Twas Three Nights Before Christmas
Twas three nights before Christmas when outside the city, people were stuck, so the police took pity. Cranbrook RCMP received a 9-1-1 call from a family travelling from Calgary to San Francisco. The family had taken a GPS shortcut that took them on a route, that might be used by a hobo. This wonderful technology took the...
Merry Christmas from Santa Claus, The Boundary Sentinel
The staff at the Boundary Sentinel would like to wish all of our readers a very, Merrry Christmas and all the best in the New Year. Thanks to everyone for supporting our locally-owned and operated online news website. The staff looks forward to serving everyone in Boundary Country in 2017....
Your ABC’s never tasted so good
Yelena Churchill, Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL) Family Literacy Coordinator in the Boundary, mixes some pumpkin gnocchi dough during the CBAL Alphabet Soup pre-schooler and parent/caregiver literacy and cooking class this fall at Hutton Strong Start. If you missed it in the fall, the popular Alphabet Soup program...
Funding freeze on for new facilities as IHA moves primary care into households: Cusden
The best way to improve health care delivery in Nelson is not by enhancing its health care facilities, but by keeping potential patients in their homes, says the interim health service administrator for the Interior Health Authority. Jane Cusden told city council on Monday that the IHA directive for the mostly rural service...
Letter: All I want for Christmas is Proportional Representation
To The Editor: A Christmas poem to all the Liberal MPs in Canada. Oh Liberal MP, oh Liberal dear Pull up a chair and lend me your ear. My tale is short, I won't keep you long Just a wee ask to fix a big wrong. Twas not long ago Trudeau made clear FPTP had had its last year. The people cheered and voted in trust that Trudeau's...
Trail native Craig Cunningham talks about getting a second chance at life
On November 19, 2016, during an American Hockey League game between Tucson Roadrunners and Manitoba Moose, Trail native Craig Cunningham suffered a cardiac arrest before the opening faceoff. With mother Heather Cunningham watching from the stands, team trainers, medics as well as a group of local firefighter raced to save...
LVR students lobby MPs on importance of dealing with Climate Change
Two Grade 12 students from L.V. Rogers High School in Nelson were hoping to make a change as part of Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s National Conference last month in Ottawa. Alyssa Taburiaux and Linn Murray, both 17, recently returned from Ottawa where they lobbied politicians for effective climate policy. The LVR students were ...
Bruins Loura, Berger off to KIJHL Prospects Game
Two members of the Grand Forks Border Bruins will be front and center when the Kootenay Conference tackles the Okanagan/Shuswap at the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Prospects Game next month in Kelowna. The game is being played January 14, 2017 during the Kelowna Elite International Midget Tournament. Netminder...
City set to seek public opinion on services
The public perspective of the citizens in Grand Forks will be front and centre on municipal minds at the start of the new year. The city is undertaking a community survey in January — pursuant to a directive from the Strategic Plan 2015-2019 — intended to gauge public satisfaction as it relates to the delivery of services to...
Christmas comes early for Cranbrook man after $4.9 million Lotto 6/49 win
Douglas Lowes was ‘playing it forward’ and spreading holiday cheer when he decided to buy a Lotto 6/49 winning ticket. “I was feeling good when I bought the ticket because I had just finished doing some volunteer work and I was dressed up with a Christmas tie and everything,” recalled Lowes. Lowes won $4.9 million on the...
