On February 16, performers at Rossland’s Joe Hill Coffee House will be celebrating the songs of the late, great Pete Seeger.  Be prepared to sing! Our performers on February 16 are: The Kidz – Five fine voices, singing songs that Pete wrote and made famous.  It’s a double set, to give the audience lots of opportunities to...

Rossland REC Spring Brochure The REC Department will start working on the Spring Brochure and if you’re interested in submitting a program or course, the deadline for the Spring Brochureis March 1, 2014. The brochure will hopefully be available to the public online, by the third week of March.  Typically our Spring Brochure...

The club’s been having a great year so far and is looking forward to another 70+ days of fantastic skiing. We have been grooming consistently since Nov 3, and if all goes well, expect to groom into late April or early May.  That means cross-country skiing for exactly half the year! We have 701 members this year, our 2nd highest...

Poplar Grove winemaker Stefan Arnason will bring 4 of the winery's award-winning wines to the Rossland Rotary Club 25th Annual Wine Festival on February 22, 2014, including 2011 Reserve Chardonnay and 2009 Merlot. The 2009 Merlot has full aromas of raspberry, blueberry & cocoa. Ripe smooth tannins & balanced acidity...

Canada continued to build on its medal total with three more medals Monday at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Alex Bilodeau won his second straight gold medal in Olympic moguls with teammate Mikael Kingsbury capturing the silver. The Canadians narrowly missed sweeping the podium as Marc-Antoine Gagnon finished fourth. Earlier...

Mike Thomas is the first municipal employee in British Columbia to be qualified to rate civil engineering projects using the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Envision™ rating system, providing the City of Revelstoke with an industry-recognized framework to evaluate and rate the social, environmental and economic...

Barack Obama, Pope Francis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and organizations like Oxfam and the World Health Organization are all saying it: Inequality is the greatest concern of our time. So what’s it going to take for our governments to act? Dr. Gary Bloch, a family physician in Toronto and a founding member of Health...

Nelson Nordic Ski Club hosted the Teck Kootenay Cup #5 cross country ski race on February 2nd.  We had a record 125 participants from ages 4 through 60.  The race was a free style mass start design so we had lots of competitors across the start line. The course looped its way around the hills by our lodge and spectators had...

Rossland Council has recently agreed to a 4% increase to its Liquid Waste Management (LWM) O&M contribution and has also gone forward with a new set of terms for participating in the LWM system.  The LWM agreement offers all three participants – Rossland, Warfield, Trail - an opportunity to create a system in which Fair-Cost...

One winter afternoon, Jim was walking along Columbia Ave. He loved the little town of Rossland and the quaint little shops that lined its streets. He spent many memorable late afternoons strolling around, perusing and chatting to friends about the days skiing just gone. From behind, Jim heard someone calling his name. He...