Lacrosse, Easter Egg Hunts, and Tumbleweeds...an eclectic week!
Rossland REC Spring Brochure The Spring Brochure is online, at www.rossland.ca, Recreation Program Guide and in hard copy at the Public Library, the Credit Union and City Hall. Little League Baseball Season for Youth 5-12 years is starting soon! Early Bird registration ends Tuesday, April 8 with season evaluations on April...
Words and Music Come Together in Perfect Harmony
April is National Poetry Month and Selkirk College writing instructor Almeda Glenn Miller and Business Administration student Melissa McCready are combining efforts to create a delicious metaphor. Miller is currently promoting her new book, a volume of poetry titled Begin with the Corners. On Friday night at Nelson’s Kootenay...
Selkirk Digital Arts Program's Year-End Show Back in Nelson
Cutting edge design, art, illustration and ideas will be on display in Nelson’s downtown starting Friday when the Selkirk College Digital Arts & New Media Program presents its year end student show. Students in the Tenth Street Campus-based program are getting set to unveil the best they have to offer in a new downtown ...
PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND: Shanna Tanabe
This week I talked to Shanna Tanabe another one of our key community volunteers who played a central role, with Darcee O’Hearn, in reviving the now thriving scouting movement in Rossland. Shanna is currently a Scout leader and the Group Treasurer for Second Rossland Scouts. In the past, she has been a Girl Guide leader, Brownie...
Pass Creek hosts First Annual Small Farm Animal and Poultry Sale and Swap
We are inviting all small farmers and businesses in the East and West Kootenays to attend Pass Creek Exhibition grounds for our First Annual Small Farm Animal and Poultry Sale and Swap. The venue will offer small farmers the opportunity to meet other farmers, exchange information, sell and trade. We are inviting businesses ...
Public Invited to Assist in Creating New Directions for Rossland Museum after Consultant’s Report
Renowned museum expert Donald Luxton laid out exciting possibilities for the recently renamed Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre early in 2014. Now, the museum project’s advisory committee is looking to the public to help identify next steps and identify priorities in a public session entitled “The Next Steps” on Wednesday...
Music, Comedy, Theatre!
As part of the 2013/2014 Performance Series, the Rossland Council of Arts and Culture would like to present Lorne Elliott. We are pleased to have this current tour stop in Rossland this April! His ever changing one-man concert performance of humorous stories, funny songs and 26 years of professional stage experience has...
Spring is here and there's a new brochure...
Rossland REC Spring Brochure The Spring Brochure is online, at www.rossland.ca, Recreation Program Guide and in hard copy at the Public Library, the Credit Union and City Hall. Spring Break Art Classes The Rec Department is running Art Classes throughout Spring Break, from 3:00-5:00pm at the Arena Lounge. Instructor Shelley...
Mir lecture series presents Sally Armstrong
After having witnessed the horrors that conflict thrusts upon innocent victims in some of the most unstable nations of the world for more than two decades, Sally Armstrong manages to stay incredibly optimistic. One of Canada’s foremost journalists, Armstrong has covered women and girls in zones of conflict from Bosnia and...
Second area community opts out of Trail recreation program
The already-contentious City of Trail Recreation program has sustained another blow, as Warfield has now followed Beaver Valley's lead and opted out of the Trail Resident Program (TRP) rate structure. In a release issued this morning, Trail mayor Dieter Bogs expressed distress over Warfield's decision, arguing it may force ...
