Castlegar Highlands Come Back to Canada with the Gold
The Castlegar Bantam Highlanders travelled to Couer d'Alene, Idaho this past weekend and came home with the hardware, finishing first in the eight-team tournament. Goalie Bryce Anderson had shut-outs in all three games of the Round Robin. In the final game, Bently Orlaw scored with 41 seconds left in the third, to send the ...
New breed of scam email threatens execution
In what some would consider a particularly repugnant new twist on email cons, perpetrators have escalated to threatening the lives of their intended victims. A Salmo man recently received an email (rife with spelling and grammatical errors) indicating that the sender was a hitman who had been contracted to murder the email's...
Selkirk College Digs In for Audit of Campus Cafeteria Waste
As Selkirk College strives for sustainability, members of the Selkirk College Sustainability Committee and the Environment Club recently sorted through garbage and recycling bins on campus to determine how students and employees could be doing a better job at waste reduction. “We wanted to determine whether recyclable or...
Castlegar FD marks 2017 landmarks, including first female officer
Ed. Note: It’s literally impossible to overstate the importance of this community’s volunteer fire department. Not only do they attend fires, as their name would suggest . . . they are also first responders at any emergency call, from a gas leak to a heart attack to a car accident. They provide building inspections, public...
Plane problems promote community cooperation
What could have been an embarrassing irony became a regional success story displaying community collaboration during last weeks’ grand opening of the Trail Air Terminal on Nov. 29 (see full story at https://trailchampion.com/news/celebrating-new-trail-airport-terminal-building-46086#.Wil0TXlry1s ). Despite sometimes contentious...
Editorial Rant: What are we celebrating? And how do we behave?
A plea for civility in the law, politics and our everyday lives Mid-winter is approaching, with our various seasonal celebrations: Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, and maybe even Festivus? We celebrate our religious and / or ethnic affiliations; we celebrate the return of the sun for longer periods of time each...
Kootenay Gallery offers chances to win spectacular get-aways
The Kootenay Gallery in Castlegar is offering you an opportunity to win your choice of one of two great get-aways. The first is a three-night excursion for two to New York City’s world-reknown Broadway District in the heart of Manhattan. The package includes flight to and from a major Canadian or US city to New York, three ...
Have your say in the future of local recreation
Residents from Area I, Area J and Castlegar are invited to complete a survey to provide further information about potential enhancements to the Castlegar & District Community Complex (CDCC). Findings from this survey will be used by the Castlegar & District Recreation Commission to determine its approach to a potential...
Review of joint replacement services underway for Trail hospital
Interior Health (IH) is undertaking a review of hip and knee total joint replacement surgical processes for patients at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) in light of slight increase in the number of surgical site infections in elective (scheduled) total joint replacement surgeries. The KBRH surgeons who provide joint...
CBT commits $10 million to ecosystem enhancement
Ecosystems around the Columbia Basin will receive a major boost thanks to a new Ecosystem Enhancement Program announced by Columbia Basin Trust. The program will run for five years with a budget of $10 million. The goal is to help maintain and improve ecological health and native biodiversity in a variety of ecosystems, such...
