Paige Purcell knows already at a young age the importance of giving
Despite her age, Paige Purcell continues to be one of Nelson’s largest fundraisers for the BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. The five-year-old Nelsonite was diagnosed with a brain tumour a few years ago. It was at BC Children’s Hospital that Purcell had the life-saving operation. And since Purcell experienced the life-changing...
Grants available for local art projects
Are you a professional artist living and working in the Columbia Basin Region? Neighborhood Small Grants: Creative Spark offers 100-per-cent coverage for projects up to $1,000 to support professional artists to engage young people in schools and communities in arts-based projects. Professional artists across all disciplines...
Castlegar Selkirk to host fiddle, guitar, piano workshop
The BC Old Time Fiddlers, Kootenay Branch No.9, are busy planning the 14th Annual 2015 Fiddle, Guitar and Piano Workshop. This week-long summer camp will take place from July 13 to the 17 at the Selkirk College Castlegar Campus. This very popular camp continues to provide some of Canada’s very best champion fiddlers as...
May sees three consecutive record high temperatures
Last month was hot enough to set three consecutive records for highest temperature at Castlegar's West Kootenay Boundary Regional Airport, according to Ron Lakeman at the Southeast Fire Centre Weather Services. “An upper ridge of high pressure was the dominant feature for dry, fairly sunny and times very warm conditions during...
Living sculptures grace Columbia Ave as Communities in Bloom celebrates 10 years in Castlegar
They’re the perfect marriage of two of Castlegar’s most successful programs, Communities in Bloom (CiB) and Sculpture Walk: Eco-sculptures are living pieces of art, forms filled with thousands of plants to create stunning 3-D figures that shift and change as the plants within them grow. As residents and tourists wander through...
Castlegar filmmaker to debut movie 'Defensora' in Nelson
On May 22, 2015, Angelica Choc, a Mayan woman from Guatemala confronted shareholders of Canadian Mining Giant, Hudbay Minerals Inc. at their annual general meeting held in Toronto. With incredible dignity and courage, she told shareholders of the brutal killing of her husband, Adolfo Ich (allegedly) by Hudbay security personnel...
Fire ban partially rescinded in Southeast Fire Centre
Effective at noon on Thursday, June 4, 2015, Category 2 open fires will once again be permitted in the Southeast Fire Centre due to a decreased risk of wildfires. The public is now permitted to burn waste, slash or other materials in a pile not exceeding two metres in height and three metres in width. The rescinding of this...
RCMP investigate suspicious death in Creston
RCMP have commenced an investigation into a suspicious death after a body was discovered in a residence on the Lower Kootenay Band near Creston Sunday afternoon. On May 31 at 3:14 pm Creston RCMP received a report of a sudden death on the Lower Kootenay Band. Upon arrival officers located the body of a deceased 26-year-old ...
Distraught man arrested after long standoff in downtown Nelson
Nelson police, supported by officers from local RCMP officers and with assistance from the Nelson Fire Department, arrested a suicidal 31-year-old man who had been barricaded inside an apartment in the Medical Arts Building on Ward Street late Tuesday evening following a six-hours-long standoff. Police closed the 400 block ...
Kootenay Savings hands out tens of thousands in grants to local non-profits
Twenty-four community organizations have benefited from Kootenay Savings Community Foundation grants, according to a press release issued this week. The release indicated $53, 060 was distributed to non-profits across the region. “Since it was established in 2000, the Community Foundation has formed partnerships with hundreds...
