Selkirk College Cements Strategic Roadmap for Future
A commitment to empowering confident and imaginative learners through quality post-secondary in the West Kootenay and Boundary region is cemented in a new document released by Selkirk College. Building Remarkable Futures: Strategic Plan 2019-2024is the culmination of community consultation, employee engagement, student input...
A mountain ash marks 100 years of Local Government Management Association
The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary participated in the Local Government Management Association (LGMA)Centennial Tree Planting Campaign this month by finding a choice spot for a mountain ash tree in beside the new First Nations arbour at Beaver Creek Provincial Park between Trail and Montrose in Electoral Area ‘A’. “I...
City of Trail and NCA Society Continue Bear-Proof Bin and Humane Rodent Control Services
The City of Trail and the local non-profit organization dedicated to minimizing the negative impacts of development on wildlife, Natural Control Alternatives Society (NCA), are pleased to announce they will continue their partnership to renew service contracts for communal bear-proof garbage bins and humane burrowing rodent...
City of Trail Joins Communities Across the Province in Planting a Tree Commemorating the Work of Local Government Professionals
Local Government professionals contribute to the well-being of their communities in a variety of ways, and May 19-25, 2019 marked Local Government Awareness Week. This year, local governments in BC are planting a tree in recognition of local government professionals and their ongoing commitment to community service while...
Kootenay labour market stalled in 2018
According to the CPABC Regional Check-Up, an annual economic report by the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (CPABC), the Kootenay labour market contracted by 700 jobs or one percent to 71,200 jobs in 2018. The goods sector was entirely responsible for the jobs lost. A slow down in major project development...
BC Hydro: Play it safe around our reservoirs
Play it safe when boating or swimming this summer. Our reservoirs can be enjoyable recreation destinations, provided certain common sense safety precautions are observed. Because the water in our reservoirs is utilized for flood control and the production of electricity, reservoir water levels can rise or fall daily. Reservoir...
Overdose deaths would be at least twice as high without emergency harm reduction and treatment response
The rapid expansion of harm reduction services in response to B.C.’s overdose crisis prevented more than 3,000 possible overdose deaths during a 20-month period, suggests new research led by the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). The study estimates that without access to and rapid scale up of harm reduction and treatment...
Smoke Eaters Acquire Forward Corey Clifton From Surrey
The Trail Smoke Eaters Junior ‘A’ Hockey Club is pleased to announce the team has acquired forward Corey Clifton (’99) from the Surrey Eagles in exchange for defenseman Jimmy Darby (’01). Clifton, 20, spent the 2018/19 season with the Eagles, collecting 7 goals and 18 assists for 25 points in a career-high 50 games played, ...
West Kootenay Cadets Receive Awards
Local Sea Cadets from 81 Hampton Gray VC. RCSCC (Nelson) and 131 Kootenay RCSCC Trail, and Air Cadets from 531 RCACS (Trail), 561 Osprey RCACS (Nelson) and 581 RCACS (Castlegar) participated in their Annual Ceremonial Review on Saturday June 1, at the Castlegar Community Complex. The Annual Ceremonial Review (ACR) is the final...
RBC Foundation Donates $50,000 To Take a Hike
The RBC Foundation has donated $50,000 to the Take a Hike Foundation through RBC Future Launch. Dale Verdon, Manager at the Nelson RBC Branch met with the West Kootenay Take a Hike class to present the $50,000 cheque that will help one hundred vulnerable youth graduate high school and support Take a Hike’s expansion to Vancouver...
