Ed. Note: Diane Kalen-Sukra was a senior city staffer with the City of Castlegar, as well as the award-winning CAO of the Village of Salmo. Local author, speaker and veteran community builder Diane Kalen-Sukra’s new book Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It is being hailed by national ...

This must have been Following Too Closely Week in British Columbia. I received the story of an incident in Sooke, an analysis of a video from Richmond and was subjected to this dangerous behaviour myself. You might be able to get away with ignoring the Motor Vehicle Act, but the laws of physics will eventually prevail. The ...

Claude Bourbon - Live in Concert Saturday, April 27 at 7 p.m. (doors at 6 p.m.) Advance Tickets $15 Tickets are available at the Theatre box office or online at: http://theoldtheatre.brownpapertickets.com or: at the new The Humble Coffee Cafe (1125 4 St., Downtown Castlegar) Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range...

This coming May, a group of seven Selkirk College nursing students will travel to Guatemala for an international practice experience. Students partaking in this experience will develop a further understanding how of how community development and health are positively linked. The group will also learn how to address social...

Last Saturday, March 23, Robson Fire Fighters held out their boots in support of Muscular Dystrophy Canada. It was the Sixth Annual Boot Drive and the bar was set high from previous years. The first year brought in $6,200, the second $6,400, then $6,600, then $,6,800 and last year a whopping $7,309. Well the community of...

Ed. Note: The following is the first in a series of stories depicting Castlegar's Hidden Heroes, leading up to an exhibit this summer at the Kootenay Gallery of Art: The Hidden Hero Project is a portrait series celebrating the everyday heroes who live and give in Castlegar. Community members were asked to nominate people as...

“What’s the most important thing for a person to do?” I put this question to our church congregation a few weeks ago. The reading for that week was about a fig tree that had not produced fruit for several years. The landowner wanted to cut it down to put the soil to other use, but a servant pleaded to give the tree another ...

Every year in April, BC transplant society focuses its efforts on raising awareness for organ and tissue donation around the province. Along with that this April 7 is National transplant awareness day in honour of the Logan Boulet effect. For those of you who don’t know Logan’s story, he was the Humboldlt Broncos player who...

West Kootenay youth Stanley Humphries, Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre (both Trail and Castlegar) and Rossland Summit School are featuring their art in the annual Young Visions 2019 exhibition.  It opens Thursday, April 18 at 7 pm at the Kootenay Gallery of Art in Castlegar. Everyone is welcome to attend the free opening ...

Ed. Note: the following is a press release issued by the City of Castlegar The City of Castlegar hasreceived a $25,000 grantfrom the Community Emergency Preparedness Fund managed through the Union of BC Municipalities that will improve ability to coordinate emergency or disaster response with other municipalities, government...