Feel-good Friday: Global BC’s highlights of the week

Each week astatine Global BC, we item our stories to bring a agleam spot to your Friday and into the weekend.

Here are the 5 stories we privation to share:

‘Amazing’: 6-year-old miss survives 73 hours unsocial successful B.C.’s wilderness

Parents Gail Skin and James Schweder were yet capable to get immoderate slumber connected Sunday nighttime aft their girl was recovered safe.

Oaklynn Schweder, six, went missing from the Burns Lake country successful North Central B.C. astir 6 p.m. connected Thursday.

She was recovered connected Sunday evening successful a antecedently searched forested country betwixt her residence and Skin Tyee set office.

Vancouver Canucks invited erstwhile foe Kiefer Sherwood with invited arms

Kiefer Sherwood spent respective nights past outpouring chasing Quinn Hughes astir the crystal and mostly pestering the Vancouver Canucks.

Now the erstwhile Nashville Predators winger is wearing a Canucks jersey.

After signing with Vancouver successful escaped agency, Sherwood was astatine grooming campy successful Penticton, B.C., lining up against the players helium frustrated successful the archetypal circular of the playoffs past season.

His erstwhile foes person welcomed him welcomed with unfastened arms.

From a backyard chickenhearted coop to a planetary powerhouse: B.C.’s Norco bikes turns 60

It was 60 years agone erstwhile Norco laminitis Bert Lewis launched his caller institution retired of a makeshift warehouse successful a Burnaby chickenhearted coop.

“He wanted to bring much affordable cycles and better-designed bikes than what was presently disposable to the Canadian market,” said longtime Norco worker Peter Stace-Smith.

The institution grew done the 1970s with immoderate classical styles earlier a roar arsenic the 1980s approached.

‘Help! Help!’: Man rescued from overturned vessel successful Nanoose Bay

Nanoose Bay, B.C., nonmigratory Jane Currie was moving successful her beforehand gait connected Monday evening erstwhile she heard faint cries for help.

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“They were muffled calls, but they were stringent and it could person been ravens, could person been golfers yelling connected the play course,” she said.

Currie decided to analyse and determination towards the sound.

“As I went down towards wherever the dependable was louder due to the fact that they were intermittent, there’d beryllium a telephone and past soundlessness and past a fewer much calls and past silence,” she said.

“And arsenic I got person to it, moving towards the woods and towards the water, I heard ‘Help me’ and that’s erstwhile I truly benignant of became alert that thing is truly happening here.

La Niña wintertime expected successful B.C., which could beryllium bully quality for skiers

It’s that clip of twelvemonth erstwhile everyone starts asking astir what’s successful store for winter.

And portion it’s ever hard to foretell upwind patterns with certainty this acold out, it’s looking similar there’s a decent accidental it volition beryllium a bully twelvemonth for skiers and snowboarders.

The U.S. National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center is estimating a 71 per cent accidental we volition modulation into a La Niña climatic signifier this winter.

Like its sibling El Niño, La Niña is simply a clime signifier resulting from the travel of warmer h2o successful the Pacific Ocean, with the capableness of affecting upwind worldwide.