COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland City Council meeting November 21, 2022
Help coming for “deep retrofits” to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; examining our biases and encouraging diversity in our community and in governance; tackling the issue of Short Term Rentals; dog ownership and changes to fees and fines; Rossland’s Curling Club gets proactive; how to best groom Centennial...
Major increase in the living wage across BC
The living wage has gone up across the province, and West Kootenay and Boundary communities are no exception. They have all seen a significant increase over the 2021 rate, this year’s Living Wage Update report shows. The increase is driven by two essentials that every family needs: food and shelter. · In Trail, the ...
STUDENT REPORT: Slam Dunk For Teens After School In Rossland
Ed.Note: The Rossland Telegraph is delighted to introduce our new collaboration with Seven Summits, in which students will cover community events and share their perspective on all things Rossland. Meet Oceanne Verot, Grade 10 student, Leadership 11 Class. This is her first year at 7S, came here from RSS, is bilingual, and...
RDKB elected directors sworn in to office
Linda Worley was elected the chair for the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary during the inaugural meeting of the Area Directors Wednesday. Worley, the representative for Area B/Lower Columbia-Old Glory, is joined at the head of the table by Vice Chair Grace McGregor of Area C/Christina Lake. The other area members sworn...
Tenant Applications open for Rossland Yards
The Lower Columbia Affordable Housing Society is announcing that Rossland Yards, the newest residential building in Rossland is now accepting tenant applications. People working in Rossland will soon have access to 37 new affordable rental homes. To qualify for tenancy, applicants must work for one or more Rossland employers,...
COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland's Inaugural Council Meeting, November 7, 2022
During the previous week, our new Council held a mock Council meeting as part of their training. This was their first real meeting, and it covered a number of necessary procedural motions. Discussion on one other matter resulted in a failed motion. November 7, 2022, at 6:00 PM in the Miners Union Hall Mayor Morel welcomed the...
EDITORIAL: Council members' Oaths of Office -- and a couple of words
At the Prestige Mountain Resort in Rossland on Thursday evening, November 3, newly elected mayors and councillors for Fruitvale, Montrose, Warfield, Rossland and Trail, read out and signed their solemn Oaths of Office before Judge Brown and the assembled crowd of invitees. A few were unable to attend the ceremony; they will...
Letter: It's our story but it is your legacy
To The Editor: I served as a Lieutenant with the Queen’s Own Rifles regiment in the Second World War. In 1945, in the Rhine Valley, Germany, I was injured by an anti-personnel mine explosion, resulting in the loss of my left leg below the knee. When I returned home from the war, I joined The […]
COLUMN: Calling the climate COPS
Other than a small number of people who’ve bought into fossil fuel industry propaganda or who simply haven’t examined the evidence, everyone knows we’re in a climate crisis. It’s why negotiators from every nation are meeting in Egypt in November for the 27th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (officially Conferences...
Smoke Eater Brady Smith Named to NHL Central Scouting Preliminary Watch List
NHL Central Scouting has released its preliminary list of "Players to Watch" for the upcoming 2022/23 NHL Entry Draft with Smoke Eaters defenceman Brady Smith being named to the list. Smith, who is just 17 years old playing in his first year as a Smoke Eater, has been named to the NHL Central Scouting preliminary watch list...
