Two Castlegar men killed in car crash
Two Castlegar men have died after a vehicular crash this morning, according to RCMP Sgt. Chad Badry. “Investigators with the Trail RCMP and West Kootenay Traffic Services attended a fatal collision on Highway 22 near Trail,” Badry said in a press release. “On Dec. 15, just after 4 a.m., Trail RCMP received a report of a head-on...
IH expands meningococcal disease immunization clinics in the Okanagan
Thursday, Interior Health announced they are offering immunization clinics throughout the Okanagan for individuals in grades 9-12 and persons aged 15-19 years old who do not attend school. During the past six months, Interior Health has seen an increasing number of cases of meningococcal disease in this age group, and as a result is declaring […]
Trail & District Arts Council receives $73,000 grant from Creative BC for The Bailey Theatre Project
The Trail & District Arts Council is pleased to announce that it has received a $73,000 grant from Creative BC’s BC Music Fund (BCMF). The largest portion of this grant, supported by Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia, will be used for the theatre’s sound and lighting project, starting in June. Executive...
FortisBC customers to see decreases to natural gas rates and no change to electricity rates on Jan. 1
When most costs are rising in the New Year, natural gas and electricity bills will not; in fact, natural gas rates are decreasing. FortisBC delivers energy at the lowest reasonable rate, and on January 1, customers will receive just that. For natural gas customers across the province rates will decrease, and for electricity...
Canada's Pink Floyd tribute band, PIGS, coming to Charles Bailey
PIGS are starting 2018 with the second leg of a 12 week, 45-date tour that started out at the end of September at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo and took the band across Canada as far as Sydney, Nova Scotia. The second leg of the 'LEFT + RIGHT Canada Tour' features dates in Saskatchewan, BC and Alberta and will take them to over...
Column: From the Hill -- the wine case at the Supreme Court of Canada
One of the many happy tasks of a Member of Parliament is meeting up with constituents when they visit Ottawa. Last Thursday I had the pleasure of inviting representatives of the Okanagan wine industry to lunch. They and their legal team had just had a memorable morning intervening in an important Supreme Court action, known...
Selkirk College Pilots SPECTRUM, a Lifespan Autism Resources & Training Course
Autism touches many people and families. With this comes an increasing need for awareness and understanding of practical resources and approaches for supporting situations in many contexts—schools, homes, community. In January, Selkirk College is launching SPECTRUM: Lifespan Autism Resources & Training, an exciting,...
New breed of scam email threatens execution
In what some would consider a particularly repugnant new twist on email cons, perpetrators have escalated to threatening the lives of their intended victims. A Salmo man recently received an email (rife with spelling and grammatical errors) indicating that the sender was a hitman who had been contracted to murder the email's...
Selkirk College Digs In for Audit of Campus Cafeteria Waste
As Selkirk College strives for sustainability, members of the Selkirk College Sustainability Committee and the Environment Club recently sorted through garbage and recycling bins on campus to determine how students and employees could be doing a better job at waste reduction. “We wanted to determine whether recyclable or...
Fire crews knock down Fruitvale blaze in minutes
Quick action on the part of Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue may have prevented serious damage to a local home last night in Fruitvale. Captain Jason Milne said a 9-1-1 call reporting a shed fire at 25 Kootenay Ave. North was received at 11:06 p.m., and crews arrived nine minutes later to find a shed fully engulfed in...
