UPDATE: Missing teen FOUND
Missing 19-year-old Jessie Wright has been found, according to Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew. “Jessie was walking on the rail trail that runs between Castlegar and Grand Forks when he took a wrong trail and ended in the mountainous area north of Hwy 3, west of Nancy Greene,” Mathew said. “Search and Rescue had […]
Council Miscellany—Trash, Time Capsules, Cook-with-an-e, and Norwegian Sisters
Rossland council's regular meeting on Feb. 13 covered a lot of ground, from planning for the inevitable spring dog doo thaw, to the federal government's decision to change our electoral riding apparently, opponents say, to dye our orange with some blue. The lid's wide open for Pitch-In 2013 For several years, Coun. Jill Spearn...
Council Miscellany—Budgets, Grants, and Columbia Ave. Negotiations
Council's Feb. 13 meeting was marked by the 70-odd people who turned up to advocate for the continued funding of the Kootenay Columbia Trails Society, which triggered an idea by Coun. Cary Fisher that grabbed the rest of council. In other news, the city is now preparing for imminent 2013 budget discussions, a grant for...
Cougar killed in Rossland after attacking dog
Conservation Officer Ben Beetlestone arrived in Rossland at 8 a.m. last Saturday morning to meet with the owner of a dog that had been attacked the night before in Lower Rossland. Minutes later, another resident phoned in a sighting and, at 8:45, Beetlestone found and shot a cougar. "It was thin and had some sort of illness,"...
OP/ED: Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum, Part 2
In my Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) column (Part I) I gave a general description of this Inter-Parliamentary Forum held in Vladivostok, Russian. During the meeting, resolutions were adopted that will be presented to each of the countries represented at the APPF and it is possible that these statements will wind up...
West Kootenay EcoSociety takes Jumbo Wild fight into the courts
It’s a huge undertaking, but watching the provincial government fast forward the incorporation of the Jumbo Ski Hill expansion as a mountain resort municipality is something the West Kootenay EcoSociety felt it could not in good conscience stand by and let happen. Monday, at the Nelson Courthouse, West Kootenay EcoSociety Executive Director David Reid and […]
POLICE BEAT: Resident captures man red-handed, makes citizen’s arrest
A Grand Forks resident took the law into his own hands when he made a citizen’s arrest to a man he caught stealing two toolboxes from a home on 5th Street in Grand Forks. Grand Forks RCMP arrived on scene Monday, Feb. 11 at 4:02 p.m. after receiving the call for a theft in progress, […]
Giving it up for Lent
This might be hard to believe, but sometimes I get a bit full of myself. Get off on some track or other and before I know it, I'm preaching, proclaiming and other wise carrying on as if I had an inside scoop on the path to salvation. Frankly it can be a tad hard to take. So I've decided to give it up. At least for Lent....
Suspicious fire at Hummingbird Bridge
UPDATE: Bridge fire considered arson, police investigating Grand Forks RCMP are looking for the person or persons responsible for lighting the Hummingbird Bridge on fire after they found two jerry cans of gasoline set against the frame of the bridge on Saturday, Feb. 16. The bridge fire is one of four recent arson cases the […]
St John Ambulance to close Trail branch, but will remain in region
After upwards of 70 years in Trail, SJA is closing its Trail branch and disbanding its local first-aid Brigade, citing a diminished volunteer-base as the primary reason for the branch closure – but never think that means they’re turning their backs on the Kootenays. “Of course we’ll still be delivering programs in the Kootenays with […]
