Issue of poor attendance at RDKB meetings divides council
The accusation of truancy and a lack of commitment to attendance by city representatives to the regional district board meetings caused more than a ripple in Grand Forks city council chambers. Coun. Julia Butler brought forth a notice of motion recently in Grand Forks city council to appoint another representative and alternate...
Two houses destroyed by fire in Boundary City
Grand Forks Fire Rescue responded to fires that engulfed two houses Wednesday. The fires, occurring in the west part of the city, happened on the same day BC Premier John Horgan visited the Boundary City to discuss programs aimed at helping people affected by disasters, including the horrific floods that devastated parts of...
Phoenix Foundation Funding, volunteers accelerate progress at the Learning Garden
Thanks to a $4500 grant from the Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communities, the Learning Garden behind the Grand Forks Aquatic Centre is growing up this year. Over the last three years, the Garden has focused on the basic infrastructure, including fencing, water service, soil building, garden beds and the first trees and...
Burning of wood piles set for north side of Grand Forks
The BC Wildfire Service is planning to burn about 25 piles of wood debris, about three kilometres northwest of downtown Grand Forks, off Prospect Drive near the Copper Ridge subdivision. These controlled burns could start as early as Tuesday, June 12, 2018, and continue over the course of two days, weather permitting. Smoke...
RDKB schedules Boundary Flood Community Update Meeting
The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary is holding a public information meeting Wednesday, June 13 at the Grand Forks Secondary School Gymnasium. The meeting, scheduled for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., is an opportunity for local government officialst to provide an update on the transition from emergency response to recovery and...
Home destroyed in fire Saturday
A mobile home was completely destroyed by Saturday night, according to Robson Fire Chief Jeff Grant. He said the received a call of a structure fire at 9:30 p.m., and arrived at the Ponderosa Trailer Park to find a mobile home completely engulfed in flames. “No one was injured, but the home suffered serious structural damage,”...
Castlegar Top Cop retires
Castlegar RMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew retired last week after almost 28 years as police officer and nine years at the helm of the Castlegar detachment. Mathew, who is originally from Sylvan Lake, said she was in the army reserves and planned to enlist – until she ended up serving at an RCMP Regimental dinner and spent some time ...
Guest Editorial: Wilderness, or heli-playground?
Editor’s Note: Many people are not yet aware of the proposal to turn about 700 square kilometres of the southern Purcell Range into a heli-playground, cutting new trails and building lodges, with helicopter flights carrying in skiers in the winter and hikers and mountain bikers in the summer. The...
City seeks expansion of sewer system
Septic systems within the city borders could be a thing of the past if a new report on wastewater commissioned by the city is fully implemented. Under the draft report Sewer Phasing Plan Study — delivered to Grand Forks city council recently by Urban Systems — seven areas of the city under serviced by the sewer collection...
Council nails down mill rate and sets the municipal tax take for 2018
The budget numbers have been offered up as grist for the mill as the city set the tax take for the various property owner classes in Grand Forks for 2018. The city will be bumping property taxes by three per cent, with themajority of the revenue being contributed by the residential property owners (55.31 per cent). In Grand...
