A Balfour resident has collaborated with her sister in Kelowna to bring to life in a book seven years of life experiences during World War II, beginning in 1939 until 1945. Wendy Hamilton and Cathie Pavlik of Kelowna recently completed and published a memoir, Dear Bill - The War Years. Dear Bill, is a compilation of 141 letters...

2022 brings the launch of Not Extinct - A Sinixt Virtual Exhibit, an interactive website based on the book, Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way by Marilyn James and Taress Alexis that features traditional and contemporary Sinixt stories. Each story illuminates the Sinixt relationship with the upper Columbia River watershed ...

The Kootenay Lake Historical Society (KLHS) is raising funds to renovate the S.S. Moyie, a cultural and historical landmark ship stationed in Kaslo. The S.S. Moyie is the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler (a paddle steamer having the paddlewheel in the stern). The S.S. Moyie regularly travelled over Kootenay Lake...

The S.S. Moyie was built in Nelson for the Canadian Pacific Railway and launched in October 1898. In 1958 it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada and later added to the BC Register of Historic Places. The Kootenay Lake Historical Society (KLHS) is the custodian of the S.S. Moyie and oversees thousands of artifacts...

The City of Nelson and its Cultural Development Committee are pleased to announce the RDCK is now accepting applications for 2022 Columbia Basin Trust Community Initiative funding.  The application deadline is February 11, 2022. The City of Nelson is committed to a sustainable future that includes a productive economy,...

The Cultural Development Committee (CDC), on behalf of the City of Nelson, is pleased to announce author Jane Byers’ appointment as Nelson’s 2022 Cultural Ambassador. The award comes with an $1000 honorarium. “We are thrilled to formally acknowledge Jane’s accomplishments, both as a writer and valued contributor to our...

Montana Burgess, Executive Director of the West Kootenay EcoSociety, won a national award recognizing her contribution to collective sustainability efforts. Canada’s Clean50 annually offers recognition to Canada’s leaders in sustainability for their contributions over the past two years.  The Clean50 Individual awards are...

Montana Burgess, Executive Director of the West Kootenay EcoSociety (WKES), says winning the Clean50 award was humbling. “When I look at the list of people who won the Clean 50 award this year and last year, there are so many people I admire and respect. To feel like they’re my peers made me feel really special and honoured,”...

When Julie-Ann Chapman created She Shreds Mountain Adventures snowmobile education and adventure company, she stepped out of her comfort zone of a professional snowboarder and into a new career. “My sponsors told me that I needed to go into the backcountry to film video segments, I told them, give me a year,...

Nelson’s best-selling author Roz Nay released the third book in her Legend trilogy, published by Simon and Schuster, this summer. The Hunted is an unexpected thriller about two couples who meet backpacking through Africa, but the new friendship turns towards obsession. Like most great thrillers, the consequences for the...