LETTER: Event to showcase teens with talent
Dear Editor, Castlegar and District Community Services Society’s (CDCSS) new and emerging Youth Program and Youth Council Advisory group are very excited to invite you to attend and/or participate in the First Annual Castlegar Youth Arts and Talent Event on May 30. The month of May celebrates National...
Trail/West Kootenay SPCA NOT closing its doors, despite rumours
Rumours that the West Kootenay BC SPCA, located in Trail, is closing its doors are unfounded and untrue, according to branch manager Danielle Jackman. “The facility we are currently in needs a lot of upgrades,” she said, adding it is unsuitable for other reasons as well. “We’re next to the water treatment plant – for safety...
Do These Dots Connect?
By Charles Jeanes Home alone and deranged My manner of choosing a theme for an edition of the Arc is not methodical. I describe it as the Free-Range-Chicken Method. My mind ranges around whatever stimuli come my way, and I entertain interests and responses to random inputs. Not an ideal way to find focus, but it serves the ...
End of boil-water advisory for Robson not good news for all
Not all Robson/Raspberry residents are delighted to see an almost-two-decades-long boil-water advisory finally lifted and a $3.2-million water treatment facility in place. The back story is that, 18 years ago, the Interior Health Authority found E.Coli in Robson/Raspberry water samples and levied the boil water advisory,...
West Kootenay EcoSociety sees EAO decision as step to Jumbo Valley staying wild forever
Supporters to “Keep Jumbo Wild” are lining up to applaud the recent BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) decision that said the builder of the ski hill in the heart of the Jumbo Glacier was not compliant with the condition of its certificate. “We’re happy to see another nail go into the coffin of this dangerous […]
Council designates $89,686 in CBT grant funding for local organizations
A wide range of community organizations – 28 of them, to be exact – had a very good night last night, as city council offered its recommendations for the disbursement of $89,686 in Columbia Basin Trust Community Initiatives Funding for 2015. These recommendations will then be forwarded to the Regional District of Central...
Cadets participate in leadership/bush weekend
Cadets from the West Kootenay Air Cadet Squadrons participated in a Leadership/Bush Weekend, April 24 to 26. The exercise was conducted on land operated by the 44th Field Engineer Squadron near Trail. Approximately 60 cadets, and seven Officers from squadrons in Grand Forks, Nelson, Castlegar and Trail were at the exercise....
Two fires near Trail this afternoon prompt public warning
The regional fire chief is reminding residents to exercise extreme caution when engaging in outdoor recreation after two blazes in the Trail area this afternoon. Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue Chief Terry Martin said 22 firefighters from three communities (Trail, Montrose and Warfield) were dispatched today. “The first...
Kootenay Conservation Projects receive Million Dollar boost
At the BC Wildlife Federation Convention held this weekend in Fernie, the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation (HCTF) announced it will provide over a million dollars to Kootenay fish & wildlife projects. The East Kootenay Grassland Ecosystem Restoration program was awarded the largest single grant in the region,...
West Arm Outdoors Club, Nelson Hydro join forces to erect a fishing platform on West Arm of Kootenay Lake
What could have been a problematic issue in Procter was resolved through cooperation between the West Arm Outdoors Club (WAOC) and Nelson Hydro said WAOC President Gord Grunerud in a media release. Grunerud said the wildlife organization has been working on building a fishing platform just east of downtown Procter — across from the Balfour […]
