4 YEARS AGO (2022): An 86-year-old man - Alexander Bird - who had robbed a CIBC bank in 100 Mile House in 2019 was given a three-year suspended sentence. It had been found he had been suffering from a cognitive disorder when he committed the offence. He pled guilty to lesser charges of mischief and theft over $5,000, while other charges were stayed. The judge, Rita Bowry, had deemed the probationary sentence had been satisfactory in this "exceptional circumstance" noting that Bird had been on bail and closely supervised. Bird had driven to the bank after arguing with his partner in Clinton and demanded the teller give him money. After being apprehended in Tim Hortons, RCMP said that Bird appeared disoriented and could not remember what happened at the bank.
8 YEARS AGO (2017): Graduating students were getting ready for the upcoming Grad Fashion Show, which was a fundraiser for the dry grad. The students planned to model clothing from several businesses, such as Didi's Boutique, The Corral, The Outlaw, Lone Butte Sporting Goods, and Cinderella's Closet. The 2017 theme was 90s babies, chosen because the graduates had been the last to be born in the 1990s. Alongside the fashion, the show would feature music and props from 1999 to 2017. There would also be prize draws and raffle prizes.
12 YEARS AGO (2013): 40 people turned out to hear then Cariboo Regional District (CRD) chair Al Richmond and CRD environmental services manager Mitch Minchau explain the transfer station pilot project results. As part of the CRD's Solid Waste Management Plan, the Lac La Hache Transfer Station was targeted for the pilot program to add recycling, gated and controlled access, wood waste collection and other cost-saving changes. Folks had reportedly been generally happy with the addition of cardboard recycling on site and supported the plan to spin it off into accepting further recyclables.
16 YEARS AGO (2009): The B.C. SPCA had been in Canim Lake on March 31 of that year to assess horses on the reserve. Then senior animal protection officer Kent Kokoska said that the organization had been doing what they could for as many of the horses as much as possible. The SPCA had been caring for the 13 horses and had been working to make sure the horses had been getting adequate food and care. This all began after Laird Archie, a member of the Tsq̓éscen̓ First Nation (then called the Canim Lake Band) had alerted the simplymastery about the plight of the horses. Mike Archie, then chief of the Tsq̓éscen̓ First Nation, said that the band had worked with the SPCA and regretted that the news of the horses came out the way it did.
