Selkirk College Board of Governors Green Lights Balanced Budget
Selkirk College will move into the next fiscal year with a balanced budget after receiving approval from its Board of Governors earlier this month. After months of hard work by administration and staff, the 2015-2016 Selkirk College budget was passed at the June 2 board meeting. The college can now proceed with its $43.1...
Castlegar Selkirk to host fiddle, guitar, piano workshop
The BC Old Time Fiddlers, Kootenay Branch No.9, are busy planning the 14th Annual 2015 Fiddle, Guitar and Piano Workshop. This week-long summer camp will take place from July 13 to the 17 at the Selkirk College Castlegar Campus. This very popular camp continues to provide some of Canada’s very best champion fiddlers as...
Castlegar filmmaker to debut movie 'Defensora' in Nelson
On May 22, 2015, Angelica Choc, a Mayan woman from Guatemala confronted shareholders of Canadian Mining Giant, Hudbay Minerals Inc. at their annual general meeting held in Toronto. With incredible dignity and courage, she told shareholders of the brutal killing of her husband, Adolfo Ich (allegedly) by Hudbay security personnel...
Students urge government to take action on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Students across BC are urging the federal government to take action on the 94 recommendations in the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). A key recommendation of the TRC is with regards to education, including the creation and funding for new Indigenous education legislation, which protects languages and...
INVASIVE SPECIES DAMAGE ECONOMY, BIODIVERSITY; JUNE IS INVASIVE SPECIES ACTION MONTH.
Rossland: June 6 is our 11th annual Trails Day. The Rossland hiking and biking trails network has 30 trails stretching for over 170 kilometres, and both hiking and biking can and do spread invasive weeds. You may have noticed that many trails now sport fringes of spotted knapweed, orange hawkweed, burdock (full of...
Educators: Learn to Help Your Students Focus
Educators from around the region are being invited to come together at the Selkirk College Mir Centre for Peace in mid-June to better develop tools that will assist students in finding ways to focus their minds and find meaning in what they are learning. The Contemplative Pedagogy Retreat takes place in Castlegar on June 12...
High School students receive taste of college life during annual Experience Selkirk Day
High school students from across the West Kootenay-Boundary received a taste for post-secondary life last week at the annual Experience Selkirk Day. More than 400 students descended on Selkirk College’s Castlegar Campus, Tenth Street Campus and Kootenay Studio Arts Campus to take in morning workshops and afternoon games. It...
Rossland Rec: It's Summer!
Summer Recreation Brochure is out! The Summer Brochure is available online at www.rossland.ca, Recreation Program Guide, and in hardcopy at the REC Department, Public Library, RSS and the Credit Union. The Rossland Pool opens on Monday, June 8 with a BBQ from 4:00-6:30pm. If you’d like to contact the Pool, please call...
Selkirk students host inspirational conference
Selkirk College Transitional Training students from across the region put together an inspirational three-day conference earlier this month that showcased the talents of differently-abled adults. Called Branching Out, the conference featured 19 different presenters and 18 workshops between May 12 and 14 at Nelson’s Tenth...
Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson Visits Castlegar College
Minister of Advanced Education Andrew Wilkinson had the opportunity to tour Selkirk College’s Castlegar Campus on Friday and discuss the future of post-secondary in the West Kootenay-Boundary. Formerly the Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services, Wilkinson was appointed to his new cabinet post by Premier...
