Fire chief hands the con to a new generation
Two decades is enough of a tour of duty for retiring fire chief Blair MacGregor who is looking forward to some well deserved rest and relaxation. MacGregor started as volunteer firefighter and became volunteer fire chief in 1980. He was hired by the city in the more official version of the role in 1996. “It’s been a great...
RCMP: Out-of-towners cause traffic accidents
Several car accidents involving out-of-town drivers occured over the holiday season. The first was on Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 2:37 p.m. when a Ford Explorer being driven by a visiting woman driver rolled three times down an embankment five kilometres east of Christina Lake on Highway 3. The vehicle hit some slush and the...
Local participates in World Cup rugby
If you see Paul Dunning walking down the street of Grand Forks chances are he's wearing something with a rugby name on it. "Someone will see that and start talking rugby with me," said Dunning, a retired physical education teacher from Maple Ridge B.C. who has been living in Grand Forks for the past four years. The...
Curlers rang in the New Year the old fashioned way
A group of Grand Forks curlers welcomed in the new year by going way back in time. The first curling game in Canada, chronicles indicate, was in Montreal in 1807, and for many years the sport was played outdoors on frozen rivers and lakes. Guy Dubeault, president of the Grand Forks Curling Centre, decided he would like to...
Youth employment program ready for intakes
The Boundary Youth Success Program is seeking 10 new participants to develop employment skills in a 14 week course starting Jan. 23. For youth ages 15-30 facing difficulties getting work, the session offers an array of life skills, training, certification and employability skills helping youth to enter the workforce, return...
One man dead after avalanche in back country
A skier triggered avalanche left one man dead in Revelstoke, B.C. on Friday as a group of heli-skiers took to the backcountry.Ronald Gregory Sheardown, age 45, from Dubaï, a former Canadian from Stouffville, Ontario, was the victim of the heli-skiing avalanche on Friday, Dec. 30.Shearman was with a group of eleven skiers and...
STI testing clinic closure unacceptable for Grand Forks
As of today, Friday Dec. 30, the Grand Forks public health unit will no longer be testing new patients for sexually transmitted infections (STI) or HIV leaving a serious service gap for youth and marginalized individuals. The announcement came on Nov. 29 from Interior Health Authority (IHA) and will affect five STI clinics...
Emergency shelter operations seeks graphic design
Imagine a cold winters night, the wind is blowing and snow is flying and you are hungry and homeless, desperately searching for a place to sleep, out of the cold. This is not Toronto or Detroit; this happens in Grand Forks almost every night in winter. The Boundary Emergency and Transitional Housing Society (BETHS) is now...
Local provincial NDP candidate supports equality through modest means
Leader Adrian Dix told the BC New Democratic Party’s (NDP) 50th anniversary convention that inequality is the defining issue of our time and outlined the NDP’s priorities for when it forms government in 2013.“We have to address inequality by getting the fundamentals of our society and economy right, like education and training...
Library welcomes new board member
The Grand Forks Public Library Association Board of Trustees has appointed Mary Butterfield to the library board for a term ending in 2013. The Board of trustees for the Grand Forks Public Library Association governs the Grand Forks and District Public Library and is responsible for the overall governance of the library. The...
