Castlegar requests January court date
The City of Castlegar has applied to the B.C. Supreme Court to have the case between Celgar and the city heard this January ...but Celgar has to agree for the application to be approved, according to Castlegar mayor Lawrence Chernoff. This, after an in-camera meeting Monday night saw Celgar hand the city a cheque for $377,000,...
Owners commit to cleaning up Woodland Park site
Photo of Woodland Park school fire in June, by Kyra Hoggan.Clean up is all set for the site of Castlegar's Woodland Park Elementary School, an abandoned building that burned to the ground last June in a fire set by youth vandals (five of whom have since been arrested).John Vicars, spokesman for the group of owners of the site...
Windstorm leaves a trail of damage
Storm warnings could not stop the devastation the wind brought to the Boundary region on Monday night and early Tuesday, Nov. 17. Wind gusts ranging from 50 to 70 kilometres per hour were seen in the last 24 hours around the area along with heavy rainfall. While the weather warning has now been lifted, the […]
Teck creates endowment for the Fort Shepherd Conservancy Area
Teck Metals Ltd. has donated $400,000 to create an endowment fund ensuring future management of the 964-hectare Fort Shepherd Conservancy area, which runs along more than 8 kilometres of the Columbia River, south of the city of Trail. The Fort Shepherd Conservancy Area is one of The Land Conservancy’s (TLC) model conservation properties and features […]
Castlegar Health Watch circulates survey
“How do you get to your health care appointments, including emergencies?”Thanks to funding from Area I, that’s the question Castlegar & District Health Watch Society intends to ask in a survey which will be mailed out to every household in Castlegar, and Areas I and J in the second week of November.Health-related services...
Province provides new H1N1 vaccine info; new eligibility requirements
Ed. Note: The following is a press release issued by the provincial government:More British Columbians will be eligible to receive the H1N1 vaccine beginning Monday, Nov. 16 - including first responders, healthy children, seniors with chronic health conditions and additional health care workers."With the arrival of more vaccine...
Castlegar cash in question - budgets underscore urgency of Celgar situation
Castlegar Mayor Lawrence Chernoff is still hoping Zellstoff Celgar will pay its delinquent $3.6-million tax bill for 2009 … before 2010 budgets become finalized, he said in an interview with The Source today. Also a member of the board of directors for the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK), Chernoff is helping in the preliminary […]
Missing Grand Forks man the victim of fatal car crash
The missing persons case involving 81-year-old Mr. Knee of Grand Forks was solved this afternoon when he was found deceased over the bank of the Paulson Pass highway just north of the Paulson Bridge. Knee vanished from the Boundary residential care facility in Grand Forks Wednesday afternoon.A representative from the West...
Tory MP candidate Hill ousts incumbent Zandee, Castlegar's Salekin remains riding president
Area Conservatives have given Rossland’s Stephen Hill the nod to take a run at re-capturing the riding in the next federal election, in a 161-to-132 upset over incumbent Tory nominee Rob Zandee. Members of the Conservative Party of Canada gathered in Grand Forks and Oliver, as well as at the Fireside Inn here in Castlegar, […]
RCMP clarify "stabbing incident" at Castlegar's Twin Rivers Elementary
A “stabbing incident” at Castlegar’s Twin Rivers Elementary was not as dire as rumours would indicate. Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Mike Mysko said police recieved a 9-1-1 complaint Tuesday at just after 12:30 p.m. indicating a 10-year-old student had stabbed another student. “The incident developed when a 12-year-old boy observed the young girl playing with a […]
