Gayle Buchner taught Brain Gym activities to children aged zero to five-years-old, April 9 at the Boundary Child Care and Resource Referral Centre (BCCRR).   While the class was held for young participants “it works for everyone," said Buchner. She also said that she's has helped people of all ages and frequently uses Brain...

For a while, I was wondering whether Christy Clark and her supporters realized THEY were in government, not opposition! They all spent much of the Liberals’ half-hour paid advertisement on Global TV Sunday night warning against the evils of deficits and debt: BC NEEDS a balanced budget “for our kids”; BC should NOT leave those...

To begin, and to keep my focus sharpened, I will quote what I set out last column as my goal: “My subject for next column is, can we look to “old-fashioned” mystery-teachings to lead us forward?   Can “return” to pagan or medieval astrology, kabbalah, alchemy or magick, work for us now? Does the East have spiritual truths to...

“Don’t plant until the snow is off Galena” is what I was told when I moved to Grand Forks. This is considered local folklore but can also be considered phenology. Phenology is “the science of appearances”. It is the study of how changes in one species can be used to predict changes in another. Usual predictors are lilacs,...

Thirty people in attendance at Camp Koolaree's Annual General Meeting on Saturday April 6 voted to do all they could to run camps at the Kootenay Lake facility this summer. Increasing the size of the board from five members to eight, the meeting adopted a budget designed to allow the camp to operate in the black, and developed...

After over six years of different policies and three different councils, Grand Forks has once again decided not to provide grants-in-aid to local community organizations. The topic came to the table after council had several requests for funding from local non-profits. Most were deferred to budget discussions or to wait in ...

A dedicated Crime Reduction Strategy has paid off for Grand Forks RCMP. Over the last two years the department has reduced the occurrence of crime throughout the Boundary area by 27.8 per cent. Over the past month Grand Forks RCMP staff sergeant Jim Harrison has been making his annual policing report to city councils and...

Grand Fork’s own singer/songwriter Amanda Thate keeps on moving up in the music world. Her latest achievement is winning the “Emerging Artist Showdown” hosted by Country 103 – a Kamloop’s based radio station. The contest was driven by fan votes, which Thate dominated earning 41 percent of the votes for her song “A Dream.”...

Hi Folks! Spring is in the air – there’s no two ways about it. We’ve got rising rivers, blossoming buttercups, and plenty of sunshine. Most of all, there’s a lot less white and a lot more green. This is my roundabout way of getting to what I really want to talk about today, which is the “green” movement. These days, of course,...

Grand Forks will not be heading into a by-election for the mayor's seat as Sam Hancheroff won the provincial New Democratic Party (NDP) candidacy for the Boundary-Similkameen. Hancheroff is currently a school trustee, and is a retired school teacher. Having grown up in Grand Forks and spending his career years in Okanagan...