Smoke Eaters Sign Halliday For 2022/23
The Trail Smoke Eaters are thrilled to announce the signing of JT Halliday from St. Paul's School in the USHS-Prep league for 2022/23. Halliday, from Saugus, California, plays in with St. Paul's School in the United States High School Prep League in New Hampshire, where he's got 12 goals and 9 assists for 21 points in 22...
School/house fires keep Castlegar crews hopping
Castlegar fire crews got an intense workout Thursday with two structure fires: one in a school and another in a single-family house. Fire Chief Sam Lattanzio said the call came in at 3:07 p.m. reporting a structure fire at 720 7 Ave., better known as Stanley Humphries Secondary School. Engine 1, Ladder 1, Rescue 1, […]
Free sensory-friendly ice skating coming to the Kids Rink at the Trail Memorial Centre
Trail Parks & Recreation is teaming up with Movin’ Mountains Therapy Services to host free sensory-friendly skating in the Kids Rink at the Trail Memorial Centre. This new collaboration is generously funded by the Murphy Family Foundation as part of the foundation’s $370,000 USD contribution to the City of Trail over the...
Street sweeping and flushing underway in Trail
The City of Trail’s Public Works crew has started its annual street sweeping and flushing. The sweeper truck will start in the neighbourhoods that have received the earliest snowmelt and will eventually make its way through each neighbourhood. It takes 2 to 3 weeks for the truck to cover the City’s entire 76-kilometre (152 ...
Smoke Eaters Sign Spooner From OHA
The Trail Smoke Eaters are excited to announce the signing of Remy Spooner from the Okanagan Hockey Academy (OHA) for the 2022/23 season! Spooner, from Kelowna, BC, is the top point per game scorer at OHA this year with 1.11 points per game. The 17-year-old forward has 13 goals and 17 assists in 27 games this season. As a...
City of Rossland donates to the Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal
At Monday night's Regular Council Meeting, Mayor Moore spoke on the situation in Ukraine and brought forward a motion regarding the City donating $1 per 2021 Census figures (4,140) to the Red Cross Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal. This motion was endorsed by the majority of Council. City Council also encouraged residents...
RCMP seize drugs, cash in Trail
On March 13, at 8:35 p.m., a Trail and Greater District RCMP officer was conducting a patrol when he spotted a blue 1999 Chevrolet Silverado truck allegedly make an illegal left hand turn onto Hwy 3B from Old Waneta Road in Trail, according to RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. "The officer detained the truck roadside and began an...
Special OP/ED Series; Health care workers talk climate change
I am a neurologist working in Nelson. I talked to a man this summer to review his Parkinson's disease. He was not doing well. Usually he did not have any history of depression but he was lacking his usual motivation. He lived in a remote area and had lived there on a small remote property with a stream running through it for...
RDKB hosts Flood Planning Workshop for local farmers
Help is on hand for those who work the land across the Kootenays and Boundary region. The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) has joined forces with the Climate and Agriculture Initiative BC to deliver a free virtual workshop for local farmers, producers and ranchers on Tuesday, March 17 at 9 am – 11.30 am (PDT). ...
A far away war hits close to home in the Kootenays
Late in February, on the day that Russia invaded Ukraine, Stepan Hevak of Castlegar, British Columbia, tried to celebrate his daughter’s fourth birthday. It was nearly impossible to feel joy, as he and his wife Iryna are Ukrainian and were deeply saddened by the news of war. “Her birthday was Feb. 23. That’s when they […]
