Castlegar SculptureWalk is enjoying increased public support, as city council agreed to an extra $10,000/per year in funding for the program for the next three years. At its regular meeting Tuesday night, council gave the green light to $25,000 per year for SculptureWalk, largely due to the project's phenomenal success in ...

 If you haven't yet got plans for tonight – or even if you do – you won't want to miss out on the big happenings downtown, for a good time AND a good cause. How about a community barbecue starting at 7 p.m., followed by a movie showing on a 10-foot, outdoor screen, with all proceeds going to the Community Harvest Food Bank?...

It’s a rare thing to gain exclusive, invite-only access to the world premiere of a film. Almost as rare for this writer is an impromptu trip through Vancouver and the Sea to Sky Corridor to bear witness to such an event: I don’t like leaving my house. Even more rare (and now we’re talking almost […]

 A delegation from Castlegar’s Sister City, Embetsu, Japan will be reunited with their host students from Castlegar on Aug.10. In the summer of 2008, eight Castlegar students, from Grades 7 and 8, travelled with Curt and Yuri Kutschera to Japan,  where they experienced Japanese culture and generosity in person.  Now these...

Vancouver seems an unlikely place to nurture such a rustic troubadour as Dustin Bentall, but Canada seemed like an unlikely country to be the birthplace of artists like Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel or Neil Young. If you look you’ll find as deep a frontier spirit and hard luck charm as any...

 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...