Mark your calendars for this year’s Community Science Celebration on April 10,  Selkirk College gym, Castlegar. This year’s celebration is planned to be even bigger and better than last year’s and, if last year was any indication, the booths will fill up fast. The celebration will include eye-popping science shows, various demonstrations, challenges and an opportunity to […]

Prevention is a word that is well known to herbalists.  The practice of herbal medicine uses herbs to nourish and strengthen the body and increase vitality. Herbs play a role in cancer prevention in several ways.  They can increase immune function and detoxification, and help the body and mind cope with the everyday stresses of […]

“For a child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does ‘just for fun’ and things that are ‘educational.’ The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.” -Penelope Leach Science, like all subject matter in life, can be taught, read […]

Photo by Kyra Hoggan: Former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm discusses the HST with residents at the Castlegar Public Library Monday. Roughly 50 people showed up at the Castlegar Public Library Monday morning to hear former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm slam the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) due to take effect on June 1 of this […]

Two Castlegar residents have been arrested after a  search warrant was executed on their Columbia Avenue home last Wednesday. Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew said over 100 marijuana plants, along with pre-packaged marijuana, were found in the home in the 100 block of Columbia Avenue. A 29-year-old female and 37-year-old male were arrested and are […]

Selkirk College is pleased to announce that the design–build services contract for the renovation of the Tenth Street student residence in Nelson has been awarded to Wildstone Construction and Engineering. This is the end of a two-phased tendering process which began in January of this year. Phase one involved the selection of three companies deemed […]

Contemplating the heady flow of data in and out of my current work environment, it surprises me that I am returning again for a quick chat on Social Media, more so that I am choosing Twitter to chat about.  Why Twitter? Well because Twitter just turned four years old and recently just tweeted its 10 […]

Though few people (just under 20) attended the special meeting of council Monday night , it offered some interesting developments. An agreement between Celgar and the City of Castlegar was signed, Celgar manager Al Hitzroth offered a presentation describing the necessity of the deal, and one councillor voted in opposition to the agreement, the budget […]

A car crash Sunday on Highway 3A, just past 14 Street in Castlegar, has led to the death of a local man. At about 12:30 a.m., police responded to an accident in in which the 49-year-old female driver (from Nelson), lost control of her car and went down a steep embankment, according to RCMP West Kootenay […]

Last week The Source ran an interview with Dr. Andre De Greef, head of surgery at KBRH, addressing doctors’ concerns about looming cuts to the OR. This week, we’ve got a reply to that story from Frank Marino, the Health Service Administrator for Trail and Castlegar. When did you hear from surgeons about the issue and […]