Succession planning workshops from Community Futures
In the fall of 2008 the Partnership surveyed business owners in the area.Findings from over 200 surveys returned showed that 55 per cent of business owners plan to retire or sell their business within the next 10 years. However, without proper planning, many businesses that do not need to close may close. The impact could be...
Special meeting called for Monday to hand out CBT grants
There will be a special City council meeting this Monday to deal with the meting out of who gets what in regards to Columbia Basin Trust Community Initiative grant funding. The special meeting is slated to immediately follow council’s committee of the whole meeting at 7 p.m. Council will pass a resolution to recommend CBT...
Visiting Oaxaca with Quest for Community
This past winter, Grade 12 students from Mount Sentinel Secondary School who were registered in the Quest for Community Program visited Oaxaca (pronounced wah-haak-kah), Mexico last January, 2011.On Thursday, May 5 beginning at 7 p.m. at the Slocan Park Hall, the students will be sharing their adventures at this slide show ...
Changing the world, one pair at a time
If your closet contains shoes that your family never wears, there is a fantastic community project that helps the needy in Canada as well as in 127 different countries throughout the world. It is called Souls 4 Souls. Rotary Clubs in the Okanagan and the Kootenays are working together with all members of our communities to...
Hashtag fail and a rise in social media in the election
For some it sounded like a foiled attempt to hot knife, but for others it was a nod to the growing political clout of social media. The term “hashtag fail” used by Jack Layton in the federal leaders’ debate Tuesday night was a Twitter term, used to describe a Twitter conversation (such as #db8 or #elxn41). The debate drew a...
ATM robber given two years and ordered to pay restitution
One of the two men arrested after a rash of ATM break-ins has been sentenced in Rossland Provincial Court Thursday. Darrin Christopher Hoffman was given to two years in jail — on four counts of break and enter and two counts of attempt to commit or accessory after the fact — and ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution to...
New provincial optometry video website features Nelson doctor
A new video website to help improve vision and eye health information features video “house calls” from a doctor of optometry from Nelson.The site — bcdoctorsofoptometry.com — features university-trained doctors of optometry from around the province, including Castlegar and Nelson optometrist Dr. Jonathan Proctor – who answer...
Corporate tax cuts not delivering on job creation
A new CCPA study tracked 198 companies on the S&P/TSX composite from 2000 through 2009 and found those companies — Canada's largest corporations — are making 50 per cent more profit and paying 20 per cent less tax than they did a decade ago. But how have they done in terms of job creation? Not so well. In fact, the number...
B.C. minimum wage changes effective May 1
May 1 means the changes to the provincial minimum wage, under the Employment Standards Act, come into effect for employers and employees in British Columbia. Effective May 1: • The general minimum wage increases from $8 per hour to $8.75 per hour. • The First Job Wage, also known as the “training wage”, is repealed and no...
Up and down the Kootenay jobless rate
There are 400 fewer jobs in the Kootenay employment market this year than there was last year at this time, Statistics Canada said this week. Job gains came in the areas of educational services, health care and social assistance but dropped in the resource sector — forestry, fishing, mining, oil and gas — and wholesale trade....
