'The Butt Ugly Truth' -- a Tale of Youth and Hope
By: Jean Paul Kamand, Aman Mohar, Vanessa Vuen Parrenas, Navin Gill, Manesha Dulay, and Jasmin Mander We are a group of conscientious students in a Leadership 11 Class from R.C. Palmer Secondary School in BC's Lower Mainland, working together. The President of WediditServices, Jean Paul Kamand, was invited as a speaker to...
PART II: Be the Best You Can Be
One of the concepts of duration events is carbohydrate loading using complex carbs such as grains, pastas, pancakes and whole grain breads. This needs to be done 4-5 days before an endurance event. The complex carbs are reduced to 40-50% of diet and protein and fats are increased. This depletes the glycogen in the muscles and...
Don't Miss the Joe Hill Coffeehouse on May 15
SUNDAY, MAY 15, IN THE ROSSLAND LEGION HALL, DOORS AT 6:00 PM, SHOW AT 7:00. Joe Hill Coffee House, Rossland’s community venue for talent from near and far, has a great show for you on May 15: The Band Formerly Known as The String Section – Five excellent young local musicians. Not to be missed! Steve Rathwell – our itinerant...
Selkirk College’s Professional Cook Program a Recipe for Employment
Not many schools can promise a student will have a job at the end of their studies. This year, Selkirk College’s cooking program is offering its grads their choice of them. “Right now we have 16 students and more than 40 jobs to fill,” says Simon Parr, Instructional Assistant for Professional Cook (Level One) at the Tenth...
Kootenay Lake School District No. 8 moves slowly with facilities draft plan
Slowly, but surely, Kootenay Lake School District No. 8 is moving along with its facilities draft plan. The first major decision coming for the upcoming school term appears to have Yahk Elementary School will be closing for 2016-2017. However, the school will not close permanently, but with an expected enrolment of zero...
Moving the Financial Plan On; Dissent on Water Monitoring
Financial Plan and Tax Rate bylaws: At a brief special meeting of Rossland City Council on Thursday, May 5, Rossland's 5-year Financial Plan bylaw and the 2016 Tax Rate bylaw both received second and third readings. A resident who had been out of town during the public consultation on the financial plan asked a number of ...
CBT RECREATION GRANTS ANNOUNCED
Whether you enjoy lawn bowling or golf, take to the backcountry on foot, skis or bike, or prefer to hit a tennis ball or pickle ball, dozens of expansions, improvements and new developments to the spaces that keep you moving are on their way. Thanks to Columbia Basin Trust’s Recreation Infrastructure Grants, 42 projects around […]
OP/ED: Rethinking Trade Treaties and Taxation?
If the federal Liberal government is on the verge of a major shift in economic and industrial policies, as Terence Corcoran suggests in his April 20 column, “Ghosts of business past — and future,” then all that can be said is thank goodness. Since the mid-1990s Canada has basically been without any coherent or deliberate...
WHAT'S OPT? FOR INFO ON ALL ASPECTS OF SEXUAL HEALTH
Trail’s Opt clinic is doubling its hours and lowering the cost of birth control. Starting May 4th, the Trail Opt Clinic is now open every week: every Wednesday night from 4:30-7 p.m. The Trail Opt Clinic is one of Options for Sexual Health’s (Opt) 58 clinics in the province of B.C. Since the clinic opened in 2003, it has...
MELT, THE MOVIE -- BEING CREATED.
Three high school boys from Vancouver are making a movie. Correction: three young men who have graduated. They've been allowed to graduate early to work on this project, and they're busy raising funds for the work. The introduction video (above) tells a bit about why they're doing it. It's an ambitious and exciting idea; ...