Outhouse races dug up as time capsule buried...it's shaping up to be a spectacular Golden City Days this year
The Rossland Golden City Days Committee is excited to bring you a weekend of fun and entertainment on September 6th – 8th, celebrating our traditional heritage festival, and we sure hope you’re planning to join us! Many activities and lots of fun are in store for you and your family. To kick off the weekend events, the Time...
School's...delayed. Sorry kids...
Dear editor, The renovation of RSS to prepare it to be a K‐9 school continues and is nearing the end. This week we met with contractors to look at the final outstanding items. What we have found is that while the contractors will bebdone the vast majority of the work it will not leave any time for teachers to prepare their...
Support staff strike may disrupt back-to-school season
West Kootenay public school students may be gearing up for a new year of classes, but the support staff who work within those schools are bracing themselves for a potential strike, according to Castlegar's Cherryl MacLeod. MacLeod works as an education assistant as well as serving as president of CUPE Local 1285, representing...
Council ignores OCP, moves ahead with controversial Cooke Avenue rezoning application
Council held a Committee Of the Whole meeting on Tuesday to discuss the plans for a housing development on the old Cooke Avenue School site. The site has been vacant, and the subject of discussion for quite some time now. On the table at the COW meeting were amended layout plans, provided by the proponent, Cezary Ksiazek....
Mediated talks between FortisBC & IBEW 213 break off
Any signs of optimism expressed with news that FortisBC and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 213 started mediation bargaining to end an already eight-week long lockout Wednesday short-circuited not long thereafter. FortisBC and IBEW Local 213 negotiators returned to the bargaining table in Vancouver...
Kootenay CarShare parks in Rossland
Rossland is getting its own branch of the Kootenay Carshare Co-op. The successful non-profit organization already has branches in Nelson, Revelstoke, Kaslo, Fernie, and Kimberley, with Rossland being the latest edition. The move was spearheaded by the Sustainability Commission’s Energy Taskforce, and received support from...
Auditor slaps City's wrist over paperwork, other issues of reporting and record keeping
The City has made public letters containing correspondence between Berg Lehman, the group that did the 2012 financial audit, and Rossland CAO Cecile Arnott. Dated June 24, 2013, the letters were not made available to the public until Aug 12, when Council had a chance to discuss them during a public meeting. Contained in the...
Seven Summits Centre For Learning in Rossland Announces Location
Rossland’s newest educational option, The Seven Summits Centre for Learning, has announced an official physical location: 2393B Columbia Avenue in Rossland, BC. A daycare and Catholic Church educational centre in past incarnations, the space was originally designed with learning in mind with lots of natural light in classroom...
FortisBC, IBEW begin mediated talks in Vancouver — which is good news for Slocan Valley Co-op
As the lockout of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 213 by FortisBC drags into its eighth week, Slocan Valley Co-op General Manager Chris Sapriken will be happy to hear that rumours of the two sides using mediation to settle this agreement are true. FortisBC negotiators and members of the IBEW Local 213 ...
TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN KINGDOM: Plane crash and Plewman ghost cat
I came across a little snippet of local Rossland legend recently that bears being told. I’ve been writing about some of the history surrounding our Seven Summits recently and have already told the stories of the Met Men of Old Glory and the man after whom Mount Plewman is named. In this article, we head off once more to Mount...
