Featured Stories

Boomtown Garter Girls: Will can can for kicks
by Andrew Zwicker on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 13:51

 From an impromptu talent show in Rafters to champagne with the mayor of Amsterdam--the Boomtown Garter Girls have been wowing audiences for 30 years as Rossland’s unofficial ambassadors.

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Doing the can can in a can-do town: The legend of the Dancing Waiters
by Andrew Zwicker on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 11:29

What do you get when you cross a civic celebration with an aging old theatre, a beer garden, and a party featuring dancing girls--when no girls show up?

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GALLERY: Little Groms romp!
by Adrian Barnes on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 09:21

 This weekend's Rubberhead festival saw the next generation of Golden City mountain bikers strutting their stuff in the Little Grom event. Check out this photo gallery (courtesy of Michelle Tanguay)!

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Recent News

Egg-splosive controversy: Kootenay radio show investigation delves into the world of local eggs

by Adrian Barnes on 08 Sep 2010
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 An investigative report by John Steinman of the Nelson-produced radio show, Deconstructing Dinner, sheds new light on the way in which the eggs we consume locally are produced, how their quality is overseen, and how their sources are accounted for. When is an egg farm not an egg farm? When is local not local? The answers will surprise or even shock you. The podcast is below. You can also check out some photos and video of Steinman's investigation.

COMMENT: Back to school...and school controversies

by Adrian Barnes on 08 Sep 2010
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Some good news on the school front you've likely all heard about: Maclean Elementary has, this fall, two full kindergarten classes, which seems to point to an upward trend in future RSS enrollment. Of course, this being School District 20 under the financial thumb of BC's so-called 'Liberal' government, there's a bad side to the story as well. In the last week, according to reports, Maclean turned away four prospective kindergarten enrollees, one from Rossland and three from Warfield. The child from Rossland has since been accepted, but the Warfield kids haven't.

Skateboarding on Emcon lot a Miner Threat

by Andrew Zwicker on 08 Sep 2010
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For at least two days this coming weekend, the much anticipated, much talked about, much debated Rossland Skatepark will have a home in the Emcon lot.

Regional and Provincial

Trail campus enhances choices for community

by Contributor on 08 Sep 2010
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Selkirk College’s Trail campus is expanding its services and course
offerings for the greater Trail community. In addition to being the home of long-standing programs such as Advanced Medical Transcription, Adult Basic Education and Nursing Unit Clerk, the college will now be adding more Continuing Education opportunities. 

Paid propaganda? PART 2: Sun/Province’s disturbing “message”

by Harvey Oberfeld on 07 Sep 2010
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[Editor's note: Part one of Mr. Oberfeld's column should be right below this one. I decided to print the two simultaneously as this is an important issue and one that will only become more and more urgent as corporate newspapers struggle to survive in an age of declining revenues]

It’s no secret that, to any branch of the news media, the availability of information is critical: whether voluntarily provided; deliberately revealed; earnestly sought out or inadvertently discovered. 

 

National and International

Obama announces plan to build roads, railroads and runways

by Wikinews on 07 Sep 2010
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In a speech in Wisconsin, US President Barack Obama announced a USD50 billion plan to restore 150,000 miles of roads, lay 4,000 miles of railroad tracks and rebuild 150 miles of airport runways within six years. The speech was given at an annual Labor Day festival in Milwaukee to union workers on Monday afternoon.