B.C. Hydro dishes the dirt on +$50-million project
The price tag for refurbishment of 12 spillway gates at Hugh Keenleyside Dam will exceed the $50 million mark, B.C. Hydro representatives told Castlegar city council Monday. Project manager Paul Klawer said the high cost means they must get approval from the B.C. Utilites Commission, from which they anticipate a reply by June 2010. From […]
Castlegar braces for third wave of Swine Flu
This, the second, wave of the Swine Flu pandemic is winding up in Castlegar – but there's a third wave yet to come, according to officials.Cheryl Whittleton, team leader of emergency in Castlegar and flu coordinator for IHA staff in the Kootenay Boundary, said in an interview yesterday that the cases of H1N1 presenting at the...
Castlegar water plan may mean utilities hike
Water management is the issue on tap for the City of Castlegar, as they introduce Phase 2 of a comprehensive, 20-year, $66-million water management plan generated in cooperation with contractor Urban Systems....and may include utilities hikes for Castlegar residents.Phase 1, adopted by council in February 2009, looked at...
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 […]
