Environment becomes priority for the City of Grand Forks
The growing pressure to address environmental concerns in the Grand Forks area led city council to increase the mandate of their air quality committee to become the new environment committee tackling air, water and climate change.Chaired by Councillor Chris Moslin, the new committee held its inaugural meeting last week. Twenty-one people came out to the meeting […]
Legion to look into relocating war memorial
Few gatherings in Rossland are as uplifting as our Remembrance Day parade and cenotaph ceremony. They are inspiring on the basis of demography alone. “As our veterans pass away, we get thinner in numbers,” admitted Doug Halladay, president of Branch 14 (Rossland) of the Royal Canadian Legion. That said, “the last few years,...
Council confident in go-it-alone recreation approach - renews subsidy program
Recreation spending is an issue that's usually audible in this region, even on paper. Specifically, it makes an ugly creaking sound, like the opening of a big ol’ can of worms. But the worms this week proved oddly non-responsive as council quietly considered an informal roundup of recent recreation expenditures provided by ...
Survivor Saskatchewan: Lessons in sustainability learned in the sticks of the boonies
This past Saturday afternoon, the Rossland Real Foodies launched a three-part conversation series highlighting locals who have made sustainable living a part of their lifestyle so that they can share their experiences and knowledge with community members interested in food sustainability. “The idea was to have a seasoned...
Remembering the Old MacLean School, Part One
On February 5, 1981, the lives of 300 MacLean Elementary School students changed forever when a fire tore through the building and completely razed it. I remember this incident very well because I was a student at MacLean at the time, and I can say for certain that this fire, even though I was only six at the time, really did...
Search and rescue called out as pair spend night on Grey Mountain
To go or not to go. When the snow is as good as it’s been in Rossland over the last couple of days calling it a day can be a difficult decision when you’ve got untracked slopes all around. On Monday night a local area father and his son from Whistler made the call for […]
Let's party like it's 1897: The 114th Winter Carnival is on!
Rossland is gearing up to party like its 1897 as the biggest winter weekend of the year gets set to kick off in the Golden City. 114 years after ol’ Olaus kicked things off, the Rossland Winter Carnival has grown leaps and bounds into a weekend where the biggest challenge is scheduling yourself to hit and participate in as ...
Drifting into the publishing world: Rossland life featured in new book
When you’re sitting down and typing out e-mails to friends, have you ever “Hmmm, this story could make a great book?” Lisa McGonigle didn’t have that thought while writing, but through a series of fortunate events, five years of her life history as it happened in the Kootenays and written in e-mails is being released this...
Cops, kids and community - CPEC work begins
Preventing crime by connecting with kids – that’s the baseline goal of a new RCMP-led initiative at work in Castlegar. Today saw one of the first meetings of a group of stakeholders engaged in the initiative, which labours under the weighty moniker Community Policing Education Continuum (CPEC). Spearheaded by RCMP Cpl. Marty Kooiman, CPEC […]
INTERVIEW: Yves Engler on the Myth of Canada's role as global peacekeeper
Speaking in Castlegar and Nelson this coming weekend is a budding new critic of Canadian Foreign policy, Yves Engler, author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. Engler is already receiving positive reviews from Naomi Klein, William Blum and Noam Chomsky, who says “We bear responsibility for what […]
