LETTER FROM HAITI: The Kootenay connection
The following is a letter from Jim Reimer, pastor of the Kootenay Christian Fellowship, who is in Haiti right now with a group of students from Mount Sentinel school.Today is January 15. We started the day with a large tremor at 4 am. It shook our shelter and sent the kids running. To be awakened in this manner was quite scary.It...
Selkirk nursing students influence change in health care
University of Victoria students at Selkirk College are influencing change with regards to health care practices in our local communities. Towards the end of last semester, the fourth year Nursing students held a Mini Conference at the college showcasing twenty “Influencing Change” projects. The students worked with community...
Selkirk offers live performance of Souvenir
Photo by Alana Hardyn: The Selkirk College music faculty Selkirk College willunite once again at the Capitol Theatre on January 29 to celebrate andpromote the release of the first album in its 21 year history withSouvenir LIVE. From left to right, Mark Spielman, Paul Landsberg,Steven Parish, Darren Mahe, Laura Landsberg,...
CBT supports efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change
While world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen this week to discuss climate change, right here in the Columbia Basin, local governments, First Nations and communities are already taking action on climate change with support from Columbia Bain Trust (CBT). A survey conducted earlier this year confirmed that 75 per cent of...
Freshwater mussels could be glowing in the Kettle
Radioactive mussels in the Kettle River? A team of concerned environmental groups and researchers say there are. Al Grant of Boundary Alliance and Willy Floyd of the Committee for a Clean Kettle Valley recently conducted a study on the sensitive aquatic species to bring continued awareness to the problems facing the river. ...
2nd Annual Western Regional Pond Hockey Championships set to return to Rossland
Rossland, BC has once again been selected to host the Western Regional Pond Hockey Championships, a sanctioned qualifier for Canadian National Pond Hockey Championships in 2010. The tournament will take place from January 15-17th. Players’ who want to experience this one-of-a-kind event that takes you back to playing on...
Kootenay Contraption contestants concoct canny creations
One hundred of the Kootenays' finest young minds recently put their brain power into action as part of Kootenay Contraption contest. Tasked with the open-ended assignment of coming up with an invention that either does something, addresses a need, or solves a problem, entrants from across the area sent in photos, drawings, ...
OP-ED: MP misguided in gun registry support
On Nov.4, our MP, Alex Atamanenko, voted against Bill C-391, which would scrap the long gun registry, throwing his support behind what has become known as the “$2 billion boondoggle”.Why would our MP vote in favour of keeping the colossal waste of money?He states that, “I believe the registry may be working. Between 1991 and...
Missing Grand Forks man the victim of fatal car crash
The missing persons case involving 81-year-old Mr. Knee of Grand Forks was solved this afternoon when he was found deceased over the bank of the Paulson Pass highway just north of the Paulson Bridge. Knee vanished from the Boundary residential care facility in Grand Forks Wednesday afternoon.A representative from the West...
Legislation to stop ambulance strike
Ed Note: The following is a press release issued by the provincial government:The province is taking action to restore full emergency care to protect British Columbians, Minister of Health Services Kevin Falcon announced today in introducing legislation to end the strike by CUPE 873, the union representing BC Ambulance...
