City of Rossland accepting applications for permissive tax exemptions
The City of Rossland recognizes the significant value of organizations and groups in our community who provide worthwhile programs and services to our residents. A permissive tax exemption, provided under Section 224 of the Community Charter, is a means for Council to support organizations within the community that further ...
KAST and Selkirk College Release Kootenay Technology Sector Assessment 2020
The Kootenay Association for Science and Technology (KAST) and Selkirk College’s Applied Research and Innovation Centre (ARIC) have been working together to measure the tech sector’s impact and its economic health within the region. Thanks to funding from Mitacs Accelerate and the BC Rural Dividend Program, we are thrilled ...
KC Recycling Opens New Recycling Operation in Metal Tech Alley
KC Recycling Ltd. has been awarded $852,000 from the CleanBC Plastics Action Fund to jumpstart a $1.2 million plant upgrade, which will create a circular solution to recycling the plastic cases on car batteries already processed at the Trail, BC operation. This May, the largest recycler of automotive batteries in the Pacific...
Loggers, protesters spar: Logging companies condemn contractors' altercation with protesters
An altercation between logging contractors and activists in the Walbran Valley this week where an Indigenous man was allegedly assaulted and racial slurs hurled at protesters is being condemned as “completely unacceptable” by the company and First Nation that own the forestry tenure. Huumiis Ventures, a Huu-ay-aht First Nation...
Incident at Teck causes minor traffic delay, no one injured
An incident at Teck yesterday led to a temporary traffic interruption, which in turn led to several posts on social media with residents asking what was going on. Jayne Garry, Community Relations Leader for Teck Trail Operations, responded to an email query about the event. as follows: Teck Trail Operations reported a small ammonia leak inside its […]
COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland City Council meetings, April 19, 2021
Tax rates and Five Year Plan; moving a garden; new art; Mid-town Transition Project tender awarded; pool times; more Disc Golf; juggling ice time; please don’t poison the bees; and the full RDKB report Present for both meetings: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Chris Bowman,...
COLUMN: Old growth forest, and how much we (don't) have left
[Editor's note: the map accessed by the link at the beginning of the fourth paragraph from the bottom takes a long time to load, but provides sobering information about the state of BC's forests.] Anyone who’s read the book I wrote with Wayne Grady, Tree: A Life Story, or Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees, knows...
Sunday incident at Teck no cause for concern
An incident Sunday at Teck had Trail residents concerned and curious as to what was happening, leading to a variety of Facebook conversations speculating on the matter. Teck’s Community Engagement Leader, Carol Vanelli Worosz, cleared up the matter with the Trail Champion. “On Sunday, April 4, 2021 at approximately 9 p.m., ...
Editorial: Graffiti -- when spray-painted stuff is vandalism
A Rossland landmark, a designated Heritage Building privately owned by a couple who have had it beautifully (and expensively, need we add?) restored, has been defaced by a graffito. Of course, it’s not the only place around town where graffiti have appeared; but this seems a particularly offensive example –...
Column: Heading for the stars? (PART TWO)
The Third Promised Land: outer spaces and the star-colonizing project "We have to colonize Mars to ensure humanity's seed will survive if something happens on earth, like a nuclearthird world war or asteroid strike that could end human life." -- Elon Musk, owner, SpaceX “Elon Musk says he plans to send 1 million people...
