Province Provides Selkirk College Funding for New Trades Training Equipment
Selkirk College is receiving $87,000 from the provincial government to purchase new industry-standard technology for its trades programs. As part of B.C.’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint, the government is investing $12 million in 2015-16 for new trades equipment at 14 public post-secondary institutions so students planning to...
Trail cadet on training course in Cold Lake
Cadet Noah Lucht, a resident of Warfield and member of 531 Squadron, City of Trail, Royal Canadian Air Cadets is currently on the Basic Aviation Course at the Cadet Summer Training Centre (CSTC) Cold Lake. CSTC Cold Lake is located at Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake, AB The Basic Aviation Course provides cadets an opportunity […]
A Belated Awakening?
Is the climate crisis creating a global consciousness shift? By David Suzuki When an assassin killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, no one called it the start of the First World War. That happened years later, after the implications, consequences and scale of the response could be assessed. It’s often the way....
The Seven Summits Centre for Learning Hits Its Stride
By Aerin Guy The Seven Summits Centre for Learning is gearing up for its third year of operation for Grade 8 - 12 learners in the region. After celebrating six Grade 12 graduates in June, the Centre’s staff and volunteers are excited for the possibilities that the new school year brings. The Visions for Small Schools Board ...
Selkirk College bids adieu to chair of board of governors
As chair of the Selkirk College Board of Governors, Bruce Morrison embraced the opportunity to help guide post-secondary education in the West Kootenay-Boundary. With passion for lifelong learning that meshes perfectly with the Selkirk College vision, the well-respected community leader has now passed the torch after four...
Community welcomes new medical trainees
Members of the Health and Hospital Committee of the LCCDTS were just some of the community members on hand to welcome seven new medical trainees to the Lower Columbia recently. The medical students and residents are part of two growing programs that are expected to have a positive, long term impact on recruiting new doctors...
Selkirk College Community Education Always Available for a Lifelong Learning Spark
The bustle in the Selkirk College hallways and classrooms slows during summer, but the excitement of educational opportunities never takes a break thanks to Community Education & Workplace Training (CEWT). Each year across the West Kootenay-Boundary region, Selkirk College offers hundreds of classes through its CEWT...
Fortis Donates Educational Bike to Rossland Museum
With the educational bicycle, the Rossland Museum learns (and now, can teach) how to conserve energy as well as artifacts. By Bill Coedy In the picture above, Libby Martin, president of the Rossland Historical Museum & Archives Association, rides an educational bicycle, donated to the Rossland Museum & Discovery...
This September We Build the Wetland!
North Jubilee Wetland: Summer Udate (Editor's Note: this article was sent in a format that I was unable to alter to "fit" the Telegraph's template -- resulting in some odd gaps. Just keep scrolling down past them ... thank you!) Rehabilitating the Wetland: Ø The Build The machine work to build the wetland ponds will take...
Castlegar kids corral KSCU kudos - and cash
Two Castlegar youth are $2,000 richer thanks to their own amazing efforts and Kootenay Savings' youth-based funding programs. Twenty-six young people throughout the region received bursaries, awards and scholarships. Community Champs Bursaries: Since 2001, the Kootenay Savings Community Foundation has awarded ‘Community Champs’...
