RCMP: Truckers and cyclists and stunting, oh my
by Kyra Hoggan on Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 4:04pm

Several vehicular incidents kept police on their toes this past week, according to Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew.

Tuesday evening at around 6:20 p.m., a 30-wheel freightliner transport truck was driving near the 100 block of Highway 3 toward Grand Forks, when he saw a couple of cyclists, Mathew said.

“According to the driver, he waved at them to let them know he saw them, then moved into the oncoming lane to avoid them,” Mathew said. “Then he said he saw a tractor-trailer coming around the corner toward them, and moved back into his own lane.”

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Recent News

Bad News Betties outlast Vendettas at License to Thrill

by Nelson Daily Sports on 15 May 2012
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The Valley Vendettas (red) couldn't get past the Bad News Betties Saturday in Castlegar. — courtesy BeardedMan photograhy

The Bad News Betties of Trail avenged a loss from last season by dumping the Valley Vendettas 196-158 at the License to Thrill Women’s Roller Derby doubleheader action Saturday in Castlegar.

In the other game Salmo’s Babes of Brutaility blasted the hometown Dam City Rollers 209-67.

The doubleheader was the latest in the West Kootenay Women’s Flat Track Rolley Derby League.

Bad News Betties are one of the two expansion teams in the league this season.

During exhibition action the Valley Vendettas put a thumping on the Betties.

Anyone with bats urged to report to Kootenay Community Bat Project

by Nelson Daily staff on 15 May 2012
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Large colony of yuma bats in attic of local house. — submitted photo

The successful Kootenay Community Bat Project (KCBP) is gearing up for another year of identifying local bat species, providing educational programs and workshops, and assisting landowners with bat issues.

Of the 16 species of bats in B.C., half of them are considered vulnerable or threatened and an additional species, the little brown myotis, has recently been assessed for federal Endangered status.

Information on local bat species and their roost sites is an important part of bat conservation and management.

Symphony of the Kootenays in Jeopardy

by Bill Metcalfe on 15 May 2012
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Symphony of the Kootenays in Jeopardy

The non-profit organization that runs the Symphony of the Kootenays has decided to dissolve itself unless four new people come forward to sit on its dwindling board of directors of at a special meeting coming up on May 16 in Cranbrook.

But Hans Dekkers, the president of the society, says that even if four people do come forward, he is not optimistic that the orchestra can continue. “This is a personal opinion,” he says, “but even if we do get four people, it will just postpone the inevitable.”

Regional News

Atamanenko Concerned About Proposed Changes to Meat Inspection Regulations

by Contributor on 16 May 2012
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Atamanenko Concerned About Proposed Changes to Meat Inspection Regulations

New Democrat MP, Alex Atamanenko (BC southern Interior) is appalled by the reckless changes to Meat Inspection Regulations (MIR) being proposed by the Conservative government that will leave Canadians wondering if the meat they buy is actually safe. Private inspectors, who may not be qualified, would now be able to inspect meat.  Worse, these changes to meat inspection rules also change what meat is acceptable – meaning already-dead meat and crippled animals’ meat will be okay for processing for Canadians’ tables.

DriveBC now offering webcam views of Kootenay Lake ferries

by Contributor on 16 May 2012
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Cameras show the lineup at the Balfour Ferry Terminal.

The first of 30 new webcams to be installed this year on the DriveBC network are now live, giving motorists a real-time view of traffic queues, weather and road conditions at the Kootenay Lake ferry terminals.

DriveBC web cameras are now live at:

* The Balfour ferry terminal, 35 km east of Nelson, looking north toward Highway 3A: http://images.drivebc.ca/bchighwaycam/pub/html/www/303.html

POLICE: Bush party goes bad

by Boundary Sentinel on 15 May 2012
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POLICE: Bush party goes bad

A Grand Forks man has been charged after a bush party took an ugly turn Sunday night.

Timothy LaFreniere was charged with aggrevated assault and is scheduled to appear in court today.

At about 3:00 a.m. on May 13 the Grand Forks RCMP were called out to the local party spot known as moto after a complaint about a man with a knife. The bush party was being attended by teenagers and others in their early twenties.

Provincial & National

No excuse for further Liberal HST stalling

by Harvey Oberfeld on 16 May 2012
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No excuse for further Liberal HST stalling
The BC Liberals and their friends in the corporate and media communities, have tried to sell the public on their supposed “business” abilities…unlike those “socialists” on the other side.

And yet, after the voters ordered them to get rid of the HST, they are incapable of  returning for a full NINETEEN MONTHS to a provincial sales tax regime that was in effect in this province for probably more than 50 years.

COMMENT: TRIUMF Lab helps make case for electoral finance reform

by Dermod Travis on 15 May 2012
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COMMENT: TRIUMF Lab helps make case for electoral finance reform

Who would ever have thought that a single political donor could have disclosed so much about the sorry state of affairs surrounding money and politics in B.C.

In what they now call a “learning experience,” TRIUMF – Canada's nuclear physics laboratory located at the University of British Columbia – finally acknowledged last week that it wasn't the most prudent of moves to make $3,370 in political donations to the B.C. Liberal party over the past three years.

International

Bush, aides convicted of Iraq war crimes in absentia by Malaysia

by Wikinews on 16 May 2012
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Bush, aides convicted of Iraq war crimes in absentia by Malaysia

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia has found former President of the United States George W. Bush and seven prominent former colleagues guilty of war crimes.