Expand your art collection with Sculpturewalk!
Which of Castlegar’s downtown sculptures has caught your eye? In just over a month Castlegar Sculpturewalk’s 2018 sculptures will be taken down, so now is the time to purchase or lease one of these beautiful works of art and keep it in the Kootenays! “2018 was our biggest year yet, and there are so ...
Acclaimed Nisga’a Poet to Discuss Residential Schools in Indigenous Literature
Selkirk College’s Indigenous Services Department and the Mir Centre for Peace are proud to present Nisga’a author Jordan Abel, speaking at Selkirk College Castlegar Campus on March 16. Abel will explore what it means to be Indigenous, what it means to be an intergenerational survivor of residential schools, and what it looks...
Forum: State of the Kootenays: An Economic Update slated for next month in Castlegar
Castlegar & District Economic Development and the Chamber of Commerce will be hosting an exciting event on April 11. The event, titled the State of the Kootenays: An Economic Update, is Castlegar & District’s Economic Development’s first ever Economic Forum. The event will be on April 11 from 6 - 8.30 p.m., with a...
Council nearly drops ball on low-income housing development
The adage ‘never look a gift horse in the mouth’ nearly came to pass with disastrous effects for Grand Forks city council. Grand Forks city council almost made that gaff Feb. 11 and risked losing a provincially-funded, million-dollar low income housing project that had landed unprompted in its municipal lap. Maybe the project...
Editorial: Skiing and Logging in the Rossland Range Recreation Site
Skiers accessing Cutblock Peak and environs: please contain your irritation about the logging operation there that is inconveniencing you – it won’t be there for much longer. Please stay well clear of the logging -- and please do not park on the logging road, or try to ignore the logging operations. Here’s why: First, let’s...
OP/ED: MP lobbies Air Canada to address air service issues in Castlegar
On Feb. 14, Air Canada gave Penticton fliers a Valentine’s Day present—they announced that this spring they would be switching out the old Dash 8 aircraft they use now for newer, larger and quieter Q400 planes. That would provide more seats in and out of Penticton on a daily basis, good news for travellers and tourism operators...
Two men rescued from Castlegar-area backwoods yesterday
Two local men are home safe after being stranded in the backcountry yesterday, according to Castlegar top cop Sgt. Darren Oelke. “At 7:11 p.m. on Feb. 20, the Castlegar Detachment received a report of two men who were overdue from a day trip on their snowmobiles,” Oelke said in a press release today. “Fortunately the pair had...
Year-over-year crime stats in Castlegar presented to council
Year-over-year crime stats were on the agenda at city council’s regular meeting Tuesday night. In a report to council, Castlegar top cop RCMP Sgt. Darren Oelke compared crime statistics between 2017 and 2018 for his detachment. In an interview Wednesday, Oelke highlighted what he felt were some of the significant changes. He...
One man sent to hospital after truck destroys lamp post
One man has been sent to hospital after an MVI in Downtown Castlegar this afternoon, according to Fire Chief Sam Lattanzio. Lattanzio said they got the call at 2:10 p.m., advising that a vehicle had hit a lamp standard and the occupant had collapsed. “When we arrived on scene, the occupant was in care of BCAS and was transported...
The lucky winner of that 'Artfully Rossland' contest
For the month of December, 2018, Tourism Rossland, The Josie, RED Mountain Resort, Stephanie Gauvin and Instinct Skis teamed up to create a contest that will send one lucky winner down the slopes in style: the Artfully Rossland contest. The grand prize? -- a pair of Stephanie Gauvin Artist Series Instinct Skis, 3 nights ...
