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‘Dancing With Addiction’ wins at the 2025 Sun Peaks Film Festival – The Wren

2 months ago | thewrennews.ca | Louise Hudson

The 2025 Sun Peaks Film Festival was a resounding success, selling out completely and leaving many disappointed at the ticket office. Qualifying for a B.C. Fairs, Festivals and Events Grant and benefiting from generous corporate sponsorships, the budget was over 10 times that of the inaugural festival six years ago. Now held at the Sun Peaks Centre which can accommodate 175 people in the viewing room, the three-day event is organized by ArtZone Sun Peaks.
Louise Hudson, Author at The Wren

2 months ago | thewrennews.ca | Louise Hudson

Readers pitch in what they can afford each month so The Wren can deliver weekly newsletters, in-depth investigations and surface stories about neighbours working to transform Kamloops (Tk’emlúps) for the better. Together, our community of supporters ensure The Wren’s independent journalism remains free and accessible to everyone.
Q&A: Two B.C. filmmakers documented Okanagan wildfires. Here’s what they learned. – The Wren

2 months ago | thewrennews.ca | Madeline Dunnett

Husband and wife team Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper live and breathe storytelling through documentaries. A decade ago, after working on various solo projects, the two began collaborating on films that hone in on the complexities of the climate crisis, with their latest sharing stories of communities in the Okanagan Valley from two wildfire seasons.
Madeline Dunnett, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

2 months ago | thewrennews.ca | Madeline Dunnett

Readers pitch in what they can afford each month so The Wren can deliver weekly newsletters, in-depth investigations and surface stories about neighbours working to transform Kamloops (Tk’emlúps) for the better. Together, our community of supporters ensure The Wren’s independent journalism remains free and accessible to everyone.
Kamloops Adults Learners Society celebrates 20 years of lifelong learning

Jan 14, 2025 | thewrennews.ca | Macarena Mantilla

This year the Kamloops Adults Learners Society (KALS) is celebrating their 20th anniversary in September, and they are still operating by bringing valuable courses to Kamlooopsians. The non-profit organization has focused on bringing lifelong learning to the community since 2005 by working with volunteers including teachers, leaders and organizers to offer courses on diverse topics. KALS has over 300 members and welcomes all students over the age of 18.
The Wren’s top reader requested stories of 2024

Jan 7, 2025 | thewrennews.ca | Macarena Mantilla |Hollie Ferguson |Lauren Kaljur

At The Wren, we believe in community-driven and community-funded journalism to ensure our reporting reflects the diversity and needs of the people who live here. This model keeps us accountable to the community over any other stakeholder. But what does community-driven journalism mean? For The Wren, it simply means that we listen to what Kamloopsians want to know more about. We constantly interact with our readers to come up with ideas for stories and articles.
Hollie Ferguson, Author at The Wren

Jan 6, 2025 | thewrennews.ca | Macarena Mantilla |Hollie Ferguson |Lauren Kaljur |Kayla Empey

Readers pitch in what they can afford each month so The Wren can deliver weekly newsletters, in-depth investigations and surface stories about neighbours working to transform Kamloops (Tk’emlúps) for the better. Together, our community of supporters ensure The Wren’s independent journalism remains free and accessible to everyone.
Beavers repair Secwépemc watershed

Nov 26, 2024 | thewrennews.ca | Lyssa Martin

At the heart of Skeetchestn territory is the Deadman Watershed, a living landscape of roughly 900 sq. km of forest and grassland northwest of Kamloops (Tk’emlups). Industrial logging and the roads it requires has been a major stressor on this area, and the 2017 Elephant Hill wildfire and the 2021 Sparks Lake wildfire consumed much of the remaining forest.
How a grassroots group created the first Kamloops car share

Nov 19, 2024 | thewrennews.ca | Macarena Mantilla

As residents of a car-dependent city, Kamloopsians are familiar with persistently high fuel prices, which have averaged $1.65 per litre over the last few years. The cost of maintaining a vehicle along with housing expenses has also increased for many households. So it’s no surprise that a survey commissioned by Kamloops’ own car share service, Propel Us Carshare Co-Op, found that 54 per cent of respondents would use a car share service if it was available to them.
Landing on Fulton Field: Why is the Kamloops airport where it is?

Nov 12, 2024 | thewrennews.ca | Lyssa Martin

The year was 1929 and a new airfield in Grand Forks had other B.C. municipalities green with envy. For years, political circles spoke of the need to develop a network of coast-to-coast air infrastructure, but the financial realities of the Depression era made progress slow. In Kamloops, tough economic times didn’t hold back the air fever as leaders here and in other towns including Nelson, Cranbrook, Kelowna and Merrit worked to create their own airfields. An editorial in the Sept.