POLICE: Missing youth found safe
A Grand Forks youth was found safe after an intensive search lasting nearly six hours last night. On Thursday, Oct. 18 a group of youth were partying at the sand pit in Christina Lake. Just after midnight, a 16-year-old boy got upset, refused a ride home to Grand Forks, then left the party. Friends began […]
COMMENT: Conservative ominous omnibus bills – The art of stealing power from democracy
Alex Atamanenko, MP (BC Southern Interior) is slamming the Conservative government’s second mammoth Omnibus Budget Bill this year which amends over 40 separate Acts, guts a series of commissions that protect the public interest and concentrates even more power in Ministers’ hands. The BC MP denounced the government’s measures...
OPINION: Economist predictions and mortgage terms
By: Rob McLister, Canada Mortgage Trends No one truly knows where interest rates are headed. Yet, despite vast margins of error, all major financial institutions regularly publish rate predictions. If only we could assume that these economists were right - or even half right - it would be far easier to determine the lowest-cost...
Comment on Source Facebook nets reader a conversation with cops
A comment posted on Facebook has earned the author a conversation with police, according to Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew. The comment was in reference to a story posted on the Castlegar Source Facebook page about a Sunflower City man convicted of criminal charges, and openly threatened the man named in the story. Source editor […]
OP/ED: Using social media as a 9-1-1 stand in should increase the number of Darwin Award recipients
Usually, I’m in line with public opinion, in keeping with the democratic values that drive my very profession. But a recent Ipsos Reid poll conducted on behalf of the Canadian Red Cross just crosses the line for me – away from public opinion and into public hysteria or public stupidity, I can’t decide which. Apparently, about […]
West Kootenay Habitat for Humanity provides another house for local family
The West Kootenay Habitat for Humanity presented the Chris Catta Family with the keys to the new house during a blessing ceremony Sunday in the Uphill district of Nelson. Pastor Jim Reimer of the Kootenay Christian Fellowship was on hand to conduct the blessing along with the Catta Family and members of the West Kootenay […]
Skydiver breaks sound barrier in jump
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, aged 43, performed a jump Sunday from 39km above the Earth's surface using a full-pressure suit, a parachute canopy, a capsule, and a helium balloon. Baumgartner broke the sound barrier as his top speed reached 1342km/h (834 miles per hour), exceeding the speed of sound, and landed in the...
Olaus'll be coming round the mountain when he comes—and Norwegian dignitaries too
The official unveiling of the Olaus Jeldness statue is planned for the Friday night (Jan. 25) of the 116th annual Rossland Winter Carnival, immediately after the parade—and the city recently set about drafting invitations for Norwegian notables to attend. Coun. Kathy Wallace raised the plans at the Oct. 9 council meeting: "I...
Christmas already? City plans to light up downtown life this December
Rossland council authorized the purchase of 40 new 4.5 foot diameter top-mount Christmas lights—or "winter" lights as the mayor preferred to call them—for the new street lamps on Columbia Ave. and Washington St. to First Ave. Rossland previously had 30 snowflake lights, but the manager of operations, Darrin Albo, wrote to...
POLICE: Bomb scare at Credit Union unintentional
Grand Forks RCMP will not be laying charges against the person who left the briefcase on the doorstep of the Grand Forks and District Credit Union earlier this month. “We did determine who left the brief case there and we did question that individual,” said Grand Forks RCMP staff sergeant Jim Harrison. “We’re positive we […]
