Rain dampens search volunteers but not their efforts
Volunteers assisted search and rescue teams in the third ground search for missing 24-year-old Owen Rooney in Grand Forks on Saturday in hopes of finding some clues in the disappearance of the Australian. Rooney has been missing for two-and-a-half months, and was last seen at the Boundary Hospital where he had been treated ...
Rural development institute established by CBT and Selkirk College
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Information is a great tool in the kit of any municipality, allowing it to forge policy, planning and decision-making. However, it is in short supply for resource-starved rural governments in the West Kootenay. That will change after the announcement Saturday afternoon of an eight-year...
Nelson and area set to win in Waneta expansion
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Nelson is guaranteed a share in the over 400 new jobs created in the Waneta Dam expansion on the Pend d’Oreille River, says the Columbia Basin Trust’s vice president of investments.Johnny Strilaeff said a prescription is in place to ensure that 85 per cent of the new jobs will come from ...
Last minute objections to revitalization tax exemption
The looming, potential revitalization tax exemption bylaw surfaced at council again this week. Following the past Committee of the Whole meeting the COW recommended that council move ahead with first, second and third readings of the adjusted possible bylaw. As it appeared the bylaw was nearing adoption however a new issue ...
All Hallow's Eve Ill
I grew up in a suburb that was minted in the late 1970s. Greentree Village (still standing) is a collection of town-homes, “garden apartments,” and a few cul-de-sacs of single- family detached homes in Central Burnaby. My folks still live in the house I grew up in. The whole village comprises a little over three hundred homes...
From sandbox to career these Rosslanders play in the dirt professionally
I’m often struck by how much parents read into the activities of their children, specifically what their kids’ toddler or adolescent interests and aptitudes might suggest they will eventually gravitate to professionally. “Yep, he just sits there in the sandbox with his Tonka trucks for hours, moving dirt from one side to ...
EDITORIAL: When business and politics cross paths
Where is the line when business and politics cross? How much if any separation is needed between the two? It’s a question that is never far from the surface in any decision making process of government, be it local, provincial, federal or international. Legitimate and logical arguments exist for the two being closely intertwined...
Seven summits signage to improve
Tourism Rossland’s signage campaign is looking into an opportunity to roll with the punches and keep the next phase of their signage program going, albeit different signs in a different location than originally planned. Funded through the Resort Municipality Tax Transfer program with the province of BC, the first two signs...
The Demon Fires of Columbia Avenue: 1927 and 1929
With the 30th anniversary of the MacLean School fire coming up in February, I thought I’d do a series of retrospectives of other fires in Rossland’s past - and there are plenty to choose from. The history of the Mountain Kingdom is riddled with devastating fires. The first major one, occurring in 1902, saw the entire block ...
Interview: Charlie Russell –A life lived with bears and valuable lessons learned
Playing out like a real life version of Avatar, Charlie Russell went to live with grizzly bears to find out how humans can better interact with them peacefully. Returning twelve years later with unimaginable experiences and tales of life with the bears, Russell learned that humans, not bears, are the problem in terms of...
