Choosing the best music of the year is always difficult when there are so many interesting bands to choose from and narrowing the field to say that one is the best of all is impossible. Here’s my take on the top albums of the year, in no specific order because, well, there just isn’t one […]

The Year in Review story for 2009 was so easy to write – I could be glib and tongue-in-cheek while lampooning a maniacal pot lobby (not the sane, reasonable proponents, just the nutbars who penned missives offering to find out where I live and “knock some sense into that fat, empty head of yours.” Yikes!). […]

PART II: This past year, my staff and I had the privilege of assisting constituents faced with federal bureaucratic problems – unfair treatment, misinterpretations or just plain despair at not seeing any hope in their particular plight.  For the most part, I find the federal public service is exceptionally professional, knowledgeable and helpful, and should not be […]

Rescue efforts are underway to free more than 200 skiers trapped Tuesday at Maine’s Sugarloaf ski resort, which is located 120 miles north of Portland. Several injuries were reported after a ski lift broke down; an employee at the resort said this caused several people to fall to the ground. The Spillway East lift reportedly came to a halt during […]

By The Nelson Daily SportsWhitewater Ski Resort is slowly, but surely, moving up on the Big Dogs.For the first time in more than 15 years the Nelson-based ski resort is opening a new lift. “It’s awesome,” said Whitewater General Manager Brian Cusack in a written press release.“I kinda hate that word,” Cusack adds with a […]

Nelson Fire Department reported that no one was injured after responding to a house fire a the 2300 block of Bealby Road Wednesday afternoon at Horlick’s Point east of Nelson. At approximately 3 p.m. the call came into the station that smoke was billowing from a two-bay detached garage and small building on the south […]

  Iconic holiday figure Santa Claus, aka St. Nick, aka Pere Noel, was thinking about folks in our region even more than usual this year, The Sourcediscovered in an annual interview with Claus yesterday. “I hear you’ve been having some bear problems in that neck of the woods,” he said. “We’ve been facing a similar problem here, […]

Ed. note: Every year on Christmas eve as young children, just before hanging our stockings on the mantel above the fireplace and heading off to bed our mother would read us The Night Before Christmas from a generations old hard-cover copy of the book. Now that my career has steadily moved further and further into […]

Selkirk College’s Mir Centre for Peace will be opening its doors to the general public on a weekly basis starting January 2011 to increase awareness of the Centre and assure participation in events hosted by the Peace Café. A display entitled 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe will be available for onlookers to view and Peace […]

PART I:  The past year has been an eventful one.   In January the Haiti earthquake hit. My staff and I worked for days with Foreign Affairs, a School District and Mt. Sentinel School of South Slocan to safely locate, press for transportation assistance, and rescue a class of high school students caught in Haiti.   […]