Fire centre reminds people to use caution this spring
The Southeast Fire Centre is asking the public to exercise caution while conducting any outdoor burning activities this spring. As the snow melts, dried grass from last summer gets uncovered and that material can be highly flammable. Almost all wildfires at this time of the year are caused by people and are therefore preventable. ...
Selkirk College’s Multi-Million Dollar Capital Project Receives Boost from Columbia Basin Trust
Selkirk College has kicked off the next exciting chapter in post-secondary education in the West Kootenay-Boundary by securing a $1 million donation from Columbia Basin Trust for facility and equipment upgrades to the trades-based Silver King Campus. With the generous infusion of funds, Selkirk College is now poised to move...
GF talks future and politics
The City of Grand Forks, participated as one of three municipalities out of 26 in a pilot ‘Community Engagement’ project sponsored by the Association of Kootenay and Boundary Local Governments (AKBLG) on March 12 at the Omega Restaurant. Seventy-five local citizens registered to join in a lively discussion facilitated by...
Former minister fights to keep ALR at meeting last week
BC’s former Minister of Agriculture and Food Corky Evans spent over an hour on March 12 sharing the reasons British Columbians should fight to save Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) to a full house of concerned citizens at Selkirk College. He was invited by Grand Forks & Boundary Regional Agricultural Society (ag society)...
Green bin program moving to rural Grand Forks
The Grand Forks kitchen scraps compost curbside collection program will soon expand to include nearby rural residents and become the first rural area in British Columbia to receive this type of waste collection service. On Feb. 27, the Board of Directors of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary gave approval to the concept...
Canadian Avalanche Centre Urges Backcountry Users to be Cautious
After four avalanche fatalities in the past six days, the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is urging backcountry users to make cautious and conservative decisions while in avalanche terrain. “We’ve been dealt a pretty troublesome snowpack this season and our terrain choices need to reflect that fact,” explains Karl Klassen, ...
Fearing and White playing in Grand Forks
Fearing & White are heading to The Gem to perform on April 7th in support of their new album, Tea and Confidences. The album is currently streaming here. Canadian singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing met Belfast troubadour Andy White backstage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival in 1998. Forming an instant friendship, the two...
LETTER: Reconsider leasing land agreements
Recently three prominent conservation organizations: Ducks Unlimited, Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation and the Nature Trust of B.C. were highly critical of the B.C. Liberal Government’s agenda of increasing grazing leases from 10 years to 20-25 years. The criticism was directed at range tenures that included the lands ...
SPOTLIGHT FILMS: The Crash Reel
On Tuesday March 25 at 7:30 pm Spotlight Films will be showing “The Crash Reel” at the Gem Theatre. This film is done verite style, which combines improvisation and camera to unveil a truth or highlight subjects hidden behind crude reality, in this case the explosive issue of traumatic brain injury. This is a telling tale of...
Crawford Bay man killed in avalanche while snowmobiling in Gray Creek pass
A Crawford Bay man died from injuries after being caught in an avalanche Tuesday (March 11) while snowmobiling in the are commonly referred to as the Gray Creek pass. Creston RCMP received the call of a missing snowmobiler Tuesday. Police were told two men were out snowmobiling in the rural area north of Creston when they...
