What are you doing for Canada Day? Hiking Observation Mountain? Eating birthday cake at Gyro Park? Taking in the vintage faire in Rock Creek or perhaps the rodeo is more your speed? No matter how you celebrate the day, this weekend holds a lot in store across the Boundary.  The Sentinel is pleased to give readers the calendar...

The graduating class of Grand Forks Senior Secondary school was sent off in style at the commencement ceremonies last Saturday.  The class paraded into the Grand Forks Arena to formally receive their certificates and the final farewell from teachers, parents, and valedictorians before heading off to the dry grad party at the...

There was a near sell out crowd for the Granby Dance Studio annual recital held last Thursday, Jun. 9. Classes performed their numbers in jazz, lyrical, Irish, and belly dance styles.Of course the preschool and early years classes were precious to watch, including a break dance component from the preschool jazz boys! The older...

Encourage kids to gobble up some great reading this summer at the free summer reading club. Children will ‘savour each word’ when they join the club offered at the Grand Forks and District Public Library.    Regular reading during the summer helps kids to maintain or even improve their reading and literacy skills. Studies...

The Christina Lake Homecoming event, designed to captivate the community spirit of the people who visit, live in or who have ever lived in the region of Christina Lake, will celebrate and reminisce with friends, neighbors, or build new relationships.   Area C Regional Director Grace McGregor extends an invitation to everyone...

A unique 10-day event across the Boundary region celebrating the arts is coming in August. 2011 is the first run of the Kettle River Festival of the Arts that will take place in various venues throughout Boundary Country.  Events will be held over 11 evenings from Aug. 4 to 14, and offering performances for all ages in theatre,...

Don’t miss out on this evening of classic blues as the Grand Forks Art Gallery hosts Chris Whiteley and Diana Braithwaite.Braithwaite and Whiteley have toured internationally including shows in the United Kingdom, North America, and Russia. Blues Revue Magazine has called Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley “Masters of Old...

JT Nero is out and about on a CD release tour, along with Allison Russell, for his new album, mountains/forests; a delicious set of small tragic-comedies, recorded over two days in a northern Wisconsin cabin, with contributions from the Clouds and Po’ Girl.It’s a real singers’ record, centerpieced by Nero’s harmony work with...

Hailed as well on his way to becoming a Canadian institution following in the footsteps of Ian Tyson and Stompin’ Tom Connors, cowboy singer and songwriter Tim Hus returns to the stage in Grand Forks with his storytelling style music on Saturday, Apr. 30. Folks say that Hus has a voice sweeter than a Husqvarna chainsaw, a wit...

For children of the 60's Soul Kitchen was one of the many anthems chosen as they challenged the values of the establishment from smoke-enhanced realities. One of many memorable songs on the Doors' debut album released in January 1967, it is also the title of Spotlight Films next film Tuesday.   Soul Kitchen is a German comedy...