Rossland Student among recipients of Neil Muth Scholarship
Rossland's Spencer Joseph Paolone is one of four students from around the Basin who will receive a Neil Muth Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship was established in 2017 by the Muth family and Columbia Basin Trust. The scholarship awarded $3,000 to each of the four students who have overcome adversity to pursue their...
Time to think about the Fall Fair!
The Fall Fair is a Rossland institution, and it's great fun. Summertime is when gardeners begin plotting to grow the biggest, the best, the finest vegetables ... not to mention trying out recipes for the baking contests, and preparing arts and crafts for a wide variety of categories. Here's what the Fall Fair Committee says:...
Editorial: Our choice of voting systems -- Part Four
This is Part Four in the series on the upcoming referendum and the voting systems we can choose. To recap briefly, the referendum this fall will offer us a choice between staying with our current system of voting, usually called First-Past-the-Post (FPTP), or moving to a system of Proportional Representation. People who want...
Water Metering back on the Agenda; Trash Talk, Speed Limits, a Discontented Resident, and much more!
Report on Rossland City Council Meeting, June 25, 2018 (Updated) Present: Mayor Kathy Moore and Councillors Martin Kruysse, John Greene, Andy Morel and Andrew Zwicker. Absent: Lloyd McLellan and Aaron Cosbey. Public Input Period: Laura Petit spoke to oppose Council’s decision to do away with water metering; she felt it...
Rossland NDCU helps kick off new Follies show
Brian Poch, representing the Members of the Rossland Branch of the Nelson and District Credit Union, posed this past week with members of the cast of the 2018 Gold Fever Follies as he presented them with generous and much appreciated donation to help cover some of the costs of putting on a new show every summer. This summer’s...
COLUMN: From the Hill -- Cannabis
On June 20th, the House of Commons rose for the summer break. One of the last votes we took dealt with the message to the Senate regarding their proposed amendments to Bill C-45, the bill to legalize marijuana. And the final motion to adjourn included a message to the Senate regarding Bill C-46, which covers new...
City of Victoria wins lawsuit over plastic bag bylaw
More action on single-use plastic bags? Rossland City Council has stated that it was waiting for the outcome of the court challenge against the City of Victoria’s bylaw to ban plastic “check-out” bags. The Canadian Plastic Bag Association challenged the City of Victoria’s right to regulate plastic bags. Now the Supreme Court...
Editorial: PART THREE -- on the upcoming referendum, and those PR voting systems
As promised, this Part will describe the Mixed Member Proportional system to achieve proportional representation in the BC Legislature. Part Two described the Dual-Member Proportional system, which would make most electoral districts larger, and assign two MLAs to each district by a system designed to achieve proportionality....
COLUMN: From the Hill -- G20 Energy
Last week I travelled with Jim Carr, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, to the G20 energy meetings in Argentina. The meetings are a mix of reports from the G20 countries and of presentations by world experts about the state of energy markets and future energy demand. The main theme of the talks was the “grand […]
Knotweed costs us all -- please don't spread it by cutting or mowing it.
Knotweed is one of the scarier invasive plants. It doesn't cause burns or blindness, like Giant Hogweed, but it does spread very fast and it causes expensive damage to things like the foundations of buildings – and property values. It can burst right through pavement, take over lawns and gardens, and we have it right […]
