Dear editor, On behalf of the Board of Tourism Rossland and myself I would like to express our sincere appreciation to the entire community for all of their energy, positivity and assistance in putting together such a great event for Canada AM   I would especially like to thank the following people: The Board of Directors of...

"I'd like to start with a timeline of the way I see things," Coun. Jody Blomme said on Monday during the debate on whether council should request a performance audit by BC’s new Auditor General of Local Government.We have previously reported a detailed timeline of the arena scandal events. "How I found out about this whole ...

Ryan McGill presented council with a vision he struck upon last summer and has since discussed with the principals of Rossland's three schools, Jackie Drysdale of the Heritage Commission, and Katie Albright of the public library: to bury a community time capsule, perhaps in the library lawn during Golden City Days this year,...

Lots going on in Rossland!  This week due to a school sporting event, Volleyball at RSS, on Thursday night has cancelled.  Volleyball resumes the following week, on Thursday, February 7.  If you’re wondering why there are so many students out and about this week - RSS is in the middle of its semester turn around week which ...

One of the more common imbalances I see fairly often is improper fat metabolism, which results in either high cholesterol, LDLs or triglycerides and low HDLs or low cholesterol, LDLs, triglycerides and HDLs.    Most of the fats we eat in food are in the forms of triglycerides or cholesterol. These need to be properly broken...

After a protracted discussion on dogs in the downtown core, council voted to defer further discussion of changes to the animal control bylaw until a meeting of council in a committee of the whole (COW).The COW will not likely occur until late February. Council uses COWs to discuss issues more informally than regular meeting...

Last week Coun. Jill Spearn said that she had met with the Neighbourhoods of Learning Committee—on which she is the city liaison—to "dialogue about options that we would like to start to consider, regardless of how the community meeting goes tomorrow night."We reported on that community meeting here."It's important that we ...

The council meeting on Jan. 14 included the declassification of an amendment to the CAO’s contract, news on grant applications, a new “Alternative Approval Process” to finance the downtown renovations, smoking dogs, more preamble to upcoming budget deliberations, and council’s motion to proceed into discussions with School ...

Dear fellow residents,    I arrived at the last council meeting at 7:05pm and missed the public input period.  What I would have liked to have said to our Mayor and Council is the following:   The meeting Jan 4, 2013 at the Seniors Center with the mayor to discuss what happened with the Arena project and Jason Ward generated...

Winter Carnival is this weekend and there’s lots of fun and excitement planned!  With Canada AM broadcasting live for the Eastern Canada audience, the community is encouraged to come out and enjoy the festivities at 2:30am on Friday morning.  No, that’s not a typo!  2:30am on Friday morning, the streets will be alive with the...