Every pre-season I make the same promise to myself: this year is going to be different. When the snow hits and the chairs start rounding the bull wheel, I’m going to be ready. My need for cardiovascular fitness, endurance, flexibility and strength training will be aligned via a realistic and attainable regime, the ultimate ...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily There are major challenges facing the 2011 Senior Games before it comes to the West Kootenay region, but they are challenges that could see the region prosper, says the president of the Games committee. Pat Metge said with the Waneta Dam expansion project in Trail, all of the construction […]

There’s just something about ski towns… People who live in them love to get dressed up, put on a costume and get out and party like a… (Insert preferred party style here). Be it dressing up as your favorite trail at Red (picture southern and northern belles, beer bellies, war eagles, Dougs, Captain Jacks and marmots), taking...

 I think most of us, even in the New Millennium, would find the combination of Christmas and sex toys a startling one … but Passion Party consultant Tina McIntosh said we might be really missing out if we dismiss the idea out of hand. McIntosh even has catalogues featuring holiday gift packages and combinations of […]

Former Governor General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson was in town this week, conducting interviews for a book she’s planning to publish next year. Entitled Room For All Of Us, the book will focus on a variety of immigrant populations coming out of places of struggle, how coming to Canada impacted them, and how they themselves […]

Playing out like a real life version of Avatar, Charlie Russell went to live with grizzly bears to find out how humans can better interact with them peacefully. Returning twelve years later with unimaginable experiences and tales of life with the bears, Russell learned that humans, not bears, are the problem in terms of...

Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College (KSA) has unveiled a unique display of Bernard Leach Pottery thanks to the generosity of the late Carol Proudfoot Couch. It is recognized world-wide that Bernard Leach was a famous British potter and is thought of as the “founder of studio ceramics in our time”. One of the great figures of […]

Had your fill of turkey, leftover turkey, turkey sandwiches, soup, omelets and perhaps even a late night snack of turkey mac and cheese? Got a hankering for some locally grown culture? This weekend serves up second and third heaping helpings of a 100 mile talent. Taken as a sample of life in the Golden City, this weekend could...

Local pridesters, get your pedalling legs ready, prep your beastly downhill bike for one more Autumnal descent, and get the sitter lined up now to avoid disappointment: Lifecycles touches down at The Royal Theatre in Trail Sunday, October 17th.    Short of organizing an anticipatory victory ride from Rossland to Trail (anyone...

Last month’s Golden City Days celebrations saw the launch of Rossland’s newest live theatre venture, Iron Mountain Theatre, where this group of four enthusiastic musicians and thespians burst onto the local scene with their eight-minute musical A Tribute to Mining. On October 22 and 23, this young company will launch their ...