I hope you enjoyed the holidays and I’d like to wish you the best in the coming New Year! The final prep period and the first races of this season are now done and out of the way. The past month was spent at a variety of resorts in Colorado with training and racing in Vail, Beaver Creek, Copper Mountain and Loveland. At the...

Program Updates over the Holiday Season Adult Co-Ed Rec Hockey on Tuesday evenings is cancelled due to the New Year’s Eve celebrations around town.    Enjoy bringing in the New Year and all the best from the Recreation Department!  Rossland Arena The Arena is open for regular ice time throughout the Holiday season, except for...

Anyone out there interested in a bit of healthy exercise to start the New Year?  Nothing too ambitious of course being the morning after the Eve before; a lot less ambitious than hurling yourself into the Columbia River.  Please say yes since us old folks who have been doing the ‘SNo Fun Run for the past 30 years or so need...

The Nelson Leafs are no longer the top dogs in the Murdoch Division. The Beaver Valley Nitehawks, winners of eight straight games, assumed the penthouse in the division by spanking the Leafs 6-2 in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League action Sunday evening in Fruitvale. Beaver Valley, 26-6-1-2, lead Nelson by one point after stopping the […]

Team Canada started its assault on defending Spengler Cup by stopping the Rochester Americans 6-3 Sunday in Davos, Switzerland. Team Canada, with Nelson’s Geoff Kinrade anchoring the defence, built up a 3-0 first period lead before holding off the American Hockey League reps in quarterfinal action. Byron Ritchie and Jacob Micflikier each scored twice while […]

Team Canada will need to take the longer road to defend its Spengler Cup after the champs dropped a 3-2 decision to the host team Saturday in Davos, Switzerland. Team Canada, a squad consisting of players from European teams including Nelson’s Geoff Kinrade, will need three wins in as many days if it hopes to […]

Troy Petrick scored three times to spark the Nelson Leafs to a 9-6 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League shootout victory over the Castlegar Rebels Friday night at the NDCC Arena. The win allowed Nelson to sweep the home-and-home series. Nelson has not lost to Castlegar this season. For Petrick, the game marked the first multi-goal […]

Travis Wellman continues to hold the hot hand for the Nelson Leafs. The Calgary native increased his consecutive point streak to 10 games sparking the Nelson Leafs to a 6-2 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League victory over the hometown Castlegar Rebels Thursday night in the Sunflower City. Wellman, finishing the game with four points, scored […]

The Winter 2014 Brochure is available online, at www.rossland.ca, City Hall home page and the Recreation Program Guide page.  You can also pick up a hard copy, at City Hall, the Credit Union, RSS, the Public Library and at the Arena.  Registrations for all programs starts January 2nd.  The Recreation Department hours over the...

It was an exciting weekend of racing as Black Jack held the Haywood Nor Am, Buff Sprints, and Teck Kootenay Cup events. The field included racers from all across North America with Olympians, Olympic hopefuls, World Cup athletes and National Champions in attendance. There were over 250 racers, of which more than 200 were...