What better way to enjoy our beautiful Kootenay winter than an evening of guided snowshoeing or fat biking under the moonlight with friends and family?  Get ready for a great evening out in our third annual Moonlight Snowshoe & Fatbike Quest featuring excellent food, outdoor fun, adventure and prizes - all in support of...

I have had SO many patients this year come in with lingering colds and upper respiratory tract infections and have had patients report that family members have had the flu repeatedly.  With the abundance of viral infections going around, I decided to re-share an article I wrote last year on preventing colds and flus. I added...

On Friday, January 25, the Rossland Library will have an added attraction:  a “Show and Tell” event by the Rossland Streamkeepers. The Rossland Streamkeepers program operates under and is supported by the Rossland Society for Environmental Action (RSEA).  Bill Coedy, a director of RSEA, started the program in 2015. The group’s...

A $10,000 grant from RDKB Area B, via Director Linda Worley, to the Friends of the Rossland Range (FORR) is a major step toward creation of an accessible trail at Strawberry Pass this coming summer.  The trail will make it possible for mobility-challenged people to get out in the forest with wheelchairs, walkers or crutches,...

Warning:  this editorial may contain triggers for individuals who are highly sensitive about being asked to consider the unintended consequences of their habits, and maybe also their sense of entitlement and self-importance, if they have those in any inflated measure. The old Rossland tradition: it seems that just about...

Recent controversy over a natural gas pipeline blockade and the differing priorities of hereditary chiefs and elected band councillors illustrates a fundamental problem with our systems of governance and economics. Elected councils for the Wet’suwet’en and other Indigenous bands have signed lucrative “impact benefit agreements”...

With Rossland’s Winter Carnival coming up soon, including our famous (or infamous)  bobsled race, people have been wondering out loud about the lawsuit filed by a bystander injured in an earlier race. Rumours abound, as usual. The case has been filed at the Vancouver court registry, not at the Rossland court registry.  Armed...

Want to get theatrical? The Gold Fever Follies has begun a search for actors, especially those with singing and dance skills, for the 2019 show.  Interested people need to sign up for a time slot to audition, by contacting Lisa Henderson.  Scroll down to see the text contents of the auditions poster; more information is also...

For those who don’t already know about it … the Rossland Range Recreation Site is a large area used (for free!) by skiers, boarders, snowshoers and some fat bikers in the wintertime, and by hikers and cyclists  in the snow-free season.  The several day-use shelters there are usually occupied by people resting, warming up and...

Tales of the Trails: up in the new Lepsoe Basin cabin, there was – and should still be – a copy of a slim volume of ditties penned by “The Convert,” real name John Forrest, who described himself as “an old retired Red Mountain ski patroller and downhill fanatic now addicted to tall tales and the...