LETTER: Not everyone thrilled about Rick Hansen's visit
Dear Rick Hansen: I hope that during your next 25 years of raising money for spinal cord research (SCR) we will see the end of inhumane, scientifically fallacious spinal cord experiments on animals. It was 25 years ago when Lifeforce, a Vancouver based ecology and animal rights organization, gave you extensive data about the failure […]
Councillor uses Facebook to gauge community response to fowl play
A Castlegar city councillor is using social media sites to try to gauge how much community support there is for allowing urban chicken husbandry within city limits. Kevin Chernoff, now serving his third term at the council table, says the majority of the people attending council on the issue are in support of the notion […]
Tainted cocaine being sold in area
Trail RCMP Sgt. Rob Hawton is warning area drug users to be hyper-vigilant about their drug supply, after two area people suffered heart attacks. “On April 18, Trail and Greater District RCMP received a report of two people, both under 30 years of age, admitted to hospital recently with heart attacks linked to the ingestion […]
MP says Tories wiping out rural services
Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko says he was dismayed to hear the news that the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) office in Kelowna is slated for closure earlier today. “The Conservatives are dismantling Canada piece by piece,” he said. “This will result in a critical reduction in services related to citizenship and immigration matters for […]
Schneider Stars As Canucks Defeat Kings To Force Game Five
Leigh Ramsden lives in Vancouver and is an avid Canucks fan, having been a partial season ticket holder for over 10 years. He’s old enough to have witnessed all three Stanley Cup losses, as such, his prime goal is to remove those scars by seeing a Cup brought to Vancouver. Leigh is Fighting For Stanley’s […]
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....
Missing couple located after three days, reunited with family
The Elk Valley RCMP Detachment have confirmed that missing travelers Jacob and Anja Oosterwijk of Fort Macleod, AB have been located. The couple departed Fort Mcleod on (Saturday) April 14th for a day trip believed to be to the Elk Valley region in B.C. The missing couple, driving a 1997 Dark Green Honda CRV with […]
