Community

Students at Summerland Montessori School collected gifts and a cash donation of $151.75 for the Toys and Toonies for Tots and Teens drive.

Members of the Second Summerland Guides donate gifts for the Toys and Toonies for Tots and Teens drive.

It will be a bracing, frigid start to the new year as 200 to 300 people will dash into Okanagan Lake for a brief swim on New Year’s Day.

Pam and Peter Cormillot’s home in Trout Creek won the Griswold Award in the Trout Creek holiday lights competition.

The Kettle Valley Railway’s steam locomotive was decorated for the festive season.

Cpl. Bruce Haley is officially retiring from the RCMP after 36 years of service.

“Ground covered with snow. Good sleighing. Mild all day but colder tonight. Home tonight at 11pm. Good and tired.”

Members of the Summerland Steam and Summerland Minor Hockey participated in a Fill the Net event on Dec. 9.

Bob Hnetka, left, won the grand prize of a $1,000 shopping spree along with other prizes in the 2016 Shop Summerland contest.

A Summerland church will hold a special service for those who are grieving during the holiday season.