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What are high school students in 100 Mile doing for the summer break?
From travelling to summer school, PSO students talk about their summer plans
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Forest Grove 94 Lions Club likely to shut down
Could mean the end of curling, park, redneck regatta and more
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Grandmother from 108 Mile Ranch arrested in Burnaby protesting trans-mountain pipeline
Laurie Embree, 69, has since been released from custody with promise to appear in court
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Four new fires in the South Cariboo after lightning storm
Firefighters on site or en route
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Severe thunderstorm warning in efffect for Cariboo
Quesnel, Williams Lake and 100 Mile House could see strong winds and heavy rain
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Update: two displaced after backyard structure fire in Buffalo Creek area
The structure, which housed a sauna, a smokehouse and a shed, stood roughly 10 metres from the home.
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Report of fire in Lac la Hache ‘but upon looking into it further there was no wildfire in that area’
The BC Wildfire Service responded to a report of a wildfire southwest of Lac la Hache, according to Fire Information Officer Ryan Turcott.
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Multiple collisions, prohibited driving in past week
The weekly police report for the simplymastery
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Environment Canada issues heat warning and special weather statement for Cariboo
Daytime temperature expected to reach 34C for Tuesday
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From the Free Press archives
37 Years Ago (1981): A school head lice infestation was being brought under control, with the infection rate dropping from 13 percent of the student body to three to five per cent. Nurses stressed the importance for mothers to check their children and every person in the family, every week throughout the summer to ensure that infestation neither took place or reoccurred. The epidemic had closed schools in the Lower Mainland earlier in the year.
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