Crunching the numbers: Some facts in break-down of new Trail/Teck deal
The City of Trail is offering more specific numbers regarding its plans to expand city boundaries to include the Columbia River Valley (encompassing the airport and Waneta Dam) almost all the way to the U.S Border (see attached map). Mayor Dieter Bogs said the city was approached by RDKB Area A business owners (the Waneta […]
City and Teck broker agreement for massive expansion of Trail boundaries
The following is a press release issued jointly by the City of Trail and Teck Cominco: The City of Trail will be moving forward with the boundary extension referral process which may result in the city extending its boundaries into Electoral Area A; including land from the city’s existing southern boundary through to the Columbia […]
Two overnight fire calls keep Nelson Firefighters busy
The Nelson Fire Department night shift was kept busy Wednesday and into Thursday, responding to two fires call-outs in a span of five hours. The first call came in shortly before 9 p.m. from the Kootenay Lake Hospital, prompting the department to send out a crew of even firefighters and two engines to deal with […]
UPDATED: BC Coroners Service releases name of victim in fatal Warfield accident
The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a male who died after a motor vehicle incident near Trail on May 3. He was Frederick Wilkinson, aged 52, of Cornwall, Ont. Wilkinson was the driver and sole occupant of a commercial semi- trailer unit which lost its brakes, went out of control and […]
UPDATE: Travel advisories for Kootenay Pass, Paulson Summit lifted
Travel advisories for the Kootenay Pass and Paulson Summit on Highway 3 have been lifted according to the Drive BC Website. The recent storm over the Southern Interior lowered the freezing level causing snow of accumulate at higher elevations and Drive BC to issue the advisories to the public. Kootenay Pass Twitter messages said, “no […]
Resident group garnering signatures to oppose pesticide use in city parks/play spaces
A group of local residents is using three Facebook pages, an online petition, and several hard copy petitions to try to pressure the City of Castlegar to ban pesticide use in city parks and play areas. Elise Bourgeois, a mother of three who lives right next to Millennium Park, said she opposes any kind of […]
City to review policy allowing mobile food vendors/restaurants
An upset letter from a local restaurant owner has council considering the implications of the number of mobile food vendors they license in the city. Element owner Florio Vassilakakis sent a letter arguing against allowing mobile vendors/restaurants (the food trucks you can see along Columbia Avenue), prompting city staff to...
Trail kids net professional filming gig for Silver City Days
Five Trail teens got the experience of a lifetime while bringing a whole new realm of publicity for Silver City Days’ 50th anniversary this year. City communication and events coordinator Andrea Jolly said she was surprised by the initiative shown by Grade 11 J. L. Crowe student Eric Gonzalez, 17, when he approached her offering […]
Mother Nature raises havoc in West Kootenay
Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning for the West Kootenay Tuesday but it’s the wind surfacing during the evening that may have caused the most damage to property in the region. Tuesday at approximately 6:49 p.m. a wind gust dropped a tree onto a house in the Shoreacres, a few kilometers west of the Highway […]
Regional District of Central Kootenay Board considers everything from carbon neutrality to medical grow ops
By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily It looks like the Regional District of Central Kootenay will not meet its target to become carbon neutral by 2012, but staff are proposing another option to meet the goal in the near future. As a participant in the Carbon Neutral Kootenays (CNK) project, the RDCK had set a […]
