Smoke is from US and Peachland; Peachland fire 50% contained
Smoke billowing through the Columbia Valley and filling Castlegar and Trail is partly from a 200-hectare fire burning in Peachland, and also from a wilfire in Washington, about 100 km southwest of Grand Forks. Neither fire threatens communities in the tri-city area. There was one half-hectare wildfire caused by lightning Sunday afternoon, about five miles […]
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...
Leafs, Rebels play to 1-1 tie
Nelson played to its second tie in as many games Sunday in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League exhibition play in Castlegar, playing the Rebels to a 1-1 draw. The game is the third in four preseason contests for the Green and White. Nelson concludes the exhibition season Tuesday at the NDCC Arena against the same […]
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...
Fall Svaboda Trail Running Race raise cash for better trails
Like hiking the hills? What about running on trail? For the latter enthusiasts trek to Svaboda Road Parking Lot Saturday morning for the Fall Svaboda Trail Running Race. The event, rain or shine, begins at 8 a.m. with registration. The gun sounds at 9 a.m. for competitors. The course is 400 meters of road that […]
JobFest make stop in Nelson Thursday
The provincial government’s JobFest made one of its 50 stops Thursday in Nelson to educate young B.C. residents in the ever-changing job market. The idea is to celebrate the many career opportunities available in the province for young people between the ages of 14 to 25 and to deliver information about the labour market while […]
Former Nelson doctor elected new president for Canadian Medical Association
Dr. Anna Reid, the former chief of staff and the emergency and intensive care unit physician at the Kootenay Lake Hospital, was recently appointed as president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). The well-travelled and impassioned physician plans to bring a unique rural perspective to the new role as the CMA spokesperson and advocate for […]
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...
