Here's the lineup and lowdown for Golden City Days 2014
The Rossland Golden City Days Committee is excited to bring you a weekend of fun and entertainment September 4th – 7th, celebrating our heritage, and we hope you’re planning to join us! Many activities and lots of fun are in store for you and your family. To lead into the weekend events, wander around our fine Rossland stores...
Imagine “It’s Getting Better All the Time”
He and his colleagues were making movies of the mind as it worked! They’d come up with objective proof that the mind was not some abstract equivalent of the soul free-floating in the inner ether, it was organic. An astonishingly complex network of neurotransmitters within the brain. Different sectors of the brain lit up...
Lama Losang Samten Set to Share Experience
The warmth and beauty of the West Kootenay made a lasting impression on Lama Losang Samten when he visited last summer and now the venerable Buddhist Tibetan scholar, spiritual leader and artist says he’s looking forward to his return. Samten traveled to the East Shore’s Yasodhara Ashram to lead a Buddhist Meditation Retreat...
The Monashee Institute wants YOU to teach, to learn, to get involved...
Monashee Institute Train the Trainers Workshop The Monashee Institute’s (MI) goal is to establish Rossland as a destination of learning. We are offering a professional development workshop to MI instructors, and those who may be interested in delivering courses in the future. Anyone keen to expand, tune-up, or share their ...
Outhouse Races ready to roll
If you want Rosslander Mike Williams, he's likely on the can. The chainsaw carver is busy building a fourth outhouse rickshaw to roll out next month in the Golden City Days’ Outhouse Races held Sept. 6. His team of retired firefighters intend to wipe out the competition and are calling on the Rossland Fire Department for a ...
Lifeguard camp tomorow AND Golden City Days approach....
Junior Lifeguard Camp – Sunday, August 17 Does Lifeguarding interest your child? The Rossland Pool Staff is hosting a mini camp for Youth ages 7+ who are interested in learning lifeguard skills in a fun and active way. Your child will learn independence in the water, basic first aid skills and water safety skills – important...
Ponderosa festival ready for second year of music
All across BC there is outdoor adventure, stunning scenery and amazing communities awaiting discovery. Now, take one of those small communities and add a riverside campground, arts and tonnes of music. This is the making of one incredible summer weekend. Nestled on the banks of the Kettle River sits the small farming community...
BC Firefighter Games in Pass Creek this month to be public for first time
This summer will end in a blaze of glory and fire - and we don't mean forest fires. Pass Creek Park will host the first annual firefighter games on August 30 and 31. Eighteen firefighter teams from all over B.C. will compete in nine events which focus on teamwork, strength, endurance and skill. “[Firefighter games] is not...
Naughty Knickers Night Ain't No Oklahoma
Let me just say that I am the proud mother of a thespian and watching her dressed in some kind of Beyoncé garb, bumping and grinding on the stage with another thespian challenges my prudish Victorian hangover. John Han, musical director/stage manager/bump and grinder of the Gold Fever Follies meekly apologizes for the naughty...
Movie nights and family days....
Rossland School of Motion PARKOUR Camps! There are two Parkour camps coming up in August. Session #1 is August 11-15 for Beginners ages 7+ years and Session #2 is August 25-29 for youth ages 12+. The Camps run from 10:00am to 1:00pm in the Rossland Curling Rink and is being run by Travis Watson and Liam Barnes. If you’d like...
