Night of Remembrance Video

Here's a video from our Night of Remembrance Concert back in November, featuring our guest trumpeter, Donnie Clark.

What I am up to lately is practicing hard for the local theatre club's performance of the  musical "Cabaret," which will play for 3 weeks at the end of March.  

Viva Las Vegas

Spot Leo in the crowd

Leo's New Years resolution this year was to run a 100 Mile race, which has been on his bucket list for a while.

So this week he flew to Vegas and yesterday he ran around a Las Vegas park 50 times.  It took him 21 hours and 6 seconds and he came in 7th out of 31 finishers and first in the over 50 age group.

Last Ski?

Here we are last week on Bull Mountain with our regular Thursday Morning ski buddies.  A fabulous morning, warm and sunny, with the snow still in good condition.  Unfortunately, over the next days it warmed so much that we haven't been sking since.  Almost all the snow in town is melted.  But we did get more skiing in this year than for many years.  We almost paid off our annual ski passes.

And colder weather is forecast for next week, with even a day of snow predicted, so who knows, there may be more skiing yet.

Another Day

Another walk in the Dairy fields.

More Christmas Concerts

Photo taken by Williams Lake Tribune for Tuba Christmas


Yesterday was the annual Tuba John Christmas Concert at the United Church, featuring our Brass Ensemble, the Cariboo Men's Choir, Quintet Plus (mixed choir), and a capella group Synergy.  The concert is held in memory of tuba player and all around music enthusiast John Sykes, who passed away several years ago from cancer.

The church was full, the music was great, and the proceeds went to the Salvation Army and the Foodbank.

Tonight Cariboo Gold (swing band) plays with the Senior Secondary bands, and we play again on Monday for the Senior's Village Christmas Party.

More Seasonal Activities

Playing at the Community Christmas Dinner at the Catholic Hall with the Brass Ensemble

Wednesday was a busy day.  First there was the Ministry ofForests retirees' Christmas Luncheon.  Then at 6 the brass Ensemble played Christmas music for the Community Christmas Dinner.  It came with a delicious free turkey dinner, so that was two big meals in one day.  Lastly we raced over to the High School to play with the local Junior Bands.  Talk about a wall of sound when all 10 snare drummers played at once! 

Scout Island Walk

A beautiful warm, sunny day though the trails and boardwalks were pretty icy.  The lake is frozen pretty much frozen over.

Most of the snow has melted.

Leo braves the boardwalk

Coming back across the bridge, we heard a loud plop by the beaver dam.  The beaver must have been out enjoying the sunny weather too.  Its keeping a small hole open in the ice.