December 2025

The Lake Country Food Bank (LCFB) was recently able to help out many other B.C. food banks, thanks to a donation from The Colin and Lois Pritchard Foundation. On Wednesday, Dec. 3, LCFB employees and volunteers, including executive director Joy Haxton and volunteers from MNP and 1-800-GOT JUNK were at the Kelowna Fruit Stand where […]

Hundreds of people turned out for the Winter Wonders Celebration, a fundraiser for Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Community Services. More than 300 people turned out for this years event on Saturday, Nov. 29, which included an artisan market, live performances, children’s entertainment, a food truck, and the community services’ signature event, the Shop With A Purpose

Today there will be a Christmas Market in Maple Ridge to benefit the BCSPCA. The fourth annual Local Love Pop Up Christmas Market is happening on Sunday, Dec. 7 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Albion Community Centre (24165 104th Ave.). The free event offers a market with more than 110 local vendors,

The sweet sounds of the holidays filled the air at Maple Ridge Secondary for the school’s Christmas choral performance. About 100 people packed the choir room to hear the Maple Ridge Secondary School Choir sing carols, in different languages, for their presentation called “Merry & Bright”. Directed by Claire Oliverio, the Crescente Junior Choir, the

Vernon’s SilverStar Mountain Resort and its former ownership have been taken to court over an airsoft gun shooting that allegedly occurred at the ski resort’s village on Christmas night 2024 and left a Lake Country man with post-traumatic stress disorder. In a notice of civil claim filed earlier this year, David Martyn alleged he was