Feeling Like Some Fun? How About Fireworks?
City of Castlegar’s Mayor and Council invite everyone in the community to celebrate Canada Day with an eye to the sky to watch an amazing firework display that with happen on Thursday, July 1 at dusk, rain or shine The show is presented by the Castlegar Festival Society which normally provides fireworks as part of annual...
Five-alarm blaze destroys recycling plant
A massive fire in Waneta Industrial park yesterday completely levelled a recycling facility and kept 39 firefighters busy throughout the night. "Crews from Stn 371 - Rossalnd, Stn 372 - Warfield, Stn 374 - Trail, Stn 375 - Montrose and Stn 376 - Fruitvale responded to a five-alarm fire at GFL Trail Material Recovery Facility,"...
Help Purchase “Dove Spirit” for the Doukhobor Discovery Centre
The magnificent bronze Dove Spirit, by renowned artist David Turner, is looking to make a permanent move to a new home at the Doukhobor Discovery Centre, and we need your help to make this happen! Castlegar Sculpturewalk is spearheading a community fund-raising campaign to purchase the piece from the artist, and permanently...
Selkirk College President Hits Road to Build Connections
Using the simple power of pedal, Selkirk College President Angus Graeme is connecting communities across the region and around the world. Now serving in his final year of a career at Selkirk College that spans three decades, the local college’s president will spend six days in July on his road bike pedaling 500 kilometres of...
Care Air and Angel Flight Service help local patient gain access to medical care
Kim Kostiuk, a patient from Cranbrook who had an appointment at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH), was transported to the Trail Regional Airport (YZZ) on Friday, June 17, 2021 through Angel Flight East Kootenay and returned to Cranbrook the same day. Care Air, the West Kootenay Angel Flight service, arranged for Kim’s ground transportation to […]
Wildsight OP/ED: Globally unique old growth falls as BC fails to act
Deep in the heart of BC’s Inland Temperate Rainforest (ITR), chainsaws are cutting irreplaceable and globally unique stands of ancient cedar-hemlock forests. The trees, which are hundreds and hundreds of years old and many one to two metres in diameter, are being auctioned off and logged by BC’s own provincial timber agency,...
Autonomous Sinixt: What's in an Indigenous Name?
What’s in a Name? Original places names of the Sinixt təmxwúlaʔxw (homeland) in the headwaters of the Columbia River region of BC have been mapped in sn-səlxcín, the Interior Salish Dialect of the Sinixt. Autonomous Sinixt are launching the map for Canada’s Indigenous Day on June 21, joining many...
Penticton/Oliver - Two churches destroyed overnight in suspicious fires
A Catholic Church on the Penticton Indian Band and a Catholic Church on the Osoyoos Indian Band have been destroyed in overnight fires. On June 21, 2021 at 1:22 a.m., a Penticton RCMP officer was on patrol when he observed fire coming from the Sacred Heart Church on Green Mountain Road. By the time the officer arrived on...
Interior Health accelerating second doses of COVID-19 vaccine throughout region
Interior Health’s #journey2immunity COVID-19 vaccination campaign continues to accelerate throughout the region. Approximately 675,000 doses of vaccine have now been administered and more are on the way as drop-in hours expand and mobile immunization clinics travel across the Interior. “I want to thank the hundreds of...
MP: Liberals reject NDP proposal to deliver affordable dental care to millions of Canadians
Yesterday, the Liberal government voted against an NDP motion that would provide dental coverage to millions of Canadians who struggle with the cost of dental care. The NDP proposal would have allowed 6.7 million people in Canada whose household income is less than $90,000 a year to access the dental services they desperately...
