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LETTER: As winter approaches, are our highways safe enough?

by Contributor on 08 Oct 2012
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LETTER: As winter approaches, are our highways safe enough?

Dear editor,

I have previously written about the state of our roads and highways, especially after my family was involved in a serious motor vehicle accident in January last year.  Luckily, they walked away with minor injuries but the effects psychologically have lasted much longer.

COMMENT: A problematic process, but respect to the new CAO

by Andrew Bennett on 20 Sep 2012
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Outgoing CAO Victor Kumar will be replaced by Cecile Arnott on Oct. 1

Dear Laurie Charlton,

I write in response to your recent condemnation of council's process in hiring our new CAO/CFO.

LETTER: Some clarifying points on RougeMusic and the Rouge Gallery

by Contributor on 13 Sep 2012
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LETTER: Some clarifying points on RougeMusic and the Rouge Gallery

Dear editor,

As director of the RougeMusic concert series and as a professional musician, I feel passionate about ensuring that there is a thriving arts community in Rossland.

LETTER: Visitor shocked by state of local farm

by Contributor on 12 Sep 2012
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LETTER: Visitor shocked by state of local farm

To the Editor;

In recent months I have passed through Grand Forks on two occasions. During my first visit I drove by what could be described as an "animal compound" adjacent to the Kettle River. I observed animals, particularly horses, kept in what I consider to be appalling and unacceptable conditions. In June some of these horses were standing up to their shins in muck. It was pouring rain and there was no evidence of shelter during an extremely cold and wet spring.

LETTER: Closure of the Nelson BC DFO Office

by Letters to the ... on 30 Jul 2012
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LETTER: Closure of the Nelson BC DFO Office

The Hon. Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

Place de Ville, Tower C, 29th Floor, 330 Sparks Street

Otatwa, Ontario, K1A 0N5

RE:  Closure of the Nelson BC DFO Office

Dear Minister:

I write to bring to your attention concerns that are being voiced by local residents and elected officials about the closure of the Nelson, BC DFO Office and the re-assignment or loss of staff biologists here. 

LETTER: Proposed federal riding boundary changes need local discussion

by Contributor on 23 Jul 2012
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LETTER: Proposed federal riding boundary changes need local discussion

Dear Editor:

I am writing about hearings that are to be held in our area with respect to the way the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission has decided to divide up the province between Members of Parliament.

Hearings in our area are scheduled for Nelson on October 2, 2012 and Castlegar on October 3, 2012. None are scheduled for Trail.

LETTER: Area residents need to stop Ottawa/Elections Canada from further diluting our collective voice

by Contributor on 12 Jul 2012
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LETTER: Area residents need to stop Ottawa/Elections Canada from further diluting our collective voice

Open Letter to West Kootenay Residents:

It seems like the people who make decisions far away in Ottawa don't quite understand BC nor do they understand the importance of physical geography in such a mountainous place.

They look at maps with demographics and populations and what they have is an impression of where we live, but not how we live or what our communities really look like. It's disappointing that Elections Canada would break apart our West Kootenay Community and place the entire area surrounding Nelson into the East Kootenay Region just to shuffle numbers.

LETTER: Thanks to Rosslanders for support

by Contributor on 05 Jul 2012
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LETTER: Thanks to Rosslanders for support

Dear editor,

When people give of their time, their energy and their heart, they deserve special recognition and a personal thank you.  The residents of Rossland and the Canadian Cancer Society volunteers who sold daffodils, daffodil pins and went door to door exemplify those people.

The Rossland Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society raised $13,346 in the April Door-to-Door Campaign and $2375 during Daffodil Days.

Monies raised provide:

Ø  caring, practical and personal support to people living with cancer in the Kootenay region

LETTER: In Flounders' flooded fields...

by Contributor on 29 Jun 2012
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LETTER: In Flounders' flooded fields...

Dear editor,

The Western Front must have looked like this.  Earth and rocks, blasted, torn and scattered; pools of murky water filling every rain-soaked depression; the accumulated detritus of hard fought conflict, here piled high in tangled heaps of twisted metal, there semi-submerged in the clinging mud like dead, wasted limbs desperately reach for the light. 

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