It’s summer time, which often leads to holidays, which often lead to pictures ... lots of pictures.  One of the great things about digital cameras is that you can take crazy amounts of pictures without having to pay crazy amounts of developing costs. The down-side of this is, now that I have all of these pictures, what am I...

 Interior Health (IH) is pleased to announce the launch of High Acuity Response Teams (HARTs) this fall that will enhance transport and care needs of acutely ill patients throughout the health region. These teams will consist of highly-trained critical care nurses responding with a BC Ambulance Service (BCAS) basic life support...

A young man who was swimming in the Kettle River near Cascade Falls is missing and presumed drowned. Nicholas Rypien, 19, of Fruitvale was swimming with a group of friends in the river near Christina Lake on July 31, when he got caught up in the rapids and was not seen again. The Grand Forks […]

With the devastatingly horrific accounts of John Fulton’s murder becoming public, I find myself taking a moment to look at depression and the varying degrees of severity manic depressives (technically bi-polar affective disorder) experience.   “What do you know?” you ask. Well, let me tell you before you embarrass yourself in the forum below. Though […]

The culmination of over 13 years of planning, proposals, grant writing, and construction will be coming to fruition next Friday as the Christina Living Arts Centre hosts it’s grand opening.   This official ceremony will mark the region’s first Leadership in Energy and Ecological Design (LEED) building which will house Canada’s first LEED artisan’s gallery.   […]

Governments love ‘sin’ taxes. They fill up the coffers while creating the illusion that government is the high-minded protector of society’s moral well-being. But should government be running ‘sin’ businesses? If the performance of the BC Lottery Corporation (BCLC) is any indication, the answer is no – it creates far too much risk for players […]

 It’s still impaired driving if you’re driving a boat. That’s a message local police are failing to get through to residents, as road stops continue to net inordinately high numbers of impaired drivers leaving local lakes, campgrounds and beaches.   This past weekend saw two impaired charges and four suspensions, while the weekend of July […]

 Castlegar could be enjoying as much as double the transit service it has in the past as the city prepares to ink a deal with BC Transit, in concert with RDCK Areas I and J. City CAO John Malcolm said improved services could be in place as soon as January 2011.   “BC Transit (after lengthy community consultation) put forward...

 Outsiders find Castlegar bloomin' beautiful – at least that's the hope of Communities in Bloom (CiB) organizers after judges toured the city last week. Darlene Kalawsky, CiB coordinator, said two national-level judges received royal treatment over the course of almost two days, gathering tons of information that will hopefully...

A flood of community support and assistance has washed over the Community Harvest Food Bank, after manager Deb McIntosh told local media the resource was in jeopardy.   McIntosh announced last week that the food bank was seeing increased demand and only had weeks left before having to close its doors, if more donations didn’t […]