The 70 Mile Community Club is hosting a Christmas Community Dinner at the Community Hall on Dec. 15.
Community Club chair Ken Huber said they will provide a turkey dinner with all the fixings for 70 Mile House residents only.
There will be no charge for the dinner, but the club will be collecting money for the Food Bank. Money is preferred, Huber explained, so people will be able to buy the food they want.
The doors will open at 4 p.m. and dinner will start to be served at 5 p.m.
April Huber is taking the reservations, and 70 Mile residents can call her at 604-852-7622 to reserve a seat.
She said the club will only serve dinner to 100 residents.
Ken Huber noted they will take more than 100 reservations in case people, who already had reservations, decide to cancel them.
“We encourage people to wear their ugly Christmas sweaters for a prize draw.”
Santa will be at the event so residents can take a selfie with the jolly old elf.
70 Mile Events
There are South Cariboo Community Fellowship Services every Sunday at the Community Hall, starting at 2 p.m. For more information, call Ron at 250-456-2199.
There are pool tournaments at Eddy’s Bar and Grill on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. There is a $5 entry for the Double Knockout Vegas Rules event.
There are Poker Fundraisers on the third Saturday of the month at the Community Hall.
The Texas Hold’em tournament has a $20 buy-in for hall operations and $10 for operations and the committee for chili, buns, coffee and door prizes.
For more information, call Dennis Huber at 250-456-6050.
Eddy’s manager Sam Connors said there will be another painting night at Eddy’s Bar and Grill on Dec. 12 from 6 to 8 p.m.
The Empty Canvas Painting Nite will be a Christmas theme. It costs $40 per person with all supplies included. There will be door prizes. For tickets and availability, contact ecanvasgagnon@gmail.com
There will also be a couple of music nights at Eddy’s. For dates and times drop in at the Bar and Grill and check out the posters, or call 250-456-2424 for information.
Riding Arena rejuvenation takes a break
70 Mile House Riding Arena Committee lead organizer Lori Spencer, her dedicated committee members and friends have done an awesome job of rejuvenating the old riding arena next to the 70 Mile Community Hall.
They started working on the riding arena this fall after a lot of organizing, including the committee, coming up with ideas on how to rejuvenate the riding arena, and finding funds to make needed upgrades. Clinton and District Community Forest Fund and Thompson-Nicola Regional District provided funding and the 100 Mile Feed & Ranch Supply provided free labour to complete the fencing project. Spencer’s mother Marni Miller donated funds to purchase a six-foot chain harrow for the arena committee.
The committee held two work bees to prepare the arena for use by the extended equine community.
The first work bee held in October saw trees inside and outside of the arena removed as were limbs that were encroaching on the arena. Volunteers also removed rotten rails and posts and an old wooden gate that had seen better years.
The second work bee on Nov. 5 saw eight volunteers show up with tools and machinery.
More tree pruning was done, fence rails were replaced and an emergency gate was installed on the fence line by Randy Spencer.
Ken Huber and his son, Michael, cleaned up and put old boards and other items that couldn’t be reused in a dump trailer. They removed the load from the arena site.
Meanwhile, Lori Spencer, and committee members Caryl Cornett Henry and Karyn Greenlees unravelled the chain harrow and hooked it up to Cornett Henry’s quad so she could harrow the arena floor.
Spencer said they are going to take a break from the cold and windy weather and start on phase two of the arena upgrades next spring.
It will be a great facility for the extended equine community for years to come.
Fuel management behind 70 Mile House ongoing
A five-person crew has been doing hand-treatments including spacing, pruning and piling fuel (woody debris and dead and dying trees) behind properties at 70 Mile House since August/September 2022.
SXDLP is the contractor for this project.
John Liscomb, a Professional Forester, manages the crews.
He said almost all three of the four to five person crews are residents of Dog Creek and Canoe Creek (Stswecem’c Xget’tem).
Liscomb noted the fuel mitigation has been completed up to the 70 Mile House property lines.
When asked if this project was part of the Flat Lakes Wildfire fuel break mitigation project, Liscomb said “it could be,” but noted the project was planned prior to the Flat Lakes Wildfire.
He added they will be burning the fuel piles “hopefully in early December.”
Liscomb noted the burning won’t be done until there is snow and good venting.
