It's for sharing ideas, talent, and skills.  Attend RED Talks at Rossland's Old Firehall on April 29th, and  we can enjoy an event planned by Rossland's youth and designed for the whole community.  Rossland's Seven Summits Centre for Learning and the Rossland Youth Action Network (YAN) are hosting the third annual Red Talks....

Rosslanders can celebrate Earth Day all week by participating in fun, family oriented activities organized by local community groups and co-ordinated by the Sustainability Commission.   This year,  celebrations include the annual Rossland Real Foods Chicken and Compost Crawl,  a special Shop Local, Eat Local  themed Rossland...

Not Learning from Empires: saying Yes to imperial temptation “Take up the White Man’s Burden…”                -- Rudyard Kipling “[G]overning India is the fulfillment of a mandate from God… the miracle of the world.”  – Lord Curzon, British Viceroy in India “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.”    -- Percy B. Shelley,...

Attention businesses in downtown Rossland: Columbia Basin Trust has extended the deadline until April 27, 2016,  to decide whether or not to sign up for a year of fibre-optic broadband with a service provider, and get the service installed for FREE -- a considerable saving. In a message to the service providers, Columbia Basin...

BC retiree Dr. Brenda Trenholme’s epic fundraising cycling adventure across Africa has passed the half-way point. Brenda is undertaking a 4 month, ten country, 12,000+km trip by bicycle from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa, fundraising for scholarships for Kenyan students. “High school is not free in Kenya”, Brenda ...

Bats!  Such harmless and essential creatures -- yet, even now, still so often feared and  misunderstood.  If you see a bat flying around at dusk in the Kootenays, be aware that the little creature is eating insects at a great rate.  Insect-eating bats are of vital importance to farmers around the world for controlling insect...

 Special Meeting of Rossland City Council, April 4, 2016, 3:00 pm Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andrew Zwicker, Andy Morel, Aaron Cosbey, and John Greene  Public Input:   KCTS President  Ryan Kuhn  spoke on the value to communities of trails.  "Trails are considered a primary driver of migration...

Honourable Minister McCallum, The West Kootenay Friends of Refugees agreed to sponsor a Syrian family of four, through the BVOR program, on Jan.6/16.  As you are probably well aware, this is an exciting commitment for dozens of people in any sponsoring community.  We have spent countless hours fundraising and preparing the community of Rossland BC to welcome this […]

Discussions on electoral reform are as persistent in Canadian politics as is their failure to achieve results. Before any decisions are contemplated on what kind of electoral system would best serve Canadian democracy, we ought to reflect on which objectives elections are to advance in a democratic society. What is a democracy?...

 Seven Summits Centre for Learning  Will Take a New Form Rossland's innovative approach to maintaining K-12 education in Rossland is about to shift into a new phase, with a new form -- but what that form will be is not yet decided.  The new form is necessary because the provincial government has decided that it can no longer...