Trash to Treasure Day this weekend
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily It’s a zero waste event with a definite upside. Trash to Treasure Day (T2T) is about turning your trash, or someone else’s, into treasure and reusing what might have been thrown out. This Saturday residents in the Regional District of Central Kootenay, including Castlegar, will be...
TECH TALK: It's flu season ... is your computer infected?
The computer version of the flu is called 'malware'. Malware is a global term for computer viruses, trojans, spyware, keyloggers and other bad software. There are so many different categories, and so many specific examples that don't comfortably fit within just one category, that it's easier just to call all of them "malware"....
POLICE: Efforts continue in the search for Owen Rooney
The Grand Forks RCMP are continuing their efforts in locating 24-year-old Owen Kiernan Rooney. Rooney, originally from Australia, was last seen at the Grand Forks Hospital on Aug. 14. He was last seen at approximately 8:00 p.m. that evening sitting outside on a picnic table on the west side of the Boundary Hospital. Update: […]
Young people moving to Nelson for lifestyle: survey
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Nelson saw the greatest influx of new residents into the city in 10 years, according to the results of the Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce’s Nelson and Area New Resident Survey. And the figures show they are young. In 2010, 263 new families representing 585 new people relocated […]
Is living in Castlegar hazardous for your health?
I'm going to ask you to imagine something for me: you're at the Castlegar Golf Club with your (husband, father, best friend) and he has a heart attack. You know it's a heart attack because it's his second one. The ambulance comes, and you're shocked when they turn onto the highway toward Castlegar instead of Trail, since...
RCMP release name of women killed near Crescent Valley
By The Nelson Daily StaffRCMP have released the name of an elderly women killed in a collision near Crescent Valley Thursday afternoon.Mabel Hadikin, 84, died at the scene when her small import car was struck by a gravel truck near on Highway 6 near Osachoff Road.RCMP said Hadikin, from the local area, failed to yield as she...
Boundary Wood looking for capital of $3 - 5 million
Over 100 people from the West Boundary area have said that they are interested in potentially buying a $10,000 share in the newly formed Boundary Wood Products Inc. The company, unveiled by local government representatives last week, is trying to raise between $3 – 5 million to finance the new business. Following the announcement […]
Annual Castlegar favourite, Spooks on Zuke, cancelled
The ever-popular Castlegar Hallowe'en favourite, Spooks on Zuke, will not take place for the first time in more than a decade. The annual fundraiser for the Castlegar and District Heritage Society will not be creeping out Castlegar this year as organizers take a hiatus to improve the event. “We just have nothing new to...
Police giving thanks for quiet weekend; youths hunt turkey with bow and arrow
It was truly a weekend of Thanksgiving for local police, who are reporting a quiet, uneventful several days. "There were a couple of vandalism incidents, but no major serious crime, which is a good thing - it's nice to see detachment cells empty after a long weekend," said Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew. "There were quite...
Public meeting to gauge community reaction to loss of ultrasound machine
A Castlegar town-hall meeting is slated for tomorrow night at the Complex at 7 p.m. to discuss Interior Health’s (IH’s) plan to take Castlegar’s ultrasound machine and move it to Trail. This, after a closed-door meeting earlier in the day with IH regional representative Allan Sinclair and Castlegar Mayor Lawrence Chernoff, representatives from RDCK Areas […]
