Hi Grand Folks! I need your help. Let me explain: as you hopefully know, we’ve got an extensive magazine collection here at the library. We subscribe to 77 magazines – everything from “A Needle Pulling Thread” to “Bon Appetit” to “Yoga Journal” to “Canadian Gardening” to “Fine Homebuilding” to “Popular Science” to “Canadian...

Each year Grand Forks citizens take the time to nominate our hard-working volunteers for recognition.  Last night, at the City of Grand Forks volunteer appreciation event, six groups and individuals stepped up to the podium to be thanked for their tireless efforts that otherwise go unnoticed. Erna Gobbet, arts and culture...

Despite a sliding reality scale (it is overlain with some well-filmed tasteful fantasy and an historical inaccuracy) and issues with the Screen Actors' Guild, Spotlight Films' next show, Beasts of the Southern Wild, has garnered a fair share of praise and awards including the Sundance Festival Grand Jury Prize and Best First...

If you enjoyed the thrill of the mini chuckwagon races, the delicious food, the free petting zoo, the toe-tapping live entertainment, fun parade or popular car show that the Grand Forks and District Fall Fair Society brings to our community every fall, you might want to be at the next Grand Forks City Council meeting. The...

The Boundary Museum Society has pulled two 40-foot long storage containers full of artifacts off The Land Conservancy of BC's (TLC) Hardy Mountain Doukhobor Village site due to the TLC’s financial woes. The storage containers were removed last week and placed on concrete pads located on the Fructova site because the local...

The second annual Harvest Festival was a big hit with local families this weekend. The event, which is hosted by Spencer Hill Orchard in Grand Forks, is a fundraiser and membership drive for the Kettle Valley Food Coop. Families were treated to locally grown produce, fresh baked apple pies, a by-donation pick-your-own pumpkin...

A decision made in a jail cell sets off a compelling journey of self-discovery. A life of drug addiction and crime, forged from a childhood of neglect and abuse, is left behind and a new world opens up: a world of frozen adventure. Margo Talbot, author of All that Glitters, will be at the Grand Forks and District Public Library...

Opening with 108 cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope after the demise of the recent one, Spotlight Films’ next showing is the entertaining farce,We Have a Pope. The camera pans individual faces, each encumbered with a similar thought, that it not be them. In the end the well-liked but unlikely cardinal...

Greenwood resident and avid volunteer Marjorie (Marge) MacLean was presented with the newest government honour -- the Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal, Monday, Sept. 10. The Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal is the most recent addition in a line of special awards that honour Canadians for their outstanding service and contributions ...

The Grand Forks and District Fall Fair Society has outdone themselves this year. The annual centurian fair, which has taken a downturn in attractions and popularity in recent years, seems to be coming back. Not only were the number of visitors up -- double from last year with several thousand -- but so were the number of...