Feds investment pays dividends to Kootenay Region Mining and Metals Industry
David Wilks, Member of Parliament for Kootenay—Columbia, on behalf of the Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, Tuesday announced a $748,601 investment to the Kootenay Association for Science and Technology (KAST) to establish a metallurgical industry development accelerator in ...
Stunning images by Douglas Noblet at the Nelson Library
Photographer Douglas Noblet spotted the elk last summer in Jasper Park. He was lying down, massive head arced gracefully, antlers illuminated in early morning sun. A few days later, in the nearby Tonquin Valley, he caught the setting sun on Thunderbolt Peak. These are two of the stunning images by Noblet that are on display...
New Guidebook for Managing Bats in Buildings
Summer is the season when property owners notice bats in their buildings. They may find guano on the deck, hear bats in the walls, or smell a build-up of guano. The Kootenay Community Bat Project, funded by the Columbia Basin Trust, has received numerous calls with these issues. In many cases, landowners are happy to leave ...
B.C. GETS BOOST IN FIGHT AGAINST INVASIVE MUSSELS
Columbia Basin Trust is helping the province to double the number of mobile decontamination units aimed at stopping invasive mussels from entering British Columbia waterways, thanks to $360,000 in new funding. This new partnership, in the Ministry of Environment led Invasive Mussel Defence Program, also includes support...
Free Nest Box Workshops Being Hosted Around Kootenay Lake
Come and join Friends of Kootenay Lake for a free, info-packed workshop about cavity nesting animals like bats, waterfowl, owls, and swallows. We will walk you through how to improve habitat values on your property for these amazing creatures. Participants will receive a free package with nest box designs and will have a ...
Stores To Shores Weekly Update:
Having bounced back after last week’s tremendous wind and rain storm, it’s a big week on the Stores To Shores Downtown Revitalization site. Crews with Maglio Installations had to undertake some significant damage control after the downpour and near-gale. “It’s been a wild week here in Nelson,” says Mayor Deb Kozak, “we’ve...
Registration opens as instructor for UBC Creative Writing Course named
An award-winning author, editor and teacher with a national profile, Sonnet L’Abbe, will be the instructor this fall as the University of B.C. offers a credit creative writing course in Nelson. L’Abbe won the national Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers in 2000, and has two collections of poems with Toronto’s McClelland...
Physical Literacy in the Columbia Basin
More than 400 professionals from across the world and from a range of sectors including health, education, leisure, play and sport gathered with the common goal of developing a global community committed to the development of physical literacy. The International Physical Literacy Conference 2015 was held in Vancouver from ...
Nelson Youth Centre get facelift
Nelson and District Youth Centre expects more than 8,000 visits this year. And to help with those visitors, there are some big, bold changes afoot. “I'm excited about the renovations and programming changes both completed and underway,” says City Council Youth Advisory Committee Rep Valerie Warmington. “The Center has been ...
Nelson is going on the Lake to join in cross-Canada We>Tar Sands action
Climate and pipeline activists in Nelson are getting ready to join in the national We>Tar Sands action coming up Saturday (July 4th.) In Nelson we are planning a special flotilla, and on the lake rally with self-powered ‘kayakavism’. Everyone is invited to join us on the water at Lakeside Park at Noon to rally together to...
