annual Breakfast with Santa in Smithers, B.C.,Canada was a rousing success. It was a Red Serge & Santa affair that raises money for the Salvation Army and helps fill their Foodbank for the cold winter. It might have been -22 Celcius outside...but...
Tags: Food Bank, Santa Claus, RCMP, Breakfast, Kids, food, spirit, Christmas, Salvation Army, causes, Canada, Smithers, Serge, Hearts, Rick Apperson, Red Serge & Santa
Michele Botel belts out the Melodies
She hails from Northern British Columbia; from Haida Gwaii to Hundred Mile House and all the long highways in betwixt. Like Kris Kristofferson's "Pilgrim" she's a poet..she's a picker..and she's a pusher; pushing herself from Lethbridge legions to small...
Tags: music, country, michele botel.mother, singer, traveller, rock & roll, Canada, Smithers, Merle Haggard, Joni Mitchell, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Janis Joplin, Michele, Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District, Haida, Michele Botel, Queen Charlotte Islands, Sarah MacLachlan, allnews
SMITHERS SPARKLES FOR THE SEASON
They don't spare the tinsel when it comes to decking out the town for Christmas in Smithers, British Columbia! From every pole on Main Street the summertime "Flags of the World" have been well furled and festive lights festooned from Highway 16 to the...
Tags: Christmas, snow, lights, holiday, festive, Main Street, Canada, Smithers, Bulkley Country, British Columbia, Merry Gentlefolk, travel
People..Voices ..Popularity...a less than immodest proposal
I began to write for Allvoices some 10 months ago. It was into its second year as a "citizen journal" that gave opportunity to ALL to speak their voice and it was sheer synchronicity that led me to it. In retrospect, I was blessed; for I needed to...
Tags: Allvoices, incentives, future, writing, Canada, Smithers, Tiger Woods, Amp, Oprah Woods, allnews, citizen.journalism
Smithers sheds light on World AIDS Day!
Smithers may be a small northern Canadian town nestled in cold, snow-laden mountains BUT it has a great big HEART! For a town of 5,000 it did its part in participating in today's WORLD AIDS DAY. Much of the success can be attributed to the on-going work...
Tags: Smithers, World Aids Day, information, celebration, Positive Living.December 1st, health, Canada, Entertainment Culture, Social Issues, Mark Perry, Adam Gagnon, Native, world aids
End of November on Old Babine Lake Road
I had a good day today. Although dead broke and buttless and awaiting my pension cheque..I was invited up to an old friends place to help chop firewood and have a roast pork dinner. It was a foggy and grey morning along the riverbottom town of Smithers..so...
Tags: country, sunset, barns, horses, friends, deer, snow, Canada, Smithers, Skeena Country, Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako, British Columbia, Babine Lake, Babine, Bulkley Country, Omineca Country, Hospitality Recreation, allnews
Signs & Spirits of the Season in Smithers
Took a hike into town this morning to attend my favourite Church service at the Sally Ann (Salvation Army!). Rick Apperson, the pastor, is a fairly jovial and easy going feller from Tennessee. I enjoy his lessons and the friendly congregation. Informal,...
Tags: Christmas, photos, signs, murals, small town, colour, Canada, Smithers, Rick Apperson, allnews, Sally Ann, winter, snow, main street
TWO SHIVERIN' SLYDOG SONGS!
Welcome to the songwriting debut of the Slydog. My cohort Laura Owens and I had a 2nd rehearsal for some tunes we are going to play at an upcoming Coffeehouse down Highway 16 in Quick, B.C. mid-December. I decided to tape the rehearsal to see how the...
Tags: songs, slydog, smithers, rodeos, folk songs, country songs, winter
SHIVERIN' IN SMITHERS....a Slydog song
Well..I've been up here in Smithers, Canada since mid-July and the snows of winter are now howling at my door. I'm doing some howling of my own and working with a local musician putting some music to my poems. We'll be performing 2-3 of them at a Coffee...
Tags: Smithers, song, shivering, travel, mountains, snow, cats, Canada, Andy Mathisen, allnews
Ali Howard heads South for the Skeena
By a stroke of luck I just happened to be dropping by the Smithers VIA Rail Station this afternoon in time to see Ali Howard board the train for Prince Rupert. Ali is on her way south to Vancouver and Victoria , British Columbia to speak at schools...
Tags: conservation, education, wild rivers, coal gas extraction, Skeena River, sacred headwaters, Ali Howard, swim, green, Rupert, Canada, Smithers, Bon Voyage, Journey, Skeena, Politics of British Columbia, Stikine Country, Royal Dutch Shell, Tahltan, Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, Environmental issues in Canada
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