A FREE Workshop: Wetlands and what to do about them
Water -- increasingly precious. Don't “drain the swamp”! As climate change shrinks the glaciers that feed our major rivers, and changes patterns of precipitation that feed smaller streams and groundwater, our water supply becomes increasingly precarious – and precious. Wetlands the world over...
Selkirk College International Alumnus Returns for Visit After Three Decades
When Charles Mak first arrived to Selkirk College from Hong Kong in late-1986, international education was a virtually unknown post-secondary entity in the West Kootenay. Much has changed over the last 33 years. Now working for a successful Shanghai-based office furniture company, Mak spends half his year traveling to all...
Elementary Students Create Field Guide to get People Outside
This month, Mrs. Barrie’s Grade 5 Class at Webster Elementary School completed a field guide on a local Warfield trail system, through a Wildsight EcoStewards project. The field guide is helping students, teachers and the community to get outside and learn. Behind Webster Elementary is an amazing trail system but it...
Totem Talks: Free Wildlife Information Sessions in Nelson
Do you love (or fear) bears and want to know more about them? Did you know we share this area with wolves and cougars? And what do you know about the elusive Mountain Caribou? Join Touchstones Museum Indigenous Educator and Wildlife Technician Toni Appleby as she shares stories from years studying, tracking, and reporting on...
Selkirk College Cements Strategic Roadmap for Future
A commitment to empowering confident and imaginative learners through quality post-secondary in the West Kootenay and Boundary region is cemented in a new document released by Selkirk College. Building Remarkable Futures: Strategic Plan 2019-2024is the culmination of community consultation, employee engagement, student input...
RBC Foundation Donates $50,000 To Take a Hike
The RBC Foundation has donated $50,000 to the Take a Hike Foundation through RBC Future Launch. Dale Verdon, Manager at the Nelson RBC Branch met with the West Kootenay Take a Hike class to present the $50,000 cheque that will help one hundred vulnerable youth graduate high school and support Take a Hike’s expansion to Vancouver...
Seven Summits Centre for Learning Open House
Open House at Seven Summits Centre for Learning to show young people in the Kootenays that they really can have it all: Pursuing what they love while they learn in and outside the classroom The team at Rossland’s Seven Summits Centre for Learning (7S) is planning to fling the doors of its iconic red roofed heritage...
Free universal design training being offered in Castlegar and Nakusp
Join Kootenay Rockies Tourism and Spinal Cord Injury BC for an interactive Universal Design workshop. The workshop is an introduction to Universal Design and how it applies to tourism and our communities. The workshop will provide staff from local government, tourism stakeholders and outdoor recreation professionals and...
Selkirk College Students Participate in Community-Based Restoration
A group of 50 Selkirk College students in both the Integrated Environmental Planning (IEP) Program and Forest Technology Program spent two days restoring habitat on the banks of the Columbia River for the Silver City Trap Club. Just after completing the first year of their two-year diplomas, students and their instructors...
Bilingual multi-age child care to open in Castlegar
Young children in Castlegar will soon have the opportunity to learn in both of Canada's official languages in a newly renovated, multi-age child care space set to open in July 2019. The Province is providing nearly $47,500 through its Childcare BC New Spaces Fund to support the opening of Les Roudoudous French-English Daycare....
