The Recreation Department is now on Facebook!  Check out “Rossland Recreation” for program updates, pictures, videos, questions, answers, brochures, contests etc.  If you’re between 13-18 years, “like” us on Facebook and your name will be entered into a contest to win a $50.00 Gift Card from “The Source”. Contest ends February...

The Recreation Department is launching its Facebook page (Rossland Recreation) and invites you to take a look at it!  We’re hoping this site will be another great resource for information about REC programs, last minute updates and cancellations, pictures and videos of local folk having fun recreating and staying healthy and...

Multi-instrumentalist Shane Philip is known worldwide for his dynamic didgeridoo-infused music. Philip has been touring constantly for the past few years now. His rhythmic and intoxicating sounds are powerful enough to fill a room with dancing fans and soulful enough to quiet a packed house. Those songs have captured audiences...

Avid readers are often disappointed when they go to see a screen version of their favourite books. I was introduced to the nearly viral, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson, and its following novels by my mother and quickly consumed the book in its entirety. So it was with trepidation that I...

The Recreation Department is working on the Spring Brochure in the next two weeks. If you would like to run a program with the REC Department, please give us a call or drop by to discuss your ideas. The deadline for submitting a program description is Friday, Feb. 10. The Recreation Department has purchased PickleBall equipment...

Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism and Tourism Rossland will welcome 24 members from the Western Chapter of the North American Snowsports Journalists Association (NASJA) to the Kootenay Rockies this weekend. In partnership with Tourism British Columbia and Kootenay Rockies Tourism, Whitewater Ski Resort and Red Mountain Resort they...

 Having had three weeks to digest what was 2011 I can begin my annual look at the best and worst films by examining the bookends which are Drive and The Tree Of Life.In the awful words of The Rock in Fast Five, "You know I like my dessert first," so I'll start with Drive. Drive is perhaps one of the best films I have seen...

Alissa Arnason, late of both Rossland and Dandelion and the Ditchweeds, was back in town for a visit last week and the Telegraph's David Hartman was lucky enough to take some footage of her singing her fine new song, "All The Greatest Things". Check it out....

Artists in all disciplines—as well as arts, culture and heritage organizations—are invited to apply for funding through the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance (CKCA), which delivers the Arts, Culture and Heritage Program of Columbia Basin Trust (CBT).For 2012/13, funding has increased by $55,000, to $706,000. This will help...

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