Car-vs-motorcycle/truck fire/two-car MVA, all within 3 1/2 hours Tuesday
Yesterday (Tuesday) was a very busy day for first responders on Hwy 3B, with three MVAs within less than three-and-a-half hours. The first call came in to Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue (KBRFR) at 1:24 p.m, according to Cpt. Glen Gallamore. He said crews (including four firefighters from Trail and four from Warfield)...
Smoke Eater Kent Johnson named BCHL Player of the Week
The BC Hockey League announced Monday that Smoke Eaters forward Kent Johnson was named BCHL Player of the Week following a ten-point performance over a four game week. Johnson who had only one goal through his opening four games of the season exploded on the weekend getting a total of ten during the week with the bulk of his...
En Famille International -- student exchange opportunity
Most of us have heard about the student exchange program operated by Rotary International, for students from 15 to 19. Now, Rossland is the North American headquarters for another long-established student exchange program: En Famile International is designed for students as young as 9, up to age 16. En Famille is a...
Editorial: What to do?
Current and anticipatory grief The reality of the continuing extinction of many so species is profoundly upsetting. Readers may wonder why old people should care. For example, I’ll be dead in a few years myself; it will be up to others to live their lives diminished by the loss of caribou and many other creatures, many...
Pot plants problematic if not protected, say police
It may be legal to grow pot plants, but they still come with some responsibility, according RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich, who added marijuana is still a controlled substance. "On Sept. 21, the Trail and Greater District Detachment RCMP received a complaint that two marihuana (sic) plants were stolen from the yard in the 1900...
Trail pair runs afoul of law again, earns new laundry list of charges
A local duo is once again facing criminal charges after repeated run-ins with the law, according to Trail top cop RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. “On Sept. 16, at 9:29 p.m. the Trail and Greater District Detachment RCMP conducted a traffic stop and investigation into a 37-year-old male driver and his 24-year-old female passenger...
RCMP/KBRH warn public about active phone scam
On Sept. 19, the Trail and Greater District Detachment RCMP received a complaint from the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) Health Foundation about an ongoing telephone fraud occurring in the Trail and Greater Area. The below message was issued by KBRH Health Foundation after reporting this incident to the RCMP:...
Op/Ed: Few things are as dangerous as economists with physics envy
By John Rapley, for Aeon Two questions: is it good or bad that professional athletes earn 400 times what nurses do, and is string theory a dead end? Each question goes to the heart of its discipline. Yet while you probably answered the first, you’d hold an opinion on the prospects of string theory only if you’ve studied...
COLUMN: Political Intelligence, Elections, and the Demos
Some Elections matter more: this should be one Canadians are about to choose a national, federal government on October 21. It is a more significant choice for our nation than we have faced in many elections, and not because Canada alone is facing some unusual circumstances: the entire human world and the non-human species...
Double stuck, and charged with theft; and, who hurt Rusty?
On September 12, 2019, officers from the local RCMP detachment tracked down a truck reported as stolen from the Red Mountain Ski Resort. The truck was owned by a contracting company working in the area, and was equipped with GPS – which provided live updates on the truck’s location and made finding the stolen vehicle much ...
