Shawn Hook, Selkirk College SOAR Students Join Together in Spirit of Song
Students in Selkirk College’s SOAR Program and Canadian recording artist Shawn Hook connected virtually earlier this month in a shared passion for the power of music. The Steps to Opportunities, Academics & Readiness (SOAR) Program includes hands-on, experiential education designed to prepare students for success in a...
Celebrating Crisis Line Awareness Week
In 2020, Crisis Line Responders across the Interior Region provided close to 450,000 minutes of empowering support, skilled assessment and crisis de-escalation. A record since the service began in 2012. “Crisis Line Awareness week is a time to recognize the impact of this service and the important commitment of our staff and...
‘Beneath the Surface’ of the Cold War Bunker
As the Cold War Bunker secretly lied in waiting under the streets of Nelson, powerful people wrote lists of names - government officials, doctors, communications staff, and other high-level administrators - the people who would be located, secured and promptly delivered to the Bunker in the event of a nuclear attack in the ...
Selkirk College Students Put Wraps on Ski Season in Amazing Fashion
With the countdown to the end of the Whitewater Ski Resort season on, Selkirk College students in the Ski Resort Management & Operations (SROAM) Program are inviting fresh air lovers to take one last shot at amazing. The Nelson-based SROAM Program is in its 40th year of providing the education and training for bright ski...
Free Library talk on wills, estates poised to answer questions
Most of us don’t like to think about our eventual demise, and yet we care about what happens after we’re gone. The Nelson Public Library hosts a free evening dedicated to Wills and Estates presented by Nelson lawyer Troy Trillo on Thursday, April 8, at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Email [email protected] to register. Trillo's talk will ...
Together Nelson — Community Based Action Plan To Reduce Poverty In Nelson
Nelson is a great place to live. But not everyone is thriving in our community. Close to 2,000 community members live in poverty in Nelson – friends and neighbors – children, youth, adults and seniors.* Together Nelson is a community-based initiative that was launched in the Fall of 2020 to better understand local poverty...
Call for Nominations: Carver Emerging Writers Award
The Nelson and District Arts Council and Elephant Mountain Literary Festival request assistance in nominating emerging writers in West Kootenay communities for the 9th Annual Carver Award. The award, which comes with a $500 cash prize, will be presented at the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival in July 2021. Nominations must...
UBCO Prof Matt Rader together students present work during Zoom reading
A teacher of writing from UBC Okanagan together with five students from Selkirk College’s creative writing classes will read from their work on Wed., March 24 at the fourth Zoom reading in the 2020-21 author reading series presented by Nelson, B.C.’s Oxygen Art Centre. Featured will be Kelowna author Matt Rader and Selkirk ...
Throwing together ceramics show at Touchstones Nelson Museum
There may be few common threads between the artists showcased in THROWN, the latest group exhibition opening at Touchstones Nelson Museum, but one thing they all share is a love for ceramics. The show, which runs March 13 to May 29, is a group exhibition featuring a diverse cross-section of artists from across the country, ...
Regional Online Climate Science Resource expands
New environmental and climate data plus new digital tools are available on the Columbia Basin Climate Source website, www.basinclimatesource.ca. The website is a resource for Basin and Boundary communities to access reliable information on the region’s climate, possible future impacts to the environment and communities, and...
