Spring pick up is here!
Public Works Staff will be picking up organic material starting April 28th. Please refer to the schedule below for your area and dates: Area Dates South of Columbia April 28- May 2 (Including Redstone area) North of Columbia ...
LETTER: Scrap ALR proposal and save small farmers--A Rossland perspective
To the leaders of my province, I am a 34-year-old farmer in the Southern Interior working with my wife and son to build a business growing and selling food. We do not have the finances to own farmland, so we operate entirely on leased parcels. Because large agribusiness and government subsidies to the industrial food system...
Why have nation-states?
Colonies and Nations Two things happening in Canada now must move one to ask why Canada is. Immigration of alien cultures here is one, and Quebec sovereignty is the other, reason to ask: Why is there a jurisdiction, this political entity, called “Canada”? The historical answer comes most readily to me, with my background as...
PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND: Christine Andison
This week I caught up with Christine Andison who, as many of you know, volunteers tirelessly in this community for the Red Mountain Racers Society. Christine’s volunteering experience is many and varied. Currently she is President of the Red Mountain Racers Society, but she has been on the Board of the Red Mountain Racers for...
Students Celebrate First Day of Spring at -16o Celsius
A group of Selkirk College Recreation, Fish and Wildlife Program students welcomed spring by spending a pair of frigid nights in the West Kootenay backcountry. As part of an annual field trip for the program, 10 students and two instructors spent March 20 and 21 in the Selkirk Wilderness Ski tenure near Meadow Creek in […]
LETTER: Why Teachers May Be Forced Into Job Action!
Like all of you, teachers only want the best for their students. Despite bargaining for more than a year with the government there has been little progress made at the negotiating table. We have been waiting, very patiently, for the government to provide the necessary funding required for us to move forward in achieving a...
Updated: Coroner releases name of victim in fatal collision in Trail
The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a woman who died after a motor vehicle incident in Trail on March 25. She was Maria Sodini, aged 79, of Trail. Sodini was the front-seat passenger in a vehicle which was in collision with a pickup truck at the intersection of Second and Bailey in […]
Jumbo challenge by Ktunaxa dismissed by Supreme Court
The proponents of Jumbo Glacier Resort scored a victory yesterday when the B.C. Supreme Court announced it would dismiss a challenge by the Ktunaxa Nation launched in late 2013 against the resort’s master development agreement. The Ktunaxa’s judicial review focused on the controversial development’s location, high in the Purcell Mountains between Invermere and Duncan, saying […]
Local author wins award at Kootenay Literary Competition
The Kootenay Literacy Competition (KLC) awards were handed on March 14 in Nelson. Of the award winners was a local resident. Leslie Davidson from Grand Forks won in the Adult Creative Non-Fiction category, along with Graham Kenyon of Rossland. Davidson won for her short story “Hold On.” The winners were given their awards at...
The tsunami that struck northeastern Japan is now three years past, but it hasn’t stopped making waves
Debris travelling all the way from Japan has brought with it a number of Japanese marine species to the west coast, some of which have the potential to become invasive and devastate the coastal ecosystem. Scientists were shocked to find that 165 different species had travelled from Japanese waters to the coast of North America...
