Daffodil Dash to use flower power to fight childhood cancer
Honouring a promise she made to her late granddaughter, Trail resident Lynn Gould lights a candle every Thursday for all the children who are living with cancer and for those who have passed on. Lynn also continues the advocacy work started by Natasha Rose Gould, an incredible 12-year-old girl who lost her battle with an...
Chamber hosts all candidates meeting May 1
The Boundary Country Regional Chamber of Commerce (BCRCC) is hosting an all candidates forum, Monday, May 1 at the Grand Forks Seconday School (GFSS) auditorium. Candidates are scheduled to speak from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Audience members will have a chance to stand up and ask questions or hear the candidates answer questions...
Selkirk College Valedictorians Help Define Rural Post-Secondary Education
A pair of locally raised Selkirk College students will represent the 50th graduating class as valedictorians at this year’s Graduation 2017 ceremony on the Castlegar Campus. Charged with delivering the final addresses to their peers, Brenna Mackay and Clara Graves are outstanding students who have made the most of their time...
Robots Making Their Way to Selkirk College for RoboGames
The Fifth Annual RoboGames is making the trek from the Heritage City to the Selkirk College Castlegar Campus Gymnasium Saturday (April 29) as more than 80 young people from across the West Kootenay and Boundary region arrive to create and compete. The RoboGames were formerly held at the Tenth Street Campus in Nelson for the...
Where to Vote Cards are in the mail
Where to Vote cards are being delivered across British Columbia starting today, and Elections BC is reminding voters to bring their card with them when they vote. “Bringing your Where to Vote card with you will make the voting process faster and easier,” says Chief Electoral Officer, Keith Archer. Registered voters will receive...
UPDATED: Geotechnical report keeps six homes under Evacuation Order
After receiving a report from geotechnical engineers the Regional District of Central Kootenay has decided to keep six homes below the slide under evacuation order. The RDCK made the announcement in a media release Thursday. "The Regional District of Central Kootenay has received a report from geotechnical engineers regarding...
OUT OF LEFT FIELD: HAIL TO THE CHIEF
A good reporter doesn't become emotionally involved in a story – but this one hurts my heart. How to say good-bye to my favourite colleague ever?!?! It took me six months living and reporting in Castlegar to say, definitively, that there were two people in this community whom you couldn't attack without me responding as if ...
UPDATED: Leaking piece of machinery blamed for oil spill near Balfour Ferry Terminal
The Regional District of Central Kootenay said clean-up is almost complete after a gear oil spill at the Balfour Ferry Terminal Saturday (April 15th). The RDCK said in media release Wednesday that the piece of machinery that caused the oil spill into the west arm of Kootenay Lake has been removed from the Kootenay Lake Balfour...
LIBRARY MUSINGS: Help the library, sponsor a magazine
It's Adopt-a-Magazine time at the Grand Forks & District Public Library! Our library subscribes to dozens of magazines – these are read widely and voraciously by many of you. This year, we are re-launching our Adopt-a-Magazine program, in which you can donate the cost of the annual subscription of your favourite magazine....
Missed opportunities in the health firings
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote: “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” It's the missed opportunities over the 2012 healthy ministry firings that will forever haunt the B.C. government. Instead of seizing opportunities to set the record straight, Ombudsperson Jay Chalke's report – Misfire: the 2012 ...
