LETTER: on money and sewage
Regarding “Trail refuses to pay”, Council Matters, August 17thRossland Telegraph. A few years ago, Trail complained that their percentage of the cost of the sewage service was too high since their population had reduced considerably since the original agreement. Eventually after prolonged...
Interior Health announces expanded primary care hours for Kaslo Victorian Health Centre
Local physicians, Doctors of BC and Interior Health have joined together to offer an expansion of primary care for residents at the Victorian Community Health Centre in Kaslo. In a media release Friday, starting in September, the primary care clinic at Victorian Community Health Centre will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for...
Opinion: Electoral Reform -- What System Should We Have?
On Thursday, September 1, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Fireside Inn at 1810 Eighth Avenue in Castlegar, this riding's Member of Parliament will host a Town Hall meeting on Electoral Reform. As with any Town Hall meeting on any topic, the outcomes of such a meeting are more likely to be useful if people attending have done...
Traffic Adjustments During Retaining Wall Replacement on Highway 3-B
The Department of Highways and Transportation is replacing the "bin wall" -- the retaining wall on Columbia Avenue at and around the 1400 block, and anyone travelling by there will be aware that work has begun. Traffic along Columbia is one lane, alternating, with flag-persons directing traffic. Access to and from Columbia...
Garbage Cans Good Enough, Fire Services Query, A Threat of Legal Action, Trail Refuses to Pay -- and More!
Rossland City Council Meetings, August 15, 2016 Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Aaron Cosbey, Marten Kruysse, Andy Morel and John Greene. Absent: Andrew Zwicker 1. At 6:00, a Public Hearing to consider bylaws to amend the Official Community Plan (OCP) to allow the parcel at 1807 Columbia Avenue...
Thought-provoking Workshop to Generate Ideas
Do you roll your eyes at the word "sustainability" and scoff at concerns about food security? Well, how much of the world's news have you been reading -- or do you stick to celebrity gossip and animal photos so as not to become too depressed about bombings, weird extreme weather and famine in distant places, or about political...
Variable rain puts damper on current fire season
A consistent peppering of precipitation at the right time has put a damper on the current fire season and made it one of the quietest in several years. The region bounded by the Southeast Fire Centre — which covers the area extending from the U.S. border in the south to Mica Dam in the north and from the Okanagan Highlands ...
COLUMN: On Inequality and Hierarchy
We deserve equal rights, though we are not equally-talented beings “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” I think very few readers cannot identify this ringing phrase from the American Declaration of Independence,...
Osteoarthritis? Get More Movement With Less Pain
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis where the linings of the joints wear down. It is associated with areas of injury or weight-bearing joints and joints of the hands. There is cartilage damage and eventual destruction of the cartilage, followed by hardening and formation of bone spurs to stabilize the joint ...
Selkirk College Rural Pre-med Program Can Benefit Students More Now
Selkirk College’s Rural Pre-Medicine Program has received an endorsement from the School of Medicine at the University of Calgary in an exciting development that will benefit students, who will now have enhanced opportunities to pursue their educational goals at the Alberta university’s medical school . Rural Pre-Medicine...
