City of Nelson’s broadband fibre utility partners with School District 8
The City of Nelson fibre utility is partnering directly with School District 8 (SD8) to deliver high-speed fibre circuits between SD8’s seven local schools. In turn, SD8 will partner with Telus and the Ministry of Education to deliver technology solutions and faster Internet to students, using the province’s Next Generation...
Nominations now being accepted for CKCA Steering Committee
The Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance (CKCA) invites members of the arts, culture and heritage community in the Columbia Basin to join its volunteer Steering Committee. The CKCA is a representative body of the arts, culture and heritage communities across the Basin, and manages and administers arts, culture, and heritage ...
Practical Financial Solutions: Last minute tax-saving, income-building RRSP tips
The deadline for making your 2015 contribution to investments held in your Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) is Monday, February 29th – but you can still enhance your retirement nest egg and save on taxes when you take advantage of these last-minute RRSP tips. RRSP deadline basics February 29, 2016, at 11:59 p.m. is...
Youth art exhibition on at Oxygen Art Centre
REUNION is an art exhibition by former Self Design high art students; Sasha Baines, Reyna Brown, Hannah DeBoer-Smith, Undine Clara Foulds, Danan Lake and Savi Hanning-Brown. Most of these artists had taken part in Self Design High's Visual Arts Intensives between 2011 - 2013, hosted at the Oxygen Art Centre studio. REUNION ...
WANTED: Public reports of bat activity during winter months
Our local batsare gone for the winter and their whereabouts is currently unknown in the Kootenay region. Biologists are requesting reports from citizens of bats found hibernating during the cold season. “During summer, we receive a lot of reports from residents who have bats roosting on their property in houses, barns or...
Butala, Chamberlin consider spirit in landscape at May Convergence weekend in Silverton
Registration is now open for the 3rd Convergence Writers’ Weekend in Silverton, B.C., May 13-14. Featured will be best-selling environmental memoirist and fiction writer Sharon Butala, and non-fiction author and native land claims expert J. Edward Chamberlin. The event, at Silverton Memorial Hall, will feature talks and...
Kootenay Co-op Radio Blues Brews and BBQ Fundraiser set for Finley's
The Kootenay Co-op Radio is hosting the third annual Blues Brews and BBQ fundraiser Saturday February 27th at at Finley's Bar and Grill in Nelson. The event, starting at 6 p.m., features Texas blues legend Sonny Rhondes along with lots of local talents Aardvark Unplugged, Clinton Swanson, Lil Dave and the Big Blue Wave and ...
RoboGames receive generous support from sponsors
RoboGames sponsors gathered in Castlegar in advance of the fourth Annual RoboGames, taking place this Saturday (February 20) at Selkirk College’s Tenth Street Campus in Nelson. A Kootenay Association for Science and Technology/GLOWS/Nelson Tech Club initiative, RoboGames has doubled in size over last year’s event with 40 plus...
Nelson Climate Teach-in Post-Paris
Join local experts to discuss how Canada can reach our climate targets, at a special Teach-in at Nelson United Church. The free event includes a special advocacy action to tell Canada’s leaders what you think. The Nelson Climate Teach-in is at 7 pm, on Wednesday, February 24th at Nelson United Church, 602 Silica Street. The...
KAST, NTC host Robo Games at Tenth Street Campus
In 2010, KAST and the Nelson Tech Club joined forces with 6 Kootenay Boundary middle schools in holding the first Annual Robogames. Twenty-four students, aged 12 to 17 created the robotic entries which battled for robotic supremacy. In 2016, we're hosting nearly 40 teams and over 80 participants in our largest, most ambitious...
