If you’re caring and community minded, and would like to make a difference supporting others, The Greater Trail Hospice Society is looking to connect with you during its volunteering month of September.“We’d love to hear from anyone who could volunteer a bit of their time during the year to help us deliver our free programs....

Rossland’s current City Council has two more meetings – September 19 and October 11 -- before the general election on October 15, 2022. Until then, voters can learn something about the candidates and decide which ones to vote for. There are two contestants for the role of mayor: current Council member Andy Morel, who has also...

Schmoozing with potential candidates for Council;  OCP Public Hearing; Watercourse protection?  Keeping residential use in the light industrial area;  Midtown Transition Project, AKA Rossland Yards, is on time and on budget;  Heritage Neighbourhoods;  and more (but not much more, this time) . . . PRE-MEETING GATHERING for...

Character Makes History. What makes Character in Leaders? "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."                                  -- Abraham Lincoln “Character is Destiny.” -- Heraclitus, 5th Century BCE "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something ...

Sometimes there’s too much water; sometimes not enough. A major challenge with global heating is that it doesn’t necessarily cause more or less of something in a specific geographic area (hotter, colder; wetter, dryer); it just makes everything less predictable and often more extreme. Consider some late-summer headlines....

Effective at 12 noon PDT on Friday, September 2, 2022, campfires will be allowed in the Southeast Fire Centre. The current prohibition against any open fire larger than a campfire (i.e., larger than 0.5 metres wide by 0.5 metres high) remains in effect throughout the Southeast Fire Centre. The following equipment and activities...

Police are looking for witnesses to a fatal crash in Cherry Creek Tuesday, according to BC Highway Patrol Cpl. Mike Halskov. "On Aug. 30, at approximately 4:50 p.m., Kamloops Rural RCMP and Emergency Services responded to a fatal two-vehicle collision on Hwy 1 at Rodeo Drive in Cherry Creek," Halskov said. "Upon arrival, it...

A Penticton man is lucky to be alive after hitting a deer near Rossland, according to Trail RCMP NCO i/c Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. "On Aug. 19, at 9:04 p.m., a frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officer responded to a collision between a motorcycle and a deer on Hwy 3B near Rossland," he said. "Thirty-eight-year-old...

Anouschka Riverin, finance manager with the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, will be swapping her calculator for cycling when she takes on the ‘Tour de Cure’ 100-km fundraising bike ride in Chilliwack later this month. Her team, ‘Just Beat it’, hopes to complete the epic, in-person cycling challenge in under five hours...

Dealing with compost; a shift in Short Term Rentals; moving the OCP along; the return of Golden City Days, the Fall Fair, and Huck’n’Berries; an RDKB report; and – beware, scofflaws -- the Bylaw Enforcement Officer has “flexible" hours! Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore and Councillors Terry Miller, Chris Bowman, Janice Nightingale, ...