KAAP's Adorable Adoptables: Tatum adores other animals
** Applications are required prior to meeting our foster pets because they are being fostered in private family homes. Applications are on the main page of the website, under “adopt”. Meet Tatum aka Taters aka Little Miss Tate. This beautiful young girl had a very hard life prior to coming to KAAP. She was emaciated […]
The Gold Fever Follies – a desperate mayor, a crooked cop, and a crusading pastor
The Gold Fever Follies – in the newly air conditioned Miners Union Hall! — are here again to entertain and delight. This year’s story, Casino Rossland, is built around real events and real people in Rossland’s history – beginning with the City’s long-ago financial problems in the years around 1900, and a dubious scheme to […]
Campfire ban starts at noon, Friday, July 12
Effective at 12:00 noon Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on Friday, July 12, 2024, Category 1 campfires will be prohibited throughout the Southeast Fire Centre. A map of the affected area is available here. As of 12:00 noon PDT, Friday, July 12, 2024, the following open fires are prohibited in the Southeast Fire Centre: • Category […]
COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland City Council meetings, July 8, 2024
A new, improved crematorium in the works; Rossland to receive funding of ~$250,000 annually from Community Building Fund; the Second Avenue lane question; try to win the “ugliest lawn” contest! PRESENT: Mayor Andy Morel and Councillors Stewart Spooner, Craig Humpherys, Eliza Boyce, Maya Provençal, Jeff Weaver and Lisa Kwiatkowski. Staff: CAO Bryan Teasdale, Executive Assistant […]
Analysis: Churches don’t pay taxes. Should they?
By Sam Victor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, and Hillary Kaell, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and School of Religious Studies, McGill University. First published in The Conversation. From his office at St. James the Apostle, a 160-year-old Anglican church in downtown Montréal, Rev. Graham Singh is telling us about taxes. “Churches […]
BC Faller Wants Better Forestry
By Anna Dulisse (first published in Living Here Magazine) As a logger and third-generation caretaker for his acreage near Castlegar, British Columbia, Quintin Sperling has carried on a legacy of working hard, by spending his life in the forests both on and off his family’s land. “I’m a certified faller and in B.C. I’ve done […]
RCMP requesting assistance from public to identify man
On Monday, July 1, at 7:45 p.m., a frontline Trail and Greater District officer received a report of a man allegedly acting strangely on the hiking trail that connects Miral Heights to Sunningdale, in Trail, BC. The man reportedly asked two hikers about the trail and for directions to Sunningdale. When the pair returned to […]
Investing locally theme of Skills Centre community impact
Working with local companies and investing in local people is a common theme in the Skills Centre’s 2024 Community Impact Report. From the Trail and area companies working on the Skills Centre’s major renovation of its new building, to new training programs that partner with local businesses and serve area residents, to a focus on poverty […]
Column: Truth in Advertising
The fossil fuel industry has made a lot of false or misleading claims over the years: burning the fuels doesn’t cause climate change, there’s no viable replacement for them, “natural” gas is a climate solution, coal power can be “clean,” carbon capture and storage will make oilsands bitumen climate-friendly… But a new rule requiring industry […]
BC SPCA’s annual Wildlife-in-Focus photography contest is back
The BC SPCA invites the public to participate in its 16th annual Wildlife-in- Focus photography contest running July 2 through 22. Amateur photographers 14 years and older can submit their awe-inspiring images of owls, eagles, foxes, bees, whales, and other amazing creatures until July 22. You can enter as many times as you like and there […]
