If you should happen to have an opportunity to visit the Rouge Gallery this week, you will be greeted by the charming and colourful Animaux Magiques, or Magic Animals, painstakingly created over many months by students at Rossland's Francophone school, L’École des Septs-Sommets. The project was lovingly executed by the grades...

Community Building is process that requires developing authentic relationships between people in a community. The word 'authentic' is extremely important because people rarely communicate authentically. Rossland's The Flame was implemented for exactly that reason: it was an event designated to increase community involvement...

No doubt a lot of readers have heard of Canadian fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Ashely MacIsaak, but we have also a fiddle virtuoso from the Ottawa Valley who has made a big name for herself in the roots scene not only with her fantastic fiddling but with her two-stepping as well. Her name is April Verch and she will be raising...

Perhaps the greatest and busiest artist of all time, Mother Nature has been the mentor for Rouge Gallery artist and Castlegar resident Mirja Vahalla. Moving, over time, from the Lower Mainland to Castlegar and traveling to the far reaches of the earth, Mirja’s style and true love has always lied in capturing the movement of...

Last night, the 23rd, Joe Hill Coffee House event at the Miners’ Hall was a rocking night of lively music indeed. The line-up included the Golden City Fiddlers, who opened the show with some foot stomping pieces, and ended with local folksters Dandelion and the Ditchweeds, who played an energetic set much appreciated by the...

From career musician to vintner and back again, Alex Nichol of the Selkirk Camerata has run the gamut and will be bringing both of his crowd pleasing projects to The Rouge Gallery on March 19th for the latest installment of the Rouge Music series. Filling the acoustically-blessed hall with the sounds of two violins and a...

There are so many legendary personalities and characters in Rossland’s early history: it’s an amateur historian’s delight. A lot of the information makes great reading, especially when you get to fill in the blanks with your own imagination. One person who certainly deserves the title of “legend” in these parts is Rossland’s...

This week, Bruce Aldorfer presented a cheque for $250 to Camille Craig for the RSS Drama Club on behalf of the Rossland Lions Club. The students head to London England during spring break for a trip of a life time.While in London, the students will be taking in theater workshops, Les Miserables, museums, Camden Market and...

For many, the Golden City's undeniable appeal stems not only from the soft white stuff atop the local mountains, but also the hard minerals that once lay below. Today's Rossland is a place measurably enriched by history, with an appealing heritage core and existing economic profile that can both be credited largely to a...

By 1896, Rossland was considered a cosmopolitan town, a “premiere camp”, and it had a reputation as being a fairly orderly place despite all the riffraff who were flowing in from all over. There were dozens of saloons and Sourdough Alley was a hub of debauchery, gambling, and prostitution, but incidents of violent crime were...