City asked to contribute to Lakeside Rotary Park wharf replacement project
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily A new wharf is planned for the city’s premiere park; it just comes with a $25,000 price tag to the city’s taxpayers. The Rotary Club of Nelson has asked City council for $25,000 in the next City budget to aid and abet them in their bid to replace the wharf in Lakeside Rotary Park — a total...
Backyard burning period has one week left for permits
There is one more week left in the backyard-burning period in the City of Nelson limits.People have until Oct. 30 to obtain a special permit — issued at the Nelson Fire Station (919 Ward St.) — for the burning of woody debris, best described as tree branches and dried brush similar to a camp fire, but no larger than the size...
The promise of fusion power
David A Gabel, Environmental News Network It has been called the holy grail of energy technology; a perfectly clean source with an unlimited supply. Nuclear fusion has been demonstrated to be possible, but converting it to a viable energy source remains technically elusive. However, research on making fusion energy reality ...
Rural development institute established by CBT and Selkirk College
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Information is a great tool in the kit of any municipality, allowing it to forge policy, planning and decision-making. However, it is in short supply for resource-starved rural governments in the West Kootenay. That will change after the announcement Saturday afternoon of an eight-year...
Safety of communities, not economics, reason for major grow op busts this summer in West Kootenay
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Although police won’t speculate on the economic ramifications of their summer grow operation busting activity, they have managed to take a bite out of the meal ticket of what they consider to be “organized crime.” The Kootenay Boundary Regional Detachment took over 20,000 marijuana plants...
Last (public) gasp for Jumbo Glacier urged by WKE
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The fate of Jumbo Glacier Valley is nearly at hand. In August of 2009 the decision making power for the Jumbo Glacier Resort passed from the Regional District of East Kootenay to the province. The RDEK board of director’s vote went eight to seven in favour of asking the provincial government...
Largest ever Ecstasy border bust made near Grand Forks
By Suzanne Fournier, The Province U.S. border agents found more than $9 million worth of Ecstasy in “suspicious” backpacks stashed in the woods just south of the border at Grand Forks. Acting on a tip from a hiker, U.S. agents near the border-patrol station in Curlew, Wash., seized 140 kilograms of the popular designer drug...
Nelson and area set to win in Waneta expansion
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Nelson is guaranteed a share in the over 400 new jobs created in the Waneta Dam expansion on the Pend d’Oreille River, says the Columbia Basin Trust’s vice president of investments.Johnny Strilaeff said a prescription is in place to ensure that 85 per cent of the new jobs will come from ...
New funding formula for Area E library service in works: Faust
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily There may be a way around the resultant high cost of library service for some regional district residents in Area E, despite a resounding ‘no’ vote delivered in the Nelson Municipal Library referendum Saturday, says the area’s director. Ramona Faust said she is working on a solution to...
Area F won't get second crack at library referenda: Mickel
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily There won’t be another referendum on library services in Area F. The regional district’s director for the area has decided the extra $7,000 needed to conduct another referendum — after an initial taxpayer-funded vote passed by a margin of only three votes — is too much. Ron Mickel told the...
