Outsiders find Castlegar bloomin' beautiful – at least that's the hope of Communities in Bloom (CiB) organizers after judges toured the city last week. Darlene Kalawsky, CiB coordinator, said two national-level judges received royal treatment over the course of almost two days, gathering tons of information that will hopefully...

Summer in the Mountain Kingdom heralds the arrival of all kinds of fun stuff: open patios at local restaurants, museum and mine tours, snow-free (hopefully) hiking trails, and our own local musical theatre production, The Gold Fever Follies.  This ever-changing, dynamic show, consisting of stories loosely based on actual historical events in Rossland’s history, will […]

 Is it a communal kitty litter? A poor man's beach?   Nope – the giant sandbox to be erected in the parking lot of the Pioneer Arena is neither ... it's another opportunity to promote public art, the downtown core, and Castlegar as a whole.   Sculpturewalk's Pat Field says 30 to 35 cubic yards of a special sand/clay mixture...

 Children's entertainers from the TV show Down By The Docks will be sailing into the Castlegar Public Library on July 7 at 10 a.m. Upon dropping anchor, Leroy The Lobster and friends from Down By The Docks will take you on a Jungle Safari to explore the Amazon, African and Asian jungles. Who knows what adventures await us...

Every community has a story. For Christina Lake the story dates back to the times before even the First Nations story began, back to the time that only exists in the legends of the S’nixit people who lived in the area. Marilyn James, of the S’nixit nation, explained that the story of Christina Lake is still being created in...

The Rossland Chamber of Commerce would like to invite everyone to the annual Canada Day Celebration in Rossland on Thursday, July 1, 2010. The day begins with a hike up Mount Roberts.  Hikers are to meet on the Rossland library lawn at 9:00 AM where directions and carpooling to the trailhead will take place. Some shuttles […]

 The Castlegar & District Recreation Department, The Castlegar and District Youth Centre (A Kootenay Family Place Program) and Robson Community School have partnered up to offer summer “COOL” camps for children ages six to nine and youth ages 10 to 13, with funding from CBT Community Initiatives, Human Resources and Skills...

Students from Selkirk College’s School of University Arts & Sciences dug into their studies through an archaeological field school at Zuckerberg Island in Castlegar from June 7-11. During the week, archaeological sites were set up in and around former kekulis (remains of underground houses built by First Nations people) and...

The Castlegar Garden Club will host the Ninth Annual Castlegar and Area Garden Tour, A Passion for Plants, on Sunday, June 27 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Evocative, impassioned . . . impossible to resist. Ten flagrantly delightful gardens will be open to the public. A Garden Tour brochure with map is available locally at the Chamber...

Photo; A deer fawn photographed by Barbara Doughty in last year's BC SPCA Wild Arc Wildlife-In-Focus photo contest.  The BC SPCA wants you to shoot to thrill! Between June 1 and Aug. 31, Wild ARC, the BC SPCA’s wild animal rehabilitation centre on Vancouver Island, is hosting Wildlife-In-Focus, a provincewide wildlife photography...