COLUMN: Fight Colds and Flu with Blue Elderberry
With the start of frosty nights, I’m seeing the blue elderberries turn their purple-blue colour, so it’s time to start thinking about making your elderberry tincture. As long as they’re that wonderful dark purple-blue colour, it’s time to pick them and make one of the best flu busters there is. Elderberries are an incredibly...
Interior Health urges public to fight influenza with a flu shot
Every year in Canada, about 12,200 people are hospitalized and 3,500 people die from influenza or its complications. The public can help themself and those around stay healthy, prevent illness and potentially save lives in one easy step – by getting your annual flu shot. Nelson Flu Vaccine Schedule Castlegar Flu Vaccine...
TSB said no Cockpit Voice Recorder on plane that crashed in Lake Country
The Transportation Safety Board said it will take the time needed to complete a thorough investigation of the fatal plane crash near Lake Country that killed four people Thursday. The twin-engine Cessna Citation disappeared from radar at 9:40 p.m. PT on Thursday, only 11 kilometres north of Kelowna Airport after takeoff from...
ANKORS warns users of drug making rounds, possibly cut with Fentanyl
At least two people in Nelson have overdosed on a green powder that is likely Fentanyl an ANKORS representative told The Nelson Daily. The ANKORS rep said one person was taken to Kootenay Lake Hospital while the other was revived using Naloxone, after they overdosed on a green powder purchased online. While there hasn’t been...
Pet owners warned of poisonous substance in Cranbrook community forest
The Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Recreation Sites and Trails BC is warning residents and visitors to keep pets on leash in the Cranbrook Community Forest, or avoid the area altogether, after two dogs died recently from ingesting a poisonous substance. Warning signs have been posted at multiple ...
Two Nelson men in custody following Friday morning takedown in South Slocan
Two men from Nelson are in custody awaiting bail hearings following an early morning takedown by RCMP near South Slocan Friday. RCMP Sergeant Monty Taylor of Nelson detachment said in a media release shortly before 8 a.m. a person noticed there was a suspicious man wandering around a business in South Slocan. Taylor said...
COLUMN: We can't dig ourselves out of the fossil fuel pit
I’ve often thought politicians inhabit a parallel universe. Maybe it’s just widespread cognitive dissonance, coupled with a lack of imagination, that compels them to engage in so much contradictory behaviour. Trying to appease so many varying interests isn’t easy. Rather than focusing on short-term economic and corporate...
Council is in favour of more beer; a food charter in the works; paving may be delayed by cold
Present: Councillors Andy Morel (acting Mayor in Kathy Moore's absence), Lloyd McLellan, Aaron Cosbey, Marten Kruysse, John Greene, and Andrew Zwicker. Public Input Period: Petri Raito of the Rossland Beer company said he supports the proposed bylaw to allow for a larger micro-brewery in Rossland's downtown core. Cosbey...
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans sued for putting wild salmon at risk
The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans is breaking the law by not testing B.C. farmed salmon for a virus that has spread like wildfire in Norway and Chile, before allowing them to be transferred into open-net ocean pens alongside wild fish. “According to federal fisheries laws, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans is required...
Snow Season: City Ponders What to Plow, What Not to Plow
When is a public roadway a "private driveway"? At its regular meeting on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, Rossland City Council (minus only Mayor Kathy Moore) examined a proposal that would save the City an amount estimated at a little over $11,700 for an average plowing season. The suggestion was to amend the City's policy on...
