Hi there,

Today we're kicking off our Spring Supporter Drive where we ask readers to step up as new monthly supporters — enough to keep our reporters in the field through the October municipal election.

The reason you're hearing about it from me first is simple: you already make this work possible.

• You've helped us put the first-ever print edition of The Wren into local coffee shops. 

• Produce a guide to navigating maternity care during an uncertain stretch. 

• Show up to cover OneBC Dallas Brodie’s controversial event at TRU and the counter-protest — and cut through the noise.
  

• Focus on solutions and uplift people bringing Kamloopsians together, like the founder of our local Silent Book Club, Secwépemc hockey defender Jaylah Bottle and Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc’s popular archery program. 

You won't hear from us again during the campaign. But if you've got room to increase your monthly contribution to keep pace with inflation, it would help more than you know.

If that's not the right move right now, I get it. Forwarding this work to one neighbour who cares about real, local reporting goes just as far.

Please accept our huge thank you for supporting fact-checked, carefully written community journalism on issues you care about, from AI data centres, controversial town halls and solutions to the drug crisis.

With the line between human and AI-generated content increasingly blurring, we know you care about real reporting from people who live here.

Thank you for being part of this,