Gorn backstops Leafs to sixth-straight win, Beaver Valley dumps Rebels
Six in a row! Six in a row! Billy Gorn stopped 28 shots to backstop the Nelson Leafs to a 5-0 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League road victory over the Spokane Braves Friday night in the Lilac City. The win was the sixth consecutive win for the Green and White, setting up a showdown Saturday […]
A new business in an old building on our main street
This new business means business. That is, it's there to make business easier for people with home-based businesses to work when the home office is too noisy, or doesn't offer broadband, or when a separate place to meet with clients would be helpful. Or for people from out of town to work for a while, as needed. Or to...
COLUMN: Tread Lightly
How much stuff will you give and receive this holiday season? Add it to the growing pile — the 30-trillion-tonne pile. That’s how much technology and goods humans have produced, according to a study by an international team led by England’s University of Leicester. It adds up to more than all living matter on the planet,...
Library and Museum grants upped; TRP gets some; Taxes; Deanne Steven leaving Tourism Rossland
Rossland City Council, November 12, 2016: Public Hearing and Regular Council Meeting. Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andrew Zwicker, John Greene, Andy Morel, and Aaron Cosbey. Absent: Marten Kruysse PUBLIC HEARING: A slight clash of views over housing The Public Hearing was scheduled to ...
Conservative MP tables Heritage-friendly private bill
On December 6, Peter van Loan, Conservative critic for Canadian Heritage and National Historic Sites, introduced a Private Member’s Bill for the rehabilitation of historic buildings in Canada. Designed to support those who invest in our cultural heritage, this Bill will have the potential to encourage rehabilitation of...
The Rec Site: Free Public Recreation, or For-Profit Business?
With seven billion and counting on this little planet, space in some places is at a premium. We’re so lucky here in BC’s southern interior — we aren’t overly crowded. And yet, we still compete for space. Space for recreation in the back-country in some areas is highly contentious, with horse-back riders, hikers, skiers, snowshoers, […]
GoFundMe campaign created to assist family of Bonnington accident
Monday morning the entire West Kootenay community was shocked to hear the news that a young Nelson girl had died in a two-car accident near Bonnington. Now the community, after coming to grips with this horrific news, is rallying around the family as more than $16,000 has been raised in a GoFundMe campaign. “. . . December ...
Drawn & Dangerous: Offering at Selkirk College Delves into Graphic Fiction
Delve into the world of graphic fiction as Selkirk College turns the spotlight on the genre in a course being offered this winter. Once condemned as a dangerous force of moral degradation, comics and graphic novels have come to be recognized as important cultural texts. “I’ve always been interested in popular culture as an ...
The bond between Selkirk College and Rwanda’s Nyundo School of Music
A visit to Rwanda’s Nyundo School of Music by a group of Selkirk College students has caught the eye of a Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Maclean's magazine recently published a story of how Selkirk College music instructor Gilles Parenteau brokered a deal between the college, Rwandan government and ...
Suspect sought after early morning robbery
Kelowna RCMP is asking for public for help to identity of a suspect in an early morning robbery Monday in the Central Okanagan City. At 12:15 a.m. Monday (December 12), Kelowna RCMP received a report of a robbery that had just occurred at the Mac’s convenience store located in the 2100 block of Richter Street. Police have...
