MLA and MP join forces to offer congrats on Communities in Bloom win
BC Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko and Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy join in congratulating the City of Castlegar on winning the 2014 Communities in Bloom International Challenge. Castlegar received 5 Blooms and competed against other cities across Canada and in Ireland for the overall win in the small category (less...
No school in session? Time for the School Of Skate!
What were Rossland’s kids doing when school was out last week? Everyone found different activities, and for a group of fortunate youngsters the answer was the School Of Skate. Rossland Recreation, in cooperation with the Rossland Skatepark Association, ran a learn to skateboard program in the Emcon lot (the site the City...
UPDATED: Petition to save Pass Creek Fall Fair
The link to sign a petition letting the RDCK know you'd support taxpayer investment to save the Fall Fair is here: http://passcreekfair.com/ Previous story: The 19th Annual Pass Creek Fall Fair last weekend was, by all accounts, a screaming success … but will this popular regional event still happen next year? That’s not ...
Work in the age of anxiety
Working Canadians, from blue collar workers to middle class professionals to hamburger flippers are facing the worst economy insecurity, most stressful working conditions, the slowest increases in real income and the most cynical anti-worker governments literally since the 1930s. At the same time the 1% and the powerful...
The Dewdney Trail, Past and Present – A Talk by Richie Mann at the Rossland Historical Museum
Last Thursday evening, Richie Mann spoke to a packed crowd of about 50 people in the Cominco Theatre (located inside the museum) on the history of the Dewdney Trail, which links to our own local history and the discovery of gold in the area. He began with Edgar Dewdney the person, and expanded into the dramatic building of...
Mozart, Schumann, and Brahms...coming to Trail!
La Cafamore has been a performing group since 2008. Over the years, the configuration has changed, but every concert brings its challenges and rewards. For pianist Carolyn Cameron, this particular set of concerts has her on the piano instead of her regular position as violinist. “People often ask which instrument I prefer”,...
Tiller's Folly kick off a great new season for RCAC
The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture (RCAC) annual Performance Series kicks off on October 4, 2014 with a show by critically acclaimed musical group Tiller’s Folly. Through the Performance Series RCAC aims to continuously present a wide variety of high calibre artists with a variety performing arts styles and this year...
Bike camps, dirt churches, and more!
Options for Keeping the Kids Busy! The Recreation Department’s Fall Programs will be starting soon and as such we are running out of spaces in which to hold Strike Programs. We understand the GoldenBear Daycare, Pines Camp in Grand Forks and the Nelson Recreation Department are all offering options during the Strike. Please...
Like a phoenix from the ashes...Joe Hill returns for triumphant seventh season!
Like the Mary Ellen Carter in Stan Rogers’ great song, Joe Hill Coffee House rises again! This is our seventh year in a row! We open our new season this coming Sunday, September 21 with a fine collection of talent. Come and hear them: Michael Gifford, our founder, following Joe Hill’s footsteps, singing songs about the teachers’...
Sleeping rough ... for the Getting to Home Program
On September 12, a group of forty people from Greater Trail, including Rossland’s Andrea Winckers, Mike Kent, Aaron Cosbey and Gareth Cryer will be sleeping under Trail's Victoria Street Bridge to raise money and bring awareness to the issue of homelessness in the Greater Trail Area. Funds raised will go to support the Getting...
