On April 28, a dinner and dance will be held at the Castlegar Community Complex to raise money for Cole Hoodicoff, a local 12-year-old boy, to attain specialized, out-of-province rehabilitation therapy.  Cole was paralyzed from the chest down in a skiing accident on January 3, 2011. As a result, he is permanently reliant upon...

The Province announced that it will ban commercial tanning bed use by young people under the age of 18 to reduce the chances of developing skin cancer later in life. “Unfortunately, cancer affects thousands of British Columbian families with one in three people expected to develop some form of cancer – such as skin cancer […]

A meeting between Castlegar representatives and BC Health Minister Mike de Jong is creating conflict between Castlegar and Trail city councillors. Castlegar councillors Kevin Chernoff and Russ Hearne, along with city manager John Malcolm, met with de Jong March 1 to discuss a variety of issues – including the possibility of a new regional hospital. […]

For the third time in four weeks, the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is issuing a Special Public Avalanche Warning for recreational backcountry users. The warning area includes all the mountains of interior BC—from Mackenzie and Chetwynd south to the US boundary, and west of the Alberta border to Pemberton and Hope. Not...

A boil water advisory at Christina Lake should be lifted next week if tests continue to show the all clear. Sutherland Creek Water Works District issued the advisory two weeks ago after a regular water test showed an anomaly, said Mike Burrows, a trustee with the water district. Since then they have had two clear […]

Alex Atamanenko, MP for BC Southern Interior, is all set to welcome constituents to a series of public forums he has organized with others throughout the riding on the topic of Food Sovereignty. “I couldn’t be more pleased that Colleen Ross, Vice President of Policy for the National Farmers Union (NFU) has offered to share […]

Alex Atamanenko, MP for BC Southern Interior is all set to welcome constituents to a series of public forums he has organized with others throughout the Riding on the topic of Food Sovereignty.  The first forum is set for the United Church in Nelson, Sunday from 7-9 p.m. “I couldn’t be more pleased that Colleen […]

This is the time of year when I start seeing many folks in, young and old, for those viral upper respiratory infections with resultant irritating dry coughs. I will go through the basic steps I use to eliminate the infection quickly and efficiently. 1.    The first step is, as always, what you are eating preventatively.  […]

The 2011 Cost of Eating in B.C. Report, released by the Dietitians of Canada – BC Region last week, showed no improvement for the average family. The Cost of Eating in B.C. has been published for over a decade to detail how much it costs for individuals and families in B.C. to access an adequate amount of food, to relate this...

I was encouraged, I really was, when Interior Health Authority (IHA) representative Linda Basran came to Castlegar to offer city council, and residents, an unqualified apology for the closure of Castlegar’s emergency ward for eight hours on Feb. 4. She acknowledged that communication around the closure was totally unacceptable,...