Selkirk College Students Use Business Skills to Support First Nation Economic Resilience
Graduating students in the School of Business at Selkirk College put their education into action for a case competition focused on a northern Ontario First Nation. Teams of students created mocked-up economic development plans for the Atikameksheng First Nation and presented their proposals to a panel of local judges that...
Solar Project Creates New Energy at Selkirk College
The roof of Selkirk College’s main building on the Castlegar Campus has been transformed as the regional post-secondary focuses on a future less reliant on non-renewable energy sources. In October, the college installed a solar array on the roof of the library that includes 275 panels with the capacity to produce an estimated...
Stowaway kitty travels from China to find home in B.C.
It has been a long road to recovery for a cat who was found emaciated and terrified inside a shipping container in April. The stowaway cat, who was later named Journey, survived a harrowing three-week voyage from Shenzhen, China to the Port of Vancouver before being discovered hiding in a crate delivered to an auto glass...
Students Learn to Save Lives with CPR, Defibrillator training
Recently, teachers from School District No. 51 Boundary will be trained as instructors to empower students with CPR and defibrillator skills, as well as heart health knowledge, through the award-winning ACT High School CPR and Defibrillator Training Program. This training will result in more than 85 students from Boundary...
Selkirk College Students Make Career Connections with Local CPAs
Students from the School of Business at Selkirk College recently got the chance to network with local accounting professionals, learning about career options in the finance and accounting industry. Organized by the Selkirk College’s Business and Accounting Club, the event featured a question-and-answer session, and a networking...
Protect Our Waters from invasive species
For the past few years the Boundary Invasive Species Society has been taking water samples from Jewel Lake and Idabel Lake to check for the presence of invasive zebra and quagga mussels. We have also installed a substrate sampler in the lakes for the summer season. The Christina Lake Stewardship Society checks Christina ...
Selkirk College Fosters Creative Writing with Student Symposium
Love of literature united writers from both sides of the border as Eastern Washington University’s (EWU) graduate students recently returned to Selkirk College for the third annual A Stone’s Throw Writing Symposium. Held at the Mir Centre for Peace on the Castlegar Campus on Saturday, October 26, Creative Writing students...
MLA: Area PACs get more than $91,000 in gaming grant funding
New Democrat MLA Katrine Conroy is welcoming over $91,000 in Community Gaming Grant funding to Parent Advisory Councils to benefit students in Kootenay West. “This is great news for parents and students in the Kootenays,” said Conroy, MLA for Kootenay West. “These gaming grants will continue to support PACs with the important...
Public Transit Pressure Prompts Selkirk College Student Shuttle
Due to overcrowding on public transportation between Nelson and Castlegar, Selkirk College is now offering a free shuttle bus to students. BC Transit buses traveling during peak class times on Mondays and Wednesdays have been packed to the point of no longer being able to pick up passengers along the regular Highway 3A route....
Selkirk College Sees Silver STARS for Sustainability
The effort to make Selkirk College more environmentally sustainable is working according to an organization that engages a full spectrum of post-secondary institutions from across North America and around the world. For the second time, Selkirk College has earned a STARS silver rating from the Association for the Advancement...
