Kootenay Ice open Major Midget season Saturday in Nelson
Major Midget hockey is back. The Kootenay Ice take to the NDCC Arena Saturday and Sunday on opening weekend in the B.C. Hockey Major Midget Hockey League. The Ice, coached by Mario DiBella, host the North Island Silvertips beginning Saturday at 2 p.m. The two teams are back in action Sunday at 9:15 a.m. at […]
Research work being conducted on the Kokanee Shoal Spawners
Editor, The Nelson Daily You are likely familiar with the brilliant red color that the kokanee salmon turn in the fall when they are spawning in creeks and rivers in the area. Did you know that kokanee can also be found spawning on the beaches of some of our lakes? These are kokanee that are […]
Smokies get lift with return of Castlegar's Jesse Knowler
The Jesse Knowler/Western Hockey League experiment appears to be over. The Trail Smoke Eaters announced Thursday the addition of 18 year-old Castlegar native to the club’s active roster. Knowler joins the Smokies after making 57 appearances during the 2011-12 season with the WHL’s Prince Albert Raiders. He was re-assigned to the BCHL by Raider management. […]
Kaslo residents asking for six months extension to find solutions to reduction in ER hours
A group of concerned Kaslo citizens have asked Interior Health Authority (IHA)and CEO Dr. Robert Halpenny to give them six months to come up with a plan to save some of their emergency room hours at the Victorian Community Health Centre. Last week the IHA announced they would be reducing the ER hours at the […]
One Book One Kootenay author to present 'The Third Crop' in Castlegar
Rita Moir will read from her book The Third Crop at the Castlegar & District Public Library on Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. The Third Crop is this year’s One Book One Kootenay (OBOK) selection. Moir’s beautiful book of image and essayabout the history of the Slocan Valley reflects sentiments both local and universal. In […]
Broadband internet to light up Rossland’s downtown core
Council made an in camera decision on Monday evening to spend about $170,000 to connect all the municipal buildings—excluding the museum—and the downtown core to the Columbia Basin Broadband Corporations (CBBC) network.At the beginning of the year, Mark Halwa, CBBC’s chief operating officer, presented to city staff the...
COMMENT: A problematic process, but respect to the new CAO
Dear Laurie Charlton, I write in response to your recent condemnation of council's process in hiring our new CAO/CFO. I've added some headings to break things up. Yup, council screwed upI agree. Council made a big mistake when they decided to keep CAO Victor Kumar's resignation confidential, limited their job search to a...
INTERVIEW: Meet our new CAO, Cecile Arnott
Cecile Arnott is completing her final two weeks as CFO and deputy CAO at the City of Grand Forks as she transitions to her Oct. 1 start date as the CAO/CFO here in Rossland. I met with her on Sept. 13 at City Hall.She was generous with her time and comments, spending 45 minutes fielding a wide variety of questions on management...
Head of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Will Speak in Castlegar
A distinguished judge—one of the first aboriginal judges in Canada—will speak at the Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College in Castlegar on Friday, September 21. The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair is the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. “We are bringing him here because in spite of our growing awareness of […]
More bad news for Johnsons Landing, another potential land slide could be on the way
After doing some ground work investigation at the Johnsons Landing slide head, geotechnical experts are warning another slide of the same magnitude as the one earlier this year is possible. The experts spent last week exploring the site at the ground level and discovered tension cracks and slope displacement of up to four meters about […]
