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Circus time in Grand Forks for local Girl Guides

Local Grand Forks Sparks and Brownies completed their Circus Challenge after spending four hours making masks, creating puppet shows, learning new songs, dancing and practicing their theatrical skills.  The challenge is an "Arts to Go" event -- part of the BC Girl Guides' special crest projects, and requires the girls to work...

SPOTLIGHT FILMS: Leviathan

UPDATE: The time has been changed to Sunday, March 29th at 4:30 p.m.  On Tuesday March 31st Spotlight Films will be presenting Leviathan. Written and directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Elena, Apocrypha, The Banishment) and inspired by the story of Marvin Heemeyer of Granby, Colorado,  Leviathan is an application of the brutal ...

PODCAST: How to get great stories about your business in the world's biggest publications with Fiona Richads of Cartolina

About the podcast: The You can do that here! podcast is produced by Andrew Zwicker of AZcreative for the Kootenay Association for Science and Technology. The podcast is a weekly series of 30 minute conversations with some of the most innovative and successful entrepreneurs in the Kootenays. You can CLICK PLAY on the triangle...

PODCAST: How the Kootenay Coop became the biggest in Canada

About the podcast: The You can do that here! podcast is produced by Andrew Zwicker of AZcreative for the Kootenay Association for Science and Technology. The podcast is a weekly series of 30 minute conversations with some of the most innovative and successful entrepreneurs in the Kootenays.   You can CLICK PLAY on the triangle...

SPOTLIGHT FILMS: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Spotlight Films   presents   the 8th  film of our 11th season!    The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Tuesday, February 24th 7:30 pm @ The Gem Theatre   Greetings to all Spotlight Films members, sponsors, and friends:  Our upcoming movie is The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and...

LIBRARY MUSINGS: AGM in early March; Downton Abbey tea party; Grocery store guide

We’ll be having our Annual General Meeting (AGM ) on March 4 at 7 pm. It’s a good opportunity for you to come and support the library – on our end, we promise to keep the meeting part of it to a minimum, and the socializing and refreshments part to a maximum. Downton Abbey Don’t miss our Downton Abbey Tea Party – to be held...

No Boundaries film club starting next week

It’s baaack……. On Friday Feb 27 at 7:00 the No Boundaries Film Club will be opening the 10th annual Grand Forks showing of the Traveling World Community Film Festival in the Grand Forks Secondary School auditorium. The TWCFF is B.C.’s longest running social issues film festival, started in the Comox Valley by the World Community...

Bull-A-Rama cancelled this year

It is with great regret that the Kootenay Chrysler Bull-A-Rama Chair has come to the decision to cancel the upcoming 14th annual Bull-A-Rama event scheduled for April 25th at the Cominco Arena.  “This was not an easy decision as we have received unbelievable support for the event from sponsors and fans,” says Gord McMartin,...

No Boundaries Film Festival finalizes screening times

No Boundaries Film Club presents the 2015 Join us to celebrate our 10th year in Grand Forks! Friday, February 27th – 7 to 9:30 pm Saturday, February 28th – 9 am to 9:30 pm Sunday, March 1st – 9 am to 5:00 pm   Grand Forks Secondary School Auditorium  Welcome to the 10th annual Grand Forks screening of the Traveling World...

LIBRARY MUSINGS: Sign language starts soon; magazines still available for adoption

You are cordially invited to attend the 2nd Annual Downton Abbey Tea Party – to be held at the library on Saturday, February 28 at 2:00 pm. Building on last year’s wildly successful event, we’ll be having a costume parade with prizes, crafting corner, trivia quiz, photo booth, and a scone bake-off contest (if you’re wondering...

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