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POLICE: Bush party goes bad
by Boundary Sentinel on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 12:27pm

A Grand Forks man has been charged after a bush party took an ugly turn Sunday night.

Timothy LaFreniere was charged with aggrevated assault and is scheduled to appear in court today.

At about 3:00 a.m. on May 13 the Grand Forks RCMP were called out to the local party spot known as...

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Increased logging activity for Brown Creek residents
by Erin Perkins on Monday, May 14, 2012 - 8:33pm

It is an effort to drive out to the rural community of Brown Creek located at the north end of North Fork Road. The winding rural road takes about 30 minutes to drive in the summer and much longer in the winter.

But the trade off is why there's a community out there at all -- the...

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Border bust on exotic animals
by Mona Mattei on Monday, May 14, 2012 - 3:11pm

An ongoing investigation was triggered with the seizure of endangered exotic frogs, arachnids and invertebrates at the Carson border crossing last month.

The seizure was made on Apr. 11 by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) when officers examined a shipment being transported by a...

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Recent News

Very different artistic styles highlighted at Gallery 2

by Contributor on 16 May 2012
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Huginn and Muninn - a drawing by a Columbia Basin artist; Photo, submitted.

Drawing, whether used as a ‘means to an end’ or an ‘end in itself’ is a significant aspect of every art practice. The works that make up one of the current exhibits at Gallery 2 will challenge the traditional definition of  drawing.

Greenwood gold water gets official award

by Erin Perkins on 13 May 2012
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Greenwood mayor Nipper Kettle gladly accepted the award for world's best water from Jill Klein Rone of Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Competition during a luncheon on Friday, May 11. Photo Erin Perkins.

It's official.

The City of Greenwood now has the trophy plate to prove it has the best tasting municipal water in the world.

City mayor, Nipper Kettle, was presented the award during a "Best Tasting Water in the World" ceremony in Greenwood Friday, May 11.

More than 200 people packed the McArthur Centre in downtown Greenwood to see the award and take their first sip of Greenwood tap water out of a specially designed bottled version of the community's best kept secret.

Regional News

Got bats in your Koots?

by Contributor on 16 May 2012
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Got bats in your Koots?

The successful Kootenay Community Bat Project (KCBP) is gearing up for another year of identifying local bat species, providing educational programs and workshops, and assisting landowners with bat issues.

Of the sixteen species of bats in BC, half of them are considered vulnerable or threatened and an additional species, the little brown myotis, has recently been assessed for federal Endangered status. Information on local bat species and their roost sites is an important part of bat conservation and management.

Atamanenko Concerned About Proposed Changes to Meat Inspection Regulations

by Contributor on 16 May 2012
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Atamanenko Concerned About Proposed Changes to Meat Inspection Regulations

New Democrat MP, Alex Atamanenko (BC southern Interior) is appalled by the reckless changes to Meat Inspection Regulations (MIR) being proposed by the Conservative government that will leave Canadians wondering if the meat they buy is actually safe. Private inspectors, who may not be qualified, would now be able to inspect meat.  Worse, these changes to meat inspection rules also change what meat is acceptable – meaning already-dead meat and crippled animals’ meat will be okay for processing for Canadians’ tables.

Provincial & National

No excuse for further Liberal HST stalling

by Harvey Oberfeld on 16 May 2012
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No excuse for further Liberal HST stalling
The BC Liberals and their friends in the corporate and media communities, have tried to sell the public on their supposed “business” abilities…unlike those “socialists” on the other side.

And yet, after the voters ordered them to get rid of the HST, they are incapable of  returning for a full NINETEEN MONTHS to a provincial sales tax regime that was in effect in this province for probably more than 50 years.

COMMENT: TRIUMF Lab helps make case for electoral finance reform

by Dermod Travis on 15 May 2012
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COMMENT: TRIUMF Lab helps make case for electoral finance reform

Who would ever have thought that a single political donor could have disclosed so much about the sorry state of affairs surrounding money and politics in B.C.

In what they now call a “learning experience,” TRIUMF – Canada's nuclear physics laboratory located at the University of British Columbia – finally acknowledged last week that it wasn't the most prudent of moves to make $3,370 in political donations to the B.C. Liberal party over the past three years.

International

Bush, aides convicted of Iraq war crimes in absentia by Malaysia

by Wikinews on 16 May 2012
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Bush, aides convicted of Iraq war crimes in absentia by Malaysia

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia has found former President of the United States George W. Bush and seven prominent former colleagues guilty of war crimes.