Free Professional Training in Conservation Leadership
25 KOOTENAY YOUTH GET FREE PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN CONSERVATION Polluted air and drinking water, species extinction, climate change. These are the terms that make headlines daily in BC. For youth in the Kootenay region, these terms are the rallying cry for their generation; the call to action. This summer, the ...
Early Childhood Education Gets a Boost at Selkirk
An increase to the provincial government’s bursary funding for students enrolled in early childhood education (ECE) programs will bolster Selkirk College’s ability to educate those interested in a rewarding career. At the BC Early Years Forum held earlier this month in Richmond, Children and Family Development (MCFD) Minister...
Stay On The Road, Please!
At the end of March, the Trail Wildlife Association, the Ministry of Forests, Lands & Natural Resources, and ATV/BC, along with other local stakeholder groups, organized an information session about conservation properties in the Pend d'Oreille Valley. Those properties were set aside to compensate for the damage done ...
A Deeper Exploration of the Doukhobor Connection to Peace
Selkirk College is cracking open the door to one of the most influential cultures in our region with a new Mir Centre for Peace Summer Institute offering starting at the end of April. An intensive five-day course, Peace 216: The Doukhobors offers a study of the Doukhobors and their connection to issues of peace and conflict....
Participating in Earth Hour a good start to saving the planet
For almost 10 years individuals, businesses, cities and landmarks around the world have switched off lights for one hour to focus attention on climate change. Saturday, March 28 at 8:30 p.m. the lights will once again go out for one hour as Earth Hour supporters from around the world to help fight climate change. "I think...
No More Fingers Amputated
Selkirk College Carpentry Program Purchases Finger-Saving Table Saws NELSON – The Selkirk College Carpentry Program shop has become a safer place to learn with the addition of three top end table saws that employ the latest flesh-saving technology. Using an elk sausage, Carpentry Instructor Dan Brazeau held a demonstration ...
Up, Up & Away! Young Dancers, New Opportunities
It doesn’t take long for people to realize that we do things a little differently in the Kootenays. In keeping with that long held Kootenay tradition, dance studio development in Rossland hasn’t followed the usual path. When Renée Salsiccioli set up her studio in Rossland about 7 years ago, she initially went the conventional...
Selkirk students break bread, discuss healthy choices and substance abuse
The challenges and temptations of college life can take a toll on students not equipped to handle the consequences of poor decision making. With the aim of creating a healthier post-secondary experience, students at Selkirk College have been coming together to break bread and discuss issues that revolve around substance use....
Alien Invaders are Here!
It's almost Spring -- the weeds will soon be flourishing. Many noxious invasive weeds are busy taking over Rossland and environs: Orange Hawkweed, Japanese Knotweed, Burdock, Spotted Knapweed, Common Tansy, Hoary Alyssum, Field Bindweed, and many more. (Click on their names to learn more.) Japanese Knotweed is very...
Council to create connections with kids
City councillors Florio Vassilakakis and Bruno Tassone met with SD 20 school board representatives last Monday during the board’s regular meeting to pitch an idea designed, not to bring youth into civic politics, but rather to bring civic politics to our youth. “I thought Florio’s idea was an excellent one, and I thought it...
