Microbes, Biodiversity and the Benefits of Getting Dirty
By David Suzuki We’re surrounded by life, but Earth’s most plentiful living things are invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are not only around us, they live on and in us. Although some cause maladies ranging from food poisoning to smallpox, there are many we couldn’t live without. Beneficial microbes break down food and...
High School students receive taste of college life during annual Experience Selkirk Day
High school students from across the West Kootenay-Boundary received a taste for post-secondary life last week at the annual Experience Selkirk Day. More than 400 students descended on Selkirk College’s Castlegar Campus, Tenth Street Campus and Kootenay Studio Arts Campus to take in morning workshops and afternoon games. It...
Elizabeth May Says: Everything Must Change in 2015
Article by Elizabeth May: How we can make up for nine years of lost time? Having worked on the climate issue from 1986, back when it was a future threat, to present times, where it is the stuff of daily headlines, I have to admit that it would be easy to feel discouraged. We have squandered decades that would have allowed...
Rossland Rec: It's Summer!
Summer Recreation Brochure is out! The Summer Brochure is available online at www.rossland.ca, Recreation Program Guide, and in hardcopy at the REC Department, Public Library, RSS and the Credit Union. The Rossland Pool opens on Monday, June 8 with a BBQ from 4:00-6:30pm. If you’d like to contact the Pool, please call...
Apocalypses and Terminations
“Who killed the world?” -- graphitto in the film, “Mad Max IV” By Charles Jeanes End Times and Revealed Truths It’s pretty obvious why novels and films set in a post-apocalyptic future on earth are popular. We live today with a sense of dread, or at least anxiety. Our planet seems precarious. Climate change is denied by no...
Outbreak of Salmonella infections related to contact with live baby poultry
Interior Health is advising the public of an outbreak of salmonellosis related to contact with live baby poultry originating from a hatchery in Alberta. The investigation, involving IH, the BC Centre for Disease Control, BC health authorities, BC Ministry of Agriculture, Public Health Agency of Canada and provincial partners,...
Human-caused wildfires are preventable say Southeast Fire Centre
Humans are making it a very difficult start to the 2015 wildfire season says the Southeast Fire Centre in a media release. "Since April 1, 2015, the Wildfire Management Branch has responded to 39 wildfires in the Southeast Fire Centre," said the release. "Of those fires, 34 were human-caused and therefore preventable." The ...
Citizen’s prosecution proceeds in Lemon Creek Spill
There is another delay in a Slocan valley woman’s prosecution of the province of BC and the Executive Flight Centre over the jet fuel spill into Lemon Creek nearly two years ago. Provincial Court Judge Richard Hewson set June 16 for the parties to fix a date for a trial in April 2016, in Nelson provincial court Monday. “Well,...
Canada 150 CIP: Who Can Get a Grant?
Monday night's Council meeting opened with the Council chamber packed and overflowing with hopeful Rosslanders keen to support their favorite idea to improve Rossland, and Mayor Kathy Moore welcomed everyone. Many spoke passionately in support of developing the (former) Emcon lot into a community facility; Ann Damude ...
NEW DELEGATION BYLAW GETS FIRST READING
Our old Delegation Bylaw # 2473 from 2009, which is current but not in use, was drafted by then-CAO Victor Kumar and it boldly gave to the Chief Administrative Officer or deputy "all of the powers, duties and functions of Council under s. 154 (l) (b) of the Community Charter to make agreements respecting the City's activities,...
