New RDCK transfer station set for construction in spring of 2013
The long awaited design for a new Nelson transfer station is set to be completed this November according to Mike Morrison, Regional District Central Kootenay resource recovery manager. The estimated $3 million project, with construction beginning in the spring of 2013, is replacing the current transfer site at Lakeside Drive...
UPDATE: Police treating fire in Christina Lake as suspicious
Grand Forks RCMP are treating a fire that burned down one home, one unoccupied log house and several outbuildings at 1833 Hagglund Road in Christina Lake as suspicious. The property and home, owned by the "Bear Dude" Allen Piche, is "nothing but a smoking hole in the ground", said Grand Forks RCMP staff sergeant Jim Harrison....
Rubberhead Bike Festival rolling into the Kootenays
Rossland’s Rubberhead Bike Festival is back for its fourth year with two-wheeled fun for all types of riders, from dirt jumper/slopestyle rippers to enduro racers to cross-country heart pounders. The always-popular Seven Summits Poker Ride goes down Sunday, Sept. 2 on the IMBA Classic Seven Summits Trail, featuring 36 kilometres...
COMMENT: Some local notes from a national meeting
I was privileged to attend the 41st General Council Meeting of the United Church of Canada, held in Ottawa in mid August of 2012. We dotted the “i”s and crossed the “t”s of years of work carried out by task groups and committees, congregations, and conferences. Responding to requests for assistance and change that came to us...
August contemplations
In which the author ponders if he has wasted time chasing political and historical facts, while other things worth knowing have gone unnoticed… Travel broadens the mind. Home is where the heart is. Every person can assert, I know my own truth and I originate my reality. Ideology does not include all possible realities. Politics […]
COMMENT: Too much Happy Valley farm … or too little imagination?
Recent comments by Coun. Cary Fisher and Coun. Jill Spearn—regarding Brenda Trenholme's appeal to subdivide her Happy Valley property—taste like a slice of logical swiss cheese on a slab of imagination tofu. And you'll need a pinch of salt for the cracker too. Sure, sure, everyone's in favour of local agriculture. Just not ...
UPDATE: Missing Westbridge man located safe
UPDATE: Following several reported sightings by Westbridge residents, Wesley John Feist, missing since Monday, Aug. 20, was located on Christian Valley Road in Westbridge. Feist had walked away from his Westbridge, B.C. home and was apparently staying in outbuildings in this area, said Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel of the Kootenay...
Council says no to regulating marijuana
Grand Forks city council voted a resounding “no” to the idea of supporting the regulation and taxation of marijuana last night. As a follow up to previous conversations at the council table about the Stop the Violence BC campaign, started by a group of B.C. mayors and law enforcement authorities to pressure provincial and...
BCGEU stages one-day strike in support of fair and acceptable agreement
More than 50 B.C. Government Employee Union members walked off the job Monday at the Nelson Ministry of Forests regional office on the North Shore to protest the lack of movement on current talks with the B.C. Government. “We’re off today trying to achieve a fair and acceptable agreement,” said Doug Kinna of the BCGEU provincial...
Airport celebrates transportation
The Grand Forks airport is rated as one of the best in the Southern Interior of B.C. so volunteers are inviting the community to celebrate with them at the airport appreciation day next Saturday. The Grand Forks Flying Association is hosting this celebration of transportation. The day’s events including: fly-in, car and bike...
