Out of Left Field: Why the pandemic stopped me from writing rants
Anyone who knows me well will tell you that the quarantine isn’t such of a much for me – I am, at heart, an introvert who rarely leaves her house, and now, instead of my friends being annoyed with me for it, they’re applauding me for it. It’s finally okay for me to prefer reading […]
Column: Elders, Part Two -- Generational divides?
The hand-over between generations: a lack of empathy? "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." --- Mark Twain Youth and Age, it is a commonplace observation, often suffer...
Column: Friendship -- more enriching than stuff
Recently I’ve been thinking about what a low-carbon life might actually look like. We would drive and fly less and mostly cycle, walk and ride transit. We’d eat less meat and more plant-based foods. We’d heat our energy-efficient homes with electricity or geothermal and get power from the wind and sun. It might also be a ...
Op/Ed: Dear Ottawa, please get real about our climate action plan
Ottawa’s latest climate plan bets on expensive and unproven carbon capture technologies By Burgess Langshaw Power, from The Conversation Last week, the federal government released its long awaited plan to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Bill C-12, if passed, commits...
Rossland Council “reZooms” remote meetings
Special Council Meeting 11:00 a.m. November 23: Safe Restart Grant Funding Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Chris Bowman, Stewart Spooner, Janice Nightingale, Andy Morel, and Dirk Lewis. Staff: CAO Bryan Teasdale, CFO Elma Hamming, and DCO Cynthia Año Nuevo. This special meeting of Council was called to...
Column: The Books of My Life
Q and A with Jacqueline Dawes, co-chair of the Rossland Public Library Board My favourite childhood book is The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. I loved the art and design of the pages. My favourite book from school is 1984 by George Orwell, which inspired an interest in dystopian fiction. Classics I haven’t read are ...
Column: Elders -- Part One
We impede evolution and the development of the human species if we neglect the aged.” -- James Hillman, Force of Character “Ve gett too soon oldt undt too late schmartt! -- sign seen in a joke shop The value of Elders: obsolete, replaced, or persisting? I had begun a column on Elders in March this year, but the pandemic ...
Column: Plastics ban should include beverage containers
What we refer to as “plastic” hasn’t been around for long. But its usefulness has caused production to skyrocket — from about two million tonnes in 1950 to almost 400 million tonnes a year now, and rising steadily. It’s a problem. Although much of it can be recycled, most isn’t. That’s led many local and national governments...
Fundraiser: Seeking '100 Rosslanders Who Care'
Fiona Martin is delighted to announce a new fundraising initiative for community projects in Rossland. Martin is President of the Rotary Club of Rossland, and she explains, “It is exciting for the Rotary Club to take on this fundraising project – it is something new in Rossland. It is based on the International ‘100 Who Care’...
November 16, 2020 Rossland City Council Meetings
Community Contributor Award bestowed; Council returns to meeting by Zoom as of December 14, 2020; those electrifying Chicken coops; contentious stanchions on Thompson; a $50 fine for wandering cats? Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Dirk Lewis, Andy Morel, Stewart Spooner, Janice Nightingale, and Chris Bowman. ...
