news Winners of Passport program selected Page 3
Community PSS students have plenty of spirit Page 11
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All the best to you in 2013! from Lisa, Wendy, Debbie & Sandi
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Volume 64 Issue 52
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
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Tulameen is small in numbers but huge in spirit Contributed www.similkameenspotlight.com
Congratulations go out to the Tulameen locals (and Tulameen fans) who worked so hard to vote in the Readers’ Digest “Canada’s Most Interesting Towns” contest. Voting closed on December 18, and Tulameen had a whopping 120,033 votes, coming in with the third highest votes out of a total of 661 entries. That is pretty impressive for a town of only 250 people. On January 17 winners of the contest will be announced and cash prizes awarded. Judges will decide from all
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the entries which towns deserve the title “Canada’s Most Interesting Towns”, and the towns with the most votes will be featured in upcoming magazines. Regardless of whether Tulameen wins a prize, they have shown that with a lot of community spirit, even a small town can make itself noticed. The competition was fierce. Day after day thousands of bleary eyed Canadians perched hypnotically at their computers, punched in codes and voted for their favourite towns over and over again. Aproned mothers across the country, ladle in hand, told their families “no soup for you until you
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