Stingray Alert!
Summer Brochure! The Summer Brochure is available online, at www.rossland.ca, Recreation, Program Guide. The Rossland Pool is scheduled to open on Monday, June 9. All programs and swimming lessons are now open for registration. Stingrays Rossland Swim Club – registration night is Wednesday, May 28! The Stingrays Swim Club...
Last chance to register for Non-Profit Collaboration Night! This Wendesday!
Reminder to register for Rossland’s First Non-Profit Collaboration night! Wednesday May 28th, 2014 6pm at the Rossland Miners' Union Hall. Our goal with this event- is to assist non-profit organisations to improve their capacity, increase efficiency, reduce duplication of services and encourage greater collaboration between...
PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND: KCTS and the Church of Dirt
Few assets are as important to our local area as our extensive and unique trails system that spans 145 km. This week I caught up with some of the folks who help create and maintain it. Although Kootenay Columbia Trails Society (KCTS) has a paid year round Trails Manager and a summer Trail Maintenance Crew who play a critical...
Tourism Rossland hires student Eric Gonzalez to make a series of short films about...Rossland in the summer!
Eric Gonzalez has been hired using a Canada Summer Jobs Grant to create a series of 9 short webisodes on Rossland's summer activities. Each webisode will be less than 2 minutes in length and will showcase different activities including the following: Gold Fever Follies Rossland Museum Heritage Walking Tour Frisbee Golf...
Chief Gerry Woodhouse Retires from Fire Department after 33 years
Chief Gerry Woodhouse (“Woody”) has retired from the fire service after 33 years, the last 20 as Fire Chief of Company #1 in Rossland. Woody recently shared some of his memories of the fire service, and what it was like when he started. “It was overwhelming, the same time I started as Chief, I also started a new business. I...
Woman arrested for causing disturbance on Baker Street/NPD continues investigation of pepper spray robbery
A female is scheduled to appear in Court after causing a disturbance Saturday (May 24) afternoon on Baker Street. The incident occurred after Nelson Police attended a call at approximately 5 p.m. of a many drinking in the 400 Block of Baker Street. When officers arrived the 40-year-old man, known to them, was charged under […]
More insight by raptor expert regarding Osprey family near Nelson
Former Nelsonite William Dove was pleased to see Nelson Hydro and Columbia Wireless joined forces to have a camera at the nest of an Kootenay Osprey family just off Highway 3A west of Nelson by Grohman Park. Dove, who got his start as a raptor rehabilitator, educator and falconer when I lived in Nelson about […]
Nelsonites fill streets for Heritage City stop on Clara’s Big Ride for Bell Let’s Talk tour
Nelsonites turned out in droves Saturday to put a major smile on the face of Clara Hughes as one of Canada’s most decorated Olympic athlete rode into the Heritage City on Day 110 of Clara’s Big Ride for Bell Let’s Talk — a 12,000 kilometer odyssey across Canada to help end the stigma around mental […]
RCMP report missing woman located in Slocan Valley
New Denver RCMP are happy to report that a missing woman has been located safe in the Slocan Valley. Andrea Moore, 36, was located Friday at approximately 2:45 p.m. at a residence almost four kilometers from her abandoned vehicle near the Perry Ridge Road. Moore appeared disoriented and was transported to Kootenay Lake Hospital...
Join the Golden City Days Parade...2014 version!
Please accept this invitation to participate in the 2014 Golden City Days Parade on Saturday, 6 September 2014. You may enter a float, a vehicle, a marching or walking group, play music, dance, entertain, and display your skills or products ~ whatever you do best! Bikes, baby buggies, and boards are welcome. Families, classmates,...
