Seven Summits Centre for Learning Faces a Major Decision
Seven Summits Centre for Learning Will Take a New Form Rossland's innovative approach to maintaining K-12 education in Rossland is about to shift into a new phase, with a new form -- but what that form will be is not yet decided. The new form is necessary because the provincial government has decided that it can no longer...
Reminder and Some Tips: Income Tax Time
Editor's Note: It's that time again. If one hasn't already filed an income tax return, maybe the information below from the Canada Revenue Agency will be helpful. Or not. Some of us dinosaurs prefer filing returns on actual paper -- which came in handy that year when large numbers of e-files were hacked. But we're pretty...
Clay-Z! Claymation Workshop with YAN
On Saturday, April 9 youth will get a chance to learn the art of Claymation at a workshop presented by Rossland Council for Arts and Culture (RCAC) and the Rossland Youth Action Network (YAN). The workshop will be taught by Shelley Painter and will take place at the YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. in Rossland, from 1:00pm-5:00pm....
Writers' Workshop in Silverton: Deadline to Register April 15
Time is running out for local writers wishing feedback on their writing from well-known authors Sharon Butala and J. Edward Chamberlin, who will be participating in the 3rd Convergence Writers’ Weekend in Silverton, B.C., May 13-14. Participants wishing to participate in writing workshops with Butala and Chamberlin during the...
LETTER: School Buses and Jobs
Dear Editor, This week, all School District #20 employees received an email from our superintendent delineating another example of our government manipulating funding formulas to extract every possible penny from Boards of Education. Our School District's 2016/2017 projected budget deficit increased from $650,000 to $950,000...
Kootenay Lake School Board moves slowly with new facilities plan
Closing Trafalgar Middle School is just one of the options on the table as the Kootenay Lake School board floated its final draft plan surrounding the re-configuring use of facilities in District 8. Declining enrolment, extremely high maintenance costs and aging infrastructure were the key issues behind the board’s decision,...
OPINION: Geothermal Energy Better Than Site C
By David Suzuki More Affordable + More Jobs In the midst of controversy over B.C.’s Peace River Site C dam project, the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association released a study showing the province could get the same amount of energy more affordably from geothermal sources for about half the construction costs. Unlike Site C,...
Special Public Avalanche Warning
Record high temperatures in Western Canada has prompted Avalanche Canada to issue a warning to recreational backcountry users to be ready for increased avalanche hazard. The warning was issued on Avalanche Canada website. Avalanche Canada said the warning applies to all forecast regions, from the Yukon to the US border and ...
North Jubilee Wetland: What's Going On?
With materials from Rachael Roussin and Eva Cameron This is the beginning of the first spring season since volunteers placed plantings for the North Jubilee Park wetland last fall. Those plantings have not had time to become well established or to grow; they are just beginning to emerge from their first winter's frost and ...
Alkaline is Where it's at: Part 3
Here are some more helpful things you can do to keep the body as alkaline as you can, so it can detoxify all the breakdown products and move them out through the feces and urine more efficiently. We already talked about eating dark green leafy veggies and other veggies (other than tomatoes and potatoes),...
