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The RCMP Drugs and Organized Crime Awareness Service (DOCAS) will be launching a series of tips for parents on the website: www.drugawareness.bc.rcmp.gc.ca.  These tips are meant to support parents in developing protective factors for their children to help prevent drug use. The launch will begin on the 'Drug Awareness Week' starting November 15th, 2009 and throughout the week. All drugs pose risks to the health of our youth and they are particularly vulnerable because their brains are still developing.

By Bev Boyle 

A few weeks ago, we featured Ian Newbery of the band Danny Echo in our ‘Where are they now?’ series. Ian is from 100 Mile House and now living in Vancouver where their band is quickly growing in popularity. 

By Bev Boyle 

Winter is here, but we aren’t quite as cold as we usually are this time of year. Nevertheless, I hear people already worrying about the next few months. Months of cold and snow and more cold. Predictions of a warmer winter are reflected upon, but the fact remains – we do have a long cold winter season here. 

By Bev Boyle 

Fishermen rejoice! There is now a new website that focuses on fishing in BC. The writers are mostly from here and so there is a lot of fishing news about this area. Anyone that is an avid fisherperson will love www.gillvine.com. 

Created a couple of months ago by Cole Roberts (Where are they now?)  and his fishing buddies, Gillvine is a fabulous and entertaining website that lets your inner scales enjoy readable and viewable content everyday about every region in British Columbia with the intention being to enlighten and entertain anyone who has an interest in fishing.

Gillvine is the only fishing-related website in the province that is updated daily and allows willing viewers to contribute while keeping their content fresh, intelligent, witty and relevant.

Cole Roberts explains, “Fishing is meant to be fun yet it’s extremely important. We try to balance that with our material, and we are the only site that does that in this province.”

You can’t help being amused and entertained by these deep water afishionados. The stories are bright and fascinating. Here is an excerpt from Wade Roberts’s article on fishing locally at Sheridan Lake: 

10 POUND SHERIDAN LAKE RAINBOW

So it turns out the Die Hard fishermen of the South Cariboo are still slaying fish! Late fall fishing in the area is always exceptional, so if a guy can bear the cold and you call yourself a fisherman, fish at any cost (excluding gale force ocean winds which thankfully I haven’t experienced and never will)! 

My buddy’s name in the picture is Jimmy and he’s a local fisherman. He is always “that guy” – you know, the guy that shows up and just manages to use the most ridiculous flies and lures and still manages to slay fish! Yea that guy…

Well, he caught this 9.5 pound rainbow right out of Sheridan Lake on Monday (November 2nd) afternoon using nothing but a Maroon Colored “Size 8 Micro Leech, with a full sink 6 weight Fly Line. Sheridan Lake is notoriously known as a trophy lake, by that we’re talking massive rainbow!

The website will do well. Let your friends and fishing buddies know about it and check it regularly. The pictures are spectacular, the stories fun and interesting, and it’s guaranteed to make you wish you were out on your favourite lake – chasing the big one!

By Bev Boyle

Have you noticed the tent beside the Visitor Info Centre? Inside that tent is Kevin Guertsen, a former 100 Mile resident who now lives in Salmon Arm.

Kevin, 27, is chain saw carving a 10 to 12 foot high Inukshuk as part of the Olympic Torch Relay Legacy. It will combine the Inukshuk with a goldpanner and a bear with a fish in his mouth. Kevin got the grant through Judith Hayes, the Olympic Torch Relay Legacy Investment Coordinator for the South Cariboo.

VICTORIA, BC – British Columbians will welcome Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, as the Royal Couple begins a four-day visit to the province on Friday, Premier Gordon Campbell announced today. 

“British Columbians are honoured to welcome Their Royal Highnesses as we also prepare to welcome the world for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games,” said Premier Campbell. “We extend a warm welcome to the Duchess of Cornwall who is visiting Canada, and B.C., for the first time as a member of the Royal Family.” 

By Bev Boyle

In 2007, the Cariboo Badger Project partnered with Ministry of Transportation to investigate the relationship between badgers and roads. Roadkill has been identified as a leading cause of mortality for badgers in BC. Research will focus on tracking badgers detailed movements to determine where and when badgers cross roads. This information will be used in designing new highways and upgrading existing ones. Options include; installing dry culverts, drift fences, permeable concrete roadside barriers, and signage. This is the first intensive radio-telemetry study to address road mortality ever conducted in Canada.

(Photo by Richard Klafki.)

Editor's note: This is the second installment in our “Where are they now?' series. If you know someone that either lives in the 100 Mile area or used to live here and is doing or has done something really cool, please contact Bev Boyle at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 250 395-8870.

By Bev Boyle

Ian Newbery is the keyboardist/guitarist/songwriter in a Vancouver-based melodic rock group called Danny Echo. Ian was born and raised in 100 Mile House. He played minor hockey until he was in his mid-teens and graduated from Peter Skene Ogden in 1993. After high school, he worked at Ainsworth Sawmill for a few years, got married, and then he and his wife Melissa moved to Vancouver in order to go to university.

Ian says, “My mom, Esther Newbery, lives in 100 Mile, and my dad also lives in the area. Also, my grandfather and a bunch of my aunts/uncles/cousins live in 100 Mile too. Not only that, but my mother and father-in-law, Jim and Laura Matsuda, live at Lone Butte. I still have lots of friends and family living in 100 Mile, and visit often.”