Free lunch for families with young children and expectant children
Family service providers, including the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy, Trail Family and Individual Resource Centre, Family Action Network, Circle of Indigenous Nations Society, Trail Library and Trail Health and Environment Program will be cooking and serving up a free hot soup lunch for families with young children ...
Marcoux, Johnson Help Smoke Eaters To Shootout Win Over Centennials
The Trail Smoke Eaters used a 32-save performance from Adam Marcoux along with a shootout winner from Kent Johnson to help them to a 3-2 shootout victory over the Merritt Centennials on Saturday night at the Trail Memorial Centre. In an opening period that did not lack for entertainment, the Centennials were first to jump on...
Smoke Eaters Surrender Five In Third In Loss To Vipers
The Trail Smoke Eaters used a two-goal performance from Mack Byers to even the game midway through the 3rd period but five goals from the Vernon Vipers in the final frame sunk them in a 6-3 loss on Friday night at the Trail Memorial Centre. The visitors showed no sign of any bus legs in the early going as the Vipers were...
Sliding semi barely misses firefighters attending MVI
Local firefighters are reminding residents to drive to winter conditions after tragedy was barely averted this morning when slippery roads caught more than one driver off guard. Regional Fire Chief Dan Derby said crews were called to an MVI about five kilometres east of Fruitvale at 8:30 a.m. Monday. “She (the driver) had to be […]
Budget housekeeping sparks debate about homeless camping in Castlegar parks
A hot-button social issue arose in Wednesday night’s operational budget meeting when city Director of Civic Works Lucas Pitts brought forward what would otherwise be a simple housekeeping issue. The concern is creating a bylaw governing overnight camping in city parks – not by residents, but by homeless people who haven’t anywhere else to sleep. […]
MLA applauds investment in local public safety organizations
New Democrat MLA Katrine Conroy is welcoming $185,000 in funding for four local not-for-profit organizations in the West Kootenays. The organizations, which offer important public safety services, are receiving the funds through the Community Gaming Grants program. “People show what they care about when they volunteer for...
Coyote Bites Man, and other RCMP news
From the RCMP report: On January 24, 2019, around 9:00 pm the Trail and Greater District RCMP Detachment received a report that a man was bitten by a coyote in the lower parking lot of the Red Mountain Ski Resort, in Rossland, BC. The bite broke the skin and the man sought medical attention at the Kootenay Boundary Regional...
CBT, CPC purchase control of Waneta expansion for $991 million
Columbia Basin Trust and Columbia Power Corporation announced today they have entered into an agreement with Fortis Inc. to purchase its 51-per-cent interest in the Waneta Expansion hydroelectric generating facility located near Trail, for $991 million. “We are extremely pleased to be restoring ownership to the originally...
Zins, Power Play Help Smoke Eaters To A 5-4 Victory In Salmon Arm
The Trail Smoke Eaters used three power play and a four-point performance from Trevor Zins to propel them to a 5-4 victory over the Salmon Arm Silverbacks on Saturday night at the Shaw Centre. The Smoke Eaters opened the scoring at the 6:01 mark in the 1st period and was a special one for affiliate player Paul Leroux as he...
New cardiac procedure keeps Interior Health patients closer to home
Nick Stobbart suffered from shortness of breath, and it kept him from getting around as much as he would have liked. The culprit? Heart failure, due to a bad aortic valve that twice landed the 89-year-old in hospital. The timing could not have been worse, as his wife of 60 years was at home receiving palliative care for cancer....
