Kootenay Pass closed for avalanche control Thursday
Motorists venturing to the East Kootenay had been put a little extra time into the travel budget as the Kootenay Pass will be closed near the summit for avalanche control Thursday. Crews are closing the highway five kilometers east and west of the Kootenay Pass summit for avalanche control from 7-10 a.m. Traffic should detour […]
Avalanche closes Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merrit
The recent winter storm dropped too much snow on the Coquihalla Highway, sparking an avalanche near the summit that closed Highway 5 between Hope and Merrit. Reports say one vehicle got stuck in the snow., but no one was injured. The DriveBC website said the highway won’t re-open until 8 a.m. PT, at the earliest […]
Up for some filmmaking this week? Or any one of a dozen or more other things?
Rossland REC Spring Brochure The REC Department will start working on the Spring Brochure and if you’re interested in submitting a program or course, the deadline for the Spring Brochureis March 1, 2014. The brochure will hopefully be available to the public online, by the third week of March. Typically our Spring Brochure...
Calling All Nightclub Dramatic Types!
If you like to be the center of attention and enjoy electronic dance music then Electro-Social Club (ESC) invites you to apply as an actor for an interactive, visual, EDM experience that will blow your mind. Electro Social Club (ESC) is what you get when an electronic music producer and a musical theatre nerd collaborate....
Council (briefly) considers increasing 'staff appreciation' budget by 500% while discussing ways to save money
The Tax situation in Rossland (if you already know it all, you can skip this part): Rossland City Council has been struggling to keep our city taxes low, to partially make up for increasing levels of School and Regional District taxation that Rossland residents must also pay as part of our property taxes. Rossland does not...
The Rossland Museum wants your stories! Old Timer Interviews, Heritage Week , Antique Appraisals and Expanded Hours
The Rossland Historical Museum is actively working to record your stories with our “Old Timer Interviews” project. Museum directors Roly Worsfold and Lydia Jakovac are busy tracking down senior Rossland community members to interview. If you know of someone they should talk to, or if you are someone they should interview, ...
The Once are headed to the Miners' Hall
Named for a unique Newfoundland phrase that means ‘imminently’, now is indeed the time for The Once. As a trio, the band has kept it uncomplicated, depending on the power of their voices and acoustic instruments. Lead singer Geraldine Hollett has an instrument of rare power; she is a singer who can still a noisy room, so...
A lexicon of Mountain Kingdom nicknames...from Booty to Woodtick
In 2012, Allebo Lloyd, a childhood friend from Rossland died. I knew his given name, but he was more commonly known by his nickname. I sent a note of condolence to his wife and in it, admitted that I was not sure how to spell his nickname. This situation made me realize that I was equally uninformed on the source and nicknames...
Dyck shoots Saints past TRU 3-2 in shootout
Darnell Dyck scored in shootout to lift the Selkirk College Men’s Hockey team to a 3-2 victory over Thompson Rivers University in B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League action Saturday in Kamloops. The win keeps the hopes for another first place BCIHL finish for the Saints alive. Saturday night Selkirk hosts Simon Fraser University in a huge […]
Mt. Sentinel Grad Kendra Wayling gets grand send off at UBC/O
Castlegar’s Kendra Wayling varsity volleyball career is not over quite yet. Wayling, who was ceremoniously sent off during Senior’s Night at UBC/Okanagan, helped the Heat defeat Brandon 2-0 in the best-of-three Canada West Women’s Volleyball series Friday night and advance to the Final Four next weekend in Vancouver. The Heat, after surprising the Bobcats Thursday […]
