My parents were born in Vancouver — Dad in 1909, Mom in 1911 — and married during the Great Depression. It was a difficult time that shaped their values and outlook, which they drummed into my sisters and me. “Save some for tomorrow,” they often scolded. “Share; don’t be greedy.” “Help others when they need it because one day...

By Tara Kowalchuk, Rossland Winter Carnival President Everyone’s favourite high speed, high adrenalin Winter Carnival event is back, with a few updates. The biggest change is that registration and inspection night, and the Bobsled Calcutta Auction will be held one week earlier on Thursday, January 18 at 7:00pm at the Legion....

By Tom Gomez Going back in time: it’s 2002 at the Salt Lake City Olympics.  The Canadian Cross Country Ski Team is competing with new Head Coach Dave Wood and developing phenom, Becky Scott.  Since the Nagano Games, four years previous, Coach Wood had used a model of hard work and long vision to take a Team ...

Rossland’s public library provides exceptional service for its size. Aside from loaning out books and movies, making computers available for research and other work, and providing friendly assistance, our library offers after-school drop-in programs, hosts a book club on the last Thursday of each month, offers the popular...

A year ago, we revisited the 1992 “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” Signed by a majority of Nobel laureates in sciences at the time and more than 1,700 leading scientists worldwide, the document warned, “Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course.” It called for a new ethic that encompasses our...

Assessed property value changes from 2017 to 2018 Revelstoke residents will see an average increase in property values of just over 21% -- the largest increase in the Kootenay-Columbia region.  The next largest increase in average assessed values is 17.2%, in Fruitvale.  Midway takes third place, with an average increase of...

The search for a 10-year-old boy who was believed to have gone into the water with a vehicle near Halcyon Hot Springs on Dec. 27, has been concluded, according to RCMP Sgt. Monty Taylor. “On Thursday morning, Dec. 28, the RCMP Underwater Recovery Team arrived to assist Search and Rescue teams in locating the vehicle and the...

Earlier this month I helped out at the Salvation Army Christmas hamper distribution event.  It felt good to play a small part in making hundreds of people have a happier Christmas—healthy food, toys for the kids.  It was especially nice to see boxes of local fruits and vegetables on their way to homes that have a tough time...

How Climate Change is causing colder periods of winter weather in some places We’ve all heard them: during a cold snap, someone is bound to say something like, “So where’s all that global warming we’ve been hearing about?  Guess it isn’t real, eh?” But for many places, when an unusual spell of really cold winter weather settles...

Protect your heart: lowering cholesterol and blood pressure How does cholesterol form? Atherosclerosis refers to clogging of the arteries, which is the underlying cause of cardiovascular disease (which still remains the #1 cause of death in North America).  The clogging begins with damage or dysfunction to the walls of the ...