September weather, as normal as it comes
Finally, a normal month on the calendar. Ron Lakeman at the Southeast Fire Centre Weather Services said September was a "near normal" month. "The mean monthly temperature was within 0.1 of a degree of normal (while) the monthly rainfall was 89% of normal," Lakeman said. Lakeman said a broad upper trough of low pressure allowed...
Selkirk College Saints Begin the Drive For Five
The Selkirk College Saints will raise another British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) banner to the rafters of the Castlegar & District Recreation Centre on Saturday night, but the focus for this year’s group of student athletes will not be on the past. The Saints captured a fourth straight provincial title...
Strange odor forces staff to evacuate Mount Sentinel Friday morning
Mount Sentinel staff took no chances, evacuating the school Friday morning after the smell of a suspicious odor began to filter through the South Slocan-based High School. The Kootenay Lake School District Twitter account said the school was “evacuated due to smoke from unknown source.” The Nelson Daily has learned the...
Castlegar wins award for Celgar Pavilion at Millennium Park
The City of Castlegar was one of six communities to receive Community Recognition awards from Wood WORKS! BC at the annual Union of BC Municipalities Convention in Victoria this week, in honour of the Celgar Pavilion at Millennium Park. "We congratulate these six local governments for their visionary initiatives which resulted...
Refugee family safely landed in Castlegar Tuesday
This Tuesday the Castlegar Refugee Project Team was thrilled to greet a Burmese refugee family who arrived safely, after travelling for more than 24 hours from Kuala Lumpur. The young couple originally fled their Chin State in Myanmar and applied for refugee status in Malaysia. They have been waiting in crowded conditions in...
Fitness apps more effective when they are personalized — UBC study concludes
When fitness apps include personal touches such as individualized goals and contact with a ‘real live trainer’, users tend to exercise more consistently, a UBC study concludes. Mary Jung, an assistant professor in UBC Okanagan’s School of Health and Exercise Sciences, recently completed an eight-week study that examined the...
RCMP collar alleged child predator
A proactive online investigation by the BC Integrated Child Exploitation (BC ICE) Unit has resulted in charges of Making Child Pornography and Arrangement or Agreement to commit a sexual offence against a child. On March 10, 56-year-old Ronald Gardner, of no fixed address, was arrested and subsequently charged with the above...
National Seniors Day celebrations come to West Kootenay
For the second year in a row, BC Transit, the City of Nelson, the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary and the Regional District of Central Kootenay are proud to celebrate National Seniors Day in West Kootenay. On Friday, September 30, 2016, BC Transit and its operating partners will take part in the second Annual Nelson ...
COLUMN: From the Hill - The High Cost of Getting a University Education
On May 5th, the Parliamentary Budget Officer released a report titled, Federal Spending on Postsecondary Education. One of its findings was that Canadian college and university students come from disproportionately wealthy families—about 60% of students are from families in the top 40% of income. That’s perhaps not surprising, but a related find was: the federal […]
Companies/organizations to access bridge lights for special events
Local businesses and organizations will be able to put Victoria Street Bridge’s celebrated new lights to use celebrating their own events and issues, after a unanimous vote by city council at its regular meeting Sept. 12. Local non-profit and for-profit committees and organizations who wish to promote their events with specific...
