Local author wins award at Kootenay Literary Competition
The Kootenay Literacy Competition (KLC) awards were handed on March 14 in Nelson. Of the award winners was a local resident. Leslie Davidson from Grand Forks won in the Adult Creative Non-Fiction category, along with Graham Kenyon of Rossland. Davidson won for her short story “Hold On.” The winners were given their awards at...
Local author launches second Bern Fortin mystery
In 2012, readers were introduced to Bern Fortin in Deryn Collier’s breakout novel, CONFINED SPACE, which was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award and was the One Book One Kootenay selection for 2013. The second in the series, OPEN SECRET, hits bookstore shelves next week, and to celebrate Bern’s return, fans can attend several...
Words and Music Come Together in Perfect Harmony
April is National Poetry Month and Selkirk College writing instructor Almeda Glenn Miller and Business Administration student Melissa McCready are combining efforts to create a delicious metaphor. Miller is currently promoting her new book, a volume of poetry titled Begin with the Corners. On Friday night at Nelson’s Kootenay...
Selkirk Digital Arts Program's Year-End Show Back in Nelson
Cutting edge design, art, illustration and ideas will be on display in Nelson’s downtown starting Friday when the Selkirk College Digital Arts & New Media Program presents its year end student show. Students in the Tenth Street Campus-based program are getting set to unveil the best they have to offer in a new downtown ...
Pass Creek hosts First Annual Small Farm Animal and Poultry Sale and Swap
We are inviting all small farmers and businesses in the East and West Kootenays to attend Pass Creek Exhibition grounds for our First Annual Small Farm Animal and Poultry Sale and Swap. The venue will offer small farmers the opportunity to meet other farmers, exchange information, sell and trade. We are inviting businesses ...
Fifth Annual Castlegar Garden and Nature Fest looking for Vendors
Well, here we are suffering from somewhat spring-like weather. Snowy nights and minus 10 degrees, followed by sunny days and plus seven degrees! In some places the grass is laid bare, in other places there are drifts of snow four feet deep! Some of us are peering longingly into the snow banks and inspecting bare branches for...
Mir lecture series presents Sally Armstrong
After having witnessed the horrors that conflict thrusts upon innocent victims in some of the most unstable nations of the world for more than two decades, Sally Armstrong manages to stay incredibly optimistic. One of Canada’s foremost journalists, Armstrong has covered women and girls in zones of conflict from Bosnia and...
Second area community opts out of Trail recreation program
The already-contentious City of Trail Recreation program has sustained another blow, as Warfield has now followed Beaver Valley's lead and opted out of the Trail Resident Program (TRP) rate structure. In a release issued this morning, Trail mayor Dieter Bogs expressed distress over Warfield's decision, arguing it may force ...
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...
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...
