Eye on Community

Proving it has the best newspaper-tossing arm in the city, the Kamloops This Week team took first place in the second annual Kamloops Turkey Toss on Dec. 10.

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CUTOBER IN ITS SOPHOMORE SEASON A local man’s hair-cutting fundraiser in support of the Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre and the Kamloops branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association was held on Oct. 2.

Save-On Foods staff Ryan Ogden (left) Jay Smith, Neil Allkins, Brooke Nelson, Ameet Singh present a cheque for $7,620 to Kamloops Food Bank director of resource development Corra Gassner and executive director Bernadette Siracky on Thursday (July 15)

And, despite the pandemic, go on it did, with four members holding plant sales in their yards, raising a record $5,300.

The $20,000 cheque will go toward the wildlife park’s completion of the new aquatic rehabilitation areas.

Kiwanis Club of Kamloops secretary Roger Parkes presents a cheque in the amount of $3,057.16 to Big Little Science Centre of Kamloops executive director Gord Stewart.