Trafalgar students hit the streets to create storm drain pollution awareness
Students from Trafalgar Middle School’s Leadership class are organizing a community awareness and environmental stewardship event, to be held next Wednesday (May 21). The event includes painting yellow fish on the storm drains in Rosemont, so that people understand where storm water goes. The event, which is now in its second...
And the Earth Hour winner is
Julia English was randomly selected from the hundreds of people who pledged their participation in Earth Hour 2014 to choose a local charity of their choice to receive $1000 from Nelson Hydro and Julia chose the BC SPCA (Nelson Branch). Rob Andrew was thrilled with the donation and said "Environmentalism and sustainability...
Cottonwood Community Market back in business
Come on down and celebrate the opening of the 2014 Cottonwood Community Market on Saturday May 17 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cottonwood Falls Park in Nelson. Live music will be provided by local favorites Morien Jones from 10 a.m. to noon and Rob Funk and Brian Rosen from 12:30-2:30 p.m. “As our climate and our global trading...
Nelson Library celebrates young artists
The Nelson Public Library and 4Cats Art Studio team together this month to display fresh paintings by fresh young artists. The artists and their work will be celebrated in a special opening reception on Thursday, May 22 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. 4Cats offers classes to young artists, offering the tools for creative expression with...
Countdown is on for 2014 West Kootenay Walk for ALS
Gord Shannon is back doing his best to stamp out ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) — a neurodegenerative disease that is sometimes referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease. Shannon, volunteer walk coordinator and ALS patient, is on a goal of raising $35,000 for the Peoples Drug Mart West Kootenay Walk for ALS in Nelson on (Sunday)...
Kootenay Kiltie Pipe Band finish third at Kamloops Spring Fling
The Kootenay Kiltie Pipe Band, under the direction of Pipe Major Kevin Underwood, took home a third-place medal at the recent Spring Fling competition recently in Kamloops. The result was quite an achievement for the Kootenay Kilties, which competed against 11 other bands — one being the Vancouver City Police Band. Photo...
Eleanor Wachtel, Angie Abdou among presenters at Elephant Mountain Literary Festival
CBC national book show host Eleanor Wachtel, 2011 Canada Reads finalist Angie Abdou, long-time McClelland & Stewart publisher Douglas Gibson, and nonfiction author and singer/songwriter Sid Marty, winner of the Grand Prize at the Banff Festival of Mountain Books and of Alberta’s Grant MacEwan Literary Arts lifetime...
Spectacular Vision for Environmental Education in the Kootenays
In the magnificent setting of the Canadian Rockies at Nipika Mountain Resort, environmental educators gathered to participate in a National Environmental Education Leadership Clinic. Co-hosted by the Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network (CBEEN) and the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication...
Shortlist for sixth annual One Book One Kootenay Announced
South of Elfrida, Africa’s Unfinished Symphony, Blue Collar B&B; a more diverse list of titles is hard to imagine. That diversity is part of the beauty of the One Book, One Kootenay shortlist, an annual initiative that asks: what book should all Kootenay booklovers read? One Book One Kootenay, or OBOK, is a library-driven...
The Wealth/Health Connection: A Community Conversation About the Social Determinants of Health
How is your physical health related to personal income, housing, and access to high quality food? A lot more than you might think. Research shows that medical care only accounts for about a quarter of health outcomes, while half of a person’s ability to heal and recover from illness is determined by socio-economic factors. ...
