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NPD says skateboarder knocked unconcious after fall while riding on city streets

A skateboarder is lucky not to have sustained serious injury after falling off the board near Park and Vernon Streets Saturday (June 5) night. Police received a call at approximately 10:30 p.m. that a male was found unconscious at the top of Vernon Street, around the 900 Block. It was determined the male, not wearing a helmet,...

MP: Social Programs: The Eroding foundations of Canadian Freedom

In Canada we have been conditioned to believe that hard work will get us anywhere.  The belief that we could all be rich someday keeps us going through the hard times, keeps us pounding the pavement looking for work, and makes those long shifts at gas stations and fast food restaurants all over the country go by a little...

Selkirk College Board of Governors Green Lights Balanced Budget

Selkirk College will move into the next fiscal year with a balanced budget after receiving approval from its Board of Governors earlier this month. After months of hard work by administration and staff, the 2015-2016 Selkirk College budget was passed at the June 2 board meeting. The college can now proceed with its $43.1...

Nelson Police apprehend escapee from Trail Daily Pavilion

Alex Grenier, who escaped the Trail Daily Pavilion Saturday night, was apprehended by Nelson Police Sunday evening at Stepping Stones in Nelson. Nelson Police was advised of Grenier’s location at approximately 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Trail RCMP had put out an alert on Grenier, suspected of being delusional and having "homicidal...

River Talks — Some call them Salmon, I call them Persistence

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes has been researching and writing about the history and politics of water in the upper Columbia Basin since 2005.  Her book on the Columbia River Treaty, A River Captured, is forthcoming in 2016.  Recently, her travelling exhibit on the Columbia River Treaty, curated for Touchstones Nelson, won a...

RCMP warn of high-pressure Revenue Canada phone scam

The Nakusp RCMP are warning of a phone and email scam where a fraudster states they are a Canada Revenue Agency representative and pressures the potential victim into paying a non-existent debt.   RCMP have received a number of complaints.  People are being called by someone claiming to be from the tax agency who uses threatening...

Paige Purcell knows already at a young age the importance of giving

Despite her age, Paige Purcell continues to be one of Nelson’s largest fundraisers for the BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. The five-year-old Nelsonite was diagnosed with a brain tumour a few years ago. It was at BC Children’s Hospital that Purcell had the life-saving operation. And since Purcell experienced the life-changing...

Grants available for local art projects

Are you a professional artist living and working in the Columbia Basin Region? Neighborhood Small Grants: Creative Spark offers 100-per-cent coverage for projects up to $1,000 to support professional artists to engage young people in schools and communities in arts-based projects. Professional artists across all disciplines...

Fire ban partially rescinded in Southeast Fire Centre

Effective at noon on Thursday, June 4, 2015, Category 2 open fires will once again be permitted in the Southeast Fire Centre due to a decreased risk of wildfires. The public is now permitted to burn waste, slash or other materials in a pile not exceeding two metres in height and three metres in width. The rescinding of this...

RCMP investigate suspicious death in Creston

RCMP have commenced an investigation into a suspicious death after a body was discovered in a residence on the Lower Kootenay Band near Creston Sunday afternoon. On May 31 at 3:14 pm Creston RCMP received a report of a sudden death on the Lower Kootenay Band. Upon arrival officers located the body of a deceased 26-year-old ...

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