LETTER: Parking and barking, the trials of the Kingdom
Dear editor, Wilf was having trouble with his horses. He’d spent a long day with his team packing loads up to the mines; all he wanted now was a cold beer in the local saloon. But first he had to park his horses. In the past, no problem, just tie them up side by side to the hitching rail on the sidewalk, give ‘em a bit of...
Rossland ‘loopy’ for trails this spring as KCTS ponders Seven Summits expansion
Kootenay Columbia Trail Society (KCTS) president Isaac Saban addressed council on Monday evening "to explain the real value we provide" as a regional recreation asset, and also to describe upcoming projects such as a 25 kilometre connector from Red Mountain to the Seven Summits trailhead. KCTS serves the Greater Trail region...
Property taxes remain stable, water parcel taxes rise in new budget
Council approved the city’s 2012 operating and capital budgets on Monday evening, and then put both this year's bylaws on municipal tax rates and on parcel tax rates through their first three readings. Municipal tax rates have been set so that, for the third year running, there will be no increase to the average Rossland...
Council delegates tender power to CAO
Council has delegated authority to CAO Victor Kumar to award tender for the Columbia-Washington project after he completes negotiations and comes to an agreement with the successful bidder. A summary of the negotiations, including the final cost, will be available for the public at the next council meeting. Kumar presented...
Runs runs runs...Hansen Run, Harmoney Run...and more!
Don’t miss the Kootenay’s first opportunity to see the WKWRD’s all-star travel team in action, right here at home! All-Star Kootenay Kannibelles vs Raggedy Rollers All-Stars from the Okanagan-Shuswap at the Rossland Arena! Saturday, April 21, 2012, 6:00-8:00pm. Tickets $12 in advance at Rossvegas and $15 at the door. To ...
Wildfire prevention fuel treatments to hit high gear this spring around Rossland
Provincial grants under the Strategic Wildfire Prevention Initiative (SWPI) totalling more than $145,000 have been awarded to Rossland for its Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWP Plan), both for prescriptions completed last fall for another 25 hectares of “high hazard interface lands,” and for the actual fuel treatments...
ANALYSIS: Sports versus Arts—where do council's priorities lie? A closer look at CBT's Community Initiatives Program in Rossland.
As council divided the annual Community Initiatives Program (CIP) funding from the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) among 37 applicants on Monday, one petitioner for an arts organization noted that it is difficult to get arts funding in a sports town like Rossland. But is that the case? Our numbers suggest otherwise. We took the...
Get ready to have your vanity flattered, Rossland: Rick Mercer really and truly digs the Mountain Kingdom
The Traveler, the official newsletter of the Canadian Tourism Commission, recently reported that Rick Mercer chose Rossland as one of his five favourite small towns in Canada. Travel writer Michele Sponagle quotes Mercer: "It is stunningly beautiful," and the people are "so friendly." Mercer came to Rossland in February 2010...
K-12 at RSS the only ‘decent’ solution, claims local group in school board presentation
Rossland's Neighbourhoods of Learning (NOL) committee gave a presentation to the School District No. 20 (SD20) board on Monday evening, arguing that K-7 at MacLean Elementary makes no sense, but that K-12 at RSS is doable, even a "win-win-win" solution to the problem of closing a $1.5 million gap in SD20's limited budget....
Columbia tender trepidation: Checkout stand democracy or unelected autocracy?
What’s going on (or not going on) at City Hall about the tenders for the Columbia Avenue infrastructure project? Tenders were opened on April 3 and there hasn’t been a peep about what the bids were. If the bids had come in below estimates, staff and council members would have been bragging about the money they saved the...
