Photo by Alana Hardyn: The Selkirk College music faculty Selkirk College willunite once again at the Capitol Theatre on January 29 to celebrate andpromote the release of the first album in its 21 year history withSouvenir LIVE. From left to right, Mark Spielman, Paul Landsberg,Steven Parish, Darren Mahe, Laura Landsberg,...

Grease is the word in Castlegar this month as the Castlegar Community Services Society (CCSS) hosts a sing-along showing of a now-classic popular musical movie. Julie Leffelaar, CCSS board member and event organizer, said the ever-popular movie Grease, starring Olivia Newton John and John Travolta, will be ever-so-much more...

Long time Grand Forks resident Gary Gilbert and his partner Tani Schwartz are reaching out for help. Help to save Tani’s daughter Rose in her continuing struggle with a little known condition called gastroparesis. Some of you may remember her story, for others this may the first time you have heard about Rose. A year-and-a-half...

Ed. Note: The following is a press released issued by the Columbia Basin Trust:Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) would like to congratulate George Hopkins from Revelstoke in being selected by Basin residents as the winner of CBT's Show Us Your Basin photo contest.Mr. Hopkins submitted an image of a westbound steam train crossing a...

Mark your calendars for a date change in the next Monday Night at the Movies film! Summer Hours will be shown on Nov. 23 at 7p.m. in the Kootenay Centre Cinemas in Castlegar. Directed by Oliver Assayas and starring some of France’s finest actors, including Juliette Binoche of Chocolat fame, Summer Hours is a magnificent film...

Inspiring Minds Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Mirja Vahala and her students, opening on Nov. 27 and continuing November 28 and 29th.Vahala’s love for the natural world come together in this exhibition of landscape paintings: mountains of solid rock soaring to the sky, the quietness of a...

Castlegar outdid itself in this year's Communities in Bloom (CiB) competition, according to organizer Darlene Kalawsky, who returned Sunday from this year's annual CiB conference.“We did well – increased our score over last year,” she said. “We got four blooms, like last year – but we were just 1.5 points off getting five...

What was it like to live in an isolated company-owned mining village some 50; 60 years ago?Port Coquitlam author, Larry Jacobsen, interviewed 91 people including the men who worked at the Emerald Mine (Canex), near Salmo, as well as the women and children who actually lived at the mine. He has collected their entertaining, ...

Opening the Kootenay Gallery’s fifth season of Monday Night at the Movies, Easy Virtue will be shown at the Kootenay Centre Cinemas on Sept. 28 at 7 p.m.This sparkling romantic comedy, starring Colin Firth , Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Barnes and Jessica Biel is based on a Noel Coward play and was first adapted for the silent...

Selkirk College’s next Mir Centre for Peace lecture will feature one of the descendents of the last First Nations to live at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers—Lawney Reyes.Reyes is the grandson of Alex Christian, otherwise known as "White Grizzly" among the Sinixt First Nations of the Kootenays. He is the...