Winter is just around the corner . . . non believers simply look outside. And rather than hiding inside for the next few months, why not get outside and enjoy winter this year by hitting the slopes with your Grade 4 and 5 children. Skiing and snowboarding are two of Canada’s most popular winter sports […]

More delicious chocolate, more savory appetizers and even more fun await you at the second annual Chocolate and Champagne event hosted by the Christina Lake Arts and Artisans Society (CLAAS). This wildly popular fundraiser will kick your Christmas season off right on Friday, November 16 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. hosted at the beautiful […]

A 32-year-old woman escaped potentially life-threatening injuries when she was hit in a crosswalk late Friday afternoon at the corner of Victoria and Josephine streets in Nelson. Police received a 9-1-1 call from a witness at approximately 5:30 p.m. of a pedestrian being hit by a small pick-up truck near the Nelson downtown. Upon arrival […]

The Selkirk Saints continued to dominate the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League, but this win not easy. Selkirk overcame a two-goal deficit midway through the third period to force overtime before Kam Crawford scored the winner just 30 seconds into the extra frame to top Trinity Western University Spartans 5-4 Friday night at the Langley Events […]

A local woman was sent to hospital and Highway 3A reduced to a single lane for roughly 40 minutes this morning after a single-vehicle accident in Thrums. Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Dan Pollock said that, around 11:30 a.m., a man in a red Ford Focus was driving northbound along Highway 3A when traffic in front of him slowed, as a...

Castlegar is being hailed as a regional leader in climate change adaptation, particularly during a two-day workshop Thursday and today at the Complex, an event which has drawn civic leaders from across the West Kootenay. “Castlegar has really shown tremendous leadership in this area; both staff and elected officials,” said Kate Mahoney, coordinator of Columbia […]

The West Kootenay Regional Airport is soon to have a new boiler system, after a fire destroyed existing infrastructure. Airport manager Gerry Rempel said the fire was a small one, and no one was injured, but it did leave them with a system that can't be repaired or replaced. “(On Oct. 22), the guys were making their rounds ...

To the Editor; This poem was written by Nicholas Peters just after the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Peters, who lived for some years at Grande Pointe, Manitoba, Canada, had emigrated from Russia in 1925 as a boy of 10 and had seen firsthand the horrors of revolution and war in his native […]

I’m writing a column further to Christine’s column (http://castlegarsource.com/news/oped-looks-werent-deceiving-you-deceived-yourself-21868#.UJw81m80WSo), not because I disagree with her, but because I totally agree and don’t think she takes it far enough. Christine is a fundamentally nice person. I am not. The issue of stifling people’s self-expression through rigid social more is, to me, one requiring a less nice, […]

Personal appearance has become a common theme in my discussions over the past week, from online debates about teenage style to chats over coffee about what women do to feel beautiful, and it has made me realize how focused we are on self-expression/style/appearance. It all started when I asked my fellow Facebookers what their thoughts […]