By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The Waneta Dam expansion could create a legacy of skilled trades people for the West Kootenay region, says a Columbia Power spokesperson. Audrey Repin said with a guaranteed policy in place to hire apprentices on the jobsite, many of the over 400 new job hires could become journeymen trades […]

Ed. note: Every year on Christmas eve as young children, just before hanging our stockings on the mantel above the fireplace and heading off to bed our mother would read us The Night Before Christmas from a generations old hard-cover copy of the book. Now that my career has steadily moved further and further into […]

Now is the winter of our missed intent. 2011 is rapidly approaching--the time of the year when we take stock of our last 365 and submit ourselves to a brand of torture not condoned by even the nastiest masters of rendition and rough interrogation: we beat ourselves up for not penning that novel, slap our wrists for being wooed...

Rossland search and rescue (RSAR) received a somewhat unexpected early Christmas present this year to the tune of $40,000 to go towards half the cost of a new search and rescue vehicle. The group is now continuing towards their goal of establishing a permanent search and rescue base facility in Rossland in order to get the ...

The day after the Rekindle the Spirit of Christmas event on Dec. 4, a person calling him/herself Dirty Hippo posted a long, strongly-worded message on Bhubble criticizing the Charlie Brownness of the Christmas tree in the town square. I wouldn’t refer to it as a tirade, just a firmly-stated, humourously-toned, panning of the organizers’ choice […]

We’ve all heard of Tom Jones, right?  Welsh-born crooner, swoon-inducing songster famous for 1970s hits like “She’s a Lady”? He’s actually a bit before my time, but his Wikipedia page makes for some interesting reading if you’re into salacious Hollywood soap-opera type stuff.  The Mountain Kingdom has its own Tom Jones, and...

I think it’s fair to say that children are most sensitive to the magic that Christmas can bring, and I know from my own experience that some of my fondest childhood memories are from around this time of year. Also some of my oddest memories come from Christmas, too. Things I remember with such vividness that they are hard to...

While the weather should be praised for cooperating at last weekend's NORAM race (organizers describe it as the best NORAM to be hosted at Black Jack yet), it could also be blamed for snatching a home town win from local Olympian George Grey.   On the third and final day of a weekend that saw 150 high level Nordic racers take...

Dear Editor;  There has been much anger aimed at the board of School District 20 over the passing of the motion to postpone the Planning for the Future public consultation meetings that were scheduled to take place in January.   Our understanding is that at the next meeting of the board, probably in January, the board will ...

PART I:  The past year has been an eventful one.   In January the Haiti earthquake hit. My staff and I worked for days with Foreign Affairs, a School District and Mt. Sentinel School of South Slocan to safely locate, press for transportation assistance, and rescue a class of high school students caught in Haiti.   […]