Yolanda Ridge will be “supporting conservation through literacy” this April as a participant in the annual Authors for Earth Day eco-event. Each year award-winning authors and illustrators schedule special school visits in honor of Earth Day. Together these participants have already touched the lives of thousands of students...

La Cafamore String Quartet will once again be playing at the Rossland gallery on Monday April 22.  The group has been touring the Kootenays since 2008 presenting high quality classical music.   This particular concert will be the ensemble's most ambitious undertaking to date.  George Crumb's "Black Angels" is innovative,...

So, I grew up in lower Rossland, as many of you know, and I lived right below Esling Drive.  We also had an Esling Park, where the cenotaph use to sit and where the Rossland seniors’ complex now exists. The question is, who was Esling, and why was he so important that Rossland landmarks named after him? Interestingly enough,...

A few blankets, a lamp, four walls, some shelves. I have squirreled away crackers.  A bottle of water. My head and toes touch each wall. I have a pillow. I can hear you – all of you – outside this door. This is the beginning and it is a very tight space.   Modest ideas bloom in my scribbly writes, yellow sun of my lamp punctures...

It appears the Columbia Avenue infrastructure project is going to cost a lot more than taxpayers were led to believe.  How the project will be paid for is another example of pathetic financial mismanagement on the part of the City.  In late December 2010, an Alternative Approval Process (AAP) was initiated to get authority ...

Council discussed three major democratic issues on Monday evening, from local issues of ongoing fallout from the arena scandal and questions of transparency in email communications, to an official council stand on the controversial Jumbo Resort development near Invermere, BC. Auditor General soon to pick her cases   Coun....

Did someone say budget? May 15 deadline fast approaches There’s still no sign of a budget discussion at council as the May 15 filing deadline for municipal financial plans approaches.   Coun. Kathy Moore said, "I'm agitated that it's now April and we haven't started any serious discussion on our budget."   She asked if there...

Other homes have it     I’ve seen it in movies and whatnot         We speak of it as we swirl our Shiraz in fancy round-bellied glasses            I had a friend who cut the birch trees down on an empty lot, milled planks out of it, cured it in stacks for three years, then used it in her house                 We sip our wine...

Mapleloop Boutique, a new online clothing store owned by Rossland’s Genevieve Fortin, will unveil spring and summer collections as models bring clothing to life down the runway. “This is not going to be your typical cat walk, it's going to be Rossland style,” promises Fortin. Art for People artists Martine Bédard and Andy...

If you’re looking to escape from the wet, Spring weather, Folk Dancing in the Miners Hall is this Thursday, starting at 7:00pm.  The style is a combination of English Country dancing and Contra Dance.  There are no complicated steps to learn, just bring your sense of humour and your rhythm and your willingness to have fun! ...