SECOND UPDATE: Columbia Avenue shut down by gas line break
It wasn’t until around 7 p.m. last night that crews finally re-opened Columbia Avenue for traffic, after a gas main was broken by a construction crew just before 11 a.m. Early estimates of how long it would take to fix the severed gas main turned out to be unfoundedly optimistic. Fire Chief Gerry Rempel was originally […]
Update: Pipe bomb in Kokanee Creek Park ‘successfully’ neutralized by RCMP
A package containing a pipe bomb and other explosive material found in Kokanee Creek Provincial Park Wednesday morning were successfully neutralized by the RCMP’s Explosive Disposal Unit (EDU) later in the afternoon. RCMP had determined that a pipe bomb and other explosive material were in the suspicious package, described as the size of a shoe […]
Castlegar's Courson edges Kokanee Springs Petersen for Balfour Senior Men's Open title
Don Courson of Castlegar outlasted Crawford Bay's Leif Petersen by two strokes to capture the 2011 Senior Men's Open last month at the Balfour Golf and Country Club. Courson finished the 18-hole tournament with a 3-over-par 75 to nip Petersen of Kokanee Springs. Marc Cross of Birchbank won Low Net honours, edging Ken...
Truckers take 2011 GFI title
The Lewiston Paffile Truckers took home $18,000 in winnings as the champions for the 2011 Grand Forks International tournament after defeating Australian Geelong Baycats 9-1 under the heat of a late Boundary summer sun Monday. While the Baycats traveled the farthest for the tournament, the Truckers are experienced on the Grand Forks field having visited the tournament […]
Update: Armed robbers caught in the Creston/Kootenay area
Two brothers sought on Canada-wide arrest warrants and considered armed and dangerous were apprehended Sunday morning near the U.S. border south of Creston, RCMP said. Ian Michael Butz, 28, and Jason Avery Butz, 26, were arrested after an off-duty Canada Border Services Agency officer spotted the pair near Creston, RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said. The […]
Bears? An electrifying solution
It is beginning to feel like fall and plums, apples, pears and other fruit are the bounty of the season. But fall is also the season when we often see bears in town taking advantage of all the fruit that we make available. One solution is electric fencing. Bear Aware will be hosting a free […]
Arts and heritage organizations get assistance for professional development
Arts and heritage organizations are facing many challenges. Meet those challenges head-on with this upcoming professional development workshop in Nelson, Sept 24 and 25. Presented by Leslie Thompson, this workshop will cover effective board management, volunteer recruitment and management, marketing and fundraising fundamentals for arts and heritage organizations – key elements for sustainability. Travel subsidies […]
Letter: We should see less weather extremes, not more
Re: Hurricane Irene and the staggering costs of climate change To the editor: It is unlikely that global warming will cause increased extreme weather. If the world warms due to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures at high latitudes are forecast to rise most, reducing the difference between arctic and tropical temperatures. Since this differential drives […]
Selkirk receives one-time boost as more student spaces open in health-care programs
Selkirk College will see 38 new spaces created for those looking to enroll in the health care field this year. An additional 18 health-care assistant spaces — in partnership with College of the Rockies in Grand Forks and Trail — will be created this year, as well as 20 online pharmacy technician bridging program spaces. […]
The weekend heats up in some areas of the West Kootenay as human-caused fires still a concern
If you are headed west to the Boundary country or north to the Arrow Lakes region this long weekend don’t take your matches or lighter with you. The tinder dry aspects of those regions — and not much in the way of moisture coming in the next while — means the fire danger in those […]
