Throughout the KIJHL season The Nelson Daily Sports Editor Bruce Fuhr will take a capsule look at the players on the Nelson Leafs hockey club. Today the focus in on starting netminder Andrew Walton.If someone in the crowd last year during a Nelson/Castlegar game had said in a year from now Andrew Walton would be wearing the...

At their annual Marketing and Buying Convention, Source For Sports® and Stopconcussions.com launched their Head Zone initiative to their store owners, the sporting goods industry trade and the media. “It is amazing how our helmet manufacturers including Bauer, Reebok, CCM, Easton and Cascade, the medical community, and the ...

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily SportsNow the fun begins.The Kootenay Ice kick off the 2011-12 B.C. Major Midget Hockey League season with plenty of optimism as the interior based squad heads to Vancouver Island for a two-game set Saturday and Sunday in Nanaimo against the North Island Silvertips.And new head coach Mario DiBella...

 Attention: Soccer players & families of Castlegar! Castlegar Minor Soccer Association (CMSA) will be holding their Annual General Meeting in preparation for next years Youth & Mini soccer season on Oct. 18 at the Castlegar Complex at 7 p.m.   We, the executive, have reached a crossroads with respect to the future of soccer in Castlegar, as […]

 Not content to skate along on the summer success of Castlegar’s outdoor skatepark, Ty Smith, co-founder of Friends of the Castlegar Skatepark, has now secured space for an indoor venue, as well. Smith said the Kinnaird Community Church has generously donated what used to be the woodworking classroom in the old Kinnaird Middle School for […]

Castlegar has it’s own bonafide hero, this according to Canada’s Governor General, the Right Honourable David Johnston. On behalf of Johnston, Mayor Lawrence Chernoff presented Castlegar’s Ron Anderson (of Yule Anderson Chartered Accountants), with a Certificate of Commendation award at Sept. 19’s regular council meeting. The award stemmed from an event that occurred May 23, […]

CBT has announced the signing of an agreement with Columbia Mountain Open Network (CMON) to acquire CMON’s broadband assets. The assets will be managed by the Columbia Basin Broadband Corporation (CBBC), a new wholly-owned subsidiary of CBT formed in an effort to expand broadband in the Basin. “CBT saw the opportunity to continue the work […]

 A Castlegar woman may have learned that picking pockets in an age of modern technology is a great way to get arrested, according to local RCMP.Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Dan Pollock said police arrested a 32-year-old woman Sept. 16, in connection with a Sept. 8 incident."“On Sept. 8, a (local) resident was ‘pick pocketed’ of $4,700...

In an effort to expand broadband internet in the Columbia Basin, the Columbia Basin Trust signed an agreement with Columbia Mountain Open Network (CMON) Wednesday to acquire CMON’s broadband assets. The assets will be managed by the Columbia Basin Broadband Corporation (CBBC), a new wholly-owned subsidiary of CBT formed in an effort to expand broadband […]

Unrequited love led to throwing a computer at an ex-boyfriend, landing an 18-year-old Nelson woman in jail. Around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20 police responded to an assault in progress at an apartment building in Rosemont.  Witnesses reported that an eighteen-year-old female entered an apartment belonging to the female acquaintance of her ex-boyfriend. The […]