Hockey, music, dance, hiking, yoga, acting: Time get moving!
With the Fall & Winter Brochure in the mailboxes and online, registrations have been busy! There are lots of new and exciting programs and courses to check out! If you didn’t receive one in the mail, log on to www.rossland.ca, then City Hall, then Rossland Recreation, then Program Guide. If you have a child between the...
Grind outruns storm (now that's speed)
The storm held off long enough to have perfect weather for the annual Golden City Grind run on Sunday. 74 runners participated in the kids' 1K run, the 5K run and the gruelling 10K run — it's called the Grind for a reason! Winners received fabulous chocolate gold medals from Trish at Mountain Nugget, while second and third...
UPGRADE UPDATE: Sidewalks done next week...completion one month away!
The concrete curbs and swales on Columbia Ave will be completed this week. Sidewalks will continue to be poured and it is projected that sidewalks on Columbia Ave. will be finished by the week of September 17th, weather permitting. The Project Communications Task Force recently asked a representative of ISL to explain how ...
OP/ED: To CCC, or not to CCC? That is the question as council contemplates "financial suicide"
Just as Hamlet contemplated suicide in Shakespeare’s play, Council is contemplating financial suicide for the taxpayers of Rossland. Earlier this year, CAO Victor Kumar urged Council to rescind the Development Cost Charge (DCC) bylaw. Mayor Granstrom and his happy band of robotic rubber-stampers were happy to oblige. Only...
KCTS presents new website, new signage, and new membership services
The Kootenay Columbia Trails Society (KCTS) is proud present its new website. The website rebuild has been made possible with the financial support of the Columbia Basin Trust, Nelson and District Credit Union and Tourism Rossland New features of the website are two-fold. Firstly updated trail descriptions, new formats,...
Novelist Angie Abdou coming to Rossland
It’s been quite a ride for Fernie author Angie Abdou: her first novel, The Bone Cage, was a CBC Canada Reads book, and the next, The Canterbury Trail, was a finalist for Banff Mountain Book of the Year. She’s been cover girl on such literary publications as Quill & Quire and BC Bookworld. Abdou will read from her work in...
ESCape to the ESCapades of the Electro Social Club...
Get set to dance the night away and escape to the Electro Social Club (ESC), where musical theatre meets electrical nightclub. Iron Mountain Theatre (IMT) is at their innovative best with this completely unique production by Nadine Tremblay and Rupert Keiller at Trail's Arlington Pub on Sept. 13 and Rossland's Drift Izakaya...
CAO selection process still a mystery for the moment
Council declassified the in camera (closed meeting) minutes last night regarding the resignation of CAO Victor Kumar and his replacement by Cecile Arnott—seemingly by appointment rather than through an open job competition—but the details of the switch nevertheless remain unavailable for the moment.Coun. Kathy Moore was the...
A ban on smoking dogs! Council contemplates new bylaws for a new downtown
As Columbia Ave. gets a fresh coat of concrete—complete with impromptu doggie prints—Coun. Jody Blomme raised the twin issues of public smoking and downtown dogs at Tuesday's regular council meeting."We are nearing the end of downtown construction, we have to think about how we're going to use the downtown now," she said,...
UPGRADE UPDATE: curbs, swales, and banding!
Lots of concrete will be poured this week: curbs, swales, sidewalks and sidewalk banding. Concrete work will be the primary work being done for the next two weeks. Washington St. water services are proceeding this week. Once the water is complete the sewer and storm will follow. The excavation for the sewer is very deep,13ft...
