The Climate Crisis is a Water Crisis: Monitoring for Adaptation in the Columbia Basin
It took until 2022, but water finally made it onto the official agenda of a UN Climate Change Conference. ‘Water Day’ was designated for November 14 at the recent COP27 climate change conference in Egypt where 190 countries had assembled to discuss climate action. Water Day discussions covered water scarcity, drought, early...
Free support for home energy upgrades is coming to Rossland
Updating your home to make it more comfortable and energy-efficient just got easier in Rossland. This week sees the launch of Retrofit Assist, a free concierge service to guide homeowners through the process from understanding their home energy performance, through to engaging contractors to support their home energy upgrades....
Celebrate with Rossland Heritage
Have yourself a heritage holiday with Rossland’s Heritage Commission’s newly released Rossland’s Built Heritage. This is the newest publication to join the Heritage Commission’s growing book collection and features all the historic details about Rossland’s heritage commercial buildings, neighbourhoods and sites. In addition...
STUDENT REPORT: Introducing the S7 2022 Student Council
“A leader is someone others can look up to and trust to do the right thing, and as a high school student, I believe leaders are an essential part of the high school journey”- Aisha Goertzen. Seven Summits Centre for Learning promotes student leadership to benefit the entire cohort. As demonstrated by the active 7S student...
Holiday Happenings at the Rossland Museum and Discovery Centre
Rossland Museum Annual General Meeting Our Annual General Meeting is taking place on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 5:30 p.m. If you want to learn more about what we do up at the museum, our recent strategic planning, our mission, our current projects, and our future goals, this would be the perfect time to check in with us! After our...
DRAFT Recreation Master Plan now available -- input wanted
Many Rosslanders have given their opinions on what our thriving small city needs to do to keep recreation a prominent, varied and attractive part of our lives and our health. The result – the DRAFT Recreation, Parks and Culture Master Plan –is now ready for Rosslanders to examine and provide responses. As with almost all ...
KIJHL gets upper hand on Pacific Junior Hockey
When Ryan Larsen was added to the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Top Prospects team late due to an injury/illness to another player, that gave the Kamloops Storm three players in the B.C. Hockey Conference Prospects Game, which started with Owen Aura and Jake Phillips-Watts. Larsen ended up with a goal and two assists, including helping set up the winning goal in […]
Lower Columbia Community Health Centre Proposal Gathers Steam - Resident Input Requested
A committed group of doctors, nurse practitioners, and community members are working together to bring a Community Health Centre (CHC) to the Lower Columbia region. The Lower Columbia CHC Network Working Group is proposing a CHC that includes 3-4 clinics to serve Rossland, Warfield, Trail, Montrose, Fruitvale, and RDKB Areas...
Chamber celebrates residents who #ThinkLocalFirst
It’s like Christmas morning came early as the Trail & District Chamber of Commerce excitedly unwraps the #ThinkLocalFirst Shopping Bag Campaign this holiday season. Twenty stores across the South Kootenay are stocked with branded, reusable fabric bags, up from the 10 that participated during last year’s inaugural...
Biomass energy facility slated for Fruitvale
REN Energy International Corp (REN Energy) has received approval from the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary for the development of its Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) facility in Fruitvale. “We are grateful for the incredible support of Ali Grieve at the Regional District, Steve Morissette, Mayor of Fruitvale and MLA, Katrine Conroy,” said Phil Viggiani, CEO of REN […]
