I hope you enjoyed the holidays and I’d like to wish you the best in the coming New Year! The final prep period and the first races of this season are now done and out of the way. The past month was spent at a variety of resorts in Colorado with training and racing in Vail, Beaver Creek, Copper Mountain and Loveland. At the...

Monday in Kamloops, Glacier Media decided to cease publication of the Kamloops Daily News after more than 80 years. “Personally I am very saddened to make this announcement,” said The Daily News publisher Tim Shoults on the company website. “We have struggled for the last several years, worked tirelessly and taken many difficult...

One of the areas I address, especially after the holiday season is helping people get into a good routine again with eating and to try to lose those added pounds from the holidays.  Here are a few tips to achieve that goal. Eat 3 full meals a day with no snacking in between to keep the fire burning and burn off excess fat. ...

Few labels irritate me more than that of being referred to as a taxpayer, and of having the money governments spend referred to as taxpayers’ dollars. From the wealthiest tycoon to the most destitute homeless beggar in Vancouver’s downtown eastside, every person in this country pays taxes - no exceptions. When I purchase a ...

Two overdue skiers lost on Red Mountain Thursday have been found. Search and Rescue located the missing skiers in an area west of Red Mountain resort just after 10 a.m. Friday. The missing skiers were flown down the mountain by helicopter to the Red Mountain Resort area where they were checked over by paramedics just after ...

Program Updates over the Holiday Season Adult Co-Ed Rec Hockey on Tuesday evenings is cancelled due to the New Year’s Eve celebrations around town.    Enjoy bringing in the New Year and all the best from the Recreation Department!  Rossland Arena The Arena is open for regular ice time throughout the Holiday season, except for...

[Note: This week the Tyee is republishing some columns from the past 10 years. Yesterday they published one of mine from 2009. And I agree, the message is just as critical today as it was then.] “We hunger for communities of meaning that can transcend the individualism and selfishness that we see around us and that will provide...

A helicopter is currently airlifting 10 skiers and a Search and Rescue crew to safety from Grey Mountain near Rossland, according to Trail RCMP Cpl. Dave Johnson. “On Dec. 29, shortly after 5 p.m., Red Mountain Resort reported 10 overdue skiers (who) had not reported in,” Cpl. Johnson explained. “They had set off in the morning...

Anyone out there interested in a bit of healthy exercise to start the New Year?  Nothing too ambitious of course being the morning after the Eve before; a lot less ambitious than hurling yourself into the Columbia River.  Please say yes since us old folks who have been doing the ‘SNo Fun Run for the past 30 years or so need...

I am home. I flew in over snowy mountaintops last week from the green coast, arriving in familiar surroundings covered in a mostly pretty blanket of the white stuff, exhausted after a bout with the flu but thrilled to bits to be back in the bosom of my family and friends. I was stressed; I didn’t get everything done before ...