Yearly Archives for 2016

July 18, 2016 Sunday marked the final day of the 104th Calgary Stampede. Like the rest of last week, Sunday was chilly and full of rain. The 10 day Calgary Stampede kicks off each year with a massive parade. Last year I had family visiting from out East so parade attendance was almost mandatory. I had booked reserved seats on the route through a local charity. In prior years, we’d gone downtown at 5:00 AM to save seats for the 9:00 AM start. This year, there were folks who camped the night before on the route just to get their.

  This picture was featured recently on Global BC television and we are proud to say that it was submitted by one of our Kamloops team members. Lana gave us the inside scoop below:   “I took the picture on South Shuswap Lake near Blind Bay looking out at Copper Island.  Two minutes after I took this photo we were running for the car because the sky opened up and soaked us.   South Shuswap Lake has a beach that my family and I love – not a lot of people frequent it because it is all shale and not.