Caregiver Support Group for West Kootenay, Boundary residents
West Kootenay Boundary (WKB) Caregiver Support is launching a six-week group open to friends and family that help someone 55+ living in the community. Caregiver support helps individuals by ‘caring for the caregiver’. This online group gives the chance for caregivers to connect with each other, explore health and well-being...
SEEDS Nelson 2021 calendar - the perfect Nelson gift
The snow has finally come and with it comes the SEEDS Nelson 6th annual fundraising 2021 calendar. This year the theme is Nelson: Places and Pursuits. For most of us, 2020 has given us lots of time spent alone on the lake or hiking mountains and wandering the trails. This year the calendar art and images have been chosen to...
Second workshop on community writing set for Silverton
A writing workshop focused on people writing about community will be held Nov. 28 and 29 at the Slocan Lake Arts Centre (formerly the Silverton Gallery) at 421 Lake Ave. (Highway 6 and 4th St.), Silverton, B.C. The workshop, sponsored by the Slocan Lake Arts Council and entitled “What is Happening Here? Writing About Community”,...
Fall, winter events coming to Taghum Hall
Taghum Hall continues to offer opportunities to bring people together in a safe manner this fall and winter — including two great events coming up. In a timely opportunity to produce some beautiful Christmas cards or gifts, teacher, muralist, and scenic painter Margaret Stacey will lead “Brushes and Lunch” participants to...
Powerful new awareness campaign keeps Nelson residents connected to people living with dementia
Imagine you’ve worked hard to build a career you love and a great social circle. Then you’re diagnosed with young onset Alzheimer’s disease. Instead of offering support, your friend makes a joke of your diagnosis. And then your friends don’t know what to say so they avoid conversation. You’ve changed, and so have people around...
Martial Arts for Justice demonstrates its resilience: help for survivors of trauma continues
Poverty is expected to increase globally this year with the COVID-19 pandemic. More people in need translates into increases in mental health issues, self-harm and gender-based violence. Martial Arts for Justice is a Nelson-based charity that works locally, nationally, and internationally to help people overcome traumatic ...
Local author releases first-hand account of Doukhobor community with never-before-seen photographs
For many, the Doukhobor story is a sensational one: arson, nudity and civil disobedience once made headlines. But it isn’t the whole story. In Our Backs Warmed by the Sun: Memories of a Doukhobor Life (Caitlin Press, 2020), author Vera Maloff, through the stories of her mother, Elizabeth, shares her family’s history, the...
CKISS turns to volunteers from Selkirk College to remove invasive plants from Erie Lake
On a sunny October morning students from Selkirk College’s Recreation Fish and Wildlife Program joined the Central Kootenay Invasive Species Society (CKISS) to remove invasive yellow flag iris from Erie Lake, a small waterbody outside of Salmo, BC. Yellow Flag Iris is a “wet-footed” invasive plant that grows in ponds, ditches,...
2020 Kootenay Contraption Contest Elevates Student Voices with this Year’s Education Challenge
A global pandemic has changed life as we know it and students are navigating the world of learning in unprecedented conditions. Because of our new reality, it felt natural for KAST (Kootenay Association for Science & Technology) and its youth program, GLOWS, to seek the expertise from students and educators for this year’s...
Go To Bat for Bats during Bat Week
As Halloween approaches and bat decorations appear, bat enthusiasts around BC are celebrating and supporting our real bats by participating in International Bat Week (October 24- 31). Bat Week is all about appreciating these amazing animals and their benefits, from eating insects to pollinating the agave plant used to make ...
