Rabies risk increases this summer: IHA
The upcoming long weekend means more people will be outside enjoying the weather and opening summer cabins. This can mean an increased risk of contact with bats, the primary carrier of the rabies virus in B.C., warns a communicable disease specialist with Interior Health. Bats can fly into poorly sealed cabins and homes, or...
Sunshine Village donates $50,000 to Selkirk
By Carrie VoyseySunshine Village Ski and Snowboard resort in Banff, Alberta, has donated $50,000 towards scholarships for students graduating from Selkirk Colleges Ski Resort Operations and Management program (SROAM). The contribution is the largest single donation in the SROAM programs 30-year history. "We are thrilled,"...
Public invited to ceremony to honour community outpouring for Kerr residents
It’s a public invite to a public event to celebrate public support for the former residents of the Kerr Apartment Building.On behalf of Mayor John Dooley and City council, the Unmet Needs Committee and the former residents of the Kerr Apartments, people are invited to a public appreciation event in gratitude of generous support...
Potential cougar sighting in Fairview has police on alert
It’s beginning to look like Noah’s Ark in the residential areas of Nelson.In addition to two grizzly bears in the city that have closed several trails and one access road, on Saturday police received a cougar sighting complaint. The anonymous complaint was sighted between Selkirk College and the old Mount St. Francis building...
Kootenay Lake Far Out, For Real.
After several months of planning, the newly-formed Nelson Kootenay Lake (NKL) Destination Tourism Marketing Organization has launched its premier logo and slogan for the region.“The logo is designed to attract first-time and repeat visitors from the regional rubber-tire market as well as from national and international markets,”...
Noxious weeds and scavenging at the dump
For those about to pull (noxious weeds), the regional district salutes you; noxious weeds will now be accepted free of charge at all regional district dumps.Listed under controlled waste, many of the weeds that are listed as “noxious” are pulled and brought in to waste transfer stations by volunteers in an effort to reduce ...
April showers bring May flooding as conditions could worsen
Brace yourself, the danger of flooding is expected to worsen as the month of May wears on, according to snow pack reports and the weather predicted in the next few weeks for the West Kootenay.With a snow pack in the Kootenay River region sitting at 142 per cent of normal, and the Lower Columbia at 111 per cent, there is plenty...
Tenure grant launches new Nelson-based mountain biking tour company
Tenure has been granted by the Province for a new Nelson mountain biking tour business in the West Kootenay, but with some conditions after a New Denver-based environmental group opposed its presence on some trails.Nelsonite Riley McIntosh’s application for Crown land tenure for a mountain biking tour business, Rilor Wilderness,...
Safety a concern on Highway 23 North from Revelstoke to Mica Dam
An expected increase in traffic and collisions along Highway 23 North to the Mica Dam expansion have prompted a call for an increased police presence on that stretch of road. As recommended by the community-based Mica Units 5 and 6 Core Committee, BC Hydro is providing funding to the RCMP to conduct additional patrols along...
Award winning film screening in the Slocan Valley
The Garden at the end of the World @ Threads Guild Building, Appledale, Tuesday, May 17, 7 p.m. The Garden at the end of the World “is a film that is both a documentary and a travelogue of a journey through a ruined land. It is stark in its contrasts of the impacts of war with the everyday lives of people trying to create new...
