Greyhound buses to reduce services across the province
Grand Forks, Greenwood, Midway and Rock Creek may have bus services reduced or eliminated by Greyhound Canada Transportation by the end of this year. Greyhound submitted an application to the BC Passenger Board on October 3 to reduce the minimum rate of frequency for their routes that run across BC, said Stuart Kendrick,...
Time to take your nasty chemical waste to the dump
Grand Forks City Council wants resident to think before they dump during a week-long awareness campaign about pesticides disposal, Wednesday, Oct. 17 to Wednesday, Oct. 24. “It’s very bad to dump pesticides in the garbage because you can contaminate the environment with those chemicals,” said Grand Forks councilor Gary Smith....
Middle School still considered for Grand Forks, not Christina Lake and West Boundary
A middle school at Perley Elementary School of Grade 6 to 8 students is still being considered for Grand Forks students, but not for Christina Lake or West Boundary students at this time, School District 51 School Board trustees, told parents at two forums this week. This decision comes after a series of community forums held...
Watershed study asks for public input
What do you need to tell the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) about the Kettle River Watershed? That’s the focus of a new survey to understand the needs, values and issues that residents and stakeholders have concerning the health of the Kettle River and the lakes, streams, and aquifers that feed it. According ...
Fall Fair looking for public support at next City Council meeting
If you enjoyed the thrill of the mini chuckwagon races, the delicious food, the free petting zoo, the toe-tapping live entertainment, fun parade or popular car show that the Grand Forks and District Fall Fair Society brings to our community every fall, you might want to be at the next Grand Forks City Council meeting. The...
'Canada's Carbon Corridor' Part 1: Connecting the dots across Northern BC
I recently returned from a whirlwind tour across northern BC, one of many legs of filming for a documentary and multi-media project I've been co-directing for the past year and a half, called Fractured Land. The people we spoke to along the way, the sights we witnessed and documented finally brought into focus the real ...
Federal Liberal Council of Riding Association presidents endorse resolution to legalize cannabis
Vancouver- British Columbia's Federal Liberal Council of Riding Association Presidents endorsed a policy resolution to legalize and regulate cannabis in Canada, as approved by Liberal Party delegates from across Canada at the Party's 2012 Biennial Policy Conference in Ottawa. The Council held their quarterly meeting Saturday...
Boundary Museum pulls artifacts from TLC Hardy Mountain site
The Boundary Museum Society has pulled two 40-foot long storage containers full of artifacts off The Land Conservancy of BC's (TLC) Hardy Mountain Doukhobor Village site due to the TLC’s financial woes. The storage containers were removed last week and placed on concrete pads located on the Fructova site because the local...
GRAPHIC: Enemies of the Internet
If you think that identity theft is the worst-case-scenario of Internet use, you clearly don’t live in any of the nations that make the list of top “Enemies of the Internet.” Not only do these governments monitor their citizens’ web activity, but they also make it nearly impossible for them to safely share and gather information...
Boundary moms support annual Breastfeeding Challenge
It’s been 11 years since Boundary mom’s started bearing their breasts in support of the international Quintessen Foundation’s annual Breastfeeding Challenge, and they are still going strong. While more moms seem to be choosing to breastfeed their little ones, the prevailing public attitudes about breastfeeding can still be ...
