The Red Pair – The most soul per sole in town
The for sale sign came down, the work began and just a few months after it was purchased the old Bank of Montreal building is slowly coming back to life. On April 15th Stephanie Robinson officially opened up shop where the barber used to be in the lower level of the Washington and Columbia corner. The first new business back...
R.C.M.P. bust big grow show in Fruitvale
On April 17, 2010 members of the Trail RCMP with the assistance of the Regional General Investigation unit executed a search warrant on a residence on Balsam Road in Fruitvale. A large, sophisticated indoor marihuana growing operation was located inside the residence, along with a loaded handgun and rifle. 843 plants were seized along with several pounds of […]
Interfor's Castlegar mill to re-open
It’s official! Interfor is gearing up to re-open its Castlegar mill this summer, according to Interfor chief forrester Ric Slaco. “We are preparing for a potential July start-up of the mill on a reduced operating basis,” he said. Slaco was not available to comment further as to why this start-up is possible and whether the […]
MLA/MP speak out against forestry cuts in Castlegar
Fifteen Ministry of Forest staff from the Castlegar office have been laid off in the latest round of job cuts by the provincial government. This type of closure proves that the Campbell government has given up on forestry, says Katrine Conroy, MLA for Kootenay West. These 15 job losses were a part of a total […]
Castlegar Forestry Office downsized: 15 job losses
The Castlegar branch of the B.C. Ministry of Forests and Range (known as the Arrow-Boundary Forest District Office), is being downsized to a field office, with fully a quarter of the jobs there being lost. A spokeswoman for the Ministry told The Source today that, of the 60 positions currently filled in Castlegar, 15 were […]
Selkirk International Welcomes Students of Saudi Arabia
Joining the ranks of most universities and colleges across Canada, Selkirk College welcomed its first two international students from Saudi Arabia, Sahal Amin Hussein and Abdulaziz Saeed Alqahtani, in late February. These students have been followed by five others who arrived in early April. The current King of Saudi Arabia,...
Food security not possible without changing our attitudes
George Penfold, regional innovation chair at Selkirk College, doesn’t believe that we have a food security problem. What he does believe is that Canadians have an appetite problem instead. An appetite for inexpensive, convenient foods year round that is also reliant on using a great deal of agricultural land for one purpose – grain. If […]
Sturgeon release fun and fascinating for whole family
Looking at, and holding, a juvenile white sturgeon can make you feel transported back in time. That is not surprising since the sturgeon family has remained largely unchanged since 175million years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth; it is more like eye- balling a miniature, bony pre-historic creature than your average scaly fish. On April […]
Home and lifestyles Expo at Selkirk
The Castlegar Chamber of Commerce’s second annual Kootenay Home and Lifestyles Expo is all set for a busy, entertaining and productive weekend at the Selkirk campus April 16 to 18. The event, formerly the Dreams to Reality Home Show held at the Castlegar Complex, expanded last year and moved to a larger venue. “The Complex […]
Chamber rebutts Vander Zalm's criticisms
During a recent visit to Castlegar promoting his anti-HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) movement, former premier Bill Vander Zalm took offered sweeping criticisms of the B .C. Chamber of Commerce (CoC) and its support of the HST. Vander Zalm said the people supporting the HST were largely high-income-earners in the $200,000/year-plus realm. He also said the […]
