Photo submitted: Associate of Science student Chelsea Mathieson is currently working at the 2010 Olympics thanks to an opportunity presented through the Co-op Education and Employment Services Department at Selkirk College. Selkirk College students are gaining valuable work experience during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, ...

BC Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko will be hosting more in a series of “MP Community Forums”. Elected officials from other levels of government will join Atamanenko in an open panel presentation to constituents on their latest hot topics, followed by an open discussion, with questions and comments sought from residents....

 Teck and the BC Cancer Society (screening Program) have donated a very useful pelvic exam table to the Selkirk College Nursing program. The table was donated following a fourth year student nursing project that partnered with the community to provide cervical cancer screening for the college population. This screening took place at the Castlegar Campus, providing excellent accessibility for the college’s […]

The Lower Columbia Community Development Team has established the Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation (LCI). The goals of the LCI include attracting and supporting new businesses, building on existing assets and knowledge and supporting development projects. “ I’m quite pleased with the progress that the LCCDT has made over the last year, “ said Kevin Jolly, Chair, Lower Columbia Community […]

Up until nine months ago, the lighting in schools across School District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia) was old and inefficient. Many of the fixtures dated back more than 40 years. So the district embarked on a retrofit project to replace all of the lighting in its 13 schools and maintenance building and install occupancy sensors in each gymnasium. Nine months later, […]

Selkirk College, along with other educational institutions in North America and the world, is actively pursuing environmental sustainability in all facets of its locations, hoping to reduce its overall impact on the environment.  Last year, the Environmental Sustainability (ES) Committee at Selkirk College hired Renewable Resource Instructor Derek Marcoux, along with two students, Suzanne Fordyce and Jeremy Prahl, to provide […]

Photo by Kyra Hoggan: The traffic coming towards the camera will, in seconds, be hidden from view by the sign in the foreground. This photo was taken from the approximate spot a driver would stop before turning left onto Highway 22 from Minto Road. A new twist has arisen in the controversy regarding Castlegar’s ‘Million-dollar […]

The B.C. Ministry of Transportation (MoT) has responded to a Source story about the ministry’s refusal to reduce speed limits along ‘Million-dollar alley’ – a stretch of Highway 22 in front of The Brick that has seen so many collisions that city council felt compelled to repeatedly request MoT intervention. But all requests to date […]

Women’s Enterprise Centre’s is bringing a free Peer Mentoring program to Castlegar this year specifically to help locally self-employed women build successful businesses.Peer mentoring is designed to help women entrepreneurs address the issues and barriers they experience while making the transition to self-employment. These...

The following is a press release from Teck. Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE: TCK) announced net earnings of $1.8 billion, or $3.42 per share, for 2009 and $411 million, or $0.70 per share, in the fourth quarter. Our operating profit before depreciation was approximately $3.7 billion for the year and $1.0 billion […]