Patrick Davies

4 days ago | 100milefreepress.net | Patrick Davies

Not every fibre artist grows and makes their own dyes. South Cariboo artist and member of the Horse Lake Farm Co-Op Barb Matfin, however, does just that, growing Japanese Indigo to colour her wool. Matfin said she enjoys the whole process of creating her own dyed wool to knit and weave with. "I've always been interested in dying wool specifically. I've always been a sewer, my mum taught me to sew when I was just a kid, so I've always been involved with fabric.

4 days ago | 100milefreepress.net | Patrick Davies

On Thursday, May 29 and Friday, May 30, students at Horse Lake Elementary School were led by Sarah Lum's Grade 3/4 class put together the Glow Show in one of the school's computer labs. The show featured several drawings and paintings done by students using blacklight markers and paints, all themed around an aquatic environment. Throughout both days, students and family got to tour through the show and see their art brought to stunning life by several dark lights.

5 days ago | 100milefreepress.net | Patrick Davies

Interior Health is organizing a vaccination clinic for children under the age of 12 at the South Cariboo Health Centre this Saturday. This clinic is being organized as part of a broader effort by IH to host immunization clinics across the region over the next six weeks to protect the region from measles, according to IH's medical health officer Dr. Sanaz Vaseghi.

5 days ago | 100milefreepress.net | Patrick Davies

The fourth annual Logan Parent Memorial Bulls and Barrels is coming to 100 Mile House in mid-June. The memorial amateur rodeo, which features bull riding and barrel racing, is held each year in memory of Logan Parent, a 100 Mile House bull rider who tragically took his own life after complications with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, better known as CTE. It's a degenerative brain disease typically found in athletes who receive multiple hits to the head, such as bull riders like Logan.

1 week ago | 100milefreepress.net | Patrick Davies

A former 100 Mile Free Press columnist has taken his first foray into the realm of historical fiction with The Cariboo Trek of Callum McBay. Colin Campbell, who wrote his column Light Bites for the 100 Mile Free Press in the early 2000s, has penned a humorous historical tale about a young Scotsman named Callum McBay's quest to save his family's sheep farm by striking it rich in the Cariboo Gold Rush. He said he was directly inspired by his time living in the South Cariboo to write this book.