RDKB executes court-ordered removal at Demski property
The Regional District Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) lost no time when the spring thaw hit to execute a court-ordered removal of ten unapproved structures from Peter Demski’s property on Granby Road in rural Grand Forks this week. The wrecking crew arrived on the morning of Wednesday, March 28 with dump trucks and a trackhoe to take […]
Up sh** creek...with a crack repair team: RDKB fixes sewage leak in record time
A leak in the sanitary sewage line on the Old Trail Bridge at 5 p.m. on Monday led the Regional District of Kootenay-Boundary (RDKB) to issue a "mandatory water conservation notice" to residents of Rossland, Warfield, West Trail, Oasis, and Rivervale, but the problem was quickly solved by Tuesday afternoon. The leak sprang ...
The bears are back in town!
It seems apt that Rossland's first bear of the spring should descend from Deer Park, cruise Black Bear Drive...and saunter right through the backyard of Bear Aware coordinator Sharon Wieder. "There were quite big footprints in the snow around my house yesterday morning," Weider said on Tuesday at her home near the Lion's...
LETTER: Area road maintenance on a slippery slope?
Dear editor, Road maintenance in our area has deteriorated drastically over the last few years. During the first 10 years of privatization of highways maintenance the system worked fine. The Ministry required the contractors to maintain the same number of employees, equipment and yards that the M.O.H. previously had. The Ministry had full time inspectors […]
Conflicting views on local highway maintenance
As the winter’s toll of motor vehicle accidents and inconveniences mounts, concerns in the community have grown that inadequate highway maintenance is putting the public at risk. At the core of the debate is whether restrictive provincial budgets and corner-cutting private contractors have (or haven’t) resulted in poorer standards of maintenance since the contracts were […]
JAPAN: Surfers, fishermen, and radiation
Journalist Lisa Katayama and filmmaker Jason Wishnow are documenting the lives of people dealing with radiation in a post-earthquake Japan. In We Are All Radioactive, they are including 50% footage made by themselves in the areas around Fukushima Power Plant that had a meltdown after the earthquake and tsunami in March...
The economic costs of salmon farms, oil pipelines and natural gas are just as horrific as their environmental ones
Whether or not salmon farms continue operating in BC's marine waters may depend more on economic than environmental factors. Despite withering criticism concerning the ecological safety of its open net-pen operations, the salmon farming industry has doggedly continued on its corporate course. However, two unforeseen factors...
Yves Engler to speak in the West Kootenay about Canada's peacekeeping tradition
Lone Sheep Publishing is proud to present Yves Engler, author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. In his new book, The Truth May Hurt, Engler strips away the layers of former Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson’s past, exposing him as less of a Canadian peacekeeper and ...
Kettle River drops lower on endangered rivers list
The Kettle River remains high on B.C.'s endangered rivers list at number four as a remote wilderness landscape widely known as “the Sacred Headwaters”, and the Kokish River on Vancouver Island have jointly topped British Columbia’s most endangered rivers list for 2012. The Kettle has topped the list, developed by the Outdoor...
Rossland offers a new location for the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and Museum
As the Rossland Museum seeks to renew its momentum after the closure of the Black Bear mining adit, formerly the museum's main attraction, Mayor Greg Granstrom recently wrote to Chris Edgell of the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame (CSHF) in Ottawa to offer "a serious expression of interest by the City of Rossland to provide a new ...
