Crime Reduction Unit for Castlegar
A new commanding officer is just part of the shake-up going on at the Castlegar RCMP detachment, as a long-awaited local policing initiative finally gets off the ground. Now that Sgt. Laurel Mathew is at the helm of the department, and a new corporal on the way to join the team at the end of […]
City seeks succor from province
Requesting an expedited court date in the B.C. Supreme Court is but one of the avenues the City of Castlegar is exploring after Celgar rejected the municipality's latest offer to resolve a $3.2-million tax dispute between the city and its single largest rate payer.Castlegar mayor Lawrence Chernoff and city CAO John Malcolm ...
H1N1 clinic in Castlegar today
Today will see Castlegar's first all-access H1N1 vaccination clinic, and Interior Health community manager for prevention services for Kootenay Boundary Cheryl Yates said she expects a steady crowd.The clinic, slated for 12:30 to 7 p.m. at the Complex, will run concurrent to another in Grand Forks, with Nakusp getting needled...
Traffic fatality still unresolved
Police are still investigating the cause of a traffic fatality that brought rush hour traffic to a screeching halt for hours Nov. 20 on Hwy. 3A near Thrums.They have identified 62-year-old Brian William Chernoff of Castlegar as the victim, who was killed after stepping in front of a semi-tractor-trailer at roughly 3:30...
Kootenay Contraption contestants concoct canny creations
One hundred of the Kootenays' finest young minds recently put their brain power into action as part of Kootenay Contraption contest. Tasked with the open-ended assignment of coming up with an invention that either does something, addresses a need, or solves a problem, entrants from across the area sent in photos, drawings, ...
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...
