UPDATED: EVACUATION ORDER Issued for Nelway Area, EVACUATION ALERT now includes Shambhala Music Festival after McCormick Creek Wildfire jumps Salmo River
In a media release Saturday morning, the Regional District of Central Kootenay Emergency Operations Centrel reports that BC Wildfire said the McCormick Creek wildfire has jumped the Salmo River toward the Shambhala Music Festival and is also moving in an easterly direction towards the community of Nelway. “The fire is...
Comprehensive local wildfire update as of 2 p.m. Thursday
There are currently 46 wildfires burning in the Southeast Fire Centre, according to Fire Information Officer Karlie Shaughnessy. That brings the number of fires-to-date in the centre to 238 blazes burning approximately 13,138 hectares. Of those, 176 were lightning caused, and the rest were human caused. This, compared to the five-year average of 232 fires […]
McCormick Creek wildfire prompts Shambhala organizers to issue warning to festival goers
The Shambhala Music Festival issued a statement on its website to its guests and public of an evacuation alert near the festival grounds due to the McCormick Creek wildfire 20 kilometres southwest of Salmo. “In the interest of public safety, we would like to inform our guests and the public, that there is an evacuation […]
Village of Salmo creates Emergency Operations Centre; RDCK updates on McCormick Creek fire
The Village of Salmo has established a satellite Level 1 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) as a precautionary measure to monitor, collaborate and communicate with emergency management stakeholders related to the McCormick Creek wildfire currently located 20 kms outside of the Village limits. This morning the Regional District...
Fire in Pend D'Oreille area prompts evacuation alert
Ed note: BC Wildfire Services says there are 126 wildfires larger than 0.01 hectares in British Columbia as of midnight Wednesday . The Southeast Fire Centre has issued a release saying a 75-hectare wildfire that’s burning about 20 kilometres southwest of Salmo and south of the Salmo River has prompted the Regional District of Central […]
More smoke visible from Harrop Creek wildfire; new McCormick Creek blaze a concern
Extra smoke in the valley may have been compliments of a spot fire outside the perimeter of the Harrop Creek wildfire the Southeast Fire Centre said in a media release Wednesday. “More smoke may be seen coming from the Harrop Creek wildfire today (Aug. 9, 2017), as BC Wildfire Service personnel respond to a 15-hectare […]
Opinion: Drinking and driving; should Canada lower the limit?
How much alcohol should a person be allowed to have in her bloodstream while being in control of a motor vehicle? Is there a "safe" limit below which someone is not really impaired, or not too impaired? Canada's Justice Minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, is considering lowering the blood-alcohol content limit that constitutes...
Harrop fire funnels more smoke into valley
More smoke may be seen coming from the Harrop Creek wildfire today (Aug. 9, 2017), as BC Wildfire Service personnel respond to a 15-hectare spot fire that is 750 metres outside of the main fire perimeter. These fires are about 10 kilometres south of the communities of Harrop and Procter. As of the afternoon of […]
Celebration of Life for Matt Beaudet slated for Aug. 20
On Saturday June 3rd 2017, 33 year old Mathieu Paul Beaudet, formerly from Castlegar, BC, passed away peacefully with his family by his side. He fought a long and hard battle with a rare form of cancer (synovial sarcoma) to be present as long as he could be, for his family and his children. He […]
Column: PART TWO -- Consciouness, Conscience and Evil
This continues the discussion begun in last week's column. Greek Science, Israelite Religion, Human Selfhood Egyptian ideas of a ka and a ba make a distinction between the experience-self [personality] and the animal-being [life-force]. Hebrew words for living being [nephesh hhayyah] and for breath-of-life [ruach] indicate ...
