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...
Feeling Underemployed? Training Available.
Project Based Training Programs Opening Doors of Opportunity: In Forestry Ross Spur resident Tina Paterson was looking for a new direction in life when an email from her child’s elementary school introduced her to the Safety in Resource Industry Forestry Training Program (SiRI) offered at Selkirk College. A single mother of...
$15,000 Farming Scholarships Available
The Canadian Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust is accepting applications for their 2016 program. Applications are due by April 30, 2015 and forms can be downloaded from the Nuffield Canada website at http://www.nuffield.ca. Three scholarships of $15,000 each are available for 2016. Nuffield Farming Scholarships are awarded to enthusiastic individuals, with a passion for agriculture and […]
LETTER: School superintendent speaks to carving almost $.6 mill from budget
Trustees and district staff have been working on the 2015/16 school year budget since January. On Feb. 23, the first draft of the budget was released. It is basically a status-quo budget, which means that this draft of the budget maintains everything that we had in the current year’s preliminary budget, with the following...
Rossland Students Argue in Provincial Debate Tourney
Rossland Debate students joined JL Crowe, Stanley Humphries, Kinnaird, Trafalgar and LV Rogers to attend the Law Foundation Cup Provincial Debate Tournament that was held on Feb. 27 and Feb. 28, in Vancouver at St. George’s School. The Rossland Summit School members included Scarlet Guy and Brian Chan, and the Seven Summits...
FREE Career Fair at Selkirk College - Castlegar Campus, March 5
Selkirk College Career Fair Provides an Edge for Students On Thursday, March 5, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The annual Selkirk College Career & Education Fair brings together more than 50 exhibitors with community members, students, prospective students and parents for a day of building connections and providing insight into the available avenues for […]
Female Space Traveller Lands in Abbotsford March 7 to Inspire 10,000
10,000 girls, women and their families gathering from around BC are excited to discover why the sky really is no limit and meet with Astronaut Wendy Lawrence, veteran of 4 missions to space. January 12, 2015– When the Apollo 11 crew landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, a ten year old Lawrence watched in black and white from...
Luterbach says only cafe to close, alternative education program to continue
Letter re: closure of Old School Cafe: In 2010, the school district was looking for a space in Castlegar which would allow us to open an alternate learning opportunity for students not currently attending school due to anxiety challenges. An aspect of the program we wanted to provide was an opportunity for students to interact...
Government sending mixed messages in regards to student debt
Students at Selkirk College in Castlegar are frustrated following misleading comments by Minister of Advance Education Andrew Wilkinson recently about the levels of debt among students and graduates. “Politicians in Victoria are putting sound bites before citizens when it comes to the student debt crisis in BC,” said Matthew...
