Canadian Avalanche Centre Urges Backcountry Users to be Cautious
After four avalanche fatalities in the past six days, the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is urging backcountry users to make cautious and conservative decisions while in avalanche terrain. “We’ve been dealt a pretty troublesome snowpack this season and our terrain choices need to reflect that fact,” explains Karl Klassen, ...
Fearing and White playing in Grand Forks
Fearing & White are heading to The Gem to perform on April 7th in support of their new album, Tea and Confidences. The album is currently streaming here. Canadian singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing met Belfast troubadour Andy White backstage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival in 1998. Forming an instant friendship, the two...
LETTER: Reconsider leasing land agreements
Recently three prominent conservation organizations: Ducks Unlimited, Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation and the Nature Trust of B.C. were highly critical of the B.C. Liberal Government’s agenda of increasing grazing leases from 10 years to 20-25 years. The criticism was directed at range tenures that included the lands ...
SPOTLIGHT FILMS: The Crash Reel
On Tuesday March 25 at 7:30 pm Spotlight Films will be showing “The Crash Reel” at the Gem Theatre. This film is done verite style, which combines improvisation and camera to unveil a truth or highlight subjects hidden behind crude reality, in this case the explosive issue of traumatic brain injury. This is a telling tale of...
Avalanche centre warns about high risks this season
After four avalanche fatalities in the past six days, the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is urging backcountry users to make cautious and conservative decisions while in avalanche terrain. “We’ve been dealt a pretty troublesome snowpack this season and our terrain choices need to reflect that fact,” explains Karl Klassen,...
City supports a housing project to keep seniors in town--but not an independent school to keep kids here
Your reporter attended the "Enema Awards" at the Charles Bailey on Saturday evening, and there witnessed Mayor Greg Granstrom doing a stint on stage, wearing red-and-black striped bloomers with a lacy corselet and a flouncy ruffled can-can skirt ... so attending the council meetings on Monday evening was bound to be a bit of...
Admission applications are being accepted April 1 for 2014/15 at Rossland’s Seven Summits Centre for Learning
The board of Visions for Small Schools (VSS) is pleased to announce that admissions are now being accepted for the 2014 – 2015 school year at the Seven Summits Centre for Learning. Seven Summits is heading into its second year of operation in partnership with SelfDesign Learning Community and offers a learner-centered,...
Admission applications are being accepted April 1 for 2014/15 at Rossland’s Seven Summits Centre for Learning
The board of Visions for Small Schools (VSS) is pleased to announce that admissions are now being accepted for the 2014 – 2015 school year at the Seven Summits Centre for Learning. Seven Summits is heading into its second year of operation in partnership with SelfDesign Learning Community and offers a learner-centered,...
PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND: Ann Quarterman
As part of our ongoing series regarding the non-money economy, this week I checked in with Ann Quarterman, one of the many volunteers extraordinaire in our community. At this point in time, Ann plays a central role in the Visions for Small Schools Society that administers the Seven Summits Centre for Learning. She also...
Armed robber wreaking chaos in region
Police are indicating there may be some connection between a series of armed robberies in the area, most recently, one this afternoon at the downtown Kootenay Savings branch. "On March 11 at approximately 1:18 pm, the Castlegar RCMP Detachment received a complaint of a bank robbery alarm at the Kootenay Savings Credit Union...
