Hockey, music, dance, hiking, yoga, acting: Time get moving!
With the Fall & Winter Brochure in the mailboxes and online, registrations have been busy! There are lots of new and exciting programs and courses to check out! If you didn’t receive one in the mail, log on to www.rossland.ca, then City Hall, then Rossland Recreation, then Program Guide. If you have a child between the...
Novelist Angie Abdou coming to Rossland
It’s been quite a ride for Fernie author Angie Abdou: her first novel, The Bone Cage, was a CBC Canada Reads book, and the next, The Canterbury Trail, was a finalist for Banff Mountain Book of the Year. She’s been cover girl on such literary publications as Quill & Quire and BC Bookworld. Abdou will read from her work in...
ESCape to the ESCapades of the Electro Social Club...
Get set to dance the night away and escape to the Electro Social Club (ESC), where musical theatre meets electrical nightclub. Iron Mountain Theatre (IMT) is at their innovative best with this completely unique production by Nadine Tremblay and Rupert Keiller at Trail's Arlington Pub on Sept. 13 and Rossland's Drift Izakaya...
Phoenix Mine geneaology to be featured on BBC radio Sept. 6
Long dead Phoenix miners and a modern-day Welsh connection will be featured on a British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) radio Wales program on Thursday, Sept. 6 at 10:30 a.m. British time. The popular BBC program, Jamie and Louise, hosted by Jamie Owen and Louise Elliott, will be including genealogist Cat Whiteaway in their morning...
Lots to do as everyone's back in town and Rossland gears up for fall...
Golden City Days and the Fall Fair are coming up soon! On the weekend of September 7, 8 & 9, Golden City Days is a community festival that promotes community spirit and fun, over three fun days. GCD is annual community festival celebrating the rich heritage of Rossland. Golden City Events will be located in the...
Castlegar library hosts author of new book about historical Salmo
Author and former miner Larry Jacobsen interviewed over 100 previous and present residents for their family’s stories of life in this small mining and logging town from 50 to 120 years ago. On Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Castlegar and District Public Library, Jacobsen will read from his new book Salmo Stories: Memories […]
TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN KINGDOM: High stakes negotiations--Rossland style
The fate of a smelter decided by a poker game? Late night sleigh ride dashes up the mountain to have a chum intervene in your smelter negotiations at a chi-chi, assuredly cigar smoke-filled local club? Yes! The fate of the future Cominco depended on it!In December 2010, I worte an article about the train race in Rossland...
OP/ED: Beware the dangers of 'Tall Poppy Syndrome'
This week’s column is going to be focused on a major pet peeve of mine; it may seem a bit ‘ranty’ because I’m feeling a little hormonal today … so bear with me. It’s something that has always bugged me but has become more apparent to me recently through certain interactions and conversations. So without […]
Local favourites Birtch and Onyette to perform at Mountain Market, Sept. 13
Class act singer-songwriter Don Birtch will team up with the talented Cliff Onyette for two hours of top-notch—and free—entertainment at the Rossland Mountain Market on Thursday, Sept. 13, beginning at 3 p.m. Birtch was born into a musical family in Vancouver and by 1965, at the tender age of 12, he was already performing...
Time is running out on getting 54-40 tickets
Time is running out fans of 54-40 to see the ban in person Friday, September 14 at the Capitol Theatre in Nelson. The band is celebrating 30 years of rock and roll, and Nelson is one of the stops on the anniversary tour. One of the most important popular music groups to emerge from the […]
