Grand Forks dumps coach, wins first of the KIJHL season in dramatic style Friday against Columbia Valley
Break out the champagne; the Grand Forks Border Bruins won for the first time in the 2011-12 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season. And the Bruins achieved the victory in dramatic style. Five different players scored to rally the Bruins from a 3-1 deficit en route to a 5-4 win over the Columbia Valley Rockies […]
Fast fact about 99th Grey Cup in Vancouver
Sunday at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver, the B.C. Lions play host to the Winnipeg Jets in the 99th Grey Cup. More than 6 Million football fans from coast to coast are expected to tune in for the Canadian Football League Championship. Some facts about the CFL Finale include: Teams: Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs. B.C. […]
Fire takes house on Johnson Flats
Grand Forks residents flocked to the scene of billowing black smoke engulfing a house located at the end of 19 Street on Johnson Flats Saturday morning. Although it appears as if the firefighters are not too interested in stopping the fire, incoming fire chief Dale Heriot said the whole event is an exercise. Owners of […]
Leafs outlast Braves 8-6 to keep pace in Murdoch Division with Beaver Valley and Castlegar
The game mirrored a good old fashion, Ali-Frazier boxing match. The Nelson Leafs fired the first series of haymakers then the Spokane Braves answered some bombs of their own. And when the final bell sounded the Leafs walked out of the rink with an 8-6 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League victory Friday south of the […]
UPDATE: Occupy Nelson to rally for housing on Friday at City Hall
Occupy Nelson will assert homelessness one of its key priorities at the Housing For All: Voices From The Street rally Friday. The rally is in response to a meeting with Mayor John Dooley, members of City council, ANKORS and the Nelson Committee on Homelessness, where Occupy Nelson proposed the creation of a safe-space for the […]
Taking Chances brings Rebels/City a happy ending
A letter expressing upset to city council penned by the president of the Castlegar Rebels, Jim Craig, has proved to be the catalyst for a good news story, in which everyone walked away happy. Craig said in a letter included in Monday night’s council meeting that the Rebels rely on their community bingo nights for […]
Addams bucks up to return surveillance cameras
RCMP regained possession of camera cards containing images from sensitive police files from a surveillance gone wrong. Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel, operations NCO for the Kootenay Boundary Regional RCMP Detachment, said that he retrieved the government property earlier this week from Dion Nordick, known as Buck Addams, through his lawyer. “Since this incident […]
Final council meeting ends with tears and cake
Monday night saw an unusually emotional city council meeting, as the five re-elected incumbents said their good-byes to councillor Kirk Duff. Duff was the only incumbent seeking re-election who lost his seat, and this by a mere 41 votes. The loss means an end to, or at least a pause in, a 20-year career in […]
RDCK seeks restrictions on use of new Nelson transfer station property
The regional district is taking some issue with the new waste transfer station site in Nelson, and will be trying to get restrictions placed on the types of waste management activities the site can undertake. Regional District of Central Kootenay’s (RDCK) Central Resource Recovery Committee has recommended the board of directors ask staff to pursue […]
KIJHL Notebook: Buckley goes from cellar dwellers to defending league champs
Cole Buckley’s stay with the Grand Forks Border Bruins lasted whopping seven games after the Murdoch Division cellar dwellers traded the Penticton native to the Osoyoos Coyotes earlier this week in a futures deal. Buckley, 19, was dealt to the defending Kootenay International Junior Hockey League champs Monday in a deal that sees Grand Forks […]
