Hold your breath - Kootenay Festival is just two days away!
The count down is ON – the Kootenay Festival is just two days away! What began as just a nifty committee idea has become a firmly-established Kootenay tradition, according to volunteer Audrey Maxwell-Polovnikoff. “People know about us now, and we have groups and vendors approaching us to participate,” she said, adding roughly...
Happy 75th birthday to the Rossland Library
In 1939, a group of citizens came together to form the Rossland Public Library. To celebrate our 75th birthday, the library has chosen a best seller from each year it has been open. Youth Clerk Devin Knox spent time trawling through best sellers lists and book award sites to come up with the 75 books. These are on display and...
Rossland Reads 2014
What does travel mean to you? Why do we travel – for escape, for adventure, for education, for work, for something else entirely? How is travel represented in our literary fiction and non-fiction landscape? Can you experience the richness of a culture through a book? What constitutes a journey? Are some journeys more important...
Make a SPLASH at Millennium Ponds grand opening!
Woo hoo! It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for – the Millennium Park Natural Swimming Ponds grand opening celebration is slated for Aug. 4 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a massive SPLASH party to which everyone is invited. The $1.6-million project has been a couple of years in the making (sped somewhat by $400,000 from the ...
How much gold did Rossland's mines produce? And would you like some of your own?
Golden riches forged the foundation of Rossland and the surrounding area. The Rossland Mines produced over 84 Tonnes of gold in their 40 years of operation and explain the origins of the Trail Smelter, the railway links with both Canada and the USA, and West Kootenay Power & Light Company. The financial investment necessary...
Kootenay Brass Quintet takes on the Mountain Kingdom!
Five of the Kootenays’ finest musicians are reuniting this week for concerts in Rossland, Nelson, and Crawford Bay. The Kootenay Brass Quintet – featuring trumpeters Laurel Ralston and Tim Bullen, hornist Arnie Satanove, trombonist Keith Todd, and tubist Robin Clegg – will perform a fun, energetic, and diverse programme of ...
Summer Events Connect Young Kootenay Farmers
From the grand opening of a SPIN farm to a day of touring farms by bike, Young Agrarians is collaborating with farmers across the East, West, and Central Kootenays to host seven on-farm events this summer. Who? All young-ish farmers, food producers, homesteaders, and farm-curious folks from the East, West, and Central...
Farmers' market liquor sales support B.C. products
Beer, wine, cider and spirits can be sampled and sold alongside fresh fruits and veggies at B.C. farmers’ markets, as a new batch of Liquor Policy Review changes take effect. “Having local liquor manufacturers at B.C. farmers’ markets will offer shoppers a convenient opportunity to taste-test and purchase local liquor products, and at the same […]
Embrace the Church of Dirt and then maybe go for a swim afterwards...
Summer Brochure! The Summer Brochure is available online, at www.rossland.ca, Recreation, Program Guide. The Rossland Pool is scheduled to open on Monday, June 9. All programs and swimming lessons are now open for registration. Rossland Swimming Pool Opening day is scheduled for Monday, June 9. School Board lessons,...
Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and New York: More Rossland Dancers off to Summer school!
We have another large group of dancers from Kootenay Dance works heading out across North America to further their dance training this summer. Shown in the group photo from left to right are: Brynn Streadwick, age 11, who has been accepted into the National Ballet of Canada’s Professional Division (PD) Summer Program and ...
