Selkirk College Students Host Fifth Annual SROAMazing Race in Nelson
It's a race through Nelson that always has shopper's heads turning. The Selkirk College Ski Resort Operations & Management Program is back to host the fifth annual 2016 SROAMazing Race starting at the Nelson District Youth Centre. SROAMazing Race, set for Saturday, October 17 in beautiful downtown Nelson, is open to all...
Trail and Castlegar take top honours with International Communities in Bloom
Both Trail and Castlegar made excellent showings in their respective categories in the International Communities in Bloom (CiB) competition this year. “To have two communities within 25 miles of each other win internationally is great,” said Darlene Kalawsky, who not only heads up the Castlegar CiB, but is also chair of the...
Interior Health Board announces Mazurkewich as new CEO
Interior Health announced Tuesday that Chris Mazurkewich has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer for Interior Health, effective October 26. Erwin Malzer, Chair of the Interior Health Board of Directors, made the announcement in a media release. “With a wealth of Canadian health system experience, a broad ...
Working Smoke Alarms a priority during Fire Prevention Week
The stats don't lie. The Fire Chiefs Association of BC says the chance of a fatality rises 74 percent when a working smoke alarm is not present. Members of the Nelson Fire Department are doing their best to combat the loss of life during Fire Prevention Week. “In a fire, seconds count,” said Fire Chief Len MacCharles. “Half...
Council elects to cool debate on panhandling bylaw with public input
City council is taking a time out as it prepares to draft legislation to deal with those looking for a hand out on Nelson streets. A unanimous vote was carried by city council on Monday night during their regular meeting to defer the wording of the draft bylaw — currently in its second reading — back to city staff for...
Saints raise BCIHL banner, earn weekend split with TWU
The Selkirk College Saints opened a run for a fourth-straight British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) season with a weekend split against Trinity Western University Spartans. The Saints won the first encounter of the two-game home set 6-3 before a boisterous home crowd at the Castlegar & District Community...
Three-time Juno Nominated Soul- Jazz Virtuoso Elizabeth Shepherd Announces Nelson Concert
Fresh off the heels of headlining tours in Mexico and Eastern Canada, three-time Juno nominee, and two-time Polaris long list artist Elizabeth Shepherd is bringing her progressive soul-jazz sound to Canada’s west coast, including stops in Nelson and Trail November 16 and 19. Performing songs from her acclaimed new album The...
LETTERS: Have Canadian voters learned nothing?
Dear Editor, Canadians can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel in this extended election period but, incredibly, the polls show that there is a slight chance the most brazenly corrupt government in Canadian history could be returned to power instead of obliterated off the political map. A government that attacked...
Winter is coming says RCMP West Kootenay Traffic Services
RCMP Sgt John Ferguson West Kootenay Traffic Services said, regardless of the great fall weather, winter is coming and motorists need to start preparing for snow. "Some are happy to see it and some are not, however the reality is at some point in the near future we will see snow in the mountains," Ferguson said on a media...
Coming to the Kootenays — Nelson/Creston MLA invites Miley Cyrus
In an effort to more broadly engage the pop star on wildlife and ecosystem protection in BC, Michelle Mungall has invited Miley Cyrus to her riding to tour the habitat of the endangered mountain caribou. Cyrus made national headlines last month when she criticized the BC Government’s wolf cull as part of the strategy to...
