RLOP putting on Member Nights, seeking presenters
Come join the Rossland Light Opera Players for Member Nights! The RLOP plans to host monthly evenings for members to have fun with our featured artists, performers or instructors – and participate and learn at the same time, starting in September, 2018. Each evening will focus on and celebrate one of the many facets of ...
I Can Take a Hundred Books? Wow!
With the library’s long-awaited renovation work starting in September, the Rossland Public Library is asking for Rosslanders to become “foster librarians” to their books. The Library will be closed for three months; Saturday, August 25 will be the last day the library is open before construction work begins. Readers please...
A Mind in Movement Across Space and Time
“Travel broadens the mind.” “Einstein said Time isn’t really Real.” -- James Taylor, Secret of Life A Traveller’s Chaos, A Writer’s Coherence This month’s column is about travel, time, and identity. I have just returned from a four-week trip by car across the nation to Ontario and back. It is not the first such trip of my ...
Rossland's Museum and the community -- the next phase
A new feature is in the works to replace the old mine tunnel tour at the Rossland Museum and Discovery Centre. Fundraising has begun with a major donation. Teck, the company that forms the basis of much of the economic life in our area, has donated a large portion of the amount needed to build Phase II of the Rossland Museum’s...
Exhibit opens today to relive historic flood of '48
In recognition of the seventieth anniversary of the flood of 1948, the Trail Museum & Archives has developed a new exhibit entitled The Flood of ’48: A River Ran Through It! The exhibit opens officially on July 4 in the Trail Museum & Archives at the Riverfront Centre in the aptly named Columbia Gallery. The flood of...
Review: the 2018 Gold Fever Follies
Rossland’s Gold Fever Follies is a community summertime tradition, enjoyed by residents and visitors alike. This year’s version does not disappoint. Romance, song and dance – the can-can – skiing and hockey; who could ask for more? On the well-attended opening night, the cast was short-handed by one actor – Molly Jamin -- who...
Time to think about the Fall Fair!
The Fall Fair is a Rossland institution, and it's great fun. Summertime is when gardeners begin plotting to grow the biggest, the best, the finest vegetables ... not to mention trying out recipes for the baking contests, and preparing arts and crafts for a wide variety of categories. Here's what the Fall Fair Committee says:...
Water Metering back on the Agenda; Trash Talk, Speed Limits, a Discontented Resident, and much more!
Report on Rossland City Council Meeting, June 25, 2018 (Updated) Present: Mayor Kathy Moore and Councillors Martin Kruysse, John Greene, Andy Morel and Andrew Zwicker. Absent: Lloyd McLellan and Aaron Cosbey. Public Input Period: Laura Petit spoke to oppose Council’s decision to do away with water metering; she felt it...
Rossland NDCU helps kick off new Follies show
Brian Poch, representing the Members of the Rossland Branch of the Nelson and District Credit Union, posed this past week with members of the cast of the 2018 Gold Fever Follies as he presented them with generous and much appreciated donation to help cover some of the costs of putting on a new show every summer. This summer’s...
Opinion: You're just not that big a deal. Now, isn't that a relief?
By Melissa Dahl, from Aeon magazine There is a meme that speaks directly to the hearts and minds of the overly self-conscious. Perhaps you’ve seen it; it goes something like this: ‘Brain: “I see you are trying to sleep. May I offer you a selection of your most embarrassing memories from the past 10 years?”’ At first, it seems...
