If you’re lucky enough to see Harlequin Ducks in the Salmo River Watershed then wildlife biologist, Marlene Machmer, wants to hear from you. With funding from the Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program (FWCP), Pandion Ecological Research and the Salmo Watershed Streamkeepers are doing a Harlequin Duck pair and brood inventory...

@KostelecPlan asked a couple of good questions on Twitter this week. He wanted to know what the distracted driving laws in BC are and would I share my thoughts on media outlets using video footage submitted by distracted drivers in their news stories. The video he shared with his questions showed the view out the drivers...

The Trail Smoke Eaters Junior ‘A’ Hockey Club is pleased to announce forward Braden Costello (’00) has committed to the team for the 2019/20 season.  Costello, 19, joins the Smoke Eaters after spending parts of the last three seasons in the United States Hockey League (USHL) playing with the Des Moines Buccaneers and Green ...

This August, 16 Columbia Basin youth will paddle the mighty Columbia River for two weeks through Wildsight’s Columbia River Field School—for high school credit.   An amazing opportunity for students ages 15-18, the Field School is a canoe trip and learning adventure. The four-credit, multidisciplinary Board/Authority Approved...

I just finished reading an article titled "Old People Should..." in the May 2019 edition of the Reader's Digest. It explained that we could find out what people ask Google most often by seeing how the search engine auto filled our queries. The top result for "old people should" was that they should not drive. I took the idea...

An eclectic band of Castlegar creatives with mixed artistic backgrounds recently came up with an idea for a multi-disciplinary open mic night that is open to musicians, writers, speakers, comedians, dancers, and other performers. Castlegar is a small city full of low-key, hidden gems, whether those gems be the creatively-talented...

Imagine being three years old, and accidentally banging your tummy – then having your whole world turned upside down. Gabriel Negreiff did just that on April 3, 2018, according to his mom Brooke. “He was having a lot of discomfort,” she said. “It just got worse and worse, and he was vomiting throughout...

Alexander Zacher was walking to work early on the morning of Oct. 31, 2014 in Tsawwassen. He followed the walk signal on 12th Avenue at the intersection of 52nd Street using the marked crosswalk. When he was about two-thirds of the way across he was struck by a left turning vehicle driven by Glenn Prescesky and suffered serious...

This must have been Following Too Closely Week in British Columbia. I received the story of an incident in Sooke, an analysis of a video from Richmond and was subjected to this dangerous behaviour myself. You might be able to get away with ignoring the Motor Vehicle Act, but the laws of physics will eventually prevail. The ...

“What’s the most important thing for a person to do?” I put this question to our church congregation a few weeks ago. The reading for that week was about a fig tree that had not produced fruit for several years. The landowner wanted to cut it down to put the soil to other use, but a servant pleaded to give the tree another ...