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...
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food: Celebrate BC Farmers Appreciation Week at the Rossland Market…tomorrow!
This week marks the 5th annual Farmers’ Appreciation Week, which is a province wide celebration of BC Farmers, Agriculture and Food! Farmers are our best source for fresh, healthy, local food and this week gives us an opportunity to express our gratitude and recognize the thousands of BC farmers contributing to our health, ...
PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND: Black Jack Ski Club could use your help...this weekend!
Continuing my focus on some of the volunteers who make Rossland such a great place to live, earlier in the summer I sat down with Matt Tonner, who is the President of Black Jack Ski Club. Rossland is so fortunate to have fantastic facilities for both downhill and Nordic skiing, and the Black Jack Ski Club is a the organization...
Toronto Bound!
Eleven year old Rossland Dancer Brynn Streadwick is off to Toronto to attend Canada’s National Ballet School this fall. Brynn attended the four week summer program and was invited to attend the year round program. The National Ballet School sees approximately 1000 potential students at auditions across the country, out of...
What to do with those kids of yours during this teacher's strike? Look no further!
Options for Keeping the Kids Busy! The Recreation Department is currently running a Late French Immersion Strike Camp program and is working on creating a similar program for younger students. We’re also working with the Skate Park Association to help bring a Skateboarding Program to Rossland for a few hours per day. As soon...
Local cultural venues offer education alternatives in light of strike
An African proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Let us come together and educate them too. As BC teachers and the Provincial Government work towards settling their labour dispute, the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society is offering free admission at the Doukhobor Discovery Centre (across from the Castlegar...
Golden City Grind run this Sunday!
Attention Rossland and area runners! It’s time to lace up your Aasics or slip on your FiveFingers for the annual Golden City Grind this Sunday, September 7! Test out your time on the gruelling 10k, the almost-as-gruelling 5k, or the fun kids’ 1k race! Meet at the Centennial trailhead — registration starts at 9 a.m., and the...
