New year, new forms of fun...
Rossland Recreation The Winter 2014 Brochure is available online, at www.rossland.ca, City Hall home page and the Recreation Program Guide page. You can also pick up a hard copy, at City Hall, the Credit Union, RSS, the Public Library and at the Arena. There are lots of new programs starting up this week and next! Art...
Holidays almost over but the recreation keeps on recreating...
Program Updates over the Holiday Season Adult Co-Ed Rec Hockey on Tuesday evenings is cancelled due to the New Year’s Eve celebrations around town. Enjoy bringing in the New Year and all the best from the Recreation Department! Rossland Arena The Arena is open for regular ice time throughout the Holiday season, except for...
Since we don't have the water for a Polar Bear Swim on January 1, why not consider a ‘SNo Fun Run?
Anyone out there interested in a bit of healthy exercise to start the New Year? Nothing too ambitious of course being the morning after the Eve before; a lot less ambitious than hurling yourself into the Columbia River. Please say yes since us old folks who have been doing the ‘SNo Fun Run for the past 30 years or so need...
TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN KINGDOM: A Miner’s Christmas circa 1895
I am home. I flew in over snowy mountaintops last week from the green coast, arriving in familiar surroundings covered in a mostly pretty blanket of the white stuff, exhausted after a bout with the flu but thrilled to bits to be back in the bosom of my family and friends. I was stressed; I didn’t get everything done before ...
LETTER: Pass Creek Winter Celebration a hit
Hello Pass Creek Residents and community supporters; What an amazing Winter Celebration for the Pass Creek Community. • More than 120 people attended the event, with more than 40 families and 46 kids visiting Santa; • 96 wooden ornaments were decorated to take home; • 147 food items collected for Christmas hampers (est. $300...
New book details the glories of the Old Glory Weather Station
The weather station on top of Old Glory mountain in the Rossland Range was operational from 1944 until 1968. Ron Walker worked there from 1948 to 1952. He has captured memories in a colorful collection of stories. Highlighted are intense lightning storms, and the long and risky hikes in winter to and from Rossland itself or...
Design a logo...learn to paint with Stephanie Gauvin...Mery Christmas!
The Winter 2014 Brochure is available online, at www.rossland.ca, City Hall home page and the Recreation Program Guide page. You can also pick up a hard copy, at City Hall, the Credit Union, RSS, the Public Library and at the Arena. Registrations for all programs starts January 2nd. The Recreation Department hours over the...
'State of the Basin' report released
Leaving no stone unturned in its 8.6 million hectare territory, the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute (RDI) has released the 2013 State of the Basin report. In the works for several years, the 2013 report updates and builds on the work produced in the 2008 State of the Basin report. The 75-page long report and 16-page...
Make your vote count, and support local kids contributing to their own education
Blueberry Creek Community School (BCCS) Hub needs community support to win a Christmas Decoration Contest on the Home Depot Facebook Page. With one facebook vote from you, the City of Castlegar can come together and put a $5,000 gift card under the tree for BCCS Hub and their new Community Kitchen initiative. Blueberry Creek...
Toonies for Tots Campaign to complete the toddler playground
Completion of the toddler playground at Kinsmen Park is in sight, and a call is out to the public to help make it happen. A Toonies for Tots donation jar campaign is being launched this month at local businesses and the library to help raise funds for the project. The addition of a fire engine to promote imaginative play will...
