The Gold Fever Follies -- Song, Laughter, Colour and Action!
The storyline is new to the Gold Fever Follies, but familiar to us all -- a love forbidden because of prejudice and animosity between two factions -- in this case, two communities: Rossland and Trail. Audience members will recognize many allusions to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, as well as some direct quotes, such...
Filmmakers take note -- Daryl Duke Prize
Calling all filmmakers! The Daryl Duke Foundation announces a $25,000 prize for excellence in either a treatment or a screenplay for an unproduced long-form dramatic film telling a fictional story. The deadline for entries is September 30, 2015. Interested? To learn more, go to http://daryldukeprize.ca...
UPDATED: Ice cream man to be one of two vendors to serve park until concession opens
City council, at a special meeting Tuesday afternoon, unanimously voted to approve Pete Payne's application for a business license to provide mobile ice cream sales in Castlegar. Previous coverage: FINALLY! Refreshments will be available at Millennium Park this summer, now that city council has approved one vendor and will ...
Youth program offers $5,000 for small business start-ups
Community Futures Central Kootenay is looking for five youth under 30 to participate in a brand new entrepreneurship program called Youth Mean Business, which will provide up to $5,000 in funding and training to help them launch their own small business. The program will begin mid-July and will support participants for up to...
City plans all wheel park for under-used portion of Gyro
The City of Trail has decided to postpone the All Wheel Park telephone survey that was to commence early this week by GDH Solutions and Discovery Research. This decision was made after city council agreed to proceed with a Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program grant application for $350,000 that would go towards...
Kicking off Kootenay Festival's most exciting year yet!
What started five years ago as a fairly small community gathering has grown to include exciting and dynamic offerings ranging from entertainment and vendors to hot-air-balloon and kayak rides. Kootenay Festival - Let's Celebrate is presented in partnership by the RDCK, Castlegar Arts Council and the Castlegar and District...
Taking over the Big Apple — Selkirk's Kiesza, Parenteau get gig on ABC's Good Morning America
It was a Selkirk College reunion that played out before millions of television viewers across Canada and the United States on Wednesday morning. Selkirk College Contemporary Music & Technology Program Instructor Gilles Parenteau and program alumna Kiesza performed together on ABC’s Good Morning America, the number-one...
Grants available for local art projects
Are you a professional artist living and working in the Columbia Basin Region? Neighborhood Small Grants: Creative Spark offers 100-per-cent coverage for projects up to $1,000 to support professional artists to engage young people in schools and communities in arts-based projects. Professional artists across all disciplines...
Living sculptures grace Columbia Ave as Communities in Bloom celebrates 10 years in Castlegar
They’re the perfect marriage of two of Castlegar’s most successful programs, Communities in Bloom (CiB) and Sculpture Walk: Eco-sculptures are living pieces of art, forms filled with thousands of plants to create stunning 3-D figures that shift and change as the plants within them grow. As residents and tourists wander through...
Castlegar filmmaker to debut movie 'Defensora' in Nelson
On May 22, 2015, Angelica Choc, a Mayan woman from Guatemala confronted shareholders of Canadian Mining Giant, Hudbay Minerals Inc. at their annual general meeting held in Toronto. With incredible dignity and courage, she told shareholders of the brutal killing of her husband, Adolfo Ich (allegedly) by Hudbay security personnel...
