Fatal motorcycle accident near Robson
Police are now releasing the name of Grand Forks man who died after a motorcycle accident near Robson Thursday afternoon.RCMP Const. John Rennie, with West Kootenay Traffic Services, said that 48-year-old Paul Allan Tanner, “failed to negotiate the on-ramp onto Robson Access Road and collided with the no-post barriers lining...
Break-and-enter at Brilliant Power Plant
Police are asking for public asisstance as they investigate a break-and-enter into the Brilliant Power Plant Thursday night, according to RCMP Const. Sherri Karn."Sometime over night betwen Sept. 24 and Sept. 25, culprit(s) used a metal bar to pry open a locked gate and enter the secured compound," she said, explaining the...
Blueberry StrongStart BC opens
Parents, caregivers, children, teachers, trustees and district staff celebrated the official opening of the Province's StrongStart BC early learning centre at Blueberry Creek Community School, Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid announced today."Young children can discover the joy of learning within a fostering, supportive...
City declines to blow up burrows at cemetery
The city is refraining from taking a page from the movie Caddyshack, despite the fact it has gopher control problems at the Castlegar Cemetery.City councillor Kevin Chernoff said the city will, instead, be looking at humane ways to manage the rodent problem.“What's happening is, rodents (gophers) are causings some erosion...
City withdraws from RDCK joint venture
Photo: city councllor Kirk DuffThe final implications of a service review, instigated several years ago by the City of Castlegar to assess joint programming undertaken with the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK), are finally trickling through to the public sphere.City council, in its regular meeting Monday night, ...
RCMP: "peeping" not permitted
Police are reporting a marked dip in activity for last weekend, perhaps due to inclement weather that discouraged criminal shenanigans.“We only received 41 calls for service between Friday to Sunday, which is quite low compared to previous weekends in the summer, where we've seen anywhere from 50 to 70 calls,” said Castlegar...
City all wet ; tapping into potential awards
Never mind wine tasting – the City of Castlegar is getting ready to soak the competition in an interntaion water tasting competition this year.Council heard, at its regular meeting Monday night, that the city will be entering the Berkley Springs Water Tasting Competition, held each year in West Virginia and featuring entries...
Celgar saga continues at UBCM
The City of Castlegar and the City of Burnaby are submitting late resolutions to be debated at the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) annual convention next week, in an attempt to deal with the fall-out of major industries refusing to pay their municipal tax bills.Castlegar is facing this problem with its single largest...
Kootenay Country display at UBCM
The unique partnership of the Regional Districts of Central Kootenay (RDCK), Kootenay/Boundary and East Kootenay, along with Columbia Power Corporation and Columbia Basin Trust (CBT), are gearing up to take the “Welcome to Kootenay Country” display to the Union of British Columbia Municipalities Conference (UBCM) taking place...
Castlegar hospice tourney a triumph
Photo: Edie Dunn teeing off at the infamous “Lawrence Welk Hole of Bubbles”The first annual Hospice Golf Tournament scored a hole-in-one Sunday at Little Bear, with more than 50 people attending and more than $4,500 raised to support Castlegar and District Hospice Society.Event organizer, and society executive director, Suzanne...
